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An 8-year-old brought a loaded handgun to a Philadelphia elementary school. The child explained that they’d missed the bus and needed to jack a ride.

Russia accused Ukraine of conducting an air strike on a military fuel depot in Russian territory. Ukraine is now on the board, but trails in air strikes: 1,056 to 1.

Russian soldiers abandoned their position at Chernobyl nuclear plant due to radiation sickness. Female soldiers were mistakenly thought to be pregnant because they’re glowing.

Walgreens is using robots to fill prescriptions, now that human pharmacists are taking on more responsibilities, such as administering vaccines, and keeping robots from swiping opioids.

Washington DC police found five fetuses in the home of 28-year-old anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy. Asked what they were doing there, Handy said she hadn’t been having much luck starting a family.

Construction of homes along the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania has been halted due to a massive influx of beavers. The beavers say their peers have yet to be paid for the work they’ve already completed.

NASA’s Hubble Space telescope detected the farthest star ever seen – Bruce Willis, seated in the last row of the highest balcony at the Oscars.

A low-budget radio station in Missouri is one of only two U.S. carriers of Radio Sputnik – a service offering Russian State Radio to foreign countries. They may stop since lots of people are shutting it off because of the 23 hours of music featuring the Trololo guy.

Anchorman actor David Koechner was charged with misdemeanor DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. Whammy!

Actor Jim Carrey said he’s probably retiring, unless a ‘really special’ part comes along – folllowing his commitment to play the lead in Crash Bandicoot 1, 2 & 3.

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Burger King restaurants in Taiwan are offering a limited-time Whopper with chocolate sauce, the Chocolate Whopper. They’re also being sued for trademark infringement by a black male porn star.

Netflix released the trailer for its new Adam Sandler movie, ‘Hubie Halloween’. Following the diamond-district drama ‘Uncut Gems’, it marks Sandler’s return to cinematic comedy, or whatever you want to call it.

Victoria Azarenka defeated Serena Williams in the U.S. Open tennis semifinal, in a rare battle of two moms. The match lasted close to two hours, since they each had to take multiple breaks and mommy-blog about it.

2020 Hurricane Season peaks today. Then tomorrow it can relax and tell stories of cities it destroyed to younger hurricanes.

Los Angeles is suffering its worst smog in 26 years as wildfires sweep the West Coast. It’s so bad, Angelenos are advised to wear both sunscreen and smokescreen.

Catherine Dulac, a Harvard researcher, won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for proving neural circuits controlling maternal and paternal behavior are found in both women and men – except for diaper changes when men are watching football.

Customs officers in Miami seized $500,000 in cash being smuggled out of the country in a chair. The cash was so heavy, they needed help transporting it to the trunks of their cars.

Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope find much higher concentrations of dark matter in remote galaxies. This, after the Hubble found multiple extraterrestrials wearing Dark Matter Matters tee shirts.

The Centers for Disease Control claims that dining out is one of the most risky activities during the pandemic – especially at Boston Wet Market.

The CEO of an Australian mining company resigned after a 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site was destroyed to expand an iron ore mine. He begins his new job as U.S. Secretary for the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday.

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Absenteeism from the flu outbreak has closed schools in 12 different states. Students are reminded to practice good hygiene like hand-washing, and not kissing the teacher they’re having sex with if she or he has the flu.

Astrophysicists from Spain accessing the Hubble Space Telescope released what they’re calling “the deepest images of the universe ever taken from space” – resulting in the researchers seeing millions of hidden stars, and thousands of billboards for Pedro’s South of the Border.

MLB’s San Diego Padres are officially switching back to brown & gold uniforms starting with the 2020 season. The Padres used brown as their primary color from 1969, when they first formed, through 1991, when they decided they were tired of looking like dung.

A 10-year-old Kentucky boy won his science fair with a project calling QB Tom Brady a cheater, by showing underinflated footballs are thrown more accurately. The boy’s findings and project stunned adults who couldn’t believe they hold science fairs in Kentucky.

A non-venomous carpet python in a toilet bit a 59-year-old Brisbane, Australia woman on the buttocks while she urinated. The woman was treated for her injury but still thanked the snake for putting the seat down.

President Trump agreed to reopen the U.S. Government for three weeks while Congress negotiates border security. Trump said he hasn’t ruled out using Executive Orders to declare two national emergencies — one to demand a border wall, and one to demand the year-round offering of McRib.

The New York Times reports Facebook plans to integrate back-office operations of its Messenger, Instagram & WhatsApp products, claiming it will be easier for them to steal and sell your personal data just once instead of three times.

The Centers for Disease Control linked an eight-state salmonella outbreak to hedgehogs. The CDC warned people not to “snuggle or kiss” hedgehogs —  real ones, not your boyfriends and girlfriends.

A new study in the journal ‘Science Advances’ suggests Alzheimer’s could be caused by a gum infection. Doctors found a high number of seniors with no teeth who couldn’t remember losing them.

A flight attendant died of an apparent heart attack on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to New York.  Passengers described the cabin erupting in bedlam when they  realized they couldn’t locate the exits.

NYPD officer James Wong, 35, was arrested following an argument when he punched his 63-year-old mother in the face. Wong remains free on bond. He also remains a policeman, not a doctor like his mother wanted.

Tinder settled a price discrimination lawsuit for charging users over age 30 twice as much for their Tinder Plus premium product. Tinder defended the higher pricing, saying it offset costs of refunds demanded by younger users tricked into sex with geezers.