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An Uber driver picked up some of the best possible passengers on Saturday, leading to a spectacular night at a Taylor Swift concert. Read More »
Siri, iPhone users' best friend and question answerer, is now correcting people who call Caitlyn Jenner "Bruce." Users began seeing that if you ask Siri about "Bruce Jenner," Siri responds using "Caitlyn Jenner." And when users ask what gender Jenner, who is being presented with an ESPY on Wednesday night, is, Siri responds definitively "female." Read More »
President Barack Obama spoke about the sexual assault allegations surrounding Bill Cosby at a press conference on Wednesday. Obama said that giving a person a drug and then having sex with them is, explicitly, rape. However, he said, there is currently no mechanism to take away Cosby's Presidential Medal of Freedom. Read More »
Donald Trump is taking Twitter threats on his life from escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman seriously. Trump has been using Guzman's escape in his continuing calls for tighter border control between Mexico and the United States. A Twitter account, apparently belonging to Guzman or a family member, sent threatening tweets to Trump in response. Read More »
The Atlanta NAACP made a call on Monday to remove Confederate symbols from Stone Mountain, a park in Georgia. They said that the massive Confederate Memorial Carving, which is a carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, should be removed, whether by sand-blasting or more preservative ways. Read More »
'Go Set A Watchman' by Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' was released on Tuesday. It was the most preordered book on Amazon since the final 'Harry Potter' book, proof of the huge amount of excitement surrounding the book's release. Midnight release parties were held as people hotly anticipated the first book in fifty years from Lee, and an apparent sequel to 'Mockingbird.' Read More »
Snapchat allowed people around the world to see Mecca, the holiest place on earth for Muslims, by featuring it as a live story. Nearly 30,000 people tweeted #Mecca_live to convince Snapchat to show the city as millions made a pilgrimage during Ramadan and Snapchat responded with the live story on Monday. Read More »
NASA's New Horizons spaceship has reached the closest it's location to Pluto after nine years of travel from Earth. It was less than 8,000 miles from the dwarf planet as of July 14th and is continuing to collect data on Pluto and its moons. NASA released a color photo of Pluto on Instagram this morning. Read More »
Education activist Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 18th birthday on Sunday by opening a school. The "Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School" is a secondary school near the border in Lebanon that will serve Syrian refugees. Read More »
President Barack Obama announced that he is commuting 46 sentences for drug offenders. The White House said that, often, the punishments for drug offenses outweigh the crime, and Obama wishes to help fix that. He took this action as part of a larger push to reform the criminal justice system. Read More »
The family of Eric Garner, who died after being put in a chokehold by a New York Police Department officer, reportedly rejected a $5 million settlement from New York City for his death. Read More »
"Manhattanhenge" will make its final 2015 appearance on Monday night along the streets of New York. Four times every year, the grid of New York City's streets aligns perfectly with the sunset, leading to the awesome -- and awesomely Instagramable -- phenomenon called "Manhattanhenge." Read More »
Greece reached an agreement with the Eurozone on terms for a bailout early Monday morning, following nearly six months of negotiations over the country's debt. The agreement was made after 17 hours of tense, overnight negotiations at the Euro Summit. During the event on Sunday, #ThisIsACoup began trending on Twitter as people worldwide called the demands too harsh on Greece. Read More »
