The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.
The next bank heist movie just got a lot less interesting. Prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed on Thursday afternoon that eight men successfully organized and executed an elaborate heist involving ... ATMs on the same subway line.
Nothing about the federal tax system is especially pleasant: it requires a lot of forms, expends precious mental energy, and of course involves parting ways with your money. But according to a new poll commissioned by The Washington Post, 53 percent of Democrats gave a favorable opinion of the federal tax system; 66 percent of Republicans didn't.
As summer approaches, you're probably beginning to wonder: do I really have to slather on sunscreen in order to protect myself from skin cancer? Well, if you trust empirical research — or listen to the Center for Disease Control — the answer is yes.
More than five months after two states voted to legalize marijuana — and as a host of other states consider the same — a majority of Americans now say pot should be legal to consume.
The titanically popular HBO series is so well-loved by the cable-less community that 1 million cord-cutters used BitTorrent to download and distribute the premiere. And that's just BitTorrent.
Though the N.C.A.A. remains immensely popular, its older brother has recently lost ground to the 20-year-old MLS. Yes. soccer. The inevitable New York Times trend piece almost writes itself.
No, it's not your imagination: Almost half of the country is getting pounded with snow — even though we're a week into Spring.
With March Madness play-in games beginning in a few hours — starting with Liberty University and North Carolina AT&T — you may be wondering: what are my chances of predicting a perfect bracket? Your answer awaits.
Today's election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy is notable for two big reasons: he's the first non-European, and the first ordained member of the Society of Jesus, to occupy the highest seat of the Roman Catholic Church, both of which upend millennia of precedent.
Tell that to the judge in New York who just stopped the soda ban.
Nobody knows for sure who will replace Pope Benedict XVI. But a lack of knowledge has never stopped people from gambling on uncertain outcomes, and thousands of people are placing bets, with real money, on potential candidates for the 267th leader of the Catholic Church.
That's according to the eccentric millionaire and space tourist Dennis Tito, who wants to send a man and a woman to travel around Mars and return to the Earth on a mission announced today that's aiming to take off by 2018.
Hillary Clinton is reportedly taking home more than $200,000 per speaking event, just days after leaving the State Department. And that's a lot higher than her husband's speaking fee upon leaving the White House, even in today's dollars.
In which we finally answer — or try to answer — the key question haunting our modern, hyper-connected condition: how many of your friends don't use Facebook?
According to the lastest estimate, the Internet consists of trillions of individual pages in hundreds of different languages, but a paper appearing in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society argues that it takes no more than 19 clicks to navigate from one page to what it estimates to be the 13,999,999,999,999 other publicly accessible web pages out there.
On Friday afternoon an asteroid known as "2012 DA14" floated by this lonely Earth and, thank God, did not collide with it. But it came close. Not as close as expected, but close.
That's an average of 28 deaths per day, and it's probably a lot more than that.
Halving the number of troops deployed is certainly welcome news for the military — but tonight's State of the Union promise won't resolve the much thornier question of how, and when, to fully extract ourselves from Afghanistan.
More than two-thirds of Americans think we'll land on Mars by 2033. Will we be able to pay for it?
Thanks to the new reality of Super PACs, one in election in America outspent the GDP of Kosovo, a nation of over 1.7 million people.
Everyone knows Congress is unpopular. Now we know how to say that.
It's Jonathan Franzen's worst nightmare, and it's according to a major new study.
But there's a catch to a new AP poll's findings: The surge in support for the new immigration policy came from Republicans.
A new poll finds that more than one-third of Americans agree with a theory about Obama that falls into the "birther" camp, and an overwhelming amount identify themselves as Republicans.
They think the landmark abortion decision dealt with desegregation, the death penalty, or the environment instead.
Given the still-simmering controversy over the House's partial approval of a federal aid bill today — and how many of the affected are still struggling — it's helpful to quantify Sandy's damage along the East Coast shoreline.
Still, the Pentagon argues that suicide rates among military personnel are statistically lower than average.
The tax hike, which takes effect immediately for wages earned in 2013, doesn't have too many fans.
Do you tweet? Do you post things on Facebook? Do you #hashtag #complete #sentences #like #this? Well: you've got company!
A new study published is giving astrophysicists a case of existential anxiety.
A double-digit jump from last year, when just 44 percent answered likewise, and the highest percentage recorded by Gallup since 2004.
That covers the "work lost, medical care, insurance, criminal-justice expenses and pain and suffering" associated with gun violence, and might be one to think on over the holidays as the post-Newtown gun debate rages on.
A new study being passed around cites cites significant errors — sewing a sponge into a chest cavity, say, or operating on the wrong patient — but before you freak out, understand the context.
In the Tampa Bay Times' analysis of 200 cases of Florida's "stand your ground" law, this finding stands out: "people who killed a black person walked free 73 percent of the time, while those who killed a white person went free 59 percent of the time."
Some people need to have two screens in front of them at all times
There are now 1.05 wireless devices per person
90 percent of them, though, can't hurt humans
Because corporate boards want to think their head honcho is better than others
Just another nail in the coffin for the Postal Service
A few incorrectly checked boxes caused a lot of problems for the U.S. Census Bureau
IKEA is reportedly a literal cradle of humanity
FEMA has declared 84 natural disasters,
Only 2.5 percent of lesbians in civil partnerships separate in the U.K.
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is due to hit Earth in about two days
Job creation? Apparently there are a bunch of Facebook apps for that
Even Instragram has 10 times pictures
Still, that's only a "fraction" of the money that rich people have been stowing away
At least 5 percent of the world's population has the disease
That's 74 million more viewers than Oprah's cable network
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