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  • BusinessReuters

    US importers balk at return of $10,000 container shipping rate

    The cost to ship a standard 40-foot container of toys, auto parts or other goods from Shanghai to New York has jumped to nearly $10,000, fueling frustration among importers and prompting some experts to say the market is in a bubble. Industry experts attribute the bulk of the run-up in off-contract shipping prices to Yemen's Houthi rebels' missile and drone attacks that have forced ships to avoid the Suez Canal trade shortcut. This causes shortages, schedule disruptions and delays that drive u

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    Popular Cape Cod beach ‘likely’ closed for rest of summer due to ‘potential for catastrophic event’

    A popular Cape Cod beach will likely remain closed for the rest of the summer amid an ongoing effort to “avoid the potential for a catastrophic event.”

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  • USKTVU

    This Bay Area city is named the least stressed in America

    When it comes to lifestyle and stress, experts say factors including where you live weigh in, including where you live. This East Bay city which was recently named the "least stressed city in America."

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid

    The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow. The Baltic countries have already stopped buying electricity from Russia.

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  • USDetroit Free Press

    Deadly Detroit block party: ER doctors recall chaos, heroism

    It was the largest mass shooting in Michigan since at least 2013 and the third largest in the nation this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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    Atlanta man drives to South Carolina to lower Confederate flag on interstate, deputies say

    An Atlanta man allegedly made a nearly three-hour-long trek to South Carolina to lower the Confederate flag that flies over I-85 south.

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  • WorldReuters

    Russian farmers fight to salvage harvest as major region cuts forecast

    Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia's breadbasket, toil to salvage a harvest battered by heatwave, frosts and floods. Accounting for 11% of Russia's total grain harvest last year, Rostov is one of the key regions that Russia's agriculture ministry has said it is monitoring to make further adjustments to an already soft 2024 crop forecast. The ministry's most recent estimate, made in April and maintained into last week, is for

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