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It’s a bit of much-needed sweet news for the drugstore chain, which has had more sour press lately. Despite TikTok’s uncertain future, it’s still continuing to set social media trends, and the latest one is a mango gummy candy with a cultlike following from an unexpected source: Walgreens’ own store brand, Nice!, a maker of a variety of budget drinks and snacks.

The better we understand these storms’ attributes, the better those forecasts and warnings can become. Dozens of tornadoes hit the central U. S. April 26-28, 2024, tearing through suburbs and small towns and damaging hundreds of homes from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa.

More than 60% of respondents reported increased participation last year in employee volunteer activities. Michelle Barbin’s job does not always fill her bucket. Yes, she likes her nine-to-five helping improve consumer experiences at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. She emphasizes she wouldn’t have spent nearly 19 years working for the health insurance provider otherwise.

Paramount CEO Bob Bakish is departing, as the company considers a Skydance deal. The saga of Paramount Global’s future is more exciting than a lot of the studio’s films. And with the bombshells in Monday’s earnings report, things are becoming even more dramatic. After multiple reports swirled early Monday, Paramount announced that CEO Bob Bakish is leaving the company.

It’s the latest tussle over labels for agricultural products from a specific geographic area, a topic familiar to Hawaii due to long-running disputes over Kona coffee. For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family, but these days many of the kernels in the package might not be Hawaii-grown.

Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst effects of a warming planet while contributing the least to the problem. From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change.