Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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As North America braces against a lethal chill, some Iowa natives have found a funnier side to the freezing cold. In the past weeks, a polar vortex has been wreaking havoc across the Midwest, delaying over 2,500 flights and halting the U.S. Postal Service. Pictures coming out of the snow-covered cities…
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A 27-year-old nutritionist has tragically been found dead after hanging herself in her Manhattan apartment. Tara Condell, who was a San Francisco native, was found by police after worried co-workers reported her missing when she didn't show up for work. Condell, who worked as a nutritionist at the Midtown office of…
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Soon enough it'll be time for the Super Bowl one more, with the 53rd edition of the monumental sports event airing on Sunday February 3. The two-time defending champions, the New England Patriots, will be facing off against the Los Angeles Rams to determine the champion of the NFL's 2018 season,…
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A death row inmate has been executed in Texas 30 years after he was sentenced to death for killing a policeman. Robert Mitchell Jennings was pronounced dead at 6.33pm local time after being taken from his cell at 6.04pm, becoming the first person to be put to death in the US…
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This week the American Midwest was gripped with a record freeze as a result of the polar vortex. Every winter, a wide expanse of swirling cold air moves south from the North Pole, creating cold snaps in the United States. However, this year the temperatures are unusually low, plunging far…
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Last Tuesday, Jussie Smollett was the victim of a brutal attack in downtown Chicago, at about 2 a.m. local time. Two unidentified men wearing masks shouted racist and homophobic slurs at the actor, who plays an openly gay character on Fox's hit drama series Empire. The suspects physically assaulted Smollett,…
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A doctor out in California is battling to keep his license as a registered doctor after prescribing cookies laced with cannabis to a toddler. Dr William Eidelman, a natural medicine physician whose practice is on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, prescribed a four-year-old boy cookies with low doses of marijuana in them,…
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A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for attacking a man who was dressed like a Minion from the Despicable Me film franchise. Ryan Nihart from Citrus County pleaded 'no contest' on Monday to misdemeanour battery and criminal mischief for the 2018 attack on 41-year-old Jamie Roehm.…
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A woman from Washington pleaded guilty to charges of attempted first-degree domestic violence murder this week after allegedly attempting to kill her boyfriend with a samurai sword. Emily Javier, who is 31, told investigators that she launched the attack on her boyfriend, Alex Lovell, in March last year after finding that he had…
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On March 17, former US soldier James Harris Jackson travelled to New York, where he he stayed at a Manhattan hotel, planning an attack. Three days later, the 28-year-old from Baltimore searched the streets for black men, wearing a long coat to hide a 26-inch Roman-style sword, which he drew…
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More than 1,000 strangers showed up to the funeral of Air Force veteran this week, after learning that his service was to be sparsely attended. Joseph Walker, who was born in 1946 and served in the Vietnam war, was laid to rest at the All Faiths Funeral Service in Austin, Texas. However, before…
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When we experience cold weather, and somebody says boy, we sure could use some global warming right now, their motivation isn't clear. Are they making a lame joke? Do they not understand simple scientific concepts? Or are they deliberately saying something ignorant to get a rise out of people? (Woooo!…
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The owner of a bakery has apologised after baking and selling cookies with a pro-Trump message on them, saying he only did so as a joke. Ken Bellingham, the owner of Edmonds Bakery in Edmonds, Washington State, denied he was trying to make a political statement by writing "Build the…
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A 24-year-old maths teacher has resigned after allegedly sending a student nude photos and asking if he wanted to play "naked hide and seek". Kelsie Schmidt is said to have sent X-rated images to a 17-year-old at Beulah High School in North Dakota last August. According to court documents, Schmidt, who was…
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This weekend, a pregnant woman was stabbed to death in Tempe, Arizona while working as a Lyft driver. The victim, 39-year-old Kristina Howato, was in her third trimester when she was fatally attacked by a man she had just dropped off outside an apartment complex in the early hours of…
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A woman's Facebook video has gone viral on social media this week, which shows a fellow passenger ranting angrily at her because of her weight, while on a flight from Las Vegas to New Jersey. The footage, which was filmed by nursing leader Norma Rodgers, shows an unidentified blonde woman going into…
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During the 1970s, Theodore 'Ted' Bundy went on a killing spree that ended the lives of at least 30 female victims - one of whom was just a child. He was arrested multiple times for his crimes, but twice managed to escape from jail and continue his rampage. Finally, in 1978,…
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One man from Florida was recently arrested for the theft of medication, but that wasn't the only bad thing that happened to him that night. Peter Hans Emery, 56, was reportedly staying at someone else's home when he decided to steal from their medicine cabinet, according to the criminal complaint.…
