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A Taiwanese university student was hoping to pocket over NT$41 million (S$1.7 million) in insurance payout by claiming that he lost his feet to frostbite. But his frosty fraud has instead landed him in hot water, after investigators found out he had soaked his feet in dry ice for over 10 hours in order to feign frostbite severe enough to warrant a double amputation. Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau said the student, surnamed Chang, conspired with his former high school classmate, surnamed Liao, to orchestrate the fraud, reported Taiwan News.

A math tutor has raked in over a million views on Pornhub by teaching calculus in a hoodie.Among the trove of wild roleplay and bizarre COVID porn, a bespectacled man clad in a thick gray hoodie is an unlikely hit on Pornhub. Scribbling mathematical equations on a chalkboard and explaining them in utmost seriousness, the unassuming tutor has carved a niche for himself in a corner of one of the world’s largest porn sites without being even remotely sexual. This isn’t some next-level take on professor roleplay or the nerdy side of Rule 34. No, we’ve just stumbled upon a...

Pornhub has begun blocking visitors from Texas, where the authorities are attempting to enforce a new law requiring web porn platforms to check viewer ages. The company called the law "ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous." Since Pornhub pulled out, Texans have greatly increased Google searches for tools to mask the geographic location of their devices. We've been here before—with age-check laws, attempts to get around them, and porn platforms cutting off access. In fact, Texas is the seventh state that adult content platforms run by the Canadian company Aylo (formerly MindGeek) have left over age verification requirements. As a result, residents...

A Barrow County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of stabbing and killing his girlfriend. Ralph Junior Butler, 59 of Winder, was accused of the murder of Yoland Hammond, 50, in August 2023. The jury deliberated for just 30 minutes before finding him guilty of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and criminal trespass. Prosecutors say Butler hit another man and bashed his car window with a golf club and broke it. Moments later, he stabbed Hammond several times with the broken club. Butler claimed...

Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced Friday that a man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he allegedly attacked a prostitute with a machete back in April 2023. Felipe Saavedra, 38, of Salinas, was found guilty of one count of forcible rape and one count of assault with a deadly weapon with an enhancement for causing great bodily injury. The now-convicted rapist will have to also register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, said Pacioni. Salinas Police told KSBW at the time of the initial arrest that the victim and her attacker...

NYPD detectives are urgently seeking a female subway passenger filmed stabbing a gunman during a train brawl, shortly before he was shot with his own weapon. The woman, who has not been identified, was seen stabbing the unnamed victim, 36, in the back several times as he fought with another male passenger aged 32. 'You stabbed me? You stabbed me?' the shooting victim said to the woman repeatedly, as she responds: 'I didn't do nothing' while blood seeped from his shirt. Terrified commuters scrambled to escape the melee, which appeared to be initiated by the shooting victim, dressed all in...

Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers more commonly associated with the elderly. Between 1990 and 2019, cases of cancer in young people across the globe have increased by 79 percent and deaths have risen 28 percent. Studies project diagnoses will continue to rise by 31 percent and deaths will rise by 21 percent in 2030. Nearly every continent is experiencing an increase of various types of cancer in people under 50 years old, which is particularly problematic as the disease tends to be caught in later stages...

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A deadly laser weapon which can blow up drones and hypersonic nuclear missiles at the speed of light has been revealed to the public in newly declassified footage. The video shows Britain achieving its first high-power firing of the Dragonfire laser weapon, as it successfully destroyed a drone in the sky using the system's death ray. In these secret trials at the Military of Defence's Hebrides Range, the weapon proved so accurate it could hit a £1 coin half a mile away, with each 'shot' said to cost around £10. Its full range remains classified, but the invisible 50kW beam...

We've been pressured into pretending everyone is beautiful, except for those who actually areAre Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke? This is what the public is asking, at least those on social media, after the Euphoria actress garnered a particularly large audience as host of Saturday Night Live (SNL) last week. Sweeney is obviously a conventionally attractive young woman; and if you don’t personally admire her beauty, we can certainly all agree that she’s got a voluminous appeal. Sweeney knows this and runs with it, playfully owning her sex appeal with zero apologies. On SNL, she...

SNIP As Gaines recalled the NCAA championships on the "Joe Rogan Experience," the podcast host asked whether Thomas "has sex with girl "At the time, again, this is what I know based off what his teammates have told me and what’s really been public knowledge based off what they post and different things," Gaines said. "At the time of the national championships, he was still dating women and active with women. "But now, again, based off of social media, he is engaged to another man who claims to be a woman. So two men, but they call themselves lesbians."

