Beautifully blue-green, spirulina provides color as well as nutrition. | Dreamstime/TNS Its use in food products is growing in popularity mostly in cereal products, snack foods, beverages and as a meat substitute. Long before it was proclaimed a modern-day superfood, spirulina is said to have been cultivated and consumed by the Aztecs. Spirulina is a microscopic, … [Read more...] about Anti-inflammatory benefits of spirulina are boosting popularity of the supplement
Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Ketanji Brown Jackson would also be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, and her confirmation would mean that for the first time four … [Read more...] about Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
1 killed, 3 wounded in shootings in Chicago Thursday
One person was killed and three others wounded in citywide shootings Thursday. | Sun-Times file photo The fatal attack occurred in Longwood Manor. One person was killed and at least three others wounded in shootings in Chicago Thursday. A 31-year-old man was fatally shot as he sat in a parked vehicle in Longwood Manor on the South Side around 11:30 a.m., police said. … [Read more...] about 1 killed, 3 wounded in shootings in Chicago Thursday
Desperate for loans, Patrick Daley Thompson put hundreds of thousands in campaign cash in crooked Bridgeport bank
Former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was the first Daley family member to face trial and the first sitting Chicago Council member to do so in more than two decades. He was convicted on all counts Feb. 14 in his trial for income tax fraud and lying to federal regulators about money he got from a failed Bridgeport bank, Washington Federal Bank for Savings. | Ashlee Rezin / … [Read more...] about Desperate for loans, Patrick Daley Thompson put hundreds of thousands in campaign cash in crooked Bridgeport bank
‘Super Pumped’: Showtime’s slick series on the CEO of Uber really goes places
Ethics and civility aren’t in the playbook for Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as he builds Uber in “Super Pumped.” | Showtime Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays founder Travis Kalanick as a possessed version of the Energizer Bunny, outlasting and out-jerking everyone in his path. In the closing moments of “The Social Network,” Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg tells … [Read more...] about ‘Super Pumped’: Showtime’s slick series on the CEO of Uber really goes places