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Ever heard of these food additives? Synthetically-derived benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, methyl eugenol, myrcene, pulegone, or pyridine?

These compounds can help mimic natural flavors and are used to infuse foods with mint, cinnamon and other flavors.

You've likely never seen them on food labels because food manufacturers are permitted to label them simply as "artificial flavors."

For President Trump and for Senate Republicans, confirming Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice will be a hard-won political victory. But for the conservative legal movement, it is a signal triumph, the culmination of a decades-long project that began in the Reagan era with the heady goal of capturing a solid majority on the nation’s highest court.

Once Judge Kavanaugh is sworn in, the Supreme Court will be more conservative than at any other time in modern history. By some measures, “we might be heading into the most conservative era since at least 1937,” said Lee Epstein, a law professor and political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered around the Capitol and Supreme Court on Saturday in anticipation of the final vote to confirm President Trump's nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the high court.

A large group of loudly chanting protesters gathered on the East Lawn of the Capitol to protest the expected confirmation of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with a vote scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

Holding up a rainbow of different colored signs, the crowd chanted, "We don't want no Kavanaugh" and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Kavanaugh has got to go!”

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More than 1,600 scientists have backed a campaign condemning the Italian researcher who claimed physics was “invented and built by men”.

They have signed a petition in response to comments made by Prof Alessandro Strumia, of Pisa University, who said male scientists were being discriminated against because of ideology.

After making the comments during a presentation at Cern, the European nuclear research centre in Geneva, on 28 September, Strumia was suspended on Monday pending an investigation for his “unacceptable” presentation.

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Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say at least 50 people are dead and more than 100 have second-degree burns after a tanker truck caught fire.

The accident occurred on Saturday in the village of Mbuba, not far from Kisantu city and about 124 miles (200km) south-west of the capital, Kinshasa.

Witnesses say the tanker truck collided with a bus and when the fuel began to leak, villagers rushed to collect it. Then the fire broke out.

“We deplore the deaths,” the interim governor of Kongo-Central province, Atu Matubuana, said.

Officials were preparing to identify the bodies and bury them, Matubuana said.

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An exasperated President Trump picked up the phone to call the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, last Sunday. Tell the F.B.I. they can investigate anything, he told Mr. McGahn, because we need the critics to stop.

Not so fast, Mr. McGahn said.

Mr. McGahn, according to people familiar with the conversation, told the president that even though the White House was facing a storm of condemnation for limiting the F.B.I. background check into sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a wide-ranging inquiry like some Democrats were demanding — and Mr. Trump was suggesting — would be potentially disastrous for Judge Kavanaugh’s chances of confirmation to the Supreme Court.

It would also go far beyond the F.B.I.’s usual “supplemental background investigation,” which is, by definition, narrow in scope.

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