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The Food and Drug Administration said it will stop regulating French dressing after keeping a tight rein on its key ingredients since 1950. The US agency announced on Wednesday that it would lift guidelines that required manufacturers to sell a product with 35% vegetable oil if it wanted to market it as “French dressing.”(Snip)
By removing the standard, the FDA hopes to “provide greater flexibility in the product’s manufacture, consistent with comparable, nonstandardized foods available in the marketplace.”
The move was made in response to a 1998 petition that was filed by the Association of Dressings and Sauces. It is unclear why the FDA waited until recently to address
New York Post,
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Tina Moore
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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Carjackings raced out of control in the Big Apple last year, surging 55 percent over 2020, according to new NYPD data Thursday—a day after two car thieves struck in Manhattan less than an hour apart.
“New York has become carjack city,” one NYPD official told The Post. “Between the guns and the low-risk of stealing cars, we’ve seen this explosion in carjackings.” From 2018 to last year, carjackings in the five boroughs shot up 355 percent—led by a staggering 4,400-percent jump in the NYPD’s Manhattan North borough command and increases of more than 400 percent in the Bronx and Brooklyn North commands, the statistics show.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Daniel Bates
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Thomas Volscho
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Jeffrey Epstein paid more than a dozen visits to the Clinton White House throughout the former president's first few years in office—even bringing along with him multiple women, including four known to be his girlfriends, DailyMail.com can reveal. Unearthed visitor logs last month confirmed the late pedophile had visited the Executive Mansion at least 17 times during Bill Clinton's first term, beginning shortly after his inauguration in 1993.(Snip)Never-before-seen footage also shows the disgraced financier—who on three occasions visited the president's house twice in one day—kept framed pictures of himself at the podium of the White House Briefing Room at his Palm Beach mansion.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Keith Griffith
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Prices at the wholesale level surged by 9.7 percent for all of 2021, setting an annual record and providing further evidence that inflation is still hammering all levels of the U.S. economy.
The producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, did slow on a monthly basis, rising just 0.2 percent in December compared with 1 percent in November, the Labor Department said Thursday. Thursday's report came a day after the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 7 percent in December from a year earlier, the highest such inflation rate since 1982. 'Persistent supply disruptions will pin producer prices near record levels in the near term,
Washington Times,
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Mark A. Kellner
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Wedding photographer Emilee Carpenter is appealing a New York federal judge’s ruling that her attorneys say compels the evangelical Christian to create photo displays for same-sex weddings. “This is a free speech issue. And I believe that all artists should be free to choose the messages they promote,” Ms. Carpenter, 27, told The Washington Times.(Snip)Judge Geraci ruled that, under the state laws, Ms. Carpenter must create photographs and blogs for same-sex couples if she also does wedding photography for heterosexual couples. He said her “unique artistic style and vision” are what a customer might want and exempting her from serving LGBT consumers on religious grounds would “relegate”
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra
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Baghdad—At least four rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday, two Iraqi security officials said. The area is home to diplomatic missions and the seat of Iraq‘s government, Three of the missiles struck within the perimeter of the American Embassy, the officials said. Another hit a school located in a nearby residential complex. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. An Iraqi military statement said a girl and a woman were injured in the attack, without providing more details.(Snip)
Witnesses said they heard the embassy’s C-RAM defense system—supposed to detect
Daily Mail (UK),
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Elizabeth Elkind
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Geoff Earle
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President Joe Biden announced on Thursday the federal government would be doubling the amount of at-home COVID-19 test kits sent to American homes to a total number of one billion. He also revealed the White House is unveiling a plan next week to get free and low-cost masks to people as the highly transmissible but less severe Omicron variant rips through the country. 'Now, I don't like to, uh, uh, you know, ugh, outline the next steps we're taking against, uh, I'd, I'd like to outline the next steps we're taking against ova—uh, the omicron variant,' Biden said at the outset of his speech.
Washington Times,
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Mike Glenn
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The Department of Defense’s inspector general this month launched an investigation into whether the military is adequately screening recruits for “supremacist, extremist and criminal gang behavior,” in accordance with Pentagon policy and procedures.(Snip)The guidelines were announced about a year after some veterans and a handful of active-duty service members were found to have participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Soon after taking office, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a “stand down” in the ranks so commanders could discuss what the Pentagon considers a rise in extremism in the armed forces. The new measures also seek to institute training for those leaving the service
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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President Biden is reportedly planning to deploy 1,000 military medical personnel to six states as part of the omicron plan he will outline on Thursday. The personnel will help triage patients at hospitals in Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island as the country sees more than 780,000 infections per day and hospitalizations reach an all-time peak, according to The New York Times. The deployment adds to the 800 federal personnel, including 350 military doctors and nurses, who were sent to two dozen states after omicron was detected around Thanksgiving.(Snip)Administration officials say they are deploying every tool in their arsenal, including booster shots
New York Post,
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Lydia Moynihan
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Goldman Sachs has delayed a mandatory return to the office by an additional two weeks for its US employees as the Omicron variant continues to surge across the country. In a Thursday memo, the Wall Street giant encouraged employees to work from home until Feb. 1. That’s pushed back from a return date of Jan. 18 that Goldman had targeted on Jan. 2. A spokesperson confirmed to The Post that Goldman was pushing back its return-to-office plans, noting that the new date coincides with the Feb. 1 date by which all Goldman employees must be boosted. The bank has also implemented bi-weekly testing.
New York Post,
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Kenneth Garger
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An Illinois judge is facing heat for reversing an 18-year-old man’s sexual assault conviction at the teen’s sentencing last week—saying the 148 days he spent in jail since his arrest was enough, reports said. Adams County Judge Robert Adrian issued the stunning reversal last Monday after finding Drew Clinton guilty of one count of criminal sexual assault at an October bench trial, the Herald-Whig reported.(Snip)Clinton was convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a graduation party last May. He had faced a mandatory minimum sentence of four years. Adrian’s decision came after Clinton’s attorneys filed two post-trial motions
Daily Mail (UK),
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Sam Baker
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Microsoft has included a new function in the latest version of its Word software that acts as a checker for inclusivity and offers PC alternatives to phrases which could upset others. Traditionally, Microsoft Word has offered tools to its 250million users such as checking software for spelling, punctuation and grammar. But now, the tech giant has added an additional feature which reads through a user's work and examines whether the language used may offend an individual. The Sun reports it does this by highlighting phrases focusing on gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity of 'socioeconomic status'. The function, which produces a purple line beneath words or phrases it deems to be
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Assistant director of parking; that's an impressive credential. No wonder the mayor selected him, then shuffled the chairs when he got caught.