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Mayonnaise is one of those pantry staples we can't seem to live without, whether we're slathering it on sandwiches or using it in deviled eggs. But with so many brands on the market—and just as many opinions about them—it begs the question: Is there truly a noticeable difference between mayo brands? For many celebrity chefs and home cooks, the answer is a resounding "yes." In our blind taste test of eight store-bought mayo brands, four stood out: Hellmann's, Duke's, Kewpie, and Sir Kensington's. Among these, Hellmann's and Duke's emerged as favorites for home cooks. When we asked five professional chefs...

Democrats won an unexpected victory Tuesday when legislation to halt the Iran war cleared an initial hurdle in the Senate — a vote that strengthens their hand in the increasingly fractious debate over the conflict. Critics of the military operation took advantage of a shorthanded Republican conference — three GOP senators missed the vote — resulting in a 50-47 decision to force debate on a rebuke of President Donald Trump. War opponents gained another GOP defector in Sen. Bill Cassidy. The Louisiana Republican, who voted to convict President Donald Trump in the wake of his second impeachment over the Jan....

Caleb Vazquez, one of two teens responsible for the mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, was on the autism spectrum and influenced by hateful rhetoric online, his family described in a heartfelt apology. “Over the last several days, our family has been trying to process the horrific actions carried out by our son against the Islamic Center San Diego Community,” the 18-year-old’s family said in a statement released by attorney Colin Rudolph. “We want to begin by acknowledging that nothing we say or do could ever repair the damage his actions have caused. We are completely heartbroken...

The Left has been calling for violence relentlessly since Donald Trump re-assumed his presidency — and once again, they’ve got it. It’s a horrific story, and we warn readers that there’s disturbing content ahead. The facts: The wife of the elderly San Diego man brutally beaten outside his MAGA-inspired “Trump House” said there’s “no hope” for her husband after the vicious attack left him fighting for his life. Kerry Sheron, 69, was in critical condition following the violent assault outside his Escondido property on Wednesday afternoon. His wife, Maria, revealed to The California Post through tears that her husband isn’t...

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings appears to be back to scrolling on candidates in the California governor’s race. A newly filed report for the committee “California Back to Basics Supporting Matt Mahan for Governor 2026” shows Hastings contributed $1 million to the pro-Mahan independent expenditure committee on May 15 — only to then have the money returned five days later on Wednesday. Only the two finalists in the June 2 primary election will advance to the November runoff. A source close to the pro-Mahan committee told The Post that Hastings was part of a broader fundraising round to meet a goal,...

A leaked audio recording reveals Zuckerberg's real explanation for why Meta was tracking its workers. You've heard of "learn by doing." Meta invented "learn by watching employees do it, then replace them." A leaked audio recording from a Meta all-hands meeting, obtained by More Perfect Union, captures Mark Zuckerberg explaining that Meta has been monitoring employee activity across Gmail, GChat, internal tool Metamate, and VSCode (the coding software most engineers use) to train its AI models. His reasoning: the AI "learns from watching really smart people do things," and elite engineers make better training subjects than outside contractors. Which is,...

Remember a few years back when a six-year-old boy went to school with a gun in his backpack after weeks of making threats against his teacher, and then shot the teacher in the chest? The teacher somehow survived, even though the student thought he had "shot that b**** dead." The teacher even successfully filed suit against the vice principal of the school for failing to act to stop the student. notthebee.com Jury finds vice principal responsible for ignoring repeated threats from 6-year-old who shot teacher and bragged about it In January 2023, a six-year-old black kid in Virginia went to...

Shane Gillis has hit back at Chelsea Handler, further escalating their feud after she criticized his and fellow comedian Tony Henchcliffe’s “racist” and “gross” jokes at Kevin Hart’s recent roast. “This is a big moment for Chelsea. I am glad she’s capitalizing. Good for her. We’re all rooting for her. Anyway come see me July 17th at the football stadium in Philly,” Gillis, 38, told Page Six in a seemingly cheeky statement shared through his rep. Handler slammed “sexist” Gillis and Henchcliffe, labeling them both as “racists” and “bigots,” during her Wednesday appearance on “Deon Cole’s Funny Knowing You” podcast....

The Colorado Democratic Party has censured fellow party member Gov. Jared Polis for reducing the prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Peters, an ally of Donald Trump, was convicted in 2024 of tampering with county voting machines. She was allegedly trying to prove election rigging six months after the 2020 election, according to Colorado Public Radio. She is scheduled to be paroled on June 1.

