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Marco Rubio opened up about UFOs, his neighbor’s cat, and his junk food habits on Katie Miller’s podcast. Rubio, 53, who serves as both Secretary of State and national security adviser, sat down with Miller for a wide-ranging interview alongside…
A city parks employee was arrested after allegedly handing a lighter to a 10-year-old girl who used it to ignite an illegal firecracker. Joshua Moe, 24, was inside General Douglas MacArthur Park on Jefferson Street in Dongan Hills, Staten Island,…
A former Christ Hospital employee was convicted and sentenced Monday morning for pandering child pornography, with Judge Wende Cross sentencing 32-year-old Benjamin Naylor to seven to nine-and-a-half years in prison. Naylor pleaded guilty to eight counts of pandering sexually oriented…
A body language expert says Luigi Mangione’s recent courtroom smile reveals signs of composure and engagement with his legal team. Luigi Mangione, 28, attended a pre-trial appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court on August 11, in New York City, where he…
Netflix’s three-part documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes premiered on August 12, shining fresh light on how convicted cult leader Charles Manson used Dale Carnegie training to transform from “a low-level pimp” to the “frighteningly effective sociopath”…
Influencer Damon Darling, who has amassed over 10 million followers, was removed from a Walmart store in Ohio on August 7 while filming a segment where he pays for random customers’ groceries. Watch on TikTok Darling, 39, from Urbana, Ohio,…
Jayme Leagh Franklin, the political commentator who became the focus of a viral conspiracy theory about Donald Trump, has now given a blunt response to the claim that she was secretly waking him up with a hidden device. Franklin was…
More than four decades after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. Has publicly expressed regret for the pain his obsession caused the actor. In a recent appearance on The…
If you find yourself typing “congratulations” under a couple’s engagement photos on social media, you might want to think again, according to a Washington, D.C.-based etiquette expert who argues that the common phrase carries problematic implications many people have never…
NASA assured the world that Earth will not lose gravity on Aug. 12, dismissing viral conspiracy theories that claimed the planet would experience a gravitational anomaly this week. View this post on Instagram Earth’s gravity, or total gravitational force, is…
A lawsuit alleges that contaminated raw oysters left a retired Marine and firefighter with severe brain damage after a family meal. Joe Belgio, 44, has remained hospitalized for more than a year after becoming critically ill following a June 30,…
Harry Potter devotees were furious after discovering that a £430 million project, worth more than $580 million, had originally been set to cross the spot marked as Dobby’s resting place. The 190-kilometer Greenlink power connection was planned to link Ireland’s…
A Florida woman is accused of deceiving hundreds of people in her community into believing she was battling cancer, with investigators alleging the story was fabricated in order to collect donations. Maribeth Ellen Jones, 51, of Bonita Springs, was arrested…
With 2026 now past its midpoint, supporters of Baba Vanga say two of the mystic’s unsettling predictions have already begun to play out. The question is what could come next. This year has already been marked by major upheaval, including…
K-pop influencer Mina Chan, a 26-year-old Japanese social media personality, died by suicide on August 5 while livestreaming from her Seoul apartment, according to South Korean authorities. The incident marks a tragic chapter in ongoing conversations about online harassment within…
A travel influencer’s nightmare unfurled at a budget hotel in Cambridge, England, when what she thought would be a relaxing overnight stay turned into a weeks-long ordeal covered in bleeding bed bug bites. Hannah Stephenson, a 31-year-old content creator from…