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The owners of a popular New Orleans 7th Ward restaurant are speaking on social media after a woman from New York claiming to be an influencer racked up a near $300 bill, refused to pay and left a 2-star Google review. There’s red sauce downstairs, while upstairs in the lounge the acts sometimes go a bit blue. You’re drinking affordable Italian wine with dinn… Diane Kronstad wrote two reviews critiquing Louisiana businesses on Tuesday. One review alleged that a crawfish company's seafood smelled bad after it was shipped. The other was to complain about her experience at Pulcinella, 1300 St....

A piece of silver associated with pirate folklore has been extracted from a dig site in a quiet Australian town. Prospector Angus James was searching for treasure in Stawell, 237km northwest of Melbourne, when he found half a Mexican 8 reales coin. “I first thought it might have been a half crown, but then I thought why is it cut in half? I was looking for the other half and couldn’t find it, so I took it home and washed it clean,” he told Yahoo News. Mexican 8 reales were linked to the term “pieces of eight” because they were...

This is both insane and hilarious. The world is laughing at Victoria. Jacinta’s world’s first "Machete Amnesty Bins" demonstrate everything that is wrong with place. I can just imagine criminals lining up to put their machete in a government Amnesty Bin. https://t.co/ziivzYtqrN— Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education (@craigkellyAFEE) July 31, 2025They already grabbed the guns, now they're taking the machetes! This is the appropriate response, in case you were wondering 👇 OMG, I thought this was a GAG. Photoshop AI generated😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I swear on God. BUT...Then I saw the ^name attached^ .... I'm shocked but I'm just never surprised.. this...

Tens gathered at an Oakland Trader Joe's recently to mourn the death of the chickens in the fridge, which just so happened to be going for some of the best prices around. Direct Action Everywhere, the organization that put on the funeral wrote this beautiful eulogy on Instagram: A funeral was held inside of a Trader Joe's in Oakland, CA to honor chickens who were abused and killed by Perdue's Petaluma Poultry, a cruel company that supplies chicken bodies to Trader Joe's. Thousands of people have asked Trader Joe's to cut ties with Petaluma Poultry, including Paris Hilton, but so...

A couple abandoned their 10-year-old son at Barcelona Airport to catch their flight after realising his passport had expired, a worker at the terminal has said. The parents allegedly ditched their kid at Barcelona’s El Prat international airport on Wednesday so they could board the plane on time. However the boy was discovered alone as he waited for a relative to pick him up and the police were called, the air traffic coordinator, called Lilian, claimed. The airport staff member posted a video, which has wracked up over 300,000 views, telling the story and condemning the parents. The child had...

A JCU researcher has helped discover a new species of stick insect in the Atherton tablelands. Credit: James Cook University ====================================================================== James Cook University researcher Professor Angus Emmott helped identify the new Acrophylla alta species and explained that the most surprising feature of this giant stick insect was its weight, which, at around 44 g, is slightly less than a golf ball. Details of the discovery have been published in the journal Zootaxa. "There are longer stick insects out there [in the region], but they're fairly light-bodied," he said. "From what we know to date, this is Australia's heaviest insect."...

An Ohio-based Kia dealership is fighting to get its name back after a woman whose car was repossessed hijacked the appellation. The matter is the subject of a court case.A Kia dealership that got on the wrong side of an Ohio woman has approached the courts to regain its name after she snatched it. The dispute started with a repossessed car. The dealership, formerly known as “Taylor Kia of Lima,” took back Tiah McCreary’s car in just one month. The dealer sold her a used Kia K5, but claimed in court documents that it was later determined that the McCreary...

At the Federal Reserve policy meeting that concluded Wednesday, governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman dissented from the decision to leave rates unchanged, believing that a rate cut was justified. It looks like they had a point. The intrigue: At 8am ET Friday morning — half an hour before the jobs report — Waller and Bowman issued statements explaining their dissents. It's clear they were worried about exactly the kind of labor market cracks that exploded into plain view with the new revisions. What they're saying: Waller's statement says that "while the labor market looks fine on the surface, once...

