Explore More The US Justice Department is investigating the Abbott Laboratories infant formula plant in Michigan that was shut down for months last year due to contamination, the company confirmed.
The factory’s closure in February 2022 was a key cause of a nationwide baby formula shortage that forced parents to seek formula from food banks, friends and doctor’s offices. Production restarted in June.
The Justice Department has informed Abbott of its investigation and the company is “cooperating fully,” Abbott spokesperson Scott Stoffel said via email. Read More...
Explore More A black student’s allegations that she was targeted for “eating while black” at a private Massachusetts college were deemed unfounded, according to an investigation of the incident.
Oumou Kanoute, then a rising sophomore at Smith College, had claimed that all she “did was be black” when a janitor called security on her when he found her in a closed lounge in July 2018.
But a 35-page investigation carried out by an outside law firm found no evidence of discrimination, the New York Times reported. Read More...
Rihanna’s skinny eyebrows ignite some concerns.
@gaymzpiggy, tweeting about singer Rihanna gracing the cover of British Vogue’s September issue. Many people were quick to notice her eyebrows — pencil-thin, as opposed to the more recent trend of thick, bushy brows — and worried the style icon would ignite a trend of ditching grown-out brows for skinnier ones. But don’t grab those tweezers just yet! The Huffington Post reports that RiRi’s real brows were covered with makeup and these new ones drawn on. Read More...