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winnipegfreepress.comFIFA will give championship rings to the 2026 World Cup winners in a first for the tournament. A total of 2,026 rings will be produced, with 30 allocated to the winning team and the rest sold to the public.
CoinDeskThe stablecoin law signed by President Donald Trump one year ago has not yet produced finalized federal regulations. Tether's USDT must meet cash and Treasury reserve standards to stay on U.S. platforms after July 2028.
chicago.suntimes.comA cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce at Taco Bell has sickened nearly 7,000 people in 34 states. Health officials report 94 hospitalizations but no deaths. Multiple lawsuits have been filed against a franchise operator and its produce supplier.
en.antaranews.comTomato prices increased about 20 percent and lettuce prices rose 32 percent from June 2025 to June 2026. A U.S. withdrawal from a trade agreement with Mexico and early 2026 freezes in Florida reduced supply. Shoppers responded by buying more frozen produce.
propublica.orgThe Scout Association is examining a complaint about artwork produced by a branch affiliated with the Muslim Scout Fellowship. The paintings, created last December in partnership with Islamic Relief, included the slogan 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'. GB News…
news.sky.comThe Bbc reported that Butterfly Conservation opened its annual count on Friday after a hot dry spring produced early gains in several species. The event runs through 9 August and invites public observations of butterflies and moths.
A bottle of Dirty George vodka bought from a Melbourne IGA contained tert-butyl alcohol at 500 milligrams per litre. Abc reported the finding after laboratory analysis and noted similar products in other stores.
prnewswire.comThe Food and Drug Administration approved Lipfendra on July 16 for adults with hypercholesterolemia. The once-daily tablet produced LDL reductions of 56 to 59 percent in two late-stage trials.
theconversation.comU.S. oil and gas extraction employment dropped to 114,500 workers in June 2026. Major producers including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips and Imperial Oil announced large workforce reductions this year.
focustaiwan.twCentral Union Oil Corporation produced contaminated soybean salad oil supplied to major food firms. The issue has become a political liability for Taiwan's ruling party ahead of November elections.
winnipegfreepress.comChief Sheldon Sunshine filed an affidavit Tuesday disclosing $12 million in fees charged by lawyer Jeff Rath to the nation's trust fund in 2023 and 2024. The nation learned of the charges this week and is seeking Rath's removal as trustee. A related case with Tallcree First Natio…
France 24The 54-year-old American scientist Youlin Chen remains detained in China on espionage charges after his arrest while visiting relatives in Beijing. His family has now spoken publicly after earlier quiet diplomacy produced no release.
chicago.suntimes.comThe White House said July 16 it is tracking a multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened more than 400 people in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Federal agencies are interviewing patients to trace the source while urging precautions with fresh produce.
ForbesThe outbreak that began in May has produced 141 hospitalizations and no deaths. Investigators have traced a potential source to iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants.
WiredPlacer.ai data showed declines at Chopt, Panera Bread and Sweetgreen on July 11. Michigan recorded the highest case counts while Taco Bell locations faced a produce recall.
theblaze.comCBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has begun weekly calls naming staff who performed well. The change follows firings of multiple 60 Minutes correspondents and producers.
realitytea.comSavannah Guthrie said on the July 16, 2026, Today broadcast that she will film the full season of the upcoming Wordle game show. The series, executive-produced by Jimmy Fallon, is set to premiere in 2027.
abcnews.go.comThe Meta Oversight Board released a study Thursday testing 10 large language models on requests for political criticism. Models generated critical content more readily about some governments than others and showed language-based differences in answers.
forbes.comThe 10-year note yield climbed over 2 basis points to 4.573% on Thursday. Producer prices fell more than expected in June, while oil prices declined on a pause in U.S.-Iran tensions.
YonhapProducers and talent agencies signed a non-binding deal Thursday to keep actors' fees below 10 percent of net production costs for state-backed mid- and low-budget films. The agreement was reached at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.
