Gerber, the maker of baby foods and other products, is recalling certain lots of its arrowroot biscuits because they might contain pieces of soft plastic or paper and should not be eaten.

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The recall includes 5.5-ounce packages of the biscuits, often given to teething babies, with best-by dates between Oct. 16 and Dec. 16, 2026. The plastic and paper pieces came from a supplier of arrowroot flour, who initiated the recall.

No illnesses or injuries have been reported. Consumers should check the back of the packages for the codes of affected lots. The products can be returned to the place of purchase for a refund, Gerber officials said in a statement.

No other Gerber products are affected by the recall.

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By BERNARD CONDON

NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla’s annual profit plunged to its lowest level since the pandemic five years ago as it lost the title of the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker to a Chinese rival and boycotts hammered sales.

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The EV company run by Elon Musk reported Wednesday that net income last year dropped 46% to $3.8 billion. It was the second year in a row of steep declines. The drop came despite the introduction of cheaper models and Musk’s promise to remain laser-focused on the company after a foray into U.S politics.

Still, Tesla investors have kept the faith in Musk. The stock is up 9% in the past year.

Musk has been urging investors to focus less on car sales and more on what he considers a bright new future of robotaxis ferrying millions in cars without drivers, or even steering wheels, and robots watering plants and taking care of elderly parents.

On a conference call, Musk said Tesla would be closing down production of two models, S and X, in the second quarter this year and converting a Fremont, California, factory to produce its Optimus robots.

For the fourth quarter of last year, Tesla’s net income also plunged, down 61% to $840 million, or 24 cents. Excluding one-time charges, net income totaled 50 cents per share, compared to analysts’ forecasts of 45 cents.

“They’ve got aging product that is less and less competitive as others manufacturers come out with new models, then there is the general brand destruction,” said Telemetry analyst Sam Abuelsamid. “Musk‘s involvement in politics has turned off customers.”

One bright point was Tesla’s gross profit margins, which leapt to 20% last quarter from 16% a year ago.

“Tesla’s ability to show improving profitably was a surprise,” said Morningstar analyst Seth Goldstein. “I think that is the reason the stock is up now.”

Goldstein said he was also encouraged by plans outlined in Tesla’s earnings report to roll out robotaxi service in Houston, Miami and five other cities in the first half of this year.

Investors cheered earlier this year when Musk shifted his focus back to the company after spending months as head of a government cost-cutting team in Washington. But it’s not clear his attention will remain as undivided in the new year. He has plans to take his rocket company SpaceX public, possibly in June, in what many expect to be a blockbuster IPO that make him the world’s first trillionaire — but also possibly distract him.

The latest Tesla figures are a setback for a company that had promised so much a year ago.

After President Donald Trump was elected, investors pushed up the stock on a bet that his advisory role in the new administration would help the company. Instead it backfired. Customers angry with his work for Trump and his right-wing political stances boycotted the brand.

Elon Musk attends the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Musk had also promised a year ago that European regulators would approve its partial self-driving software within three months, a potential big boost to Tesla sales there. But that didn’t happen either.

And investors were also excited about Teslas robotaxi service promising rides without anyone driving the car. But instead they got cars with supervisors inside to grab the controls in case something went wrong, though on this count there may be progress. Tesla recently said it was removing these safety drivers in Austin where it launched the service in June and has vowed to aggressively expand into other cities in the coming year.

For some on Wall Street that is enough to get excited about the company, and keep pushing the stock up.

Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities, one of Wall Street’s most bullish analysts, expects robotaxis will be in more than 30 cities by the end of this year, and that Tesla will capture 70% of the global market for self-driving cars in a decade.

Others are also excited about Tesla energy storage business, which posted strong numbers last quarter with revenues surging 25% to $3.8 billion. Tesla is benefiting from massive demand as datacenters sucking up energy are being built out around the U.S.

Amid frigid temperatures, New Yorkers lodged 26,000 311 complaints about lack of heat or hot water over the last week, the most in a seven-day period since 2018. City Limits’ reporter Patrick Spauster spoke to WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show about what landlords are required to provide, and what tenants can do if their heat isn’t working.

Manhattan during Monday’s snowstorm. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)

Over the last week, as frigid temperatures gripped the city, New Yorkers lodged 26,000 311 complaints about lack of heat or hot water—the most in a seven-day period since 2018 when a similar cold spell hit, according City Limits’ housing reporter Patrick Spauster.

Spauster spoke to WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Wednesday about what the current extreme weather means for New York City tenants. While local law requires building owners to maintain indoor temperatures above a certain threshold from October to May, New Yorkers report tens of thousands of violations each winter. Last year, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development responded to a record 161,773 unique heat and hot water problems, as City Limits reported in October.

