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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 05: A Target store stands in Manhattan on March 05, 2024 in New York City. As it showed progress in raising profits, the Minneapolis-based retailer’s shares jumped nearly 12% in afternoon trading despite a drop in sales. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Target appears to replace LGBTQ ‘Pride’ section with USA-themed apparel, sparking backlash from liberals and leftists

Target’s merchandising strategy has gone viral since early June, following a notable shift from its typical Pride Month (June) displays to a focus on all American-themed apparel.

A vendor drags his ice cream cooler across North Avenue Beach in Chicago July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

Americans slow to book summer travel amid discount hunting

Americans are scaling back travel plans from flights to drives or waiting to book only if the price is right.

TOPSHOT - Smoke rises from the crater of the Etna volcano as it erupts, on Mount Etna near Catania on June 2, 2025. A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on June 2, 2025, from Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, after a portion of its southeastern crater likely collapsed, authorities said. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO/AFP via Getty Images)

Italy’s Mount Etna erupts in wild fashion, forces tourists to flee

The highest active volcano in Europe erupted on Monday, sending tourists on Mount Etna into a frenzy as they ran for safety with smoke and ash rising miles into the air.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA - FEBRUARY 2: Groundhog handler AJ Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil after he did not see his shadow predicting an early Spring during the 138th annual Groundhog Day festivities on Friday February 2, 2024 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Groundhog Day is a popular tradition in the United States and Canada. Over 40,000 people spent a night of revelry awaiting the sunrise and the groundhog's exit from his winter den. If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his den. Early spring arrives if he does not see his shadow, causing Phil to remain above ground. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

PETA Urges End to Groundhog Day Tradition, Proposes ‘Vegan Weather Cake’ Alternative To Punxsutawney Phil

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling to axe a beloved American tradition, replacing it with what it calls a “delicious” vegan substitution.

Lady Gaga poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the movie "Joker: Folie a Deux", in competition, at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki/File Photo

Lady Gaga to hold free concert at Rio’s Copacabana Beach, sources say

Pop star Lady Gaga is set to hold a free concert at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach in May 2025.

TOPSHOT - People look at a bronze art installation depicting a pile of feces on former US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's desk that is made to look like a monument by the group Civic Crafting to protest remarks by former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments honoring the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 24, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Bronze ‘Poop’ Sculpture Mocking Trump, Jan. 6 Protesters Is Erected Along D.C. National Mall

Among the famous monuments in D.C., including the phallic-shaped obelisk Washington monument, and those along Washington, D.C.’s National Mall, a new bronze “memorial” depicting human feces has been erected, and authorities say they will not remove it for at least a week.