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Though Donald Trump still hasn’t conceded the presidential election, reports are emerging that during a Friday press conference in the Rose Garden, he came very close to admitting his defeat while discussing a COVID-19 vaccine. Yamiche Alcindor tweeted, “Pres Trump came super close to acknowledging that the Biden administration may be in power by the […]
Former President Barack Obama is concerned about the willingness of a majority of Republican party members to feed into Donald Trump‘s baseless theories that call into question the validity of the 2020 presidential election. In a snippet from his upcoming 60 Minutes interview, Obama insists that propping up Trump’s efforts to delegitimize an election that he lost by practically the same margin that he won in 2016 […]
A few of the children of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have banded together to help create a makeshift school for kids in Mexico who didn’t have access to online classes, Daily Mail reports. Located in the Bicentennial Extension, just north of Culiacan, this plot of land was cleared out by three workers in […]
5 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus while on the first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic, CNBC reports. Torbjorn Lund, captain of the SeaDream I, made the announcement of the first positive test on Wednesday through a ship wide address where he asked all 53 passengers […]
Four Seasons Total Landscaping—which, depending on who you ask, either sounds like a possible alternate name for Phoebe and Conor’s Better Oblivion Community Center or the title of a Fall Out Boy B-side—has resumed regular merch sales following a sellout spurred by one of the more uniquely bizarre facets of the 2020 election. In a message shared […]
Jeffrey Toobin has been fired from The New Yorker after a weeks-long investigation into the “Zoom dick incident.” “I was fired today by [The New Yorker] after 27 years as a staff writer,” the veteran journalist tweeted Wednesday. “I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work.” […]
A teenager from Kenosha, Wisconsin was charged last week with allegedly supplying 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse with the rifle he used during multiple confrontations with protesters in late August, HuffPost reports. Dominick David Black, 19, faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor causing death. Black allegedly bought a Smith & Wesson M&P […]
Daily COVID-19 cases in the United States reached a record high on Wednesday when more than 140,000 new infections were reported. According to CNN, Wednesday also marked the ninth consecutive day the nation’s daily coronavirus count surpassed the 100,000 mark. The previous record was set on Tuesday, with the country reporting about 136,300 new positive cases. The Covid Tracking Project also reported 65,368 virus-related […]
A Mississippi politician has apologized after he called for his state to “succeed” in wake of Joe Biden‘s presidential victory. “We need to succeed [sic] from the union and form our own country,” State Rep. Price Wallace wrote in a since-deleted tweet. The post was in response to a thread by Wallace’s fellow state Rep. Robert Foster, who is among […]
Since the first Asian giant hornets appeared in the US, scientists have been working double-time to track them to their source and wipe them out. The so-called “murder hornets” are the largest species of hornet in the world and could wreak havoc on local ecosystems. After a few failed attempts to track captured hornets back […]
