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The Fried Chicken Inflation Index

YouTube star Elijah Quashie, of the British hit ‘The Pengest Munch’, is coping with the rising cost of wings.

Getty Images | SOPA images One of the creators of the Botometer — a web tool Elon Musk used to estimate Twitter’s spam rate for… Read More »Botometer’s creator says Musk’s Twitter spam estimate “means nothing”

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts as they drafted moderate candidates who could appeal to voters… Read More »Far-right victories in blue states threaten GOP hopes in November

The company blamed its financial performance for the potential bonus cut.

enlarge / The story of a conquest: The fruiting body of a parasitic fungus erupts from its victim’s body. The striking photo above vividly shows… Read More »See this award-winning sculpture of a fungus turning a fly into its ‘zombie’ slave

PHOENIX (AP) — A Mexican man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for killing a store clerk in Arizona during a 2015 robbery… Read More »38 years in prison for Mexican man in fatal robbery in Arizona

enlarge / How long do we really need chemicals? PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. Like Teflon, they made pots easier to… Read More »Scientists figure out how to destroy “chemicals forever”

A Florida airport worker was charged with two major thefts after a tracking device aided a sheriff’s investigation.

Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and former Donald Trump sideman, tried a new logic for the former president’s actions: He protected the sensitive… Read More »Rudy Giuliani cooks up an insane new excuse for Trump’s treasure trove of sensitive documents

enlarge / Bicycles, infrastructure and the willingness to use both are all necessary for bicycle use at the Dutch level. Transportation produces about a quarter… Read More »If everyone cycled like the Danes, we would avoid the emissions of a UK

The social networking company said Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical… Read More »Facebook and Instagram remove nonprofit from Robert Kennedy Jr. due to wrong information

According to Prescott Valley Police, an altercation took place in Prescott Valley near North Glassford Hill Road around 4:45 p.m. involving an employee of Wendy… Read More »Wendy’s employee charged with murder after customer was fatally hit at Prescott Valley restaurant

Sales have fallen, but don’t feel sorry for the Chromebook.

enlarge / Not all progress is good. Hispanolist/Getty Images It’s probably a little early to warn of extinction, but in some new cars, buttons are… Read More »Buttons beat touch screens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student to 34 years in prison for spreading “rumours” and retweeting dissidents,… Read More »Saudi PhD student gets 34 years in prison for tweets