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The US chief marketing officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev is stepping down amid the company's continuing slump in sales, following Bud Light's disastrous collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney earlier in the year. Benoit Garbe is set to leave his role at Bud Light's parent company at the end of the year, it was announced Wednesday, 'in order to embark on a new chapter in his career.' Serving as the company's CMO for just over two years, his tenure was marred by an April marketing debacle where a Bud Light partnership with Mulvaney led to a boycott by the brand's customers...

It has been nearly four years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but that is not stopping Bloomberg from legitimately addressing if it is “safe to dine indoors” as winter approaches and “Covid” comes “back.” In an article titled “With Covid Back and Winter Approaching, Is It Safe to Dine Indoors?” Bloomberg addressed a question from a reader, who asked if it was a bad idea to dine indoors with “Covid” and flu season on the horizon. The author, Kristen Brown, admitted that she has “no idea” how many coronavirus cases are around the city of New York right...

The owner of Decibel Gardens, which grows and packages marijuana in Santa Cruz, was arrested by police after attacking multiple masked people who are still on the loose. Derek Hubbard was arrested on four counts of attempted murder Monday after police reviewed surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses. His business, operating on Encinal Street behind locked gates, was reportedly robbed by approximately eight masked thieves early Monday morning, according to Santa Cruz Police. The alarm was tripped at about 4:30 a.m. Monday, and Hubbard arrived on the scene before police. With a handgun, Hubbard allegedly fired multiple rounds at suspects. After...

A group who was recently mourning the loss of a loved one chose to have their funeral reception at a seafood restaurant after the service. However, most of the party chose to leave without paying after racking up a bill of over $500. Not only that, but one woman threatened to shoot a restaurant staff member. A group of 20 people recently walked out on their $542 tab at Crazy Cajun Seafood in Houston, Texas. The members of the funeral party were allegedly unhappy with the 20% gratuity charge added to their bill, as most restaurants add the tip when...

A Washington Post reporter has published an article declaring his endorsement for Hollywood actor and former WWE wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for president in 2024. Washington Post deputy opinion editor David Von Drehle argues in a new column that Johnson is the best nominee for president. “For four years, I have been saying to anyone who will listen — not many people, I must admit — that America has a sure and happy pathway out of the doom loop of Biden vs. Trump, Trump vs. Biden, seemingly for the rest of eternity,” Von Drehle writes. “Johnson is that pathway....

Oregon State Professor Accused of Falsely Claiming Native Ancestry (Can only be linked, per FR rules.)

Its beginning to smell like Fed spirit! As the 2024 Presidential election rapidly approaches, The Fed will be pressured into lower interest rates to haul Biden’s befuddled and corrupt ass across the finish line. Or his replacement, Greasy Gavin Newsom. (Leaving an oil slick in his wake). Lowering the mortgage rate will benefit the real estate market, which is currently been “Biden’d.” Due to inflation and The Fed’s mission to crush inflation. High mortgage rates that approached 8% earlier this month continue to hammer builder confidence, but recent economic data suggest housing conditions may improve in the coming months. Builder...

The son of the band Wilco’s frontman vowed to never step foot at Sarah Lawrence College again after he says he became a “pariah” for identifying as Jewish and supporting Israel – and promised to warn others “to avoid the school at all costs.” Sammy Tweedy, whose father is singer Jeff Tweedy, said he has decided not to return to the Bronxville, New York school campus because of its inhospitable climate for Jewish students. “The feeling of being a pariah was so intense that I developed these stomach problems that just made life really difficult, and I think they went...

Travelers United, a DC-based non-profit that advocates for travelers, has sued Clyde’s Restaurant Group for unfair and deceptive advertising. The group alleges that a 3.75 percent “2023 surcharge” on the menu at all Clyde’s restaurants—which include Old Ebbitt Grill and 1789—violates DC’s consumer protection laws and liquor licensing requirements. “It’s a fee for nothing,” says Travelers United counsel Lauren Wolfe. “This is not a fee that pays for staff. This is not a fee that pays for any sort of service or extra food. This is simply a fee so that they can lie about the advertised price.” A note...

A painting found hanging in an elderly French woman's kitchen was found to be a long-lost panel from a polyptych by 13th-century Italian artist Cimabue. The painting, titled "Mocking of Christ," is scheduled to be auctioned Oct. 27. Photo courtesy of Acteon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VIDEO AT LINK................. Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A long-lost masterpiece dating back to 1280 is headed to the Louvre after it was found hanging in a French grandmother's kitchen. "Christ Mocked," a 10-inch-by-8-inch painting by Florentine artist Cimabue, aka Cenni di Pepo, was rediscovered in 2019, when an elderly woman from the town of Compiegne decided to...

