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Judge Peter Cahill is presiding over the closely followed trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. Last May, a viral video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds sparked some of the most intense and prolonged civil rights protests in a half-century.

A man waiting in a Chick-fil-A drive-thru exhibited some quick thinking when he stopped a suspect fleeing from police.

The New Jersey Department of Education announced that it has closed the "homework gap" in the state, the gap between students who have connection to broadband and those who don't.

These are dark days at Fox News. Ratings are down, their patron saint is in exile at Mar-a-Lago, and advertisers are fleeing like rats from a sinking ship.

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After Fox News host Tucker Carlson disparaged efforts to support women in the military as “a mockery of the U.S. military,” Twitter users responded by sharing the spectacular achievements of female service people that Carlson has yet to live up to.

There’s something almost fitting about the fact that The Human Voice, director Pedro Almodóvar’s English language debut, was filmed in the middle of lockdown. It’s not about a pandemic, as some of the pandemic’s projects have been; it was announced before COVID-19 officially became a pandemic. The Human Voice’s origins go back nearly 100 years: It’s loosely based on the 1930 play by Jean Cocteau, which has been performed and adapted for the stage, the screen, and the airwaves several times over in the decades since. Читать дальше...

The San Diego Police Department released body camera footage of an incident that initially caused an uproar. They released the footage after an image showed an officer pointing a gun at an 8-year-old boy. 

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Welcome to the Thursday edition of Internet Insider, exploring where our online and offline identities collide. Today:

• Transphobic trolls try to pass off ‘super straight’ as a new sexual identity
• Do women have worse side effects after they get the COVID vaccine?
• Self-care: Cleaning out the closet

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Those who can’t remain faithful while in a committed relationship probably shouldn’t be in one in the first place, and they definitely, definitely shouldn’t own a Fitbit unless they are literally begging to get caught. 

A TikToker’s "joke" about drugging her boyfriend with NyQuil so that he can’t hang out with friends is sparking a conversation online, with many claiming that if the roles were reversed, a lot more people would be upset.

Twitter users are busy roasting Stacey Dash on Thursday after the conservative commentator announced that she would be exiting politics.

Today, Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Package into law. Qualified citizens could see stimulus checks of up to $1,400 as early as the weekend.

People are crowdfunding for a 5-year-old Black student after his kindergarten teacher allegedly made him clean feces from the toilet with his bare hands, according to a GoFundMe set up for him.