A bidding war over an NFT of the viral “Charlie Bit My Finger” video — a “lovable piece of internet history” that “helped YouTube grow” in 2007, the family involved proclaimed — ended with a winning price of $760,999. After bids slowly trickled in during the Saturday portion of the …
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The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine in America under the Joe Biden administration has been a historic success. As of this week, more than 200 million shots have been administered — doubling the president’s original 100 day goal. Among vulnerable seniors, 81 percent have gotten at least one shot, as …
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UPDATE 4/24: Following another week filled with more allegations of workplace misconduct, Scott Rudin revealed Saturday that he would resign from the Broadway League, the trade organization that organizes the Tony Awards. “I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough,” Rudin said in an apology to the New York …
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Texas is currently facing an unprecedented blackout crisis, leaving nearly three million people without electricity during the state’s biggest ice storm in years. Boil water notices have been issued to residents of Houston and Austin, warning them to heat their water due to possible contamination from broken pipes, low water …
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Police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a nine-year-old girl while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car, as seen on body-camera footage from an incident last Friday, January 29th. As the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports, the footage was released Sunday, January 31st. Following the incident, the …
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UPDATE: New Jersey Public Question 1 passed on Tuesday, which means cannabis has been legalized for recreational use in New Jersey. “Marijuana legalization is long overdue in New Jersey, where arrests for possession kept increasing while other states enacted sensible systems of taxation and regulation,”said Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director of …
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Tapes of the grand jury inquiry into the police killing of Breonna Taylor were released Friday, October 2nd, one week after just one ex-cop was charged in the case, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron submitted the nearly 15 hours of tapes after an unidentified grand …
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Joshua Steen wasn’t particularly surprised when he saw his friend Ronnie McNutt, 33, on Facebook Live on August 31st. “He often used a livestreaming platform as his form of therapy,” Steen tellsRolling Stone about his friend, who he met during a community theater production of Footloose and with whom he …
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Since Jeffrey Epstein‘s death under mysterious circumstances last summer, conspiracy theorists of all stripes have been making hay with it, connecting any and all people who have ever been directly or indirectly associated with him to any and all criminal cases of the past 40 years. So it was only …
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When most of us get diarrhea at a fast food restaurant, we chalk it up to consuming too much sodium too quickly, or age rendering our digestive system more sensitive, and move on. This is not exactly what happened yesterday, when the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) reported that three NYPD …
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