Lauren Moccio

Barack Obama Presidential Library & Museum Location To Be Jackson Park, Chicago [Video]

President Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum has found its home. It has been long decided that President Obama’s presidential library would be in his adopted hometown of Chicago rather than his birthplace of Honolulu, Hawaii, but the presidential center’s exact location was just announced on Friday: the center will be located in historic Jackson […]

8y ago

Donald Trump|john mccain|Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain Stands Up To Donald Trump On Twitter In Support Of Khizr & Ghazala Khan

Meghan McCain, a daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), is using Twitter to stand up to her party’s 2016 nominee, New York City businessman and brand licensor Donald Trump, according to The Hill. Trump has sparked outrage this week by responding negatively to Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a Muslim American […]

8y ago

Conrad Roy III|massachusetts|Michelle Carter|suicide

Conrad Roy III Suicide: Michelle Carter Wants Her Police Statements Thrown Out Of Manslaughter Trial

Michelle Carter’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a new twist. According to The Independent, Carter and her attorneys are asking that her statements to police in the wake of the suicide of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, be declared inadmissible, along with damaging evidence found in a police search of her […]

8y ago

West Virginia

Statue Of Don Knotts, Best Known For ‘Barney Fife’ Character, Unveiled In Morgantown, West Virginia [Video]

Classic television and movie actor Don Knotts, who is most well-known for having played hapless sheriff’s deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s-era sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in July of 1924. In celebration of his birthday and his extraordinary creative achievements, Morgantown is hosting a Don Knotts Celebration Weekend, […]

8y ago

Twitter

‘Don’t Feed Seagulls, Kids’: Little Boy Chased By Aggressive Seagulls In Hilarious Viral Tweet

A hilarious viral tweet contains a video in which a 7-year-old boy learns the hard way why you shouldn’t feed the seagulls. The boy’s older cousin, Patricia, filmed him making the mistake of trying to feed seagulls at the beach and then fleeing them in terror when they descended upon him — and she said […]

8y ago

Baton Rouge|Louisiana

Baton Rouge Shooting: The Three Deceased Are Identified As Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald, And Brad Garafola

The names of the three Baton Rouge police officers who were murdered on Sunday have been released to the media, along with details about their families. The three officers are Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald, and Brad Garafola. The names were released to the media in that order according to the Associated Press. Sheriff deputy Brad […]

8y ago

Alton Sterling|Black Lives Matter|dallas|Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Discusses Recent Gun Violence Involving Police Officers On ‘TODAY’ [Video]

Queen Latifah is making headlines this week for speaking out on Friday morning’s TODAY show about rising tensions between police officers and the general public, the two extrajudicial executions of black men that were displayed on social media in the past week — those of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile — and the murders of […]

8y ago

Donald Trump|supreme court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks Out: ‘If Trump Wins, It’s Time To Move To New Zealand’

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not shy about expressing her dislike for the 2016 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, New York City businessman and brand licensor Donald Trump. In their article accompanying last week’s press interview with her, the New York Times remarked on Sunday about Justice Ginsburg‘s fearless deviation from the norm when […]

8y ago

Baseball|Derek Jeter|met gala|New York City|New York Yankees

Is Derek Jeter Married? Yankee Superstar Ties The Knot With Swimsuit Model Hannah Davis

Is baseball great Derek Jeter married? According to People, the answer is yes! The celebrity news and human interest magazine reports that Derek Jeter, 42, married his girlfriend of almost four years, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hannah Davis, 26, on Saturday in what was described as an “intimate ceremony” at Meadowood Napa Valley Resort in […]

8y ago

disney|Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg’s $140 Million ‘The BFG’ Flops At Box Office, Pulls Only $19.6 Million

Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s novel The BFG — which stands for “big, friendly giant” — was undoubtedly an attempt at a kids’ movie summer blockbuster. Unfortunately, the film had a $140 million budget and only made $19.6 million in domestic sales in its opening weekend box office returns, according to […]

8y ago

kanye west|kim kardashian

Kim Kardashian Nude Dresses Make Fashion Splash For Spring/Summer 2016 [Photos]

