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Blake, Wm. Eve Tempted by the Serpent. 1799.

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Nightclubs in Japan are reportedly luring women to rack up millions of yen in debt at the clubs and then making them enter sex work to pay the debt off.

These clubs, known as host clubs, use handsome young men to act as promoters and find naive women on dating apps. The women go to these clubs to chat and flirt with young men, ordering expensive drinks in the process, ultimately sending them into debt.

Hidemori Gen, who runs a center for these victims, says he’s seen a drastic rise in women who have been coerced into sex work to pay for their tabs. In the past five months alone, he’s had 300 consultations, mostly from embarrassed parents.

One 24-year-old was a promising medical student before she met an attractive male medical student on a dating app who lured her into a club. Since then, she’s amassed millions of yen in debt, dropped out of college, and now works in Japan’s commercial sex industry.

Gen: “We are talking about intelligent women with promising futures who become entrapped. Host clubs operate like cults. It’s a vicious business model that is no different from human trafficking. Host clubs are not selling champagne – they’re selling women’s bodies.”

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Blake, Wm. The First Book of Urizen, object 3. 1794.

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The chief strategist for a pro-DeSantis super PAC has resigned effectively immediately, the latest high-profile departure in the campaign.

The group, ironically named “Never Back Down,” also saw its interim CEO quit earlier this month.

DeSantis, whose campaign will be remembered as the awkward guy from Florida who definitely wears heels, enters the Iowa caucuses trailing Trump by 51%, according to the latest polling from FiveThirtyEight.

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Blake, Wm. Lamech and His Two Wives. 1795.

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A 29-year-old soccer player suddenly collapsed during a match over the weekend, suffering a cardiac arrest.

Luton Town Football Club Captain Tom Lockyer was responsive by the time he was taken off the field in a stretcher, with the match being called off.

Luton Town: “Tom is still undergoing tests and scans, and is awaiting the results before the next steps for his recovery are determined.”

This isn’t the first time Lockyer has had a medical emergency—in May, he collapsed during a game due to an irregular heartbeat.

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Blake, Wm. Hamlet and His Father's Ghost, Object 5. 1825.

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Looting has apparently become so bad that Walmart now has undercover employees to stop potential shoplifters.

A viral video on social media shows a customer trying to leave a store before he is stopped by a man in ordinary clothing who unzips his jacket and pulls out a Walmart badge like he is law enforcement.

Another employee then walks in to support the undercover worker.

One user on X: “He pulled out that name tag like it was a police badge PLEASE LMAO.”

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Blake, Wm. Frontispiece, 'The Christian Triumph.' 1795.

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A drug has shown promising results in treating a specific form of bowel cancer, outshining existing alternatives.

In a new study, researchers found that when the drug is combined with another cancer treatment called cetuximab, 62% of patients with tumors caused by a mutation in the KRAS gene saw their tumors either completely eradicated or reduced in size.

When used on its own, the pill yields a 35.9% positive response rate and is overall twenty times more effective than other treatments that also target the same cancer.

Because the kind of cancer that this pill targets is commonly tested for, doctors could quickly identify the patients that would benefit, providing immediate and potentially life-saving relief.