Day: January 23, 2024

The White House has a pharmacy — and it was a mess, a new investigation found

9:17 pm January 23, 2024

A new Defense Department inspector general report reveals that a little-known in-house pharmacy at the White House erroneously dolled out prescription medications to staff and wasted $750,000 in taxpayer money. One former pharmacy staff member told investigators that a doctor once asked if the staffer could “hook up” someone with a controlled substance “as a […]

Rare ‘simultaneous explosion’ of cicadas expected for first time in 221 years

9:16 pm January 23, 2024

It sounds like spring 2024 will be abuzzing as more than a trillion cicadas are expected to appear across the U.S. For the first time in 221 years, the two groupings of cicadas, brood XIX and XIII, will emerge from the underground in 17 states across the country, according to Fox Weather. Some of the […]

North Korea demolishes monument symbolizing potential unification with South: report

9:15 pm January 23, 2024

A massive arched monument that stood in North Korea for more than 20 years and symbolized the goal of reconciliation with South Korea has been demolished weeks after Kim Jong Un ordered it to be destroyed, according to a report by NK News, an online outlet that monitors North Korea. The concrete straddled monument, known as […]

Swastika projected on University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dorm by group ‘chanting racist words’

9:13 pm January 23, 2024

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is currently investigating after a group of people projected a swastika on a residence hall and chanted “racist words,” according to university personnel. On Sunday, Jan. 21, around 5:40 p.m., UW-Whitewater police received reports of four people outside a residence hall chanting racist words and lighting what appeared to be road […]

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich passes 300 days in Russian detainment

9:11 pm January 23, 2024

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marked 300 days in a Moscow prison being held on dubious espionage charges on Monday. “300 days is 300 too long for Evan to be wrongfully detained by Russia. Evan was doing his job as a journalist, and any portrayal to the contrary is fiction,” Wall Street Journal assistant […]