The Mirror’s US editor Christopher Bucktin reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his The Buck Stops Here column. This week, fisticuffs are being debated in the House…
Donald Trump loves bragging about records, usually involving his golf game. But after re-entering the White House, he’s hit a new milestone – rock-bottom approval ratings. In modern history, only one president has taken office with a lower approval rating than Trump in 2025: Trump in 2017.
Back then, he debuted with a dismal 45 per cent approval rating. This time, he’s outdone himself by a record-breaking three points higher.
The poll, dating back to Eisenhower in 1953, shows Trump in a league of his own—not for popularity, but for setting the lowest bar in presidential history. At least he’s consistent.
A Texas man may be facing criminal charges after he was caught on video using a very unconventional snow-removal tool – his own baby.
In a now-viral TikTok clip, the 25-year-old can be seen gripping the three-month-old infant with both hands and swiping it across the snow-covered windshield of a Hyundai Elantra like a human squeegee.
A Nebraska body transport worker has learned the hard way that there are some lines you just don’t cross – especially when it involves breaking into an apartment to tamper with a sex doll.
Ryan Smith, 42, was sentenced to 90 days in jail after he was caught sneaking back into the home of a deceased person whose body he had just transported to the morgue. His target? Not valuables, not secrets – just an inanimate companion left behind.
Patience – and strong stomachs – paid off for visitors at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where a rare corpse flower finally bloomed, releasing its famously putrid stench.
Gardener Chris Sprindis has spent seven years tending to the Amorphophallus gigas, a plant so rare that only four are known to exist in US gardens. Originally from Malaysia, the flower takes up to a decade to bloom for the first time—and when it does, it smells of “stinky cheese and foot smell”.
North of the border a British Columbia man’s relentless quest to track down the elusive Bigfoot has backfired – this time in divorce court. A judge has ruled that if he’s capable of scouring the wilderness for a mythical creature, he’s also capable of holding down a job and therefore not entitled to spousal support. The bizarre ruling came in a recent B.C. Supreme Court decision, which made multiple references to the 57-year-old’s Bigfoot-hunting adventures. Ironically, it was one of these expeditions that led to the end of his marriage in August 2020.