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Outrage Over United Incident Spreads to China

Some call for United boycott over what they see as discrimination against Asians

(Newser) - A set of viral videos showing an Asian man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight over the weekend has prompted plenty of outrage in the US, but there's been overseas reaction, too—specifically in China, CNBC reports. A passenger who took one of the videos of the...

News Anchor Stares at Pen on Live TV, Goes Viral

Some say Aussie journalist Natasha Exelby is now being punished for it

(Newser) - Natasha Exelby lived out every news anchor's nightmare on live TV over the weekend, and to add to that nightmare, some are saying she's been sanctioned for it, per the New York Daily News . A video circulating online shows the Aussie journalist on ABC24 on Sunday, zoning out...

Thank Trump for First Joan Baez Song in 25 Years

She was spurred by the 2016 presidential race to write 'Nasty Man'

(Newser) - Donald Trump: businessman, president … Joan Baez muse? "Here's a little song / About a man gone wrong" begins Baez's "Nasty Man," the first song she's written in 25 years, and it's a protest anthem apparently inspired by Trump himself. Among other topics,...

Daily Show Envisions Sean Spicer as Kindergarten Teacher
Daily Show Gives
Sean Spicer a 
New Career
VIDEO
Apr 6, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Daily Show Gives Sean Spicer a New Career

He's a natural at being a kindergarten teacher

(Newser) - Sean Spicer has already become the whipping boy for Saturday Night Live , but now another late-night show is taking a crack at him. Wednesday's Daily Show analyzed clips of the famously combative press secretary interacting with reporters and wondered : "Does @SeanSpicer treat the press like a bunch of...

Kendall Jenner's 'Tone-Deaf' Pepsi Ad Not Going Over Well

Twitter doesn't take kindly to demonstrators' issues being diffused with cans of cola

(Newser) - "Live Bolder. Live Louder. Live for Now" may be the slogan Pepsi wanted everyone to remember from its new ad starring Kendall Jenner, but the phrases actually being bandied about include "shallow," "cringeworthy," and "tone deaf." The nearly three-minute video was posted Monday...

Subway's 'Penis Seat' Is Getting Some Attention

Mexico City takes on sexual harassment with eye-popping commuter prop

(Newser) - Shaking heads. Disgusted looks. Giggles. These are all reactions you'll spot in a YouTube video documenting a Mexico City subway experiment that definitely caught commuters' attention. In what's described as an empathy-building campaign, the city's government teamed up with UN Women to create the #NoEsDeHombres campaign (per...

Man Posts Video of Huge Chicken, Internet Eats It Up

Experts say it's the real deal

(Newser) - Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a chicken of unusual size is ruffling feathers. Named Merakli, the behemoth was filmed by a guy named Fitim Sejfijaj, who posted the footage to the Facebook page of a Kosovo-based "decorative poultry" group. As the bird steps out of a chicken coop that can...

Parents Explain Hilarious Interview-Crashing Kids

Robert Kelly takes full blame for failing to lock door

(Newser) - The couple behind the latest viral sensation is speaking out for the first time and explaining the series of missteps that led to the adorable clip of two children crashing dad's live BBC interview. While professor Robert Kelly did the interview over Skype from his home office, his wife...

Kids Adorably Crash Live Interview
Kids Adorably
Crash Live
Interview
Mar 10, 2017 2:41 PM CST

Kids Adorably Crash Live Interview

BBC clip has gone viral

(Newser) - A professor was doing a live Skype interview about South Korea's political turmoil on the BBC Friday when his kids burst into the room, quickly making the video "one of the most popular things on the internet," per NPR . Robert E. Kelly was about to answer a...

This May Be the Strangest Weather Forecast You'll Ever See

Boy runs onstage, farts on meteorologist

(Newser) - Viewers of Mississippi station WLBT were told Saturday that the weather was full of "farts and toots." That was the word from a boy who burst onto the set in the middle of meteorologist Patrick Ellis' weather forecast while it was being broadcast live and proceeded to fart,...

