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A lawsuit filed by a woman from Millville, New Jersey, claimed that she and her daughter "continue to suffer severe emotional distress, shock and mental anguish" after discovering "a brown substance all over the wrapper of the burger" from McDonald's. The substance was alleged to be human feces.
As the global pandemic has shifted a significant part of our social life into the virtual space, awkward incidents have brought some joy to routine weekdays, but negligence could entail unpleasant consequences.
Soon after Democratic US President Joe Biden was sworn in, the US-Mexico border saw an unprecedented amount of migrants trying to enter the United States in search of a better life, apparently inspired by the Biden administration's softer immigration policy.
Latest figures released by Johns Hopkins University reveal the daily US COVID-19 case count is on the decline, as the nationwide positivity ratio - currently at 3.82% - is also experiencing a downfall. However, reports indicate that states Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and California are still recording spikes in their daily case counts.
The Twitter team behind new "prompts" to users over replies that its artificial intelligence moderator has deemed offensive said they were so effective that it caused a third of users to either edit or delete their posts.
Earlier in the week, a video emerged showing a Los Angeles woman verbally abusing a police office, calling him "murderer" and a "Mexican racist" who "wants to be white." The officer was rebuking her for using her cell phone while driving.
Facebook's independent Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social media platform's decision to restrict then-US President Donald Trump's posting privileges on January 7 - one day after the Capitol riot. Facebook has six months to review the suspension and put forward a response consistent with rules applied to other users of the platform.
Americans Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth made headline news in the summer of 2019 after the pair were charged with the killing of Mario Cerciello Rega, an officer with Italy's Carabinieri paramilitary force, following a botched drug deal.
Earlier, the US multibillionaire entrepreneur and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, and his wife announced a break up after almost three decades of marriage. The divorce proceedings are expected to become some of the most pricy in the world, as they could split up a fortune of around $145 billion, according to Bloomberg estimates.
Family planning and changing social mores have given American women the option to delay or avoid childbirth if they so desire, resulting in motherhood beginning in later and later years and yielding fewer children. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped push that decline to historic lows.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday called on the governments of France and Mali to secure the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who was kidnapped by Islamist militants in northeastern Mali.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Deportations of illegal immigrants from the United States in the month of April fell by more than 50 percent, to the lowest monthly level ever recorded, enforcement data collected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is banking on COVID-19 being a major profit-driver for years to come as the company lines up vaccine delivery contracts for as far away as 2024. Corporate leaders have previously spoken of plans to dramatically increase the price of a jab once governments stop being the primary buyer.
On the same day, Trump predicted Cheney's failure to be re-elected for a new term in the House following her decision to vote in favour of impeaching the then US president.
The United States routinely sends warships to the South China Sea and to the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of freedom of navigation missions despite opposition from Beijing, which considers Taiwan a part of its territory.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines due to the global emergency triggered by the pandemic, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Wednesday.
Ahead of a government meeting, a group of Uighurs sent a letter to New Zealand’s authorities calling on them to declare the situation in the Xingjian region a genocide. “We understand that New Zealand is not a military superpower, or a trade superpower, however, New Zealand is a moral superpower”, read the letter.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Black man Rayshard Brooks last June got his job back but will remain on administrative leave, the city's police department said on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – More than 90 people, including civilians and police officers, were injured during street demonstrations in the Colombian capital over the past day, Secretary of Bogota’s government Luis Ernesto Gomez said on Wednesday.
France has seen unrest at English Channel ports by fishermen angry at their loss of rights in British waters following the end of the post-Brexit transition period. Some set up burning barricades at Boulogne-sur-Mer in late April to stop lorries carrying imported fish from the UK.