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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising anyone who consumed Udder Milk products to seek medical attention. According to the CDC, people who drank raw milk from the company may have been infected with a rare germ called Brucella abortus RB51, which can cause an illness called brucellosis. Officials say a New Jersey woman became sick with an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacteria after consuming Udder Milk earlier this year. Udder Milk operates in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The FDA describes the company as a "co-op on wheels" that makes deliveries. Udder Milk's website says the company offers raw milk, yogurt, sour cream, butter and various cheeses, as well as camel milk. Little information is available about which farms may be supplying contaminated milk. As a result, the CDC recommends that anyone who drank raw milk or consumed raw milk products from Udder Milk in the past six months visit their doctor for ant...

The Government Accountability Office will investigate President Donald Trump's voting commission after a request by Democratic senators. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet published the letter he received from GAO confirming the investigation, which the Democrat asked for with colleagues Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. The three lawmakers wrote to the government watchdog last week asking them to look into federal funds used to support the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, the body's work on voter participation, what information and methodology the commission is using for its conclusions, how it is protecting any voter information collected and how it is following regulations. In its response this week, GAO said the work was "within the scope of its authority" and would begin in about five months, based on agency staffing. Trump ordered the creation of the commission after pledging to work to preserve...

Ravinder Bhalla has become the first ever Sikh mayor of New Jersey’s Hoboken city after a stiff competition that turned ugly when he was labelled a terrorist in slanderous flyers.  Bhalla was endorsed by current Mayor Dawn Zimmer, who in a surprising decision announced not to run for re-election in June. He is the first Sikh to hold elected office in New Jersey. Bhalla, who has been on the city council for more than seven years, claimed the victory at Moran’s Pub on Garden Street yesterday with dozens of his supporters, as well as his friends and family, NJ.com reported.  “Thank you Hoboken. I look forward to being your Mayor!,” Bhalla tweeted. “Thank you for having faith in me, for having faith in our community, faith in our state, and faith in our country; this is what America is all about,” he told his supporters after winning the elections. “We’ve been through a bruising campaign…  But now is the time we come together and see who we can...