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A man armed with a crossbow at Windsor Castle has been charged with a treason offence and making threats to kill the Queen. Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, from Southampton, was arrested at the official royal residence on Christmas Day when the 95-year-old monarch was residing at the castle with family. The Met said he was stopped “within moments” of […]
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1 million to the parents of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old boy who was among those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. According to CNN, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones in 2018, after he spent years making baseless claims about the massacre. The tragedy […]
Four people were hospitalized Thursday after an apparent lightning strike hit Lafayette Square in the nation’s capital. According to the Washington Post, the incident took place a little before 7 p.m. just dozens of feet away from the White House. Fire department spokesperson Vito Maggiolo confirmed two men and two women were found in the park shortly after […]
Pro-choice advocates have secured a crucial victory. According to the Associated Press, Kansas residents flocked to the ballot box Tuesday to protect abortion access in the state. About 59 percent of voters rejected a proposed amendment that would’ve reversed a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court ruling that determined Kansans have the right to terminate a pregnancy. The […]
As part of an effort to inspire more people to donate blood, the American Red Cross is launching a program featuring donated designs from a trio of familiar names. The program, which is launching in New York and Los Angeles, is being billed as the Drop for Drop campaign. Enlisted for the effort are New […]
Amid continued discussions surrounding post-release lyrical and compositional tweaks to what will surely go down as one of the biggest and most acclaimed albums of the year (i.e. Beyoncé’s Renaissance), Monica Lewinsky has entered the conversation. On Monday, Lewinsky tweeted out a Variety article focused on a lyric from the album some had considered to […]
A mother in New Jersey has accused a Chuck E. Cheese employee of racial discrimination. Natyana Muhammad took to her Twitter account @belllahijabi to call out a worker wearing a mascot suit for snubbing her excited 2-year-old daughter, who is Black. A video shows the girl being passed over by the mascot as he gives out several high fives to a group of […]
A passenger on a flight to Australia from Indonesia was met with a hefty fine after officials discovered an undeclared assortment of McDonald’s items, including two McMuffins. Per a report from the Guardian, a “detector dog” by the name of Zinta (pictured below) ultimately sniffed out the inadvertently expensive fast food, which Australian authorities said […]
President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, per NBC News. “Justice has been delivered. And this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said during his address from the White House. “No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide—if you are […]
Guy Reffitt was sentenced on Monday to just over seven years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, NBC News reports. Reffitt was found guilty in March on all five charges, including transport of a firearm in support of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. He was the first person […]
