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A woman who has developed a reputation for sneaking onto flights was arrested again at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, per NBC News. Nicknamed the “serial stowaway,” Marilyn Hartman, 69, left the residential facility that she was required to stay around noon Tuesday, but her GPS ankle bracelet alerted authorities to her departure. Following failed attempts to contact […]
Two pediatricians from Florida believe the first known baby with COVID-19 antibodies was born in late January, WPBF reports. Dr. Paul Gilbert and Dr. Chad Rudnick, of Palm Beach County, said the unidentified woman is a front-line healthcare worker, who was given the first dose of the Moderna vaccine while she was 36 weeks pregnant. When […]
Shootings at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia area left eight people dead on Tuesday night, marking the sixth mass shooting in the U.S. this year. As of Wednesday morning, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had confirmed her office was in close contact with both the White House and the Atlanta Police Department, the […]
The distribution of white supremacist propaganda surged across the U.S. last year, as shown in a new annual report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). “Hate propaganda is a tried-and-true tactic for white supremacists, and this on the ground activity is now higher than we’ve ever previously recorded,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, said in […]
Debt collectors may be coming for your $1,400 stimulus check. As pointed out by CNN, the third round of relief payments cannot be garnished to pay outstanding government debts, such as back taxes or federal student loans; however, a loophole in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan allows garnishments for a number of private debts, including unpaid credit card bills […]
Earlier this month, a California man decided to start a GoFundMe campaign for his former substitute teacher who had been living out of his car. Just a week later, Steven Nava delivered the money raised to his teacher, Jose Villarruel from Fontana – all $27,000 of it. “From the bottom of my heart, I just had to resort to […]
Despite her young age, Alena Wicker has big dreams. The 12-year-old Arizona girl recently received her high school diploma and is now gearing up to begin college at Arizona State University, where she plans to pursue degrees in astronomical and planetary sciences and chemistry. The prodigy spoke about her life plans in an interview with KPNX, explaining […]
Two men have been charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died a day after working the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. After being arrested on Sunday, Pennsylvanian Julian Elie Khater, 32, and George Pierre Tanios, 39 of West Virginia, are being charged with nine counts. Charges include three counts of assaulting officers […]
A Seattle woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of homicide for the 1997 death of her newborn son, The Spokesman-Review reports. An autopsy determined that “Baby Boy Doe” was born alive two days before he was found dead by a gas station worker in a trash can at a 24-hour convenience store on Nov. 20, 1997. The discovery […]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association board, the group that’s behind the Golden Globe Awards, has pledged to add at least 13 Black journalists, Variety reports. The group has 87 members, none of which are black. The commitment comes on the heels of the release of an open letter from over 100 Hollywood public relations firms urging their clients […]
