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Last year, that amounted to $75 million of $88.5 million in candy corn sales, according to the consumer research firm Circana. Political Cartoons View All 1215 ImagesWhen compared to top chocolate sellers and other popular confections, candy corn is niche. Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed. Candy corn is basically sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey and dyes, among some other things. She equates candy corn with childhood memories of having to visit her pediatrician, who kept a bowl on hand.

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☆ Kevin McCarthy once kicked Matt Gaetz out of his cabin at Camp David, Cassidy Hutchinson says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kevin McCarthy once kicked Matt Gaetz out of his cabin at Camp David, Cassidy Hutchinson said. Hutchinson said McCarthy told Gaetz to "get lost" when he showed up uninvited to a gathering. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Kevin McCarthy once kicked Rep. Matt Gaetz out of a gathering at his Camp David cabin, Cassidy Hutchinson said on a Wednesday night appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Matt Gaetz was not included," Hutchinson told Kimmel, adding that she was one of the last to arrive at the soirée. "And then, Matt Gaetz got him kicked out of the House," Kimmel joked, referring to McCarthy being ousted from his role as Speaker of the House.

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☆ X CEO slams claims she's CEO in name only as 'not nice;' 'Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed questions on whether she's running the company as "not nice." The X CEO took the stage shortly after an ex-Twitter staffer spoke on his negative experience at the company. AdvertisementAdvertisementX CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed claims she's watching Elon Musk run the social media company from the sidelines in an openly tense dialogue about working with the famously controlling billionaire. I don't care what the structure is at Meta, but who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?" Before joining X, Yaccarino served as chairman of advertising sales and client partnerships at NBCUniversal.

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☆ Was Linda Yaccarino 'sandbagged?' What happened behind the scenes at the X CEO's disastrous coming out party.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Ben Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino appeared rattled during her most high-profile appearance to date. Some criticized tech journalist Kara Swisher and Code for "sandbagging" Yaccarino. Months earlier, Boorstin had secured a coveted interview with Linda Yaccarino to make her first major public appearance after being named CEO of X, formerly Twitter. Later, Boorstin pressed Yaccarino on the Anti Defamation League's feud with Musk and accusations that X is encouraging antisemitism. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Everybody deserves to speak their opinion," Yaccarino said, before nervously glancing at her watch and saying she had to leave.

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☆ Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Matt Gaetz once came on to her by touching her chin with his thumb and calling her a 'national treasure'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Cassidy Hutchinson says in her new book that Matt Gaetz once came on to her. AdvertisementAdvertisementFormer Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson has accused Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida of coming on to her by stroking her chin and making an inappropriate comment. "He explained that he was lost and asked me to escort him to his cabin," Hutchinson wrote of Gaetz. "Matt Gaetz, in my opinion, is somebody that I personally do not hold in high regard in terms of trust, and I do not think that Matt Gaetz has the best track record for relationships," Hutchinson said. "I will say, on behalf of myself, I never dated Matt Gaetz.

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It’s usually an inexpensive, efficient way to transport crops, as a typical group of 15 barges lashed together carries as much cargo as about 1,000 trucks. A narrowed shipping lane also means barges from different companies must squeeze into limited space, forcing backups and delays. Months of dry and warm weather have hit the Midwest hard, damaging crops in much of the region west of the Mississippi River. In Kansas, 40% of the soybean crop was reported in poor or very poor condition, with the same conditions for 40% of the corn crop in Missouri. From his work site beside the Mississippi River in Red Wing, Minnesota, Jim Larson watches as the river rises and falls through the seasons.

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But as it turns out, I was just not using my imagination, because this year’s Burning Man was an absolute nightmare. casey newtonA bit more of a Drowning Man than a Burning Man, I have to say. kevin rooseYeah, so as someone who’s been to Burning Man, I was fascinated by just the logistics of it all, because it is already a mess to get in and out of Burning Man. kevin rooseSo you are, in addition to a Burning Man escapee this year, you’ve been actually going to Burning Man for a long time. When I say I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what happened to prompt the things that were being directed at us.

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CNN —Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze for about 30 seconds on Wednesday while speaking with reporters after a speech in Covington, Kentucky. “I’m sorry you all, we’re gonna need a minute,” the aide told reporters. Speaking to reporters after the incident, McConnell insisted he was “fine.”McConnell and his top deputy, Senate Republican Whip John Thune, spoke this afternoon after Wednesday’s incident. President Joe Biden also told reporters Wednesday afternoon that he plans to try to “get in touch” with McConnell. I don’t know enough to know,” Biden told reporters following remarks on the federal response to Hurricane Idalia and the wildfires in Maui.

