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The U.S. fast food chain Chipotle wlll open its first restaurant in Mexico this week, the company announced on Monday. The first store will open on Thursday in the upmarket Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza García in the border state of Nuevo León. It forms part of a wider rollout across Mexico, with Chipotle’s first store in Mexico City planned for 2027, according to the company.  Predictably, the very idea of a U.S. restaurant chain offering Mexican food in Mexico, especially a fast-food version, provoked much mockery on social media. But the Chipotle leadership is convinced there’s a market…

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Can you imagine working at NPR, sitting down at your regular-sized desk to report on politics, the environment, or science, and all of a sudden Napalm Death sets up shop at the Tiny Desk next door? Well, you’d just have to go check it out. And fortuitously, Napalm Death, who played a 19-minute set, espouse the same lefty politics as NPR, in fact maybe even a little more leftist, all things considered, since Barney Greenway wore a Crass T-shirt to the gig. The long-running death metal and grindcore group, which put out a collaborative album with Melvins called Savage Imperial…

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Immigration – especially undocumented migration – has become a highly contentious political issue in South Africa, with protesters accusing them of placing pressure on public services, as well as being involved in crime.March and March had set an unofficial deadline of 30 June for all migrants without papers to leave the country. Protesters have promised to stage weekly marches until their demands are met.The South African government has said more than 53,000 foreign nationals have been deported or repatriated since it launched a “migration management” campaign five weeks ago.Xenophobia has long been an issue in South Africa, which is Africa’s…

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Jay-Z‘s legacy has been a topic of debate on social media the last several years. The Brooklyn MC’s standing as Rap GOAT Emeritus to the fans that worship his bars and his business influence have ruffled some feathers to the point where uninformed theories have been a growing theme when social media accounts talk about him. One of the more fascinating (and dumb) arguments that’s been made is that he was never the “biggest” rapper during any given year while he was in his prime, as if records sold and charting singles are the sole measurements of a rapper’s legacy.…

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Soren Waerenskjold caught the big guns by surprise with a long-range sprint to win the fastest-ever stage of the Tour de France.Racing in his fourth Tour, the 26-year-old Norwegian claimed his first stage win and just the second for his team, Uno-X Mobility.AdvertisementOverall race leader Tadej Pogacar remains three minutes and 36 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard in the general classification standings.The peloton completed stage 11 at an average speed of 50.9km per hour, beating the previous record of 50.3kph from 1999.A sprint finish was expected on Wednesday, a flat 161.3km route from Vichy to Nevers, and Cees Bol made…

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All stories in El Jalapeño are satire and not real news. Check out the original article here. MEXICO CITY — A landmark bilateral press conference announcing a major cross-border blow to organized crime was delayed by more than six hours yesterday, as diplomatic delegations from the United States and Mexico deadlocked in intense, high-stakes negotiations regarding the physical placement of their respective officials on the presentation stage. The standoff, which required three separate drafts of a stage floor plan map, centered entirely on preventing any visual implication that either nation had compromised its national sovereignty, or, conversely, that either nation…

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Shania Twain has revealed she declined an invitation to Taylor Swift’s wedding due to her tie to Swift’s ex Harry Styles. “I would have done anything to be at Taylor’s wedding,” Twain, 60, said in an interview with Canadian entertainment outlet ETalk, published on Tuesday, July 14. “I would have done anything, and that would have been really lovely for me to be there — but I was with Harry.” Twain was referring to her musical role in opening Styles’ 12-show residency at London’s Wembley Stadium, which overlapped with Swift’s July 3 wedding to Travis Kelce inside New York City’s…

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