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A kangaroo that escaped while being transferred between zoos was captured in Canada, but punched a cop in the face while being apprehended. He was later hailed as a hero by other wrongly jailed kangaroos.

Godzilla Minus One, a Japanese-language monster movie, opened strongly at the U.S. box office. A sequel is reportedly in the works, Godzilla Plus One, where Godzilla brings a date to a family wedding.

Comic Relief US held their inaugural gala in New York City with a focus on reducing intergenerational poverty. Famous comics performed, then gave the money to broke comics that nobody’s heard of.

A New York Times investigation reported some air traffic controllers are drunk and sleeping on the job. This concerned Spirit Airlines pilots, who say they rely on sober guidance when landing their aircraft after five gin & tonics and a nap.

Missouri police pursued a suspected drunk driver while he towed a mobile home. He was apprehended after the pursuit, and was the state’s first DUI perpetrator to fail a field sobriety test in his bedroom.

A tanker carrying propane exploded in Vermont. Several alarms were issued, with multiple fire departments responding to create a pop-up chicken barbecue.

Victor Rocha, a career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, was arrested by the FBI and charged with serving as a spy for Cuba for decades. He was jailed and given a framed certificate for 40 years of government service.

Brenda Lee’s Rockin Around The Christmas Tree, recorded in 1958, became the oldest song to hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. Her success was noticed by Cardi B., who offered to duet with the 78-year-old Lee on her follow-up single, DAP.

Oxford University Press named ‘rizz’ its 2023 Word Of The Year. Rizz is short for charisma, can be used as either a noun or verb, and is destined to piss off someone who loses in Scrabble because of it.

Gino Hangenkotter remains on the run, the fourth escapee from a Philadelphia prison this year. The reward for information leading to his capture was increased to $2,000, and the reward for guards at the prison was increased to $13.75/hour.

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A motorist braking for a tarantula caused a traffic accident in California’s Death Valley National Park. The tarantula failed a field sobriety test and was led away in three pairs of handcuffs.

A janitor in New Jersey is charged with contaminating his elementary school’s food and utensils with saliva, feces & urine. The charges follow an investigation by school officials, and K-to-6th graders posting some brutal Yelp! reviews of the cafeteria.

Netflix is reportedly building a movie studio in Monmouth, New Jersey at a cost of $900 million – saying it’s cheaper than repeatedly flying Adam Sandler’s friends to Hawai’i and making terrible movies there.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty on all counts of financial fraud by 12 members of a jury who each couldn’t begin to tell you how cryptocurrency works.

Donald Trump Jr testified at his father’s financial fraud trial in New York, and told a courtroom sketch artist “make me look sexy”. The artist was relieved he didn’t tell them to make him look smart.

Australia’s most wanted man, drug trafficker and gang leader Hakan Ayik, was arrested in Turkey. Through attorneys, Ayik said he was not having a g’day.

Matthew Perry reportedly received $20 million annually in residual payments from Friends. Attorneys are currently evaluating how his estate will be settled amongst family, beneficiaries, and dating-app skanks.

The Beatles released ‘Now And Then’, a down-tempo John Lennon-penned song that you’ll listen to now, and then wish you never heard.

Three passengers on the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air commuter jet where a co-pilot attempted to shut off the engines said they were suing for emotional distress. It was then determined that all three flew on Frontier and Spirit all the time, so they dropped their lawsuit.

Oprah released her annual “Favorite Things” list – a gift guide with stuff you can buy, and also free things like “farting after a big meal”.

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Paris Hilton posted a picture of her baby son, Phoenix, then slammed online trolls for their ‘sick’ criticism of his large head. She said she’s hurt, but not as badly as Phoenix’s surrogate mother who had to squeeze the head out.

An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon Air commuter jet is charged with attempted murder after trying to shut off the engines mid-flight. He said he was trained to do it to save fuel when he worked for Spirit Airlines.

Madonna told her concert audience in Belgium mid-show that she doesn’t feel well. 15,000 people told themselves she didn’t sound well, either.

Four men who stole 2 million dimes from a truck outside the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia face felony theft charges. They were apprehended at Staples trying to buy 20,000 $5 rolls to put them in.

Two women – Haley Briggs of Wayne, Pennsylvania & Krystel Alston of Ontario, California – who started as grade-school pen pals in 1980 met for the first time in 43 years, after one of them ran out of stamps.

