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Violent hate crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise in the U.S. and have been for quite some time now. Back in March of 2020, a New York Times piece—featuring interviews with nearly two dozen people—took a hard look at the hate many Chinese Americans were facing while then-president Donald J. Trump repeatedly insisted on […]
An Idaho cop shot and killed a man in his own backyard after mistaking him for a suspect. Per a statement from the Idaho Falls Police Department, a Bonneville County Sheriff’s Deputy first made a traffic stop on a vehicle shortly after midnight on Monday. An occupant of the vehicle, described in an NBC News […]
Two Louisiana sanitation workers are being praised for their heroic actions that led to the rescue of a 10-year-old girl. According to ABC News, Pelican Waste & Debris workers Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine were working their usual trash pickup route on Monday when they noticed a silver sedan in the middle of a field […]
Aunt Jemima is finally gone, for good. Following last year’s decision to retire the racist logo from products, Quaker Oat’s parent company PepsiCo announced the launch of its replacement: Pearl Milling Company. “We are starting a new day with Pearl Milling Company,” a PepsiCo spokesperson said, per CNN. “A new day rooted in the brand’s historic […]
The national anthem has become a hot topic in professional sports over the last several years. Ever since Colin Kaepernick began the #TakeaKnee movement back in 2016, the public has debated whether athletes should be forced to stand during the pre-game tradition or allowed to exercise their right to protest. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has seemingly found solution. […]
Austin Chenge, a GOP candidate for Michigan governor, is facing backlash over his stance on Black History Month. On Monday, Black Army veteran announced he would abolish the annual observance in the state if he’s elected, stating that the month was not only “unfair” it was also potentially illegal. “I will cancel #BlackHistoryMonth in #Michigan,” he wrote on social […]
Donald Trump’s leading defense lawyer has left many Americans scratching their heads. During day 1 of Trump’s second impeachment trial, attorney Bruce Castor took the floor to give his opening statement and layout the defense’s argument. However, the former Pennsylvania attorney general failed to pull this off and instead delivered a 50-minute speech in which he clumsily rambled […]
A Texas lawyer’s inability to turn the cat-face filter off during a Zoom meeting forced him to clarify to a judge that “I’m here live, I’m not a cat.” In the process he also provided what is sure to be the most absurd clip you see all day: As you can see in the brief clip, […]
Five people were injured, three critically, in a shooting at a healthcare clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota, CNN reports. The shooting occurred at the Allina Health Care Clinic in the small town of 16,000. Per CNN, the three critically injured victims were airlifted from the scene and no bombs were found on the premises, according to Wright County spokesman John Holler. Wright […]
On Monday officials in Pinellas County, Florida held a press conference in which they made an announcement that an unidentified hacker had remotely gotten into a panel that controls the water treatment system for the city of Oldsmar, and then greatly bumped up the amount of sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) in the water supply. Pinellas County Sheriff […]
