Applebee’s delivered a solid first quarter of 2026 and then watched April arrive with a problem it did not create and cannot fix on its own. The Iran War has pushed gas prices up more than 50 percent since the Strait of Hormuz was locked down in March, and the casual dining chain
Kristoffer Reitan arrived at Quail Hollow Club as the kind of player most casual golf fans would have needed to look up. He left Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday as a PGA Tour champion, a Signature Event winner and one of the most remarkable stories in golf heading into PGA Ch
John Brenkus, the co-creator and host of ESPN’s Sport Science, the six-time Emmy Award-winning series that spent nearly two decades making physics and biomechanics genuinely entertaining for sports fans, died on Saturday May 31, 2025, at the age of 54 after a battle with depressi
Ryan Seacrest received a Male Star of the Year nomination at the 8th Annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, and the nomination covers both American Idol on ABC and Wheel of Fortune in syndication simultaneously. The Critics Choice Association announced the nominations on April 30,
Michael Pennington, one of the finest Shakespearean stage actors Britain produced in the second half of the twentieth century, and the man who gave Moff Jerjerrod his cool, bureaucratic menace in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, died on Sunday May 10, 2026. He was 82. Th
Robert Irwin appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday May 6, 2026, to tell the talk show host that he had nearly been killed by a 14-foot, 700-pound crocodile. The crocodile’s name is Jimmy Fallon. Robert named it after the host when it was a baby, years befor
Passengers who boarded the Disney Adventure in Singapore on Thursday May 7, 2026 for a four-night cruise were still aboard the docked ship the following afternoon when the captain announced that the voyage was not going to happen. The mechanical issue that had been preventing the
A 27-year-old Montana ranch wife named Callie has turned one of the most alarming living situations in rural America into one of the most watched stories on TikTok, and it is not hard to understand why. She lives in a farmhouse that is built on top of a garter snake den. Not near
As mini dramas and vertical-screen series continue to expand across global platforms, their success raises a deeper creative question: why do these short, highly dramatic stories travel so quickly between cultures? For writer Jiayan He, the answer lies less in the format’s speed
Two Czech businessmen — Marek Čmejla and Jiří Diviš — placed their trust, and a great deal of money, in a real estate operator named Radovan Vítek. Vítek ran the company. They called it a “parity partnership.” With Čmejla and Diviš’s money Vitek bought buildings, land, hotels, an
Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski did not throw one of the fastest pitches ever recorded from a starting pitcher on Friday night at American Family Field. He threw ten of them. Three reached 103.6 mph, a velocity no starting pitcher has ever touched in the Statcast
A norovirus outbreak aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship has sickened 102 passengers and 13 crew members, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday after the ship reported the outbreak on Thursday May 7, 2026. The ship is currently carrying 3,116 passe
