We’re inundated by news stories every day and with a 24/7 news cycle, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. But thanks to GlobalGrind’s Think Tank, you’ll be quickly in the know, and then good to go.
From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all.
Today we see that a man on a New York City 6 train stripped naked and began shouting racial slurs at passengers.
Shame On You
Who: Naked Man
Where: Bronx, NY
What: There’s always something going on in the subways of New York City. So on a Bronx bound 6 train, a drunk man decided to get naked and harass and torment other straphangers. The mentally deranged man began shouting racial slurs and started randomly attacking strangers. Take a look at the video making the Internet rounds.
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Take It In The Ring
Contenders: NJ State Police vs. Common
Match: New Jersey police are outraged by the White House inviting rapper Common to perform poetry.The outrage centers on a song by Common about Assata Shakur, formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted for the 1973 slaying of Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike. Garden State police take offense at “A Song for Assata,” which includes the lines “Your power and pride is beautiful. May God bless your soul.”
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Inside the Capitol
Where: Washington, D.C.
Who: C.I.A.
What Happened: Only a chosen few are allowed to see the death photos of Osama bin Laden. The CIA has informed two Senate committees that their members can view post-mortem photos of al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden if they wish, a congressional aide said on Tuesday.
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Money On My Mind
Whose Wallet: U.S. Postal Service
Weight: $2.2 Billion
How They Hustled: The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage money, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the most recent quarter.
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Better Than Fiction
Character: Peacock
Plot Line: First it was the Bronx Zoo Cobra, now another inmate of the Bronx Zoo has vanished. A peacock flew its coop and was spotted last night wandering a few blocks from the zoo, scuffling with an alley cat. The bird was just a few yards from Metro-North Railroad tracks when it ducked behind a garage with its new playmate, an area resident said. But the cat soon scurried off.
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Numbers Game
Number: 250
Where: Mexico
What Happened: Drug smugglers are always finding ways to get thier product where it needs to go. A tunnel running 250 feet beneath the U.S.-Mexican border has been discovered, fully kitted out with electricity, water pumps and ventilation.
Authorities in Arizona said although they’ve found dozens of tunnels in Nogales, a city in Santa Cruz County since the 1990s, this one is by far the most sophisticated.
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Hero of the Day
Who: Reporter
What: A reporter in Indiana got involved in the story of the day when he helped a mother duck get her babies to safety.
He climbed down a storm drain to rescue the ducklings.
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This Day In History
Year: 1981
What: Today we lost one of the most influential musicians in history. Bob Marley played his last concert at Madison Square Garden. Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park and later received a grim diagnosis: a cancerous growth on an old soccer injury on his big toe had metastasized and spread to Marley’s brain, liver and lungs. Less than eight months later, on May 11, 1981, Bob Marley, the soul and international face of reggae music, died in a Miami, Florida, hospital. He was only 36 years old.
