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Day 1 of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump included a number of highlights; the most viral and unexpected which was a reference to the Notorious B.I.G. The moment occurred toward the end of Tuesday’s opening arguments, when Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gave a speech calling for the subpoena of Mick Mulvaney. The Brooklyn-born congressman also took […]
An Oklahoma man known as “Joe Exotic” has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for murder-for-hire and wildlife charges. Born Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the big cat breeder was sentenced on Wednesday. In April 2019, he had been convicted of hiring a hitman to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin in Florida, murdering five tigers, […]
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, claiming the former Secretary of State attempted to derail her presidential campaign by suggesting she was being supported by the Russians. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, about three months after Clinton appeared […]
Saudi Arabia denied hacking Jeff Bezos‘ phone in 2018 despite the leak being traced back to an account operated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In a new statement, the Saudi Arabian embassy called claims of the country hacking Bezos’ phone “absurd” accusations. Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos’ […]
Oregon marijuana sales on the Idaho border are an estimated 420 percent higher than the state average. While Oregon is a recreational weed state, Idaho is not, an unfortunate reality for Idahoans that makes the higher-than-average sales along the states’ border possible. The fitting stat comes from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis (OEA) by […]
On Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country’s first case of the Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The virus, which is said to have originated in Wuhan, China and is related to the same family as Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the common cold, has infected over 400 people, CNN […]
Fresh off the news that his latest $175 million budget film Doolittle is projected to lose $100 million at the box office, Robert Downey Jr. is enveloped in a wave of bad press as his remarks in a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast about donning blackface in Tropic Thunder have started to circulate. In the 2008 Ben Stiller-directed comedy, Downey Jr. plays an Australian-born actor named Kirk […]
A Maryland police officer was suspended this week over an unsettling video in which Delonte West was seen in handcuffs. The video was recorded earlier this week, after the former NBA player was seen getting beaten in the middle of a street. One of the responding officers allegedly filmed his interaction with West as he sat on […]
Prince Harry has landed in the Great White North—and he did it in the most Canadian way. On Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex traveled to Vancouver Island to join his wife, Meghan Markle, and their 8-month-old son, Archie. Sky News shared a video of Harry’s early morning arrival, in which he was seen stepping off an aircraft and getting into a car that was […]
Even though it’s been four years since their Democratic primary battle, Hillary Clinton’s feelings about Sen. Bernie Sanders haven’t changed. In a forthcoming Hulu documentary series titled Hillary, Clinton says that “nobody likes him.” She added, “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work […]
