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Americans in Washington, D.C. weighed on major liberal outlets' recent decision not to endorse a presidential candidate this election cycle.

Shower chance could end our nearly month-long dry streak late Thursday night into Friday, but it’s not a sure bet.

A newly released report evaluating each state's religious and regulatory freedoms for faith-based nonprofits largely found red states better protected these groups.

With a tight race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the U.S. election could hinge on how voters choose to look at inflation. Here's why.

Four suspects allegedly tied to the kidnapping and murder of their co-conspirator are also linked to Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua according to authorities.

Dr. Jason Singh, a primary care physician based in Virginia, is sharing a sweet suggestion to manage the urge to stress eat.

Not so “flyover” now, is it?

Vice President Kamala Harris came to the Ellipse on Tuesday night to remind Americans to remain vigilant. Democracy isn’t certain.

Why the internet predicted and celebrated the messy breakup of country singer Zach Bryan and Barstool Sports personality Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia.

A new crew of three Chinese astronauts including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station following an early morning launch into orbit.

TikToker Sheldon Shuffield posted a viral video puffing his vape into his Mercedes' HEPA filter, and the car flagged the air as "very unhealthy." The creator and a respiratory health expert comment.

While building a successful career as a fitness guru in the 1990s, Susan Powter was secretly fighting her own battle behind the scenes.

The researchers identified a total of 6,764 structures, hinting at a populous ancient city.

Based on the 74.2 million votes Trump received in 2020, according to the FEC, the sitting president called nearly half of the country’s voters "garbage."

Martha Stewart opened up about her life in the documentary "Martha." Stewart's revelations included being slapped by her father, infidelity in marriage, experiences in prison and a brutal breakup.

People around the world are paying attention to the US elections with an eye toward how a new president may impact conflicts abroad.

New Republican legislation would shut down Temporary Protected Status and use of humanitarian parole to let migrants into the United States.

Politico faced intense backlash on Tuesday for seemingly trying to downplay a quote of President Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage" in a campaign call.

