1. The US surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis; US gun-linked deaths surpassed 48,000 people in 2022, over half by suicide
2. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal . He walked out of the courtroom, and left for the airport to board a plane to Australia to be reunited with his family.
3. In a painful twist of ironic fate, Gena Rowlands who starred in the Notebook as the older version of Rachel McAdams character Allie, has Alzheimers and is in full dementia according to her son.
4. And it’s just a matter of time before robots are living among us and we’ll never know. Japanese scientists have achieved a first, they have found a way to attach living human skin to the face of a robot for more realistic smiles and facial expressions. Great, that will be the last the we see as the robots are “unaliving” us.
5. AND an “online dispute” reportedly let to an attack IRL, when a gamer from New Jersey hopped a plane to Florida…in order to allegedly attack another gamer with a hammer. Edward Kang flew to the Sunshine State, dressed in all black and ninja like, entered the house through an unlocked door and attacked this person he had never met with a hammer. The victim sustained severe head wounds in the attack and has been released from the hospital, Kang has been arrested. There is a silver lining to all this. This argument and attack resulted in the the two men getting out of their mom’s basement for the first time in 5 years, so there’ that!!
and THAT’S TRENDING