“Looking at this year, it’s on pace to break that again,” Spauster told WNYC host Amina Srna. “In December, we had the most heat and hot water complaints of any December since the 311 call data starts in 2010.”

You can listen to the full segment below, which discusses what landlords are required to provide, and what tenants can do if their heat isn’t working. Find more advice and steps you can take in Spauster’s earlier reporting here.

Over the last few days, 10 people were found dead outdoors during the “life-threatening” cold snap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a PSA video released Tuesday warning New Yorkers to take precautions. The exact circumstances of those deaths are not yet known, but officials said several of those who died had previous interactions with the shelter system.

On Wednesday, the Department of Social Services activated an “an Enhanced Code Blue”—more serious than a standard “Code Blue” declaration—meaning its sending outreach teams out every two hours to canvass for unhoused people outdoors.

The city has also expanded its network of warming centers and warming buses (find a list of locations here), and is relaxing shelter intake rules during the weather emergency (find a list of intake and drop-in center locations here).

To reach the editor, contact Jeanmarie@citylimits.org.

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Two Twin Cities women who were detained by federal officials in high-profile cases were arrested Wednesday and are federally charged in separate incidents.

Inver Grove Heights paraprofessional Christina Rank, 25, is charged with allegedly following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle and causing a collision in her school’s parking lot. Also charged is a 23-year-old Somali-American woman, Nasra Ahmed, who lives in St. Paul and was born in Minnesota. She was previously detained for two days.

Nasra Ahmed, left, and Christina Rank (Frederick Melo / Pioneer Press and courtesy of the Rank family)

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrests of Rank, Ahmed and 14 others on the social media platform X, calling them “Minnesota rioters” for “allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents.”

Criminal complaints for Rank and Ahmed allege they “forcibly” opposed, impeded or interfered with a federal officer. They were both charged under seal and their cases are now publicly filed.

Christina Rank

Rank’s mother, Sarah Hunkele, previously told the Pioneer Press that her daughter was arrested in the parking lot of the Concord Education Center on Jan. 12 and spent 12 hours in custody at the ICE detention facility at Fort Snelling before being released pending an investigation.

Rank appeared in court on the felony charge Wednesday afternoon and was released pending a future court hearing. Hunkele said her daughter’s attorney was still in court and unavailable for comment.

“The bigger story is the comments made by the AG along with the release of all the mugshots of those individuals in court today,” Hunkele said in a text message to the Pioneer Press. “Our system is innocent until proven guilty and that was not their message.”

According to the criminal complaint, ICE officers were conducting immigration enforcement and parked at Concord Education Center on Broderick Boulevard. Rank drove up in her car and asked the officers, who were wearing “their issued vest carriers which identified them as law enforcement,” whether they were ICE.

When the officers left the parking lot, Rank tailed immediately behind them in her car. After a short drive, with Rank still behind, the officers attempted to re-enter the parking lot. Rank then drove into an oncoming lane and across the parking lot entrance at the same time the officers were turning into the lot, causing the collision, the complaint alleges.

Hunkele had questioned why the ICE agents were at the school, which offers alternative learning services for nine south metro public school districts. She said her daughter has been a paraprofessional at the school for the past seven years, working one-on-one with students with disabilities.

“She’s young,” Hunkele said. “She’s very passionate about her work. She’s very caring. She would never do anything with ill intent.”

Nasra Ahmed

Ahmed is a U.S. citizen who has no documented criminal history in Minnesota. She spoke out after she was previously detained and said: “I gave them my ID since they asked. I did everything they asked.”

Deportation officers on Jan. 14 “were conducting a targeted operation” and “a knock and talk” and were returning to their vehicles when a woman, later identified as Ahmed, yelled obscenities and threw an egg at one of their legs, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent wrote in an affidavit.

The deportation officers approached to arrest her and she “struggled with officers,” spit in an officer’s face and toward another officer, the affidavit said.

Ahmed or her father couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon. A personal recognizance bond was issued for Ahmed’s release Wednesday.

A GoFundMe previously established for Ahmed said she was on her way to pick up medication from the pharmacy when she “was violently detained and arrested by federal immigration officers.”

She “was racially abused and called the N-word by one agent,” the GoFundMe said. “After this exchange, multiple agents detained her using excessive force. They grabbed and pinned her to the ground, which left her with several cuts and bruises, and a suspected concussion. Nasra, who also suffers from seizures and has an autoimmune condition, was particularly vulnerable during this ordeal and her condition’s symptoms were exacerbated during her detainment.”

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