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South Korea’s government upgraded its assessment of the economy Friday, saying surging exports and improving domestic demand were sustaining a “solid recovery.”

A long-extinct Wendy’s burger has returned from the fast-food grave, packing a whopping 3,000 calories and costing nearly $30.A franchise in Edmund, Oklahoma, was recently spotted with a sign out front advertising the T-Rex burger challenge, which awards participants who finish the towering nine-patty cheeseburger with all the fixings in nine minutes with a T-shirt and a special prize, Allrecipes reported.The burger costs $29.99, according to the sign, which was posted on Reddit in early September. “Think you can take down the T-Rex? Prove it,” it boasts.WOMAN WINS FREE WENDY’S BURGERS FOR A YEAR AFTER BIZARRE COSTUME CONTEST VICTORYReddit users were divided over the monster menu item.”Gross. Dumb,” one commenter said bluntly.”The prize is high cholesterol and clogged arteries,” another said. Others joked that it’s a recipe for a “heart attack.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER”Dave Thomas is rolling over in his grave,” someone else added, referring to the chain’s founder.Others, however, were up for the challenge, claiming they could “destroy” the stacked burger.”Pretty decent deal actually,” another person chimed in.Lauren Manaker, a dietitian in South Carolina, told Fox News Digital that indulging in “a novelty burger like this is less about everyday nutrition and more about the experience.””One very large, highly processed meal can pack a lot of sodium, saturated fat and calories into a short sitting, which may leave some people feeling uncomfortable afterward, especially if they eat it quickly,” she said. “If someone wants to try it for fun, I’d encourage sharing it, slowing down and balancing the rest of the day with plenty of water, fruits, vegetables and other satisfying foods.”TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZAn employee at the Edmond, Oklahoma, location told Fox News Digital that the promotion is expected to run at restaurants across the state starting Sept. 10. The special prize, he hinted, includes a voucher for a free meal, adding that the challenge does not require participants to finish the fries and drink that accompany the burger.The burger has a history that dates back to the mid-2000s, according to multiple reports. The burger originally appeared in an issue of Sports Illustrated as a joke, leading some people to try ordering it at the fast-food restaurant.In response, a location in the Canadian city of Brandon, Manitoba, started offering it. The burger eventually went viral, grabbing the attention of corporate, which put a stop to it, Eater reported in 2013.”For obvious reasons, Wendy’s of Brandon neither condones nor promotes the idea of anyone consuming a nine-patty hamburger in one sitting,” an employee of the franchise said at the time, according to Food & Wine.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWSYet the burger managed to live on as a secret menu hack, according to social media users: Order a Dave’s Triple and customize it with six extra patties to get the T-Rex — without any prize at the end.Fox News Digital reached out to Wendy’s corporate headquarters in Ohio for additional comment.

