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Three ways to eat more nutritiously
This article was originally published on The Conversation. When it comes to staying healthy, diet is one of the best things you can do to look after your body. If you want to eat more nutritiously but don't quite know how, here are a few easy changes you can make that will benefit your health.
"Top Chef" finalist Savannah Miller talks eggs, North Carolina and why taking risks is "addictive"
I'm a sucker for competitive reality TV and have been for over twenty years. Generally, though, I like the storylines, the editing, the competitive aspect and the psychological and sociological components more than any individual competitor. Every once in a while, though, a special contestant comes along and I root for this person with vim and vigor, much like one might root for a favorite sports team.
"The Bear" confronts Carmy's nightmare: A boss who believes in creating excellence through pain
The following contains spoilers from "The Bear" Season 3, including the finale. Joel McHale’s living nightmare of a New York chef turns up for the first time in the second episode of “The Bear,” malevolently hovering inches from the hero’s right shoulder. Horrific doesn’t begin to sum up the man’s management skills properly – he is concentrated nuclear fallout in human form. A plague of acid vomit.
Head of group responsible for Project 2025 threatens violence if people challenge their "revolution"
The president of the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind a project to reshape federal government as a tool of conservative causes, issued a warning to opponents that a "second American Revolution" could turn bloody if they resist. Kevin Roberts appeared on the Real America's Voice network to celebrate...
Michelle Obama could beat Trump in a landslide, new poll suggests
Michelle Obama is the only Democratic candidate who would beat Trump in a hypothetical 2024 election matchup, a new poll suggests. The best-selling author and wife of former President Barack Obama would beat Trump by over 10 points, with 50% of voters saying they would vote for Obama and 39% saying they would vote for Trump, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Judge suggests Trump felony sentencing may no longer be "necessary" after SCOTUS immunity ruling
In wake of the Supreme Court's ruling that presidents are granted total immunity for "official acts," a path has opened for Donald Trump to avoid sentencing for his conviction on falsifying business records to hide an affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels. According to The New Republic, Juan Merchan, the judge who presided over the hush-money trial that landed Trump with 34 felony convictions, is no longer certain that sentencing, which was delayed to September, will ever happen.
"Time is running out": Even Obama worries Biden will lose as Dems brace for bad NY Times poll
President Joe Biden has made four minutes of prepared, public remarks since the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority handed Donald Trump what could amount to dictatorial powers. His first unscripted appearance won’t be seen by voters until Friday, when ABC will begin airing clips of an interview with George Stephanopoulos that the Biden campaign hopes will reset the conversation and get the public and press to move on from the president’s abysmal debate performance last week.
"Full speed ahead": DOJ plans to pursue criminal cases against Trump even if he wins in November
Officials in the Department of Justice will continue to pursue the federal criminal cases against Trump even if he wins the presidential election in November, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The DOJ has a longstanding policy that a sitting president cannot be criminally charged or prosecuted, but officials told CNN...
The imperial presidency: Republicans just pulled off their longest con
In 1973 the Senate Watergate Committee uncovered a plan that had been hatched three years earlier by a man named Tom Charles Huston, a White House liaison to the Interagency Committee on Intelligence (ICI), a group chaired by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to monitor "left wing radicals." The Huston Plan, as it was known, laid out detailed operations to burglarize the homes and conduct electronic surveillance of these co-called radicals and even detain anti-war protesters in camps to be created in western states. President Richard Nixon signed off on the plan only to rescind his approval a few days later under objections from Hoover himself.
“I’m not a church boy”: RFK denies eating dog but admits he has “so many skeletons in my closet”
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday denied allegations in a new Vanity Fair report that he ate a dog but sidestepped sexual assault claims from a former babysitter. Last year, RFK Jr. sent his friend a photograph from 2010 where he posed beside an unidentified woman and...
