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Boxes of cereal are displayed on a shelf at a Target store in July 2022 in San Rafael, Calif. Manufacturers are using "shrinkflation" techniques as costs to produce goods increase. Some are making the packaging smaller but charging the same prices as they were prior to the reduction in size.

Tagged as: 

  • Economy

How to fight shrinkflation? Pay attention to unit prices at grocery stores

Companies have waged a quiet revolution in package sizing that they use to squeeze more money out of us. But there’s a weapon to help consumers level the playing field: unit prices.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
A home is surrounded by floodwater in Texas. Beryl hit the state as a Category-1 hurricane. The remnants of the storm are expected to move far from the ocean toward the Midwest, where they also pose risks of dangerous flooding.

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  • Climate

Far from the ocean, remnants of storms like Beryl can cause severe floods

Even after storms lose their hurricane status and head far inland, they can still cause dangerous floods. Storms like Beryl pose risks far from the coast, even in Canada.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Julia Simon
A sign stands in front of part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital complex in Baltimore.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Bloomberg gives $1 billion to Hopkins to make tuition free for most medical students

Most students pursuing medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University will receive free tuition, thanks to a $1 billion gift from businessman Michael Bloomberg's philanthropic organization.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Nate Golden, president of the Maryland Child Alliance, holds a petition form for the Baltimore Baby Fund, on Wednesday in Baltimore.

Tagged as: 

  • National

New parents in Baltimore could get a $1,000 'baby bonus' to reduce childhood poverty

Organizers secured the necessary 10,000 signatures to bring the question to voters as a ballot initiative in November. The proposal is loosely modeled on a program implemented in Flint, Mich.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President  Biden pauses during the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27in Atlanta.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

White House physician says visits by neurologist were part of Biden's routine physicals

The disclosures by Dr. Kevin O'Connor follow public concerns by Democrats about President Biden's fitness for office and a report about a neurologist's visits to the White House.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
Democrats in Washington are split on whether President Biden can remain at the top of the party's ticket in November.

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  • Politics

Congressional Democrats are divided over Biden's future after debate performance

Democrats on Capitol Hill remain divided over doubts about President Biden's fitness for the campaign even as Biden himself says he is not dropping out.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales,
  • Deirdre Walsh,
  • and 3 more
Author Alice Munro in 2009.  Her daughter, Andrea Skinner, has come forward with allegations her stepfather abused her as a child and that Munro was aware and stayed with him until his death.

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  • Book News & Features

Alice Munro's daughter says her mother did nothing to stop abusive stepfather

Alice Munro died in May at the age of 92. Her daughter Andrea Skinner wrote a Toronto Star op-ed revealing her stepfather abused her as a child for years.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Dr. Marty Sellers, wearing a red scrub cap, and his team from Tennessee Donor Services perform a normothermic regional perfusion organ recovery at a hospital in eastern Tennessee.

Tagged as: 

  • Health

Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage

Doctors say they can boost the odds donated organs will be usable by restarting blood circulation with a pump after donors are declared dead. Critics say the procedure blurs the definition of death.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi take a walk during an informal meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on July 8.

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  • World

Modi's Moscow visit points to enduring friendship with Putin's Russia

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Moscow for a two-day visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Emergency workers respond at the Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday.

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  • Europe

Russia strikes a children's hospital in Kyiv and other sites across Ukraine

A barrage of Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities Monday, killing at least 36 people and injuring more than 149, and destroying a large children’s hospital in Kyiv, the state emergency service said.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • Kateryna Malofieieva,
  • and 1 more
President Biden in Harrisburg, Pa., on Sunday. As lawmakers returned to Washington, Biden sent them a two-page letter telling them to stop speculating about his departure, because he's not leaving.

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  • Elections

Biden tells Democrats he's not leaving the race, and it's time to stop talking about it

President Biden told Democratic lawmakers and donors in no uncertain terms that he's not ending his reelection bid after he faltered in the debate — and that they needed to stop talking about it.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith and
  • Asma Khalid
President Biden attends Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia on July 7 as he campaigns to salvage his reelection bid. Senior Democrats are meeting to talk about the race.

Tagged as: 

  • Elections

Biden campaigns in Pa. as some Democrats plead with him to consider dropping out

President Biden has said only the Lord Almighty could convince him to step aside. On Sunday, he spoke at a church in Philadelphia as some Democrats publicly pled with him to consider dropping out.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
The U.S. Justice Department says Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from the crashes of two 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019. Boeing assembles its 737s at its factory in Renton, Wash.

Tagged as: 

  • Business

Boeing agrees to plead guilty and pay a nearly quarter-billion dollar fine

The U.S. Justice Department says Boeing has accepted a deal to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from the crashes of two 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Russell Lewis and
  • Joel Rose
Jennifer Privett takes her Himalayan cat Jean Claude out for a stroll in San Francisco on June 28.

Tagged as: 

  • Arts & Life

Cats on leashes ... yes, it's a thing

For some cats, leashed walks "can certainly create environmental enrichment, get them some more exercise," says veterinarian Grace Cater. Other cats? Not so much.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., on June 28.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

With just one mention of abortion, Republican Party lays out its 2024 policy platform

Despite failing to unveil a new platform in 2020, the Republican Party Monday released its policy goals and aims in its official 2024 platform, where the languages sticks close to Trump.

July 08, 2024
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By:
  • Megan Pratz
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