As high prices continue to affect consumer spending, more fast food restaurants are introducing value meals to get customers back in their doors. Subway North America president Doug Fry joins Wealth! to discuss how the sandwich chain is handling weakened consumer spending. As more restaurants roll out value meals, Fry warns that “sometimes greater value […]
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Muslims in Asia celebrate Eid al-Adha with sacrifice festival and traditional feast
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims in Asia on Monday celebrated Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, with food and prayers for people in Gaza suffering from the Israel-Hamas war. One of the biggest Islamic holidays, the occasion commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s test of faith through slaughtering livestock and animals and distributing the meat to the […]
Maya sacrifice of twin boys revealed by DNA from Chichen Itza
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In 1967, an underground cistern known as a chultun was discovered near a sacred body of water at Chichen Itza, an important ancient Maya city on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Skeletal remains of more than 100 children were found inside. Now, DNA obtained from 64 of them is offering insight […]
A Chilling Discovery Suggests This King Built Funerary Huts With Blood From 41 Sacrifice Victims
In the Benin city of Abomey, there are two funerary huts reportedly made from human blood—the result of a voodoo sacrificial tradition. French archeologists have now analyzed the mortar of the structure and determined that it does contain hemoglobin and immunoglobulin from chickens and humans, revealing intimate details of this bloody tradition. The researchers also […]
‘Profiles in courage.’ Fort Worth recognizes those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Spc. Eduardo Torres’ family gathered in the shade of a live oak tree in Mount Olivet Cemetery, seated in folding chairs about 100 yards from where their beloved son and brother was buried. They wore white T-shirts with his name, a beaming photo of him in uniform, and the years of his short life — […]
Flag ceremony held to honor African Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice
TRENTON, N.J. – A flag placement ceremony was held at Locust Hill African American Cemetery in Trenton Memorial Day weekend. The cemetery on Hart Avenue is the oldest remaining segregated cemetery in New Jersey’s capital city serving the community between 1861 to 1911. The names of those buried there were lost, including 10 soldiers who […]
Del Sol sets up ‘Fallen Soldier Table’ to remember military sacrifice
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — El Paso’s Del Sol Medical Center is remembering the sacrifices of servicemembers who paid the ultimate price in service and duty to their country this Memorial Day weekend. Fallen Soldier Table Courtesy of Del Sol Medical Center The hospital has set up a “Fallen Soldier Table,’ it said in a […]
Trump suggests he’d ‘sacrifice’ himself and go to jail over gag order violations
Donald Trump was held in contempt Monday for violating a gag order in his hush money trial for a 10th time, and New York state Judge Juan Merchan has warned the former president that he may be jailed if he keeps it up. But Trump suggested that he’s not deterred by the prospect of jail […]
Honoring valor and sacrifice on National Vietnam War Veterans Day
Leesburg and Lady Lake and other communities around Lake County are recognizing the valor and sacrifice of those who served in the Vietnam War in commemoration of National Vietnam War Veterans Day. March 29 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the departure of the last American troops from Vietnam on March 29, 1973. The United States of […]
White supremacist charged for killing Tacoma horse as ‘sacrifice’ for dead friend
A Snohomish man has been charged in connection to two high-profile cases in Pierce County – the shooting death of a horse in Tacoma, and a double homicide in Maple Valley. KIRO 7 News requested an 18-page court document that identified a man who shot and killed a horse at a stable in Tacoma on […]
Watch: Lioness makes sacrifice to save cub from hungry hyenas
A lioness and her cubs were enjoying a meal in a tree when a clan of hungry hyenas arrived and surrounded the tree in hopes of a helping of leftovers. One of the cubs inexplicably jumped down from the tree—an apparent attempt to flee the scene—and was instantly surrounded by the hyenas and their snapping […]
Phoenix woman’s ‘huge sacrifice’ for mom came before both were killed by county attorney’s widower
For the last few years, Maryalice Cash pushed through loss and grief, all while caring for her ailing mother, Cynthia Domini. Following a Christmas Eve filled with excessive drinking at a north Phoenix home, Cash’s beau, David DeNitto, fatally fired his AR-15-style semiautomatic gun at the two women before the widower to former Maricopa County […]