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The pandemic may have brought the world to a standstill, but it didn’t stop one Texas man’s hustle. Per the Justice Department, a Dallas-area man stole over $17 million in COVID-19 bailout money. 55-year-old Dinesh Sah was able to finesse $24.8 million, of which he received $17.7 million. The money was federal relief funds allotted by the Paycheck Protection […]
Netflix is facing criminal charges over Cuties, a coming-of-age film that has been widely criticized for exploiting young actors and encouraging the sexualization of children. According to legal documents obtained by the Texas Tribune, a grand jury in Tyler, Texas, indicted the streaming giant for promoting content that “depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or […]
Police shot and killed a man in Texas over the weekend after, per family and civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, he had attempted to break up a fight. In a statement shared to Facebook on Sunday, Merritt called 31-year-old Jonathan Price a “hometown hero” who was loved “by so many” in the Wolfe City community. “Yesterday he […]
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott ignited outrage on Thursday after issuing a proclamation that would make absentee voting much more difficult within the state. The controversial order limits the number of mail-in ballot drop-off sites to just one per county, and will effectively close all drop-off satellite locations beginning Friday. Abbott claims the move was intended to […]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was seen picking up Delonte West at a gas station in Dallas on Monday. TMZ reports Cuban has been trying to call West over the last few days, and once he was able to speak with the former Mavericks guard, the two agreed to meet. West was reportedly taken to […]
Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, was found in the water supply of Brazosport Water Authority customers in Texas on Friday evening, forcing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue a water advisory and tell those customers to not to use any of their water. According to CNN, the Do Not Use Water Advisory was initially issued for residents […]
It appears the coronavirus is mutating in the U.S. Researchers became aware of this mutation when Houston saw an influx of cases in June, where a form of COVID-19 that was found in other parts of the world and was known to be particularly contagious began to dominate the city’s confirmed cases. A new study covered […]
Around 20 people were injured Wednesday morning after two cranes experienced an entanglement at a construction site in Texas. Austin-Travis County EMS Captain Darren Noak described the scene earlier today, per CNN, as a “crane vs. crane” incident where one collided with another, causing their wires to become entangled. “This just happened to be two cranes working, we’re not […]
A woman wearing egregiously patterned boots has been dubbed a “Karen” on Reddit and beyond after the sharing of footage in which she’s seen claiming to be calling police on a Black U.S. Census Bureau worker. The footage in question, per the Daily Dot’s report on Monday, first started taking off via the FuckYouKaren subreddit over […]
Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions has dropped the latest installment in his politically charged series of releases, RVLTN. The third chapter, titled the Price of Freedom, features appearances from the likes of Royce da 5’9″, the Outfit, TX, and ZYAH. The series, as Sessions puts it, tackles “the unapologetic, raw, and uncut opinions from the barbershop about what’s […]