Artificial intelligence is poised to drastically shrink the workforce at the nation’s largest bank, but the transition will happen without the pain of mass layoffs, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Thursday. In an interview in Shanghai, the renowned money man told Bloomberg that AI will make his employees vastly more productive. While the technology will ultimately reduce the need for certain jobs, Dimon said the bank will manage the shift through “natural attrition” — simply not filling the positions of the 25,000 to 30,000 workers who quit or retire each year. “There will be all different types of jobs,...

Two men accused of killing an off-duty Florida firefighter for his Nike sneakers and iPhone boasted about the murder just moments after the heinous act, according to a witness who saw the gunman “smiling about it.” Torrey Holston, 26, and Jose Garcia Romero, 27, allegedly killed Coral Springs-Parkland firefighter Christopher Randazzo, 39, in front of a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort when he left his second job as a bartender at Aruba Beach Cafe around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019. Holston was heard saying, “I can’t believe I just caught a body,” witness Cheyenne Papach testified Tuesday. “And he was smiling about...

🚨 BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton just SURGED to a 22-POINT LEAD over incumbent John Cornyn in the Texas US Senate GOP primary The POWER of the Trump endorsement 🔥 🔴 Paxton: 56.8% 🔴 Cornyn: 34.5% 🟡 Undecided: 7.8% Time to win! 🇺🇸 @SocalStrategies | 5/20-21 | N=700LV

The debate over federal control of higher education has once again exposed a deeper question many conservatives have avoided asking: Why is the federal government involved in financing colleges and universities at all? The recent controversy surrounding proposed federal regulations affecting Christian colleges reveals the danger of dependency. Under a new Department of Education proposal, programs whose graduates do not meet government-defined earnings thresholds could lose access to federal loans and grants. Christian colleges are warning that ministry and theology programs could be devastated because pastors and missionaries rarely enter high-paying careers. But perhaps conservatives should ask a more fundamental...

The Pegasus team from the Aris student space initiative has generated a stable detonation wave with its engine. Robin Wyss / Aris Space ========================================================================= Students in Switzerland have recently tested an experimental rocket engine that is capable of generating 20,000 detonation waves per second, the same propulsion concept explored by NASA and Japanese researchers for future space missions. The so-called rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) is powered by propane and liquid oxygen. It was built by the Pegasus team, a student project within the ARIS (Academic Space Initiative Switzerland) at ETH Zurich. The third-year students spent nearly a year developing...

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud. The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted CNN said there was "little evidence." Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud Today: $90M busted and 15 charged. IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard Image Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) =============================================================================== In A Nutshell A 37-member international team produced the most precise direct measurement of the Hubble constant ever recorded, with just 1.1 percent uncertainty. By linking a dozen different cosmic distance measurement methods into a single “Distance Network,” they confirmed the universe is currently expanding at about 73.5 kilometers per second per 3.26 million light-years. That rate conflicts with what the Big Bang’s ancient afterglow predicts by more than seven times the margin of error, a gap that makes a simple measurement mistake increasingly implausible. Resolving...

nvestigators said a scammer pretending to be actor Tom Selleck had defrauded an elderly couple in Riverside County who was later found dead in a suspected murder-suicide. On May 15, deputies from the Thermal Sheriff’s Station were called to a home in the 79000 block of Montego Bay Drive in Bermuda Dunes just before midnight for a welfare check. Inside the home, two people were found with traumatic injuries — Donald Whitaker, 80, and his wife, Karen Whitaker, 79. They were pronounced dead at the scene. It all began after Karen posted a message on Facebook about a friend who...

Skip to content An official website of the United States Government Here's how you know Close Menu State Department HomeState Department Home search Search Marco Rubio, Secretary of State May 20, 2026 Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a video message to the people of Cuba, reaffirming the unwavering support of the United States for the Cuban people in their pursuit of freedom, dignity, and self-determination. In his remarks, Secretary Rubio addressed the continued suffering endured by the Cuban people after 67 years of tyranny, censorship, and human rights abuses by the illegitimate regime. A courtesy translation of the...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth led the swearing-in ceremony at the PentagonFox News host Johnny "Joey" Jones reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps on Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon."The last job I had in uniform — my job was to get better. It was to heal. It's a very selfish thing. My job was to heal. The Marine Corps paid me to get better, and then I retired. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it was unfinished business," Jones said at the ceremony.Jones, a formerly-retired staff sergeant, served eight years in the Marine Corps and...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani boasted Thursday that the Big Apple will hold a lottery for 1,000 discounted FIFA World Cup tickets for lucky winners – after the city kicked-in $90 million for the tournament. The tickets will be $50 for those lucky enough to win the pitch, coming with free round-trip bus rides to the matches in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, Mamdani announced during an event in Harlem. The soccer-loving socialist made a show of contending no taxpayer money directly went toward the low-cost tickets – an assertion that quickly had insiders crying foul. “FIFA will be raking in billions with...