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Pizza Hut, the 68-year-old chain that has long struggled with growing competition and outdated restaurants, will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum said Tuesday that the private equity firm LongRange Capital will buy Pizza Hut, excluding the mainland China business, for about $1.5 billion. The mainland China Pizza Hut will be purchased by Yum China Holdings Inc. for approximately $1.2 billion, the company said. China is Pizza Hut’s second-largest market outside the U.S., accounting for 19% of sales. Yum Brands, which also owns KFC and Taco Bell, began to explore its options for Pizza Hut...

After building an ugly, overprice, monstrosity marring the design of a famous Chicago park, anybody surprised to learn that the Obama Presidential Center has failed to pay the help? Multiple little-guy contractors have told Fox News that they've been stiffed on the payments for their goods and services. (snip) Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million. But the little guy who smooths the cement or does the gardening or catering or windows and floors gets nothing, and as the video...

Britain’s leaders celebrate multiculturalism even as the ideology reshaping the nation grows increasingly hostile to the civilization that welcomed it. It turns out that I have found something to agree with Keir Starmer about. During Ramadan this year, the prime minister described Muslims as “the face of modern Britain.” I think that is correct. Whether it is also something to be happy about is another question. The PM, for his part, couldn’t be more pleased. Muslims in Britain, he went on to say, are “a success story when it comes to diversity.” Was that qualification—“when it comes to diversity”—a nod...

Squatters are taking over homes across the country and Flash Shelton is the man who gets them out. With bold tactics and street smarts, Flash and his team face tense and sometimes dangerous situations to help families reclaim their property. Each episode reveals the emotional and high-stakes battles where the fight for justice can quickly escalate, putting everyone involved at risk. This is the struggle to take back what rightfully belongs to them.

Rand Paul and President Donald Trump are looking far more aligned lately — almost like friends. The Kentucky Republican senator spent much of Trump’s second term at odds with the president on major issues, from last year’s tax cuts to Trump’s sweeping tariffs to the war in Iran, even opposing Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation as Homeland Security secretary. That distance got Paul labeled a “sick wacko” by the loyalty-conscious Trump, who initially excluded him from last year’s White House picnic. But in recent weeks, Paul spearheaded a $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill, drawing praise from Trump and an invitation to...

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool still needs some algae emancipation. Just days after the iconic Reflecting Pool reopened following President Trump’s $14 million renovation to seal the concrete bottom with an “American flag blue,” its familiar gnarly-looking green algae once again took over. “Versus previous administrations, the National Park Service is actually maintaining the beautifully completed Reflecting Pool,” a spokesperson for the Department of the Interior told The Post. “The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the algae bloom that has plagued every pool reopening since 1922, most infamously, the Obama pool reopening that resulted in massive algae clumps taking over...

A trans-identified male has lost an employment discrimination case after alleging that he had been wrongfully fired from his job at a childcare center in Letterkenny. The Workplace Relations Commission found that Aleena Starshine had been terminated not due to his gender identity, but as a result of repeat parental complaints and concerns about child safeguarding. . . The first complaint pertained to a “safari game” Starshine had organized with the children, during which he offered an 11-year-old child “a free kiss from me” or a “big kiss” as a prize. The child reported this to a parent, who then...

DALLAS - Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton said that Dallas will host his party's midterm convention later this year. What we know: Paxton said Dallas will host the GOP midterm in September during a tele-town hall on Tuesday. Paxton said he anticipates Trump coming to the midterm to help him campaign in his Senate race with Democrat James Talarico. What we don't know: We don't know the dates that the midterm convention would be, or what venue would host it. The backstory: Sources confirmed in March that the Republican Party is exploring a national convention for the midterm elections,...

My brain has been percolating on this for a bit, so apologies for not having all the background here. Tuesday morning, 0645, bad night's sleep, and my brain decided it wanted to tackle AI governance. Some thoughts I couldn't shake: Every time someone tries to incorporate Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics into AI governance, it fails. Asimov himself proved why — he didn't write them as a blueprint. He wrote them as a story engine for exploring how they break. Every single Robot story was about the edge cases, paradoxes, and unintended consequences of three seemingly simple rules. The Laws...

🚨Breaking: Black man rapes 21-year-old woman in NYC subway station in brutal stranger attack. A savage black man forced himself on a young woman inside the Harlem 125th Street subway station Sunday evening. The 21-year-old victim was alone when the predator struck around 7:40 p.m., leaving her traumatized. NYPD released photos of the suspect — dark complexion, goatee, red glasses, red shirt. This horrific rape shows the growing danger black men pose to women riding NYC subways. Cops are hunting him now. Women must stay alert.

Is this Chinese takeover the new reality? Or, can a coordinated effort by the U.S. and its allies challenge China’s hegemony in the region? The Iran war and the fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz—through which vital oil cargo from Gulf countries feeds the global economy—is a reminder that America must not forget the South China Sea, another strategic region where China, a greater threat than Iran, has gained alarming control over many decades. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has blatantly seized key points in the region and built a fortified military presence by constructing artificial islands on...

A rare moment of Jewish-Arab unity occurred in the Palestinian Arab village of Hizma, when members of the Israeli Jalle Band stopped to fix a flat tire and began entertaining locals. Embedded video. Supposedly linked to You Tube, but doesn't work.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani crony and far-left congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier has claimed the US has committed worse atrocities than the terror group Hamas. Chevalier made the shocking assertion in June 2021 — two years before the terrorists would launch their widespread Oct. 7 slaughter of innocent Israelis — while responding to a Twitter post from someone saying, “I agree the US wanton violence is categorically incomparable to the worst things Hamas has ever done or ever could do.” Chevalier wrote, “Only one is a nuclear power that’s ever used that kind of force 😶” — likely referring to the...

Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and the rest of the tech lords are way sharper than Elizabeth Warren and Graham Platner and Scott Pelley and the woke NGO crowd. I know that experts agree that our liberal and Democratic friends are the sharpest knives in the drawer, because education and credentials. After all, how would they have got to be the ruling class without intelligence and cunning? But in the last week, we have all started to wonder. When the Democrats all sing in chorus about the evils of Elon Musk’s first trillion, as though he were...

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Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time. When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the time. When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing...

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Sir Dave Brailsford - The 1% Factor He ran the program that produced the first sub 2 hour marathon First Sub‑Two‑Hour Marathon — Brailsford’s Role Eliud Kipchoge became the first person ever to run a marathon in under two hours on 12 October 2019 at the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria, finishing in 1:59:40.2 www.ineos159challenge.com+1. This was a specially designed time trial, not a competitive race, so it was not eligible for a world record, but it was a historic milestone in athletics. Sir Dave Brailsford’s Involvement Sir Dave Brailsford, the legendary British sports performance director, was a key...

Key TakeawaysAmericans age 60 and older lost $7.7 billion to scams in 2025.Reverse mortgages can provide valuable retirement income, but they are increasingly being targeted by fraudsters.Experts warn retirees to watch for foreclosure rescue scams, fake government programs, contractor fraud, and equity theft schemes.HUD-certified counseling remains one of the strongest protections against reverse mortgage fraud.Why Reverse Mortgage Scams Are IncreasingMillions of retirees are sitting on significant home equity while struggling with rising living costs, healthcare expenses, and inflation.That combination has made reverse mortgages increasingly popular.A reverse mortgage allows eligible homeowners to convert a portion of their home equity into cash...