Daily Mail (UK),
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Rachel Sharp
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Supermarkets have started stockpiling food as inflation rises to its highest level in 13 years and they predict it will get worse. Retailers are currently buying up to 25 percent more supplies than usual ahead of the predicted rise.(Snip) David Smith, CEO of the US's largest wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers, told the Wall Street Journal they have been buying 15 to 20 percent more goods—particularly packaged foods with long shelf lives. 'We're buying a lot of everything. Our inventories are up significantly over the same period last year,' said Smith.(Snip)Some retailers, including Ahold Delhaize USA, are even expanding their warehouse space
Washington Times,
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Andrew Blake
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Morrissey, the former lead singer of The Smiths, likened British society during the coronavirus pandemic to a slave state while slamming government-imposed restrictions put in place due to COVID-19. “The bigger problem is that nobody can any longer agree with anyone else, and this is the main outcome of Con-vid,” Morrissey said in an interview published on the British singer’s website Monday.(Snip)“And more people are now forced into poverty which is another form of slavery, as is tax and Council Tax and all the other ways in which we are pinned down and tracked. Our present freedom is restricted to visiting supermarkets and buying sofas.
Bloomberg News,
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Riley Griffin
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to reallocate $860 million of funds appropriated to the National Institutes of Health to cover an increase in pandemic-related costs associated with unaccompanied children at the border. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra notified members of Congress on Tuesday that the department would reallocate the funds to cover increased costs in ensuring the safety of children arriving at the Southwest border, as well as staff attending to them at shelters, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg News. A Biden administration official said that the need for pandemic-related precautions, such as testing and quarantining, has added at least $1.7 billion
New York Post,
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Jackie Salo
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A University of Chicago student was killed in a freak tragedy when a stray bullet ripped through his subway-car window during the commute home from his summer internship, police and loved ones say. Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old junior from Denver, Colo., succumbed Sunday morning to injuries he suffered from the slug that pierced a window of the train at the 51st Street Green Line station, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. “It’s a senseless tragedy for so many reasons,” classmate Zach Cogan told the outlet.
Lewis, who was pursuing a double major in economics and computer science, had snagged a competitive internship
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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President Biden on Tuesday will outline steps to persuade Americans to get vaccinated as fast-moving variants threaten his COVID-19 fight, launching “door to door” efforts in neighborhoods and making sure the shots are available in doctors’ offices. The initiative will spotlight vaccines in pediatricians’ offices so patients ages 12 to 18 can get immunized ahead of the school year and fall sports, according to a White House official. Mr. Biden also will detail efforts to get the shots into workplaces, so vaccination is more convenient.(Snip)Mr. Biden is navigating a duality of his own, celebrating his administration’s progress in the fight against the pandemic
Daily Mail (UK),
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Brian Steiglitz
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A video posted to Instagram captures yet another brazen act of shoplifting in San Francisco, this time at the luxury department store Neiman Marcus where at least ten people stole armfuls of designer goods and then fled without anyone trying to stop them. The footage reveals the shoplifters leaving the Union Square store, each carrying bags of stolen items with the security tags still dangling off of them. The perpetrators then ran in different directions, with a few speeding away from the scene in a white sedan.(Snip)The city’s surge in such incidents arose almost immediately after the passage of Proposition 47, a ballot referendum
Washington Times,
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Ben Wolfgang
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The Pentagon on Tuesday formally canceled its $10 billion “war cloud” project and moved to terminate its contract with Microsoft, officials said, with the U.S. military saying it will not look to a new 21st-century data system involving multiple clouds and multiple companies. The move comes amid a major legal and political battle between the Defense Department and Amazon Web Services, which was passed over in favor of Microsoft for the 10-year deal.(Snip) Instead, the Pentagon now says it no longer needs JEDI in its current form. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI cloud contract,
Daily Mail (UK) & Agence France-Presse,
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Ross Ibbetson
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Afghan troops have been filmed laying down their arms to the Taliban as the terror group shows off the American-made weapons it has seized after US and Nato troops beat a hasty retreat. The Afghan army is collapsing across the country and the Taliban appear to be winning the propaganda war with videos to prove that they will welcome surrendering soldiers—as long as they hand over their state-of-the-art weapons and Humvee armoured cars.(Snip)However, General Austin Scott Miller, commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said he was shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army had surrendered to the Taliban.
Washington Times,
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Joseph Clark
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Violence spiked in Chicago with 104 people shot over the long Fourth of July weekend leaving 19 dead and 13 children wounded, according to reports.
It marked the deadliest weekend in Chicago this year, as a political back-and-forth continues in city halls and on Capitol Hill over a nationwide crime wave. “I wish that whatever this madness is going on, I wish that it would stop,” Chicago resident Toni Watkins, told The Chicago Sun-Times. “Usually, I feel safe around here. But now this has me questioning it because it’s close to home right now.” The gun violence over the weekend
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Mark Sundstrom
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Chelsea, Manhattan—Shocking video released by the NYPD late Monday shows another attack on a tourist, which seems to be a disturbing trend in New York City in recent weeks. According to police, the video shows two women randomly attacked by a man on a Manhattan street in late June. Authorities said the pair, a 31-year-old woman visiting the city and a 33-year-old local, were walking on West 15th Street, near Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, around 9:30 p.m. on June 26, when they were approached by the unidentified man. Surveillance footage shows the man, unprovoked, grab the tourist, throw her into a scaffolding
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mansur Shaheen
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Young children may have been hurt by wearing masks over the past year as they may have been exposed to unsafe carbon dioxide levels in minutes, a new study found. A study led by researchers Poland, Germany and Austria wanted to test whether making young children wear masks at schools and other public areas could have done more harm than good. They found that some children were reaching twelve-times the acceptable limit within only three minutes of wearing the mask, according to the study funded by German charity Mediziner und Wissenschaftler für Gesundheit, Freiheit und Demokratie eV.(Snip)Researchers, who published their study in JAMA, included 45 children in the study.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Josh Boswell
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Jennifer Smith
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Hunter Biden complained that 'half' of his salary went to paying his father's bills while he was Vice President, casting doubt on the Joe's previous claims that he's never benefited from his son's business dealings.
The bills included a $190-a-month AT&T phone bill and thousands in repairs on Joe's lakeside home in Wilmington. The payments were described in a 2010 email, when Joe Biden was earning $225,000-a-year as Vice President. He had already made well over $100,000-a-year for decades prior as a senator and author.(Snip)Joe has always insisted that he neither set up nor benefited from Hunter's international business relationships
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Don't they trust The Science?