For centuries, devout Christians have flocked to the Italian city of Turin to pay their respects to one of the most famous relics in the world. The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen, measuring 14ft 5in by 3ft 7in, that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man. Many believe that this image was created when Jesus was wrapped in the venerated shroud shortly after his death on the cross 2,000 years ago. However, according to a new study, the Shroud of Turin was never laid on Jesus' body. Brazilian 3D designer and researcher...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole’s stellar feast. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University, and other institutions have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look through thick layers of dust in nearby galaxies and examine the aftermath of black holes consuming stars. According to a new study published on July...

People die in many ways, but in medicine there are only two reasons a person can be declared dead: Either the heart has stopped or the brain has ceased to function, even if the heart is still beating. A person may serve as an organ donor only after being declared dead. (Until then, transplant surgeons are not allowed even to interact with a dying patient.) This common-sensical rule underpins organ donation in the United States and many other countries. Most donor organs today are obtained after brain death, defined by most state laws as a condition of permanent unconsciousness...

I feel like "radioactive wasp nest" is the sort of goofy pitch that movie producers reject immediately and without hesitation. Except this time, it's real. Via CBS: Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near tanks where liquid nuclear waste is stored, according to a report from the U.S. Department of...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by car or 90 minutes by commercial plane, according to the World Meteorological Organization. In comparison, the average bolt of lightning usually measures less than 10 miles, according to the National Weather Service.

Thousands of giant tarantulas are set to emerge from the ground in five states starting next month. Wildlife officials warned the hordes will appear in parts of California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas from August through October.

Christian Wilkins, who was released by the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday, kissed a fellow player on the head and the teammate took offense to it, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. The incident was not the sole reason Wilkins was cut, sources said. Wilkins has been recovering from a Jones fracture, which he suffered in his left foot last October. Because of how Wilkins has treated the rehab from his injury, the Raiders voided the remaining $35.2 million of guaranteed money left on his contract June 4, sources said. He was released with the designation of terminated vested veteran,...

The Trump administration has announced a plan to scrap a landmark finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment, severely curbing the federal government's ability to combat climate change. Known as the "Endangerment Finding", the 2009 order from then-President Barack Obama allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules to limit pollution by setting emissions standards. ... The Endangerment Finding stemmed from a 2007 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" - meaning that the EPA has the authority and responsibility to regulate them under the US Clean Air Act....

An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to enter an American market more primed for such unproven treatments than ever before. As Wired reports, Chinese "inventor" Xuewu Liu's alarming mix featuring chlorine dioxide, a highly toxic bleach compound, is injected directly into cancerous tumors in hopes of shrinking them. Though he counts 20 success stories for his high-dose bleach injections, one woman who actually underwent Liu's treatment, which costs about $20,000 and is currently only available at clinics in China and Germany, suggested the purported cure may have exacerbated her...

Credit: NSF NOIRLab/Int.Gemini Ob et al. / SWNS | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ========================================================================= A team of astrophysicists has raised concerns about a recently discovered interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS, claiming it may not be a comet at all—but potentially a technological artifact of alien origin. Detected on July 1, the object is moving at an extraordinary speed of over 130,000 mph and is expected to reach its closest point to the Sun—its perihelion—later this year, with an arrival window near Earth projected for late November or early December 2025. Strange Features Hint At Alien Design The study, published...

Kids came for pizza, stayed for a cartoon rodent in handcuffs.The worker allegedly stole a customer's credit card during a June birthday celebration and racked up charges across town. He's now facing three felony charges—and no, dressing like a mouse did not help him sneak away. In news that feels extremely 2025, a Chuck E. Cheese employee was arrested in full mouse costume for allegedly committing credit card fraud—because apparently, some days you wake up thinking you'll spend the afternoon making kids smile, and end it in handcuffs with a giant foam head on the squad car. Jermel Jones, 41,...

Desperate to win back male voters, Democrat strategists propose bold new ideas. Will they work, or backfire spectacularly? Transcript linked below video, but the video is worth the four minutes it takes to watch it.