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  • Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables

    Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables

     

    Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather that has depressed production in Spain and north Africa.

    ​Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather that has depressed production in Spain and north Africa. 

  • Pentagon warns troops eating poppy seeds could lead to failed drugs tests

    Pentagon warns troops eating poppy seeds could lead to failed drugs tests

     

    The US Defense Department issued an official warning to troops last week: If you don’t want to test positive on a drug test, you should avoid poppy seeds.

    ​The US Defense Department issued an official warning to troops last week: If you don’t want to test positive on a drug test, you should avoid poppy seeds. 

  • Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to visit Ohio town affected by toxic train derailment on Thursday

    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to visit Ohio town affected by toxic train derailment on Thursday

     

    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday.

    ​Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday. 

  • Biden administration sanctions Mexican drug cartel network for supplying and operating fentanyl labs

    Biden administration sanctions Mexican drug cartel network for supplying and operating fentanyl labs

     

    The Biden administration on Wednesday sanctioned a network of Sinaloa Cartel members and associated entities for their involvement in the illegal and deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine trade, providing chemicals to “super labs” that produce illicit drugs for the cartel once run by the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.

    ​The Biden administration on Wednesday sanctioned a network of Sinaloa Cartel members and associated entities for their involvement in the illegal and deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine trade, providing chemicals to “super labs” that produce illicit drugs for the cartel once run by the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán. 

  • Mormon Church to pay fine to settle charges it hid an approximately $32 billion investment fund

     

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment manager will pay a $5 million fine to settle regulatory chargers that it hid a huge investment fund.

    ​The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment manager will pay a $5 million fine to settle regulatory chargers that it hid a huge investment fund. 

  • No bond for ex-University of Alabama basketball player charged with murder

    No bond for ex-University of Alabama basketball player charged with murder

     

    Former University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles, 21, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in a shooting that killed a 23-year-old woman last month, will be held without bond and his case will go before a grand jury, according to Tuscaloosa County court records.

    ​Former University of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles, 21, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in a shooting that killed a 23-year-old woman last month, will be held without bond and his case will go before a grand jury, according to Tuscaloosa County court records. 

  • Norfolk Southern is paying $6.5 million to derailment victims. Meanwhile, it’s shelling out $7.5 billion for shareholders

    Norfolk Southern is paying $6.5 million to derailment victims. Meanwhile, it’s shelling out $7.5 billion for shareholders

     

    Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw pledged Tuesday the freight railroad will spend $6.5 million to help those affected by the release of toxic chemicals from its derailment nearly three weeks ago in East Palestine, Ohio. But in a plan released earlier this year, the company said it’s planning to spend more than a thousand times that amount — $7.5 billion — to repurchase its own shares in order to benefit its shareholders.

    ​Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw pledged Tuesday the freight railroad will spend $6.5 million to help those affected by the release of toxic chemicals from its derailment nearly three weeks ago in East Palestine, Ohio. But in a plan released earlier this year, the company said it’s planning to spend more than a thousand times that amount — $7.5 billion — to repurchase its own shares in order to benefit its shareholders. 

  • JPMorgan restricts employee use of ChatGPT

    JPMorgan restricts employee use of ChatGPT

     

    JPMorgan Chase is temporarily clamping down on the use of ChatGPT among its employees, as the buzzy AI chatbot explodes in popularity.

    ​JPMorgan Chase is temporarily clamping down on the use of ChatGPT among its employees, as the buzzy AI chatbot explodes in popularity. 

  • Nikki Haley defended right to secession, Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in 2010 talk 

    Nikki Haley defended right to secession, Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in 2010 talk 

     

    Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local activist group that “fights attacks against Southern Culture.”

    ​Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local activist group that “fights attacks against Southern Culture.” 

  • Russia’s economy is hurting despite what Putin says

    Russia’s economy is hurting despite what Putin says

     

    When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine one year ago, Western countries hit back with unprecedented sanctions to punish Moscow and pile pressure on President Vladimir Putin. The aim: to deal an economic blow so severe that Putin would reconsider his brutal war.

    ​When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine one year ago, Western countries hit back with unprecedented sanctions to punish Moscow and pile pressure on President Vladimir Putin. The aim: to deal an economic blow so severe that Putin would reconsider his brutal war.