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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMarina DunbarThe US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Tuesday called sugar “poison” and recommended that Americans eat “zero” added sugar in their food, while acknowledging that the federal government was unlikely to be able to eliminate it from products.Kennedy, however, said that better labeling was needed for foods and that new government guidelines on nutrition would recommend people avoid sugar completely.The health and human services secretary also announced plans to eliminate the last eight government-approved synthetic food dyes from the US food supply within two years.Kennedy said…

Iran Press TV Tuesday, 22 April 2025 6:05 AM The United Nations’ special rapporteur on Palestine has warned the new US ambassador to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories that blocking humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip constitutes a war crime. It is 50 days since the occupying entity blocked the entry of food, medicine and other critical supplies into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, although aid agencies have time and again warned of a full-blown famine taking hold across the Gaza. In remarks in a video message posted on his X account on Monday, Michael Huckabee, the US ambassador to Tel…

Almost half of Americans are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared with a year ago and likely to further increase in coming years thanks to the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental rollbacks.Just over 156 million people live in neighborhoods with unhealthy levels of soot or smog – a 16% rise compared with last year and the highest number in a decade, according to the American Lung Association (ALA) annual state of the air report.Soot and smog can cause premature death and increase the risk of an array of serious…

The Associated Press claims it won a “major victory” in its lawsuit against the White House, but you would think a wire service that says it provides “accurate, unbiased news” would be a little more accurate in its reporting. Federal district court Judge Trevor McFadden issued a preliminary injunction in AP’s favor, but the decision is much narrower than what AP portrays. The lawsuit, Associated Press v. Taylor Budowich (deputy chief of staff at the White House), was filed after the White House “sharply curtailed AP’s access to coveted, tightly controlled media events with the President.” AP claimed the government…

If you dropped in to China at any point in its modern history and tried to project 20 years into the future, you would almost certainly end up getting it wrong. In 1900, no one serving in the late Qing dynasty expected that in 20 years the country would be a republic feuded over by warlords. In 1940, as a fractious China staggered in the face of a massive Japanese invasion, few would have imagined that by 1960, it would be a giant communist state about to split with the Soviet Union. In 2000, the United States helped China over…

Three days of public viewing begin before the pontiff’s funeral on Saturday.Pope Francis’s coffin has been taken to Saint Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days of public viewing. The coffin of the Argentinian pontiff, who died Monday at 88, left the Casa Santa Marta residence on Wednesday morning surrounded by dozens of cardinals and Swiss Guards, carried towards the main entrance of the basilica in the Vatican City. Masses of the Catholic faithful are gathered at St Peter’s Square, which leads up to the basilica, to pay their respects to Francis, who is remembered for his humble…

The Army is cutting certified athletic trainers from the fitness training teams across the service, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Jim Mingus said Tuesday, replacing them with strength coaches. But regular medics might get extra training to deal with fitness-related injuries when the trainers are gone. The overall goal, he said, was a fitter, stronger Army. “We will not have arrived until we have a no-neck Army,” Mingus joked. “Everybody in the Army, their traps are going to go from the base of their head right down to their neck.” Athletic trainers are civilian specialists trained to help prevent…

In a remarkably short time, the second Trump administration has upended many of the precepts that have guided international order since the end of World War II. President Donald Trump has rapidly redefined the U.S. role in NATO while questioning U.S. defense guarantees to Europe and Japan and even intelligence sharing with its Five Eyes partners: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. At the United Nations, the United States has sided with Russia and other erstwhile adversaries, such as Belarus and North Korea, and against nearly all its traditional democratic allies. European officials, scrambling to react, have begun…

Luka Doncic scores a game-high 31 points as the LA Lakers strike back to tie up their first-round Western Conference playoff series against Minnesota Timberwolves.Luka Doncic scored 16 of his 31 points in a dominating first quarter and added 12 rebounds and nine assists as the Los Angeles Lakers evened their Western Conference first-round playoff series with a 94-85 victory over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves. LeBron James added 21 points and 11 rebounds, Austin Reaves scored 16 points, and Rui Hachimura had 11 as the third-seeded Lakers rebounded from a 22-point loss in the series opener on Saturday. “It was…

Inauspicious beginningsThis remarkable story began in St Louis, Missouri in 1906, with the birth of Freda Josephine McDonald. Her mother, Carrie, seems to have been adopted by a formerly enslaved couple of African and Native American descent. Her father’s identity has never been decisively confirmed.The family was not wealthy. “We were all so very hungry and cold at home,” she later recalled, explaining that she started dancing to keep warm. At eight years old she left school to work as a domestic servant for white families, who did not treat her kindly.Adorned with feathers for a show at Paris’s Folies…