The agency’s decision to grant the petition last week is the start of a long regulatory process that could see the chemical banned.
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Matthew Perry’s funeral attended by ‘Friends’ co-stars and close family
Also on Friday, the Matthew Perry Foundation was launched to help those struggling with addiction, as the beloved actor had.
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Gaza loses telecom contact again as Israel strikes refugee camps and rejects a pause in fighting
Israel has rejected the idea of halting its offensive, even for brief humanitarian pauses proposed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his current tour of the region.
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Families of Israel hostages fear the world will forget. So they’re traveling to be living reminders
Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held.
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Blinken shuttles from the West Bank to Iraq trying to contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war
A senior American official traveling with Blinken stressed the U.S. commitment to pressing Israel to protect civilians in Gaza, increase humanitarian aid supplies, and rein in and punish extremist Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Nepal villagers cremate loved ones who perished in earthquake that shook its northwest, killing 157
13 bodies of the victims were carried to the banks of the Bheri River and placed on pyres made of stacked wood. Priests chanted Hindu prayers while family members cried as they covered the bodies of loved ones with flowers before setting them on fire in a cremation ceremony.
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Trump-DeSantis rivalry grows intense, personal and crude as Republican candidates gather in Florida
Trump’s campaign announced endorsements from seven Florida legislators who had previously backed their governor. Trump already had secured the support of the majority of the state’s Republicans in Congress.
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Zelensky hosts EU official as Russian attacks wound at least 14 in Ukraine
In the Kherson region, five people were wounded, said Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin. He said that attacks in the region came from artillery, mortars, drones, warplanes, and tanks.
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Israeli rescuers release aftermath video of Hamas attack on music festival, adding chilling details
The graphic and harrowing scene unfolds in a roughly 100-second clip of police body camera footage released Saturday by a first-responder team in southern Israel.
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Robert De Niro’s former top assistant says she found his back-scratching behavior ‘creepy’
Graham Chase Robinson is seeking $12 million in damages from De Niro, 80, for gender discrimination and retaliation. De Niro has asked a jury to award him $6 million on breach of loyalty and fiduciary duty grounds.