A city in Utah is letting residents donate food in exchange for wiping out their parking tickets.
A huge iceberg that’s bigger than New York City broke off near a UK base in Antarctica
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A giant iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Friday, not far from a British scientific outpost. The 490 square miles (1270 square kilometers) chunk of ice is bigger than New York City and broke fre...
Attacks against people of Asian descent are on the rise in NYC. The city is pushing to combat it.
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The stabbing of a 36-year-old man on Thursday is the latest in a number of attacks in New York City against people of Asian descent, a surge that has sparked a call for action from advocacy groups. Mayor Bill de Bla...
Suspect charged with hate crime in stabbing attack against Asian man in New York City
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A man accused of stabbing a 36-year-old Asian man Thursday evening outside the federal courthouse in Chinatown, New York City, will be charged with attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime, according to...
India’s groundwater crisis threatens food security for hundreds of millions, study says
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Hundreds of millions of people in India face a serious threat to their livelihoods and food security due to overexploitation of vital water supplies, according to the authors of a new study. India is one of the worl...
Biden administration to send 25 million masks to community health centers and food pantries
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The Biden administration said Wednesday it would send more than 25 million masks to community health centers, food pantries and soup kitchens across the country in order to reach some of the nation's most vulnerable...
Philippines offers to let nurses work in Britain and Germany in exchange for coronavirus vaccines
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The Philippines will let thousands of its health care workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday. Britain...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton traveled to Utah during devastating winter storms
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, left Texas and traveled to Utah last week while the state was being rocked by severe winter storms. Paxton's campaign spokesperson, Ian Prio...
Atlanta creates the nation’s largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity
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When a dormant pecan farm in the neighborhoods of south Atlanta closed, the land was soon rezoned and earmarked to become townhouses. But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in for...
Covid-19 devastated this small city. Volunteers are going door-to-door to ensure people get vaccinated
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The last 12 months have been tolling for Linda Harris, who lives in a small Southwest Georgia city hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. "I'm tired of losing grandparents, grandmamas, granddaddys and some of our sm...
The US military helped keep the heat and lights on for one Nebraska city as temperatures plummeted
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When the Polar Vortex descended on the central US and weather turned brutally cold in Omaha, Nebraska, in recent days, the local utility company turned to an unusual partner to get some extra power supplies to help ...
Food and food packaging highly unlikely to spread Covid-19, experts say
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Food and food packaging are highly unlikely to spread Covid-19, the US Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a reminder Thursday. "Cons...
NBA, Utah Jazz investigating team executive over alleged racially insensitive comments
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The Utah Jazz are investigating a team executive for alleged racially insensitive comments made in 2015. On Wednesday, former Jazz player Elijah Millsap wrote on Twitter that Dennis Lindsey, the team's executive v...