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Anonymous ID: d70301 May 17, 2025, 3:39 p.m. No.23047900   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7901 >>7905 >>7909

A McDonald's location in Virginia is no longer allowing customers under 21 to dine in

The policy change comes after reports of multiple fights and other "disrespectful" behavior from young customers

Adults 21 and older will be allowed to dine in but have to ring a doorbell and show their ID

A McDonald’s in Virginia is setting an age restriction for customers.

 

The fast food location is establishing a new policy that guests under the age of 21 cannot dine inside (or even enter) the restaurant.

 

The Fairfax County McDonald’s recently initiated the age limit after multiple fights among young people broke out in the dining area, NBC Washington reported. The home of the Big Mac is down the street from a high school.

 

The news segment showed a sign taped to the McDonald’s door reading “Safety Notice Effective Immediately,” outlining the new arrangement.

 

“Due to repeated incidents of student violence, this McDonald’s location is temporarily closed for dine-in service to anyone under 21 years of age. This decision was made to protect our staff, our guests, and our community,” the notice read. “Adults — we are still here to serve you! Please ring the doorbell and a team member will assist you.”

 

The note concluded by thanking customers for their “understanding” while they work to keep the location “safe and welcoming.”

 

Ring the doorbell Fairfax Co. McDonald's now has 21+ policy for indoor dining Fairfax County, Virginia

A McDonald's in Virginia posted a new policy stating that customers must be over 21 to dine in.

NBC 4 Washington

McDonald’s management told NBC that adults who dine in the restaurant might be asked to show their IDs.

 

“These kids are off the chain,” a customer outside the location told the camera crew, describing the “disrespect” she has seen from young people at the establishment.

 

“It’s a company, it should be a safe environment for families to enjoy their food,” another customer said.

 

The Fairfax County McDonald's Operator clarified in a statement to PEOPLE that all customers are still welcome to place orders via the Mobile App.

 

"We love being part of the Edison community and we value each and every customer. We’ve enhanced our Franconia Road McDonald’s security measures in an effort to create a safer environment for our staff and customers," the statement said. "This policy was developed in partnership with local school officials with oversight from local law enforcement. This serves as a temporary fix as we work towards a long-term solution for all. We thank our community for its support, understanding and patience."

 

https://people.com/a-mcdonald-s-is-banning-dine-in-service-for-all-customers-under-21-11735713

 

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Anonymous ID: d70301 May 17, 2025, 3:52 p.m. No.23047931   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7935 >>7941

LITTLE ROCK, AR – Arkansas-based retail giant Walmart lost a $222 million judgment in Little Rock federal court on Tuesday.

 

The lawsuit was brought by Zest Labs, Inc. in 2018, claiming that Walmart had stolen its trade secrets.

 

Zest developed a supply chain solution to reduce food waste by accurately predicting shelf life. The suit claimed Walmart stole its trade secrets to create a competing solution.

 

Zest claimed Walmart had signed a non-disclosure agreement and ultimately patented the solution it created.

 

The $222 million judgment broke down to $72.7 million for compensation and $150 million in punitive damages.

 

Officials with the Bartko Pavia law firm, which represented Zest Labs, said the judgment was “one of the largest verdicts in Arkansas history and likely the highest trade secret verdict in the history of the state.”

 

Attorney General Tim Griffin clarifies Arkansas’ stance on lawsuit against Section 504 rule

This was the second time the case was heard after an initial $110 million judgment against Walmart was thrown out due to pretrial statements by Zest’s counsel at the time.

 

Lead attorney for Zest Labs, Patrick M. Ryan, said the award was more than what was requested.

 

“The jury heard the evidence and concluded that Walmart stole Zest’s revolutionary technology and incorporated it into a patent that was later published, destroying Zest’s trade secret,” he said. “The jury found that Walmart’s conduct was willful and malicious; thus, they sent a strong multi-million dollar deterrent message to companies like Walmart who might contemplate stealing the trade secrets of other small companies.”

 

Walmart spokesperson Kelly Hellbusch said the company would be appealing the verdict.

 

“We strongly disagree with the verdict and believe it’s not supported by the facts,” she said. “Zest Lab’s unethical behavior has compromised the integrity of this case from the start. We expect our suppliers to uphold the highest ethical standards and will continue to advocate for fairness and justice, including pursuing an appeal and post-trial motions.”

 

https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/walmart-loses-222-million-in-little-rock-federal-court-jury-trial-one-of-the-largest-in-arkansas-history

Anonymous ID: d70301 May 17, 2025, 4:10 p.m. No.23047976   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7980 >>8279 >>8466 >>8539

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent.

 

Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) led the reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.).

 

“We’re here to say that there’s no more waiting, no more watering down, no more putting justice on layaway,” said Lee, the descendant of enslaved Africans. “Black folks are owed more than thoughts and prayers. We’re owed repair, we’re owed restitution and we’re owed justice.”

 

The resolution calls for the federal government to allocate trillions of dollars in reparations to Black Americans to atone for chattel slavery, Jim Crow and the ongoing effects of other federally sanctioned discriminatory policies.

