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Apple has quietly removed a promotional image for its new iPad mini in South Korea after the hand gesture featured in it sparked an unexpected controversy. The image showed a hand gripping the ultra-thin tablet between the thumb and index…

Los Angeles International Airport has been ranked the most reliable major airport in the United States. The ConsumerAffairs report, released this month, placed LAX ahead of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport using Federal Aviation Administration and…

Two pilots reported a close encounter with a pill-shaped object while flying over Ohio last month, and investigators still have no explanation for what they saw. The incident occurred on August 16 when the crew, operating a private jet at…

A North Carolina laundromat owner is confirming that a wild deer crash caught on camera was no digital hoax. Corey Pendergrass, who runs Wishy Washy Laundry in Winston-Salem, said an employee called him immediately after the buck burst through the…

Joey Tuccio is warning every Los Angeles council member that advocates are “coming for all of you” after a freeway encampment crackdown yielded dozens of arrests and the rescue of abused animals. Tuccio, a longtime animal advocate, spent a week…

A Michigan grocery worker known only as Walt Z has sent a heartfelt thank you after strangers donated more than $250,000 to a fundraiser launched in his name. Walt Z, a father of four from Michigan, was stocking a freezer…

A drone operator who has spent two years scanning California waters for sharks captured the clearest footage of his life Wednesday morning when a nearly ten-foot great white glided directly beneath unsuspecting surfers in San Luis Obispo County. Dave, the…

New York has been crowned the most haunted state in America, according to a new survey tracking paranormal encounters. Casino.ca, the gambling comparison site that compiled the data, found that New York has logged 160,198 reported ghost sightings over the…

Thomas Markle Sr.’s digital devices are set to be examined by police in the Philippines as the investigation into alleged child pornography possession moves forward. Cebu police obtained a search warrant for the 82-year-old’s electronics, reports said Thursday. The development…

A woman in a black veil was escorted from a Florida county commission meeting after refusing to stop playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer during public comment. The confrontation unfolded Tuesday at the Pinellas County Board of…

Jennifer Lawrence’s husband issued a hotel ultimatum after a prototype hair mask left her reeking of fish. Lawrence, 36, revealed the marital standoff during a recent interview with The Cut tied to the launch of her new beauty and haircare…

A mother in Brazil is mourning the death of her son after he was pulled into an industrial ice crusher at a sausage factory where he was covering another worker’s early shift. Diego Fernando Gonzaga, 39, had taken the 5:30…

Elon Musk’s Grok AI has finally solved a sitcom puzzle that has nagged viewers for over a decade. The xAI chatbot, 53, took apart the finances of Penny, the aspiring-actress-turned-waitress played by Kaley Cuoco on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory,”…

Christa Pike, 50, regained consciousness on Oct. 6 after becoming the first prisoner in the United States to survive a lethal injection attempt. Pike had been scheduled for execution on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, where…

A Morton Salt mine deep beneath Lake Erie has been shut down after a sudden flood of water poured into the underground operation. The mine, located in Painesville Township, Ohio, sits roughly 2,000 feet below the lakebed, separated from the…

Ugandan authorities have arrested a man accused of killing and eating 38 people during a 15-year spree of violence. Mujurizi Moses, described by the country’s defense chief as the “worst serial killer and cannibal in Uganda’s history,” was taken into…