Trump attorney Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to Georgia election fraud charges & will testify for the prosecution against remaining defendants, including Trump. Ellis, Sydney Powell & Kenneth Cheesebro all figured they might as well plead guilty since Trump wasn’t going to pay the lawyers anyway.

Federal agents discovered over two dozen minors working illegally at an Ohio poultry processing plant. The minors did not share a lot of information, but most said they’ve pretty much sworn off chicken nuggets at this point.

Kurt Cobain’s daughter and Tony Hawk’s son were married by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe in a civil ceremony, since all three were losing their religion.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the NBA attempted to prevent Ice Cube’s ‘Big 3’ 3-on-3 basketball league from operating – allegations the NBA denies. A judge will decide whether the NBA was blocking while the DOJ is charging.

Hollywood celebrities including Tiffany Haddish, Chris Rock, Bradley Cooper & Justin Timberlake penned an open letter to President Biden to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Biden has received the letter, but is waiting for Larry The Cable Guy to weigh in.

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Spirit Airlines canceled almost 200 flights in two days for unspecified aircraft inspections – and to bank an easy $20 million to make every ticketed passenger from those flights pay for changing them.

A new study claims Viagra could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s by 60% – but test subjects said they had difficulty forgetting the bad sex they just had.

The National Football League warned teams of increased disciplinary action for on-field fighting during games, saying they’re worried players could really get hurt.

An Australian billionaire claims Donald Trump told Melania to put on a bikini and strut around Mar-a-Lago to show male guests what they were missing. She refused, then they did an unfiltered image search of Melania Knauss and saw everything anyway.

Taylor Swift wore an ’87’ bracelet to the Los Angeles Chargers/Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday. 87 is her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s jersey number, and also the amount of times camera crews are told to show her reactions during telecasts of Chiefs games.

Chevron is buying Hess Corporation for $53 billion, acquiring their petroleum reserves, refineries, distribution, and several billion dollars worth of toy trucks.

Elon Musk said he’ll give Wikipedia $1 billion if they change their name to Dickipedia. Unfortunately, Dickipedia is already registered to a dedicated group of gay guys cataloguing their social friends & acquaintances.

Danny Masterson agreed to give wife Bijou Phillips full custody of their 9-year old daughter while he serves a 30-year prison sentence for rape. Phillips refused his initial offer of sneaking the child in to see him every other weekend in a large cake.

Bobi, the world’s oldest dog, passed away at age 31. His owners say they’ll miss him, but not the $28,000 in annual veterinary bills.

A JetBlue aircraft ‘popped a wheelie’ due to a shift in weight and balance after arrival at a JFK Airport gate following a flight to Barbados. Five different husbands were quoted saying “I told you so” to their wives who overpacked.

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Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson says a giant asteroid could hit Earth in 2182. He also advises waiting a couple of days before running to the grocery store to buy bread, milk & eggs.

Howard Stern says he’s no longer friends with comic/host Bill Maher – so that’s officially everybody who can’t stand Bill Maher.

Amazon Prime Video will now charge an extra $2.99/month for ad-free viewing of movies and tv shows. Or, you can save the three bucks and learn everything there is to know about diabetes drugs you don’t need.

Outgoing Philadelphia City Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw posted a farewell message to the city before taking a new job with New York’s Port Authority. Keeping with Philly tradition, the f-word appears 15 times.

Philly cheesesteak shop Pat’s King of Steaks faces its second wrongful death lawsuit over a lethal brawl that occurred there in 2021. This, on top of the dozen-or-so wrongful stomach illness lawsuits they rack up in any given month.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank, declines for loan applications reached 22% in June, the highest in years. Lending is so tight, banks are sending out letters telling customers they’ve already been rejected for a new credit card.

A 67-year-old unemployed New York doorman has been standing outside of Tiffany’s since June wearing a sign looking for work, saying he’s been living off of Twinkies. He hasn’t gotten a job, but school kids will trade him some of their lunches for the Twinkies.

6 male students at Santo Amoro University in Brazil were suspended after dropping their pants and doing a “masturbation celebration’ on-court after watching the women’s volleyball team win their match. The university announced total attendance for the game at 6.

Olympic skier Lindsay Vonn shared Instagram photos showing that she was stung by a jellyfish just below her buttocks while surfing, adding that the damage was just below where ex-boyfriend Tiger Woods had injured her a few years ago.

Morgan Osman, a model who said she’s ‘Instagram famous’ while being kicked off an American Airlines flight, received an offer to do a one-hour porn camshow. She has yet to respond to the offer to do so aboard Spirit Airlines.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account. No word on discovery of incriminating evidence, but he sure did DM the cast of ‘Jersey Shore’ quite a bit.

