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As takeout containers pile up across college campuses, universities are struggling to balance sustainability goals with a growing culture of convenience. “It’s all a nightmare,” said Carla Iansiti, Student Life and Engagement sustainability officer at Michigan State University. “The ever-growing retail and food pickup combinations — the Sparty’s, the Starbucks on campus, the Grubhub — …
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – Senate Republicans face a stark choice when they return from recess next week: back President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to benefit his political allies or defy a commander-in-chief who just ended the careers of two Republican senators. Nearly half of the 53-member Republican Senate majority balked at the issue …
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus still spreads faster than the response, despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals. “The best way to address this is …
UCLA’s Karson Gordon entered the NCAA transfer portal as a track and field athlete with plans to play football, he confirmed on social media Friday. Gordon’s transfer announcement comes seven months after the NCAA’s decision to eliminate the spring football portal window, opting instead for a 15-day period in January in an effort to corral …
TORONTO, May 30 (Reuters) – While U.S.-Canadian relations have frayed under U.S. President Donald Trump, data on Canadian citizenship approvals under recently widened rules suggests many Americans would welcome the chance to become Canadian. Under the new rules, which allow more descendants of Canadians to claim citizenship compared with just first-generation descendants previously, approvals for …
ACCRA, May 29 (Reuters) – Ghana’s parliament on Friday approved a new bill that criminalizes the so-called promotion of LGBTQ activity, part of a broader crackdown on sexual minorities in West Africa. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, passed by a voice vote after the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee unanimously recommended its …
May 29 (Reuters) – A U.S. immigration agent was arrested in Texas on Friday, nearly two weeks after a Minnesota prosecutor took the unusual step of charging him with assaulting a Venezuelan man in a non-fatal shooting in Minneapolis this year. Christian Castro, an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, faces four counts of …
Rescue workers in Laos said that four more gold miners who have spent more than a week trapped in a flooded cave have been rescued, one day after another man was successfully freed in a dangerous operation. Rescue Volunteer for People, an organization in Laos, said on Facebook that the water level inside the cave …
In what would be the most sweeping change to the federal grantmaking process in years, the proposed regulations would require senior appointees to review funding to see if it complies with the law and the president’s priorities. The rules would also give administration officials more freedom to terminate grants that have already been awarded, a …
May 29 (Reuters) – Louisiana Republicans on Friday approved a new congressional map that dismantles a Democratic-held, majority-Black seat, boosting their party’s odds of retaining the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections. The state joined several other Republican-led Southern states that have rushed to break up Democratic seats with significant Black populations after …