Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, the Hollywood Reporter writes. Scores were arrested for ...
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Obamas ask Americans to help ‘Obama Foundation’
“More than a library or museum, it will be a living, working center for citizenship,” the outgoing president said in a video message. “That’s why we want to hear from you. Tell us what you want this project to be,” ...
Read More »Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal over 5,000 years ago was Stone Age cured meat
Ötzi is the name given to a 5,300-year-old mummy found frozen in a European glacier in 1991. He was killed by an arrow when he was between 40 and 50 years old and hiking across the Ötztal Alps between modern-day ...
Read More »The internet is coping through Michelle Obama memes
As Mashable writes, while President Donald Trump was sworn in during Friday’s inauguration, Obama was on the sidelines saying it all with her pointed looks. The internet feels you, Michelle. HRC: Can you believe this shit? MO: Girl, I ...
Read More »‘From this moment on, it’s going to be America First’: Here’s President Donald Trump’s full inauguration speech
Trump’s address was long on the fiery campaign rhetoric that brought him to the White House, Business Insider reports. “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land,” Trump said under a light rain on the Capitol steps. ...
Read More »Dog with broken leg leads vets two miles to her puppies
Psychologist Lianne Powell was the one who spotted the doggie and took her to the vet. There, they noticed she was producing milk and realized the dog just had puppies. “We put a collar and long lead on her. Then ...
Read More »Netflix announces House of Cards will return on May 30th for its fifth season
The tweet features children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as the camera pulls back from an upside-down American flag, the official signal of distress, The Verge reports. We make the terror. pic.twitter.com/VpChwGOSMj — House of Cards (@HouseofCards) 20 января 2017 ...
Read More »US President Trump’s Twitter account HAD an image from Obama’s inauguration in 2009
As Mashable wrote, the banner photo of Trump’s Twitter account was from the inauguration of former President Barack Obama, in 2009. That’s how it looked: It was obviously cropped from this photo: But now the account has a different banner: ...
Read More »Italy avalanche: Six found alive in hotel after two days
Rescuers said the survivors had been discovered buried under snow. Two are children, Italian media said, according to the BBC. Video footage of the first survivors being pulled free was released by rescue teams on Friday afternoon – more than ...
Read More »Donald Trump becomes 45th President of the United States
On a raised platform on the flag-draped West Front of the Capitol, Trump placed his left hand on one Bible that dates from his childhood and another that belonged to Abraham Lincoln and raised his right hand in the air ...
Read More »In Trump We Trust: Inauguration prompts celebration in Russia
The Kremlin may have spent years reviling America, but Russians hoping Donald Trump will usher in a new era of detente marked his inauguration on Friday with parties and trinkets from commemorative coins to “matryoshka” nesting dolls in his image, ...
Read More »China launched driverless subway line in Hong Kong
The new South Island Line is the third driverless metro line in Hong Kong, and it also sees the introduction of the first driverless metro trains made entirely in China, CCTV reports. This is Hong Kong’s first brand new metro ...
Read More »Donald Trump to be given ‘daunting’ nuclear briefing
Sometime before he’s sworn in Friday, President-elect Trump will sit down with the top military officers who control America’s massive military arsenal and get “The Briefing,” the one that provides him with an understanding — and the tools — of ...
Read More »Today’s Horoscope for January 20th, 2017
Today Virgos should slow down, with all the activities they are involved in and Scorpios finances are not exactly in the best of health. The Moon is moving to Scorpio 00:09: Moon → Scorpio When the moon enters into the ...
Read More »On eve of inauguration, Trump addresses nation in shadow of Lincoln
Donald Trump staked his claim to Washington on Thursday by promising to “make America great again” while at the feet of the US capital’s giant marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in a celebration of patriotic music, military pageantry and fireworks, ...
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