Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Images For years, the world’s leading fast-food chain used a “pink slime” as beef filler for its burgers in the U.S. After a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, McDonald’s has abandoned the goo.
Oliver, who stars in his own TV show “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” has been campaigning for months to get fast-food chains to stop using the pink slime, which is technically discarded beef cuts treated with ammonium hydroxide.
It’s Saturday night in Vallejo, Calif., a medium-size town 25 miles (40 km) northeast of San Francisco, and the locals have hit the streets looking for prostitutes — not to do business with them, but to scare them off.
Half a dozen members of a local neighborhood group called the Kentucky Street Watch Owls are out on patrol, walking the streets to discourage prostitutes and their customers from plying their trade in the community.
Six months ago, a mere handful of people were showing up for Saturday- night home services conducted by Jorge Alvarado, a Mexican-American upholsterer and part-time evangelist in Houston. But soon so many people were coming that Alvarado had to move his congregation to a small commercial building, and then to a large house, where some 80 worshipers now regularly attend his meetings. These two-hour gatherings feature testimonies, rousing hymns accompanied by electric guitar, and high-energy sermons (“The Lord gives strength to the weak!
The Team USA women’s 4 x 100 relay-m team—with Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabby Thomas, and Sha’Carri Richardson running in the final—won Olympic gold at the Stade de France on Friday night, signaling a return to sprint supremacy for the U.S. women, who finished second in this event behind Jamaica in Tokyo. Team Great Britain won silver, while Team Germany took bronze.
With the win, Richardson, the charismatic American track superstar, finally gets her Olympic gold.
The fast-rising artist shocked Nigerians on October 17, 2023, when he announced his self-owned record label called Plutomania Records. Shallipopi who himself is under the books of Dapper Music announced that he's launching Plutomania Records while also unveiling two new artists Zerryl and Tega Boi under his label. Shallipopi enjoyed remarkable success in 2023 with his EP 'Planet Pluto' which delivered the hit singles 'Elon Musk', 'Obapluto', and 'Ex-Convict'.