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RELATED: Walmart Is Now Facing Backlash for Selling This. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted an alert on March 19, warning shoppers about a new Walmart recall concerning a popular pancake and waffle mix. According to the agency, Continental Mills issued the recall for a single lot of Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix from Great Value—one of the big box retailer’s private label store brands. “The affected product was distributed nationwide where consumers purchased product through retail Walmart stores,” the recall announcement warned....

READ THIS NEXT: Walmart and Dollar General Are Under Fire for Doing This to Shoppers. Since 2020, Walmart has undergone a number of adjustments to its services in response to the changing public health and safety risk amid COVID. According to The Washington Post, the big-box retailer was an “early adopter” of face mask mandates at the beginning of the pandemic. “We know some people have differing opinions on this topic,” Walmart COO Dacona Smith said in a July 2020 statement, in regards to the retailer implementing a mask mandate....

Read on to find out why Murray, who went through some personal struggles during his time on the show, says he’s “deathly afraid” to relive One Tree Hill. READ THIS NEXT: ’90s Teen Idol Says She Was “Used as a Sexual Prop” on Her Hit Show. Murray became a teen idol playing Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill for six seasons, from 2003 to 2009. The drama is about half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan (James Lafferty), their family lives, their dating lives, and their high school basketball days....

Research published by Nature Medicine shows that people under the age of 20 are only half as susceptible to COVID-19 as people over that age. Furthermore, only 21 percent of infected children between the ages of 10 and 19 in the six countries surveyed exhibited coronavirus symptoms. “Accordingly,” the study says, “we find that interventions aimed at children might have a relatively small impact on reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, particularly if the transmissibility of subclinical infections is low....

1 Stranding Latest In Series of Too-Close-For-Comfort Sightings Last week in Itanhaém, São Paulo, a group of people were enjoying a long walk on the beach when they discovered the beached shark. It was a shortfin mako, which is considered the world’s fastest shark, capable of swimming 45 miles per hour. Local painter Edvan Silva said he was “frightened” when he glimpsed the mako. “I surf this beach, and I’m getting worried....

Rasmussen’s discussion about COVID spread was sparked by two articles. One report from The Globe and Mail on Feb. 1 documented the rapid spread of the virus at long-term care facilities and cases where infected people claimed they were only in a store for a few minutes. Another Wall Street Journal article cited data from the National Football League (NFL) that showed that transmission of the virus could occur in under 15 minutes and beyond six feet of distance....

The new study, led by engineers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Purdue University, found that this particular beetle can withstand an applied force of about 150 newtons—roughly 39,000 times its body weight—before the exoskeleton of the insect begins to fracture. To put that into perspective, the researchers estimate that the amount of force a car tire would apply if it ran over the beetle would be about 100 newtons....

During a press conference held on Dec. 7, officials with the U.N. health agency discussed the “shocking” rate of infection currently hitting the U.S. that makes close contact at traditional holiday gatherings a potentially life-threatening act, the Associated Press reports. “It’s a horrible thing to think that we would be here as the World Health Organization saying to people, ‘Don’t hug each other,’” said Michael Ryan, MD, executive director of WHO’s emergencies program....

Though much is known about the physical consequences of hypertension, experts have only recently begun to explore the mental health effects associated the condition. Read on to find out about a new study that suggests hypertension could be impacting your state of mind, and how to keep both your blood pressure and your mood on an even keel. READ THIS NEXT: 4 Meds That Are Raising Your Blood Pressure, Experts Say....

In a color-coded interactive map designed to assess risk in terms of how severely the coronavirus is spreading in each state, Hawaii appears green, meaning it is considered to be “on track” for containing the virus.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Developed by Harvard Global Health Institute in collaboration with CovidActNow, Covid-Local, and several other sources, the map categorizes each state’s risk level based on the number of new daily cases per 1oo,ooo people. At the time this article was published, Hawaii was one of only two states in the country to appear green on the map—the other was Vermont....

