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California unveils plan to redraw voting areas to counter Texas Republicans, and Kelloggs agrees to take away poisonous dyes from cereals.
California Pronounces Redistricting Plan
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has introduced a plan to redraw the state’s voting strains in favor of Democrats in a countermove in opposition to an analogous effort by the Republican governor in Texas, escalating the current dispute between the 2 events.
Newsom has known as for a Nov. 4 election, which is more likely to cross within the state the place the Democratic Occasion dominates.
Over 50 Democratic lawmakers fled Texas in protest on Aug. 3, over a redistricting vote that will favor Republicans, leaving the state’s legislative physique with out a minimal variety of required lawmakers and subsequently unable to vote.
Governors in Democratic-controlled states like Illinois, California, and New York have urged redistricting their states in retaliation.
California is the primary and solely to this point to start to take action.
US Immigration Enforcement Receives 100,000 Functions
U.S. Homeland Safety has obtained over 100,000 purposes to affix U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), lower than two weeks after making the announcement.
“Your nation wants devoted women and men of ICE to get the worst of the worst criminals out of our nation,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned in a statement on Aug. 12.
On July 29, DHS launched a recruitment drive to recruit ICE officers to rid america of unlawful immigrants who’ve entered the nation in recent times, amongst whom are members of infamous gangs with violent backgrounds.
The “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” actor, Dean Cane, introduced just lately his plans to affix the power.
Kellogg’s Agrees to Take away Poisonous Dyes From Cereals
Cereal big Kellogg’s has agreed to completely take away poisonous synthetic dyes from all its cereals in a historic transfer for U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Wholesome Once more (MAHA) agenda.
The agreement between WK Kellogg and Texas Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton follows months of investigations and negotiations.
The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) banned Pink Dye No. 3 on Jan. 15 and additional banned Citrus Pink No. 2 and Orange B on April 22, with an intention at working with firms to voluntarily take away different dyes from their merchandise.
MAHA was a part of RFK Jr.’s slogan when he rallied with President Donald Trump throughout the presidential elections final 12 months, with an agenda to deal with power well being illnesses in American kids.
He has given firms till the tip of 2026 to part out “all petroleum-based artificial dyes” from their meals.
DOJ Targets George Washington College Over Anti-Semitism
The U.S. Division of Justice has found George Washington College (GWU) in violation of civil rights by “appearing intentionally detached” to the discrimination of Jewish, American-Israeli, and Israeli college students and workers.
Universities have come below scrutiny previously 12 months over their obvious failure to deal with discrimination in opposition to Jewish and Israeli college students and workers, amid nationwide protests over Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist assault on Israel.
4 Ivy League universities have reached agreements with the federal authorities over the previous month to deal with racial and sexual discrimination in alternate for restoring misplaced funding.
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