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Three people were killed when two small planes collided mid-air in California on Thursday. CBS News reports the accident took place before 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, California–a city located about 50 miles south of San Jose. A twin-engine Cessna 340 crashed into a single-engine Cessna 152. One person […]
The world’s second-largest theater chain is apparently headed toward bankruptcy. According to the Wall Street Journal, Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld Group is preparing to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States and insolvency in the United Kingdom. “People familiar with the matter” say the London-based exhibitor has struggled to recover losses from the pandemic, […]
Planet earth is getting very close to reaching a population of 8 billion human beings. While eight billion people sounds like a lot of fucking people, and it undeniably is, there is quite clearly some division among population-focused researchers and related experts on whether or not the rate we’ve seen in recent decades will continue. […]
A Black couple is taking legal action after their home appraisal increased nearly $300,000 because of race. According to the New York Times, Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott filed the housing discrimination lawsuit in Maryland District Court on Monday—about a year after they applied to refinance their mortgage with loanDepot. Connolly, a professor at John Hopkins University, says he and his […]
A woman in India allegedly chopped off the penis of her boyfriend after he tried to rape her 14-year-old daughter. The unidentified mother recalled seeing a quarrel and confronting the man inside the home they shared together. “I was working in the farm when the incident took place,” she told the Times of India. “Fortunately, I returned home in […]
A Black mother filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter after she discovered her elementary school created a cotton field to get students to “identify with the real-life experience of African American slaves,” per the Los Angeles Times. In her suit, Rashunda Pitts alleges she dropped off her now-14-year-old daughter, referred to in court documents as […]
A Mississippi man was arrested on Monday for trying to pocket more than one of the 15 bricks of cocaine that washed ashore over the weekend. Biloxi police announced that Joey Lee Ware, 37, has been charged with aggravated trafficking of controlled substances after he was found with a brick and a half of coke plastered with a Dior label, drawing a connection between […]
The Lord works in mysterious ways, including, apparently, calling people “broke” for not chipping in to help a pastor procure a new watch. To be fair, the pastor in question—Carlton Funderburke—has now issued an apology video after a clip of the “broke” moment went viral. “Though there is context behind the content of the clip, […]
Sorority recruitment week at the University of Alabama, which has been captured by the Bama Rush trend on TikTok, is becoming the topic of a documentary from Vice Studios and HBO Max. Rachel Fleit, director of 2021’s critically acclaimed doc Introducing, Selma Blair, will helm the project, which has begun production in Tuscaloosa. “This film is a thoughtful and compassionate […]
A former Manhattan neurologist who was convicted last month of sexually assaulting multiple patients was found dead at Rikers Island on Monday, CNN reports. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, who was the former chairman of the neurology department at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, was found around 5:35 a.m. in the shower area of the New York City jail facility with […]
