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A spatula-wielding customer is being praised as a hero after leaping through a drive-thru window to stop a woman terrorizing staff at a California In-N-Out Burger. The confrontation unfolded last week at the Lake Elsinore location in Southern California, where…
Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu, clinical advisor at The College of Optometrists, has issued an urgent warning to men participating in a viral social media trend of shaving off their eyelashes in pursuit of a more masculine appearance. The trend gained traction…
A rifle-wielding man who allegedly fired more than 200 rounds during a neighborhood standoff is being held without bail after a SWAT team pinned his getaway tractor with an armored vehicle. Erik Gordon Shunn, 53, was arraigned Monday in Clackamas…
Jiang Xueqin has laid out five grim forecasts for 2027 in a new podcast appearance. The Chinese-Canadian educator and presenter, who has been dubbed “China’s Nostradamus” after past political predictions, shared his outlook on the Jack Neal podcast as the…
Irvine police are asking the public to help identify a man who allegedly attacked a golfer with his own club at a local course last month. The suspect remains at large more than two weeks after the Aug. 29 assault…
White supremacist fighter Paul Miller flashed a Nazi salute to the crowd after defeating Jewish opponent Ben Azoulay at a kickboxing event in Orlando, prompting condemnation from city officials and Jewish community leaders. Miller, a convicted felon known online as…
A California doctor pulled out his cello and played a private bedside concert for a nervous Army veteran the day before the man faced double-leg amputation surgery. Leon Allan Loyd was at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in…
Scientists have identified unique genetic variants in South Korean sea women that may explain how they withstand hours of frigid, breath-hold diving. The haenyeo of Jeju Island, some of whom continue diving into their 80s, carry DNA changes found in…
A hiker who stayed on the marked path at Glacier National Park grabbed a rock to defend himself after two off-trail tourists threatened to assault him during a heated confrontation over a mountain goat herd. The clash erupted in August…
Rachael Stirling has revealed she consumes a small portion of her late mother’s ashes before every opening night. Stirling, 49, disclosed the ritual in her new memoir All About My Mother, a book that examines her relationship with Diana Rigg,…
Samantha Adams, 39, has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly drugging a man she met on a dating app. The Florida woman, whom Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd dubbed the “Black Widow,” is accused of spiking a 69-year-old man’s…
Burning Man’s Orgy Dome is back in business this week after a windstorm left it in ruins last year, organizers confirmed as the festival opened in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The 6,000-square-foot camp, known formally as And Then There’s Only…
Marc Cheshire, 70, has spent decades in the rare documents trade, but his own life story just landed in a museum. His Polaroid portrait now hangs in the Whitney Museum of Art as part of Andy Warhol’s “Family Album,” a…
A brazen thief sucked more than $2,500 worth of gasoline straight from underground storage tanks at a Fresno filling station, and police are now hunting for the suspect after surveillance cameras captured the entire operation. The theft unfolded on Aug.…
A 90-year-old woman was hospitalized in stable condition after a stranger threw a trash-filled baby crib at her on a Brooklyn sidewalk Monday morning, according to police. The attack unfolded around 9:45 a.m. On Brighton Beach Avenue near Brighton 5th…
Three amateur hikers from Roseville have admitted they “relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking” after a Google Gemini-planned ascent of Mount Shasta left them trapped overnight at roughly 11,000 feet with one man injured and…