Chris Hockman

Florida Man Hellmuth Kolb Arrested For Trying To Buy 8-Year-Old Girl Outside Walmart

Hellmuth Kolb, an 81-year-old man from Port Orange, Florida, has been arrested after he allegedly offered a woman $200,000 to buy her 8-year-old daughter outside a Walmart in the town, reports Newsweek. Tracy Nigh, the mother who was offered the money, reported the incident immediately to Walmart security as she quickly left the store. That […]

5y ago

california|charlottesville

Four Californian White Supremacists Arrested For Connection To Charlottesville Rally

Four members of the Rise Above Movement out of California have been arrested by local authorities for their involvement in the deadly Charlottesville rally of 2017, reports the Los Angeles Times. The four men — Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas Walter Gillen and Cole Evan White — were arrested for inciting a riot […]

5y ago

indonesia

Looting Arrives As Indonesian Earthquake Survivors Get Desperate

Things are getting increasingly desperate in the Indonesian city of Palu, five days after an earthquake struck the city, reports CNN. The death toll now stands at 1,234 as 34 bodies — mostly children — were discovered in a church hall just to the south of Palu. The local Red Cross found the bodies as […]

5y ago

NATO|russia

US Threatens To Destroy Russian Missiles At NATO Meeting

Kay Bailey Hutchinson, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, gave a stern warning to Russia in a speech at the headquarters of the organization in Belgium on Tuesday, reports Reuters. According to Hutchinson, there is evidence that the Russian military is developing a ground-launched system which breaches a treaty from the Cold War between NATO and […]

5y ago

africa|ghana|melania trump

Melania Trump Arrives In Ghana, Beginning Her First Solo Trip As First Lady

Melania Trump arrived in Ghana on Tuesday to start her first solo international trip as first lady, landing in Accra this morning, according to NBC News. The first lady was greeted in the Ghanaian capital by her Ghanaian counterpart Rebecca Akufo-Addo and came off the plane to dancers and drummers along with school students waving […]

5y ago

Beto O'Rourke|texas|Willie Nelson

Beto O’Rourke Holds Rally With Willie Nelson

Approximately 55,000 people turned out in Austin to support Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, reports ABC News. O’Rourke got the crowd excited with a speech about his policies, looking for progressive reform listing off issues such as climate change, LGBTQ issues, and marijuana legalization. The last issue would have pleased his headlining guest, Willie […]

5y ago

iran|syria

Iran Fires Missiles Into Syria Which Land Close To US Troops

Iran fired missiles into Syria early on Monday, with those weapons landing within three miles of U.S. forces in the area, reports CNN. Six missiles were fired from Iran into the Al Bukamal district, which is near the Iran-Iraq border. Iranian state media stated that the reason for the attack was a retaliation in exchange […]

5y ago

indonesia

Indonesian Earthquake Death Toll Rises To Over 800

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is still struggling to recover from a series of earthquakes — and an ensuing tsunami — which has left more than 840 people dead, reports CBS News. Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi, was hit by a 7.5 magnitude quake that triggered a tsunami which reached as high as 20-feet […]

5y ago

John Flannery Ousted As General Electric CEO

After just one year on the job, John Flannery was removed as the chairman of General Electric on Monday, reports CNBC. Flannery was replaced by the former Danaher CEO Lawrence Culp immediately, with the board citing frustration at how slow change in the company had been under Flannery’s leadership. Flannery had been unable to reverse […]

5y ago

baghdad|iraq

Tara Fares, Iraqi Model, Shot And Killed In Baghdad

There aren’t many big social media stars in Iraq but one of the biggest was unquestionably Tara Fares but she was shot and killed in Baghdad on Thursday reports CNN. Fares had won the Miss Baghdad competition and came second in Miss Iraq and fell victim to a shooting in the Camp Sarah neighborhood, an […]

5y ago

tiger woods|USA

Americans Swept In Afternoon Foursome Play For First Time In Ryder Cup History

It was a very bad afternoon for the American Ryder Cup team, which lost all four matches for the first time in history on Friday afternoon, reports USA Today. After winning the opening foursomes 3-1 in the morning session, things looked very different for the Americans in the afternoon session as the Europeans dominated in […]

5y ago

All Passengers Aboard Air Niugini Flight Miraculously Survive Crash Off Micronesian Coast

An Air Niugini Boeing 737 missed the runway and landed in a lagoon in Micronesia but all 47 people on board managed to survive the incident and swim to safety reports CNN. The flight to Weno, the biggest city in the isolated Federated States of Micronesia and the main airport for the country, missed the […]

5y ago

tennessee titans

Rishard Matthews Requests Release From Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans will shortly be looking for a new wide receiver after Rishard Matthews was granted a release from the team, reports ESPN. Matthews spoke to A to Z Sports saying that he had negotiated a release from the team on Wednesday, and today, the Titans announced, via an official statement, that they had […]

5y ago

boxing|hbo

HBO To Abandon Boxing Coverage After 45 Years

HBO has aired boxing for 45 years, but 2018 will be the last year that happens as the network announced on Thursday that it will be dropping its coverage of the sport at the end of the year, reports ESPN. A number of boxing’s best and brightest saw their first major fights aired on HBO, […]

5y ago

china|uk

Asian Universities Rise In World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings have been released for another year and Asia has risen sharply led by Chinese schools, reports CNN. The World University Rankings seeks to rank the best 1,250 research universities in the world and has again been dominated by American schools. British schools were No. 1 and 2 on […]

5y ago

Enes Kanter|NATO|turkey

Turkey Promises It Will Conduct ‘Operations’ Against Enemies In The US

As part of a combative series of statements, the Turkish government has said that it will target opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan overseas — including the United States — reports NBC News. There are several Americans being held in jail in Turkey, which has led to tensions between the two nations. Turkey has arrested […]

5y ago

texas

Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, Supports School Which Expelled Student For Not Standing For Pledge

India Landry refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at her school and was expelled for doing so and has now found herself with a powerful enemy, Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, reports BBC. After being expelled, Landry filed a lawsuit against the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District which administers her former school, […]

5y ago

Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle Closes Car Door And Causes Internet Meltdown

Almost everyone opens and closes a car door every day, but Meghan Markle caused a stir on Tuesday by closing a door herself, reports the BBC. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the Duchess of Sussex attended her first solo event since becoming a member of the royal family at the Royal Academy of Arts. […]

5y ago

Twitter Reacts To Sony Backing Down And Allowing Cross-Play On PS4

After a long time, Sony has finally relented. It appears that the Playstation 4 will begin to allow cross-platform play with its rival consoles the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch, as previously reported by the Inquisitr. Cross-play on the Playstation 4 will begin today as a cross-platform beta for Fortnite is released, making the […]

5y ago

stock market

Fed Set To Announce A Rare September Interest Rate Increase

The Federal Reserve looks set to raise interest rates today and with rumors of that emerging, the market has become more volatile in the early hours of trading on Wednesday, reports Market Watch. A rate increase in September is very rare, having not happened since 2005, in part this is due to a regular occurrence […]

5y ago