Shortly after Will Smith and Chris Rock’s confrontation during the 2022 Oscars, the Academy requested the departure of the King Richard star. “Mr. Smith’s…
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They may be big shots in the music industry now, but everyone has to start somewhere — why not the Grammys? From…
ByNadia Drake Published March 30, 2022 • 6 min read Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spied what they suspect is…
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company…
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is continuing its Food Safety Fellow program through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education with support from the USDA’s Office of Food Safety. The FSIS has selected six fellows for fiscal year 2022. The fellows are students currently working toward…
– OPINION – A year ago the Center for Science in the Public Interest urged the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from unprocessed poppy seeds contaminated with naturally occurring opiate residues. In a regulatory petition filed along with medical experts and six families injured by contaminated poppy seeds, we asked the agency to…
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Timothy LeDuc Is the First Openly Nonbinary Winter Olympian—And They Want to Change Figure Skating’s Narrative
by Sue JonesThe 2022 Winter Games in Beijing marked the first Olympic appearance for figure skater Timothy LeDuc, but when they hit the ice for the pairs skating program on February 18, they ushered in a first for the entire Olympics: LeDuc became the first openly nonbinary athlete to compete at a Winter Games, according to NBC…
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Speed Skater Erin Jackson Shares How Representation in Winter Sports Can Make All the Difference
by Sue JonesHow has your relationship with teammate Brittany Bowe been a source of emotional strength and support for you?I’ve known Brittany since I was 10 years old and she’s a few years older than me. Back when we were growing up on the same team in Florida, it was more like I was the little kid…
Sterling K. Brown as Randall. Ron Batzdorff/NBC Senator Pearson! Randall (Sterling K. Brown) took a big step forward in his career during…
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B.C.’s funding system ‘broken’ for Indigenous children in provincial care: report
by Sue JonesBritish Columbia’s child and youth representative says trying to follow the money trail when it comes to ministry funding for the welfare of Indigenous children in provincial care revealed a “jarring” lack of data transparency.British Columbia’s representative for children and youth is calling on the government to urgently fix what she says is a ‘broken’…