A pastor is resurrecting the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. He sees the climate and environment as issues on par with poverty and racism.
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When one thinks about serial killers, one tends to think about darkness. The gaslit and rain-swept streets of Whitechapel in 1888, the gray days of Ted Bundy’s Pacific Northwest, or the the industrial gloom of Chicago during the reign of H.H. Holmes all come to mind. Hawaii, America’s island paradise, is the opposite of dreary. […]
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The tobacco industry says it no longer tries to hook new generations of smokers. So what’s behind the legions of beautiful young people in smoking, vaping and partying posts with the same hashtags?
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Ever wished you had a superpower of some sort? There are entire tribes of people who have seemingly superhuman abilities that we can only dream of. Sometimes, these people do not even realize that they are exceptional until it is pointed out to them. These tribes got their superpowers due to various factors, including their […]
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As the week winds down, we have a few minutes to review some of the more notable stories that might have passed you by. Click here for some of the more serious stuff, and read on for news items that lean on the weird side. This has been a particularly bizarre week for the art […]
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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for eight years, was also charged with forcible touching and harassment of a Brooklyn woman, the police said.
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While covering Hurricane Lane in Hawaii, BBC reporter James Cook was luck he wasn’t killed after a large tree fell on him during a broadcast. Here’s the audio where you can hear the tree fall like some fake sound effect in a movie:
@BBCJamesCook, North America correspondent, hit by tree during radio report about Hurricane Lane in Hawaii.
Update: He’s okay. pic.twitter.com/sBgTkp8t23
— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) August 24, 2018
The BBC later posted this photo of Cook climbing out of the tree:
Here he is! Climbing out the tree…
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Keeping up with the news is hard. So hard, in fact, that we’ve decided to save you the hassle by rounding up the most significant, unusual, or just plain old mind-blowing stories each week. If you’re a total politics dork (welcome to the club!), Tuesday, August 21, 2018, was like all your geeky Christmases come […]
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So, at today’s big fundraiser in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Republican Party shared the Columbus Convention Center with the Matsuricon anime convention. For real:
This is fun! Matsuricon convention is at the same time and place as @realDonaldTrump speech to @ohiogop. pic.twitter.com/jTXd6LGbcz
— Laura Bischoff (@lbischoff) August 24, 2018
“Excuse me, would you like to hear about Judge Kavanaugh?”
Anime convention still going strong next door to the Ohio Republican Party dinner…
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