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Timiyah Landers, a 12-year-old girl from Detroit, Michigan, was hospitalized last week with severe burns after she attempted the “fire challenge,” a social media stunt in which participants cover their bodies in rubbing alcohol and then light themselves on fire…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Syrian government troops in Idlib province shot down three combat unmanned aerial vehicles launched by militants, Maj. Gen. Alexei Tsygankov, the head of the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, said Wednesday. “On August 21, the servicemen…
California’s Santa Clara County Fire Department isn’t buying Verizon’s explanation for why the department’s internet data was throttled as it battled some of the enormous blazes sweeping the state this summer. Verizon claimed on Tuesday that it throttled the department’s…
It’s never too early to start polling a presidential election that’s a mere 27 months away, so kudos to Morning Consult for offering us head-to-head matchups featuring Donald Trump and a broad range of possible Democratic contenders. These results seem…
Digesting the news that his personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges, President Trump turned to a tried-and-true tactic: He attacked Barack Obama. On the same day that Paul Manafort was convicted on eight…
Political narratives, especially in popular fiction but often in journalism as well, are built around uncovering hidden wrongdoing. The basic model of a compelling political story is: There is some sort of corruption afoot, it is discovered and exposed to…