Donald Trump's debate rout feeds his dictatorial desires
After watching Thursday night’s presidential debate, I needed to go for a walk to clear my head. As is my habit during these last eight or so years, I walked down Michigan Avenue here in Chicago. I stopped at a 24-hour Walgreens store and purchased a bottle of Pepto Bismol for my sour stomach. I walked for a few miles and then stopped at Trump Tower. I looked up at his ugly building, that foul obelisk, and muttered “this is far from over.” I put the bottle of Pepto up to my lips and drank about half of it.
Republican glee over "immunity" decision shows they don't fear Donald Trump — they desire a dictator
Even though attempted murder is not one of his 34 felony convictions, Donald Trump has never been coy about his longing to kill people. During the 2016 campaign, Trump famously mused in a speech, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." In 2020, he threatened to murder Black Lives Matter protesters by tweeting, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." Throughout and after his presidency, there was a steady stream of stories from aides alarmed at how Trump would repeatedly ask if they would kill people for him. He requested bayonets and spikes on the southern border, hoping for grisly deaths of migrants crossing. He had Oval Office meetings in which he demanded the military "crack skulls" and "shoot" lefty protesters. Former Attorney General Bill Barr appeared to confirm reports that Trump regularly ordered him to "execute" government staff for speaking to the media. Barr did pretend Trump wasn't serious, despite how often he circled back to the topic of extra-legal executions.
Anticipating a major bird flu crisis, the U.S. government just awarded $176 million for a vaccine
In the ongoing waves of bird flu outbreaks, with the virus spreading to more than 141 herds in 12 states, the risk of another full-blown pandemic like COVID-19 is becoming a distinct possibility. In preparation for just such a disaster, the U.S. government will pay pharmaceutical company Moderna $176 million to develop a vaccine that protects against the H5N1 virus. Moderna will employ the same mRNA vaccine technology that was pioneered to develop COVID-19 vaccines in 2020, as well as the booster shots that have followed.
"Wasn’t just a horrible night": Democrats say party must be "honest" about Biden's viability
Democrats are publicly sharing their concerns about President Joe Biden’s re-election and urging his campaign to be open about his condition after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last Thursday. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., criticized the Biden campaign for dismissing concerns about the president’s health and well-being, Semafor reported. “The...
CNN poll suggests Harris does better than Biden in a race against Trump
Three-quarters of U.S. voters say the Democratic Party will have a better chance of winning November’s election if President Joe Biden isn’t the nominee, a new CNN poll suggests. Even so, the head-to-head numbers have not budged since CNN's last national poll in April, with Trump still beating Biden by 49% to 43%"
Justice Amy Coney Barrett says presidential immunity doesn't apply to Trump's fake electors scheme
One of Donald Trump’s attorneys is claiming that the “fake-electors” scheme qualifies as an “official act," thus exempting him from being prosecuted after the Supreme Court's immunity ruling on Monday, the Hill reported. Trump attorney Will Scharf told CNN Monday night that while some of the...
Sugary soda and processed meats are just a few ultraprocessed foods that may shorten your life
An unpublished study, presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Chicago, found that increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) may shorten lifespans by more than 10%. That percentage went up to 15% for men and 14% for women once the data was adjusted, according to Erikka Loftfield, lead study author and an investigator at the National Cancer Institute.
Kelloggs and Crumbl join forces for a chocolate chip cookie cereal extravaganza
Love cereal and cookies? It's your lucky day. As reported by Elizabeth Flood in FoodDive, "WK Kellogg Co. is bringing the indulgent experience of a chocolate chip cookie to the cereal aisle." The new partnership between the cereal juggernaut and Crumbl, the cult-classic cookie chain "represents a fusion of two brands known for their dedication to delivering exceptional food experiences," said Sawyer Hemsely, Crumbl founder, who added, “whether enjoyed for breakfast, as a snack, or as an indulgent treat, Kellogg’s Crumbl Chocolately Chip Cereal aims to delight consumers with its irresistible flavor profile."
Rudy Giuliani disbarred "effective immediately": His misconduct "cannot be overstated," court says
Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred “effective immediately” for his efforts to defraud the country and put up a slate of fake pro-Trump electors, a panel of judges in a New York state appeals court ruled Tuesday, The Hill reported. The former mayor and Trump personal attorney was initially...
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