Porn star Emily Willis is “fighting for her life” in a “vegetative coma” after being found unresponsive at a rehab facility in Malibu, where she was being treated for addiction, according to her family. The 25-year-old adult film actress, real name Litzy Lara Banulos, had been at the celebrity rehab center for eight days when she suffered cardiac arrest on Feb. 5, her stepdad, Michael Willis, told TMZ. Willis — who boasts over 2 million followers on Instagram — was rushed to a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California, where she remains in a coma and on a ventilator. SNIP In...

Five Europeans have died in an avian chlamydia outbreak that has spooked health chiefs. World Health Organization (WHO) officials issued an urgent alert over an 'unusual' rise in humans getting psittacosis in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Sweden. The flu-like illness, nicknamed parrot fever, is caused by a type of chlamydia rife in birds. It is different to the strain responsible for the human STI, and is not spread sexually. Psittacosis typically triggers mild symptoms like headaches and a cough. Yet it can lead to severe pneumonia and meningitis in severe cases. Surveillance data shows rates of psittacosis, sometimes...

A woman accused of executing her younger boyfriend and then chopping off his arms and legs almost seven years ago may be mentally unfit to stand trial. Nelci Tetley, 74, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the gruesome 2017 death of 55-year-old Jeffrey Albertsman, but will most likely be committed to a mental health facility after multiple experts testified she couldn’t be restored to mental competency, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on Monday. Tetley was arrested in 2018 and has been jailed since. She’s accused of shooting her beau in the head and dismembering his body —...

The 92-year-old revealed on "The View" that many women in show business were rude to her in her "little Puerto Rican past."Rita Moreno just let loose at The View's Hot Topics table. The 92-year-old Hollywood icon joined the talk show on Monday to promote her role in the new comedy filmThe Prank, in which she plays a mean-spirited professor falsely accused of murder, and revealed that she channeled the prickly dispositions of select peers to prepare for the role. "I just thought, how am I going to play this terrible person? And I thought of all the women in my...

At The Clearwater School north of Bothell, the voices of students and staff are equal. One person, one vote — whether it’s a 5-year-old or the school’s founder, Stephanie Sarantos. The Daily Herald put the school’s direct democracy model into action recently. Before a reporter could come to Clearwater, students debated whether to allow the visit. Clearwater, founded in 1996, is part of a loose network of about 45 schools following the Sudbury model of direct democracy and student-controlled learning. It’s the only accredited school in the state using the model. This year, the state Department of Commerce approved a...

No report was filed with the Los Angeles Police Department.A naked woman armed with a medieval-looking bat got into a fight with another woman on the boardwalk at Venice Beach, California, as onlookers watched and recorded the bizarre altercation. Video obtained by NBC Los Angeles shows the two women – one of them in the nude – swinging at each other with what appeared to be a spiked club and a bat. The shocking incident, which occurred in broad daylight on Monday, wasn't out of the ordinary for locals who say many in the community suffer from mental health issues....

Tyler Boebert "supposedly made a sex tape" with a fellow suspect who was a female minor, according to an affidavit following his arrest. Boebert, the adult son of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, was arrested on February 27 by the Rifle Police Department. He is charged on 22 counts, which include vehicle tresspass, property thefts and criminal possession of ID documents. None of the charges relate to the purported sex tape, which was alluded to by another minor police quoted in the affidavit. The same minor said the tape was sent around to people they knew...

People have described being sick for weeks on end with high fevers, nausea, trouble breathing, loss of sense of smell, and fatigue. But health experts say the virus is less mysterious than it is painted online. There are viruses circulating at all times of year, and this ‘mystery virus’ is likely one of the common seasonal illnesses that were suppressed during the Covid pandemic. There is thought to be a two-pronged effect at play. People are hypersensitive to their own health after the pandemic, and our immune systems were weakened due to things like lockdowns and working from home, when...

Thomas Kingston, the husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, has died suddenly aged 45, Buckingham Palace has announced. Mr Kingston, who married the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent in 2019, was found dead at an address in Gloucestershire on Sunday evening and emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 6pm. Lady Gabriella paid tribute to her financier husband in a joint statement with his family, describing him as an 'exceptional man who lit up the lives of all who knew him'. His tragic death was described as a 'great shock to the whole family'. An inquest...