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Angel's Restaurant fined for lapses such as cockroach infestation that led to 19 people falling ill
- A restaurant in Bedok North was fined $3,300 for food safety lapses that caused 19 people to fall ill after eating their food. Read on.
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Even with school choice, some Black families find options lacking decades after Brown v. Board
Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. At predominately Black schools, he felt more supported as a Black student, but his mother, Denita Dorsey, said they didn't have the same resources and academic opportunities. Seventy years after the Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional, Dorsey said the options available to her family in Michigan are
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Montana's attorney general said he recruited token primary opponent to increase campaign fundraising
Montana's attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate in next month's primary so he could raise more money for the November general election, according to a recording from a fundraising event. “I do technically have a primary," Attorney General Austin Knudsen said last week when asked at the event who was running against him. Knudsen separately faces dozens of professional misconduct allega
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Social divisions and hostile rhetoric in Slovakia provide fertile ground for political violence
When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the Central European country — even though the pro-Russia leader himself warned that the nation was so divided that an assassination attempt was possible. The country of 5.4 million has been beset by large protests deriding Fico's policies since he returned to power in September, after campaigning on a nationalist and EU-skeptic platform. Slovakia, which joined the European Union and NATO in 2004, was one of n
- BusinessReuters
NY Fed announces launch of new supply chain pressure metrics
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is bolstering its data offerings tracking the state of supply chains. Noting that supply chain pressures are a key driver of inflation, the bank said in a press release that the new indexes “present a new gauge to measure how widespread supply disruptions are, understand if availability is improving, and track inflationary pressures and the impact on local firms.” The new gauges can be joined with the bank’s monthly Global Supply Chain Pressures Index “to c
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Factbox-From tax to green power, UK's Conservatives and Labour lock horns on economy
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party are increasingly making the economy a battleground of their early election campaigning. Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday the Conservatives would cut workers' taxes while Labour's plans would add 2,000 pounds ($2,531) a year to household tax bills. On Thursday, Labour leader Keir Starmer accused the Conservatives of crashing the economy and a spokesperson dismissed Hunt's tax cost claim.
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Abu Dhabi, once an untapped desert city, sees its first brewery open as UAE relaxes its alcohol laws
In 2018, Chad McGehee opened Side Hustle Brews and Spirits, an Abu Dhabi-branded brewery and distillery with funky camels on its cans and playful names familiar to anyone living in the United Arab Emirates. The only problem was it was illegal to produce alcohol in the country, so his company made its hoppy India pale ale in the United States and then imported it to the UAE for sale.
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Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’
Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership as both countries face rising tensions with the West.
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The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly
The scenes are a daily reminder that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April, according to U.S. figures, the fifth region to hold that distinction in two years in a sign of how quickly migration routes are changing. San Diego was the busiest Border Patrol sector for decades until more enforcement pushed migrants to the desert area near Tucson, Arizona, which became the top spot by 1998. Migrants were arrested nearly 128,900 times on the Mexican border in April, U.S
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GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages
In fact, she would prefer to do away with mail-in voting altogether. The GOP has launched an effort to, in the words of one official, “correct the narrative” on mail voting and get those who were turned off to it by Trump to reconsider for this year's election. The push is a striking change for a party that amplified dark rumors about mail ballots to explain away Trump's 2020 loss, but it is also seen as a necessary course correction for an election this year that is likely to be decided by ra
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Squad sizes for Copa America teams expanded from 23 players to 26
Teams in this year's Copa America will be allowed to have an expanded squad of 26 players instead of the usual 23, South American soccer body CONMEBOL said Thursday. Several teams, including world champion Argentina, had already asked for the number of players to be expanded for the tournament, which starts on June 20 in the United States. The decision was announced by CONMEBOL during FIFA's congress in Bangkok, Thailand.
