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New study suggests health damage from exposure to Ohio toxic train spill
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New study suggests health damage from exposure to Ohio toxic train spill

Research finds immune systems still ‘responding to toxic chemical exposures’ related to East Palestine derailmentIn the weeks after the East Palestine train wreck culminated in a towering fireball and chemical release in the small Ohio town, Jessica Boersma was seriously exposed to the stew of compo...

Tom Perkins
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Exclusive: Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policiesUK politics live – latest updatesShabana Mahmood should be moved out of the Home Office and her asylum policies of “performative cruelty” ripped up by Andy Burnham’s administration, A...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor
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Revolut pushes new recruits into office in shift from ‘remote-first’ policy
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Revolut pushes new recruits into office in shift from ‘remote-first’ policy

Hundreds of graduates and interns at finance firm will now have to work in office at least three days a weekBusiness live – latest updatesRevolut will haul hundreds of graduates and interns into the office next year, as the digital bank moves away from its “remote-first” policy that has long been us...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
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FDA to discuss easing restrictions on peptides despite safety concerns
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FDA to discuss easing restrictions on peptides despite safety concerns

Committee will meet in July to discuss peptides now sold in gray market despite limited evidence of safety and efficacyAdvisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon hold a meeting about whether to ease restrictions on access to some research peptides, a group of drugs with a zealous f...

Jessica Glenza
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Trump finds partner in supreme court in his war against immigration
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Trump finds partner in supreme court in his war against immigration

Recent rulings have bolstered president’s pitiless campaign against people of colour fleeing violence and disasterIn the US supreme court, it seems Donald Trump has found loyalists in his crusade against immigration and immigrants.In a pair of rulings Thursday, the court allowed the Trump administra...

Maanvi Singh
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California’s landmark anti-plastics law sparks anger as 17 states moves to sue
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California’s landmark anti-plastics law sparks anger as 17 states moves to sue

Ambitious plan to phase out single-use plastic opposed by chemicals industry – while green groups say law too timidA groundbreaking California law that compels packaging producers to phase out single-use plastics is already sparking anger from the chemicals industry and environmental groups just wee...

Katharine Gammon in Los Angeles
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Billionaire Leon Black to appear before House panel over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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Billionaire Leon Black to appear before House panel over ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Scrutiny of Black’s association with Epstein has intensified after DoJ released millions of files last year and this yearThe billionaire financier Leon Black is scheduled to appear Friday morning before the House committee on oversight and reform as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.The...

Victoria Bekiempis and Anna Betts
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Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DRC
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Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DRC

Fears over ‘huge, huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of cases and deaths by SeptemberThe whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently unknown, according to Africa’s top public health official.The hu...

Kat Lay, Global health correspondent
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VW plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs and shut plants, report says
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VW plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs and shut plants, report says

German firm reportedly considering doubling previously announced staff reductions amid Chinese competitionBusiness live – latest updatesGermany’s Volkswagen is to cut up to 100,000 jobs and reduce and eventually stop production at some plants, according to reports.The company has refused to comment...

Lisa O’Carroll
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Great Britain’s grid operator warns again over power supplies in heatwave
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Great Britain’s grid operator warns again over power supplies in heatwave

Neso asks generators to provide extra electricity on Friday evening to meet demand from fans and air conditioningBusiness live – latest updatesGreat Britain’s energy system operator has raised the alarm over electricity supplies for the second time this week as the heatwave continues to disrupt Euro...

Jillian Ambrose
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First hydropower projects in Great Britain in 40 years given go-ahead
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First hydropower projects in Great Britain in 40 years given go-ahead

Three pumped storage hydroelectric power station sites in Scotland on list of 16 long-duration electricity storage plansThe energy regulator has given the provisional green light for the construction of the first new hydropower projects in more than 40 years, part of plans to reduce Great Britain’s...

Mark Sweney
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Heathrow expects fall in passengers and profits this year because of Iran war
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Heathrow expects fall in passengers and profits this year because of Iran war

Airport has also been ‘engaging closely’ with regulator to discuss cost of plan to build third runwayBusiness live – latest updatesHeathrow has said that passenger numbers and profits will fall this year because of the conflict in the Middle East.Europe’s busiest airport said it expects a 1.1% decli...

Mark Sweney
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Weather tracker: Heatwave expected to bring Germany and Poland to 40C
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Weather tracker: Heatwave expected to bring Germany and Poland to 40C

Austrian Grand Prix declares heat hazard as dramatic rise in temperatures forecast in central and northern EuropeTemperatures are forecast to rise dramatically in parts of central and northern Europe this weekend as the intense heatwave continues. In Germany and Poland, highs up to or exceeding 40C...

James Michelin for MetDesk
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