A Jack O'Lantern leers. It’s spooky season, that time of year when people spend lots of time and money deliberately freaking themselves out. It’s a time for watching scary movies or touring through haunted houses or curling up with a bloodcurdling Stephen King novel. This is, for many people, very fun. But why?  Why do some people (myself not included, if I’m being honest) get such a kick from being scared? What is so fun about fear? You could make an evolutionary case for running away from things that scare us — that is, generally, a good way to stay alive — but why do some people then turn around and run toward fear? What are they getting out of it? It’s a question that Mathias Clasen and Marc Andersen have been puzzling over for several years. They’re the co-directors of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark, and along with several colleagues, they’ve been investigating why we seek out fear, and what our penchant for the horrible might teach us about ourselves. “We see it [fear for fun] everywhere,” Clasen says, citing everything from kids enjoying peek-a-boo to teens watching horror movies and adults going on roller coasters. “But at the same time, it’s sort of scientifically understudied or even ignored. So there was something there that mandated serious scientific study. Plus we were having a hell of a lot of fun doing it.” Clasen and Andersen are quick to stress that they’re not the first people to explore this subject. But they see a lot of questions left to answer and explore. On a recent episode of Unexplainable, Vox’s science podcast, they laid out some of the things they’ve learned as they’ve investigated the paradox of fun fear, and what they’d still like to learn.  The haunted house studies  When you imagine the perfect scientific setting, you’re probably not picturing an abandoned fish factory in the middle of the woods. You’re also probably not imagining killer clowns or zombies or people waving chainsaws.  But Clasen and Andersen and their colleagues have run several experiments in exactly this kind of environment — setting up shop at an elaborate haunted house in Denmark called Dystopia.  “It’s a ridiculously chaotic context in which to try to do any kind of controlled, systematic, scientific investigation,” Clasen admits. Someone will be trying to mount a camera for an experiment, he says, “and then some clown — a literal clown actor — will come and throw fake blood on us.” “But in a way, this kind of horror house is much more well calibrated to investigate the kind of phenomena that we are really interested in,” Andersen says.  After all, in a normal lab setting, there’s only so much you can do to scare the bejesus out of people before you start crossing some ethical lines, but if someone shows up at an abandoned fish factory, literally looking to be scared, that is their choice. So this haunted house has helped them glean some pretty key insights into how fear and fun might be connected.  In one study, for example, they asked a bunch of participants to fill out a questionnaire before they went through the house. They hooked them up to a heart rate monitor, filmed them during some of the house’s biggest jump scares, and then surveyed them again right after they’d left the house, all to get a sense of both how scared they’d been, but also how much they had enjoyed themselves.  And they found that the relationship between self-reported fear and self-reported fun in the surveys had a kind of an upside-down U-shape. Essentially, if you’re not very scared at all by a haunted house, it might not be that fun. But if you’re very, very scared, it’s also probably not super enjoyable. You’re looking for a kind of sweet spot between the two extremes.  “You can think of it as sort of the Goldilocks principle of horror,” Andersen says. “There seems to be sort of a middle way where participants report the highest levels of enjoyment.”  This pattern showed up in their heart rate data as well. There, again, the people who enjoyed themselves the most tended to be the people whose hearts were behaving a little differently from their usual, but not enormously so. “It is as if humans dislike being very far from their normal physical state,” Andersen says. “But we seem to like being a little bit out of our comfort zone or a little bit out of our normal state.”  Andersen and Clasen saw a similar U-shaped pattern in other research, too. Some studies on curiosity, for example, also showed that people were especially curious about things if they expected to be moderately surprised.  “They are not really curious about things where they know that they are going to be way off,” Andersen says. “They are typically interested in things that lie a little bit outside of their normal knowledge.”  Eventually, Clasen and Andersen started to hypothesize that maybe, when people sought out a little fun fear, they might be trying to learn through play — or in other words, trying to teach their bodies how to handle fear. “It’s about learning how your, you know, your body reacts, for instance, when, when you become scared,” Andersen says. “We know from other studies in cognitive science that the brain has a tendency of suppressing input that it can predict. If you have tried something several times, then oftentimes that experience feels less intensive. So one of the main hypotheses that we have is that recreational fear exposure allows you to learn about fear and handle it in a sort of more optimal way.”  When the whole world became scary Unfortunately, the Recreational Fear Lab got a great opportunity to explore their hypothesis: the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, horror movies did really well at the box office. In April 2020, Penny Sarchet, now the managing editor at New Scientist, tweeted at Clasen: “I’ve been wondering if people who like apocalyptic/horror movies (which I’ve always hated!) will be more resilient to the trauma of this pandemic. Will you be looking into this?” “What an intriguing idea, Penny!” Clasen replied.  It was so intriguing, in fact, that Clasen and some colleagues wound up running a study to investigate whether people who watched a lot of scary movies exhibited fewer symptoms of psychological distress in those early, scary days of lockdown. They couldn’t go into the field (it was, after all, a global pandemic), but they distributed questionnaires to get a sense of peoples’ personalities, their mental distress symptoms, and their movie preferences and tastes. They found that “fans of horror films exhibited greater resilience during the pandemic and that fans of ‘prepper”’ genres like alien-invasion, apocalyptic, and zombie films exhibited both greater resilience and preparedness.” These are, of course, self-reported results. And as Clasen told me, this finding is correlational, meaning that they can’t say one thing caused another.  “We can’t say, based on this study, that watching a scary movie makes you better at keeping your stress levels down during a pandemic,” he says.  Maybe the kind of person who likes scary movies is just less likely to get stressed out in the first place.  How can we harness our fear? Clasen and Andersen are excited to continue exploring this question. Andersen says they want to do a longitudinal study with randomized control groups to see if exposing people to some kind of recreational fear brings their stress levels down over time. They also want to see if this hypothesis could be applied to help kids who’ve gotten treatment for anxiety disorders.  “We would like to sort of enroll them — if they would like — in sort of a bravery module,” he says, though he stresses that the terminology there might change. Essentially, it would involve “inviting them to the roller coaster theme park, having them enroll in a climbing course, maybe seeing some scary movies.”  The goal is not to freak some anxious kids out, but to create an environment in which they may have a little bit of fun with their fear. He wants to know if that would actually help these kids learn how to deal with anxiety better. Essentially: Could we fight fear with fear? Whatever they learn, they’ve demonstrated that our obsession with horror is about more than some cheap thrills. There’s something fascinating and mysterious at its heart.  “It seems to be the case that stories and fiction are vital instruments for navigating the world for humans,” Clasen says. “Imagination might be our coolest asset. We can use our uniquely evolved imaginations to run through scenarios, to imagine different states of affairs, and to prepare.”

