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Federal health officials investigating the cyclists' porra outbreak are advising people
“to avoid eating shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell locations in these five states,”
West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Indiana. The parasite is sick and thousands of people. California's Supplyer Taylor Farms writes on social media that it is voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, but it adds that none of its branded salads or kits are associated with the outbreak.
Millions of people from the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic are enduring a third straight day
of unhealthy air quality because of the thick smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada. It's affecting people like Laura Shapiro and New York. "You can feel, you know, you're smelling terrible things, you can feel a little bit in your breathing, you know, and you just know that it's not good to breathe in all these toxins."
"And Samuel Latina in Chicago." "I do have asthma, but it really comes out, but something like this will definitely trigger it.
“So, I want to be a hundred percent certain, I want to have to, like, you know, run”
to the ER and do like that." Many people are opting to wear masks today, even with temperatures peeking in the 90s.
US strikes targeted an Iranian control tower for the third time, according to Iranian state
media, and peers had deal El Shaltchi has a latest. Iranian state media said the maritime control tower at Shahid-Kalantari port in Chobahore was targeted for the third time in an attack by US fighter aircraft. It said that the tower was completely destroyed while the equipment and operational infrastructure was not.
The US said it targeted six bridges in a southern Iranian province along the straight of Hormuz and electrical installations. Iran responded with its own strikes targeting US bases in the Gulf and Jordan, Kuwaiti official said an Iranian strike hit a power and desalination plant, causing a fire that was quickly contained.
“Kuwait depends on desalination for its drinking water.”
He'd deal El Shaltchi and PR news, Istanbul. "China has launched a new, multilateral organization on artificial intelligence, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping says countries need to collaborate to improve AI governance worldwide. Who's NPR is John Ruich?" Speaking of the start of the world AI conference in Shanghai, Xi Jinping did not mention
the US by name but made some targeted comments. He said AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country rather he said it should be a symphony of global collaboration. While the US is pulled back from multilateral organizations under the Trump administration, China has stepped up and on Friday, it launched the world AI cooperation organization with
the participation of nearly 30 other countries, including Brazil, Indonesia and Russia. Xi pledged support from China for AI development in the developing world through training and other programs and urged the creation of laws as well as monitoring and warning systems around AI to keep it safe. John Ruich and PR news.
This is NPR. The world cup is debuting a new feature at its final game Sunday, there will be a half-time show featuring superstar artists from six continents, including BTS Madonna and Shakira, and PR's Anastasia Sioclas reports. The half-time show is meant to have very wide appeal.
It will also feature Justin Bieber, Bernaboy, Gustavo Duda Mal and Coldplay. This show will also include a handful of social media viral stars, including the Ugandan dance group, ghetto kids, and a school group from Staten Island, the PS-22 chorus. FIFA seems to be taking a valuable page out of the NFL's playbook, whether or not you care about the game, you may be tempted to check out the half-time show.
FIFA's expecting huge viewership numbers worldwide for the Spain vs Argentina game, saying
World Cup content has already logged well over 20 billion videos globally.
Anastasia Sioclas and PR news, New York. Brenda Fricker, the first Irish actress to win and Academy Award, has died. One of Fricker's most memorable roles is as a fierce advocate for a son with cerebral policy in the 1989 film My Left Foot, opposite Daniel Day Lewis. Fricker won an Oscar for best supporting actress.
But people also often recognize her as the beloved pigeon lady in the holiday classic home alone too, lost in New York, with McColle Corkin. And as Christmas Eve, good deeds come for extra tonight, to do, of course they do. Brenda Fricker was 81 years old, I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. One year after Congress eliminated federal funding for public media, NPR remains committed
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