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Republicans are angling to nix the waivers from President Biden's federal budget for 2023

The email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection landed in my inbox with a dire warning.

A cost-efficient and humane method for processing rabbit meat is preferable to the state's current system.

The United States must increase food aid to prevent millions of people starving as Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens global grain supplies, members of the US Senate's bipartisan hunger caucus said. Congress passed $13 billion in aid for Ukraine on March 9, but the $2.65 billion earmarked in the package…

The United States must increase food aid to prevent millions of people starving as Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens global grain supplies, members of the U.S. Senate's bipartisan hunger caucus said.

The latest Farm and Land in Farms report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows the US lost 1.3 million acres of farmland in 2021. The total land in farms decreased from 896,600,000 acres in 2020 to 895,300,000 acres in 2021.

MIAMI — The shows are over for Lolita the killer whale.

MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the FBI accused the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future and some of its prime contractors of fraud, the federal government's child nutrition programs were wasting more than $1 billion a year on "improper payments," according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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This sick little monkey "readily ate apricots." That bad little monkey got none. An upset little monkey was "holding hands" with her "buddy" in the next-door cage, calmer after having some Valium, but still pulling on her brain-electrode port.

Highly contagious avian influenza was previously found mostly in commercial poultry; infected birds were killed