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A record 43% of Americans now view socialism positively, the highest level Gallup has recorded since it began tracking the trend in 2010. The figure, released Wednesday in the polling firm’s latest survey, marks the first time positive sentiment toward…
Two elderly Cuban nationals are being held in a Miami jail on armed drug-trafficking charges after an undercover sting operation uncovered cocaine, marijuana, stolen firearms and thousands in cash at their shared residence. Cesar Valdes, 89, and Magdaleno Medina, 73,…
KFC is betting its future on a single Texas storefront. The chain’s new Open House location in McKinney, Texas, opened last week as a live experiment in how the 75-year-old brand founded by Colonel Harland Sanders can modernize without losing…
Charlotte D’Alessio has posted a second public tribute to her late ex-boyfriend Presley Gerber. The Canadian model, 27, shared a carousel of photos and videos on Instagram on Friday showing her and Gerber together during their relationship. The post included…
Ukraine’s Third Army Corps has revealed a secret robot mission that killed 3,000 Russian troops and recaptured territory in Donetsk. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the Third Army Corps, announced last Thursday on Telegram that his unit had completed “Operation…
Pope Leo XIV addressed an estimated 800,000 faithful at an open-air Mass in central Paris on Saturday, urging the crowd to turn to faith for fulfillment. The American-born pontiff, 71, whose birth name is Robert Francis Prevost, delivered the liturgy…
Nithya Raman voiced support for President Donald Trump’s proposed federal film tax credit during a podcast interview this week. The Los Angeles mayoral candidate, a city councilmember, told Breaking Points she would back the nationwide incentive for film and television…
Peter Grubb is speaking out after his mother and two young children drowned when their car sank into a Maine pond while driving back from his wedding. The grieving father, whose nuptials turned to horror last Saturday night, told Portland…
A Riverside mother has been arrested more than 16 months after her newborn was found abandoned in the rain beside a dumpster. Astrid Nohemi Lopez Ramos, 26, was taken into custody Thursday at her Riverside home and booked into the…
Christa Pike’s legal team is pressing forward with emergency appeals after Tennessee’s highest court refused to halt her execution. Pike, now 49, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 30 for the 1995 murder of fellow Job Corps…
Caleb Flynn’s two daughters asked why their father did not love their mother as much as she loved him after learning of his alleged affair, their aunt testified in court. Kayla Keyt, the sister of slain wife Ashley Flynn, 37,…
Robin Westgate says standing his ground against a charging black bear taught him he can trust himself under pressure. The 12-year-old from Bellingham, Washington, was stepping outside his family’s Whatcom County home the evening of September 13 to grab a…
Christa Pike, 50, has broken her long silence through prison letters that trace her emotional collapse and unlikely romance with a New York pen pal. Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, wrote to a man known only as…
The University of Arizona has suspended Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity after pledges were allegedly forced to swallow live goldfish and consume excessive alcohol during an initiation ritual. University president Suresh Garimella issued a disciplinary letter to the fraternity on Friday…
Scientists estimate a worst-case Yellowstone super-eruption could eventually kill up to 1.3 billion people through famine, disease and collapsed infrastructure, according to a detailed hypothetical timeline published by disaster and volcano experts. The scenario, published in The Conversation, was developed…
A Bronx man has sued a Manhattan men’s clinic and its doctor after penile enhancement treatments left him in chronic pain and unable to function sexually, according to a lawsuit filed last week. The 31-year-old plaintiff, whose name was withheld…