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Lianne Hikind | July 14, 2017
A mall in China has found a way to accommodate husbands who hate shopping, and wives who may hate their husbands' complaining. Shanghai mall has created "husband storage pods," the BBC reports, so wives can have the option to drop their husbands while they shop.  Inside each individual pod is a chair, monitor, computer and gamepad, and men can sit and play retro 1990s games. Currently, the…
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Lianne Hikind | July 14, 2017
What happens in prison may not always stay in prison, especially when it's permanently etched on someone's face. While Mark Cropp was serving time in New Zealand's Christchurch prison, he concluded that getting a tattoo while drunk was a good life choice. Now, the 19-year-old is out of prison after serving two years for armed robbery, and seems to be having some trouble obtaining employment…
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Lianne Hikind | July 11, 2017
Italian police raided a beach near Venice after a local newspaper reported the tourist spot, along with its beach club, were decorated with homages to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his fascist regime. The club, located in Chioggia, now faces closure, and its owner may be prosecuted for being an "apologia of fascism." According to the BBC, Punta Cana Beach Club is set up as…
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Lianne Hikind | July 11, 2017
Venmo, an app owned by PayPal and used for things like splitting checks or paying vendors, seems to have found another purpose among millennials. According to Fortune, a recent poll revealed that almost a third of all respondents said that they have used the app to buy drugs. When asked the question, "Have you ever used Venmo to pay for drugs? (Ex. Marijuana, Adderal, Cocaine etc..)," more than…
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Lianne Hikind | July 10, 2017
In a string of extraordinary luck, California teenager Rosa Dominguez won $655,000 over the span of a few days. First, Dominguez bought a $5 Power 5's Scratcher in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., on her way back home from Arizona. It netted her the top prize of $555,000. A few days later, in Monterey County, Calif., Rosa decided to try again with the same type of ticket. This time, her $5 risk…
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Lianne Hikind | July 10, 2017
Charlie Gard's parents and the lawyers representing the Great Ormond Street Hospital returned to court on Monday for a new hearing in the case of the British infant who's been sentenced to die by a court. The European Court of Human Rights had previously ruled that little Charlie Gard was to be taken off life support, which he's been on since October thanks to a degenerative disease that's left…
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Lianne Hikind | July 7, 2017
The whole world is waiting anxiously to hear what will become of little Charlie Gard, and even the hospital who wanted to let Charlie "die with dignity" is taking notice. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the institution that has been treating the terminally ill little boy for most of his short 11 months, originally said that Charlie would be taken off life support last Friday,…
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Lianne Hikind | July 7, 2017
(Image Source: Twitter) In a break from the usual everything-is-awful news cycle, several current and former NFL players have decided to invest over $800,000 in a 12-year-old girl’s lemonade business. Mikaila Ulmer, now a 12-year-old entrepreneur, started her lemonade business called Me and the Bees using her grandmother's recipe. Now, it seems the sky's the limit for this pre-teen…
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Lianne Hikind | July 7, 2017
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is known for making some…interesting statements. And now, apparently, he's taken to promoting the cannibalism of terrorists. According to the New York Post, in response to the beheading of two Vietnamese sailors by Islamic terrorists with the Abu Sayyaf terror group last November, Duterte threatened to actually eat the terrorists if they could be found. “I…
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Lianne Hikind | July 6, 2017
 Charlie Gard's parents are still fighting to save his life, and the President of the United States may be giving them another reason to hope.  The Sun reported on Wednesday that President Trump requested a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May after her government rejected outside offers to treat the 11-month old boy, who's been deemed terminally ill due to a rare genetic condition…