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Jussie Smollett performed Saturday at West Hollywood’s Troubadour in his first public appearance since being assaulted in Chicago earlier in the week. The Empire star addressed the attack as he held back tears in front of the supportive audience. “The most important thing that I can say is to keep it simple and say thank […]
Virginia governor Ralph Northam, despite his party calling for his resignation, said that he will not step down Saturday and denied being photographed in blackface or in Ku Klux Klan robes in the photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook. Northam, a Democrat, apologized for the photos on Friday, explicitly acknowledging his involvement. However, a day later […]
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman drugged and raped underage victims of sex trafficking as young as 13 years old, according to testimony from an associate of the drug lord in his ongoing criminal trial. The previously sealed court filings that contained the testimony of Chapo associate and drug trafficker Alex Cifuentes said that the kingpin arranged […]
Former YouTube star Austin Jones pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography on February 1. The Chicago area 26-year-old rose to YouTube stardom after uploading his music videos to the site in 2013. Even following the child pornography charges, Jones still has 500,000 subscribers to his YouTube page. According to prosecutors, Jones […]
More than 1,600 inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been without proper power and heat for the last week, the New York Times reports. A spokeswoman for Herman Quay, the jail’s warden, told the Times that the building had gone through a power outage last Saturday, but denied that heat and hot water […]
The woman who booked multiple hotel rooms for people without shelter in Chicago during the polar vortex has inspired others to help, CBS Chicago reports. Okay, so I asked my cousins in #Chicago whether it was really as cold as people are saying with boiling water instantly turning to snow. Apparently it is 😮 #PolarVortex #polarvortex2019 pic.twitter.com/KR7BnKoTAw […]
Florida man strikes again! According to Panama City News Herald, Gainesville native Steven Michael Berlin was arrested Monday and charged with armed robbery after sticking up a restaurant, even though he didn’t have a gun on him at the time of the incident. The Gainesville police report claims Berlin, 56, entered Szechuan Palace and sat […]
The Midwest is being hit with severly low temperatures as the polar vortex continues to ravage the region, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. In Chicago, subfreezing temperatures have paralyzed the city’s activity with residents enduring harsh wind-chills and the risk of frost bite. In response to this life-threatening cold, one good Samaritan has agreed to put up 70 homeless […]
A wild leopard strayed into a residential area of Jalandhar city in India on Thursday, injuring four people before its ultimate capture hours later. The wild animal was reportedly discovered after it entered a house. The Forest Department officials were promptly called thereafter, using a tranquilizer gun to anaesthetize the animal as well as a net to restrain its movement. Once […]
Giving the plant-based lifestyle an honest shot not only has the potential to make you feel a whole lot better, but it now boasts the added benefit of possibly landing you free Beyoncé and JAY-Z tickets for the foreseeable future. Wednesday night, Beyoncé announced the Greenprint Project, which aims to show the far-reaching impact even part-time veganism can have […]
