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Washington D.C. police officers who attempted to hold back mobs of pro-Trump rioters, including one who was crushed by a door in a moment that has since gone viral, are speaking out about the experience. “They were calling us traitors, shouting at us, telling us to remember our oath, and eventually, they attacked us,” Officer Daniel […]
Dustin Higgs, the last person to be executed under the Trump administration, died Saturday morning at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Higgs was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m., becoming the 13th federal prisoner put to death under Trump since July and the third execution this week. The 48-year-old father was convicted in […]
A waitress in Orlando managed to get two children removed from an abusive household by writing a note to one of them during a meal. Flavaine Carvalho picked up a New Year’s Day shift at the Mrs. Potato restaurant and noticed an 11-year-old boy was acting strangely at one of her tables. Upon closer inspection, […]
State officials continue to bear the brunt of the Trump administration’s disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex Azar, who serves as Health and Human Services Secretary, announced earlier this week that the federal government would be releasing its reserve of second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Because we now have a consistent pace of […]
San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh has been hired as head coach by the New York Jets, making him the NFL’s first Muslim head coach in the league’s history, NBC News reports. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle with Robert Saleh to become our head coach,” the Jets announced in a statement on Thursday. “We […]
A former Border Patrol agent is facing up to a year in prison for allegedly spraying urine all over a number of items in his supervisor’s cubicle prior to retiring last summer, the New York Post reports. Eduardo Flores, Jr., of Amherst, NY, is being accused of filling up a spray bottle with urine and squirting […]
A 12-year-old California girl has raised almost $50,000 for a homeless man who returned her grandmother’s lost wallet. According to People, 57-year-old Sean Currey was looking for food in a dumpster behind a coffee shop in San Rafael, California when he came upon the wallet. While he’s been homeless throughout the years, he only briefly thought […]
Retired firefighter/MAGA mob member Robert Sanford was filmed throwing a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, and now he’s facing federal charges. The 55-year-old was arrested on Thursday on four federal charges, including assaulting officers engaging in their official duties, civil disorder, disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and knowingly enterting a […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for excessive use of force, including the use of brutal force against protesters in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police inspired protests around the country, including […]
Now that Andrew Yang has announced his mayoral bid for New York City, he’s started outlining some of policies. And while Yang has good ideas like universal basic income, one of his ideas has raised some eyebrows. As the New York Times’ Taylor Lorenz pointed out on Twitter, Yang wants to bring TikTok Hype Houses to the […]