 

“For over 400 years, this country has profited off the stolen labor, the stolen land and stolen lives of Black people,” said Bush, who attended Thursday’s press conference.

 

She continued: “From the first shackled bodies brought to these shores — and those that didn’t make it to the shores — to the grueling, back-breaking, murderous work done on plantations that built America’s wealth, to the federal officials who enslaved human beings while they wrote our laws even here in this building, America has been cashing checks written in Black blood.”

 

Lee and Bush on Thursday specifically pointed to the Trump administration’s attempts to limit diversity, equity and inclusion policies, including President Trump’s recent efforts to nullify a key component of the Civil Rights Act.

 

“The harms done to enslaved Africans and subsequently their descendants for generations to follow are innumerable, but they are well documented, traceable and persistent,” said Lee.

 

Since Trump took office in January, members of the Congressional Black Caucus have introduced multiple pieces of legislation to recognize the nation’s history of slavery and discrimination.

 

In March, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced bipartisan legislation to establish a monument recognizing the historically Black Greenwood District, which was burned to the ground in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

 

Earlier this month, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Booker led the reintroduction of H.R. 40, which would create a federal commission to examine the lasting impact of slavery, systemic racism and racial discrimination. It would also explore measures — such as reparations — to address these harms.

 

Pressley on Thursday condemned Trump’s efforts to limit DEI in federal institutions, including threats to defund the Smithsonian.

 

“We are in a moment of anti-Blackness on steroids, and we refuse to be silent,” said Pressley, adding that Congress has an obligation to right the wrongs of slavery and discrimination.

 

“We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice,” she said. “The antidote to anti-Blackness is to be pro-Black, and we will do it unapologetically. The United States government owes us a debt, and we need reparations now.”

 

Efforts to establish reparations for slavery have been ongoing since the end of slavery.

 

Many advocates have pointed to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15, commonly referred to as “40 acres and a mule.” But the directive, which ordered Confederate land seized in Georgia and South Carolina to be split among formerly enslaved Black people in those states, was never carried out. However, white slave owners were compensated for the loss of their land following the end of the Civil War.

 

In 1989, former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced H.R. 40 for the first time. He would continue to reintroduce the bill each session for three decades. Conyers died in 2019.

 

That same year, the NAACP released a resolution detailing the lasting harms of slavery and discrimination and called for federal reparations, including a national apology.

 

In 2021, Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to create a reparations plan for Black residents. Other states have since followed, including California and Maryland.

 

“Reparations are a proposal to level the playing field, but the only way we could ever have a level playing field is by remedying the harms that have been done by the system,” Lee said on Thursday. “We need real, concrete action. We need policies that close the racial wealth gap, eliminate Black maternal health disparities, fund education, address environmental racism in our communities, and we need reparations. It is a moral obligation, the debt that this country owes.”

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5302622-democrats-reintroduce-reparations-resolution/

Anonymous ID: d70301 May 17, 2025, 4:31 p.m. No.23048017   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A bronze statue of Melania Trump near her hometown in Slovenia has gone missing, five years after it replaced a wooden statue damaged by arsonists.

 

Slovenian police told CNN that they’d been informed of a theft in the village of Rozno, where the statue was situated, on Tuesday.

 

Officers “conducted an inspection of the crime scene and collected information,” police spokesperson Alenka Drenik Rangus said in a statement Friday. “The investigating judge and the district state prosecutor were informed about the theft.”

 

No further details were given by authorities.

 

Photos published in Slovenian local media show most of the statue has been sawed off, leaving just its feet and ankles attached to the tree trunk it stood on.

 

The statue was situated beside a river near Sevnica, a small, picturesque town about 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana.

 

Before this bronze statue was stolen, its original wooden incarnation was set alight in July 2020 by vandals. Badly burnt, it was then removed from its plinth before being displayed at an art gallery in the Slovenian town of Koper later that year and at an exhibition in Croatia in 2023.

 

Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images

A picture taken in September 2020 shows the original wooden statue after it was set on fire.

 

Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images

The wooden statue, made by conceptual artist Ales 'Maxi' Zupevc, was installed in July 2019.

Artist Brad Downey told CNN that he had always intended to make a bronze version of the statue to exhibit in an institutional setting, but decided to use it to replace the wooden sculpture after it was badly burned.

 

Downey had originally commissioned the wooden sculpture from local conceptual artist Ales Zupevc, better known as Maxi, who was born in the same hospital and the same year as Melania Trump.

 

Its somewhat abstract depiction of the first lady in the sky-blue dress she wore to her husband’s first presidential inauguration in 2017 drew mixed reviews from locals.

 

Sevnica is a sleepy town of 5,000 that has profited from its most famous daughter, placing itself firmly on the tourist trail and selling a range of Melania-themed products, including honey, chocolate and cake.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/style/melania-trump-statue-disappearance-intl-scli

Anonymous ID: d70301 May 17, 2025, 5:40 p.m. No.23048234   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8237

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That would be robbery and Putin would never agree to give up his beauties for these insatiable narcissists we have over here, but it sounds great from here, kek!

anin ladies not included in the above chauvinistic comment😉