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Facebook Tweet Email Link Albany, Georgia KFF Health News  —  Belinda McLoyd has been thinking about peanut butter. McLoyd, 64, receives a small monthly payment through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps. “They don’t give you that much to work with,” she said. To fit her tight budget, she eats ramen noodles — high on sodium and low on nutrition — multiple times a week. If she had more money, said McLoyd, who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and heart problems, she’d buy more grapes, melons, chuck roast, ground turkey, cabbage, and turnip greens.…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 8:45 PM ET, Sun July 20, 2025 CELEBRATION KEY, Bahamas – The Bahamian sun shone brightly as Carnival Cruise Line officially opened its highly anticipated private destination on Grand Bahama, Celebration Key.On Saturday, the first guests arrived at Celebration Key aboard the 3,934-guest Carnival Vista. The company’s leaders—including Carnival Cruise Line president Christine Duffy, Carnival Corporation chief executive officer Josh Weinstein and “chief fun officer” Shaquille O’Neal—welcomed travelers to the $600 million destination. Christine Duffy, Shaquille O’Neal and Josh Weinstein at Celebration Key (Photo Credit: Carnival Cruise Line)“We are finally here at Celebration Key on…

Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things. Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative. Quip is nonintrusive — on Mac, it lives on the menu bar and on iOS, it has a special keyboard — and maintains a history of all things…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who as teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” was central to a cultural phenomenon that helped define the 1980s, died at 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said Monday.Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.“He was rescued by people on the beach,” the department’s initial report said, but first responders from Costa Rica’s Red Cross found him…

Pepsi Prebiotic Cola.Courtesy: PepsiCoPepsiCo on Monday announced that it will launch a prebiotic cola under its namesake soda brand, starting this fall.Pepsi Prebiotic Cola comes just four months after the beverage giant announced its $1.95 billion acquisition of upstart Poppi. Soda consumption has broadly fallen over the past two decades in the U.S. But prebiotic sodas, fueled by Poppi and fellow newcomer Olipop, have won over health-conscious consumers over the past five years with their gut-health claims. The acquisition closed in May.Prior to the deal, Pepsi had reportedly aimed to launch its own functional soda under its Soulboost brand, but canceled those…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 9:05 AM ET, Mon July 21, 2025 Beginning July 21, cruisers heading to Greek islands will be required to pay an extra sustainable tourism fee, up to 20 euro per person, depending on the destination. The new tourist tax was originally announced last year and is now in effect across the Greek Isles, including Mykonos and Santorini. Those who encouraged the passing of the new tax law say that it will help the heavily touristed destinations to cope with rising tourism and maintain their infrastructure.   According to Euro News, travelers will be required to pay…

Grok’s raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it’s Grok 4, xAI’s latest model, that’s been driving the app’s revenue of late. Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4 late on July 9, and by Friday, July 11, Grok’s gross revenue on iOS had jumped a whopping 325% to $419,000, up from $99,000 the day before the Grok 4 launch, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Image Credits:Appfigures Grok continued to pull in higher-than-usual revenue in the days following the launch of the new model, with gross revenue over $367,000 for a…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The United States will require international visitors to pay a new “visa integrity fee” of at least $250, added to existing visa application costs, according to a provision in the Trump administration’s recently enacted domestic policy bill. The fee will apply to all visitors who are required to obtain nonimmigrant visas to enter the United States. This includes many leisure and business travelers, international students and other temporary visitors. In fiscal year 2024, the US issued nearly 11 million nonimmigrant visas, according to State Department figures. Tourists and business travelers from countries that are part of…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 9:55 AM ET, Mon July 21, 2025 Perillo Tours has added two new tours to its Italy portfolio for next year, offering longer stays in Florence and Sorrento. “This style of itinerary is something we’ve found our guests really value,” said Steve Perillo, third-generation owner of Perillo Tours. “By anchoring the itinerary in just two Italian cities, our guests can settle in and explore each destination, and its surrounding region, in more depth.”  Gems of Italy The new Gems of Italy tour is a nine-day trip exploring Northern Italy, with three nights in Genoa visiting Portofino,…

“My whole life has been preparing me for this moment,” Ben Sanders said when asked about why he launched his emergency response startup Hyper. The company announced Monday a $6.3 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures, as well as an official emergence from stealth.  As a child, he so wanted to become a police officer that he had his mother sew yellow stripes on his navy sweatpants. He wore that with an officer’s rain hat for an entire year. As he grew up, he worked at the intersection of tech and government and once ran for federal office.  Around…