Noah Levin told Business Insider that artificial intelligence has raised expectations for product design hires at the company. Candidates must now produce several realistic interactive prototypes and demonstrate personal input beyond default outputs.
Washington ExaminerA two-day defense summit in Pennsylvania produced more than 30 agreements worth nearly $10 billion. The deals are expected to create more than 4,000 jobs across the state.
abcnews.go.comHeavy smoke from more than 830 Canadian wildfires and over a dozen fires in northern Minnesota produced unhealthy air quality readings from Duluth to New York City on Wednesday. Alerts covered states from Minnesota to New England as plumes reached Boston.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have asked Japan to join or back plans to expand oil pipelines that would avoid the Strait of Hormuz. The request was conveyed by the chairman of one of Japan's largest refining companies.
EuronewsJosef Wimmer has covered five hectares of hops with elevated photovoltaic modules that produce two megawatt peak of electricity. The system shades the plants, lowers soil evaporation, and is planned to expand to 20 hectares.
abcnews.go.comThe U.S. Mint will produce a new dollar coin with President Trump's image to mark the nation's semiquincentennial. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled the design on Wednesday. The coin goes on sale in the fall.
CoinDeskThe Labor Department reported wholesale prices fell 0.3% from May to June 2026, the largest monthly decline since April 2025. Consumer prices also dropped 0.4% over the same period.
ndtv.comThe British Embassy in Israel and the UK Department for Business and Trade held an event in Tel Aviv to present British gin producers. The showcase aimed to increase commercial connections between UK distilleries and the Israeli market.
moneycontrol.comYields on benchmark Treasury notes rose more than one basis point on Wednesday. Investors awaited the June producer price index after cooler consumer inflation data the prior session.
The Japan TimesDaily electricity prices in Europe are showing larger swings this summer as midday solar generation increases and evening demand rises. The pattern has produced price moves within single days that exceed typical commodity volatility.
RapplerPrime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on July 15 the creation of an Office of AI inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The office will coordinate standards across government and introduce legislation requiring large data centers to produce net energy and li…
A Royal Canadian Geographical Society team used the Alvin submersible to create 3D digital models of the two vessels in the Labrador Sea. The 21-day effort began July 2, 2025, and documented the sites where the ships sank decades after their polar voyages.
The U.S. Army's $469 million plant in Mesquite, Texas, has produced no metal projectile parts for 155mm artillery rounds as of July 2026. A Defense Department inspector general report detailed ongoing delays at the facility that opened in May 2024.
winnipegfreepress.comFederal and Alberta governments along with five major oil sands producers released a backgrounder Monday outlining commitments for the West Coast Oil Pipeline. The project would add 1 million barrels per day of export capacity to the British Columbia coast. The deal ties pipeline…
globalnews.caThe Health Ministry said two containers of Algimal Tahini (Hagamel) tested positive for Salmonella. The products entered Israel illegally and were produced in March and April.
forbes.comThe Alberta and federal governments along with five major oilsands companies signed a memorandum of understanding on July 2 to advance the Pathways carbon capture and storage project. Alberta filed its related pipeline proposal the same day the agreement was announced Monday.
The Department of Justice and more than a dozen states agreed with Cal-Maine Food, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch to end claims that the firms coordinated to raise egg prices from 2022 to 2025. The companies will supply 53 million eggs to food banks and pay $3.3 million.
Science NewsResearchers tested writing ability with a pen taped to the elbow and found that practice produced similar gains on both sides. The results indicate that superior performance by the dominant hand stems from repeated use rather than an innate brain advantage.
winnipegfreepress.comA study of 53 adults aged 65 and older found that a cognitive speed-training game raised the blood ratio of two beta-amyloid forms in men but produced no change in women. The results were presented July 12 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.
upi.comInflation climbed from 2.4% in January to 4.2% last month after energy prices increased during the war in Iran. Economists and Federal Reserve officials say the monetary conditions that produced nearly 9% inflation in 2022 are not present.
