An Islamic State publication has referred to Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek jihadi arrested for the deaths of eight people in Manhattan this week, as a “caliphate soldier” and praised him for driving a pickup truck through a bicycle lane in an attempt to kill as many people as possible.
German police officers in the city of Halle were attacked by a gang of “youths” on Halloween night, and police in Cologne were forced to call for reinforcements due to sex attacks and violence from young migrant men.
Several people this year, including a police officer, may have thought their Colin Kaepernick costumes would be a scream this Halloween, but apparently, not everyone was amused.
An artificial intelligence bot built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes new, short horror stories every hour, according to a report.
In what appears to be a shot at Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, TMZ Sports released video of Texans outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney dressed as a prison inmate at a Halloween party. McNair faced criticism for referring to players’ National
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joked about dressing as the president for Halloween.
At least three gunmen, wearing clown and ghost masks opened fire on revellers at the illegal Money Move rave in Leyton, London, on Saturday injuring a man and a woman.
Just in time for Halloween, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced the publication of “Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness,” drawn from the Church’s manual on exorcism.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are preparing to celebrate Halloween at the White House after it got a festive makeover over the weekend.
A Halloween display in a New York neighborhood featuring a tombstone that says Donald Trump “burn in hell” with a fake corpse is causing outrage among some residents.
An official of a parent-teacher organization apologized after members of the Santa Clarita, California, community were shocked by news of a student’s President Trump Halloween scarecrow decoration erected at a local elementary school.
A cultural appropriation workshop that took place last week at the University of Southern Indiana sought to teach students that “cultures” are not “costumes.”
A Massachusetts elementary school has canceled Halloween with the claim that the holiday is not” inclusive” enough, and replaced it with the conjured “Black and Orange Spirit Day,” instead.
The University of Southern Indiana offered a student workshop this week to help students prepare to be culturally sensitive in their choices of Halloween costumes.
An Illinois boy’s Halloween costume is turning heads after his parents fashioned a Wheel of Fortune costume out of his wheelchair.
Authorities in San Antonio, Texas continue to investigate a shooting at a Halloween party that sent five people to the hospital.
An Ohio man was arrested Monday for allegedly displaying his genitals in a candy bucket, police said.
A partygoer was banned from an on-campus University Halloween party because he wore a Grim Reaper costume involving dark face paints — apparently breaking strict safe space rules on Halloween costumes. Ryan Lytwyn, 22, a recent graduate of Edinburgh University,
Silicon Valley leaders are befuddled as both political parties — and venture capital giant Peter Thiel — are rejecting their agenda, which includes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, expanded H1-B immigration visas, new autonomous vehicles regulations, and “gig economy” worker reclassification.
Shortly after Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence began speaking to over a thousand people at a Halloween evening airport rally for the Trump-Pence ticket in Clearwater, Florida, every light in the place went out and Pence was left without power to his microphone.
More than 171 million Americans plan to celebrate Halloween this year, and will have spent about $8.4 billion for costumes, parties, and candy in October, according to the National Retail Federation Survey.
The same Texas university where students protested the state’s campus carry law by strapping on dildos now faces a crisis, triggered by Halloween costumes and theme parties.
Some Florida parents have made clear they will be responding to the “creepy” clown problem by carrying guns as they take their children trick-or-treating.
Actress-singer Hilary Duff and her boyfriend Jason Walsh have apologized for wearing pilgrim and a Native American chief Halloween costumes to the Casamigos Halloween Party on Friday night.
The reopening of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails did not stop Katy Perry, the candidate’s most vocal celebrity supporter, from undergoing a complete prosthetic transformation to turn herself into the Democratic nominee for Halloween.
A New York home has been turned into a Hillary-themed “haunted house” just in time for Halloween
The Vatican has published new guidelines regarding Catholic burial and cremation just in time for Halloween and the beginning of November—the “month of the dead.”
In a latest measure to create a “safe space” for students, a number of universities have issued “costume protocol,” banning such un-PC Halloween costumes as Arab turbans, feathered Indian headdresses, Japanese Geisha outfits, and Caitlyn Jenner costumes.
A “child terrorist” Halloween costume has been withdrawn from sale after a politically correct backlash ensued, with customers insisting it demonised Muslims.
The Death Star is stalking a Northern California home. 2,000 square feet of PVC pipe and 162 joiners were used to make the skeleton of the giant 23-foot, 400-pound homemade ornament at the Lafayette, California home of the Powell family.
A popular Filipino television host and his guest caused outrage when they dressed in Muslim attire for Halloween.
McKamey Manor in San Diego has been called the world’s scariest haunted house, where visitors submit themselves to an hours-long, horror-filled interactive nightmare that is ostensibly fun. But the attraction was apparently too much for one California woman, who says she’s been traumatized by her experience.
On Sunday morning, the day after going trick-or-treating Saturday night, Mya Ogg, 11, opened a piece of Halloween candy and found two unmarked, white pills shoved into it.
Halloween was somewhat chilly and rainy, but that didn’t stop another gruesome tradition in Chicago with 26 shot and 2 dead. But while the total number shot this year outpaced 2014 and 2013, the number of killed was actually lower.
Four water suppliers in California, including the city of Beverly Hills, have failed to chip in to statewide water conservation efforts and have been fined as a result.
