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Here's what happened April 8, 2025: At least 44 people died and more than 160 others were injured after a roof fell in at a nightclub in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, authorities say. Apparently this was an iconic nightclub with attendees that included politicians, athletes, performers, and more attending a merengue concert. In a massive escalation, Donald Trump has increased recipr...

Here's what happened April 7, 2025: Off the back of Trump’s tariffs and the stock market absolutely PLUMMETING, China’s stock market opened before the US to the worst single-day crash since 2008. The S&P 500 is having its worst three-consecutive-days since October 1987. The DOW also dropped 1200 points at opening. And yes, we’re creeping close to a recession. Secretary of HHS RFK Jr. has c...

Here's what happened on April 4, 2025: So quick update on Trump’s tariffs we spoke about yesterday. Turns out when I said they were on every country, I misspoke - they’re on every country EXCEPT Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Cuba. They’re even on the McDonald Islands, which is solely inhabited by penguins. Even the PENGUINS got higher tariffs than Russia did! Apple has added 8 new emojis t...

Here's everything that happened April 2, 2025: Actor Val Kilmer died at 65 years old The results are in for the mayoral race in Aurora, IL, the state’s second-largest city - Incumbent mayor Richard Irvan, who ran for governor as a Republican in 2022 and has aligned himself closely with Trump, was defeated by his Democratic challenger, John Laesch. Democrats have successfully flipped this city...

Here's everything that happened on March 31, 2025: The Trump administration pulled research funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing that research as a DEI initiative. Megan Fox gave birth to her and Machine Gun Kelly’s first kid together, a daughter, which is Megan’s 4th kid (the other 3 are boys with her ex-husband, Brian Austin Green), and this is Machin...

Here's what happened on April 1, 2025: New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s standing filibuster officially broke the record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, held by segregationist Strom Thurmand to protest the passage of the Civil Rights Act ,standing himself for 25 hours and 4 minutes The Trump Administration admitted in a court filing that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a...

Here's everything that happened on March 27, 2025: A US judge ruled that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel, but stops short of requiring air conditioning… You can now pre-order pints of breast milk-flavored ice cream from the company called Frida. RFK Jr. has announced that he’s going to slash 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services, drastically red...

Here's everything that happened on March 26, 2025: Singer Maren Morris announced that her fourth studio album, “DREAMSICLE”, will be released May 9 Donald Trump announced that he’s looking to set up some sort of government compensation fund for the January 6 criminals that he pardoned So the overperformance of Democrats in special elections across the country continued last night, with Democra...

It's Tuesday, March 25 and here's everything that happened: 31-year-old Bachelor Grant Ellis is officially engaged to 28-year-old Juliana Pasquarosa, are we happy with that decision? Is it good or bad? USC Women’s Basketball star JuJu Watkins was carried off the floor Monday night during the first quarter against Mississippi State, in what the USC Women’s Basketball Twitter page is reporti...

Here's what happened March 24, 2025... Ok so first, there’s this K-Pop group called NewJeans well, they’ve announced that they’re going on hiatus amid a legal battle with their label So you know the French actor Gerard Depardieu well he’s set to stand trial for alleged sexual assaults of two women on the set of the 2021 movie “Les Volets Verts”, which is “The Green Shutters” in English. Notabl...

Here's everything that happened on March 17, 2025: Conan O’Brien will return to host the Oscars in 2026. Forever 21 may allegedly be shutting its US stores after filing for bankruptcy for the second time in six years; the company’s Chief Financial Officer says the brand has been “unable to find a sustainable path forward given competition from foreign fast-fashion companies” A new NBC poll sho...

Here's everything that happened on March 14, 2025: So JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, went to the Kennedy Center Thursday evening and were booed to hell, here’s a video Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry became the first player in NBA history to make 4,000 3-pointers Lil Nas X has released his first single in quite some time, called “HOTBOX” Playboi Carter released his third studio albu...

Here's everything that happened on March 13, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started: A Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump advisor, Rober Morris, was indicted for child sex crimes Minnesota Democratic Governor and former Kamala Harris VP pick Tim Walz announced that he’s launching a national tour of town halls in Republican House districts, like Bernie Sanders is doing Allegedly, sources...

