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A 66-year-old woman was arrested near the White House over the weekend after police found a loaded handgun and a handwritten letter for Joe Biden inside her car, TMZ reports. The woman reportedly drove up to a security checkpoint in downtown Washington D.C. Saturday night with a man sitting in the passenger side, and told officers that […]
Congratulations are in order for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who are “overjoyed” to confirm that they are expecting their second child, per Variety. The couple’s friend and photographer Misan Harriman helped with their announcement by sharing a black-and-white photo she snapped of the two with Meghan’s hand over her bump on Instagram. The news comes months before their first […]
The Los Angeles Police Department is conducting an internal affairs investigation after it was discovered that a photo of George Floyd with the caption, “You take my breath away” was being shared. KTLA-5 reports that an officer made a complaint about the image, which, according to Chief Michel Moore, was being “passed around” by officers […]
A Joe Biden aide has resigned from his post amid backlash over threats he made to a female reporter, Deadline reports. White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo announced his departure via Twitter on Saturday, just a day after he was placed on a one-week suspension without pay. “No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my […]
A chemistry professor working at the University of New Hampshire resigned on Friday after being investigated for impersonating an immigrant woman of color on Twitter to post racist and sexist tweets. We don’t know the name of the offending party, but as the Associated Press reports, his resignation followed the conclusion of a four-month investigation […]
Ashley Judd has had a long few days. While recovering in the ICU, she caught up with Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times about how she broke her leg while adventuring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and having to be rushed to the hospital. Judd said she was “in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful […]
A massive 7.1 earthquake hit the eastern coast of Japan, shaking multiple cities, the Japan Times reported on Saturday. The quake measured a strong 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale (the second-highest level) and disrupted Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in the Tohoku region around 11:08 local time on Saturday night. Fortunately, no tsunami warning has been issued for the island country. Several […]
Scavenger hunts are particularly useful if you need to keep children entertained. They don’t work so well if you’re trying celebrate historically oppressed people in a country with a long history of state racism. That’s what the government of the Durham Region in Ontario found out, after their Black History Month exercise was passed around for reasons they did […]
As Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial draws nearer to a Senate vote, determining Trump’s state of mind during the Capitol riots becomes more and more crucial. To ascertain whether Trump is responsible for the mob he lit a fire under on Jan. 6, senators need to establish whether Trump thought of the mob attack as the […]
Florida’s loose approach to the coronavirus pandemic is playing out in ways that are entirely predictable. The state is currently has more confirmed cases of the new UK coronavirus variant than any other and is on-pace to break its own monthly record for deaths nearly one year into the epidemic. The Orlando Sentinel reports that […]
