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NO RAW FLOUR
The CDC is once again warning people to avoid consuming raw flour, as the agency investigates a multistate Salmonella outbreak. According to news reports, at least 12 people have reported illness across 11 states, and three of them had to be hospitalized. The agency warned that any unbaked flour can have germs in it, such as Salmonella. It also said you should not eat raw dough or batter, urging Americans to cook their food thoroughly.
DUOLINGO DATING
TV watchers may have seen advertisements for language learning app Duolingo's new dating show — where nobody speaks the same language.If that seems odd, that's because it was one of several April Fools pranks played by U.S. companies over the weekend. Panera Bread also pranked audiences with an ad showing people soaking in a bread bowl hot tub.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
Mexico began clearing tents, both occupied and unoccupied, from the encampment in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, starting Tuesday.
