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Americans spent a record amount on food last year, even with inflation considered, partly for the convenience of take-out and restaurant food, said two USDA economists.

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Campaign finance complaints have been filed by the attorney general's office against two lawmakers and a former legislative candidate. The separate complaints against Democratic Reps. Strom Peterson and Jeff Morris and former candidate Sharlaine LaClair, announced Monday, were filed in Thurston County Court last week...

lsa Murano, a former undersecretary for food safety at USDA and former president of Texas A&M University, will be interviewed by President-elect Trump to become secretary of Agriculture. A Trump spokesman said Murano “comes highly recommended and her track record of running a major university really speaks for itself.”...