RELATED: 50 Summer Facts That’ll Make You Even More Excited for the Season. George Merryweather was a Victorian doctor and a fan of poetry. In fact, it was in a poem that he found the inspiration to build the Tempest Prognosticator, a kind of barometer powered by leeches. The three-foot-tall contraption was as beautiful as it was intended to be useful. The brass and mahogany structure held 12 glass vials in place, each of which contained a single leech....

READ THIS NEXT: The “Crazy” Way Mark Ruffalo Discovered He Had a Brain Tumor. Dead to Me star Christina Applegate has been in the public eye since she was a teen, so it came as quite a surprise to fans when she revealed that she was battling breast cancer at the age of 36 . Following her diagnosis, the star underwent genetic testing, which revealed that she was positive for a BRCA gene mutation....

Ever wondered what it would be like to sleep next to the geologic wonders of Zion National Park in a safari tent? If not, we bet you are now. Under Canvas Zion offers a luxury glamping experience just a stone’s throw away from one of the most popular national parks in the country. That means you can wake up to the smell of a wood-fired stove in your tent before grabbing freshly brewed coffee and hiking just a short three miles to the Left Fork trailhead inside Zion’s borders....

In the letter, which you can read in full here, the experts write: “Right now we are on a path to lose more than 200,000 American lives by November 1st. Yet, in many states people can drink in bars, get a haircut, eat inside a restaurant, get a tattoo, get a massage, and do myriad other normal, pleasant, but non-essential activities.” They add that: “The best thing for the nation is not to reopen as quickly as possible, it’s to save as many lives as possible....

1 Look for BOGO deals. “Buy one get one” deals are one of the easiest ways to ensure you’re walking away with free swag. Not sure where to find them? Shopping promotion website Retailmenot currently has a wide range of BOGO coupon codes for products at popular stores and eateries, including burgers at Shake Shack, pizzas at Papa John’s, trial size products at Bath & Body Works, and books for all ages at Barnes & Noble....

As the dictionary website explained, their update speaks to the way the “unprecedented events of 2020, from the pandemic to the protests, have profoundly changed our lives—and language.” But not all the new words are directly related to the seismic shifts we’ve been experiencing, and some of these additions are long overdue. To find out which words and terms now have the Dictionary.com stamp of approval, read on. And if you want to stay current on language, make sure you avoid these 4 Words the Dictionary Says You Should Stop Using....

READ THIS NEXT: Over 650,000 Washing Machines Sold at Home Depot and Lowe’s Recalled After Fire and Injury Reports. According to the Dec. 29 announcement, the recall affects the oven compartment of ZLINE 30-inch and 36-inch RG gas ranges (stove and oven combos that use natural gas), specifically model numbers RG30, RGS-30, RGB-30, RG36, RGS-36, and RGB-36. On all models, these numbers are printed on the label on the back of the range, and for those manufactured after 2020, you can also find the model number printed on a label beneath the right side of the range top, the CPSC said....

During the Great Recession, there was a lot of anger toward the capitalist system. It’s become increasingly hard to remember those emotions as wealth, stability, and jobs have returned to most governments, but images of protests like this one in England during the G20 Summit in 2009 are a stark reminder. In this photo, nature has begun to overtake an uncompleted home construction project in Florida, abandoned during the housing crisis in 2009....

READ THIS NEXT: Never Include These 2 Things in Your Will, Experts Warn. For most of your career, there are limits on how much you can put into a retirement account like a 401(k). It’s wise to max out the amount of your paycheck that goes into this fund. You should also make use of your employer’s contribution matching program, provided they offer such a benefit (it’s a common perk at mid-sized for-profit firms these days)....

READ THIS NEXT: It’s Snake Bite Season: “Stay Away” From These Areas, Officials Warn. Snakes are hyper-regional, and there are more varied species of snake on the planet than you can shake a stick at. (For instance, you’ll find roughly three dozen different species of rattlesnakes in North America alone.) In many cases, the difference between a venomous snake and a non-venomous one is negligible without close scrutiny. If you’re concerned, you should brush up on your region’s local variants so you can identify the dangerous ones on the fly....