Hundreds of ballots were burned. Authorities say the arson acts in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are linked to a third incident earlier this month.

Gleyber Torres came through with a huge blast late in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night to give the Yankees breathing room.

The Vice President made her final pitch to “turn the page” on Trump—from the same spot he rallied a mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Dear Abby gives advice to a woman who is reconsidering if she wants to marry her boyfriend because he has a much lower sex drive than her.

Besides putting a space station into orbit, the Chinese space agency has landed an explorer on Mars. It aims to put a person on the moon before 2030, which would make China the second nation after the United States to do so.

A Chilean woman plunged to her death in Brazil on Saturday after a skydiving attempt went wrong and both her main and reserve parachutes did not deploy correctly.

Kamala Harris had one job Tuesday night — to separate herself from the last four years of a failed administration and make a persuasive case that the next four years under her leadership would be like night and day. 

Bill Plaschke escribe que el mánager de los Dodgers, Dave Roberts, tomó la decisión correcta al preservar a sus mejores relevistas y sufrir una derrota en el Juego 4 de la Serie Mundial.

A criminal complaint alleges that guards pepper-sprayed Othel Moore Jr., placed a mask over his face and left him in a position that caused him to suffocate.

Mookie Betts' Dodgers teammates thought Yankee fans who grabbed his wrist while trying to pray away a ball were ridiculous, but he brushed them off.

“I started throwing up, having diarrhea, and it was bloody, so it scared me.”

The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk.

China declared a “complete success” after it launched a new three-person crew to its space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.

A UK man's "aggressive" brain tumor was cut down in size by "50%" following a first-of-its-kind treatment for a type of cancer that typically kills patients within 18 months.

All month, the Yankees have been waiting for the one big inning to break things open. 

When the Nets play the tail end of this back-to-back Wednesday in Memphis, they’ll do it without the man who’s been arguably their best player. Nic Claxton, still working his way back to full conditioning after missing the entire preseason with a hamstring injury, is going to be rested against the Grizzlies. “So it’s basically...

President Biden referred to Trump supporters on Tuesday as "garbage" as he was asked about a performer at Trump's rally making a reference to Puerto Rico

The masked party-goers walked into the North Sydney Firefighters Club in North Sydney, Nova Scotia for the holiday celebration with one holding a makeshift cross on Oct. 26.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the panel offer advice on how to react to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election on ‘Gutfeld!’

It’s been 15 years since Yankees fans were able to celebrate a World Series win on home turf, but that all changed on Tuesday.

Austin Wells went from starting Game 3 of the World Series on the bench to helping save the Yankees season — at least for a day — in Game 4.

Despite President Joe Biden's attack on Donald Trump's supporters being captured on video, the Hill reports that Biden only "appeared" to compare them to "garbage." The post The Hill: Biden ‘Appears’ to Call Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the Yankees' 11-4 win over the Dodgers on Tuesday night in The Bronx.

Mookie Betts didn't hesitate to let two Yankees fans know they'd messed up.

Los Yankees de Nueva York siguen vivos en la Serie Mundial gracias a sus bateadores de menor jerarquía.

The cops tried to pull over the vehicle and when the officers approached on foot, the driver sped up, striking one of them, police said.

Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr, best known for her comic turns in "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," died on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at age 79. In this "Sunday Morning" profile originally broadcast on December 4, 2005, Garr talked with correspondent Rita Braver about her autobiography, "Speedbumps"; how she advanced from dancing in the background of Elvis Presley movies to starring roles (she was, admittedly, up-front about lying on her resume); and how it became harder for her to find acting jobs following a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.