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Nation & World

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May 19, 2022

Grants for restaurants, small businesses blocked in Senate

Sen. Collins voted to advance the bill but ultimately, not enough lawmakers were ready to back another $48 billion aid package for pandemic-stricken restaurants and other small businesses.
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May 19, 2022

Kayakers find an 8,000-year-old human skull in Minnesota River

The sheriff's office thought the skull might belong to a missing person. Then a report came back.
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May 19, 2022

Amazon threatened workers over union vote, labor officials find

Amazon is accused of threatening workers with minimum wage pay if they chose the union to represent them.
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May 19, 2022

U.S. accuses Russia of weaponizing food in Ukraine war

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stressed that Russia remains 'a responsible supplier of both food and energy.'
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May 19, 2022

Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo

Boeing's crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station.

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May 19, 2022

Blowback as Bush, in gaffe, calls Iraq invasion ‘brutal,’ ‘wholly unjustified’

The former president was talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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May 19, 2022

Rebutting Turkey, Biden lauds NATO bids of Sweden, Finland

President Biden is forcefully supporting the applications of Finland and Sweden to join NATO despite objections from Turkey.
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May 19, 2022

Biden has an eye on China as he heads to South Korea, Japan

The president is off on a six-day trip aimed at building rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders.
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May 19, 2022

Senate OKs overhaul of baby formula rules in aid program

The bill, aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in WIC, now heads to Biden to be signed into law.
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May 19, 2022

Baby formula factory could reopen by next week, FDA says

The problems are largely tied to Abbott Nutrition’s Michigan formula plant, the largest in the U.S., which has been closed since February due to contamination problems.