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A suspect is wanted by police after they were recorded robbing a bank in Northwest Washington, D.C. with a brick as their weapon of choice, NBC Washington reports. In surveillance video taken from the bank on the 1900 block of 8th Street Northwest on Tuesday, April 18, a person who appears to be a man wearing a […]
Eight people were shot, including a 12-year-old girl, in Washington, D.C., on Friday night (April 21), according to NBC News. Assistant Chief Andre Wright of the Metropolitan Police Department stated in a press conference that gunfire erupted around 10 p.m. ET on Lebaum Street SE and 2nd Street SE. Wright also explained witnesses saw a […]
The White House found an intruder on its lawn who managed to squeeze through the metal fencing. The Associated Press reports that a toddler made his way over to the lawn and got in between the fencing. U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers found the little one on the inside of the fence’s north side. […]
Juul Labs reached a $462 million settlement with several states, including New York and California, on Wednesday, stemming from lawsuits accusing the company of aggressively targeting young people and providing misinformation about the e-cigarettes. As reported by the New York Times, California—which is expected to receive the biggest portion of the settlement with an estimated $162 million—claimed in its […]
Madonna’s ’80s bop “Like a Virgin,” John Lennon’s classic hit “Imagine,” and the Queen of Xmas Mariah Carey’s holiday staple “All I Want for Christmas Is You” are officially inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The Library of Congress announced it’s adding 25 songs into the catalog on Wednesday. The tunes are deemed “audio treasures […]
A new podcast is taking an investigative look at the unsolved murders carried out in the early 1970s by a Washington D.C.-area serial killer known as the Freeway Phantom. The new series from Tenderfoot TV, iHeartPodcasts, and Jay Ellis’ Black Bar Mitzvah spans 10 episodes and is hosted by journalist Celeste Headlee. In a statement, Headlee—who’s been […]
A bill has been reintroduced into the House of Representatives that challenges the standardized five-day/40-hour workweek. California Representative Mark Takano’s bill proposes making a four-day workweek a federal law. The mandate would create “a significant change which will increase the happiness of humankind,” per CNBC. In June 2021, the UK ran a trial bringing the four-day workweek to the forefront. […]
The White House is blaming Texas Governor Greg Abbott for sending busloads of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ home on Christmas Eve. CNN reports about 140 migrants from countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean were dropped off outside Harris’ Washington D.C. residence late Saturday night. Some migrants had to battle the 18-degree […]
David DePape, the man who allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home last week and brutally attacked her husband, has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. As reported by CNN, DePape, 42, made his first appearance in front of a judge on Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court. DePape faces a slate of charges, including attempted […]
The man alleged to have broken into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and assaulted her husband was potentially planning to stage similar attacks targeting others, sources claim in a new report. Monday, CBS News cited police sources as stating that the suspect in question, David Wayne DePape, had a list of potential future […]
