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Matt Damon teamed up with Water.org and companies like Starbucks, Gap and Amazon to donate portions of their profit to the organization.

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“Don’t read too much into it,” one international trade expert said. “See, this isn’t serious.”

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“Data centers are asking just too much for too little in return, whether it’s electricity or clean water. We can’t let them cause our utility bills to go up.”

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The real clock on the Hormuz closure is agricultural — and by the time the food crisis is visible, the decisions that caused it will be six months old.

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The average price of a pound of ground beef hit a record average retail price of $6.90 last month, up around 19% from a year ago.

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“The word of the day is underwhelming from our perspective,” said Doug Oitzinger, a former mayor of Marinette and president of the Save Our Water group.

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One infected calf has the $113 billion cattle industry reaching for syringes — and the USDA dropping 4 million sterile flies a week to win a mating war.

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