Sarah Palin Supports Curt Schilling, Accused Prep School Rapist Is Acquitted, #BuyPens Refuge Gets Help & More August 28, 2015 Buzz
Happy Friday! Not only is it the end of the working week, but it's also the last part of another weekly news cycle. Here's a your Friday Enstars Rundown.
Enjoy.
Owen Labrie, the 19-year-old accused of raping a 15-year-old when he was a senior at the elite prep school St. Paul's (where John Kerry and a slew of other big names went to high school) has been acquitted of felony rape by a New Hampshire jury today. Labrie was convicted of four misdemeanors, including three sex assault counts and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. Labries faces anywhere from 3 and ½ to 8 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender.
Watch This: Today marks 52 years since Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I have a dream" speech, so why not watch it? Oh, and here's a great list of "10 fascinating facts" about the speech from the National Constitution Center.
Read This: The New York Times Magazine has an enthralling feature by Scott Shane on Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen/radical Islamic cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike four years ago and his legacy.
A student was shot killed on Thursday night at Savannah State University.
Buzz Aldrin, the second human being to set foot on the moon, wants humanity to colonize Mars and he has a plan to do it
In summer filled with stories of massive death tolls of migrants and refugees in Europe, one particular grisly story is making serious waves. An abandoned food delivery truck was discovered on the side of the rode in Austria earlier this week. Inside, authorities discovered the bodies of over 70 people, some presumably fleeing the violence in Syria, who are believed to have suffocated.
Curt Schilling, the retired major league pitcher and baseball commentator who was suspended by ESPN following a tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis has found himself a defender in Sarah Palin.
The latest model by electric car company Tesla is so good that it actually broke Consumer Reports legendary rating system, scoring 103 out of 100.
According to BuzzFeed, New York City shut down one of its busiest STD clinics and cut hundreds of thousands of free HIV tests over the last five years, all discreetly and on the sly to avoid the public backlash.
Remember that 9-year-old girl that was shot and killed in her bed in Ferguson, Mo.? Someone was arrested for it.
And finally, you may have seen the below tweeted pictured of a Syrian refugee carrying his sleeping daughter while selling pens on the street in Beirut. Well, according to reports so many people were moved by the image that nearly $60,000 were raised for the man and his family.