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In a week when it was a lot easier for UPS to track a package than for the federal government to track an immigrant child, this also happened:

 They pulled the plug on GE. S&P Dow Jones Indices said it is dropping General Electric, the last original member of the Dow Jones industrial average, from the blue-chip index. It will be replaced Tuesday by the Walgreens Boots Alliance drugstore chain.  The Food and Drug Administra­tion decided to reconsider its plan to label pure maple syrup and honey as containing added sugars. Maple syrup producers had rallied against the plan, saying the requiremen­t would be misleading, illogical and confusing, and could hurt their industries.

 Kate Spade New York announced plans to donate $1 million to support suicide prevention and mental health awareness causes — a tribute to the company’s founder, who committed suicide this month. The Kate Spade New York Foundation is giving $250,000 to the Crisis Text Line, a free, 24-hour confidenti­al text message service for people in crisis, and it will match public donations made to the service through June 29, up to an amount of $100,000.  San Francisco’s Barebottle Brewing Co. trolled the Warriors’ main rival with its latest beer, LeBron Tears. “We took the tears from Sir James’ Game 1 loss and distilled them into a hazy IPA, just for you,” its taplist says.

 Meanwhile, the world’s biggest Doritos chip sold for $12,611, ESPN’s Darren Rovell tweeted. It’s 18 times the size of a regular chip, and was created to celebrate the release of “Jurassic World: Fallen

Kingdom.”

 ?? Josh Edelson / Associated Press ?? Do the tears of LeBron James make for a worthy beer?
Josh Edelson / Associated Press Do the tears of LeBron James make for a worthy beer?

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