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Elon Musk is standing by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stance against the stock trading app Robinhood. Ocasio-Cortez has asked for a House Financial Services Committee hearing regarding the app’s decision to stop trading GameStop stock, a decision that angered investors.  “This is unacceptable,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted after the news of the halted …

There is a new way to enjoy breakfast. Post Foods is releasing new ice cream and giving cash prizes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of PEBBLES cereal. Fruity and Cocoa PEBBLES Light Ice Creams will be available in February. The Fruity PEBBLES Light Ice Cream has colorful fruity flavors and …

A lawsuit claims Subway‘s tuna doesn’t actually have tuna in it. We already went through with the yoga mat situation, Subway. Now the tuna allegedly isn’t really tuna?? That is what two California women say in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, claiming the popular deli restaurant’s tuna sandwich actually contains “scintilla” of …

McDonald’s is bringing back Spicy Chicken McNuggets for a limited time. The Spicy McNuggets will be available on February 1. The McNuggets debuted in September 2020 and quickly became everyone’s favorite food on the menu. McDonald’s also has a Throwback Thursday promotion offering fan-favorite menu items at 35 cents or …

A Florida school officer shot a female high school student with a taser after a physical altercation. A graphic video shows a violent interaction between a teen student and an officer. In the video posted online, a teen girl is seen fighting an officer as he tries to restrain her. …

Six Flags is preparing to debut the world’s tallest, longest and fastest single-rail roller coaster later this year in New Jersey. The Jersey Devil Coaster will open at Six Flags Great Adventure. The ride features four trains of 12 passengers, with one rider per row. Passengers will reach 3,000 feet …

An alt-right social media influencer has been charged for his role in voter interference during the 2016 election. Douglass Mackey, widely known as Ricky Vaughn, was once known as Donald Trump’s most prolific Twitter follower. He was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday while at his home in West Palm …

A Pennsylvania school security guard was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a teen girl. Last week, police arrested 35-year-old L’Toray Hill, who worked at Walnut Street Elementary School in Darby, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Police booked Hill for allegedly sexually abusing a now 19-year-old teen girl. The teen says …

Nick Cannon will make his debut on daytime television with his talk show’s revival after it was postponed last year due to his anti-Semitic comments. The show titled “Nick Cannon” premieres in the fall of this year and will be distributed by Debmar-Mercury and Fox Television Stations. The syndicated show …

Cicely Tyson, a pioneering black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96. The actress’s death was announced …

Joe Biden is revoking Donald Trump‘s abortion policy and is bringing back Barack Obama‘s Affordable Care Act. Joe ain’t wasting no time setting things back to some level of normalcy following Trump’s departure. On Thursday, Biden signed a memorandum reversing the restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad, CNN reports. …

Many former QAnon believers are now looking for a way out of their wild conspiracy theories. They are turning to online therapy and support groups to get over their wild beliefs. According to AP News, a woman named Ceally Smith said she spent a year completely obsessed with QAnon. She …

A new variant of the coronavirus originally identified in South Africa has emerged in the United States, posing another public health challenge to a country that is already overwhelmed and losing more than 3,000 people a day to COVID-19. According to Yahoo News, this mutated version of the virus was …

An Illinois man is alleging that his funds are depleting after investing in Blackberry shares due to Robinhood blocking stock trading, and he believes it’s to protect “Wall Street hedge fund bros.” Richard Joseph Gatz is going after the financial services firm after they restricted people from purchasing shares from …

During a radio interview with DJSUSSONE this afternoon, Wendy Williams revealed a time when she smoked a blunt and had a one night stand with Method Man during her coke days. In the interview, DJSUSSONE says, “that wasn’t in the movie!” Wendy then says the memory wasn’t “Wendy Williams: The …

According to researchers, as many as 10,000 retail stores will be closing in the United States due to the pandemic, which sets a new record; now, as the pandemic continues to take a toll on the retail industry, companies have to decide which store locations to keep open. Coresight Research …

The Robinhood online trading platform is moving to block trading in some stocks that have recently soared due to smaller investors’ aggressive purchases. As a voluntary army of investors on social media challenged large institutions that had placed market bets that the stock would fall, GameStop stock rose from below …

A far-right extremist carrying a “white privilege” card has been charged after pipe bombs were found at a business. Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa, California, was apprehended on January 15th when law enforcement found pipe bombs in his office. On Tuesday, he was charged with possession of five pipe bombs. …

Yesterday Twitter was in an uproar about the stock market and the Robinhood Investing app after they blocked users from purchasing certain shares. A rep for Robinhood announced, “In light of recent volatility, we are restricting transactions for certain securities to position closing only, including $AAL, $AMC, $BB, $BBY, $CTRM, …

A Texas Army chaplain is under investigation after comments he wrote on a social media post suggested that transgender soldiers were “mentally unfit” and “unqualified to serve.” According to NBC News, Maj. Andrew Calvert, a chaplain with the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade in Fort Hood, made controversial comments on …