A photo of a couple in Iran kissing in the streets has gone viral as a unique and beautiful act of defiance at a time when the government increases its crackdown on nationwide protests.  The photo depicts a man and woman kissing in the street, surrounded by cars. Their faces …

An historic bust of President Abraham Lincoln is back on Cornell University’s campus after it was abruptly removed earlier this year.  “I believe that this is the uncanceling of the cancel culture. The uncanceling of Lincoln is a real win against cancel culture that has taken over the universities,” Randy …

North Korea fired a ballistic missile Thursday that landed in waters just east of the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean government. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the launch of the short-range ballistic missile from the North’s eastern coastal Wonsan area at 10:48 a.m., just hours after …

NEW YORK, New York – Musician Winston Marshall says he has no regrets leaving the folk rock band Mumford & Sons and the exhilarating experiences that came with it in order to speak more freely about taboo topics. Back on the road after two years since before the COVID-19 pandemic, …

Kayla Montgomery, the stepmother of a New Hampshire girl who is presumed dead after vanishing years ago, has agreed to plead guilty to unrelated charges and agreed to work with prosecutors who have charged her husband, the child’s father, for her murder, court papers show. Court papers filed in New …

After comedian and classic car collector Jay Leno suffered from “serious burns” Saturday in a gasoline fire while working on one of his vehicles, the 72-year-old underwent hyperbaric treatment.  The talk show host was seen in a hyperbaric chamber, which Leno’s doctor, Peter Grossman, explained is supposed to decrease swelling, …

A robbery suspect is wanted in Philadelphia after pointing a gun at a McDonald’s worker and yanking a cash register through the restaurant’s drive-thru window earlier this month, authorities said. The incident happened just before 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 4 at a McDonald’s on 4163 Whitaker Avenue in North Philadelphia, …

The family of Sam Bankman-Fried, the beleaguered founder of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has significant ties to the Democratic establishment in Washington, D.C. The FTX CEO’s family — consisting of his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, and brother Gabe Bankman-Fried — has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars …

President Biden Thursday disputed comments made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who remains confident that the “explosion” that killed two in Poland did not come from a Ukrainian missile.  “That’s not the evidence,” Biden told reporters from the South Lawn after arriving in Washington shortly after 12:30 a.m. Zelenskyy on …

A Dutch court on Thursday found that a Russian missile was responsible for the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that was shot down in 2014 over eastern Ukraine that killed nearly 300 people.  “The court is of the opinion that MH17 was brought down by the firing of a BUK missile …