Sean Gallup/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — When a California college student created an event to meet aliens at Area 51, he had no idea he was setting the groundwork to entertain millions of earthlings. Matty Roberts created the Facebook event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” on June 27 as a joke, never imagining that it would blow up into a viral event with 1.8 million people registered as attend on Sept. 20 and another 1.3 million interested. With the unexpected tidal wave of interest, Roberts is taking…
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Missing 2-year-old Minnesota boy drove himself to county fair on toy tractor
Kris Allen(NEW YORK) — A 2-year-old Minnesota boy who was reported missing was quickly found at a county fair — after making the trek in on his toy tractor, his family said Saturday. Little Kenneth was riding around in his yard on his John Deere tractor Thursday night when he remembered that the Chisago County Fair was just a mere two blocks away, his mom, Lynn Allen, told ABC News. Allen had promised him earlier in the week he’d get to go with his grandfather. Kenneth, though, took matters into…
Kathy Zhu, Miss Michigan 2019, stripped of her title over 'offensive' social media posts
iStock/JadeThaiCatwalk(NEW YORK) — A Michigan beauty queen was stripped of her title over comments she made on social media about Muslim women and black people, she said. Executives with Miss World America told Kathy Zhu, the Miss Michigan 2019 winner, that her “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate” posts on social media were in violation of the organization’s rules and conditions, according to email screenshots posted by Zhu on Thursday. “Therefore, and effective immediately, MWA does not recognize you as a participant of any sort or in any capacity as it relates…
Dangerous heat wave scorches millions in Midwest, East Coast
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Several heat index readings came close to setting records across the eastern half of the U.S. on Friday, with the hottest temperatures still yet to come on the East Coast. Des Moines, Iowa, saw a heat index reading — the “feels like” temperature due to the high humidity — of 119 degrees, just 3 degrees away from a record. The heat index was 115 degrees in Minneapolis with a dew point of 80, the highest recorded in eight years. The temperature was 93 in Chicago, with…