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Key Points Yum Brands will explore strategic options for Pizza Hut, which has struggled in recent years. Potential outcomes could include an outright divestiture, selling a stake in the chain or a joint venture. The chain’s share of the U.S. pizza market has shrunk from 22.6% in 2019 to 18.7% in 2024, according to Barclays. =============================================================== Yum Brands on Tuesday announced it will explore strategic options for Pizza Hut. “The Pizza Hut team has been working hard to address business and category challenges; however, Pizza Hut’s performance indicates the need to take additional action to help the brand realize its...

Dick Cheney became a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump in the years leading up to his death. The influential Republican figure, who held numerous roles in Republican politics, called the President a "threat" and a "coward" in numerous statements and interviews over the past decade. Cheney, the former vice president to George W. Bush and influential figure in Republican politics, has died aged 84, his family has announced. Despite sharing a political party, Cheney held a negative view of Trump and made a number of statements disparaging him, especially after his daughter Liz Cheney became involved in probing...

While the shutdown is needless, the Democrats are right to be concerned about healthcare cost coverage. MEDICAID EXPANSION FAIRNESS What I’m thinking of is to slightly and generally increase the state Medicaid expansion share to 5% plus the highest rate of state income tax. That would make Medicaid expansion cheaper for no income tax red states like Florida and Texas, and fairer. Right now, California pays for Medicaid expansion at 10% and rakes in 13% income tax from doctors. To help finance likely Medicaid expansion to states like Texas and Florida, the state Medicaid shares (traditional & expansion) would increase...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning blow to the Experts, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum CONFIRMS that the United States just set an all-time RECORD in domestic oil production. It's almost like President Trump promised this. "He said 'drill baby drill.' The U.S. set a RECORD on oil production! 13.6M barrels a day! There will be NEW records set going forward!" 🔥 "These countries here on the cutting edge are so THRILLED to have the United States back in the game on any game of energy, abundance of energy growth, as opposed to following some European model, or of...

Like a monstrous experiment in social engineering, the profoundly anti-patriotic immigration policy of New Labour has brought about demographic changes that, right from the outset, were intended to be irreversible. For centuries, Britain — and England in particular — has represented a civilizational ideal for much of the modern world. The birthplace of parliamentary democracy, the common law system, and global standards of governance, Britain has exported its political and cultural values far beyond its shores. At home, it once epitomized social cohesion, stability, and civic pride. Yet, in the 21st century, many Britons — particularly in working-class communities —...

The Radical Left (“RL”) no longer has a coherent message. President Trump, with his platform focused on restoring public order, promoting economic prosperity, securing the borders, advocating for merit-based policies, and opposing the inclusion of boys in girls’ sports, among other issues, appealed to voters, resulting in his landslide victory in 2024. The RL’s rebranding as Democratic Socialism (Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders) is nothing more than the Old Pied Piper promise of a new utopia if given more public money and power. The RL’s Marxist/Islamofascist ideology remains fundamentally at odds with and a real threat to our constitutional republic. The...

Officials have said the prospects of EU environment ministers agreeing ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2040 will go down to the wire when they gather for an emergency meeting in Brussels. Member states have been tasked with agreeing on a 2040 target at today’s meeting so that they could in turn agree on an interim target for 2035, which the EU would then bring to the United Nations COP30 summit in Brazil on Thursday. However, officials have said securing an agreement will be “challenging”. The European Commission had proposed a target of cutting carbon emissions by 90% by...

Former Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., condemned President Donald Trump as a "vile creature" and the worst person on the planet in an interview with CNN published Monday. "He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth," she said. "You think he’s the worst thing on the face of the earth?" interviewer Elex Michaelson asked. "I do, yeah. I do," Pelosi affirmed. Voting is underway for California’s Proposition 50, in a special election that will have a significant effect on next year's battle for the U.S. House majority. California voters are deciding whether to pass the proposition...

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., claimed in a new interview that the Trump administration is being "cruel" pushing for SNAP beneficiaries to work in order to receive public assistance. **SNIP** The Trump administration reportedly agreed on Monday to allocate billions of emergency dollars to partially fund SNAP benefits this month in response to a federal judge’s order. This comes amid a larger debate about SNAP programs and their beneficiaries, particularly as the Trump administration claims such public funds are being abused by illegal immigrants. After playing a clip of Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins talking about the Trump administration’s plans to...

