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A 100-year-old Brazilian man has set the Guinness World Record for the longest tenure at the same company, after working for a textile firm for 84 years. Guinness World Records reports the record was verified on January 6. Walter Orthmann, who turned 100 on April 19, started working at ReneauxView, previously called Industrias Renaux S.A., when he was […]
A reward is now being offered amid the ongoing search for an escaped Alabama inmate and a “missing and endangered” corrections officer, the U.S. Marshals Service announced this weekend. Per the Associated Press, 38-year-old Casey Cole White left the Lauderdale County Detention Center last Friday with officer Vicky White, who also serves as the facility’s […]
Megan Thee Stallion’s philanthropic endeavors were commemorated in her hometown of Houston this weekend with a key to the city, as well as a proclamation from Mayor Sylvester Turner designating May 2 as a special day in the Good News artist’s honor. Speaking on the presenting of the key and the Megan Thee Stallion Day […]
A shooting at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival on Saturday left one person dead and five others injured. NBC affiliate WLBT reports the shooting occurred before 10 p.m. at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that three of the wounded people were stabilized at a local […]
Two new even more transmissible Omicron subvariants have been found in the United States, Deadline reports. First identified in South Africa, BA.4 and BA.5 were initially recorded on Jan. 10 and Feb. 26, respectively, but have only recently caused a dramatic spike in cases in their country of origin. Abdool Karim, public health expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, […]
While discussing first amendment rights on his HBO show The Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher said he believed Twitter had already ‘failed’ in its new Elon Musk-driven mission to support free speech when it previously banned The New York Post for writing about Hunter Biden’s laptop. “The argument to me is, has Twitter failed in setting […]
Elon Musk—who has claimed that the “far left hates everyone”—is accusing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of “hitting on me” after she tweeted about a “billionaire with an ego problem.” On Friday, AOC wrote that she was “tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego […]
Nadia Lopez, who founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, has been told she “shouldn’t come back” to the school, per the New York Post. The former principal, who received love from a student on Humans of New York, was met with hostility when she visited the Brooklyn school on April 13 and claims she was told […]
The nation’s capital is abuzz this weekend, as some of the biggest names in politics, media, and entertainment gathered for the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event—hosted Hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA)—returned to D.C. Saturday night after a two-year hiatus due to the global pandemic. Launched in 1921, the black-tie dinner aims […]
Stephen A. Smith prompted reactions once again on Monday after he suggested that Kyrie Irving would use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an excuse to not play. Prior to Monday’s First Take, Smith promised to go off on the Brooklyn Nets following the team’s third consecutive defeat at the hands of the Boston Celtics. “Honest to God […]
