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Salisbury U. robots deliver campus food, logging 4,600 orders since February

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BALTIMORE – Salisbury University students are getting lunch delivered by robot — and the service is catching on faster than campus officials expected.

Since the fall semester, students living on campus have been able to use Grubhub to order deliveries from four campus restaurants for a flat $3.50 fee. Options include Chick-fil-A; coffee and...Read more

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Trump threatens escalation with sides at odds on peace talks

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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with intensified military action after Tehran rejected Washington’s push for a peace deal, with the two sides far apart in efforts to end the near month-long war.

Iran had “better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be ...Read more

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US Attorney announces $1 million SNAP, Medicaid fraud bust in Massachusetts

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BOSTON — Another major public benefits fraud ring has been uncovered in Massachusetts, as U.S. Attorney Leah Foley announces a $9 million scheme busted by the Feds involving nine Dominican nationals who used stolen identities to enroll in public assistance programs.

“Nine individuals have been charged in a coordinated federal crackdown on ...Read more

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Food delivery robots shatter 2 Chicago bus shelters. 'Two in seven days is not great,' alderman says

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CHICAGO — Food delivery robots have shattered two city bus shelters within the last week, fueling heated discussion amongst Chicago humans who say they shouldn’t have to share the public way with the apparently freewheeling automatons.

The first crash happened when a Serve Robotics device collided with a bus shelter in the West Town ...Read more

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Wreckage of crashed Air Canada plane removed from LaGuardia Airport runway

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NEW YORK — Crews have removed the mangled wreckage of the Air Canada jet that crashed into a Port Authority fire rescue truck as the probe into what sparked the fatal collision continued Thursday.

Port Authority officials confirm the debris from the plane and the fire truck have been removed from runway four, which is expected to reopen on ...Read more

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Cuba aid envoy participants say they were detained, questioned at Miami International Airport

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MIAMI – Activists coming back to the United States from a humanitarian trip to Cuba were detained at Miami International Airport Wednesday, according to multiple people from the aid envoy.

At least 20 of the more than 100 people who participated in Nuestra América Convoy were held for interrogation when they returned to Miami this week, ...Read more

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Leaked ICE documents show feds earmark $47 million for Florida law enforcement agencies

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MIAMI — The Trump administration appears to have allocated some $149 million to dozens of law enforcement agencies across Florida for participating in immigration enforcement partnerships to round up undocumented immigrants across the state, according to a leaked financial ledger.

The ledger, obtained by independent journalist Ken ...Read more

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Sheinbaum approval falls to lowest of presidency on crime fears

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MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum’s approval rating plunged to the lowest levels of her term in March, as Mexicans expressed deepening worries about corruption and crime following the killing of a notorious cartel leader.

Roughly 54% of Mexicans approve of Sheinbaum, down 2 points from February and 9 from her January rating, ...Read more

Food delivery robots shatter 2 Chicago bus shelters. 'Two in seven days is not great,' alderman says

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CHICAGO — Food delivery robots have shattered two city bus shelters within the last week, fueling heated discussion amongst Chicago humans who say they shouldn’t have to share the public way with the apparently freewheeling automatons.

The first crash happened when a Serve Robotics device collided with a bus shelter in the West Town ...Read more

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Israel, Iran keep up strikes with warring sides at odds on talks

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Israel and Iran exchanged missile strikes as the status of potential peace talks remains uncertain, extending a war that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Iran is desperate to make a deal to end the nearly month-long conflict, while Iran publicly rejected Washington’s push for ...Read more

The vagus nerve, which carries information between the brain and heart, lungs and other organs, might regulate the activity of a tiny brain region called the locus coeruleus. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss

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Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life.

In the earliest of these changes, a tangled version of a protein called tau starts building up in a tiny region deep in the brain involved in sleep, ...Read more

The idea of overpopulation has been used to argue against immigration. Pandagolik/iStock/Getty Images Plus

The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

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Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of overpopulation: people eating, washing, arguing, begging – “people, people, people, people.”

From that ...Read more

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Rising health costs push some middle-aged adults to skip the doc until Medicare

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John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare.

He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment tripled this year to $2,460, about a third of his income, he said. And with a $2,700 deductible, he...Read more

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Even with dental insurance, you still could face a large bill

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Russell Anthony made eight trips to the dentist last year. The 65-year-old retiree in Nashville, Tennessee, hopes to go less often in 2026, but he’s already made a few visits.

“I had a root canal just last week that was like $500,” he said. “The week before that, I had a crown that cost me several hundred dollars. And as we speak, I ...Read more

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Drop in opioid overdose deaths nears 50% since 2023

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Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the drug weaker and less deadly and volunteer efforts get more people into treatment.

The weaker fentanyl tracks to a crackdown on materials used to ...Read more

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Minnesota Democrats report being followed, harassed by ICE agents during immigration surge

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MINNEAPOLIS — State Rep. Brad Tabke had been following what he believed to be immigration agents driving through his southwest suburban district in early January when the SUV suddenly pulled into his neighborhood.

The third-term DFL lawmaker, who had been leading a training for Minnesotans on observing immigration officers during Operation ...Read more

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False sex abuse claim filed 'without consent' in LA's $4-billion settlement, man says

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LOS ANGELES — Melvin Dunlap says he doesn't know how he became a plaintiff in the nation's largest sex abuse settlement.

He grew up in Missouri, thousands of miles away from L.A. County's juvenile halls — the subject of a deluge of lawsuits from people who say they were sexually assaulted while detained as children.

Dunlap says he has ...Read more

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Homeless and stateless: Deportees from US are trapped in Mexico

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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico — It was 2 a.m. when a bus carrying dozens of U.S. deportees heaved into this sweltering city in southern Mexico.

The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go.

Alberto Rodríguez, 73...Read more

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COVID in Florida 6 years later: Another new variant, milder infections, fewer deaths and vaccines

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six years ago this month, Florida schools and beaches closed, cruise ships reported their first COVID outbreaks, and shoppers scrambled to get whatever toilet paper remained on the shelves.

Almost overnight, the COVID lockdown went into effect, triggering isolation of the elderly, drive-through testing sites and social...Read more

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He's an election skeptic. And he's in charge of elections in Northern California's Shasta County

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REDDING, Calif. — At a Board of Supervisors meeting in rural Shasta County last month, Clint Curtis dropped a bombshell: A sheriff way down in Riverside was going to confiscate all the ballots from a recent election.

Curtis, the county registrar of voters, was the first to announce the planned ballot seizure. Even the sheriff himself, Chad ...Read more