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Jan 30, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
25-year-old Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson was a rising star in the world of gravel and mountain cycling when she was tragically murdered on the night of May 11, 2022. Wilson’s death occurred after she became entangled in a love triangle. She briefly dated another pro cyclist named Colin Strickland after he broke up with his previous girlfriend, Kaitlin Armstrong.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
7,413 public school students in the Atlanta area are being relieved of their lunch debts after the Arby’s Foundation gave $203,534 to several local school districts. The almost $800,000 remaining will be gifted to schools across the country, which will rid another approx 47,000+ students of school lunch debt.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
Alabama executed Kenneth Smith using nitrogen gas on January 25. It was the first time the controversial method of capital punishment is known to have been used. However, experts have long warned that the novel procedure can lead to excessive pain and torture, with veterinarians across the U.S. and Europe even refusing to use nitrogen gas on most animals, deeming it unethical. The 58-year-old was pronounced dead at 8:25 pm at the William C.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
What does it mean to be Japanese? That's the question swirling around social media after Ukraine-born model Carolina Shiino was crowned Miss Japan 2024 on Monday. “Being recognized as a Japanese in this competition fills me with gratitude,” Shiino said following her win. But despite her having lived the majority of her life in Japan, many don’t recognize her as Japanese. 26-year-old Shiino was born in Ukraine and moved to Japan at the age of 5, after her mother got remarried to a Japanese man.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
Some Target employees have reportedly been fired for purchasing a highly sought-after, limited-edition Stanley cup because it violated company policy, according to Business Insider. Araceli Bernal, a Target employee in Delaware who had been with the company for nearly 2 years, told the outlet that she and several co-workers were terminated after purchasing the Stanley x Starbucks Quencher from a barista.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
Ryan Gosling is calling out the Oscars, saying he’s ‘disappointed’ about his ‘Barbie’ colleagues Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig getting snubbed this year. ‘There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie,’ Gosling said in a statement.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
Republican biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has officially dropped out of the 2024 presidential race after polling 4th in the Iowa caucuses. He has now endorsed former President Donald Trump. ‘We did not achieve the surprise that we wanted to deliver tonight,’ Ramaswamy stated. Ramaswamy told Axios in October that he thought he had ‘a good shot at an outright victory, something close to it’ in the caucuses. ‘A solid second or third in Iowa,’ he said.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
An Ohio grand jury declined to indict 34-year-old Brittany Watts, who gained national attention after being charged with abusing a corpse following a miscarriage she experienced at her home. The case highlighted the issues that birthing people face in a country that is navigating a patchwork of new reproductive rights laws following the Dobbs decision. Watts was arrested in October 2023 after trying to flush a nonviable fetus that she miscarried down her toilet.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
Brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski spent half a century amassing the world’s largest known collection of cuckoo clocks. But the two men have no children, and as they’ve grown older, they’ve begun to worry about what will happen to Cucklooland, the museum they run, and their 750 pendulum-driven clocks after they die. “I’m 71 and Maz is 69, and we have not got anybody to leave it to,” says Roman.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
nowthisnews.com | Sophia Anderson
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has appointed 34-year-old Gabriel Attal as prime minister, making Attal the country’s youngest and first out gay person to hold the position. Attal rose to prominence in recent years, having served as France’s government spokesperson during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He later became minister of education, where he implemented a controversial ban on the abaya — a long, loose-fitting garment worn by some Muslim women — in schools.
