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A 28-year-old surrogate from Alaska named McKenna West gave birth to a baby boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in Dallas on Wednesday, August 12. The baby was diagnosed with the heart condition at around 20 weeks of pregnancy. The…
Starting today, the UK is joining Europe in restricting a widely used chemical in gel nail polish, marking a significant shift in the beauty industry. Manufacturers can no longer introduce new gel nail polish products containing trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide, commonly…
President Trump said Friday that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz “a territory of the United States” after the Iran war, marking a dramatic escalation in his rhetoric about the strategically vital waterway that has become central to…
In 1991, a Dutch couple made an unconventional decision that would ultimately reshape medical understanding of human anatomy. Ida Sabelis and her boyfriend Jupp climbed into an MRI scanner at a hospital in Groningen, the Netherlands, to have sex while…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has maintained the same amount of federal student loan debt since her election to Congress in 2018 while earning an annual salary of $174,000, even as she recently announced she is undergoing a costly…
Police are hunting for 16 additional suspects after a mob of alleged looters struck an East Los Angeles AutoZone twice in a 24-hour period. The second break-in occurred around 3:30 a.m. On Aug. 9 at the store on South Atlantic…
Netflix filed court documents Friday seeking dismissal of Tyra Banks’ defamation lawsuit over the “America’s Next Top Model” documentary. The streaming giant submitted its motion to a California federal judge to throw out claims brought by Banks, 52, in June…
Pink’s Hot Dogs is opening its first Japan location in Tokyo by year’s end. The iconic Los Angeles hot dog stand, a Hollywood fixture since 1939, announced it will launch its Japanese flagship through a partnership with Sunpark, a franchise…
Newly released bodycam footage shows a bloodied Marine pilot calmly telling a 911 dispatcher “Hey, buddy, I just crashed” moments after ejecting from a fighter jet in Washington state. The video, released by the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office, captures the…
SpaceX is set to blast off a Falcon 9 rocket from California Saturday night on a secretive military mission. The rocket is scheduled to launch at 6:50 p.m. From Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, according to the company’s announcement.…
A registered sex offender was arrested after allegedly trapping residents inside a Santa Rosa home during a terrifying break-in. Edward Carver, 36, was taken into custody Friday night after Santa Rosa police said he forced his way into a residence…
Riley Roberts, 38, was spotted for the first time since news of his split from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke, taking their shared French bulldog Deco for a solo walk outside the Queens apartment they once shared. Roberts emerged from the…
Kaia Gerber, 24, revealed she underwent a secret exorcism after her mother Cindy Crawford told her she was possessed as a child. The model and actress dropped the bombshell during her appearance on the “Mitch Churi Chat Show” episode released…
Deijae Devon Jester, the convicted killer of rapper Pop Smoke, has been sentenced to four additional years in county jail for smuggling fentanyl inside a Los Angeles juvenile detention facility. Jester, 21, of Sylmar, received the sentence on Aug. 13…
A Canadian mother has gone viral after tattooing a working keyboard on her forearm so her nonverbal autistic son could always communicate with her. Jessica Fletcher, a mother in Canada, made headlines this month when she revealed the permanent ink…
State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has sparked outrage after declaring that shoplifters have a right to steal basic necessities from drugstores because of their “biological need.” Gallagher, who represents Greenpoint and other sections of northern Brooklyn, made the remarks at a…