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Death Toll Reaches at Least 119 in Texas Floods, With 173 Missing The New York TimesDays after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing in one county BBC7 Houstonian deaths identified in Hill Country flooding, bringing total to 13 ABC13 HoustonClinging to rafters: How staff at all-boys camp in Texas saved hundreds from floodwaters USA Today
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Trump's Trade War Roils the Copper Market The New York TimesFive Things to Know About Record Copper Prices WSJU.S. Copper Prices Surge on Trump's Threat of 50% Tariff The New York TimesTrump says 50% tariff on copper imports is coming and threatens 200% on pharmaceuticals CNN
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Measles Cases Hit Record High Since U.S. Eliminated Disease The New York TimesU.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports NPRThe 2025 measles outbreak is largest in three decades PoliticoMore measles outbreaks put US total within single digits of modern-day record CIDRAPThe US is having its worst year for measles in more than three decades
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Linda Yaccarino announces her departure from Musk's X BBCX CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk's Platform The New York TimesLinda Yaccarino Times X Resignation Perfectly After Grok's ‘Mechahitler' Meltdown Rolling StoneChaos continues at Elon Musk's X with departure of CEO Linda Yaccarino MarketWatch
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Apple Didn't Approve, but Amazon Clears Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day GizmodoPrime Day 2025: 143 of the best deals to shop now from brands like Apple and Dyson AboutAmazon.comNearly all AirPods just hit their lowest price ever for Amazon Prime Day CNNThe 10 Best Prime Day Apple Deals The New York Times
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Office rules and policies exist for good reasons, but sometimes a little flexibility is required to address extraordinary events.
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Trump tariffs raise the specter of sharper economic downturn for South Korea and Japan CNBCTargets of Trump's new tariffs speak out CNNEXTENDING THE MODIFICATION OF THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF RATES The White House (.gov)What Is a Trade Deal? Trump Takes an Expansive View. The New York Times
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MANY developed countries have anti-immigration political parties, which terrify the incumbents and sometimes break into government. Lithuania is unusual in having an anti-emigration party. The small Baltic country, with a population of 2.8m (and falling), voted heavily in 2016 for the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens' Union, which pledged to do something to stem the outward tide. As with some promises made elsewhere to cut immigration, not much has happened as a result.
"Lithuanians are gypsies, like the Dutch," says Andrius Francas of the Alliance for Recruitment, a jobs agency in Vilnius, the capital. Workers began to drift away almost as soon as Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. The exodus picked up in the new century, when Lithuanians became eligible to work normally in the EU. For many, Britain is the promised land. In the Pegasas bookshop just north of the Neris river in Vilnius, four shelves are devoted to English-language tuition. No other language—not even...Continue reading
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