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Among the more than 40 items:
— Media reforms were a key campaign pledge of Hungary’s new Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who defeated Viktor Orbán in April.
A message on TV channel M1 recently read: “Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long. Public media now will be reformed so it will be independent and trustworthy,” according to the BBC.
— “Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible,” says the World Food Program. An estimated 7.8 percent of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8.6 percent in 2022, according to a report by five United Nations agencies.
“We know what works: policies that make healthy food the easy choice, promoting breastfeeding, front-of-pack labelling, taxing unhealthy products, and protecting children from harmful marketing,” says World Health Organization Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
— In 2022, there were four electric cargo ships in China. By 2025, there were 42 — a 950 percent increase, notes Australia’s EV website The Driven.
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Inside the collapse of MAGA marketplace PublicSquare, backed by Donald Trump Jr.
FBI agents search home, seize devices of ex-California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell in connection with sexual assault allegations
Progressive Aisha Wahab wins Swalwell’s former House seat
Nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifts Senate races in Texas, Iowa from ‘Lean Republican’ to ‘Toss Up’
Omaha police agree to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students at Nebraska’s largest public school district
What to know about this weekend’s IndyCar race around the National Mall in D.C.
As workplace surveillance increases, experts say it’s good to know the ways your employer is watching
Heather Cox Richardson on threats to Americans’ health
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