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Sales of Kellogg’s Froot Loops have plunged in recent weeks after activists warned Americans the popular breakfast cereal contains harmful food dyes absent in versions marketed in other countries. Food Babe “Vani Hari,” who’s been at the forefront of bringing the issue to the public’s attention, revealed Wednesday Froot Loops sales “are down 54.6% in the last 12 weeks.” “Our campaign to get artificial food dies out of Kellogg cereals is working,” Hari told followers on X, congratulating them on making their voices heard by voting with their dollars at the supermarket. “Toucan Sam is looking for a new job,”...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate retired Army Gen. Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, bringing back a key adviser from his first term to help fulfill his top campaign promise of ending the war between the two countries. “Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!” Trump said in a social media post announcing Kellogg’s selection. Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general, was chief of staff for the National Security Council during Trump’s first term. He also served as national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence...

The Michigan-based cereal giant Kellogg’s donated a whopping $91 million to the far-left Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after slashing employee benefits, according to a report from The Federalist.Citing data published by the Claremont Institute, the outlet found that following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Kellogg’s launched the Racial Equity 2030 Global Challenge with an injection of $90 million in order to “fuel innovative and actionable solutions to build a racially equitable future.”“As stewards of our children’s future, we must collectively face the primary challenge of our time: racial equity,” said W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trustee and Board Chair...

President-elect Trump has chosen retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as chief of staff and executive secretary of the National Security Council and Monica Crowley as senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, a transition source tells Washington Examiner. Trump's transition officially announced the appointments Thursday afternoon.

Kellogg is recalling as many as 28 million boxes of cereal because a chemical is leaching from the food packaging into the cereal. The Food and Drug Administration states the reason for the recall as "uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell coming from the liner in the package." Other sources call it a wax-like substance, and parents are being warned that it may cause diarrhea or vomiting, particularly in sensitive children (the recalled cereals — Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Fruit Loops and Honey Smacks — are sugary staples of the Kellogg line, marketed with cartoon characters primarily at children).

Advertising Age magazine is reporting that Kellogg is becoming the first company to drop Michael Phelps as a spokesperson because of a picture showing him smoking marijuana out of a bong. The company also said it will not renew its sponsorship of the Olympic team, which expired in December.

I'm looking for advice from anyone here who's worked for Halliburton. I'm thinking about applying for a job in Afghanistan doing Information Technology work. This is a civilian position, and does not require security clearance. I don't have any military background but I have never been in trouble, I'm 26 and am in good physical shape. Can anyone tell me about the length of these contracts, how much they pay, what the work is like, basically any information? I did some research and didn't find much. I've been on FR since about 2000 and this is the first vanity I've...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Tuesday it had awarded $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. for logistics work in Iraq but had not decided whether to give the Texas company bonuses for disputed dining services to troops. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois, said in a statement it had given Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root ratings from "excellent" to "very good" for six task orders for work supporting U.S. troops in Iraq. The Army said its Award Fee Board in Iraq had met in March and had agreed to pay KBR bonuses for...

Security concerns halt deliveries, idle work force and slow rebuilding effort As President Bush prepared to tell the nation on April 13 that the U.S. and its coalition partners will stay the course in Iraq, conditions there are more unstable than at any time since Baghdad fell nearly a year ago. This month’s escalation of violence has resulted in the kidnapping of scores of civilians from a dozen countries and the deaths of 70 coalition forces and at least 700 Iraqi civilians. Reconstruction has slowed to a crawl. Supply convoy operations were suspended, pending security upgrades, and contractors were avoiding...