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Perdue Recalls Chicken Sausage Links After Plastic Sightings
Chicken sausage products that might contain bits of plastic are being recalled by Perdue Foods, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday.
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Trump's Nordstrom Blast Retweeted By @POTUS
President Trump tweeted a jab at Nordstrom department stores from his personal account Wednesday morning, which was then retweeted by the official @POTUS account.
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PVAMU launches New Student Orientation virtually for freshmen and transfer students
New Student Orientation is officially underway at Prairie View A&M University. Newly-admitted PVAMU students officially begin their First Year Experience (FYE) today online due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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SI Swim Announces Aly Raisman & Simone Biles debut and Festival Coming to Houston in February 2017
Diplo, Miguel to Headline Two-Day Event Celebrating Launch of SI Swimsuit 2017; U.S. Olympians Simone Biles, Aly Raisman to Be featured in SI Swim 2017
Time Inc.’s (NYSE: TIME) Sports Illustrated will celebrate the launch of its 2017 swimsuit issue with a two-day music, food and culture festival—“VIBES” by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit—to be held in Houston on February 17–18. The first-of-its-kind event will feature live performances by GRAMMY™ Award-winning artists Diplo and Miguel; a food festival curated by Houston’s James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd and special appearances by the models of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Class of 2017.
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Stamp prices are going up starting Sunday
The US Postal Service will increase prices on first-class mail stamps to 66 cents from 63 cents.
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GE's $24 billion buyback boondoggle
General Electric is seriously strapped for cash. The conglomerate has laid off workers, slashed its dividend and put long-held businesses up for sale.
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Comcast Celebrates Grand Opening of Xfinity Customer Service Center
Comcast recently unveiled its new Xfinity Store in Houston with a special community celebration at a brand new location.
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Is this as good as it gets for Big Oil?
The highest oil prices in a decade. A renewed government focus on energy security. Huge demand for refining crude so it can be used as fuel.
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Trump should be commended for trying to save the US energy industry
For years, the US oil industry has had to compete for space with agriculture goods and other commodities on railways and public roads, raising energy prices and increasing congestion on the highways and smaller roads American travelers depend on every day.
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14 Issues Trump Is Sidelining to Focus On the NFL
President Donald Trump devoted much of the online portion of his weekend to attacking NFL player-protesters and boosting calls for a boycott of the league.
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Governor Abbott, HHSC Extend Deadline For Pandemic Food Benefits For Families Affected By COVID-19 School Closures
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is extending the application deadline for the federal Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer program (P-EBT) to August 21 to ensure eligible families have more time to apply for this one-time food benefit.
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Cypress Mom Who Fundraised Over $60K To Save Daughter's Life Gets 501 (c)(3) To Help Other Families In A Medical Crisis
The power of a praying mom in Cypress, TX who helped save daughter's life is committed to helping other families in a medical crisis.
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White House says Russia planning to falsify evidence to frame Ukrainian forces for prison attack
US officials believe Russia is preparing to falsify evidence to blame Ukrainian forces for last week's deadly blast at the Olenivka prison ahead of visits to the site by outside parties.
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New Houston Black-Owned Vodka, General Orders No.3, Officially Launches Juneteenth Weekend with Concert Benefitting TSU and Prairie View A&M
Ultra-Premium Vodka Brand Pays Homage to Texas History, Heritage, and Independence, While Paying it Forward to HBCUs
General Orders No.3 (GO3), a new Houston-based, Black owned premium vodka, will officially launch its heritage-rich, ultra-premium vodka Juneteenth Weekend by presenting a big concert to benefit Texas Southern University and Prairie View A&M!
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Plate Loss Device Promotes Weight Loss: Want to Make a Big Change? Start Small!
On March 26, Plate Loss launches on the crowd-funding site, KickStarter. With early bird pricing, starting as low as $12.99 for a 2-pack (a significant discount from when the device hits the market), the patent-pending plate can help reduce up to hundreds of calories from each meal, with no diet changes and no exercise required. Little steps lead to big changes.
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'Omicron' cryptocurrency soars on new variant
As global markets fell last week on news of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, one cryptocurrency with the same name soared after the Greek letter entered the investor lexicon.
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Inflation hurts. But White House economists find that it’s even worse in every other G7 nation
The United States is recovering faster than its peers from the historic bout of inflation squeezing families and souring the mood of the nation, according to a new analysis from White House economists.
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Meet the woman who wrote the Toys 'R' Us jingle
Linda Kaplan Thaler wasn't entirely sure how her Toys "R" Us jingle would go over at first. It was the early 1980s and she was a junior copywriter at the J. Walter Thompson ad agency, which was tasked with inventing a catchy tune for the toy company. The song that Thaler whipped up used a slogan — "I'm a Toys 'R' Us Kid" — co-created by James Patterson, the future crime novelist who at the time was a colleague of hers.
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Amazon Go stores are coming to Chicago and San Francisco
Amazon's cashier-free grocery store of the future is coming to San Francisco and Chicago. The company is expanding its experimental Amazon Go store to the two US cities, but did not say when they would open. It has posted job listings for store managers in the cities on its own site, which were first noticed by the Seattle Times.
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5 Ways to Save at a Time of Higher Gas Prices and Rising Inflation
With higher gas prices and rising inflation putting pressure on finances, drivers are looking for ways to save on the cost of car ownership. On average, it costs between $15,000- $24,000 to own a car over a five-year period, including fuel, maintenance, insurance, repairs, financing and state fees.
