America’s love affair with the Blizzard is on ice. Since early 2025, Dairy Queen has been in a franchise meltdown, closing at least 46 locations nationwide, with Texas taking the biggest hit after the chain operator, Project Lonestar, refused to renovate its restaurants, which got them iced out of the DQ family. Between February and March alone, 42 Texas locations shut down, leaving Lone Star cravers to fend for themselves. (Or finally try a McFlurry.) In Alaska, three DQ locations in Anchorage, Wasilla and Palmer all shuttered at the start of July, leaving the 49th state with just one Blizzard…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! If there’s one dress style Meghan Markle reaches for again and again, it’s a wrap dress. From her now iconic Armani wrap dress during her Oprah interview to casual printed wrap dresses on vacation with Prince Harry, Markle has demonstrated for years how versatile the waist-cinching silhouette is. The cut is elegant and flattering without feeling overdone. Luckily, you don’t have to spend designer prices to steal her style. I found wrap dresses that channel the same polished aesthetic for a fraction of…

He’s chugging his way through the competition. A soccer superfan in London is having a ball drinking beer during the FIFA World Cup. Gus Hully collected beers from the 48 countries competing — and cracks one open each time a team loses — so will either be celebrating or drowning his sorrows on Saturday night when his home country of England plays Norway. “I’ll be drinking each beer once that team has been eliminated from the competition, basically as a toast to their participation and failure at winning the tournament,” Hully told BBC Sport of his ale and lager haul, which…

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon — more than is stored in any other terrestrial ecosystem in the world. But these forests are facing a critical challenge.Research from 2023, which was carried out by me and more than 100 colleagues, found that tropical forests in South America are vulnerable to climate extremes. We determined that during an El Niño event, the warm phase of a natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate system, South American tropical forests may fail…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: One Senate Republican warned that the “radical leftist” surge in the Democratic Party today will be the roadmap for Democrats in 2028, when candidates will jockey for the White House.”You get this hammer-and-sickle wave we saw in New York — that is not going to be an isolated incident,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital. “That is a flashing red light. It is a red flag.””Their primaries now are going to be dominated by these people who want to go to war with Western civilization,” he continued.…

When Jessica Brown saw the news report detailing two separate stabbing events, one of which had occurred in her brother Edan’s neighborhood, her immediate thought was for the families involved. “I just thought to myself: oh, those poor families,” she recalls on this week’s episode of Gary Jubelin’s “I Catch Killers” podcast. Little did Brown realize that a few short hours afterwards, she’d receive the worst phone call of her life. “I got in my car and plugged my phone in and it just went absolutely ballistic,” she continues, adding that her phone had gone flat overnight. “I had to pull over…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Would you ever consider wearing your nightgown out in public? Well, you should, because sleep dresses are one of the hottest fashion trends of 2026. These loose, unstructured dresses have the same aura as a sundress, but with a more romantic, billowing vibe. They keep you cool with flowing fabric and are essentially made with built-in accessories thanks to lacey or eyelet details. We’ve seen crazier things, and honestly, we’re all in on the trend. That’s why we found 17…

Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. How low can the Mets go? Their pitiful 2026 campaign continues against the burgeoning Red Sox in Queens on Saturday. MLB bettors can use the FanDuel Predicts promo code for a $25 bonus in the FanDuel Predicts app for Mets vs. Red Sox.  FanDuel Predicts promo code for Mets vs. Red Sox FanDuel Predicts is FanDuel’s introduction to the rising prediction market space. Use the FanDuel Predicts promo code during sign-up, and you’ll redeem a $25 bonus…

It’s footwear fit for the porcelain throne. A gut health brand is giving bathroom breaks a stylish upgrade with a chic new alternative to the Squatty Potty, debuting a limited-edition pair of shoes it says can help make trips to the toilet a smoother experience. “They are about to change the way the world poops,” Let Loose founder and CEO Alexandra Houx Grounds declared in an Instagram video unveiling the product. Designed to be a more discreet and stylish alternative to traditional toilet stools, the $69 “s–t shoes” feature a retro-inspired design reminiscent of chunky slip-on platform sandals. But these…

In most areas of archaeology, excavators painstakingly dig layer by layer to reveal not just buried artifacts but also charred seeds, broken bones and microscopic grains of ancient pollen. This delicate process is followed by months of intensive lab work to study the newfound remains. But there is one kind of archaeologist that takes a different approach to understanding the past. Experimental archaeologists replicate how people did things in the past, using techniques they recreate from archaeological information and modern knowledge.In his new book, “Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of…