The US leader and Kim Jong-un have been embroiled in a war of words since Trump took office last year, with an exchange of insults and threats putting the world on the brink of war. A year which saw the North Korean regime develop nuclear weapons that could reach the […]
Daily Archives: January 13, 2018
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NEW YORK — Following an outcry over a significant disparity in pay between co-stars, Mark Wahlberg agreed Saturday to donate the $1.5 million he earned for reshoots for “All the Money in the World” to the sexual misconduct defense initiative Time’s Up. Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams attend the premiere […]
National civil rights lawyer and activist Frankie Muse Freeman, whose landmark court battle ended legal public housing discrimination in St. Louis, died Friday. She was 101. Freeman’s daughter, Shelbe Patricia Bullock, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her mother died Friday night surrounded by family. The U.S. Commission on Civil […]
An automated warning telling Hawaiians to “seek immediate shelter” was sent out to phones earlier today, prompting some to scramble for cover in storm drains and others to huddle in basements. One man told of how, after receiving the alert and believing it to be real, he was forced to […]
JOHANNESBURG — Protesters angered by a “racist” H&M advertisement ransacked several of the Swedish fashion group’s South African stores on Saturday. The Economic Freedom Fighters, or EFF, protesters targeted six H&M stores in the Gauteng province, where South Africa’s economic hub of Johannesburg is located, tearing down shop displays and […]
Authorities outside Cincinnati say a man is holding a 10-year-old boy hostage at an apartment complex and has been shooting at officers More (WEST CHESTER, Ohio) — Authorities outside Cincinnati say a man is holding a 10-year-old boy hostage at an apartment complex and has been shooting at officers and […]
Waikiki Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Residents of the islands got spooked by a bogus alert about a missile attack. Sergi Reboredo/Getty Images An emergency alert notification that went out Saturday warning of a missile strike on Hawaii was a false alarm, state officials said. “Hawaii – This […]
A false alert about a ballistic missile in Hawaii Saturday sent the state — and the internet — into a panic. Authorities confirmed the alert was an error, and Hawaii’s Governor David Ige said he was meeting with authorities to determine what caused the alarm. According to screenshots, the alert […]