Burger King employees tell customers ‘You rule,’ give them crowns

Burger King employees tell customers ‘You rule,’ give them crowns

At BK, having it you’re way now comes with a crown. Burger King employees have been ordered to tell customers “You rule” and to offer them a cardboard crown as a gesture of thanks for ordering a whopper or anything else on the menu. The Florida-based fast food chain is planning to send monitors to…

Super Bowl 2024 odds: 49ers still favorite with Ravens close behind entering championship weekend

Super Bowl 2024 odds: 49ers still favorite with Ravens close behind entering championship weekend

The NFL is down to its final four teams, and the San Francisco 49ers (+145) remain favorites to win Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas. After narrowly escaping with a win against the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round, the 49ers host the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship game next week. The 49ers…

Larry Summers blasts Harvard for picking Israel critic to fight antisemitism

Larry Summers blasts Harvard for picking Israel critic to fight antisemitism

Former Harvard President Larry Summers slammed the university over its appointment of a Jewish professor who has called Israel “an apartheid state” to co-chair its antisemitism task force. Summers took issue with the appointment of Prof. Derek Penslar, a scholar of Jewish history, as co-chair of a task force that was named by the school’s…

Norovirus alert: FDA warns of contaminated raw oysters from Mexico

Norovirus alert: FDA warns of contaminated raw oysters from Mexico

Raw oysters from certain parts of Mexico could be a source of norovirus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning. The agency has advised restaurants and retailers to stop selling and to dispose of oysters harvested from Bahia Salina, Sonora, Mexico — which were shipped by freight carrier Sociedad Acuicola GolPac on Dec….

Why white home uniforms — once an NBA mainstay — have disappeared

Why white home uniforms — once an NBA mainstay — have disappeared

Every August, after the NBA releases its schedule for the upcoming season, Michael McCullough, the Miami Heat’s chief marketing officer, thinks about the next 82 games. He not only considers ticket sales and promotions but also sets a meeting with the team’s equipment manager and focuses on an essential part of his job: uniforms. Laying…

Norman Jewison, Filmmaker Who Spanned Genres, Is Dead at 97

Norman Jewison, Filmmaker Who Spanned Genres, Is Dead at 97

But throughout his career Mr. Jewison was repeatedly drawn to more serious fare, in movies like “F.I.S.T.” (1978), a labor-union drama that starred Sylvester Stallone; “In Country” (1989), about the daughter of a Vietnam War casualty; and his last film, “The Statement” (2003), the story of a former Nazi collaborator, played by Michael Caine. Well…

Tensions Erupt at Los Angeles Times as Owner Weighs Deep Cuts

Tensions Erupt at Los Angeles Times as Owner Weighs Deep Cuts

Around twilight on Thursday, Los Angeles Times journalists gathered at Flora, a rooftop bar not far from the paper’s headquarters, to toast their departing editor, Kevin Merida. As reporters and editors sipped cocktails under a darkening sky, the talk was focused on why Mr. Merida, the paper’s editor for nearly three years, had decided to…

Reliever Josh Hader finalizes $95 million, 5-year contract with Houston Astros

Reliever Josh Hader finalizes $95 million, 5-year contract with Houston Astros

HOUSTON – Hard-throwing reliever Josh Hader and the Houston Astros finalized a $95 million, five-year contract on Monday. Hader will get a $19 million salary in each of the next five seasons, none of it deferred. He gets a full no-trade provision and would receive a $1 million bonus for winning the Mariano Rivera/Trevor Hoffman…

Mocked as ‘Pokémon With Guns,’ Palworld Becomes an Instant Hit

Mocked as ‘Pokémon With Guns,’ Palworld Becomes an Instant Hit

A video game once ridiculed for putting machine guns into the hands of cute creatures, eerily similar to the ones in Pokémon, was downloaded by an enormous audience over the weekend. More than 300,000 players simultaneously logged on to the game, Palworld, when it was released in early access on Friday, momentarily causing servers to…

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