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☆ Jessica Pegula Is Learning to Use Her Claws
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Cindy Shmerler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jessica Pegula strode into Wimbledon’s cavernous interview room, bucket hat perched on her head, and stared at the empty room. When she realized that there were no media members there to ask her about her second-round win over Cristina Bucsa, Pegula chuckled, got up and walked out. At 5-foot-7, Pegula doesn’t have a thunderous serve, like Aryna Sabalenka. Pegula can also flutter emotionally, as when she let a 4-1 lead slip in the third set against the eventual Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova. “Her ball-striking is really, really good,” said David Witt, her coach since 2019.

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☆ Tom Brady has always been looking for speed; he had to retire from the NFL to find it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Tom Brady did it all; he’s a paragon of excellence and a poster child for longevity. If there was anything that Tom Brady lacked, it was speed. “If I couldn’t run that fast, I better figure out a vehicle that could move fast!” quipped Brady. And we’re so lucky to have him.”Legendary quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement after 23 seasons in the NFL earlier this year. “I’ve done my part in professional football,” said Brady.

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The planned recipient of the colorful batik top was Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang, who has not been seen in nearly a month and is set to miss at least one other important meeting, in South Africa, next week. It is not clear whether even then Borrell would meet Qin as initially planned, the official said. The former aide to President Xi Jinping was appointed foreign minister in December after serving less than two years as ambassador to the United States. Qin's absence has also been widely discussed in the diplomatic community, with some saying it is another example of China's lack of transparency. Some diplomats have even started to speculate on who may replace Qin, with three telling Reuters the ranking vice foreign minister, Ma Zhaoxu could be a candidate.

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☆ Meta's CTO was asked whether the term 'metaverse' did more harm than good. He chuckled and compared it to the early confusion over the word 'internet.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bosworth was asked whether he felt the term "metaverse" did more harm than good. But if you're still scratching your head over the term "metaverse," don't worry, Meta's chief technology officer gets your confusion. He then compared the ambiguity around the definition of the metaverse to the confusion people experienced in the early 1990s when they were making sense of the internet. At the same time, Bosworth admitted that Meta never expected its rebrand — and by extension the term metaverse — to garner so much attention. Reality Labs was included in Meta's recent layoffs, and Zuckerberg seems to have since shifted focus to AI.

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☆ Patrick Wilson: The Scream King Takes the Director’s Chair
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Beatrice Loayza | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“I’d been trying to direct a movie since 2015,” Wilson told me over coffee at a West Village bistro. “No offense, but that’s not how you deal with a problem,” Wilson chuckled. “The Red Door” confronts the trauma of that earlier film from the perspective of a father-son relationship. I asked Wilson if his sons — one is heading to college soon — send him curt one-word texts. “Nah, we have a great relationship,” said Wilson, who since 2005 has been married to the actress Dagmara Dominczyk (Karolina in “Succession”).

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☆ Thom Browne on the inspiration behind his first ever couture show
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week. Paris CNN —On Monday evening in Paris, American designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) chairman Thom Browne debuted his first haute couture collection in front of an audience of 2,300. The scene was meticulously staged by Browne’s team, many of whom worked overnight. “I wanted to turn the tables (of a traditional couture show) and make everybody sit on the stage along with the show,” Browne told CNN. “We all want to be respectful to what’s going on here in France and in Paris,” Browne said.

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☆ In Kremlin stunt, Putin and girl, 8, lobby minister for budget funds
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sputnik/Alexander... Read moreJuly 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on Tuesday and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his finance minister to ask for a budget grant for her home region. The Kremlin released video of Putin welcoming the girl, Raisat Akipova, in the latest of a series of appearances since a brief armed mutiny last month that seem designed to show him as caring, concerned and in control. Putin responded, before telling the girl: "We've got 5 billion roubles for Dagestan" - a sum equivalent to $55.6 million. Putin chuckled with amusement during the conversation and a similar call that he made with Raisat to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The visit was a sequel to a visit by Putin to Dagestan last week when, unusually, he mingled with a large crowd of people.

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☆ The Christian Pop Star Bringing Latino Evangelicals to the Pews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Marcela Valdes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

They have fantastic sound systems, and rival Latino churches tend to view them as neutral ground. Even in Kansas, several pastors told their congregants not to attend A.O.A. “Stop trying to correct how your brother does his ministry,” he told the pastors that morning. “You already have your own.” Jesus, he reminded them, said you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins; the old leather breaks, and the new wine spills. Maridelis Morales Rosado is a documentary photographer and photo editor, born in Puerto Rico and based in New York City.

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☆ Verstappen took chequered flag with dead bird on board
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MONTREAL, June 19 (Reuters) - Red Bull's advertising slogan is 'gives you wings' but Max Verstappen had the whole bird on board when he won Sunday's Canadian Formula One Grand Prix. Red Bull's double world champion reported a bird strike early in the 70 lap race at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and team boss Christian Horner provided more details. "I think the biggest moment he had was hitting a bird that did half the race behind the front right brake duct," he told reporters. Verstappen told Sky Sports television: "It was still stuck on my car when I came in, it didn't look great. Red Bull have won every race this season, Verstappen victorious in six of them, and are on course to smash records.

