Rio police are using costumes at Carnival to blend into street crowds and catch cellphone thieves. On Friday, Carnival kicked ...

The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.

Not in recent U.S. memory has an American policing operation so consistently masked its thousands of officers from the public ...

HOUSTON ( CW39 ) — A Houston ISD student has been in ICE custody for more than 40 days, a spokesperson said. Mauro Henriquez-Sanchez, a student at Sam Houston High School, was taken into custody on ...

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A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

LED face masks have gone from dermatologist-only devices to one of the most viral beauty tools on the internet. Every time I open TikTok, someone is wearing a glowing robot helmet claiming it erased ...

Face masks can help to reduce transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza, according to experts and medical evidence, but their effectiveness depends on the type of mask used. Social media ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...