Security workers at Los Angeles SoFi Stadium are reportedly accepting $60-100 dollar bribes to let people without tickets in to Taylor Swift concerts. Then, once inside, they can buy $200 sweatshirts.

The Mayor of Tampa found bags of cocaine floating in the ocean while on vacation. Now she’s Mayor of Bogota, Colombia.

The Emmy Awards were postponed from September, 2023 to Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, 2024. Actors will need to decide between the festive black-tie gala or the volunteer work they’d scheduled for that day.

The final season of Disney Channel’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series reveals that original sweethearts Troy & Gabriella are now in couples therapy 15 years later. Oddly, the therapy is with their guidance counselors.

A white mother is suing Southwest Airlines over a crew inquring that she may be trafficking her biracial daughter. The woman states if she were a real human trafficker, she’d have flown Spirit Airlines for the deep-discount rates they offer to those in the industry.

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Michael Lorenzen threw a no-hitter in his first home start for the team. His achievement was celebrated by Phillies fans throwing multiple hits at Washington Nationals fans in the parking lot.

Contestant Luke Valentine was removed from CBS’ ‘Big Brother‘ after repeatedly using the n-word on camera. Valentine will join the housemates on new CBS reality series ‘Bigot Brother‘.

Dorney Park amusement park in Allentown, Pennsylvania revealed plans for a new roller coaster, Iron Menace, to debut next year. They say it will simulate riding a rail car through a steel mill. At the end of the ride, everyone gets fired.

Three people in Australia died from ‘death cap’ mushroom poisoning after attending a family lunch. That evening’s family dinner featured a different caterer.

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Fan-Pei Koung of Houston, Texas is now living in Ukraine and working as an ’emotional support stripper’ for volunteers and soldiers during their war with Russia. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked President Biden for his ongoing assistance but said they could use quite a few more.

China replaced foreign minister Qin Gang, appointing Wang Yi as his replacement – this, according to an official government statement announcing the Gang/Wang transition.

New research finds climate change factors fueled many of the recent deadly heat waves in the U.S. and around the globe. Although the same studies concede the Sun has a lot of the blame too.

A study of internet search data finds California to be the most sleep-deprived state in the U.S. The same study concludes the least sleep-deprived state is West Virginia, thanks to fentanyl, and residents inability to spell, or search for, the term sleep-deprived on the internet.

Los Angeles Metro mass transit announced they’ll be adding extra lines to SoFi Stadium for the Taylor Swift concerts there August 3-6. They’re asking masturbators and drug addicts to help populate the additional buses and trains.

Moviegoers are citing a historical error in ‘Oppenheimer‘, with people waving 50-star flags in 1945, when the U.S. was comprised of only 48 states. This is angering others in the theater, when their partners wake them up to point out the error.

Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis and aides were uninjured in a minor car accident. They don’t want to discuss the history of the accident since the car is black.

A woman on a Delta jet stuck on a Las Vegas tarmac for three hours with no air conditioning or water described it as hell..with babies screaming, passengers fainting and throwing up on themselves. They returned to the gate and she rebooked on Spirit Airlines, where she realized the Delta experience wasn’t so bad, after all.

One of Arkansas’s leading psychiatrists has been suspended for falsely imprisoning patients and defrauding Medicaid. He’s been ordered to turn in his crystal ball and doctor’s overalls.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke with a woman who claims to have gone on a date with alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. The woman said she’s since removed her profile from the Date Long Island Serial Killers app.

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A portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia collapsed after a tanker truck caught fire beneath an overpass – creating a huge inconvenience for the 160,000 daily drivers and 500 daily carjackers who use the route.

Scientists are putting radio-trackable ‘pants’ on poison frogs in the tropical rainforest of French Guyana to understand their movements. They tried putting dresses on females, but after trying on a dozen each, the frogs couldn’t agree on one they liked.

A black bear was spotted walking out of the ocean on to a crowded beach in Destin, Florida. At first he was running, but the lifeguard blew their whistle and told him to slow down.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died at age 86. He will lie in state with an open casket so Italians can stop by to deposit their farewell bribe.

A plus-size influencer is asking U.S. airlines to define a uniform policy for ‘customers of size’, since many travelers can’t fit in a single coach seat. Airlines are divided, with many asking that large travelers buy an extra seat, while Spirit & Frontier offer Cargo Class tickets.

The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was found dead in his prison cell. He now begins serving the second of his four life sentences.

