It is used in food and drinks at 1,000 times the natural levels in the body
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning! It’s Friday. Here are today’s top stories. |
- Two major railroad unions are at odds over the largest U.S. railroad merger in history.
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A survey of employers projects the largest increase in healthcare costs in more than two decades, driven by factors including the growing use of expensive weight-loss drugs and artificial intelligence tools that help medical providers submit more billable claims.
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The Justice Department has added eight major grocery chains to its beef affordability investigation.
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The worldwide population of older adults has eclipsed that of younger children, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a new report.
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🍵 Health: The $99 heart scan neighbors swear by adds little for most people–and a new trial did not show it prevents more heart attacks.
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Researchers have found that a common sweetener carries an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Despite increasing use in foods and drinks at 1,000 times the level it is naturally found in the body, the long-term impacts on cardiovascular events haven’t been widely studied. |
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Two major railroad unions are on opposite sides of the debate over a merger that would create the United States’ first transcontinental single-line freight railroad. As the proposed $85 billion merger-acquisition of Norfolk Southern by Union Pacific chugs its way through the U.S. Surface Transportation Board for approval, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) has positioned itself against it.
The combined Union Pacific Transcontinental Railroad would connect about 50,000 route miles across 43 states and have an estimated market cap of $250 billion. It would be the largest railroad merger in history.
Last year, Union Pacific moved almost 8.5 million paid train carloads along its tracks, and Norfolk Southern moved more than 7 million paid carloads on its own rail network, according to financial disclosure filings. “This merger is bad for workers, customers, and our communities,” BLET’s president, Mark Wallace, said in a statement. BLET pointed out that Wallace also wears the hat of president of the Teamsters Rail Conference, which “represents the majority of the unionized workforce at what would be the combined railroad.”
On the other side of the tracks is the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, known as SMART, with a total advertised membership of about 230,000 workers. SMART responded to the warnings by BLET and others in a statement saying that the “fearmongering, speculation, and rhetoric” need to “stop now.” “The BLE-T and the BMWED (who make up the Teamsters Rail Conference) are claiming that a railroad going coast to coast will destroy our supply chain and kill all kinds of railroad jobs,” wrote SMART’s transportation division. “It isn’t hard to prove that wrong.”
The unions made those statements in early August. Neither union responded to requests for comment by The Epoch Times. (More) |
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Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 29, 2026. (Learner Liu/The Epoch Times) |
- The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private colleges and schools of their tax-exempt status if those institutions engaged in racial discrimination through policies such as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Excavation work on President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch is scheduled to begin over the next two weeks, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sept. 3 that Democrats will mount their own programming against the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention.
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Federal officials launched a multi-campus university training program that’s expected to quickly develop millions of skilled workers for manufacturing careers.
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The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked a congressional map backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the Nov. 3 midterm elections and ordered a statewide referendum on the plan.
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Fox News Media announced that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo will be departing the network, effective immediately.
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Missouri’s effort to collect a $24.5 billion judgment against Chinese government entities over pandemic-era personal protective equipment has entered a new phase after two defendants appeared in federal court to challenge the award.
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Chipmaker Nvidia is acquiring open-source platform Hugging Face, signaling ambitions beyond chip manufacturing to expand its artificial intelligence ecosystem.
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Through written words and daily life, Wendell Berry celebrated a passion for small family farms, the land, and the Appalachian region he called home. The Kentucky author, farmer, poet, and conservationist died at the age of 92 on Sept. 1 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom filed a lawsuit after he was ejected during a Women’s National Basketball Association game and banned from future games.
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Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan for an initial appearance to face U.S. federal charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others, at Downtown Manhattan Heliport, in New York City, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Adam Gray/Reuters) |
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Attorneys representing former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro petitioned a U.S. federal judge to dismiss drug trafficking charges against him, arguing that his position as the head of a sovereign country should give him immunity from prosecution.
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The Chinese Communist Party has formally removed two of its most senior military leaders from their posts, completing a legal step that further consolidates regime leader Xi Jinping’s control over the military and appears to leave China’s Central Military Commission with just two publicly listed members.
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Chinese insiders are raising questions about whether regime authorities failed to act on warnings of an impending landslide that devastated a major China–Nepal border crossing in Tibet on Aug. 26, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and thousands missing.
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Israel captured the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus in a targeted operation in Gaza City on Sept. 1, with authorities describing the raid as part of a broader effort to weaken the terrorist group’s command structure.
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The Netherlands’ central bank has shifted roughly 86 tonnes of gold held in the United States and Canada to London, citing risks posed by geopolitical unrest.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there was “a chance” of achieving peace with Ukraine and expressed a desire to rekindle relations with the United States.
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Moscow will close German cultural centers in Russia in response to Berlin’s decision to close similar Russian establishments in Germany.
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More than 160,000 people took to the streets across Spain on Wednesday to protest the country’s government and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s handling of the Ceuta immigration crisis.
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A party that did not exist at the start of the year has emerged as Italy’s fourth-largest political force, according to two recent polls, complicating Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s path to a second term just as she becomes Italy’s longest-serving post-war prime minister.
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Congolese health authorities have confirmed that the number of deaths from Ebola has exceeded 3,000, with the number of confirmed cases being in excess of 6,000.
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The ‘Gaza Genocide’ Is a Hoax—by David Harsanyi (Read)
- Rent Control Still Doesn’t Work—by John Stossel (Read)
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The Men Who Turned Around—by Mollie Engelhart (Read)
- The Bond Market Tells the Truth—by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Read)
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John Eastman Was Disbarred, Larry Krasner Got a Laugh—by Larry Elder (Read)
- Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism—by Victor Davis Hanson (Read)
- Arthurdale’s New Deal Experiment, and the Debate Over Socialism—by Salena Zito (Read)
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Think teriyaki chicken is the reserve of takeaway nights and Japanese stands in the food mall? Not so, says Christine Gallary.
Not only is her recipe doable at home, but it doesn’t require marinating the chicken, has only five ingredients, and takes only 15 minutes to cook in a single pan. No wonder our readers are loving it. |
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“The heart is wiser than the intellect.” |
— Josiah Gilbert Holland, "Kathrina" |
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