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Threat in your medicine cabinet: The FDA’s gamble on America’s drugs
On a sweltering morning in western India in 2022, three U.S. inspectors showed up unannounced at a massive pharmaceutical plant surrounded by barricades and barbed wire and demanded to be let inside.
Forest Service proposes to more than double Boundary Waters fees
The Superior National Forest hasn’t raised fees for Boundary Waters trips since 2008, but says the increase is needed to maintain portages and campsites.
U.S. abortion clinics are closing even in states where abortion is legal. More cuts could be coming
Three years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, the funding system for abortions is battered. Clinics and the groups that help women pay for abortion and travel costs say contributions have fallen from their peak.
U.S. stocks edge lower as oil prices return to rising
U.S. stocks are nudging lower, and oil prices are rising again. It’s a modest return to form for financial markets after worries had seemed to calm on Wall Street Monday, and the S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent Tuesday.
There are nine countries that currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The first to have nuclear arms were the five original nuclear weapons states — the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom.