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When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
announced them today, he thanked the president as well as Maha Moms, his Make America Healthy Again supporters.
Jesse Newman, who covers food for the journal, says the administration is zeroing in on ultra-processed foods and protein.
Kennedy's promised to root out what he sees as toxins that are bad for children.
For more on the new guidelines and to see the new food pyramid, check out the link in the show notes.
Coming up, the Apple credit card finds a new home, why it's so hard to find mental health care covered by insurance, and more of the day's stories after the break.
In markets, the Dow dropped nearly 1%.
The S&P also slipped, while the Nasdaq ticked up 0.2%.
Alphabet, Google's parent, became the second largest U.S.
company by market cap for the first time since 2018.
Number one is still NVIDIA.
And in other corporate news, people familiar with the matter say that JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal to take over the Apple credit card program from Goldman Sachs.
The deal will cement JPMorgan's status as a behemoth in the credit card sector, and it marks the final chapter of Goldman's failed experiment in consumer lending.
And Warner Bros.
Discovery told its shareholders to reject Paramount's hostile bid for the company.
In a letter to shareholders made public today, Warner said its existing deal with Netflix was still better than Paramount's updated offer.
Warner shareholders have until January 21st to decide whether to accept Paramount's tender offer.
More and more Americans are suing their insurance companies over mental health coverage that they say doesn't actually exist.
Patients say that when they try to find therapists and other providers that are covered by their insurance, the names they get from the insurance companies can't help them.
My colleague Sabrina Siddiqui spoke with WSJ reporter Corinne Ramey about these so-called ghost networks.