Legal Marijuana In Florida, The Historical 'Dancing Baby' Case, A POV Action Movie Trailer & More Of Today's Buzz
Happy least interesting day of the week, a.k.a. Tuesday, darlings! To help you muddle through it, here's a helping of pop culture, news, and infotainment...AKA the Enstars Rundown.
Enjoy!
A lawyer in Florida is making the preliminary moves, gathering enough voter signatures to create a ballot initiative and campaigning for votes, to legalize marijuana in the state. If he's successful, the Sunshine state would be only the third state to do so, after Colorado and Washington.
Delta State University in Mississippi was thrown into chaos yesterday when Shannon Lamb, 45-year-old instructor shot and killed history professor Ethan Schmidt in his campus office. Lamb had also murdered a woman he lived with, Amy Prentiss, earlier that day. He was corned by police yesterday evening and then killed himself. In a news conference beforehand, a police spokesperson said police had spoken with Lamb, who had proclaimed "he's not going to jail."
North Korea says its prime nuclear reactor, which had been shut down since 2007, and produces weapons grade plutonium, is back online.
The bidding race to host the 2024 Olympics is officially kicking off with Toronto's mayor announcing the Canadian city won't be entering a big, while Los Angeles publically released the promo video it made to host the games.
Listen to This: The always enlightening Stuff You Missed in History Class profiles the now-little-remembered "Black Hole of Calcutta," which was an infamous incident of an over packed and hot prison cell in the Indian city during the 1800s that killed scores of prisoners.
Footage of a white Donald Trump supporter tearing down the sign of Latino protester at a college football game in Iowa over the weekend (where Trump was making an appearance) has gone viral.
The infamous "dancing baby" baby case, an eight-year-old legal saga over a less-than-30-second-long clips of a toddler dancing to Prince "Let's Go Crazy" that was uploaded to YouTube, set legal precedent yesterday when the nine circuit court of appeal ruled that copyright holders must consider the doctrine of "fair use" before requesting online hosting services to take down its copyrighted material. The case will now FINALLY head to trial.
According to a recent analysis of federal data, the number of homeless children in American public school has doubled since before the 2008 recession.
Students in Alabama will FINALLY be required to learn about evolution and climate change...because it's, you know, 2015.
Watch this: Here's the trailer for Hardcore, an action movie that was filmed ENTIRELY from the main character's point of view. It looks like it's going to be an intense ride. Fair warning: the trailer is a little NSFW in terms of violence, so watch at your own risk.
