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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
SEATTLE, Washington: Amazon.com is ramping up its delivery game in rural America, announcing a US$4 billion investment to grow its logistics footprint and reach more consumers in small towns and remote areas by the end of 2026. The expansion will boost Amazon's rural delivery network to over 200 delivery stations and generate 100,000 new jobs, the company said in a statement.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
WASHINGTON, D.C.: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to change how vaccines are tested, according to a report from The Washington Post this week. The change would mean that all new vaccines must undergo tests, in which some people get the real vaccine and others get a harmless substance (a placebo). The results would then be compared. "This is a big change from how things were done before," a spokesperson for the department told the newspaper.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a challenge to California's push for cleaner transportation, the U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency's 2023 approval of the state's plan to phase in more zero-emission heavy-duty trucks. Lawmakers also voted to roll back an EPA waiver granted in December for California's "Omnibus" low-NOx regulation covering heavy-duty highway and off-road vehicles and engines.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
SEATTLE, Washington: Starbucks is shifting course on its store strategy—putting people ahead of machines. The coffee giant announced plans to increase staffing in thousands of U.S. locations while scaling back on its earlier automation rollout, in a move that bucks the prevailing trend in the food service industry.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
DUBLIN, Ireland: Ryanair has issued a sharp warning: if U.S. tariffs under President Donald Trump's trade policies raise the cost of Boeing aircraft, the airline may cancel orders for hundreds of jets and explore alternative suppliers—including China's COMAC. As one of Boeing's biggest customers, Ryanair's threat underscores the global stakes of the escalating tariff dispute.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
CHICAGO, Illinois: The Chicago and Cook County health departments say that two people in Cook County have measles. These are the first measles cases in the area this year. One person is an adult who lives in the suburbs of Cook County, but it's not known if they were vaccinated. The other case is an adult from Chicago who traveled internationally through O'Hare Airport in early April. This person had one dose of the measles vaccine and developed a rash on April 25.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
BEIJING, China: China's manufacturing sector lost steam in April, with activity shrinking at the fastest pace in over a year, as new U.S. tariffs under President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" package took effect and dampened global demand. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed this week that the official purchasing managers' index (PMI) slipped to 49.0 last month from 50.5 in March.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Trump administration through U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is canceling nearly 800 grants, including all that support environmental justice, according to the Washington Post. This number is double what had been previously reported, and it is the first time the agency has publicly confirmed the total. The information came from a court document filed last week in a federal case in Rhode Island.
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bignewsnetwork.com | Robert Besser
SYDNEY, Australia: A key measure of inflation in Australia has cooled to its lowest level in three years, lending weight to expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may lower interest rates at its upcoming May meeting. Data released this week showed core inflation fell back into the RBA's target range for the first time since 2021, driven by a slowdown in services prices.
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israelnationalnews.com | Robert Besser
Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the United States, Asia and the Middle East. "Israel has the right to defend itself, but its current actions go beyond proportionate self-defense," declared EU Foreign Minister Kaja Kallas on April 14. “Disproportionate” has become one more Jewish crime invented by the Woke post-Christian world to defame Israel. For in all the world, only the Jews are blackened by the label of disproportionate.
