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A New Jersey woman has been sentenced in connection with a GoFundMe scam that raised $400,000 by creating a fake story about a homeless veteran. According to the Burlington County Sheriff’s Office, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown, to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. McClure […]
A 19-foot boat is said to have been “in the right place at the wrong time” following a wild water-breaching whale incident caught in since-made-viral footage. As you’ve likely seen making the usual rounds in recent days, the footage in question—which shows vessels off the coast of Massachusetts in the Plymouth area, per a report from […]
The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is looking into the death of a Georgia woman who died last week after falling out of a moving police car. WMAZ reports Brianna Grier, 28, was pronounced dead on July 21 following an “in-custody incident with Hancock County Sheriff’s Office deputies.” The incident occurred on July 15, when Grier’s mother called […]
Alena Analeigh Wicker has made history. The 13-year-old Texas girl was recently accepted into the University of Alabama’s Heersink School of Medicine, making her the youngest Black student to ever gain admission into a U.S. medical school. Alena received the big news back in May, just a year after she received her high school diploma. Since then, the […]
The family of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man who was killed by police last month, has asked the United States Justice Department to investigate his death. Lawyers for the family announced the request during a press conference Wednesday, on what would’ve marked Walker’s 26th birthday. Attorney Bobby DiCello told reporters his clients are questioning the integrity of the probe, […]
A Mississippi police chief was terminated this week after he was allegedly caught on tape using racist slurs, as well as bragging about the number of people he’s shot. According to the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, newly leaked audio features the voice of a white man who claims to have killed more than a dozen people in the […]
Health officials say a New York man has tested positive for polio, marking the first known U.S. infection in nearly a decade. The New York State Department of Health say the unnamed patient was unvaccinated and may have contracted the disease from someone who received the oral polio vaccine. According to the New York Times, the OPV […]
A California woman has been charged with kidnapping after she allegedly impersonated a nurse and tried to steal a newborn baby last week. According to a press release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, Jesenea Miron, 23, pretended to be a newly hired nurse when she showed up at the Riverside University Health System – Medical Center […]
Even as this year’s slate of Marvel Studios properties features Ms. Marvel, a Disney+ series dedicated to the first Muslim superhero, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the follow-up to the widely successful 2018 film Black Panther, Jessica Alba believes the franchise still hasn’t done enough to address the issue of diversity. “Even if you look at the Marvel […]
It’s not unique or particularly revelatory to state that, especially lately, it often feels like the world is ending and nobody gives even the most teeny-tiny of shits about it. Perfectly illustrating this facet of modern life is a recently-made-viral clip of a report from U.K.-based outlet GB News featuring weather expert John Hammond. As […]
