On This Day:
December 21
10 years of headlines that grabbed us.
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December 21, 2023
Harvard President Comes Under Fire Again
Harvard President Claudine Gay, lately facing backlash for her congressional testimony addressing antisemitism on campus, is now accused of plagiarism. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2022
Cops Name Man Who 8 Girls Allegedly Swarmed
The man who was stabbed to death in December in what police have called a "swarming" attack was on Tuesday identified as Ken Lee; he had previously been described as a 59-year-old who was residing in Toronto's homeless shelters. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2021
McDonald's Drive-Thru Worker, 15, Saves Customer
It was a normal day at work for Sydney Raley, 15, at a McDonald's near Minneapolis, Minnesota—until it wasn't. After the teen handed a female drive-thru customer part of her order Saturday, she turned back to the car to tell her the rest of her order was coming up and saw the woman in distress. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2020
Nobody Saw This Story Coming About Martin Shkreli
A story about "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli is making the rounds on Monday, and it's a doozy. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2019
GOP Chief Says Feisty Lawmaker 'Is Done'
The day after nearly every House Democrat voted to impeach President Trump, the chief of the House Republican campaign committee said the political fallout was clear, the AP reports. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2018
Cops: Trapped Man Entered Mine to Steal, Have Sex
An arrest warrant has been issued for one of four people who became trapped in an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia after he allegedly admitted the plan was to look for copper and have sex. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2017
Just How Big an Insult Was the UN's Jerusalem Vote?
"The US will be taking names," Nikki Haley warned Wednesday ahead of the UN General Assembly's Thursday vote on whether to reject President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2016
Trump: If Popular Vote Mattered, I Would've Won It
Donald Trump is known to occasionally think out loud on Twitter, and on Wednesday the president-elect processed his Electoral College victory, which he won by 304 votes to Hillary Clinton's 227. Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2015
Why Clinton's Bathroom Break Took So Long
Time for Ally McBeal-style unisex bathrooms at presidential debates? Keep reading >>
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December 21, 2014
Al Sharpton: I'm Getting Threatening Phone Calls
Al Sharpton says he's receiving threatening phone calls over the murders of two NYPD officers, but maintains that he opposes violence and never claimed that all police are bad, Staten Island Live reports. Keep reading >>
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