‘Customers are being duped’: how murky grocery sales tactics are squeezing some Kroger shoppers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/14/kroger-supermarket-sales-tactics

Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds.

The lowest-earning Americans around the U.S. are falling well short. These households, which in 2023 earned an average of $38,000 per year, would need to make $67,000 to afford the items the group tracks as part of its index.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

Upheaval at FDA pushes some biotech firms to move early trials out of US | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/fda-upheaval-pushes-some-biotech-firms-plan-early-trials-out-us-2025-05-14/

Pulaski company’s $1.3 million poultry poop proposition – Cardinal News

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/05/14/pulaski-companys-1-3-million-poultry-poop-proposition/

Embedded Chinese tech ‘could freeze cars and traffic lights’

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/embedded-chinese-tech-could-freeze-cars-and-traffic-lights-fw8hd20v0

A scramble to ship in stuff after U.S. cuts China tariffs

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-s1-5395866/us-china-tariffs-trade-deal?utm_id=69598885&orgid=698&uniquet=xoZtgTW1bXrEDFmdL9vOAw&utm_att1=

Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-houthis-bombing.html

They Placed Hundreds of Beavers on Dead Land With Zero Trees, a Few Years Later Result Was Insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsPlwEIH_Q

Trump Takes Free Golden ‘Air Force One’ from Qatar—and Keeps It After Office

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-takes-free-golden-air-force-one-from-qatarand-keeps-it-after-office/

Mile-wide underwater volcano off the U.S. coast is expected to erupt at any time

https://www.earth.com/news/axial-seamount-large-underwater-volcano-off-us-coast-will-likely-erupt-in-2025/

Clemson president tackled with hug at graduation: ‘Best video ever’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/05/10/clemson-university-graduation-hug-grace-clements/

Trump kills broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/trump-is-killing-broadband-grants-because-some-of-them-help-minorities/

As ‘ghost forests’ multiply in Chesapeake Bay region, answers lag behind

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/climate_change/as-ghost-forests-multiply-in-chesapeake-bay-region-answers-lag-behind/article_e934fe85-10f6-4f45-acc0-c2e4676c6a27.html

Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-briefing-frequency-00338946

Trump’s “weak tea” tax on the rich

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/trump-tax-rich-millionaires