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☆ I was one of the reporters covering Trump's federal arraignment. We left our computers and cell phones behind during the unprecedented news event.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some reporters were granted access to the courtroom through a lottery system. No cell phones or laptops were allowed in the courthouse, leaving us to rely on an old-school journalism approach of pay phones and notepads. Here I was, reporting what happened inside a room that only about 100 people would witness. Journalists with the closest access to the Trump arraignment were inside the courtroom, within feet of the former president. Court rules can vary some, but typically, when reporters receive access to federal court they're allowed to bring along their cell phones and laptops.

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☆ Yogi Berra: ‘It Ain’t Over’ documentary reassesses baseball great’s remarkable career and life
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Yogi Berra famously said “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” but one of the greatest careers in baseball history might have been over before it had even begun. He was injured during the attack, he pulled bodies out of the water, and he learned that in comparison to war, baseball would be easy. In a file photo -- September 28, 1955 -- Jackie Robinson (R) is safe under an attempted out by Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, on a steal home from third. I don’t think anything that anyone said or wrote took any of that joy away from him. I don’t think Grandpa meant to be a civil rights activist,” explained Lindsay, “He just did the right thing.

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☆ Biden laughed when asked about Ron DeSantis claiming he may pardon Trump if elected president
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

DeSantis said if elected president he'd consider pardons for Capitol rioters or even Trump. "Did you see that Ron DeSantis said that if he became president he would pardon Trump? a reporter asked Biden on Monday, video showed. Clay Travis of "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" asked DeSantis. When asked if that could include Trump, DeSantis said "any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization" would be reviewed.

☆ Anthony Richardson’s N.F.L. Draft Status Is Up in the Air
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Emmanuel Morgan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Anthony Richardson chuckled as the football puttered to the ground. He had launched a high-arcing pass near the end of the University of Florida’s pro day, a March workout in front of scouts from all 32 N.F.L. The heave may have missed its target, but it displayed Richardson’s powerful arm during the job audition. The display encapsulated the scouting report on Richardson, who is projected as a top-10 selection in the N.F.L. draft: jaw-dropping talent, erratically deployed.

☆ Taiwan determined to safeguard freedom, democracy, President Tsai says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Ben Blanchard | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Through this trip we again sent a message to the international community that Taiwan is determined to safeguard freedom and democracy which won acknowledgment and support from our democratic partners," Tsai said as she met Canadian lawmakers at her office in Taipei. We are willing to do our utmost to jointly safeguard the values of freedom and democracy with Canada and many more like-minded international partners." Despite China announcing the three days of drills had ended as scheduled on Monday, Beijing has continued military activities around Taiwan. Taiwan's defence ministry said on Wednesday morning that in the previous 24 hours it had detected 35 Chinese military aircraft and eight navy vessels around Taiwan. The aircraft crossing the median line included five Su-30 fighters at its northern end, with the other planes crossing at points in the centre and south.

☆ Who is Nouriel Roubini, Wall Street's 'Dr. Doom' economist who has warned of catastrophe for 2 decades?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nouriel Roubini, the economist known as "Dr. Doom", has been warning of disaster for two decades. He rose to prominence after being among the commentators to call the 2008 financial crisis. When he spoke of an impending housing crash at the International Monetary Fund that year, the audience chuckled, the New York Times reported. Nouriel Roubini economics professor at New York University attends 48th edition of Economic Forum of Cernobbio on September 02, 2022 in Cernobbio, Italy. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day," Anirvan Banerji, a critic of Roubini's told the New York Times in 2008.

☆ Scheffler, McIlroy and Rahm not yet the Big Three but in league of their own
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I just had breakfast with Jon Rahm and that didn't come up," laughed McIlroy, when asked if the three had discussed their dominance. It may be absurd to compare Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, who combined for 34 major titles, to Scheffler, McIlroy and Rahm but on current form the present-day trio are in a league of their own. McIlroy opened his campaign with victory at the CJ Cup and hoisted the trophy at the DP Tour's Dubai Desert Classic. "You can say that (the new Big Three), if we do it for at least five-plus years like many of those players did," said Rahm. World number one Scheffler would not be drawn into the Big Three discussion but put the trio's domination down to a high level of consistency.

☆ Ron DeSantis orders Florida's inspector general to see if Disney execs were personally involved with making the loophole to thwart him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis wants Florida's inspector general to look into the loophole that a Disney-backed board used to thwart his plan. The last-minute agreement hamstrings DeSantis' board, keeping them from having any real power for decades. DeSantis asked the state's inspector general to specifically look into whether Disney's executives, staff, or agents were involved in the scheme. In a letter dated Monday, DeSantis called on Inspector General Melinda Miguel to look into the agreement, which he said was "designed to usurp the authority of the CFTOD board." Still, the feud between DeSantis and Disney is likely entering a new phase, as the governor declared last week that the fight against the entertainment giant wasn't over.

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