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A lion was shot and killed in an attempt to save an intern following an escape from its enclosure at a North Carolina nature conservatory Sunday. Alexandra Black, 22, recently graduated from Indiana University Bloomington, and worked two weeks as a college intern for the Conservators’ Center in Burlington. Black was fatally attacked after the lion managed to flee when a “husbandry team, […]
Donald Trump‘s latest argument in support of his unnecessary border wall along the southern border of the United States finds him referencing the “wall” built outside the Washington D.C. home of Barack and Michelle Obama. President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their […]
Tony Dwayne Albert II was arrested Sunday morning in Seguin, Texas after allegedly admitting that he was headed to an unknown church to “fulfill what he called a prophecy,” according to San Antonio-based ABC affiliate KSAT. Authorities were alerted about Albert when a witness spotted him at around 7 a.m. carrying a gun on the street. The first person to respond was […]
New York’s former police commissioner Bill Bratton has a fairly strong opinion on the legalization of recreational marijuana: a no. On Sunday, while speaking on AM 970 in New York, Bratton said that legalizing recreational marijuana would open up a “Pandora’s box,” and that he “still strongly oppose[s] it.” “I think there are too many […]
A woman in Illinois is facing involuntary manslaughter charges after allegedly failing to treat her teenage daughter’s diabetes, leading to her death. According to The Telegraph, 14-year-old Emily Ikue-Rose Hampshire passed away on November 3 from diabetic ketoacidosis. Authorities allege that Hampshire’s mother Amber didn’t provide her daughter with needed insulin and intentionally concealed her […]
Two hotel employees were fired this week after they were accused of racial profiling. The incident occurred last weekend at Portland’s Doubletree by Hilton, where Jermaine Massey was staying. The Washington resident posted a now-viral video in which he was confronted by two hotel workers while talking on the phone. According to Massey, he had just returned […]
Gustavo Perez Arriaga, a Sureño gang member, was arrested early Friday at his home in Bakersfield, California for the murder of police officer Ronil Singh. The killing allegedly took place on Wednesday morning after Singh, a corporal with the Newman Police Department, pulled Arriaga over for a DUI. Singh was then reportedly shot and killed by Arriaga, who then […]
If you needed another excuse not to go to Times Square this New Years Eve, here’s one: the New York City Police Department will be deploying drones during the celebration to enforce security. As if the two million projected attendees wouldn’t already steer you away, this year the massive crowds will be accompanied by flying […]
On Friday evening, Donald Trump issued a pay freeze for federal employees in 2019 amid a government shutdown that has left hundreds of workers on unpaid leave or furloughed. The scheduled pay bump would have instituted a 2.1% pay increase across the board and was set to take effect in January. Military personnel are still expected […]
President Trump blamed Democrats on Saturday for the death of two Guatemalan children who died while in U.S. custody earlier this month. In Trump’s first remarks about the incident, he politicized the death of two children by claiming the episode would not have occurred if a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border had been constructed. The comments were made via Twitter […]
