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The news comes just a few months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of one dye, Red Dye No. 3, in food and ingested drugs—a move that predated Kennedy’s new role.
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Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Comments Believe it or not, Temptation Island predates The Bachelor, a.k.a.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2025
The shift predated the filing of a breach of contract lawsuit against the studio over its decision to release 2021’s The Matrix: Resurrections simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters during AT&T’s Project Popcorn plan.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Known as The Lost Colony, this site predated Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—by about 20 years.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
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Chantelle Lee, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Comments Believe it or not, Temptation Island predates The Bachelor, a.k.a.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2025
The shift predated the filing of a breach of contract lawsuit against the studio over its decision to release 2021’s The Matrix: Resurrections simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters during AT&T’s Project Popcorn plan.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Known as The Lost Colony, this site predated Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—by about 20 years.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
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