But rewatching The Silence of the Lambs this week, just days before its 35th anniversary, completely changed my mind. The gore (which, again, is pretty mild by today's standards) still didn't faze me.

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Buried in the middle of an Instagram carousel, star triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt casually shared his VO2 max score from a recent lab test, and it’s exceptional. With the caption, “From the first ...

New York City just had its safest January on record — with the number of shootings and murders plummeting to new lows, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. The number of homicides plunged 60 ...

While lions are best known for hunting prey, conflicts over territory can sometimes lead to violent encounters between rival lions. One of the most well-documented examples is the Mapogo lion ...

A winter storm that brought some ice and snow was followed by bitter cold air that's hanging around Knoxville and East Tennessee this week. The highest forecasted temperature through Jan. 31 is just ...

Frigid temperatures have arrived in South Dakota, with wind chills plunging to 30-below-zero or colder. The National Weather Service issued an extreme cold warning that was in effect for much of the ...

Winter storm Fern could send Ohio temperatures plunging into single digits or lower by Jan. 23, but that's not close to Ohio's coldest temperature ever. Ohio's all-time record low temperature is minus ...

Some parts of the Midwest could see wind chills as low as -50 degrees F as a massive winter storm makes its way across two-thirds of the U.S. A New Hampshire mountain holds the record for the lowest ...