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Easter candy price increases just start as cocoa soars

As the Easter holidays approach, higher cocoa prices mean shoppers are paying far more for their chocolate eggs and bunnies. Higher prices in stores now reflect increases in cocoa in 2023. Since then, the rally has gone into overdrive, and cocoa has more than doubled in price already this year.
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Former Defense Secretary Mattis: Democracy is hard for a reason

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and four-star Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis will be the inaugural recipient of the Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service. Mattis will be honored by Washington State University’s Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service on April 9 during a ceremony at the John Hemmingson Center at Gonzaga University.

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China’s plan to spur growth: A new slogan with familiar ideas

From the top of the government, China is heavily promoting a plan to fix the country's stagnant economy and offset the harm from a decadeslong housing bubble. The program has a fresh slogan, presented foremost by Xi Jinping, the country's top leader, as "new, quality productive forces."
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Tailor to presidents and stars, Martin Greenfield dies at 95

Martin Greenfield, who died Wednesday at 95 at a hospital in Manhasset, New York, largely kept to himself his Holocaust survival story as he rose from floor boy at GGG Clothes to owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers, which he built into one of the most venerable clothiers in the United States.
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Trump escalates solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters as his own trials close in

Shortly after Donald Trump walked onstage at a recent rally, the voice of an announcer instructed the crowd to rise “for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6th hostages.” Trump saluted, and the loudspeakers blasted a rendition of the national anthem performed by people accused or convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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What happens if Trump misses bond deadline?

Donald Trump, who lost a civil fraud case in New York last month, must put up a bond of nearly half-a-billion dollars if he wants to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from collecting while he appeals. James is poised to begin claiming his assets if he fails to put up the bond by Monday.
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The far right lost badly and wants its revenge

WASHINGTON – As 2023 opened with Republicans newly in control of the House, the far-right members of the party considered themselves empowered when it came to federal spending, with increased muscle to achieve the budget cuts of their dreams.
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Israeli raid on al-Shifa Hospital deepens suffering in Gaza’s north

Israel said Friday its raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was continuing for a fifth day, with the large-scale military operation provoking alarm among global health officials as well as residents in the enclave’s devastated north, who were hoping for a Ramadan cease-fire but were instead sheltering from the latest violence.