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Embattled BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her wife have dissolved their consulting business and sold their joint LA home, while she’s dropped her spouse’s name, The Post can reveal. Details about the personal moves surfaced as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that Cullors helped found is reportedly in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice for possibly defrauding its donors out of tens of millions of dollars during the country’s 2020 racial-justice protests. It isn’t yet clear who the feds are eyeing in the probe, but subpoenas and at least one search warrant were issued in recent weeks,...

BOSTON – A former Stoughton police officer who was previously indicted for allegedly murdering Sandra Birchmore, a pregnant woman, to prevent her from disclosing information about his sexual exploitation of her beginning when she was a minor, has been indicted for allegedly causing the death of Birchmore’s unborn son. Matthew Farwell, 39, of Easton, has been charged with one count of causing the death of Birchmore’s unborn child. Farwell was arrested and charged in August 2024. He remains in federal custody and will be arraigned at a later date. According to the superseding indictment, on or about Feb. 1, 2021,...

In an ongoing lawsuit filed by the state of California’s attorney general against two pro-life organizations for promoting abortion pill reversal (APR), an Illinois judge Oct. 29 ordered the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to release communications with state personnel regarding APR. Seventh Circuit Court Judge Jack Davis of Sangamon County Oct. 29 ordered ACOG to comply with a subpoena requested by the pro-life defendants, Heartbeat International, and RealOptions. California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit in 2023 against the defendants on behalf of the state, alleging that the pro-life groups “engaged in false advertising and deceptive...

Diplo is poking fun at his viral joke that he dated both Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau. The DJ shared a selfie with the former Prime Minister of Canada on Monday, cheekily captioning the photo with Perry song title, “The one that got away.” In the selfie, Diplo and Trudeau both make comically shocked faces. Diplo’s famous friends were amused by the post. Paris Hilton commented with a crying laughing emoji while Ryan Tedder wrote, “Damn.”

Welcome to this weeks video in which we try and claim £10,000 from Mike at the Roman Road Research Association. Do Roman Fords in the UK actually exist? This was a question recently posed with a tongue in cheek reward. We set to find out and claim our prize! £10,000 Says YOU Can't Prove This ROMAN EXPERT Wrong... | 15:01 Paul Whitewick | 209K subscribers | 413,124 views | June 29, 2025 00:00 - The Rewards 01:56 - The Ford 03:16 - The Drawing Board 05:44 - Gargrave 07:22 - Iden Green 10:33 - Barnard Castle 13:39 - £10,000 Please

Some major companies have recently triggered a wave of layoffs, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs. Most cited artificial intelligence (AI) integration and automation as factors behind these moves.In this photo illustration, a phone screen displays an AI logo on May 16, 2025. AI use in customer service is rising, with 70 percent of interactions expected to involve AI in 2025, according to Wifi Talents. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch TimesExperts say that while a significant portion of jobs cannot be replicated by machines, AI will likely usurp white-collar analytical roles and robotics will replace manual labor jobs.Amazon announced on Oct. 28...

Jessica Iannacchino landed on Madison Avenue in New York City, but a career in her chosen field just wasn’t in the cards.The 21-year-old from Poughkeepsie, New York, attended public colleges in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, to complete a bachelor’s in advertising, paying out-of-state tuition and committing to monthly student loan repayments for years to come.She moved to Manhattan to get her foot in the door somewhere, but none opened.Iannacchino delivered food to pay the rent and found enjoyable work in acting, appearing in a few small roles. She has several friends who also haven’t secured jobs in their fields,...

Live Science reports that analysis of the skeletons of seven men recovered from a well in eastern Croatia in 2011 suggests that they are the remains of Roman soldiers who fought in the Battle of Mursa in A.D. 260. "Presumably, all of the individuals were stripped of any valuables -- weapons, armor, equipment, jewelry, etc. -- before they were thrown into the well," said bioarchaeologist Mario Novak of the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb. He and his colleagues determined that all of the remains represented adult men, four of whom were younger and three who were middle-aged at the...