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These people are getting very wet reporting on Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence is just a few kilometres east of North Carolina at the time of writing, but hurricane-force winds have been lashing the US…

Donald Trump’s fist pump before 9/11 memorial has gone viral

A picture of US President Donald Trump fist-pumping supporters on his way to a 9/11 memorial in Pennsylvania has gone viral. Although a full…

Watch: Julius Malema gives Donald Trump a sassy new nickname

EFF leader Julius Malema has called US President Donald Trump a “pathological liar” after he called for an investigation into South Africa’s land reforms…

Google searches for South Africa spike after Fox News video, Trump tweet

Google Searches for South Africa has spiked after Fox News ran a segment, anchored by Tucker Carlson, addressing the country’s land expropriation debate. The…

Watch: Fox News, Donald Trump weigh in on South Africa’s land expropriation

US President Donald Trump this morning turned his eye towards South Africa after a Fox News segment, anchored by Tucker Carlson, dipped its toes…

Donald Trump’s latest Iran tweet gains 50k retweets in five hours

US President Donald Trump needed little over five hours to amass over 137 000 likes and more than 50 000 retweets on his latest…

The United States still thinks Mexico’s in the World Cup

The United States isn’t the world’s foremost footballing nation — unless you’re talking about their variant using a rugby ball and “end zones”. But…

Facebook may have earned $150k from US election-hacking ads

Facebook has divulged that it could have earned up to US$150 000 from Russian ads that targeted the 2016 United States election. The company studied…

Irma, Harvey and Google: analysing the hurricanes’ search impact

Tropical weather is seemingly all social media users in the western hemisphere can talk about this week. With three named storms currently swirling in…

Video: Hurricane Hunters fly through Irma as storm tops 290km/h

Hurricane Irma remains a Category 5 storm swirling away in the Atlantic Ocean, but that hasn’t stopped the Hurricane Hunters from flying through it….

[Updating] In tweets: Irma, Jose and Katia now all Atlantic hurricanes

We just saw the last of Hurricane Harvey, a storm that broke US mainland rainfall records, finally dissipate over the northeastern portion of the…

This video shows how quickly Hurricane Harvey became a monster

Hurricane Harvey is a name you’ve probably heard a lot of this weekend, and for good reason. It’s the strongest storm to make landfall…

Solar Eclipse 2017: America’s doggos prepare on Instagram

In a few minutes, the Earth’s Moon will begin its rude obstruction of the Sun, covering much of the central United States in darkness…

Nelson Mandela helps Barack Obama to the most liked tweet in history

Former US President Barack Obama’s recent response to Charlottesville has become the most-liked tweet in history, Twitter today announced. Quoting former South African President…

Trump retweets someone calling him a ‘fascist’, deletes almost immediately

US President Donald Trump allegedly retweeted a tweet deeming him a “fascist” before deleting it swiftly from his account. Twitter user Mike Holden was…

Charlottesville: Twitter slams Trump’s response, lauds Obama and Clinton’s

It has been a landmark weekend for the United States. On Saturday at a “Unite the White” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a car ploughed…

Prisoners use peanut butter to escape Alabama slammer

All the great prison breaks of history and popular culture involved some degree of cunning and invention. But peanut butter? CNN this week reported…

Foxconn announces $10bn investment in new US-based factory

Foxconn — the manufacturer responsible for bolting together most of Apple’s products — is planning to build a factory on US soil, reports the…

Hurricane Hilary (seriously) has just formed off the US coast

It’s not often that tropical cyclone names coincide perfectly with political ongoings, but Hurricane Hilary is seemingly one such occasion. Twirling around at over…

YouTuber Jake Paul ires neighbours, uses two-year-old memes

YouTuber Jake Paul has fallen under the scrutiny of his local community, who say he has made their street in West Hollywood a living…

Lots of people stopped watching porn for Game of Thrones’ season premiere

Game of Thrones aired its season premiere Sunday night to a record 10.1-million viewers, stealing PornHub visitors away from their usual Sunday night me-time. The company…

Donald Trump Jr posts emails of Russian collusion to Twitter

Donald Trump Jr took to Twitter Tuesday to post a series of emails proving he had met with the Russian government during the 2016…

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