Willy Wonka’s Violet Beauregarde could start a support group. According to a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, a 68-year-old woman developed “blue-gray hyperpigmentation” on her limbs just a couple of weeks after she started taking a common medication. The woman sought treatment after dark patches on her arms and legs persisted for six weeks. The woman suffers from rosacea, a common skin condition that causes the face to appear red or flushed — and wasn’t the cause of the blue hue. “Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory condition in which the skin appears inflamed along with evidence of acne-like…

The aunt of Atlanta Falcons football players A.J. and Avieon Terrell is dead at age 49 after another vehicle crashed into her parked car in a Kroger parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia. Giselle Perry was waiting for her mother, whom she dropped off at the Kroger, when the accident occurred at around 3:20 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, her husband, Laddyan Perry, told Atlanta News First. Laddyan described her as “great, gorgeous, everything that’s good.” Surveillance video obtained by Atlanta News First shows a car speeding through the lot and colliding with Giselle’s, which was parked near the entrance. The…

These invisible invaders are getting some peace of “mind” on your vacation. Often associated with big skies and purple mountains majesty, the US National Parks are increasingly becoming a cesspool for an insidious scourge — brain-eating amoebas. Researchers with the US Geological Survey and Montana State University found the parasitic interloper at thermal zones in three major National Parks: Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, and Yellowstone National Park, ABC Utah reported. According to a study published in ACS Publications, some of these areas were previously not known to harbor the invader. Dubbed Naegleria fowleri, this microscopic monster…

The nearly two-year legal war between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni came to an abrupt end in May 2026 — and according to legal experts, the timing and terms of the settlement mean the case is closed for good. On May 4, 2026, news broke that Lively and Baldoni reached a settlement just days before a trial was set to begin. Lively alleged that her It Ends With Us costar and director sexually harassed her, fostered a hostile work environment and orchestrated a smear campaign against her. Baldoni denied the claims and filed a countersuit, which was dismissed in June…

An elderly Spirit Airlines passenger with dementia died after landing in Houston and wandering onto a busy highway two years ago, according to a bombshell lawsuit accusing the shuttered airline of negligence. Marcos Humberto Vindel Osorio, 75, went missing on June 8, 2024, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport after arriving from Honduras and was later found dead miles from the airport on the side of a freeway. He was hit by multiple vehicles, causing unthinkable grief to his family, who filed a lawsuit against Spirit Airlines on April 22 — less than two weeks before the company went bankrupt. Osorio…

Fast food fans may have found a way to satisfy their In-N-Out cravings without stepping foot inside the beloved California burger chain. McDonald’s customers have been using a custom ordering trick to recreate In-N-Out Burger’s famous “Animal Style” burger using menu items available at the Golden Arches, reports Food Republic. The hack starts with a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger and a few modifications designed to mimic the signature flavor profile of In-N-Out’s world famous burgers, which traditionally include grilled onions, pickles and the chain’s well known spread. Food Republic said customers can approximate the taste by adding Big Mac sauce, extra…

The encampment has grown significantly over the past year, raising concerns among nearby residents and local officials about wildfire risk and environmental contamination.“On one hand, disappointed that those people need to do this, because where do they go?” said Peachland Mayor Patrick Van Minsel. “On the other hand, I did see the danger to our town. We cannot have this. It’ll be a very dry season, so we need to be very vigilant.” The camp is located near Trepanier Creek, where concerns have also been raised about sewage contamination.Residents living nearby say they have been asking various levels of government…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA former school head of department has been banned from applying to teach after multiple allegations from three students, including that he kissed one of them, made sexual comments, talked about losing their virginity, and sent more than 2700 emails.In a judgment published on Friday, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the teacher had engaged in inappropriate behaviour against the three students, who claimed he kissed one of them, invited them to his property, and touched them in his office and classroom.He was…

Hayden Panettiere’s dating history includes a former costar and boxing champion. Panettiere made headlines for her romance with Heroes costar Milo Ventimiglia due to their 12-year age gap. The pair dated from 2007 to 2009. Following her split from Ventimiglia, she met Wladimir Klitschko. The actress and the boxer dated on and off from 2009 to 2018. The exes welcomed daughter Kaya in 2014. In May 2026, Panettiere officially came out as bisexual and exclusively opened up to Us Weekly about her past experience dating women. “It was always scary, because my life, I mean, there were paparazzi always outside,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military carried out a lethal strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two alleged narco-terrorists, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).”On May 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” SOUTHCOM said in a post on X.”Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the post continued. “Two male narco-terrorists were…

In a major shakeup that puts California’s beleaguered bullet train firmly under Gavin Newsom’s thumb, the governor has installed two of his closest allies to the High-Speed Rail Authority board. Jason Elliott, a longtime political adviser and former deputy chief of staff in the Newsom administration, was appointed Friday to the board along with Steve Kawa, who’s also served as an adviser after working as Newsom’s chief of staff during his time as mayor of San Francisco. The pair will replace outgoing board Chair Tom Richards and Vice Chair Nancy Miller. Newsom’s appointments come as the high-speed rail project confronts…

They’re collecting hefty checks without breaking a sweat.  Clocking in and cashing out is as easy as pie in the era of remote work. And now, wannabe employees without undergraduate degrees are able to make bank thanks to the prevalence of high-paying posts that don’t require higher education certifications. “More companies are shifting their hiring focus to job seekers with the right skills, experience, and potential rather than higher education,” noted researchers for FlexJobs, a subscription-based employment board, in a May 2026 report, revealing the top 20 most lucrative work-from-home opportunities sans post-secondary demands.  “Employers recognize that real-world skills, whether…

Things are looking bad for Berlin: the German capital seems to be becoming less and less interesting for tourists. Visitor numbers rose for years, peaking in the record year of 2019, when Berlin recorded 34.1 million overnight stays. But a few years later, the trend seems to be reversing: in 2025, there were only 29.4 million overnight stays – a drop of almost 15%. The majority of visitors to Berlin come from Germany: with 7.9 million of the total of 12.4 million visitors in 2025, they account for more than 60%. Some of them are customers of city guide Reinhold…

By Eli Ridder The Canadian Press Posted May 8, 2026 4:49 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A popular potato chip maker in New Brunswick says it is continuing efforts to limit its facility’s impact on nearby residents. The Covered Bridge Potato Chip company says it started taking steps last year that included setting up a large fence, planting trees and adding sound-deadening measures.The company’s president Brook Dickinson said in a statement Friday it would complete any outstanding tasks in the plan for its Woodstock, N.B., facility in the coming weeks and that it…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe 37-year-old mother lay at her camp next to the river, her labour rapidly progressing. Rain pattered around her, falling on the blue tarp she and her partner had set up around their campsite in the NSW Riverina.She was giving birth to twins in the makeshift home she had been living in for more than five months along the Murrumbidgee River, her belongings scattered on the dirt near a princess play tent.It was not her first birth, though her other children were not living…