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The cartoon mascots who sell M&Ms in television commercials will now dress and act in more gender-neutral ways, the 80-year-old candymaker announced Thursday. Jane Hwang, global vice president for M&Ms at parent company Mars, told AdWeek it’s time to minimize traditional gender stereotypes in future marketing campaigns for the chocolate candies that feature the characters.(Snip)Meanwhile, the three male M&M characters will act in less traditionally masculine ways: AdWeek reported that Red will be less bossy, and Orange will “acknowledge and embrace his anxiety.”(Snip)She said the company will also stop attaching prefixes to the characters’ names, like “Mr. Blue” or “Ms. Brown,”
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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Regulations issued by President Biden during his first year in office will cost $201 billion and add 131 million hours in annual paperwork, far exceeding the first-year outcomes of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, according to an analysis released Thursday. The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute that has tracked regulatory costs since 2005, said a vehicle emissions rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency was by far the most costly rule, at $180 billion. It nudged Mr. Biden’s total regulatory costs to three times that of Mr. Obama’s first-year total of $65 billion and 40 times that of Mr. Trump, who made cutting red tape
New York Post,
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Tamar Lapin
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A Thai model who was savagely beaten at a Manhattan subway stop two months ago slammed authorities on Thursday for failing to prevent straphanger Michelle Go from becoming the latest fatal subway-shove victim. Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, was brutalized and robbed of her purse at the 34th Street-Herald Square station on Nov. 22 when a stranger put her in a chokehold in the middle of the deserted platform. Weeks after surviving her own assault, the young woman told The Post she was devastated to learn Go had been killed in a Saturday attack at the Times Square station. “I am so sad. I was lucky and she was not,”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jennifer Smith
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Brian Marks
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Bob Saget's widow Kelly Rizzo said he had no health concerns and was feeling 'great' when he died suddenly on January 9. Speaking in her first set of TV interviews since the actor's death, Rizzo, 42, sobbed and described him as the 'best man' she has ever known. The pair were about to celebrate their third wedding anniversary when he died in a hotel room in Orlando earlier this month. It's unclear what caused the 65-year-old's death. Rizzo told Good Morning America's TJ Holmes that Saget was healthy. 'All I'll point to is that last post of his where he said he felt 26,' she said,
New York Daily News,
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Brittany Kriegstein *
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The heartbroken mother of an 11-month-old Bronx girl shot in the face by a gunman’s stray bullet wept Thursday after spending the night sitting by her daughter’s hospital bed. “She’s stable. She will be ok,” Miraide Gomez, her voice quaking, told the Daily News as she entered the family’s apartment building. “(I’m) going to leave it to God.” A moment later, the 32-year-old mom went into an aunt’s apartment and began sobbing, no longer able to hold back the pain and pressure of the last 18 hours. Gomez was seated in a car with baby Catherine about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday when a gunman fired off
New York Post,
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Lee Brown
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Samuel Chamberlain
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Vice President Kamala Harris insisted Thursday morning that the US was prepared to levy “serious and severe costs” against Russia should its president, Vladimir Putin, order an invasion of Ukraine—hours after President Biden suggested during a White House news conference that a “minor incursion” would be met with a less robust response. Harris was dispatched to NBC’s “Today” show to clean up after her boss, who initially vowed Wednesday that Moscow “will be held accountable” in the event of an invasion, but then suggested that the severity of the consequences “depends on what it does.”(Snip)Harris began her answer by boasting that she starts every morning reading
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Katelyn Caralle
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In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack.
Shortly after the ruling on Wednesday evening, the January 6 select committee said that they already started to receive records previously 'hidden' from them by Trump.(Snip)'The Select Committee has already begun to receive records that the former President had hoped to keep hidden & we look forward to additional productions regarding this important information,' it added.(Snip)They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with Jan. 6 from the files of former chief of staff
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
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Brady Wakayama
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Seattle—A long-time Seattle business owner is sounding off after he said his business has been "hit" by crime seven times in the past three months alone. This past weekend, Jay Ashberg, the owner of Seattle Shirt Company, said there were back-to-back burglaries at his store. The Seattle Shirt Company is located on the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street. Ashberg is still in shock of how far he believes Seattle has fallen. "This city is unrecognizable to what it was even five years ago, between the homeless and the lack of police, the whole defund the police, decriminalize, it doesn't work," Ashberg said.
KHOU-TV [Houston, TX],
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Charlie Haldeman
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Houston—The 17-year-old accused of shooting his girlfriend 22 times as she walked her dog was released from jail on bond on Wednesday, court records show. A judge set bail at $250,000 in the case of Frank DeLeon. He's due back in court later Wednesday. According to police, Diamond Alvarez and DeLeon were in a romantic relationship, but Alvarez had recently learned that DeLeon was romantically involved with someone else.(Snip)The two met at a park near Alvarez's home on Jan.11. That's when DeLeon shot Alvarez 22 times, mostly in the back, according to prosecutors. DeLeon was taken into custody Monday.
New York Post,
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Natalie O'Neill
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A statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has stood in front of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for more than 80 years was hauled away Wednesday, photos show. The bronze monument depicting the nation’s 26th president on a horse flanked by an African man and a Native American man—which has sparked protests for glorifying colonialism and racism—was yanked out with a crane just after midnight, leaving behind only its concrete pedestal. The controversial effigy will now be sent to a library in North Dakota on long-term loan, officials have said. The $2 million removal, carried out by the museum and the city,
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Mark Sundstrom
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Manhattan—The man accused of pushing a woman to her death in front of a train at the Times Square subway station on Saturday was out on parole for a previous violent crime, according to the Manhattan assistant district attorney. Simon Martial, 61, was arraigned Wednesday morning and hit with a second-degree murder charge in the alleged subway shoving of 40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Go, officials said.(Snip)Carrell revealed that Martial had been convicted of two prior violent felonies—attempted robberies in 1999 and 2019. At the time of his arrest in last weekend’s deadly attack, there was a warrant out for Martial’s arrest for violating his parole
New York Post,
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Bruce Golding
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The Secret Service improperly redacted hundreds of pages of records related to Hunter Biden’s overseas travel—and apparently withheld information about trips to China, Russia and other countries, two leading Republican senators claim. In a Tuesday letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) alleged the agency “hid names and other information contained in email conversations regarding Hunter Biden without any proper legal justification.” The senators specifically noted that documents turned over at their request “do not show whether [Secret Service] personnel or Hunter Biden traveled to Kazakhstan in May or June 2014” during a trip to Paris.
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Two "teens" engaged in a shootout after a football game, as one does in The Community. Some of the gunfire went in the direction of police officers who were assigned to provide security, who returned fire and hit several bystanders, killing one. I believe that normally the "teens" would be charged with the homicide since it happened as a result of their actions, but this being New America, the angry crowd is howling for retribution, at least against the two White cops (one is black), who without question will serve a lot more time than the teens. Setting aside procedural issues and poor training, who in their right mind would want to be a police officer these days?