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Lettuce prices cratered in July as the multistate cyclospora outbreak pushed diners to shun the leafy green. Prices for the vegetable tumbled 16.4% from June, the largest one-month decline on record, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor

Hundreds of US government drones have switched from border surveillance to a different surveillance mission this summer—looking for signs of screwworm infestations in wild animals and livestock herds. The flesh-eating New World Screwworm is the parasitic larva that emerges from e

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced today that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2026 solicitation 2. Applications are due on

GB's Evans wins European gold in 100m breaststroke - Published Great Britain's Angharad Evans won her first European Championship gold in the 100m breaststroke final in Paris. The 23-year-old comfortably finished first in a championship record time of one minute and 4.87 seconds,

Off the Wire Press Releases MILPITAS, Calif. and TOKYO, Aug. 12, 2026 — Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation, and Sandisk Corporation today unveiled their new 9th-generation, high-performance 2Tb QLC 3D flash memory technology designed to support the gr

Short sellers betting against SpaceX are rapidly retreating from the trade, just as the newly public stock rebounds from its post-IPO slump. Short interest in SpaceX fell to about 11% of the company's publicly traded shares Wednesday, down sharply from a peak of 34% last week, ac

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday as attacks on ships in the Middle East continued and talks to end the Iran war hit an impasse. However, the gains were limited after forecasters cut global oil demand projections for 2026. Brent futu

The U.S. budget deficit soared to its highest monthly level in more than five years amid a surge in Medicare costs and as interest on the federal debt continued to weigh on the nation's fiscal picture, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. In addition to the big single-mont

By Sukanya Mitra Aug 12 (Reuters) - Gold rose to a more than two-month high on Wednesday after a U.S. inflation reading matched expectations, bolstering bets that the Federal Reserve will keep rates on hold in September. Spot gold rose 0.9% to $4,406.64 per ounce by 1:30 p.m. EDT

In late July, Liqid unveiled a scale-up AI platform built around AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe GPUs. The UltraStack 30 pairs Liqid’s composable GPU pooling technology with AMD accelerators to address enterprise and cloud AI inference deployments that need to scale beyond the accelerat

Well over half a million Grubhub drivers and customers are set to receive a share of $23.8 million following allegations that the food delivery company misled workers about their potential earnings and engaged in other deceptive practices. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) annou