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General Mills is taking in more money but also spending more as the cost for everything from oats to cardboard continues to rise, denting the food maker's profit. The company, like all of its peers, has raised consumer prices on its food products—but it's not enough to offset increased expenses caused by supply chain backlogs and inflation. The Golden Valley-based packaged food giant on Tuesday reported its quarterly earnings fell 13% for the second quarter, ended Nov. 28.(Snip)General Mills has seen double-digit price increases for raw and packaging materials; the index price of oats has more than doubled in the past year,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Chris Jewers
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Authorities in Qatar have seized a line of what they called 'un-Islamic' children's toys that feature rainbow patterns similar to LGBT flags. The small oil-rich peninsular will host next year's football World Cup, and despite repeated assertions by authorities that anyone will be welcome to visit for the tournament, homosexuality remains illegal in the conservative Muslim emirate.
The line of rainbow coloured children's toys were confiscated from stores, with officials saying they were contrary to 'Islamic values'. The emirate's commerce and industry ministry did not spell out its objection to the rainbow colours, but some of the toys bore a colour scheme very similar to the LGBTQ flag.
New York Post,
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Lee Brown
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Bette Midler has been forced to apologize after sparking mass outrage for branding the entire state of West Virginia “poor, illiterate and strung out.” The 76-year-old diva used the less than divine choice of words for the Mountain State in a Twitter shot at rebel Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin for torpedoing President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending plans. “What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out,” the “Beaches” legend tweeted Monday. “He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia.
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that fraudulent coronavirus pandemic benefit claims are “nearing $100 billion,” and the agency named its first-ever national coordinator to oversee its investigations. It’s been nearly two years since the virus first slammed into the U.S., and Uncle Sam has spent trillions of dollars on relief, including assistance to businesses, bailout money for state and local governments, and new unemployment benefits.(Snip)At nearly $100 billion, the Secret Service’s estimates of total fraud are lower than others have suggested.
The Washington Times last month reported that 40% of the more than $700 billion spent in the unemployment insurance benefit program may have been bogus
Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters,
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Tommy Taylor
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new injectable drug that can prevent HIV if given to patients every two months. GaxoSmithKline's cabotegravir drug—which is being marketed under the name Apretude—was approved by the FDA on Monday, as an alternative to pills currently given to vulnerable groups to prevent them contracting the virus that can cause AIDS. Its first two doses are administered one month apart and then the injection is given every two months thereafter.(Snip) Apertude will begin shipping to the US in early 2022 at the listing price of $3,700 per dose.
New York Post,
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Joshua Rhett Miller
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A former Olympic speedskater lied on loan applications to fraudulently receive $10 million in coronavirus relief money—which she partly invested in a movie about a serial killer, federal prosecutors said. Allison Marie Baver, who won the bronze medal as part of Team USA’s 3000-meter women’s relay team in Vancouver in 2010, was charged Wednesday with money laundering and eight counts of making a false statement to a bank, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.(Snip)In each request, Baver said her average monthly payroll was as much as $4.7 million, but she actually had no payroll at all, court documents show.
New York Post,
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Kenneth Garger
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The producers of Broadway’s “Jagged Little Pill” said Monday that they decided to shut down the musical amid the latest COVID-19 surge. “In light of the extreme uncertainty ahead of us this winter, and forced to choose between continuing performances and protecting our company, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our doors,” producers Vivek Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David and Eva Price said in a statement. The show had been suspended on Thursday after “multiple” members of the cast and crew tested positive for coronavirus.(Snip)Several other Broadway hits have suspended operations throughout December due to positive cases, including “Wicked,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” and
Daily Mail (UK),
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Shannon Thaler
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Dozens of restaurants and businesses across New York City are closing their doors ahead of the Christmas holiday after the Big Apple became the epicenter of the latest Covid-19 wave fueled by the Omicron variant. Following SantaCon celebrations during the weekend, the city logged a record 21,908 cases—a slight increase over the previous record of 21,027 cases reported the day before—and in response, a host of eateries have closed. At least 50 restaurants have closed across New York City's five boroughs, including Boilermaker in Manhattan's Lower East Side, whose Sippin' Santa annual holiday pop-up cocktail bar is a seasonal favorite. Contento, the popular East Harlem eatery,
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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The U.S. has had a massive surge in immigration this year, with as many as 1.5 million newcomers and a record 46.2 million foreign-born people, according to a report for the Center for Immigration Studies. After a deep trough last year, likely because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel and migration restrictions imposed to control the spread, the flow of people rebounded around the time President Biden was elected. In numbers never seen before, they are coming legally through airports and land border crossings and illegally across the Rio Grande and remote regions of Arizona and California.(Snip)As it stands, 14.2% of the U.S. population
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Kristine Garcia
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New York–Two popular Broadway shows in New York City have canceled performances until after Christmas due to breakthrough COVID-19 cases. “Hamilton” announced Monday performances for the week have been canceled. More information on upcoming performances will be announced as soon as possible. The Broadway show had also canceled several shows last week. “Aladdin,” which was the first Broadway show to cancel several shows in September due to COVID, also announced Monday that performances through Dec. 25 have been canceled.(Snip)Tickets for both shows will be refunded at the point of purchase. Earlier this month, several other Broadway shows temporarily went dark and canceled performances over breakthrough cases
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
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Amy Moreno
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Seattle—A frustrated Seattle business owner says she's tired of dealing with break-ins and threats to her customers and workers.
She’s reaching out to nearby businesses to see if they want to band together to create a safer environment in their community.(Snip)Vanessa Daiger owns Woodland Coffee in the Ballard neighborhood and says in the five years they’ve been open, things have gotten worse. The last few weeks have taken a sudden turn.
“I've never seen it like this,” Daiger said. Daiger said employees don’t feel safe walking to work and they had a recent sex crime occur inside the shop. “For me, to have to call the police
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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The federal government’s coronavirus spending spree turned out to be a snow job—literally. One Utah county spent more than $200,000 of its COVID-19 cash to make snow on a hill for sledding. Auditors said Uintah County bought six snow guns at $20,000 each, along with snowcats and pipes, and paid $3,000 in shipping costs, all authorized by a single county commissioner. Local politicians told the Uintah Basin Standard they were coming up on a deadline to either use the cash or give it back to the state, so they needed a reason to spend.(Snip)Sen. Joni Ernst on Monday dedicated her December “Squeal Award,” which highlights ridiculous
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The shots he pushes cause creation of variants, which proves the need for ongoing shots. And the free universal testing underscores Doctor "Beagles" Fauci's bloodlust to make horseshoe crabs extinct, for a profit.