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We review Stoll & Wolfe Straight Keystone Rosen Rye Whiskey. It's made with an heirloom rye grown out from a mere 24 seeds acquired from a UDSA seed bank.

Rosen Rye, a historic Pennsylvania rye grain with historic ties to distilling, once went extinct. Now, after a concentrated effort to bring it back, the first bottles of Stoll & Wolfe Straight Keystone Rosen Rye Whiskey come to market.

Earmarks were banished from Congress over a decade ago, but the funding for lawmakers' pet projects is marking a sudden return.

About $14 billion, or 1% of discretionary spending, will be devoted to earmarks in this year’s spending bills. The requests that lawmakers made, listed on the House Appropriations Committee website, go beyond the roads, bridges and research grants earmarked in the past. Republican Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, for example, wants $775,000 for a mobile medical clinic offering free cancer screenings to rural residents in his district. And Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania wants $650,000 for mental health professionals to team up with police or to intervene when someone is exp...

Briefs: Displaced in Gaza face familiar plight George Floyd's family holds rally, a little US city tells its stories, India virus death toll passes 300,000, EU calls for probe after plane diverted to arrest journalist and more news for Monday Author: May 24, 2021 People walk amid the rubble of a destroyed residential building which was hit by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) George Floyd's family holds rally, a little US city tells its stories, India virus death toll passes 300,000, EU calls for probe after plane diverted to arrest journalist and...