The fast food chain Steak 'n Shake, which last year switched from vegetable oil to beef tallow to cook fries, is making more moves under newly appointed Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes to go "back to the glory days of fast food." They claim it won't raise their prices. "Fortunately, we operate as a private entity, and so we believe if we do right by the customers, the market's going to reward us," he said.
Hugh Dougherty: It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. ... No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.
How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day.
U.S. military bases and equipment in the Persian Gulf have been hit much harder by recent Iranian strikes than initially reported, according to several U.S. officials and people familiar with the situation. The extent of the destruction is much greater than what has been publicly shared so far and the repair is expected to cost billions of dollars, the officials told NBC News. read more
While the Trump administration has reportedly tried to rein in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s widely unpopular anti-vaccine agenda, the political strategy is not working when it comes to words or actions. read more
WIRED reported that a medical student from Northern India, Sam, who aimed to ease his financial difficulties and pay off his education bills, created Emily using Gemini AI. read more
A security incident that might have involved gunfire occurred outside the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night and led to the evacuation of President Donald Trump and other political leaders. So far there are no reports of injuries. C-SPAN video shows security escorting Trump away from the head table.
Advocates for the refugees, many of whom fought the Taliban alongside U.S. forces, say the plan is intended to pressure them to return to Afghanistan at great personal risk. read more
"Gannon Ken Van Dyke (38) allegedly made more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket ... read more
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. read more
The Justice Department's internal watchdog is launching an investigation into the DOJ's production of files and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein as controversy continues over the handling of the case of the convicted sex offender. read more
Administration officials on Wednesday softened their predictions of an end to the Iran war and its turbulent effects on energy prices. read more
An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon. Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting yellow-backed duiker, an antelope species, in the central African country of Gabon when the incident occurred last Friday. While in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, he and his guide unexpectedly came across five female elephants accompanied by a calf.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. represents New Jersey's most competitive district this November -- but nobody, even his GOP colleagues, can say where he's been for the past month. read more
Close to half of the children in the United States -- more than 33 million kids -- live in counties with dangerously high levels of toxic air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's annual air quality report out Wednesday. read more
Above The Law's Joe Patrice writes about GW Law professor Jonathan Turley. read more
Hospitals in Mississippi -- already strained under the costs of caring for a high rate of patients without health insurance and with low-reimbursement plans, such as Medicaid -- are expected to lose $1 billion over the course of the next decade as a result of President Donald Trump's sweeping tax and spending bill signed into law in July. read more
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