Drivers along a Nevada interstate highway near Las Vegas this weekend were greeted with an unexpected sight: a 13-metre-tall, naked statue of former U.S. president Donald Trump. The 6,000-pound sculpture, which was held upright by a crane on an industrial estate, caused offence among the state’s Republicans, who have branded the effigy “deplorable.”The statue, titled
Grim details continue to emerge as part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s ongoing hearing into the doomed Titan submersible, with an engineer with the National Transportation Safety board revealing Wednesday that the sub had imperfections on its carbon fibre hull, dating back to the manufacturing process. Engineer Don Kramer said there wrinkles, porosity and voids
A Hong Kong-based airline has banned two passengers from ever flying with them again, after a fight broke out over a reclined seat and descended into xenophobic insults and harassment. The incident occurred last week aboard a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to London, England, on Sept. 17. A female passenger named Iris, from
A little boy who was kidnapped by a stranger has been found safe and sound — more than 70 years after his abduction. Luis Armando Albino was just six when he was lured from a California park in 1951 by a woman who promised to buy him candy at a nearby store. He had been
Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey in the key battleground state of Michigan Thursday for a “virtual rally” that saw a slate of A-list Hollywood stars join a live discussion via video chat to discuss issues in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Winfrey hosted the Unite for America event, with activist group Win with
A teenager whose feet are so big it caused shoe companies to step up and offer him custom-made shoes now has not one, but two world records to his name. Eric Kilburn Jr., 16, of Michigan, made headlines last year when shoe companies caught wind of his plight to find shoes to fit his size
The family of trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince is mourning two tragedies after the Boston Ballet soloist and her adoptive mother died just one day apart. DePrince was born in Sierra Leone, and was adopted by her U.S. mother Elaine in 1999 after she lost both her parents at age three in the country’s civil
Some of the last words from the crew aboard the doomed Titan submersible were revealed in a hearing Monday, presented by the U.S. Coast Guard alongside a re-creation of the journey aboard the fated experimental vessel. The hearing, expected to last two weeks, will examine the causes of the June 2023 implosion that instantly killed
Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who posted last year that 9/11 was an “inside job,” has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in the past week after she’s been spotted cozying up to Donald Trump’s campaign team and appearing by the Republican presidential nominee’s side at various events. Last week, she shared videos of attending
Pope Francis said that American voters face the choice between “the lesser evil” in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, taking aim at both Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump, and emphasizing that he believes both are running for president on anti-life policies. “Both are against life, be it the one who kicks