Yesterday afternoon, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp all suffered a massive global outage. The outage lasted about six hours before things went back online. Downdetector is a company that tracks issues and outages with various apps and websites said that the outage yesterday the “largest outage” it’s ever recorded. It was an estimated 3.5 billion users […]
After a long a successful career, Manny Pacquaio is retiring from boxing and turning over to a full time politician. Pacquiao has been the Senator in the Philippines since 2010 and has gained and immense amount of respect outside of his athletics. Now, Pacquiao is making a big leap and is running for President in […]
Virginia’s Supreme Court has ruled to remove confederate general Robert E. Lee’s statute. Governor Ralph Northam released a statement stating, “After 133 years, the statue of Robert E. Lee has finally come down—the last Confederate statue on Monument Avenue, and the largest in the South. The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell […]
Let’s Do Better are releasing a special piece to pay homage black athletes in a sport where they are becoming more and more a minority. On their Instagram story yesterday, Let’s Do Better gave a detailed history about black athletes in the sport of Baseball, and the state they are in today. They revealed some […]
As global temperatures rise and signs of climate change become more apparent than ever, the United Nations’ intergovernmental panel on climate change has just released an overwhelming announcement on the dangers and true effects climate change is having and will continue to have on earth. The report is 3000 pages and “provides an unprecedented degree […]
After months of decline, the delta variant of Covid 19 is causing cases to soar in Virginia. Scientists from The UVA Biocomplexity Institute have created a worst case scenario forecast, which shows that at our current rate of infection, the virus could infect 100 per 100,000 people a day by mid September. The worst ratio […]
Heavy on the minds of millions of Americans was the ever impending deadline to make a decision on student loan payments. The Biden Administration has come to a decision to extend the student loan freeze until January 31st, 2022. During this period students will not have to pay back loans and interest will not accrue […]
Extreme flooding throughout western Europe has left over 100 people dead and 1300 unaccounted for in Germany alone. Days before the extreme flooding German meteorologist showed models of flooding that would send their rivers erupting which has not been seen in over 1000 years. This extreme flooding is a prime example of the causes of […]
Last year, during the height of turmoil that happened in America amid the killing of George Floyd, Dave Chappelle took matters into his own hands to speak on the situations. Chappelle gathered a socially distanced crowd to perform a 27-minute long impromptu special titled “8:46”. Chappelle addressed many different topics that conflicted with him about […]
Two year old Kashe Quest from California has become the youngest member of Mensa. Mensa is a high IQ society that is open to people who score in the 98th percentile in a standardized and supervised or any other approved IQ test. At just eighteen months, Kashe’s parents noticed that she was advancing rapidly, using […]