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1980s teen icon Molly Ringwald said the John Hughes-directed “Brat Pack” movies would look a lot different if remade today — nearly 40 years after the originals — particularly because they couldn’t be so “White.” “Those movies, the movies that I am so well known for, they were very much of the time. And, if you were to remake that …

How does it feel to break a record day after day? Wesley Williams, a performer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, knows a thing or two. The “One Wheel Wonder” takes a spin on the tallest rideable unicycle in the world with each show, at a whopping 34.6 feet tall. Williams did not come from a family of entertainers. …

A Minnesota toddler who fell from a South Dakota hotel’s third-floor window has died. Kathryn and Alex Hein of Lakefield, Minnesota, wrote in a Facebook post that their year-old son, Madden, died Monday, two days after falling at Club House Hotel & Suites in Sioux Falls. MAN TAKES FATAL 6-STORY PLUNGE WHILE TRYING TO FLEE SOUTH CAROLINA HOTEL SHOOTING “It …