Gallup, by Dan Witters: Key physical health metrics have notably worsened since before the COVID-19 pandemic, including obesity, diabetes and eating habits. The percentage of U.S. adults whom Gallup classifies as obese has reached an estimated 38.4%, up 6.0 percentage…

Center for Public Justice, by Stanley Carlson-Thies: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a sweeping overhaul of its “Uniform Guidance”—rules that apply across federal agencies that describe how grants and cooperative agreements should be administered and audited….

Newsweek, by Jess Thomson: An invasive species of tick is creeping its way across the eastern U.S., killing livestock in its wake as it travels west. These Asian longhorned ticks, which were only found in the U.S. for the first…

Alarabiya News: Yemen’s Houthi militia released video footage on Monday showing armed men dropping from a helicopter and seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea. The footage was released by the militia’s TV channel Al Masirah a day…

Markets Insider, by Aruni Soni: Beef prices have spiked to a record high recently as a megadrought that slammed the US a few years ago shrank cattle supplies.  Retail prices hit $8 a pound, topping the previous record of $7.90…

AP News, by Lolita C. Baldor: The U.S. launched an airstrike on a facility in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region…

Epoch Times, by Megan Redshaw: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program at four major U.S. airports as part of a new pilot program to provide early detection of more than 30…

FOX Weather, by Emilee Speck: Extreme weather reduced visibility on a major interstate in Louisiana, resulting in a massive pileup resembling a “war zone,” according to crash witnesses. A combination of wildfire smoke and dense fog – known as super…

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Russian News Agency: North Korea warned the United States about the possibility of carrying a preemptive nuclear strike over its attempts to unleash a nuclear war by deploying its strategic capabilities on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Central News Agency…

VOA News, by Kim Hwanyong: South Korea is under a heightened alert, assessing how the widening crisis in the Middle East could impact its national security after the unprecedented attack that Palestinian militant group Hamas launched against Israel. South Korean…

CNN, by Christina Maxouris and Mary Gilbert: A massive storm system unleashed vicious winds and thunderstorms across the East Coast on Monday, killing at least two people and knocking out power to more than 1 million utility customers from Pennsylvania…