New standards cut added sugar in breakfast cereals and flavored milk and phase in a sodium reduction over three years. Districts say the hard part is not the rules — it is the equipment.
2 days agoWe wore each pair for a full week on a train, a bus and a walk through traffic. Noise cancellation separated them far less than fit and call quality did.
2 days agoMonthly encounters at the southwest border are down 41% from a year ago. Inside that number, the share of single adults has risen and the share of families has fallen by more than half.
Aug 21The payload must reach a specific orbital plane at a specific local solar time. That leaves a launch opportunity of eleven minutes a day — and weather has cooperated on none of them.
Aug 21A larger field delivered closer margins and higher ratings. It also pushed the championship deep into January and added two games for players already at the limit of a compressed season.
Aug 21Total gross rose 6% on 22% fewer wide releases. Cinema operators say the concentration is the problem: a full house in July does not pay for an empty room in June.
Aug 21Remote consultation has become a core service rather than a stopgap. In the counties where it matters most, a quarter of households cannot sustain a video call.
Aug 21Live-caller surveys and online panels disagree by six to nine points in the same states. The gap is largest among voters under 35, which is exactly where turnout is hardest to model.
Aug 21Few employers have formally adopted a compressed week. A great many have stopped scheduling anything on Fridays, which is producing similar traffic and childcare effects without a policy.
Aug 21Aid agencies say 4.1 million people face crisis-level food insecurity in the region this season, and that the shortfall is less about food availability than about the roads it cannot travel.
Aug 21Single-family permits are running well ahead of starts, a gap that has widened for five months. Builders say the constraint is buyer traffic, not financing or labor.
Aug 21Nearly every large department now issues body cameras. A review of 210 critical incidents found that the median release time has barely moved in five years, and that written policy explains almost none of the variation.
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