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Home Depot Reports Earnings Are Up 12 Percent

The Atlanta-based home improvement chain reported it's beginning to see improving signs in the housing market. Company officials told analysts that homeowners are taking on more small projects around the house.

Swordfish from Canada feature a label from the Marine Stewardship Council at a Whole Foods in Washington, D.C.

Marine Stewardship Council Responds To NPR Series On Sustainable Seafood

NPR "did not present a complete or balanced view" of its program, the MSC writes in a statement.

A protest sign calling for the repeal of 50-A, photographed during a march in Brooklyn denouncing police brutality and systemic racism.

Over 750 Artists, Companies Call For Repeal Of N.Y. Law Shielding Police Records

Rihanna, Meek Mill, Anderson .Paak and Irving Azoff are among many who signed the open letter. The statute, Section 50-a, prevents the personnel histories of police officers from being made public.

This March 11, 2015, photo shows the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland. A new study says Nearly 60% of food products made for toddlers and babies did not meet nutrition standards set by the WHO.

Nearly 60% of baby foods in the U.S. don't meet nutritional guidelines, study says

Hundreds of products failed to reach adequate recommendations for macronutrients like protein and calories, but exceeded the recommended sugar content.

This photo combo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows an authentic Ozempic needle (left) and a counterfeit needle (right). The FDA said it has seized "thousands of units" of counterfeit Ozempic, the diabetes drug widely used for weight loss, that had been distributed through legitimate drug supply sources.

FDA says watch out for fake Ozempic, a diabetes drug used by many for weight loss

Thousands of fake units of the drug have been seized by the FDA, which is working alongside the manufacturer to test the counterfeit products for safety concerns.

After months of speculation, Sen. Joe Manchin will not run for president in 2024

After speculation the powerful centrist Democrat would run third-party, Manchin announced Friday he would not be running for president in the 2024 election. But he did not endorse a candidate.

The Social Security tax rate is scheduled to revert to 6.2 percent next year, up from the temporary reduction — to 4.2 percent on an employee's first $110,000 in wages — which has been in effect since January 2011.

Payroll Tax Holiday May Not Survive Year's End

Since January 2011, the government has knocked 2 percentage points off the payroll tax, which funds Social Security. But there's little appetite to extend the tax holiday and a $95 billion price tag.

Chicken N Pickle has 15 locations either open or soon to open, most of them scattered across Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Chicken N Pickle would build a two-story building with about 20,000 square feet of space that includes a restaurant, six indoor pickleball courts and an outdoor social area.

Chicken N Pickle would run the outside pickleball courts built by the Village. Estero residents would get first dibs to use the courts.

Plans in works for entertainment center off Via Coconut in Estero

Estero Village’s staff and consultants will be busy the rest of the summer finishing plans for an entertainment center off Via Coconut Way and Williams Road.The Village council gave the staff the go ahead last week at its final meeting before the summer hiatus to negotiate agreements with Chicken N Pickle, of North Kansas City, Missouri, and High 5 Entertainment, of Austin, Texas, to provide entertainment facilities on 10 acres of the 20-acre site.

Jon Landau serves others at PhilaSoup, a soup group based in Philadelphia.

Over Bowls Of Soup, Donors Find Recipe For Change

You don't have to have big bucks to join the latest trend in philanthropy. Soup groups around the country let diners pool their money to support deserving local initiatives. In Philadelphia, one dinner raised $225 for a teacher's class project.

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