SAN FRANCISCO — Responding to calls for Trader Joe’s to stop labeling its international food products with ethnic-sounding names, the grocery store chain said it has been in a yearslong process of repackaging those products and will soon complete the work.In the latest call to rename brands and logos, nearly 1,000 people have signed an…
A trending online petition is calling for a statue of Christopher Columbus in Cleveland, Ohio, to be replaced with a figure honoring the life of Chef Boyardee.The recent Change.org appeal is urging Cleveland City Council to remove the statue of the controversial explorer located in Tony Brush Park, in the Little Italy neighborhood, and erect a…
Calls are growing for a new investigation into the death of McClain, a 23-year-old black man who died after an encounter with police in Colorado last year. R...
Petition circulates to nix Kings Island's face mask policy A petition is circulating to nix the face mask requirement for visitors to the Kings Island amusement park. The change.org petition, which has gathered more than 1,000 signatures, aims to get the attention of the Cedar Fair amusement park, which announced plans to reopen in July…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…