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El Salvador’s environmentalists lament reversal on mining ban, as companies circle
Dialogo Chino
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July 7, 2025
In December 2024, El Salvador’s congress reversed an historic ruling on metal mining to reauthorise the activity in the country, seven years after it became the first nation in the world to explicitly ban it. Gold mining has a particularly long...
'Magnificent' archaeology discovery unearths three huge ancient cities
The Mirror US
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June 26, 2025
02:00 ET, 26 Jun 2025Updated 03:07 ET, 26 Jun 2025 A trio of cities has been located in a triangle formation roughly five kilometres apart and the Guatemalan settlements span from roughly 1000 to 400 BC in an era scientists describe as the "middle...
A New Podcast Revisits an Old Local Mystery: Who Killed Rachel Crook?
INDY Week - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
In the summer of 1951, a gallon of gas cost around 19¢, a gallon of milk 83¢, and the United States was celebrating its demisemiscentennial. In Chapel Hill, 71-year-old Rachel Crook was approaching the end of her PhD in economics at North...
Comparison of Subconjunctival Triamcinolone with Topical Prednisolone for Routine Anti-Inflammatory Prophylaxis in Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery: A Single-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Protocol
Dove Medical Press
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July 3, 2025
Background Cataract is the largest contributor to global blindness in adults aged 50 years and older and is increasing in prevalence.1 Phacoemulsification cataract surgery is most commonly performed in high-income countries. The benefits of this...
McDonald’s Australia adds McGriddles, New Zealand fans left waiting
The New Zealand Herald
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July 8, 2025
Described as being akin to a hybrid between a McMuffin and McDonald’s Hotcakes, a McGriddle is a breakfast sandwich made of two warm maple-infused pancakes and a breakfast filling. The palm-sized pancakes are typically embossed with the McDonald’s...
'Incredible' archaeology breakthrough as three ancient cities discovered
Daily Express
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June 26, 2025
In a groundbreaking archaeological triumph, three ancient cities forming a triangle have been uncovered in Guatemala, each five kilometres apart and dating back to 1000-400 BC, a period known as the "middle preclassic" era. The most prominent of...
Trump immigration crackdown hits California economy as workers stay home
MLive - Michigan
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June 25, 2025
By Cindy Carcamo, Dianne Solis & Alfredo Corchado | Edited by Dudley Althaus SANTA ANA, Calif. — At Hector’s Mariscos restaurant in this heavily Latino and immigrant city, sales of Mexican seafood have plummeted. Seven tables would normally be...
Vincy workers accuse Taiwanese company OECC of unfair labour practices
I Witness News
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June 25, 2025
Some former and current employees of the Taiwanese firm, Overseas Engineering & Construction Co. (OECC) to which the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has awarded a US$78 million contract to build a hospital in Arnos Vale, have...
World Chocolate Day 2025: 5 Benefits Of Eating Chocolate
Free Press Journal
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The love for chocolate is worldwide. There is hardly any individual who doesn’t love gooey chocolate. But this global obsession began in the 15th century when chocolate came to Europe. To celebrate this, World Chocolate Day is celebrated on July...
New owners brewing, roasting at Trail Creek Coffee Roasters in Kasson
Post-Bulletin - Minnesota
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July 7, 2025
KASSON, Minn. — The smells of coffee beans roasting waft through the streets near First Avenue in Kasson. While the winds are shifting owners Jim and Crystal Whitmarsh of Trail Creek Coffee Roasters to Michigan, the coffee will keep brewing in...
The health benefits of chia seeds, according to experts
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption
The Register
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Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC). In a Thursday post, Technology Program Manager Mat Ford wrote that Brazil, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, and...
Trump administration wants to fine those illegally in the US $1,000 per day until they leave
The Independent
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Holy, Independent: Meet 12 of the Many Americans on the Path to Sainthood
National Catholic Register
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Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics hope that Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, will soon beatify or canonize some new American saints — perhaps even the...
U.S. plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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July 6, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the...
Immigration arrests in Colorado have surged under the Trump administration. Now we know how much.
Reporter Herald - Colorado
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July 7, 2025
Colorado’s first immigration arrest of the second Trump administration came shortly after the president was inaugurated on Jan. 20. Before the inaugural ball kicked off in the nation’s capital, a Honduran man in his late 20s was arrested in Craig....
To protect beef industry, US to breed billions of flies as pest control
The Gleaner
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July 6, 2025
The United States government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government’s...
AI Billionaires of 2025: The List No One Saw Coming
The Enterprise World - Ohio
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June 26, 2025
Have you ever looked at the news and thought, “How did this person make a billion dollars so fast?” I had the same question when I started reading about the latest tech wave. Everywhere I looked, there was one word that kept showing up—AI. It...
Coffee with Crawford | On the Fourth, a quiet thanks for sports — and what we still share
WDRB - Kentucky
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – On Fourth of July weekend, we celebrate what unites us — or at least, we try to. That gets harder every year. Politics? Polarized. Religion? Divided. Even our communities feel more splintered than shared. But there’s one...
L.A. immigration raids force the undocumented to trade their freedom for safety
Los Angeles Times
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June 26, 2025
WASHINGTON — An undocumented man from Guatemala who has leukemia postponed chemotherapy because he was afraid to go to the hospital. A Mexican grandmother packed most of her belongings into boxes, in case she is deported. A Pentecostal church in...