‘Mexico is nobody’s pinata’On the evening of November 1, 2025, Carlos Manzo was out celebrating the Day of the Dead and carrying his infant son, who was dressed in a skeleton costume for the candlelit festival. The popular, cowboy hat-wearing mayor of Uruapan in Michoacan was outspoken against the gangsters terrorising his community and called on the federal government to intervene. Manzo put his son down to speak to his constituents, and moments later, a hooded teenage gunman walked up and shot him seven times.Protests and riots erupted, the result of years of frustration with a seemingly endless crime wave.…

There are many theories about what makes KFC’s signature fried-chicken menu item so “finger lickin’ good” — from the chain’s blend of herbs and spices to the chicken it uses and the breading technique it’s perfected.  One of the biggest reasons KFC’s chicken is legendary is that it’s cooked in…

When it comes to weekly news cycles, Netflix has just had a particularly bad one. It began when Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw wrote a piece arguing that Netflix’s subscriber engagement seems to decreasing, and that a number of shows recently returned for a second season to…

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