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Year: 2021

Beyond Meat strikes partnerships with McDonald’s and Yum Brands

Beyond Meat has inked two new major new deals, with McDonald’s and Yum Brands, that will bring new plant-based items to fast food menus. The separate distribution agreements announced Thursday will result in “craveable and innovative” new menu choices, the company said — including McDonald’s upcoming McPlant burger as well as plant-protein based pizza toppings,

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Putin critic Alexey Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony, Russian prison service says

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been transferred from a Moscow detention center to a penal colony, state media reported on Friday. The exact location and name of the penal colony was not revealed but Alexander Kalashnikov of Russia’s federal penitentiary service (FSIN) told reporters: “According to the court’s decision, he left to where he

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British Gymnastics faces legal action over alleged ‘systemic physical and psychological abuse’

Seventeen former British gymnasts, including three Olympians, have notified British Gymnastics of their intention to take legal action, alleging coaches subjected them to “systemic physical and psychological abuse,” according to a statement from their law firm Hausfeld. “This is a landmark moment in our campaign for justice,” Claire Heafford, a former elite gymnast and one

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DHS mandates state and local spending on domestic terrorism prevention

The Department of Homeland Security will require state and local grant recipients to spend funding on domestic violent extremism prevention efforts, the department announced Thursday. For the first time, the department designated combating domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” for two of its Federal Emergency Management Agency grant programs. FEMA operates several grant

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