Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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When it comes to retirement, some take the time to do all the leisurely things they just didn't have time for during their working life, while others can't help but fall back into some part-time role or volunteer work. But for this couple, from a small town in Michigan, it…
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A clerical error on the part of the New York City's Police Department has led to a violent sex offender felon being released early after assaulting a 57-year-old female churchgoer. As a result of this, the police now believe that this glaring mistake may have given him the opportunity to…
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A woman has been rescued by firefighters after being trapped inside a billionaire's New York apartment elevator for an entire weekend. Marites Fortaliza, a 53-year old housecleaner, was left abandoned and stuck inside the lift for a total of three days, without food or water, before the owners returned home. They contacted the…
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Last Friday, January 25th, a young man launched an unprovoked attack on an older US Navy veteran in New York. The incident was caught on camera, and very quickly went viral after being posted on Facebook Live. "Brutal attack on an elderly male. Our communities will not stand for this…
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A woman who recently gave birth to two twin baby boys has mysteriously disappeared, and now her mother is making a public appeal for any information regarding her whereabouts. Savannah Spurlock, a 22-year-old mom, vanished in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 4. She was last seen exiting a bar late at night…
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A three-year-old boy who was missing for three days has been found alive and well, and says that he was kept company by a bear as his family breathes a sigh of relief. He had disappeared earlier this week, and although his family called the police almost immediately, he had…
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The debate over border control between the United States and Mexico has been running hot for years, but the concept of building a wall between the two countries has definitely come more to the forefront since Donald Trump began his campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The ongoing conflict between…
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On its 35th day, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally come to an end. (For a little while, anyway!). According to officials on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Congressional leaders have reached a agreement to re-open shuttered government agencies for three weeks. This agreement does not…
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After an investigation took place in Memphis, Tennessee, a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student was revealed - but that wasn't all there was to the story. In addition to the secretive affair between the 16-year-old former high school student and the 24-year-old algebra teacher, records have shown…
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Last week, controversy plagued the University of Oklahoma after one student was kicked out of her sorority for an offensive video. The woman filmed her friend as she applied blackface and appeared to use racial slurs, and the footage soon spread online after it was posted to Snapchat. The sorority…
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A once-prominent Mormon 'conversion' therapist has come out as gay and wants to start dating men. David Matheson, one of the best-known practitioners of the condemned pseudoscientific practice of trying to change sexual orientation, came out in a social media post on Monday in which he stated that "being in…
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A three-year-old boy has been found alive after going missing for two days. Casey Hathaway was found caught in a thorn bush in freezing temperatures on Thursday night following a two-day search of a wooded area. Hathaway, who lives in Craven County, North Carolina, was found soaking wet and calling…
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In October 2015, a white woman in Evanston, Illinois called the police to report that a man was stealing a car. Then she followed him in her own vehicle, so she could tell dispatchers his location. However, that man was actually 25-year-old Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby, and he…
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On February 3, the Super Bowl will be broadcast, featuring incredible big-budget ads and trailers for the year's most anticipated movies. And in between all those awesome commercials, there will be some stupid football game. However, there's one ad you won't see: Acreage Holding's emotional spot touting the benefits of…
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An Indiana school superintendent has been arrested and charged with fraud after using her own personal health insurance to help a pupil who had fallen sick. After her pupil missed school, Casey Smitherman visited the boy's house and discovered that he was in fact suffering from strep throat. For those…
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Native American activist Nathan Phillips reportedly has a criminal record that includes charges of assault, escape from prison and various alcohol-related crimes. The 64-year-old, whose confrontation with Covington Catholic High School students went viral last week, was charged "with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined [on] May 3" as a…
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In October last year, 13-year-old Jayme Closs went missing from her house in Barron, Wisconsin. Her parents had been shot dead, and she had apparently been abducted late at night. For 88 days, nobody knew where she was, and a $50,000 reward was offered for anyone who could save her.…
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At a school in upstate New York, one student reported a suspicious comment they heard at lunchtime. A day later, the authorities had arrested three men and a teenager, charging them with conspiracy to attack a Muslim community 200 miles away. Vincent Vetromile, 19; Brian Colaneri, 20; Andrew Crysel, 18;…
