Diving to or need to know headlines first. And
let's start with the death toll. In last week's
Russian attack on a Ukraine train station has now risen
to 57 people. More than 100 people were injured
in that attack. That attack targeted the thousands of
people rushing to evacuate eastern Ukraine. That is Russian
forces concentrate their efforts there. Meanwhile, some other
news, Ukraine's fast tracked efforts to join the EU
are moving along. The president of the european commission
met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinski over the weekend in
Kiev. And during that meeting, she said the
process to accept Ukraine into the EU could take a
matter of weeks saying, Ukrainians quote, belong to
our european family without any question. Meanwhile, in
France french far right leader Marianne Le Pen has promised
she will be president to all citizens if she wins
the presidential election, incumbent, President Emmanuel Macron and
Le Pen are projected to square off in the second
round of the elections, the two emerged as the
top picks after France's first round of voting on sunday
, the 10 losing candidates quickly made their votes heard
on who their supporters should vote for in the next
round. The majority of them threw support behind Macron
. Round two will take place on april 24th.
Meanwhile, a new report out of brazil is painting
a very devastating picture when it comes to the amazon's
future. The country's National Institute for Space Research found
in just the three months, The first three months
of this year alone. The amazon rainforest hit record
rates of deforestation An area roughly the size of Texas
was cleared between January and March this year, it
is a 64% increase from the same time period just
last year and back in the us to a different
kind of Amazon. The retail giant Amazon has officially
filed its objection to the Amazon. Labor unions win
in Staten Island. According to the Financial Times,
the company claims a. L. You intimidated employees
recorded voters in the polling place and quote distributed marijuana
to employees. In exchange for their support. Amazon
will have to provide documentation and evidence to the N
. L. R. B. By april 22nd
. All right. Meanwhile retailers throughout the country now
reporting an ongoing baby formula shortage. Some stories are
even rationing their sales the 30% of the most popular
baby formula brands sold out. Countrywide, which is
much higher level compared to other products according to data
assembly. This comes out even two months after Abbott
nutrition, one of the top baby formula producers recalled
select instant formulas that after reports of babies becoming sick
after consuming their products, inflation and supply chain shortages
. Also leading to a decreasing number of baby formula
products available in stores at the moment. Hannah and
Rutgers Law school is being accused of forging bogus temporary
jobs for graduating M. B. A. Students
to bolster its schools rankings. This news comes from
a lawsuit by the business school's human resources manager who's
accusing the school of using a temp agency to hire
unemployed NBA students at the university itself. These hirings
have led to Rutgers Law school to garner multiple honors
, including being named the top public business school in
the Northeast by Bloomberg Business Week. And similar schemes
by other colleges have led to criminal charges in recent
years. As the Dean of temples Business school was
convicted of federal wire fraud and conspiracy charges for using
fake statistics to boost the school's national rankings. Rutgers
is refusing to comment on the lawsuit at this time
. So looking into this, it's it's kind of
tough to figure out if they were posting fake jobs
that the students weren't actually having or if the university
was providing them with fake jobs. So they could
like, you know, unofficially have those jobs that
would in turn help the students with their resume,
which they might think is like, okay, this
this is like a this is a helpful thing we
can do for students Sure. Obviously it's still fraudulently
just 100%. And it also goes to show those
colleges who put a lot of pressure on themselves to
improve rankings and these are by the way, rankings
from Forbes from, you know, all the big
ones that are out there that you made, you
decide which colleges you wanted to go to at the
end of the day because you're like, oh this
is a great business school, Oh, this is
a great journalism school. Now, this sort of
gives you pause in terms of how these metrics are
sort of devised in terms of how these schools are
in these rankings. So this is really sort of
suspicious and by the way, they're investigating a lot
of these claims in this lawsuit, right? And
you forget how often they need these rankings. Yes
, because that's money, that's money that comes into
the university at the end of the day. Meanwhile
, wild story with lucky charms eating them and a
lot of people eating lucky charms aren't making themselves feel
lucky and instead of making them feel pretty sick lately
, the FDA says it's looking into reports of stomach
illnesses that are potentially linked to lucky charms cereal after
over 1000 people reported feeling unwell after they ate them
. The report comes from the consumer safety website,
I was poison dot com and the site is saying
that the biggest surge of reports related to one single
product in history, symptoms from eating lucky charms include
vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps and green stools as
well. Now, General Mills, who is the
manufacturer of lucky charms, is saying that they've done
their own internal research and they're not finding anything that's
making people sick. The FDA also coming out saying
they don't know what's making people sick as well,
but one family, one mother in particular, she
had cereal and her kid had the serial, both
of them got stomach flu's as well. So nobody
really knows if this is a lucky charm centric thing
or if this is just maybe a Norovirus, that
is out there, but the fact that over 1000
people are sick from one product leaves you very suspicious
. That can't be good. I actually had no
idea that there was a website called, I was
Now you want to go and visit it, It's
like anything else, I mean, yeah, and
since last july over 100 people have posted on that
website, so this has been happening for a long
time now and everybody's just kind of like Eureka,
it might be this lucky charms. Right, right
, right, Exactly. But again, General Mills
is saying, we don't know what you're talking about
and if the FDA also coming out saying we have
no idea what you're talking about, remember sometime in
the nineties General Mills got in trouble for having too
much sugar in their cereals and it was like,
right around the time where we probably stopped eating the
sugary kids. Right, right, right, right
, right. Um and so I always think about
that now, I'm like, didn't they change it
? Like, shouldn't it be a little bit healthier
for you at this point? Did you, did
you watch SNL over the weekend? No, Michael
Che had a funny joke about this, he's like
, this seems magically suspicious. Wait, didn't you
say tragically tragically just something about that, That's exactly
, it's brilliant, I love that joke. Alright
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