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Hershey Co (HSY.N)said on Thursday it would fall short of meeting demand for the all-important Halloween and Christmas holiday seasons this year, blaming a scarcity of raw ingredients and difficulties in securing suppliers. Pandemic-induced global supply chain disruptions and the Russia-Ukraine war have crunched supplies of cocoa, edible oil and other food ingredients, pinching production lines of packaged food companies around the world.

a group of Democratic senators took cash from a Ukraine lobbyist to push Ukrainian gas interests at the same time the Democrats are pushing the Trump-Ukraine yarn. ... Remember Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner? .. previously been a top fundraiser for John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. And soon after Devon and Hunter joined the Burisma Board, the company channeled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ML Strategies, which was headed by none other than David Leiter, John Kerry's former chief of staff. That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine...

Here is another example of what President Obama means by change.The new administration has wasted no time in canceling a decision by the Bush White House that let gas and oil companies explore for new resources. Remember when President Bush announced that he was lifting the ban on domestic drilling? That was way before the economy started tanking but it set oil prices on their downward trend. Now President Obama wants to send oil prices back through the roof to make sure that Al Gore and his global warming nuts gets their way with the American Economy. Higher Oil Prices,...