Raised Southern Baptist in North Carolina, the actor says playing gay characters turned shame into strength.
Michael Johnston says playing gay characters helped him accept himself before he came out
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Florida mom is arrested after police say she admitted biting her 4-year-old son’s ear inside a Hialeah market: ‘He wanted a toy’
Surveillance cameras inside a small Hialeah market allegedly recorded a mother turning on both of her young sons during a single visit. Madelien Inurrieta-Martinez, 43, is facing two felony child abuse charges after police say she bit her 4-year-old son on the ear inside Fatty’s Market on Palm Avenue, according to Law & Crime. According […]
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Joe Biden makes a surprise trip to Dublin to watch Hunter receive a gold medal at Trinity College. Then protesters throw milk cartons as he leaves
Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Trinity College in Dublin on Tuesday to see his son, Hunter Biden, accept a gold medal. The College Historical Society hosted the event to honor Hunter for his contribution to public discourse, an award that follows his recent push in the media. Jill Biden joined him at the […]
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South Carolina baby goes missing for over 24 hours, then police hear crying coming from a pile of dirt, ‘the race was on’
So glad little Koah is okay.
An 11-month-old boy in South Carolina who went missing for over 24 hours after being left in his father’s care has been found. Where police discovered him came as a shock, though; the infant, Koah Sharpe, was located in a dog crate wrapped in a towel that had been shallowly buried. According to People, in […]
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Texas man set to be executed Thursday for killing his 3 young children in 2003 told a local station this year ‘Every day I miss them’
Nearly 23 years after three children were killed in a Brownsville apartment, the man convicted of their deaths is days from his execution. John Allen Rubio is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, according to KRGV. Earlier this year, he sat down with the station for his first on-camera interview about the crimes. […]
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UC Berkeley student waiting to board a flight at SFO for a vacation in Oregon is arrested by ICE. Now a judge has ordered her released after 10 days
A federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release Paula Valentina Albornoz Hernandez, a 23-year-old UC Berkeley business administration student. The judge issued the order on Monday, 10 days after the Colombian student’s arrest at San Francisco International Airport. The UC Berkeley student left detention around 9 p.m. that night, according to The […]
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TikToker faces a $10,000 fine while trying to prove she co-owns the house she helped build. Then she sees who her husband brought with him to court
Divorce can be messy.
Getting a divorce usually isn’t a fun event, and it might have you wishing that somebody had objected at the wedding to save you the headache and heartache. Anna Grace (@anna_grace_643) is apparently dealing with an ongoing situation with her husband that could result in jail time and a hefty fine. This video was a […]
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Night-shift worker watches a drunk man yell at a new hire. Then the man allegedly exposes himself and urinates on the employee: 'Won't be coming back'
From night shift to nightmare shift.
People who have worked in retail know that every shift can be filled with surprises. You don’t know what kind of customers or requests you’ll have to handle, and that has resulted in an entire subreddit called retail hell being created for people to share their negative experiences and vent. One story from user Massive_Goat9582 […]
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Mother and daughter’s bodies were found mauled in Canadian wilderness, then DNA testing revealed the four animals responsible for their deaths
The tragedy came a year after a separate bear attack in the same area.
A mother and daughter in British Columbia, Canada, died earlier this month in what authorities believed was a grizzly bear attack. Wildlife officials have since located the four grizzly bears involved in the women’s deaths, ultimately euthanizing them out of concern for public safety, as per provincial guidelines for responding to human-wildlife conflicts. 48-year-old Jennifer […]
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North Carolina man flew Southwest and claimed the airline broke his stroller, then said their customer service wasn’t what he thought: ‘Do better’
His viewers ended up helping him.
A man who traveled with his family to Portland, Oregon, on a Southwest Airlines flight to visit relatives claimed the airline damaged his twin children’s double stroller so badly that it can’t be used safely. When he contacted the airline’s customer service to report the incident, however, he was left disappointed by the company’s response. […]
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Woman helps her husband move to the US, then claims he’s abandoning her to join the army while she’s pregnant: ‘He ruined this pregnancy for me’
She says her husband is rushing to enlist days after first hearing about the Army, and she calls him a “gas lighter.”
A pregnant woman says she is weighing a divorce lawyer after her husband, whom she helped relocate to the US, set his sights on joining the Army. According to Daily Dot, she laid out her frustration in a long Reddit post on r/GirlDinnerDiaries at 17 weeks of pregnancy. The idea came up only about seven […]
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Indiana mom faces a felony neglect charge after officers say the bathwater where her toddler daughter was found measured around 118 degrees
A 22-month-old girl died last week after her father found her facedown in a bathtub at the family’s Mitchell, Indiana, home. Her mother, Amanda B. Lane, is now charged with felony neglect of a dependent resulting in death, according to People. Indiana State Police arrested the 32-year-old without incident after investigating at the home and […]
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Staten Island woman says a man struck her in the face and keyed her car over a parking spot next to a dumpster. Now police are searching for him
A 25-year-old woman says she was struck in the face during a road rage incident on Staten Island earlier this month, after she pulled her car into what she thought was a parking spot. The event occurred on Forest Avenue in West Brighton, and parts of the encounter were captured on cellphone video, according to […]
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9 Kennedy family members ask to join a lawsuit to stop Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington, saying it would block the view of JFK’s Eternal Flame
Nine members of the Kennedy family filed court papers to join a legal fight against a 250-foot arch President Trump wants to build near Arlington National Cemetery, according to CBS. They argue it would ruin the view of the gravesites of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, as well as the Eternal […]
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8-year-old went to an immigration check-in with a family member, then ICE allegedly refused to let him leave: ‘No reason for them to remove him’
A child has been separated from his family.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its roundup of alleged illegal immigrants across the nation. This time, a young child who attended an immigration appointment with his uncle for a routine check-in in San Diego was taken away by ICE officers. An 8-year-old Haitian boy, who had been living with his uncle and cousins […]
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Man tells a customer to apologize to a Toledo Checkers cashier he allegedly hit with soda. Instead, the customer crawls into the back of his Subaru
A man is going viral after being caught on camera climbing into the back of his own car to avoid a confrontation over his behavior at Checkers and Rally’s in Toledo, Ohio. The man allegedly threw a soda at a female cashier during a heated argument about his Big Buford burger, according to Atlanta Black […]
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