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One of the most public couples that ever was, Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West, are reportedly headed for divorce.

European protesters, railing against anti-COVID-19 restrictions, resorted to a weird public flash mob similar to a recent one in Toronto.

Anthony Quinn Warner, believed responsible for a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, sent packages to people throughout the country prior to the attack. The packages contained conspiracy theories involving the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 1969 moon landing, and shape-shifting “lizard people” conspiring against humans. Featured Video Hide According to Nashville’s NewsChannel 5, a person who knows Warner received a package, postmarked Dec. 23, containing nine typed p...

A star player for one of the world’s biggest soccer clubs has come under fire for using a racist term in an Instagram post, adding to an ongoing debate over the word in question as well as highlighting efforts to hold athletes to higher social media standards. Featured Video Hide Edinson Cavani, who plays for both Manchester United and the Uruguayan national team, was banned for three matches on Thursday by the Football Association (FA), the governing body for soccer ...

Luke Letlow, elected to represent Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District in a runoff election earlier this month, died of COVID-19 complications in a Shreveport hospital Tuesday night. Letlow, 41, is survived by his wife and two children, and while a number of people are mourning him today, a number of people are also going online to post photos of maskless campaign events leading up to Letlow’s Dec. 18 diagnosis. Featured Video Hide Letlow’s own Twitter account p...

Featured Video Hide The tweet thread—starting with a quote attributed to Stalin that might not be something he actually ever said—appeared to appeal to Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Advertisement Hide As a result, Stalin trended on Twitter Monday afternoon as politicians, media members, and others reacted to the unusual appeal. The four-tweet thread, published Sunday morning via Rasmussen’s Twitter account, ...

Soccer Twitter is an odd little corner of the Twitterverse, and it got a little weirder in the last 24 hours. Allegedly, a person known on soccer Twitter for being a “legit insider” posted that he was diagnosed with brain cancer—and then was exposed as a fraud by the person whose photo he used. Featured Video Hide According to Soccer Twitter community members piecing the strange story together, Charlie Kennan was known on Twitter, Reddit, and on the Big Soccer for...

It’s been an eventful Monday for members of a group chat who added Nicki Minaj to their group text. Minaj responded to being added by tweeting out screenshots from the chat with phone numbers of some of the members clearly visible. It also includes a single line of instruction to her group of loyal fans: “Barbz, show no mercy.” Featured Video Hide An article on the XXL website, which included a screenshot of the original Minaj tweet, reports that she doxed at leas...

Comedian John Mulaney reportedly checks into rehab The 38-year-old will reportedly be in a rehab facility for 60 days. Dec 21, 2020, 10:57 pm* Featured Video Hide The news was first broken by the New York Post‘s Page Six, which revealed that Mulaney, 38, had checked into a facility somewhere in Pennsylvania this past weekend for a 60-day stay. Advertisement Hide In a 2019 Esquire article referenced by a number of the sources reporting Mon...

ASAP! busy with student programs Sign In Dec. 20, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail ASAP! in Washington, which serves northwestern Connecticut, offer A Day on The Farm program in October. Groups of 10 students masked up for a hiking tour of Waldingfield Farm, sampled organic produce, and painted Dia De Los Muertos-inspired pumpkins with Alyssa Robb and Patrick Horan.Courtesy of ASAP! ASAP! in Washington, which serves northwestern Connecticut, has carried forth its in-school programing, created COVID-sa...