Kim Kardashian’s nude dresses have made a definite fashion splash during her public appearances in May and June, as reported by the Mirror Online and The Huffington Post. The Kardashian/Jenner women are very much known for their love of neutrals, with the arguable exception of Caitlyn Jenner, who seems to experiment with brighter colors a […]

8y ago

2016 Macy’s Independence Day NBC Special: A 4th Of July NYC Tradition’s 40th Anniversary

The Macy’s Independence Day television special, concert, and fireworks display is a holiday tradition in New York City on the Fourth of July, much like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and several other spectacular holiday celebrations in the city that are hosted by Macy’s — the quintessential American department store. This classic company has been […]

8y ago

cnn|Corey Lewandowski|Donald Trump

Dan Rather Reports To CNN That The Media Is ‘Business Partner’ To Donald Trump [Video]

Dan Rather has provided the latest installment of one of the American media’s favorite games: reporting on itself. According to The Huffington Post, Rather appeared on Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, at which time he accused the media of being so desperate for ratings that they have essentially become both a “political partner” and a […]

8y ago

Tony Blair: Former UK Prime Minister Calls For Second ‘Brexit’ Referendum? [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTyUMZMx3g Tony Blair, member of the British Labour party and former prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote an op-ed for Friday’s New York Times that discussed “Brexit,” the nickname for “British exit” that has been used to describe Thursday’s referendum in the UK through which the British public voted to leave the European Union […]

8y ago

comedy|Father's Day|jimmy fallon|nbc|the tonight show

Jim Gaffigan Celebrates Father’s Day 2016 With Jimmy Fallon & The Tonight Show [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXmxjepBCQ Comedian Jim Gaffigan appeared alongside viral video juggernaut and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon on NBC on Thursday night, according to comedy industry blog Splitsider, for a Father’s Day “last-minute gift guide” joke segment that doubled as a promo for the second season of Gaffigan’s TV Land sitcom, The Jim Gaffigan Show. The show’s […]

8y ago

chelsea clinton|instagram|ivanka trump

Ivanka Trump Baby: The Donald’s Daughter Uses Instagram To Appeal To Working Women [Photos]

Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of the 2016 presumptive Republican nominee for president, New York City businessman and brand licensor Donald Trump, has a social media strategy that strongly incorporates her personal life as a working mother of three young children — including her new baby, Theodore James Kushner, born March 27. Baby Theodore has […]

8y ago

LGBT|Pulse nightclub shooting

Pulse Nightclub Shooting Victims Remembered With Vigils During Gay Pride Celebrations

The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, in the wee hours of Sunday morning has been declared the worst mass shooting in American history. It took place in a venue that especially caters to LGBT clientele and also during the month of June, which is traditionally Gay Pride month in the United States to commemorate […]

8y ago

food|Health

Recent Listeria Outbreak Results In Even More Product Recalls [Video]

The recent listeria outbreak in early May that resulted in the recall of hundreds of frozen food items has soldiered on for a solid six weeks now, resulting in an overwhelming amount of recalled food items in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada that shows no sign of stopping. https://twitter.com/dejbanlaw/status/742137812217004032 Nature Valley, Clif […]

8y ago

keeping up with the kardashians|Kendall Jenner|khloe kardashian|Kylie Jenner

Kendall Jenner Debuts Adorable ‘Lob’ Haircut On Snapchat, Shocks Internet [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjkk4MmCuFQ Kendall Jenner is an international fashion model who, at the relatively young age of 20, has a staggering amount of paparazzi following her around in order to keep tabs on her street style. Considering the fact that her style, street or otherwise, is integral to her career, Jenner has made the perhaps gutsy decision […]

8y ago

Barack Obama|bernie sanders|hillary clinton|puerto rico

Hillary Clinton Wins Puerto Rico’s 2016 Democratic Primary [Video]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the 2016 Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico according to NBC News, moving her yet another step closer to clinching the 2016 Democratic nomination for president. Hillary Clinton’s polls have shown her consistently ahead of her primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), from the earliest stages of […]

8y ago