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A Canadian-born doctor on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic has had her green card application denied, a decision she called a “slap in the face.” In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Dr. Julia Iafrate said that she is still treating patients in New York despite the bad news. “I’m putting my life on the line every […]
Spike Lee has once again paid tribute to the city that raised him. On Thursday night, the Academy Award-winning director/writer debuted his short film titled, New York, New York. Lee described the three-and-a-half-minute video as a “love letter” to the city and all of its residents, as they persevere through the coronavirus pandemic. The film is soundtracked by Frank […]
Georgia authorities have arrested two men in the murder investigation of Ahmaud Arbery. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation tells ABC News Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were taken into custody Thursday and were booked into the Glynn County Jail in Brunswick. The men were each charged with murder and aggravated assault in the Feb. 23 shooting […]
The Justice Department officially dropped its charges against former Trump aide Michael Fynn on Thursday. Bloomberg reports that Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his talks with a Russian ambassador to the U.S. before Trump’s inauguration, has already received praise from Donald Trump as the charges were dropped. When speaking about the news […]
Fresh off the birth of his and Grimes‘ new baby boy, tentatively named X Æ A-12, Elon Musk has made his return to Joe Rogan’s podcast for a two-hour interview that notably arrives a little less than two years after his previous weed-assisted appearance. From the jump, Rogan and Musk traded anecdotes about bringing new life […]
As states across the country relax their respective coronavirus restrictions, an Arkansas venue announced it will host one of the industry’s first “socially distanced concerts.” According to Billboard, the event will be headlined by country-rock singer Travis McCready and is scheduled to go down on May 15 at TempleLive in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The venue has laid out some of […]
Bill Oakley, former producer and writer for The Simpsons, is admitting to something we knew all along. The long-running animated series predicted practically everything that has happened in 2020. In the 1993 episode titled “Marge in Chains,” which Oakley is credited as a co-writer, an outbreak of the flu occurs in Springfield after a sick factory worker in […]
Tyra Banks caught heat this week over a resurfaced clip from cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model. The clip in question shows the series host/judge urging contestant Dani Evans to close the gap in between her two front teeth, insisting the look was “not marketable.” “So Danielle, you went to the dentist but you refused to […]
With the help of the Atlanta-based nonprofit organization PAWkids, T.I. and Killer Mike handed out meals Wednesday in the parking lot of the Bankhead Seafood Market to 500 residents of the Grove Park neighborhood. TMZ reports they also gave several families $500 in cash, and visited a number of homes to drop off two weeks worth […]
In a new study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute suggest that the coronavirus began spreading between humans late last year. The report, which studied over 7,500 samples from a global database of patients with SARS-CoV-2, discovered a common ancestor among a large proportion of the genetic […]
