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Adilson Marsaro, 48, died after falling into his father’s grave during a friend’s funeral service in Brazil. The fatal accident occurred Wednesday at the São José Municipal Cemetery in Linhares, a city in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. Marsaro had been…
Arizona mom Sydney Ostrander says she is willing to prosecute after a thief made off with her family’s Halloween display, including a skeleton dog beloved by her children. The Ostrander family discovered the theft on Oct. 21 after a chaotic…
Katy Perry has addressed the long-running conspiracy theory that claims she is actually murdered child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. The “Firework” singer, who turned 42 on Saturday, responded to a social media post last March that promoted the bizarre theory…
An Oregon family has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Tigard-Tualatin School District after their son was poisoned by oven-cleaner-laced pretzels served during a middle-school lunch break. The complaint, filed over the October 2025 incident at Fowler Middle School…
Classic names that dominated playgrounds for decades are now teetering on the edge of disappearance, according to fresh UK data. Giles sits in second place after plummeting 93 percent from its 1997 peak. Karen ranks third despite suffering the steepest…
A retired Secret Service polygraph examiner with 25 years in the agency has boiled lie detection down to a five-letter acronym anyone can use. Brad Beeler, who is said to have conducted more criminal polygraph examinations than any other Secret…
Longyearbyen, Norway, has forbidden burials since the 1950s, making it one of roughly a dozen jurisdictions worldwide where local law or custom effectively bans death itself. The Arctic settlement, the world’s northernmost town with a permanent population, enacted the prohibition…
Barack Obama, 63, roasted Donald Trump’s White House renovations during a Saturday campaign stop in Ohio, but the dig drew immediate fire over his own controversial presidential center in Chicago. The former president accused Trump of prioritizing interior design over…
Mason Ramsey, 19, has opened up about losing his label, agency and manager in a candid social media return after wiping his accounts. The singer, who became a global sensation at age 11 for yodeling “Lovesick Blues” in an Illinois…
If your last name is Drumpf or MacLeod, you might share bloodlines with the 47th president. Donald Trump, 78, carries ancestral roots in both Germany and Scotland, and two surnames beyond his own have surfaced as possible indicators of distant…
Three intimacy experts have broken down the psychology behind objectum sexuality, a phenomenon in which people experience romantic, emotional or sexual attraction toward inanimate objects. Sofie Roos, a licensed sexologist and relationship therapist who contributes to Swedish relationship magazine Passionerad,…
Daniel Jackson, the 21-year-old president of the self-declared Free Republic of Verdis, accepted a humanitarian award at a United Nations gala in New York. Jackson, who was born in Dover, Kent, and identifies as both British and Australian, traveled to…
A massive fire tore through the world’s largest Quaker Oats milling facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday after an apparent explosion inside the building. The blaze erupted at the plant around 4:45 p.m. Local time, sending plumes of heavy…
Royal Caribbean passengers bound for the Bahamas woke up to a Canadian surprise. The cruise line diverted its massive Oasis of the Seas to Halifax, Nova Scotia, last weekend after stormy weather made the original tropical route impossible. The ship…
NFL WAGS and players soaked up Paris ahead of Sunday’s historic game despite citywide unrest. The Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints are set to face off at Stade de France in the first NFL game ever played in the…
A retired Salvadoran soccer player now working as a dentist was arrested Wednesday after a neighbor filmed him dangling his pet pug from a fifth-floor balcony in San Salvador. Héctor Rosales, 64, faces two to four years in prison on…