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As summer travel to Las Vegas booms, many visitors are lining up to indulge in the city's famed buffets.From the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace to the Buffet at Wynn, crowds pack the lines at Sin City's top smorgasbords – making it difficult to get in.TikTok user Dave O. Shepardson, based in Las Vegas, told Fox News Digital he's personally dealt with the inconvenience of the waits. He recently posted a video of a lengthy line outside the MGM Grand Buffet. (See the video at the top of this article.) PORK CHOP ON A STICK, BACON-WRAPPED TWINKIE AND OTHER ODD FOODS

When asked about Hunter Biden’s prospects of being a 2028 White House contender, Democratic strategist James Carville skirted the question.This came after Hunter Biden bashed members of the Democratic Party in a three-hour interview released earlier this week  for not supporting his father in the 2024 election. During the viral interview, Biden lashed out at Carville, saying the veteran strategist "hasn’t run a race in forty f--kin’ years." "I don't take any offense what Hunter said about me," Carville told "Jesse Watters Primetime" Thursday. "I mean, this guy's emotional. He's hurt for his daddy. I completely understand that."HUNTER BIDEN CLAIMS DEMOCRATS LOST

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that California's first-of-its-kind law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, declaring that it violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court judge's permanent injunction blocking the state from enforcing the law.Circuit Judge Sandra Ikuta said the law "meaningfully constrains" the right to keep and bear arms and that the state failed to prove the law was consistent with the country's historical tradition of firearm regulation as required under a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision,

Dana White, the UFC’s president and CEO, remembered pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan Thursday night after his death in Florida.White appeared on Fox News Channel’s "Jesse Watters Primetime" and reflected on Hogan’s appearance at the Republican National Convention. He said he was in a holding room with Kid Rock waiting to go on the stage when Hogan asked to speak with him."Hulk Hogan grabbed me and asked me if he could talk to me privately for a second," White said. "And he pulled me aside, and I’ll never forget that conversation that we had that night. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS

Winona Ryder is happily settled now with boyfriend Scott Mackinlay Hahn, but the actress had a couple of movie star crushes while making her way in the industry. She told Elle U.K. in an interview published Wednesday that Christopher Walken once gave her a store-bought rotisserie chicken, and because she was so enthralled by him at the time, she kept the carcass longer than normal. "I still have the wishbone and am trying to make it into a necklace," she confided. The pair worked together on the 2014 political thriller "Turks & Caicos." WYNONA RYDER SAYS A-LIST ACTOR WOULDN'T KISS HER IN AN AUDITION

Kelly Osbourne broke her silence Thursday on her dad Ozzy Osbourne's death."I feel unhappy I am so sad," Kelly wrote in an Instagram story. "I lost the best friend I ever had."Jack Osbourne's ex-wife, Lisa Stelly, also paid tribute on Instagram to the Black Sabbath singer, who died July 22. He was 76.ROCK LEGEND OZZY OSBOURNE SPENT FINAL DAYS WITH FAMILY IN ENGLAND HOME: REPORTStelly, 38, shared a handful of heartwarming images of the late musician with his grandkids, and wrote, "The world got Ozzy. We got Papa."She added,  "One of one. Larger than life. It hurts to say goodbye,

New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields appears to have avoided a preseason disaster. Fields, 26, dislocated a toe on his right foot, is day-to-day and avoided "serious injury and significant missed time," the NFL team announced Thursday. Fields was carted off the field during the team’s training camp earlier in the day.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMJets head coach Aaron Glenn said he is "assuming" someone stepped on Fields' toe but said he wants to look at the tape and be sure that is the cause. Glenn added that Tyrod Taylor is ready to take over if need be.Fields

EXCLUSIVE: After scoring a victory in her effort to undo the Biden-era expansion of clean water regulations that led to outrage from farmers and homesteaders, Senate DOGE Chairwoman Joni Ernst put forward permanent policy exclusions Thursday to prevent future Democratic administrations from "overreach.""If you try to navigate a wastewater treatment pool, you’ll be up a creek without a paddle," Ernst, R-Iowa, said, mocking what she and many heartland landowners see as federal overreach into clearly unnavigable waters.Rainwater pools, farm runoff, small property ponds, and other ephemeral or seasonal water bodies – like prairie potholes and temporary channels – were suddenly