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Belgian Olympian Evi Van Acker, who won the bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics for Women’s sailing in the Laser Radial class, is the first sailor to fall sick after sailing in the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay at this year's Rio Olympics.
Van Aker reported feeling ill after her races on Wednesday and her coach, Wil Van Bladel, believes that it was the water's fault. He said that both of Van…
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Last week, two policemen drove over 600 miles to return a dog to its rightful home after they promised a man in need of medical attention that his dog would be taken care of.
Frank Kuhl, from Wall, N.J., was called to the aid of a 34-year-old man from Myrtle Beach, S.C., who was in need of medical attention. The man was passing through the Garden State at the time with Bella, his female basset…
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A few weeks ago, hoping to capitalize on Pokémon Go’s unprecedented popularity, the Smithfield Police Department in Virginia posted on Facebook that a rare Pokémon had popped up in their processing room. They then invited a group of “randomly chosen citizens” to come down to the police department for their chance at catching the rare Pokémon.
Although it was a cordial gesture, none of the…
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With a lick of honey, what is most likely the longest running hunger strike in the world, has come to an end.
The Indian activist Irom Sharmila, nicknamed the “Iron Lady of Manipur,” was 28 when ten civilians were killed after a government-controlled paramilitary force opened fired on a crowd of civilians waiting at a bus stop in a small Indian village. The event would become known as the “…
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The Olympic Games have always been a time for the countries of the world to put aside their hostilities and compete under the olive branch. Although the build up to this year’s Olympic games has been especially fraught with scandal, some athletes have still been able to interact with their fellow athletes in the true spirits of the Olympic games.
In an almost unprecedented moment of…
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German citizens seem to have lost faith in their chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her immigration policy after a string of terrorists attacks over the last month. While Germany has succeeded in avoiding the large-scale terrorist attacks that have rocked other European nations, they have not been entirely safe from harm, especially in this last few particularly bloody weeks.
In the most recent…
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North Korea has seemed rather obsessed with rockets recently, having conducted a series of successful missile tests over the last couple of months. The hermit kingdom even had the audacity to crash land a missile not too far from the Japanese coast. But, despite the increasing number of military missile tests, Kim Jong Un may have his sights set a little higher than just world domination.…
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City officials in Phoenix, Ariz., announced Tuesday exactly how much money two Black Lives Matter protests in July cost their tax-paying citizens. Combined, the two protests sucked up nearly $250,000 in city funds.
“This shows a complete disrespect for the taxpayer and our great police department,” said councilman Sal DiCiccio in statement. “This disrespect can be easily added up. Add up the…
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Twitter is up in arms over the Monday shooting of a 23-year-old black woman by a cop in Baltimore, Md., that left her dead and her five-year-old child injured. But the wave of tweets that declare her a martyr and all cops "pigs" seem to contradict the facts that are known about the case.
According to the Baltimore Police Department, three officers were sent to arrest a man and a woman in…
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A new Texas law went into effect on Monday that allows people over the age of 21 and with a concealed handgun license to legally carry handguns on public college campuses.
The law, passed back in 2015 and nicknamed the “campus carry” law, allows eligible students to keep their guns with them as they go about their average day at college. Proponents of the law say that more guns on campus will…