The move by Israel’s corporate version of a celebrity to lay off 14,000 workers was greeted with outrage and a nationwide strike.

India is “sitting on a volcano” of diabetes. A father’s effort to ban junk food sales in and near schools aims to change what children eat.

With awards season approaching in Hollywood, male celebrities have reportedly settled on a way to silently protest sexual misconduct in their industry:

Male stars will also wear black to the Golden Globes to protest sexual misconduct in Hollywoodhttps://t.co/80fJ21de8q
— Mashable (@mashable) December 27, 2017

Hmm…

Men to courageously wear black like they always do in protest of status quo at black-tie event…

A federal panel told the agency to revise its standard for dangerous levels of lead in paint within a year.

As we told you earlier, Roy Moore is challenging the results of this month’s special election and that has Luke Russert worried about 2020:

Reading about this bogus Roy Moore challenge, my biggest fear is that in 2020 a losing Trump actively attacks & delegitimizes the peaceful transfer of power, the most positive and fragile enduring aspect of our democracy.
— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) December 28, 2017

Who wants to tell him?

Good thing absolutely no one attacked and delegitmized the peaceful transfer of power among presidents this year… https://t…

The agency has the authority to force recalls of contaminated foods but is not adequately ensuring timely compliance, an inspector general’s report concludes.

Really BuzzFeed? REALLY?

37 things white people ruined in 2017 https://t.co/C42aBX0uiS pic.twitter.com/TCF2yAGMdI
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) December 28, 2017

Some items from the list…
No. 1: Macaroni and cheese
No. 7: The United States of America
No. 31: Saying things like “YAAASSS queen!!!” and “Snatched my wig.”
No. 32: Joints
(And 17 of the 37 are basically the same and say white people ruined a certain song or dance, etc…

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Doctoring photographs is as old as photography. Although in portrait photography, such alterations aren’t typically regarded as deceitful, changes to photographs taken for news articles are considered dishonest. For editors of reputable newspapers or owners of news services, doctoring a photograph is a fireable offense. It also brings censure upon those who perform it and […]
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