Starting next year, New York City will begin charging a toll for cars to drive in the congested areas of lower Manhattan below 60th St. Newark, New Jersey is also considering a toll, for drivers desperately trying to get out of the city.

Track athlete Chelsea Mitchell, once described as “fastest girl in Connecticut”, is suing the state because she claims losing races to transgender women caused her to lose scholarship offers. Meanwhile, another “fastest girl in Connecticut” is suing the family of a high school quarterback for child support.

A new startup, Varda Space, is attempting to use microgravity in outer space labs to create unique drugs before returning them to Earth for distribution. Varda Space was renamed after venture capital investors disapproved of their first choice, Astro Meth.

Kanye West celebrated his 46th birthday with a party featuring ‘nyotaimori’ – sushi and sashimi served on the bodies of nude women. Several female sushi platters were injured by guests who used forks instead of chopsticks.

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Whoopi Goldberg announced she’s co-written a graphic novel, The Change, about a grandmother named Isabel whose menopause gives her superpowers, including hot flashes that can melt both steel and her enemies.

Jon Bon Jovi says he has no issue with his 20-year-old son Jake getting engaged to 19-year-old actress Millie Bobbie Brown – saying young love eventually worked out for his dockworker friend Tommy and his waitress girlfriend Gina.

Tile, maker of tracking devices used to locate personal items, introduced Tile for Cats, a device you can attach to a feline’s collar to tell you that the cat is on the sofa 99% of the time.

A Delaware Boy Scout leader, Gary Matta, was arrested and charged with inappropriate sexual activity with a male youth between 1989 and 1992. Matta’s case is unique among Boy Scout leaders in that he only abused Scouts for four years.

Three separate road rage shootings have taken place on Philadelphia highways within the past two weeks. In response, the Philadelphia Welcome Center rest stop on Interstate 95 will install vending machines that sell bullets.

A Frontier Airlines flight atttendant asked passengers to vote whether a disruptive passenger should be kicked off the flight. The passenger was removed, but then passengers asked if they could vote themselves off so they could fly a better airline.

A pregnant woman who allegedly reeked of alcohol was refused boarding on a Spirit Airlines flight, then beat up the gate agent. The woman was arrested, and Spirit said the gate agent will be retrained so that she doesn’t lose fistfights with passengers.

Viral video shows a homeless man stopping a baby stroller from rolling on to a busy highway. Then the baby still has the nerve to tell the guy he doesn’t have any change.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb claims 75% of the team has diarrhea after playing two games in Mexico City. Ironically, they lost both games because the San Diego Padres had lots more runs.

A 27-year-old New Jersey teacher & marching band director was arrested for having a two-year sexual affair with a student. She wanted to have sex with somebody cool, so she sure as hell wasn’t going to sleep with anyone in marching band.

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Philadelphia’s drinking water was contaminated by a chemical spill in the Delaware River. Until further notice, city residents are advised to shoot their water before drinking it.

Florida may ban elementary school students from learning about or discussing menstruation. Three girls were already suspended for asking who the substitute teacher is for first period English.

A Family Dollar worker fatally shot a shoplifter. The store is closed, but a line is forming outside for customers wanting Dollar Shots.

Ye – formerly Kanye West – said he now likes Jews again after watching Jonah Hill’s performance in 21 Jump Street. Then he watched Hill in The Sitter and he’s on the fence again.

A 4-year-old hacked his Mom’s Amazon Prime account and ordered 51 boxes of SpongeBob popsicles. Two days later she received 51 boxes of SpongeBob popsicles and a Hitachi personal massager.

Walkouts among German airport, bus & railway workers brought the nation to a standstill Monday, as citizens struggle to cope with the Notten Muvin strike.

Actor Jeremy Renner shared video of his physical therapy, walking on an anti-gravity treadmill, as he recovers from injures suffered after being run over by a snowplow. Renner walked for 30 minutes then wiped the machine down before a guy who got run over by a truck used it.

Two Cuban migrants successfully fled their country and arrived at Key West Airport aboard a motorized hang glider. Air traffic controllers guided the two men aboard Spirit Airlines flight 544.

A woman who bit off the earlobe of a female Nordstrom security guard after being apprehended shoplfting was sentenced to 70 months in prison. The guard doesn’t want the earring back that the shoplifter swallowed.

The FDIC said First Citizens Bank has agreed to purchase troubled Silicon Valley Bank, and two days later had already collected $100 million in SVB overdraft fees.