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Can RFK Jr make America's diet healthy again?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Kennedy's plans to ban dyes in cereals and fluoride in water could get major pushback from the food industry.
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Mystery drones seen over three US air bases in UK

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The United States Air Force says it is unclear if the "small unmanned aerial systems" were hostile.
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'We knew Christmas before you' - the Band Aid fallout

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Forty years on, the Band Aid song continues to generate debate about the way it presents Africa.
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US listeria outbreak kills infant and prompts recall of meat products

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The listeria outbreak, linked to ready-to-eat meat, is known to have sickened 11 people.
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'Trust and reserve judgement' on rebrand, says Jaguar

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The iconic carmaker's rebrand has certainly caught people's attention, but will it pay off?
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Nominee for agriculture secretary completes Trump cabinet

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Brooke Rollins - head of a pro-Trump right-wing think tank - is his pick for agriculture secretary.
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Free shots and beer buckets in party town at centre of suspected methanol deaths

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Six foreign tourists have died after apparently drinking contaminated alcohol in a remote Laos party town.
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A week of massive changes in Ukraine war - and why they all matter

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Russia made its loudest threat yet of nuclear war, as Western powers bolstered Ukraine's arsenal.
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Chuck Woolery, original host of 'Wheel of Fortune,' dies at 83

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died
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Transgender residents living under bathroom ban reflect on Sarah McBride controversy

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Transgender residents living under a bathroom ban in Texas reflect on the controversy surrounding Sarah McBridge and new Congressional restrictions.
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Can RFK Jr make America's diet healthy again?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Kennedy's plans to ban dyes in cereals and fluoride in water could get major pushback from the food industry.
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General's promotion blocked in first sign of Trump retaliation for Afghanistan pullout

  • News source: Dan De Luce and Frank Thorp V | NBC News
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A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw troops in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Senate aide told NBC News.

The move by Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin follows threats from President-elect Donald Trump to fire senior officers and officials who oversaw the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan in 2021. It also comes as Trump’s transition team weighs possible court-martial proceedings against current and former officers involved in the withdrawal, as NBC News previously reported.

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Fred R. Harris, Senator Who Ran for President, Dies at 94

  • News source: Robert D. McFadden
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After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed 1976 shot at the presidency.
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What to know about Scott Turner, Trump's pick for housing secretary

  • News source: Adriana Gomez Licon | The Associated Press
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Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump choice to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a former NFL player who ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term.

Turner, 52, is the first Black person selected to be a member of the Republican's incoming cabinet.

Here are some things to know about Turner:

Turner grew up in a Dallas suburb, Richardson, and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was a defensive back and spent nine seasons in the NFL beginning in 1995...
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Fred Harris, former Oklahoma senator and presidential hopeful, dies at 94

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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He was a populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent '60s.
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