Prominent climate change activist Bill McKibben has started an organization that looks to get the older generations involved in activism for the environment. He, along with co-founders Akaya Windwood, 65, and Vanessa Arcara, a millennial, founded Third Act, which soft-launched this week and will be fully functional beginning in 2022.[Read More…]

An off-duty Tucson, Arizona police officer shot a wheelchair-bound man in the back nine times, killing him, after he allegedly shoplifted. On Monday, Ryan Remington, a cop who was working as a security guard at Walmart, was alerted by an employee that a man in a motorized wheelchair had taken[Read More…]

An apprentice was hung upside down and slapped by his employer and co-workers in an intense prank, for which he has taken action. Ilyas Elkharraz, 23, moved from Morocco to Australia, where he began working as a carpentry apprentice. He worked there for three years, until the incident occured. However,[Read More…]

A UK court ruled in favor of a woman who sued her mother’s doctor for wrongful conception. Evie Toombes, a 20-year old showjumper, took Dr. Phillip Mitchell to court for “wrongful conception”, and is going home with millions. Toombes suffers from spina bifida, which renders her immobile, sometimes for up[Read More…]

Hennepin County District Court has begun the jury selection for the trial of Kimberly Potter, an ex-cop who shot Daunte Wright. On April 11, Potter, 49, was training a rookie officer near Minneapolis. They were performing a routine traffic check, in which Wright was supposed to stop. Instead, he tried[Read More…]

Authorities in Michigan on Wednesday said a 17-year-old boy had become the fourth student to die as a result of a high school shooting in the state the day before. The latest victim was named as Justin Shilling, just hours after the authorities named the other three teenagers killed in Tuesday’s shooting[Read More…]

Public health officials in California have confirmed the first known case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday the infected individual had recently returned from South Africa. The traveller was fully vaccinated, has displayed mild symptoms so far and[Read More…]

The number of homicides in Chicago’s Cook County has surpassed 1,000 during the holiday weekend after Thanksgiving. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Tuesday the 1,000th homicide in 2021 happened over the holiday weekend. With just over a month left in the year, the number of homicides in Cook[Read More…]

The 15-year old suspected of opening fire at his school will be charged on several counts and as an adult. On Tuesday, 15-year old Ethan Crumbley opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan, killing four and injuring seven. He was arrested on location when police saw him walking out[Read More…]

Three teens who were involved in a shooting outside of their high school are being charged as adults. The three Hinkley High School students, Larry Renee Jefferson, Dalen Lenale Brewer and Diego Flores, all 16-years old have received their charges, which include four counts of attempted first-degree murder and one[Read More…]