Barbara Poma, owner of the former Pulse nightclub, woke up on the five-year anniversary one of the worst mass shootings in US history to news of more mass shootings. “There is a gun violence problem. There is a hate problem,” said Poma, the founder and executive director of the OnePulse Foundation, a local nonprofit created…… MORE
Workers testing underwater surveying equipment say they found the wreckage of a small airplane deep underwater in California’s Folsom Lake -— and they may have solved a 56-year-old aviation mystery. Sonar images show the outline of the plane, covered in a thick layer of silt, about 160 feet below the lake’s surface, Seafloor Systems environmental…… MORE
Singer-songwriter and former “American Idol” contestant David Archuleta says he is a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. But he says that shouldn’t mean he can’t be a person of faith, too. In a lengthy Instagram post Saturday, Archuleta said he came out as gay to his family in 2014, but then had similar feelings for…… MORE
On her third full day in the United Kingdom to accompany President Joe Biden on his first G7 Summit, Jill Biden peeled off from her husband, and the rest of the program’s leader-spouse events, for a solo excursion of her own — one of several the first lady has taken while abroad that highlight the…… MORE
The rapper Polo G was arrested Saturday morning on multiple charges in Miami, Florida, Miami-Dade County Corrections records show. The 22-year-old, whose real name is Taurus Bartlett, faces five charges including battery on a police officer, threatening a public servant, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence and criminal mischief, jail records…… MORE
YouTube suspended GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s account on Friday after he posted comments regarding dubious treatments for Covid-19. “We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement…… MORE
While YouTubers and TikTokers are usually in a fight for followers, this Saturday night, the battle gets physical. LiveXLive Media, a global platform for livestream and on-demand content, is putting on “Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms.” Stars from YouTube and TikTok will face off in a series of boxing matches at the Hard Rock…… MORE
A new book written by one of President Joe Biden’s top coronavirus advisers suggests Dr. Deborah Birx hoped former President Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential election. In “Preventable,” his new book detailing the federal government’s failures on mitigating the pandemic, Andy Slavitt writes that he met with Birx last August in Minnesota after…… MORE
Mary Barra — and GM shareholders — is about to have the best shareholder meeting of her seven-plus year tenure on Monday. At last year’s annual meeting the company was struggling to recover from the double blow of the pandemic, which had closed most of its plants and dealerships and raised doubts about car demand…… MORE
Denmark star Christian Eriksen was reported to be in a stable condition after collapsing during the first half of Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 soccer match against Finland in Copenhagen. The match was suspended following prolonged efforts from the medical staff to resuscitate Eriksen with CPR and a defibrillator after he fell to the ground during…… MORE
