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A Pakistani influencer and a private farm owner have been arrested after a 19-year-old assistant was fatally mauled during a TikTok video shoot with a captive big cat. Noman Hassan, a social media figure with millions of followers across TikTok…
Samantha Rensvold, 19, has spoken out about the surreal moment she realized the opposing player she was pitching against was the biological sister she had never met. The Washington teenager was competing in a Montana softball tournament last year when…
Kristin Sargent told first responders she had not been harmed by anyone after her eight-story plunge from a Georgia dormitory. Sargent, 21, spoke to EMTs from her hospital bed in the bodycam footage obtained from Athens-Clarke County Police, delivering a…
Cruise workers have lifted the lid on the covert vocabulary that keeps ship operations hidden from vacationers’ ears. Brent Underwood, a YouTuber who has spent time documenting hidden worlds, would appreciate the layers of secrecy here. Cody Candee, CEO of…
Elexis Robinson’s mother is speaking out about the devastating brain injury her daughter suffered during a reckless parking lot stunt. Tricha Linares, the mother of the 17-year-old Washington high school senior, has shared harrowing details of the Nov. 3 incident…
Rockers turned a grounded Southwest flight into an airborne concert when a nationwide FAA halt stranded Warped Tour bands on the tarmac at LAX. Simple Plan frontman Pierre Bouvier, 45, Hoobastank’s Doug Robb, 47, and The Used’s Bert McCracken, 43,…
Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO and board member of Nvidia, the chipmaking giant he co-founded in 1993. Huang, 63, stepped down Thursday as photos surfaced showing him embracing Alice Huang, 49, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. The…
Anthony Albanese’s private joke with a cabinet colleague was caught on camera at a climate summit in Türkiye. The Australian prime minister, 63, was filmed during a break at the COP31 conference in Antalya last Friday chatting with Climate Change…
Eleanor “Ellie” Hamby and Dr. Sandra “Sandy” Hazelip, two 85-year-old best friends from Texas, have explained why they started exploring the world together after both suffered the loss of their husbands. The pair, now known online as the “Traveling Nanas,”…
Chris Orsi and Sarah Haruko are publicly challenging a $293 automated bus-lane ticket they received after their dashcam captured footage the city’s camera missed. Watch on TikTok The couple, who live in Los Angeles, told FOX 11 they were driving…
Divine Brown is now wanted by police after she skipped a court date in Georgia last week. Brown, 56, whose legal name is Estella Marie Thompson, was ordered to appear before DeKalb Superior Court Judge Desiree S. Peagler for a…
Criminologist David Wilson has broken down what actually drives people to commit murder after interviewing hundreds of killers throughout his career. Wilson, a professor of criminology who has sat down with “hundreds of murderers,” laid out his findings in an…
Russell Brand and Sean “Diddy” Combs are both behind bars, but a 2009 YouTube video has put their old “straight guy date” back in the spotlight. The clip, pulled from Brand’s since-defunct YouTube channel, shows the “Get Him to the…
A researcher who analyzed decades of mortality and accident data says fear itself may be the real danger on Friday the 13th, not the date. Ilya Nikitin, an independent researcher and founder of the Null Institute, examined multiple scientific studies…
An Indian man died after a neighbor handed him an explosive disguised as a sweet dumpling that detonated the moment he bit into it. Rajendra Barautiya, 35, had just finished dinner with his family and was sitting by a bonfire…
A Virginia animal shelter has banked more than $290,000 from merchandise featuring a raccoon that broke into a liquor store and passed out drunk in the bathroom. The windfall for Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter came after the masked…