Here's everything that happened on March 12, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started: There was a special election in a State House district in Iowa (Iowa HD 100, if you’re a nerd like me) - well the Republican won it by 3.3%, which is a 24% shift towards the Democrat. Trump won this by 28% in November and the Republican won it by only 3.3% last night. Greenland’s Demokraatit party - a center-...

Here's everything that happened on March 11, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started: Ne-Yo posted a video of his 4 girlfriends A new movie called “DROP” starring Meghann Fahy from White Lotus debuted at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews Former Phillippine leader Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on an International Criminal Court warrant over his “war on drugs” that killed thousands duri...

Here's everything that happened on March 10, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started: Canada elected Mark Carney from the Liberals (kinda like Democrats here in the US) as the new Prime Minister, replacing Justin Trudeau Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen signed a 6-year, $330 million contract extension that includes a guaranteed $250 million, making it the largest guarantee ever given to an...

Here's everything that happened February 28, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started with what happened over night: 9:20pm - Lizzo released her new single, “Love In Real Life”, alongside a music video, her first one since losing 200 lbs; She ALSO teased new music live on Twitch last night and it’s giving Disco Republican Congressman David Schwikert from Arizona introduced a bill to begin the p...

So let’s go ahead and get started with the Wednesday update, without timestamps since we’re covering two days here! Florida Republican Congressman Byron Donalds announced his run for Governor of Florida, which has been endorsed by Donald Trump Canada officially renamed the coffee drink where you take a shot of espresso and put it in a cup of water. They are no longer Americanos, they’re now Canadi...

Here's everything that happened February 25, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started with the overnight update: 5:33pm - Chris Japer, of The Isley Brothers, died at 73 years old 8:05pm - Cleveland Guardians baseball team owner, Lawrence J. Dolan, died at 94 years old Now, onto the news of today: 3:07am - Denny’s announced that some locations will start adding an “egg surcharge” to their prices...

Here's everything that happened on February 24, 2025: So let’s go ahead and get started with the weekend update: Preliminary results from Germany’s election confirmed that the mainstream conservative party won the national election The Philadelphia Eagles announced they aren’t going to the White House after their Super Bowl win The SAG Awards happened Martin Short won his first SAG award at 74...

Here's everything that happened on February 21, 2025 So let’s go ahead and get started with the overnight update: 5:51pm - Skims, Kim Kardashian’s clothing brand, announced a joint venture with Nike, called NikeSkims 7:57pm - Right-wing podcast host and Trump ally Steve Bannon did a nazi salute at the Conservative Political Action Conference (also known as CPAC).  8:38pm - Canada beat the US i...

Here's everything that happened on February 20, 2025: OVERNIGHT: 5:16pm - Trump’s new Secretary of Commerce alluded to $1 trillion worth of cuts from Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare 6:55pm - Trump floated the idea that he wants the federal government to run DC 7:20pm - Donald Trump’s appeal to his court loss on his ban on birthright citizenship was rejected by an appeals court THURSDAY:...

Here's everything that happened on February 19, 2025: But first, overnight: 2:59pm - USDA acknowledged that over the weekend it accidentally fired officials that were working to combat the bird flu outbreak and is now trying to rehire them 3:48pm - The Senate confirmed former financial services firm CEO Howard Lutnick as Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, in a 51-45 vote 4:13pm - Donald Trump signed a...

So let’s go ahead and get started with just a few things from over the weekend: Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, called for the arrest of New York Democratic Congresswoman AOC over her sharing with illegal immigrants the rights they have under our law Donald Trump fired thousands of US Parks and Forest Service workers for seemingly no reason whatsoever Elon Musk’s team at DOGE forced out the head o...

Here's everything that happened on February 14: OVERNIGHT: 9:00pm - Sabrina Carpenter released the deluxe version of “Short n’ Sweet” we’ve been waiting for, featuring “Please Please Please” with Dolly Parton 9:02pm - Alessia Cara released her new album, “Love and Hyperbole” 11:00pm - The Wayans family is said to be inducted into the NAACP Awards’ Hall of Fame FRIDAY: 12:21am - A Russian drone hit...