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Recycled plastics for food use require stronger safeguards, warn UN food security experts
The UN food security agency warns that recycled plastics and alternative packaging materials can help reduce waste, but only if…
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World News in Brief: Mounting waste in Gaza, drone attacks in Sudan, aid truck struck in Ukraine
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN’s top aid official in Occupied Palestinian Territory visited a dumping site in Gaza on Tuesday that continues…
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Where Did All the AK-47s Go?
A family of guns that was once ubiquitous in the U.S. firearms marketplace has started to vanish for a variety…
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Corpus Christi Faces Water Crisis as Drought and Industrial Growth Strain Supply
The mayor of Corpus Christi called an emergency meeting last month to deliver a dire warning: The city, among the…
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Cindy Burbank Wins Senate Primary in Nebraska, but Plans to Drop Out to Help Dan Osborn
Cindy Burbank, a retired pharmacy technician who has said she is serving as a spoiler to clear a path for…
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In San Francisco, the Tents of Homeless People Are Disappearing
San Francisco’s mayor, now in office for 16 months, has insisted that his hometown was a city on the rise,…
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Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player, dies at 47 – National
By Staff The Associated Press Posted May 12, 2026 7:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article…
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Secret Service Makes Case for Security Funding Amid G.O.P. Unease on Ballroom
Top Senate Republicans and the White House tried on Tuesday to ease reservations about providing $1 billion in taxpayer dollars…
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7th body found in suspected train smuggling case at U.S.-Mexico border – National
Federal agents are investigating the deaths of six people believed to be immigrants found Sunday inside a shipping container at…
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U.S. FDA head Marty Makary resigning after 13 months – National
The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion…
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