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Ceremonies at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, the Pentagon and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania will take place Friday as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when 19 al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and attacked the United States.Officials and others with memories of that day reflected on what they witnessed and what they lost in some cases as the nation mourns anew.Retired Maj. Gen. Bert Mizusawa, who served in senior Army positions at the Pentagon before 9/11, worked as a senior Pentagon official in the time leading up to 9/11 and knew several colleagues who perished that day.On that Tuesday, Mizusawa said he was watching coverage of the attack on the Twin Towers from his office when reporters broke in to say the Pentagon had been targeted.FIRST ON FOX: TRUMP’S 9/11 TRIBUTE TO FEATURE MASSIVE PIECE OF GROUND ZERO HISTORY AT WHITE HOUSE”I looked out my window and was able to observe the plume of smoke rising from the attack on the Pentagon,” Mizusawa said. “My normal commute took me directly past the section that was destroyed, and the smoke lingered for days.”Mizusawa, the GOP nominee for Senate against Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said he also played a role in hiring Army Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude, the highest-ranking military officer killed in the Pentagon attack.He added he just recently met with the lone survivor of the Pentagon’s staff section that took a direct hit from American Airlines Flight 77 that day.”I reflected that, as tragic as the attack on the Pentagon was, the low-rise multi-ringed structure saved many lives as it was the virtual opposite form of structure compared to the World Trade Center buildings,” he said.Warner similarly recalled watching the attacks unfold and seeing smoke rise from the Pentagon that day.”I vividly remember the September 11 attacks, and I watched the smoke rise above the Pentagon…,” he said. “On the 25th anniversary of these tragic attacks, we remember the lives lost at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania, and in New York City, and our brave first responders whose heroic actions saved countless lives.”Also in Virginia, President Donald Trump is expected to attend the Pentagon’s ceremony. Trump has attended 9/11 observances at each of the three attack sites in different years.GOP SENATORS RALLY BEHIND 9/11 FAMILIES IN PUSH TO BAN MAMDANI FROM ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY: ‘HE’S A DISGRACE’In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are expected to attend the solemn ceremony and reading-of-names at the World Trade Center site.Hochul’s opponent, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, told Fox News Digital that that day changed his home state and his family forever.”The pain has never completely gone away,” Blakeman said. “My nephew Tommy was murdered while he was giving first aid to a severely burned woman. I lost many colleagues and friends on that day. We must never forget the danger facing our country from those with anti-American values.”Tommy, a New York State Courts officer, was reportedly rendering aid to a victim when Tower Two collapsed on him.9/11 FAMILIES PUSH TO BAN MAMDANI FROM 25TH ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE OVER ‘HOSTILE’ RECORD”The terrorist attacks on September 11 forever reshaped our city and state, and every year on the anniversary New Yorkers feel the weight of unimaginable tragedy and honor the lives lost,” Hochul said, reflecting on the day.”In the aftermath of 9/11, New Yorkers showed the world what courage, sacrifice and bravery looked like,” she added. Fox News Digital also reached out to Mamdani for comment.Former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are expected to attend the 25th anniversary ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial in New York.Hillary Clinton, then a New York senator, is remembered from a photo with then-Gov. George Pataki and then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani walking through the rubble after the attacks.Additional Trump administration officials will attend the third ceremony in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas Collins represented the administration there.The memorial is managed by the Department of the Interior, which said it will hold a reading of the names at 10:03 a.m. ET, the time United Flight 93 crashed into a field near U.S. Route 30 after passengers fought back against the hijackers.Fox News Digital reached out to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity – Shapiro’s GOP opponent this fall — for information on their plans for the day and comment on the 25th anniversary remembrance.SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTERGarrity will be in attendance at the Flight 93 Memorial in her official capacity as Pennsylvania State Treasurer, her campaign said.Speaking as the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee, Garrity told Fox News Digital she recalls September 11, 2001, as a bright September morning in the commonwealth that she and others thought would be a run-of-the-mill weekday.”But in the blink of an eye, in the skies over Lower Manhattan, along the shores of the Potomac, and in the fields of western Pennsylvania, our world was forever changed,” Garrity said.”Twenty-five years later, may God bless the heroes of Flight 93, the first responders to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and every American who answered the call to serve that day and in the years to follow: Let’s roll,” Garrity added, quoting Flight 93 victim Todd Beamer of Cranbury, N.J., who was recorded calling out that phrase as he led an unsuccessful effort to retake control of the plane from the terrorists.

Rey Mysterio will take on Omos in the main event of Triplemania 34 Night 1 on Friday night as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide hosts the event in the United States for the first time.Mysterio, who is the AAA general manager, got into a brawl with Omos in one of the final AAA shows before TripleMania. Mysterio initially suspended Omos for attacking him in August but returned to the fold as a paid spectator. Still, the 7-foot-3 giant still got his licks in on Mysterio. It culminated in a match at Triplemania 34. If Omos wins, he will be reinstated to the AAA roster. He has Dominik Mysterio in his corner for the match as El Grande Americano will back up Rey Mysterio. Dominik Mysterio takes on El Grande Americano on Sunday night in Night 2 with the AAA Mega Championship on the line.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKCorey Graves will be on the call for Triplemania. He called Rey Mysterio a “miracle” given how well the WWE Hall of Famer has still been able to perform at a high level at 51 years old.”Rey to me is a miracle,” Graves told OutKick Dropkick. “I actually had a chance to say to Rey a few months back. We were on the road, god knows where, and I’ve gotten to do commentary with Rey a lot lately. Obviously, I’ve called a great deal of his career and become friends with him and I actually had to stop myself. We were in the restaurant in the hotel and I said, ‘Hey, Rey, I feel like you and I have become friends to a point where I forget to tell you, you’re my favorite wrestler.’ And to have him still around and as much knowledge and experience as Rey has and physically speaking to move like he has not lost a step in 30 years — it’s a miracle.”Mysterio has one of his biggest challenges yet. At 5-foot-6, Mysterio has been more than capable of taking down any opponent who has come at him throughout his career.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Omos is a completely different beast. Graves described it as a true David vs. Goliath story.”Now you’ve got Rey in the main event of Triplemania, which in a way is sort of full circle,” Graves said. “Rey began in AAA and has competed in Triplemanias, but main eventing in a different country versus Omos – this is a true David and Goliath story taking place within the confines of the world of Lucha Libre.”So, hopefully it captivates the imaginations of people who may not be diehard Lucha fans or may not even know what they want to do Friday night in Las Vegas. ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ Come see Lucha Libre. I promise you, it’s unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. It’s the most passionate fan base in the WWE universe. It’s just fun, man. And to see a legend, a bona fide living legend like Rey Mysterio competing in the main event still at the highest level possible, you can’t say enough about Rey and how incredible he’s been.”Night 1 will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event can be seen on YouTube at 10 p.m. ET. Night 2 is set for Arena CDMX in Mexico City on Sunday night.