dimsumdaily.hkA rifting episode began on 26 April 2024 along the Southeast Indian Ridge near 37° S. Instruments recorded 4 m of subsidence, more than 1 m of extension, and rapid lava emplacement over 16 days. The observations combined hydroacoustic, ranging, pressure and mapping data.
rigzone.comNigeria produced an average of 1.56 million barrels of crude oil per day in June 2026, exceeding its OPEC quota by 4 percent. The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission reported the figure Sunday, marking the highest monthly total since April 2020.
citizen.co.zaPresident Donald Trump announced that nearly all refugees admitted to the United States would be White South Africans. Eighteen months later more than 7,700 Afrikaners have arrived while the program has been largely shuttered for other populations. The effort produced diplomatic…
themarketherald.com.auA two-year program of supervised exercise, brain-healthy diet and social activities produced measurable gains in memory and thinking skills among more than 1,000 participants aged 60 to 77. The trial ran across 12 Latin American countries and was published in The Lancet.
slate.comAn experimental IVF method produced lambs by stimulating undeveloped ovarian follicles. The approach had succeeded in mice but not previously in large mammals. Semafor reported the development July 12, 2026.
ndtv.comThe 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy shows the United States as the top oil producer and consumer. U.S. total liquids output reached 21.1 million barrels per day while consumption hit 19.4 million barrels per day.
A Technical University of Denmark team paired a generative AI model with a small quantum computer from ORCA Computing. Laboratory tests showed the hybrid setup produced more successful peptides than classical methods alone, especially with limited training data. The work focused…
rigzone.comFossil fuels supplied 86% of global energy use last year while the world consumed more energy than at any point on record. The United States remained the top natural gas producer and petroleum products exporter.
news.google.comWS Game Company shifted production of a custom Monopoly game to domestic suppliers following a large tariff bill on its China-made products. The effort required over a year to assemble U.S. partners and resulted in at least double the manufacturing cost.
winnipegfreepress.comA three-day meeting in Ghana produced calls for formal apologies, debt relief and artifact returns tied to the transatlantic slave trade. The gathering followed a UN resolution backed by 123 countries. Ghana's president announced new international bodies on the issue.
nypost.comOfficers said they identified organizers of an unsanctioned gathering scheduled for Saturday and will increase patrols. The alert follows a Newport Beach event last weekend that drew about 3,000 people and produced more than 400 arrests.
American Airlines added over 27,000 seats on routes to host cities. United reported a nearly 20 percent increase in bookings to those cities. Delta executives said the event produced visible traffic gains.
foxnews.comThe Trump administration has named Matthew Wielicki to oversee the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces the National Climate Assessment. Wielicki, a former geochemist, has publicly questioned mainstream climate science conclusions. The appointment follows the dismi…
forbes.comHundreds of people across 18 states have contracted cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection linked to fresh produce. The outbreak is under investigation by federal, state and local authorities.
news.sky.comResearchers achieved the first live births in a large animal using lab maturation of immature eggs. One of the resulting sheep later produced two offspring of its own.
france24.comThe Wallabies hosted France at Suncorp Stadium on July 11. Tries from both sides produced tied and then separated scores during the first half.
nationalpost.comThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved three new PFAS pesticides last week for use on U.S. crops. Two more were approved in November 2025. Nearly 40 percent of nonorganic California produce already contains traces of such chemicals.
focustaiwan.twUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the meeting will occur in the coming days. It advances efforts to produce a lower-cost system to counter Russian ballistic missiles. The announcement follows NATO aid pledges and a U.S. licensing commitment.
abcnews.go.comA plume of Saharan dust has crossed the Atlantic and is spreading across Florida and the Gulf Coast. Combined with a heat dome, the dust is expected to produce hazy skies and feels-like temperatures near 110 degrees through early next week.
The War ZoneThe United States granted a license allowing Ukraine to produce Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors domestically. The decision follows reports of Ukrainian interceptor shortages and comes amid expanded Russian missile output.