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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair straightening products is now in limbo after President Trump signed an executive order on Monday pausing all federal regulations. The Food and Drug Administration announced it would decide by April 2024 whether chemical hair straightening products sold in the U.S. would be banned from using formaldehyde or ingredients that can release formaldehyde when heated.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
autos.yahoo.com | Matt Dixon |Yamiche Alcindor |Michelle García |Peter Alexander |Jake Traylor |Nnamdi Egwuonwu | +1 more
CHICAGO — Donald Trump made a combative appearance Wednesday at a conference of Black journalists during a heated question-and-answer session that at times focused squarely on the race of Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump claimed that he did not know until a few years ago that Harris, who is Indian American and Black, was Black. He then baselessly suggested that she had decided to “turn Black” only recently for political gain. “I’ve known her a long time, indirectly,” Trump said.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
msn.com | Matt Dixon |Yamiche Alcindor |Michelle García |Peter Alexander |Jake Traylor
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Zinhle Essamuah
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Zinhle Essamuah
Michelle Garcia and Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Zinhle EssamuahJuly 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM·2 min readThe Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair care products has been pushed back once again, and the timeline for its release remains undetermined. The FDA said in October that it planned to propose a ban on formaldehyde and other formaldehyde-releasing chemicals in hair-smoothing or hair-straightening products, often called relaxers, which are mainly marketed to Black women.
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May 2, 2024 | 
nbcchicago.com | Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Janelle Griffith |Zinhle Essamuah
A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own deadline. The proposal had come after wide-ranging studies found an association between some of the ingredients in hair-smoothing and hair-straightening products, which are used mostly by Black women, and cancer. It is unclear why the FDA has not released its proposed ban.
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May 1, 2024 | 
nbcnews.to | Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Janelle Griffith |Zinhle Essamuah
May 1, 2024, 8:11 PM UTCA proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own deadline. The proposal had come after wide-ranging studies found an association between some of the ingredients in hair-smoothing and hair-straightening products, which are used mostly by Black women, and cancer. It is unclear why the FDA has not released its proposed ban.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García
April 25, 2024, 2:54 PM UTCHaiti’s prime minister Ariel Henry officially resigned Thursday as a transitional government is sworn in and a new leader, Michael Patrick Boisvert, will become the country’s interim president. Boisvert, working with a nine-member transitional presidential council, will attempt to quell the gang-fueled turmoil that has taken over Port-au-Prince. Boisvert became Haiti’s minister of economy and finance in 2020, according to a government website.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García
Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout that occurred Saturday off the coast of the capital, Port-au-Prince, authorities said in a statement.