Pregnant Woman Spoofs Pregnant Giraffe, Goes Viral

Erin Dietrich hasn't given birth yet, either

(Newser) - Animal Adventure Park's giraffe is still waiting to give birth, as the internet watches . And so is a pregnant woman in South Carolina. Erin Dietrich donned a giraffe mask and started livestreaming from Facebook on Sunday night from a camera mounted at about the same angle as April the...

Turkeys Circle Dead Cat, Internet Goes Wild
Turkeys Circle Dead Cat,
Internet Goes Wild
VIRAL VIDEO
Mar 3, 2017 3:59 PM CST

Turkeys Circle Dead Cat, Internet Goes Wild

A 'bizarre scene' in a Massachusetts suburb

(Newser) - A bizarre scene of a group of wild turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat was caught on video by a Massachusetts man who perhaps best described it: an attempt to give the feline its 10th life. Jonathan Davis came across the fowl play in the Boston suburb...

Heartbreaking Video Shows Army Widow's Reunion With Husband

Tara Thomas met her husband's coffin on the tarmac

(Newser) - In a moving scene, an Army wife met her husband on the airport tarmac last week—but he was in a coffin. The heartbreaking reunion between Tara and Shawn Thomas was caught on video by Lisa West Williams, who was traveling in the plane that transported Shawn Thomas' body home...

Inside the Web-Conquering Sensuality of 'Salt Bae'

Fans fawn at Nusret Gokce's seasoning skills

(Newser) - The kids have known about "Salt Bae" since seasoning first hit elbow on Instagram last month. But now that celebrities and professional athletes like Travis Kelce and Usher are getting in on the action, the media is catching up. The Wall Street Journal has a major profile on Salt...

Viral Video Shows Employee's Amazing Catch ... of a Kid

It was caught on surveillance tape

(Newser) - Surveillance video at an indoor skydiving facility in Houston shows an instructor quickly catching a toddler as the child falls backward off a counter, the AP reports. The boy was standing on the counter and holding onto his father when he tumbled backward. Jesse "Tex" Leos, an instructor at...

Pro-Ivanka &#39;Posse&#39; Takes On Nordstrom, Goes Viral
Watch What These Ivanka Fans
Just Did at Nordstrom
VIRAL VIDEO
Feb 17, 2017 12:24 PM CST

Watch What These Ivanka Fans Just Did at Nordstrom

Women marched in, canceled accounts, and went viral

(Newser) - Nordstrom dumped Ivanka Trump's product line earlier this month, and that's not sitting well with a group of women believed to be from Chandler, Ariz. In what the Arizona Republic deems a "collision of retail and politics," a one-minute video that originally appeared on one...

Midwest Lit Up by Overnight Meteor Show


'Blue-Green Fireball'
Lights Up Midwest Skies 
VIRAL VIDEO
Feb 6, 2017 12:37 PM CST

'Blue-Green Fireball' Lights Up Midwest Skies

Meteor captured on dashcam could be seen in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana

(Newser) - If you happened to be up late after the Super Bowl (and also follow the National Weather Service Chicago's Twitter account), you would have gotten a sneak peek at the natural phenomenon that the rest of the world is now seeing. "Check out this INCREDIBLE video," the...

2015 Video of Sessions, Yates Is 'Prophetic'

Sessions told Yates to 'say no' to 'improper' requests

(Newser) - The advice Jeff Sessions offered Sally Yates during her 2015 confirmation hearing then seemed ordinary. It now appears "prophetic," per Boing Boing . "You have to watch out" because the president may make "improper" requests "and you need to say no," Sessions tells Yates in...

Singer Halts Show Mid-Song to Help Harassed Female Fan

Video of Atif Aslam is going viral

(Newser) - A viral video out of Pakistan shows popular singer Atif Aslam halting a concert, mid-song, in order to stop a group of guys who were harassing a female concertgoer in the front row Sunday night. Per Mashable , the video shows Aslam telling the males to "act like a human...

In Viral Video, News Anchor Berates Colleague Over Top

Aussie news reporters go at it over wardrobe

(Newser) - Never wear white after Labor Day or, if you're an Australian newscaster, on the same day that your co-worker is. Nine Network's Julie Snook found this out the hard way when she was verbally attacked while the cameras were rolling (but before they went on the air) by...

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