WHO said 99% of the global population breathes air that is often rife with particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the veins and arteries, and cause disease.
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House votes to decriminalize marijuana, but Senate fate dim
Democratic Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden of Maine voted for the bill.
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is making online stars of those at front lines
The bombings and violence in cities like Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kyiv feature a cast of newly minted stars — social media standouts who rely on satire, grit and an insider’s sensibilities to document the horrors for a global audience.
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Biden marks Transgender Day of Visibility with new actions to make government more inclusive
Biden is announcing new measures aimed at making the federal government more inclusive for transgender people, including an ‘X’ gender marker on U.S. passport applications and new TSA scanners that are gender-neutral.
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Biden receives second booster, presses Congress on virus funds
The president used the occasion Wednesday to call on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the pandemic.
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Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers discover farthest star yet
It’s a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
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Putin being misled by his advisers on Ukraine, U.S. intelligence determines
The intel community has concluded that Putin was unaware that the military had been using and losing conscripts in Ukraine.
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McDonald’s linked to deforestation of Amazon, report says
In its report, Reporter Brasil reviewed several cases in which beef from illegally cleared ranches was shuffled between farms to hide its true origin, then shipped to slaughterhouses owned by companies that supply McDonald’s.
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U.S. astronaut ends record-long spaceflight in Russian capsule
Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan alongside the Russian Space Agency’s Pyotr Dubrov, who also spent the past year in space, and Anton Shkaplerov.
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Russia bombards areas of Ukraine where it pledged to scale back
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he stressed to President Biden that the war is at a ‘turning point.’