The family of unarmed black man George Floyd are pushing back against claims he died from a drug overdose. Floyd, 46, passed away May 25 while being arrested by Minneapolis police officers on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill. Officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as […]

  A political appointee of President Trump has been interfering with COVID-19 reports by health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because their data doesn’t match the ‘optimistic messages’ sought by the White House. In one instance, CDC Director Robert Redfield and his scientists were accused of trying to ‘hurt the president’ […]

  After more than four months at home amid lockdowns to slow the spread of coronavirus, far more Chinese children were depressed and even suicidal than prior to the pandemic, when they were still in school, new research shows. In the US and around the world, policy makers and parents are carefully weighing the coronavirus risks […]

Restaurant and bar owners in New York City have spoken out to say 25 percent indoor dining will do ‘nothing’ to save their struggling industry that was brought to its knees then kept ‘in the dark’ by officials for months on end. On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally announced that restaurants would be able to […]

A man who tried to snatch a four-year-old girl in front of her mother at a South African restaurant was wrestled down to the ground. Shocking footage shows the 24-year-old man grab the girl by her neck in front of her horrified mother. The man tried to take her at Bella Napoli in Florida, Roodepoort, […]

  A 13-year-old boy who was killed in an Oregon wildfire this week died after huddling in a car with his dog to try to escape the flames. Wyatt Tofte died Tuesday in the Santiam Fire in Marion County, along with his 71-year-old grandmother, Peggy Mosso. Their devastated family broke their silence to tell how […]

  Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel hosted a dinner for a least one influential white nationalist during Donald Trump‘s 2016 election campaign. Thiel enjoyed the dinner he had with former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, according to an email he sent the day after he hosted him at his Hollywood Hills home, Buzzfeed News reports. Thiel invited […]

  A Facebook page run by the violent Rose City Antifa group based in Portland is still up and running on the social media platform despite a pledge by CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month to clamp down on such extremist organizations. Facebook has adjusted its policy towards Dangerous Individuals and Organizations and had promised to ‘address […]

  A petition has been launched calling for the immediate resignation of the white CEO of the non-profit responsible for organizing the NYC Marathon amid claims of ‘institutional racism and oppression’ in the workplace. So far, the petition demanding New York Road Runners (NYRR) CEO Michael Capiraso step down has been signed by 850 people. However, critics […]

  Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is at the centre of a bitter racism row after he questioned if it was acceptable to call people monkeys. The 65-year-old conservative had initially caused outrage on the ‘Daily’ TV discussion programme when he said the word N***** should be allowed. He was particularly upset when appearing on […]

  A  woman who deliberately sawed off her hand has been jailed for insurance fraud. Julija Adlesic, 22, from Slovenia, agreed with her boyfriend to sever her left hand above the wrist to claim £700,000. But investigators found they had signed contracts with five insurance companies a year earlier.   Julija Adlesic, 22, from Slovenia (pictured […]

  One of Jimmy Carter’s son smoked marijuana with Willie Nelson on the White House roof, the former president revealed in his new documentary. In Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, which explores the 39th president special connection with the music community, Carter shared that one of his sons got high with the country star. ‘When […]

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked two planes flew and crashed them into New York City‘s Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, killing 2,606 people – and satellites captured the horrifying scene from space. An image shows a massive smoke plume rising from where the buildings once stood, which was spotted by the International Space Station […]

  Eating at restaurants or going to a bar may put people at greater risk for catching coronavirus, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests. In fact, people who tested positive for coronavirus were about twice as likely to have recently dined out, compared to those who tested negative, the CDC […]

The seven ‘comrades’ of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party arrested for rioting in New York on Friday night are wealthy students, models, art directors and singers. The NYPD tweeted their mugshots over the weekend and decried their actions as ‘the height of hypocrisy’, labelling one of the women ‘the poster child for white privilege.’ Clara […]

  The NFL was back on television sets Thursday night but not as many of the fans were watching. According to Nielsen, the season kickoff game on NBC between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs drew 13 percent fewer viewers than the 2019 opener between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears. An estimated […]

  Two powerful columns of light are beaming into the sky from Lower Manhattan this evening to represent the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center that was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. The coronavirus pandemic meant there were alterations to usual ceremonies that are traditionally held on the tragic date. In […]

  John Daly admitted that he is hoping for a miracle after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer. The 1995 Open champion has had one bout of surgery but been warned there is a strong possibility the cancer will return. The hard-living 54-year-old American was being treated for kidney stones when he […]

President Donald Trump on Friday vowed that America will always ‘rise up’ and ‘fight back’ when under attack as he paid tribute to the 40 people who died on United Flight 93 when they brought down the plane in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In a sobering and patriotic speech at the national memorial, Trump […]

  Light tributes to September 11 victims shone across America as commemorations begin on the 19th anniversary of the terror attacks. Tributes paid to those who lost their lives have been altered this year, with restrictions in place due to Covid-19. In New York, the annual ‘Tribute in Light’ was almost cancelled after the 9/11 Memorial […]