Caitlyn Jenner proudly used the R-word on Twitter — only to be mercilessly trolled for misspelling it. The Olympian typed out the slur Wednesday night in response to Donald Trump Jr. complaining that it is no longer “a big part of our vernacular” as it was when he was “growing up.” “I’ll say it RETARTED!” Jenner boldly replied. After another social media user pointed out the glaring typo, the former “I Am Cait” star corrected herself.

On this date in 1724, Willem Mons was beheaded in St. Petersburg for peculation. Mons was the brother of the German commoner Anna Mons, a beautiful young woman who segued from being the May-December lover of Peter the Great‘s trusted admiral Franz Lefort to the mistress of the teenage emperor himself. Peter and Anna had a famous (famously scandalous) romance through her twenties, but as she entered her thirties and heard the clock ticking, her bid to make Peter put a ring on it by flirting with a Prussian diplomat came to grief and got her briefly tossed in prison....

The Arizona superintendent of education is warning all districts in the state to avoid using information or collaborating with any Amnesty International USA and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) education division after a high school club affiliated with the student wings of the organizations put on a presentation that he believed white-washed Palestinian terrorism. Jewish students were left feeling unsafe at Desert Mountain High School in the Scottsdale Unified School after “one-sided propaganda in favor of Hamas terrorists” was shown to students, according to parents who spoke with FOX News Digital on background. The briefing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

The text of an inflammatory “letter to America” from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has gone viral on TikTok and drawn praise from young users – and US lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are blasting the China-owned app for promoting “terrorist propaganda.” In the letter, bin Laden claimed that he orchestrated the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center that killed nearly 3,000 Americans because the US “attacked us in Palestine.” The terrorist also described the creation of Israel as a “crime which must be erased.” The Guardian, which had published the full text of the letter in...

NATIONAL FAST FOOD DAY On November 16th, food lovers get a dose of their favorite convenience food. Whether they use the drive-thru, dine-in, or get it to go, National Fast Food Day calls for us to grilled, fried, and broiled menu staples. #NationalFastFoodDay First popularized in the United States in the 1950s, fast food is considered any meal with low preparation time and served to a customer in a packaged form. The meal makes for quick dine-in, take-out or take-away. Most fast-food restaurants offer drive-thru service. Merriam-Webster dictionary first recognized the term "fast food" in 1951. Following World War I,...

Rep. Higgins: You’re saying no violence orchestrated by FBI sources or agents… Are you familiar with, you know what a ghost vehicle is, Director? Director of the FBI certainly should. Do you know what a ghost bus is? Chris Wray: A ghost bus? Rep. Higgins: A ghost bus. Chris Wray: I’m not sure I’ve used that term before. Rep. Higgins: Okay. It’s pretty common in law enforcement. It’s a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes. It’s painted over. These two busses in the middle here. They were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6, 500. I have...

Masked men wearing bandanas showing the name and sigil of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement. Federal authorities have opened “multiple investigations into individuals affiliated” with the Hamas terror group, but have not yet unearthed credible threats to the US, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Wednesday. Wray did underscore that there is a “heightened threat environment” as calls grow for attacks on America and added that his most pressing concern was “homegrown violent extremists.” “Since Oct. 7, we’ve seen a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and...

rime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Benny Gantz — Israel's former defence minister who now serves in the wartime cabinet — hours after his critical comments about the war effort ignited an Israeli backlash. In a readout sent to reporters Thursday, the Prime Minister's Office said that in his conversation with Gantz on Wednesday, Trudeau reaffirmed Canada's "longstanding support for Israel and its right to defend itself in accordance with international law" and condemned Hamas's "terrorist attacks" and its use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. Trudeau also stressed that Israel needs to take "all possible measures to protect civilians...

Ron DeSantis is continuing to nosedive in New Hampshire, with neoconservative Nikki Haley now enjoying more than twice his support and Never Trump also-ran Chris Christie pushing him into fourth place.Donald Trump dominates the field in the Granite State, on 49 points, with Nikki Haley a distant second on 18 percent. This puts her far above Christie on 9 percent, however, and even further ahead of DeSantis, on seven percent – only two points ahead of the hitherto unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never held a high-profile public office like Haley, Christie, and DeSantis.DeSantis’s team had put a great deal...

The United States Army has removed the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for new recruits.The Army’s recruitment challenges have been mounting in recent years, exacerbated by the stringent COVID-19 vaccine mandates that were previously in place.(snip)Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated the experimental COVID-19 vaccine for all military personnel on August 24, 2021, and like thousands of others across the Department of Defense (DOD).In March 2022, the U.S. Army joined the other branches of the US military in their efforts to purge the ranks of all vaccine dissenters and announced the separation of three soldiers who refused to take the experimental jab. This...