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Something out of a nightmare came true for two teens in Florida. On Thursday, the Orlando CNN affiliate reported that two teens were stuck at the top of Old Town amusement park’s slingshot ride in Kissimmee for hours after one of the cables broke. The ride was about 40 feet in the air when the Osceola County Fire Department […]
Baltimore will no longer waste time and resources prosecuting low-level crimes. On Friday, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced to the media that the city will stop prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations, and other low-level offenses. Per NBC News, the city created this initiative at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the virus’s spread in local […]
Actor Michael Rainey Jr. shared a wild experience he had with a police officer after he was apparently pulled over for a routine traffic stop. “This guy was bout to shoot me I swear that camera saved my life,” Rainey wrote in the caption to his story. “Look what he does as soon as […]
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a new bill on Friday that will allow doctors to deny treatment to people based on their religious or moral objections. Basically this means doctors are allowed to refuse to treat LGBTQ folks or others based on their religious alignments. “I support this right of conscience so long as emergency care […]
On Friday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 election. The Associated Press reports that Dominion has argued the right-wing cable news channel targeted the company with a series of misleading or straight-up false claims of election fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden. […]
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp received backlash on Thursday after signing an election reform bill that many have dubbed “Jim Crow 2.0.” The GOP-backed legislation is an overhaul of the state’s election laws, and includes a series of provisions that significantly limit voter access. Though the law will expand early voting for primary and general elections, it […]
A landlord in New York City is being accused of cleaning out his tenant’s apartment while he was battling coronavirus in the hospital, Gothamist reports. Ryo Nagaoka, 65, returned to his home Wednesday night to discover that everything but his piano and pet tortoise had disappeared. “They thought he died,” neighbor Sierra Zamarripa said. “He came back last night […]
A Georgia man was subjected to an enviable level of pettiness when he was given his long-awaited final payment of $915 from a former employee entirely in pennies, along with a note that simply read, “Fuck you,” HuffPost reports. Over 90,000 oil-soaked pennies were dumped in the driveway of Andreas Flaten earlier this month, four months after […]
Language Arts teacher Amy Donofrio, who works at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida has been removed from her teaching duties after she refused to take down a Black Lives Matter flag. The Florida Times-Union reports that Donofrio, who is known for her advocacy and outreach work with Black students, is under investigation by the […]
Joe Biden is eyeing a second term in the White House. During his first formal press conference of his presidency on Thursday, POTUS was asked if he intends to run for re-election in 2024. Biden, 78, became the oldest president in history when he took office back in January. Many have questioned whether he would pursue reelection […]
