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The Cash App founder’s death highlights that public safety remains a contentious topic for city leaders to reckon with.

The hunt for New York City's first director of rodent mitigation is over, but the hunt for rats is just beginning.

The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement they discussed the regularization of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

A Silicon Valley city councilman has been charged with perjury after he allegedly lied about leaking a grand jury report to the San Francisco 49ers last year that detailed a purportedly unethical relationship between the team and the city council.

Fifty years after the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked Saturday to strengthen America’s ties with its old foes in Hanoi as it seeks to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.

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Sons of drugs kingpin "El Chapo" are among members of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel charged in the United States with running a huge operation that supplies fentanyl to the US. The operation was allegedly fuelled by Chinese chemical companies. Fentanyl is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of mainly young Americans each year. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former Sinaloa cartel leader, is serving a life sentence in the US. His three sons charged - Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar - are known as the Chapitos, or little Chapos, and are believed to be the more violent faction of the cartel.

Western countries need to put together a debt relief and aid package to match that of the landmark Gleneagles summit deal in 2005 in order to counter a severe funding squeeze affecting struggling African countries, the International Monetary Fund has said. Abebe Selassie, the director of the IMF’s African department, said without a scaling up of financial support some of the world’s poorest countries would have no chance of meeting the 2030 UN goals for poverty reduction.

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7 Myths About Saving Gas (and 7 Tips That Really Do Work) | Katie Teague, CNet. There are countless tricks for saving on gas, from changing air filters to turning the car off at red lights. Some are legit, while others are a bust. Skip these suggestions. 1. Keep your tank full to prevent evaporation. 2. Buy gas early in the morning. 3. Replace your air filters often. 4. Overinflate your tires. 5. Change your oil frequently. 6. Lower your tailgate. 7. Buy fuel additives or a "fuel economizer." Here are 7 gas-saving tips that really work. 1. Slow and steady wins the race. 2. Use cruise control when possible. 3. Turn off your car at red lights and other long stops. 4. Conserve air conditioning. 5. Take racks off your car when you're not using them. 6. Keep tires properly inflated. 7. Combine trips while running errands.

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