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Kansas City landlord came over to fix the heating -- he killed his tenant instead

Darryl Gilland and his girlfriend asked their landlord to come over to fix the heat, instead, Darryl ended up dead, reported the Daily Beast, citing the Kansas City Star.

It began when Gordon McBeth, 44, came over to the rental unit and the couple asked if they could use a space heater and that's when he "completely flipped," said the victim's girlfriend Samantha Pohlman. He was evidently angry that he had to "work" when he was on his day off.

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Here are some of the most racist and sexist Halloween costumes for 2021

Last Halloween, the United States was still engrossed in the pandemic and few were willing to take to the streets for sweet treats. This year folks are gearing up for the holiday with superhero costumes, princesses, and of course the most offensive and sexist.

In a Cosmo article listing off 26 sexy Halloween costumes, the women's magazine made it through eight ideas before it actually showed a costume, which was sexy a Santa, angel, and nurse. The first seven were all just lingerie. They weren't just sexy costumes, they were legitimately just lingerie like a robe set, babydoll nightie, and shorts with a cami set.

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'Are we going to shoot someone?' cops ask while pointing guns at a baby during botched Florida raid

A video has been released showing a terrified mom and her 3-month-old baby as police pointed weapons at her while raiding her home. As it turns out, however, they went to the wrong house, Vice News said Tuesday citing a Fox 13 report.

It's a similar story that resulted in the murder of medical worker Breonna Taylor as Louisville police raided the wrong apartment. However, the white woman and her baby weren't fired on with a no-knock warrant. In this case, it was the U.S. Marshals who thought they were going to arrest a Florida man for homicide.

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NASA may have found the first planet outside of the Milky Way Galaxy

For decades NASA, SETI and other researchers have found planets all over the Milky Way Galaxy, but according to a new report, NASA may have found the first outside of our home galaxy.

The Daily Beast cited a NASA report saying that 28 million light-years away in the Whirlpool Galaxy, sitting next to a black hole, is the first discovered extra-galactic planet.

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Facebook is desperately trying to hire a lobbyist to sway Democratic officials — but no one will do it

Facebook had a cozy relationship with the White House when President Donald Trump was in power, but since Democrats have taken over, they've struggled to create a similar closeness.

According to the Wall Street Journal, internal documents that have become known as "The Facebook Papers" revealed that the company hasn't managed to find a lobbyist who will convince Democrats to leave the company alone. The result has been that Democrats are talking about regulations, breaking up the company and tighter restrictions.

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'Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch': Maddow mocks neo-Nazis bankrupted by legal fees

Nazis are going bankrupt because of civil suits against them for their involvement in the Charlottesville, Virginia riots and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said, sarcastically, that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Monday, Maddow kicked off her show talking about known neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, who can't even pay his lawyers.

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Comedian Dave Chappelle addresses Netflix transgender controversy in full for first time

By Helen Coster

(Reuters) - Editor's note: Attention to strong language in paragraph 4 that could offend some readers

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Jury selection in Ahmaud Arbery murder case crawls into the second week

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — One prospective juror said he believes racial stereotyping played a role in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Another, who worked in law enforcement, said the three men charged in the 25-year-old’s death should have waited for the cops. Both men said they could be impartial if they’re chosen for the high-profile trial. But two other potential jurors questioned Monday afternoon knew the Arbery family, including one man who said he was friends with Ahmaud, and a woman who told the court she was his distant cousin. They said they would be unable to consider the facts of the case fair...

October nor’easter could strengthen into a ‘bomb cyclone': forecasters predict

Don’t get alarmed if you hear some weather forecasters calling this fierce October coastal storm a “bomb cyclone.” It might sound like a fear-mongering buzz word, but it’s actually a term used by meteorologists to describe storms that rapidly intensify during a short time span. It’s a process known as bombogenesis, which occurs when a storm system quickly strengthens, with its atmospheric pressure dropping at least 24 millibars within 24 hours. Some weather forecasters and experts at AccuWeather and the Washington Post believe the coastal storm that is expected to dump as much as 4 to 6 inches...

Mo Brooks says he didn't help plan Jan 6 rally but his staff may have

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) disputed the Rolling Stone report citing him as one of the key members of Congress who spoke on planning calls for the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., tweeted CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona.

According to two organizers and one planner involved in the event, Brooks joined a slate of other Republican officials who participated in the planning calls with activists. Their accusations join along with a since-deleted video from far-right activist Ali Alexander, who also named Brooks as someone who helped come up with the idea about the Jan. 6 riot that left five dead and many injured.

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Republican lawyer outed after his mom says a school book scared him so much Virginia should vote GOP to ban books

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is out with a new ad by a mom talking about how her child was terrified by a book he was forced to read while in school. She goes on to talk about why having a governor like Youngkin means better regulations on schools so far-right parents can decide what everyone's child should read and learn.

What is becoming known now, however, is that the mom's son was actually a senior in high school when he was "scared" by the book he read. He was 17-years-old and legally able to see rated-R movies in a theater. The child is a lawyer in the Republican Party today, and it is being reported in multiple outlets that he was so terrified by a book at 17 that it's being used in political ads years later. Even at 19, he was confessing to having "night terrors" after reading the book.

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'Rust' film staffer blames profit over people for the death of cinematographer

Weapons experts and prop masters have rushed to the internet to explain why the procedure and rules weren't followed on the set of the western "Rust," where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed after a live round was left in a prop gun.

The Daily Beast reports that the gaffer who was on the set at the time of the accident blamed "profits" over people for Hutchins's death in a scathing Facebook post.

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Appointing a special prosecutor to probe Capitol rioters' congressional contacts is 'warranted': Ex-FBI agent

Former FBI agent and current Yale professor Asha Rangappa addressed online discussions about ways to investigate the members of Congress who have been accused of helping plan the "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the attack on the United States Capitol.

One idea is for the DOJ to appoint a special prosecutor, so that if the House flips to Republicans after the 2022 midterm election, the investigations cannot be stopped by a new GOP speaker.

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