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A top US health official has warned the country is facing an epidemic of loneliness that is as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

A U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle several thousand rounds of ammunition into Mexico earlier this year, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The FAA is considering updates to emergency kits to include EpiPens, pediatric doses of antihistamines and medicine to reverse opioid overdoses.

For the second year in a row, U.S. News & World Report ranked Wisconsin as the 8th best state overall in the country.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the White House did not advise him about the leak of highly classified US intelligence documents that received widespread attention around the world last month.

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Australia will effectively ban recreational vaping, putting in place stricter regulations on e-cigarettes than the U.S. and many other countries over concerns that they are contributing to increases in smoking among young people.  (More)

Militants in Gaza have fired more than 20 rockets into Israel after the death of a Palestinian prisoner who had been on hunger strike in an Israeli jail. Three foreign workers were injured in the rocket attack, which came after Israeli tanks shelled Gaza in response to an earlier salvo of rockets. The Israeli military said it launched strikes on Gaza on Tuesday evening. (More)

Lets Talk Business and Tech

Uber's Revenue Up 29% as U.S. Ride-Hailing Business Improves (More)

California bill advances, requiring Big Tech to pay for news (More)

Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes (More)

Richer, Wiser, Happier

What the bankers are actually worried about: Morning Brief (More) | A Short-Term Fix Looks More Likely as US Debt-Limit Deadline Looms (More)

The business trend that unites Walmart and Tiffany & Co | The Economist. After a four-year spruce up Tiffany & Co, an upmarket American jeweller, reopened the doors of its flagship store on New York’s Fifth Avenue to the public on April 28th. At first glance the grand unveiling seems conspicuously ill-timed. Hours earlier the Bureau of Economic Analysis had reported that nominal consumer spending in America barely grew in March, amid stubbornly high inflation and a slowing job market. (More)

‘People are having a hard time affording food’: Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya suggests corporate margins are behind ‘troubling’ food inflation (More)

Sports and Showbiz Shenanigans

Antonio Brown’s Arena Football Team Is a Predictable Mess (More) | Why baseball's next unionization effort could come from MLB front offices: 'We're not protected at all' (More)

Breaking This Met Gala Rule Means Celebs Won’t Get Invited Back (More) | Late-night TV shows go dark as writers strike for better pay (More)

Jessica Chastain on Confronting Her Fears and Playing Nora in ‘A Doll’s House’: “It’s the Hardest Thing I’ve Done” (More) | Wes Bentley says Heath Ledger 'begged' 'Yellowstone' star to get sober (More)

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How to Make King Charles III’s Coronation Quiche at Home.

Dr. Kohli on the Heart-Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Lifestyle.