Aaron Rodgers is revealing shocking new details of his explosive breakup with Shailene Woodley.On an episode of “Not Just Football with Cam Heyward,” Rodgers explained that he didn’t “ruin” the actress’ life during their 2022 split.”I proposed to Shailene and she said yes. Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no,” Rodgers began.”A couple days after that, she tells me, ‘Before we get married, I gotta go f–k this guy,’ and I’m like — because her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her. But in actuality, she told me that, and then she took off the ring by March — I proposed in December — and we had a couple of times where we tried to get reunited and nothing ever happened,” he said.SHAILENE WOODLEY IMPLIES AARON RODGERS ‘UNAVAILABILITY’ WAS REASON FOR SPLIT”There wasn’t even a relationship in 2022 to break off. She literally told me, ‘I don’t want to be with you’ after we tried some reconciliation in 2021. There’s just a lot of narrative out there that isn’t true,” Rodgers clarified.The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback addressed Woodley directly on the podcast.”I’m actually a good partner. I don’t wish you any harm … and Shai, you left me, you took the ring off. What are we talking about regarding me ruining your life?” Rodgers asked.A representative for Woodley did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.Woodley and Rodgers first sparked dating rumors in July 2020, but the two kept their relationship under wraps until going public a few days before they announced their engagement in February 2021. In February 2022, the former couple called off their engagement but briefly reconciled before splitting again that April.During a 2024 interview with Outside magazine, Woodley shared that she went through a traumatic event in 2022, the same year she and Rodgers split for good.”I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022,” she said, without naming anything specific. “I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy. I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment.”Woodley did say that she chose to stay in a “toxic situation” because she was empathizing with “someone else.”Without naming the person, Woodley said that “empathy kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone.”During the same interview, the 34-year-old actress admitted that she hasn’t “shared much” about her former romance with the 42-year-old NFL star “because it always makes me cry.””It was not right. But it was beautiful,” the “Big Little Lies” star told the outlet after her “eyes welled up.”In a September 2024 interview with Bustle, Woodley alluded to the reason behind their split as she shared her disdain for pretentious behavior.”I’m very uninterested in the performance of people at this moment in life. I’m uninterested in the external value that we put on everything,” the Emmy Award nominee said. “I find the performance of being something else in order to receive love or acceptance or work from others to be the ultimate form of soul death.”Woodley told the outlet that her opposition to performative behavior was due to previously suffering from a “broken heart.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”A broken heart that healed and broke again,” she explained. “I fell in love over and over with unavailability. I’m very open as a human. I love easy, and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly.””It’s really taken me a lot of time to understand that it’s not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people,” Woodley continued. “Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t play out the way that I may have desired them to.””I give all of myself,” she added of her approach to relationships. “I used to be a person who, if you crossed me and disrespected that, would continue to give and give. And now you cross me, I respectfully go, ‘Thank you so much for that information. Have a beautiful life. I wish you well.’ Not interested.”GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HEREPUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCOREBoth Woodley and Rodgers have moved past their relationship. Woodley has been publicly linked to French actor Lucas Bravo and actor Milo Callaghan in the years since her split from the NFL star.Rodgers revealed in June 2025 that he had gotten married and confirmed he was wearing a wedding ring. Rodgers later identified his wife as Brittani, explaining that they first met in 2017, reconnected after his relationships with Danica Patrick and Woodley, and secretly eloped in 2025.

Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington fired back at Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley on Thursday, saying the legal analyst “was wrong” for criticizing his public comments about the lone holdout juror in Clancy’s murder trial and saying he’d welcome the chance to debate him.”I’d like to meet with him sometime and maybe debate a few things,” Reddington told Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas when asked about Turley, a Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor.Llenas referenced Turley’s earlier criticism of Reddington’s public comments about the lone juror who prevented a unanimous murder verdict.”Professor Turley said your attack on the juror was quote, ‘utterly reprehensible, a breathtaking abandonment of restraint and decency. He effectively put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments,’” Llenas said.LINDSAY CLANCY’S LAWYER REVEALS POST-MISTRIAL STRATEGY AS RETRIAL LOOMSReddington rejected that assessment.”Well, I guess Jonathan Turley was wrong, wasn’t he? Based on what we now know as far as the reason why this jury did not vote in accordance with the law,” Reddington said. “Maybe Jonathan Turley should check out the record before he makes his accusations. I kind of think his comments were reprehensible.”Llenas pushed back, noting the public still does not know the holdout juror’s version of events.”We don’t know what this one juror actually means or have said,” Llenas said.LINDSAY CLANCY LAWYER SAYS HE PLANS NEW MOTION TO DISMISS AFTER JURORS SPEAK OUT ON MISTRIAL: REPORT”Probably a matter of time before he’s getting interviewed somewhere and you can find out,” Reddington replied.The exchange is the latest chapter in a public disagreement that erupted after Clancy’s trial, when Reddington publicly criticized the lone holdout juror who prevented a unanimous verdict on murder charges. Turley responded at the time by accusing the veteran defense attorney of abandoning the professional restraint lawyers should exercise toward jurors after a trial.Turley responded again Thursday after Reddington’s Fox News interview was published.”I was surprised to learn this morning that Kevin Reddington challenged me to a debate in an interview with Fox News reporter Bryan Llenas over my criticism of his attack on the holdout juror in the Clancy trial,” Turley wrote on X.LINDSAY CLANCY ATTORNEY KEVIN REDDINGTON SIGNALS HE’S OPEN TO A DEAL, HOPES DA WILL ‘REVISIT’ CASE”I am curious as to what is debatable in his view: the professional duty of lawyers not to fuel the rage against a holdout juror or his apparent self-exemption from that duty,” he added.Turley has argued that lawyers have an ethical obligation not to inflame public anger against jurors who exercise independent judgment during deliberations. Reddington has maintained that the holdout juror failed to follow the judge’s instructions and that subsequent information supports his criticism.Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on whether she was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three young children. Prosecutors have said they plan to retry her on the murder charges.

US Home Delistings Decline As Sellers Become More Willing To Make Deals

Property delistings nationwide recorded a year-over-year decline toward the end of this summer, as sellers showed more patience than they did a year ago and a larger share were willing to cut prices, according to Realtor.com.

The August 2026 Monthly Housing Trends Report, released on Sept. 2, indicated that delistings declined 12.6 percent in August from a year earlier, following decreases of 8.3 percent in June and 4.7 percent in July compared with the respective months in 2025.

By contrast, the December 2025 Realtor.com report showed that delistings in June and July 2025 jumped by 48 percent and 57 percent, respectively, from the same months in 2024.

Authored by As Mary Prenon reports for The Epoch Times, the report attributed the sharp rise in delistings last summer to elevated home prices, higher mortgage interest rates, and economic uncertainty.

The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was around 6.6 percent to 6.8 percent during summer 2025, according to Freddie Mac.

“With buyers and sellers far apart, the sellers’ solution is to pull that trump card and delist, rather than cut prices,” Realtor.com senior economist Jake Krimmel said at the time.

While the group’s September 2026 data showed a year-over-year drop in delistings this summer, it also noted there were 10 consecutive months of annual list-price drops.

In August, 20.4 percent of active listings had price reductions, a 0.4 percentage-point increase from July and unchanged from August 2025.

Listings in pending status declined 0.2 percent from a year earlier, following eight months of gains, which peaked at 4.1 percent in May, according to the report. Contract signings also decreased 3.7 percent compared with August 2025.

Nationally, the median list price stood at $424,500 in August, a 1.0 percent decline from July and a 1.3 percent decline from August 2025.

“August brings a mixed reading: buyer demand softened and price cuts rose modestly above last year’s pace, but sellers are still showing more patience than they did during last year’s late-summer delisting wave,” Krimmel said in a Sept. 3 statement.

“Price cuts, pending sales and delistings together can tell you whether sellers are satisfied, panicking, or somewhere in between.”

Regionally, the West and South recorded the largest share of active listings with price reductions in August, at 22 percent and 21.4 percent, respectively. The Northeast had the lowest share, at 14.1 percent, while the share in the Midwest was 19.6 percent.

Meanwhile, 1.14 million active listings across the country were reported in August, including 401,760 new listings – a 5.2 percent dip from July. The report indicates that inventory grew across all four regions, with the Midwest leading by 10.5 percent.

“August’s data shows a housing market entering its seasonal cool-down with less momentum than it had earlier this year,” Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale added in the report.

“Higher mortgage rates are meeting a point in the calendar when activity typically slows, and buyers appear to be responding more selectively.”

As of Sept. 3, Freddie Mac reported an average 6.71 percent interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage, and 5.98 percent for a 15-year fixed loan.

Only the years 2000 and 2023 had higher rates at this time of year in the last 26 years…

Looking ahead to the fall, Realtor.com said the gap in delistings compared with last year could either persist or reverse, depending on market conditions and whether sellers will continue to rely on price reductions.

“Sellers may start to get more desperate in September and subsequent months when mortgage rates are likely to remain higher than they were at this time in 2025,” the report noted.

Tyler Durden
Fri, 09/11/2026 – 05:45