This Labor Day, Chicago experienced its 500th homicide this year. While not the homicide capital of the country, compared to other large cities like Los Angeles and New York, Chicago is at the top for the murder rate. In fact, Chicago homicide rate i
Read more…Recent discrepancies have been made on the fact that North Korea has the technology to put a nuclear warhead on top of a rocket. On Friday, South Korea's monitors on North Korea detected a nuclear test with a yield that is equivalent to 10 kilotons o
Read more…Pulling out your headphones and plugging them into your phone usually isn't something that takes a lot of though; you just plug them in. It might be a different story for a person buying the new iPhone 7 as it has no headphone jack. In order to use t
Read more…A plane carrying three people crashed Sunday Evening at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The crash killed everyone on the plane. The plane took off at the airport when it experienced an unkown issue causing it to crash into cars parked in the pa
Read more…You can watch each of the three presidential debates for 5 points each(15 total). You can record it if you can't watch it live. The Vice Presidential debate will not be included in this opportunity.
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Read more…Tammy Bossard and her husband had overturned their boat. Their baby was in the water and they were in danger. They have 2 daughters, 23 months, and 7 months. They were on their way home from meeting relatives at about 10:45PM. There was a wire laying
Read more…South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school in South Africa. It all began when a protest arose from a young group of black girls from Pretoria Girls High. A video was pos
Read more…In the 2016 Rio Olympics, a young 24 year old girl named Rafaela Silva won Brazil's first gold medal. It was special just to win it, but from what she had to go through to get here made it even more special. Rafaela grew up in one of the many favela'
Read more…On August 24th, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Italy. Thousands of people were left without homes. As rescue workers were cleaning up the wreckage, they heard a faint noise. This noise was the barking of a dog. The family lost hope for their
Read more…Brock Turner, a swimmer for Stanford, was released from an extremely small sentence for sexual assault. After serving three months of an already pitiful six month sentence, he was allowed to walk the streets once again on Friday, September 2nd. He wa
Read more…As we might all know Elephants represent Africa and that sense of freedom so who are we to take that away from them? Linyanti Swamp, Botswana is becoming the new favorite hang out spot for elephants hunters, in just 2 days you can find the bodies of
Read more…In Jerusalem a four story parking garage collapses, killing 2 and trapping about 20. Officials say they are not sure why it fell but the building was still under construction when it fell. A witnesses said that "it fell down in one second." Others sa
Read more…Most of us have heard that there are a lot of murders in Chicago. One thing you might not know is that the murder rate is rising. From about 2,200 in 2013 to nearly 3,000 in 2015. A big reason for this is gang violence. Most of Chicago murders are do
Read more…Douglas Waterman was a manager at Burger King in Conway, New Hampshire. He is now facing assault charges for throwing sauce at a customer. Courtney Butler, the customer, stated that she went up to return her burger, which had no bun on it. She mentio
Read more…Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who spent most of her life help the poor, has been declared a saint this Sunday morning. Around 11 AM in Vatican City, Pope Francis canonized her. Meaning, to officially declare (a dead person) to be a saint. Pope Franci
Read more…On Tuesday a man named Danny James Heinrich told a Minnesota court and confessed the kidnapping and murder of at the time 11 year old Jacob Wetterling. At the time of the crime Danny was 26, he is now 53 and has decided to turn himself in after all t
Read more…Fifteen, years after the attacks that happened at the World Trade Center, the remains of 1,113 victims still have not been identified. These 1,113 victims are of the 2,753 who died. The absence of physical evidence agonizes many 9/11 families,
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Read more…President Barack Obama establishes a new area Hawaii for protection. The National Park Service has recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, and the President has announced the established one of the new coming monuments. In Hawaii, the Papahanaumok
Read more…An explosion at the night market in Davao City killed at least 12 people. 10 people had died right away at the scene and then 2 for sure have died since the explosion. The situation has moved around so police are asking community to stay calm in case
Read more…Elie Wiesel was 87 years old when he had passed away. Elie had wrote a book called "Night". He was known for his book that he had wrote about his horrifying experiences in the concentration camps during World War II. During Elie's life he had a long
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