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Spirit Airlines CEO Breaks Silence on Company’s Struggles

“We remain hard at work on many initiatives to protect our unique franchise,” CEO Dave Davis said in an email to employees.
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US Housing Market Shifts in Favor of Buyers

More than half of all homes are selling for less than their asking price.
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Mountaineers set off on foot to retrieve the body of a Chinese climber who died on K2

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UK growth slows in second quarter but comes in higher than expected

UK growth slows in second quarter but comes in higher than expected
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U.N.: Syrian factions committed ‘widespread and systematic’ attacks on civilians in coastal violence

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Italy evacuates more than 100 Palestinians from Gaza, including 31 children

The Italian Air Force flew the evacuees to Rome, Milan and Pisa in three C-130 cargo aeroplanes from the southern city of Eilat in Israel.
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Vikings Under Fire Over Male Cheerleaders

Social media users have said they will no longer support the Minnesota Vikings, after social media videos showed two male cheerleaders dancing.
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Jordan Peterson Diagnosed With Chronic Condition After Exposure to Mold

Jordan Peterson’s daughter said her father has a “genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold.”
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Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth

Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.

Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions.

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Argentina rocked as contaminated medical fentanyl kills up to 96 patients

Dozens of hospital patients treated with opioid for unrelated conditions suffered serious bacterial infections

As many as 96 people are now thought to have died in Argentina after being treated with medical-use fentanyl that was tainted with bacteria.

The official death toll stands at 87, and a judicial source has told the Buenos Aires Herald that nine further deaths are under investigation.

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