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Irvin Baxter, a Trump-supporting Evangelical pastor who said in March that sex before marriage was the reason behind the coronavirus pandemic, has died from COVID-19. The 75-year-old died on Tuesday after he was hospitalized last week due to complications from a COVID-19 infection. He was responsible for hosting a show titled Politics and Religion on National Prophecy […]
YNW Melly, his mother, and his manager are among the people who could be on the hook for millions of dollars in two civil suits filed last week against the rapper by the families of two crew members he is accused of murdering. A separate legal issue is also winding its way through the Broward […]
A small town in northern Kentucky has elected a dog as its mayor. Wilbur Beast, a 6-month old French Bulldog, was chosen as the new mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky on Tuesday. The town has never had a human elected to the position, NBC News reports. Wilbur’s owner, Amy Noland, told the outlet that the […]
Paula White, a prosperity gospel hawker and so-called “spiritual adviser” to Trump, has careened into headlines this week thanks to a video featuring some startling nonsensicality centered around the 2020 presidential election. The clips in question, which are rife with memeable bullshittery, come from a recent livestream event during which White attempted to passionately pray (i.e. scream into […]
The family of Zekee Rayford, a Black 18-year-old from Texas who was physically harassed and repeatedly tased by members of the Schertz Police Department, is calling on two of the involved officers to be fired. Around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, according to a report from regional paper the San Antonio Express-News, Rayford was on his way […]
Maluma has released the remix to his song “Hawái,” featuring The Weeknd singing in Spanish. The song is taken from the Colombian artist’s fifth studio album Papi Juancho, which he surprise-dropped in late August. The two teased something was in the works between them on Wednesday, with both artists sharing a photo that had fans hyped for what […]
In perhaps the least shocking news of the year, Americans actively sought to cope with election night by buying alcohol, weed, and takeout. The Los Angeles Times reports that businesses selling food, liquor, and marijuana reported a surge in sales on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boston-based Alcohol delivery service Drizly told the Times that sales rose by 68 percent from the previous […]
We may be hurtling headlong towards winter, but that doesn’t mean we can’t let our minds wander to warmer times — especially this year since most of us spent it indoors. Julius Black‘s ode to the season, fittingly titled “Summer” does just that, albeit with a bittersweet edge. In fact, this isn’t just about looking […]
For the first time, more than 100,000 new COVID-19 infections have been reported in a single day in the U.S. The New York Times database shows the total number of newly reported infections on Wednesday was more than 107,800. Single-day records were also broken in multiple states including Nebraska, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Indiana. This […]
Donald Trump never made the typical promises to be a president for all Americans. The “us vs. them” divide might become all the more literal once the results of this election are finalized. Trump just lost Michigan, a state that he perhaps jokingly promised to never visit again if he lost the election there. “You […]
