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Popular butter sold in seven states has been voluntarily recalled due to potentially containing dangerous bacteria.

It amounts to some of the most forceful opposition yet as the Education Department uses federal funding as leverage to enact Trump’s agenda on issues from DEI to transgender athletes.

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