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A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal brain disease in people who eat tainted beef.The farm where the cow died has been sealed off, Agriculture Minister Piet Adema said in a letter to lawmakers. He added that the infected animal “did not get into the food chain and does not constitute a risk to food safety.”Formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, the disease first broke out in the late 1980s among…

A Starbucks store is seen inside the Tom Bradley terminal at LAX airport in Los Angeles, California.Lucy Nicholson | ReutersStarbucks on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations as weak international demand weighed on its results.In China, the company’s second-largest market, transactions at cafes open at least 13 months plunged 28%. During the quarter, the Chinese government relaxed its zero Covid policy, which led to new outbreaks of the virus.Despite weak performance in China, CFO Rachel Ruggeri reiterated the company’s fiscal 2023 outlook. The company said it would discuss its forecast further on the conference call.Shares…

Lanny Poffo, a popular professional wrestler whose career spanned from the 1970s through the 2010s, has died. He was 68. The news was announced by his friend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan on Instagram. “With a very, very heavy heart, I’ve been asked to let everyone know about the passing of our friend and colleague Lanny Poffo, The Genius. RIP Lanny,” Duggan wrote. The cause of death has not been revealed. “Arriving in WWE in 1985 alongside his brother, ‘Leaping’ Lanny Poffo was one of the first high-flyers in WWE,” WWE wrote on its web site. “While he achieved some success as a fan…

Climate activists want to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and their tactics were inspired by the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912Outside Southwark Crown Court in London, climate activists are gathering to support the ­“Barclays 7” – a group of women who broke windows at the bank’s headquarters. The women say they took the action to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and they have drawn their tactics from the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912. As…

He says this funeral home was dead wrong not to call him! The son of a trucker whose cremated remains were mysteriously shipped to a Brooklyn indie rocker told The Post Thursday the funeral home that mailed them made an “outrageous” and “heartbreaking” mistake. “Shame on them,” Lamont Hall, 23, said after The Post tracked him down and told him about the bizarre mix-up. “To see his ashes misplaced like that is heartbreaking.” “That’s really shocking the way this was handled. They should have reached out,” he said. Hall said his father, Dwight Walter, was an affable trucker who loved…

Ashton Kutcher is making a comeback of sorts, reprising his star-making role as Michael Kelso on “That ’90s Show.”But the 44-year-old didn’t take the Netflix show because he needed a paycheck. In fact, Kutcher said in a recent profile in Esquire that he never needs to take a role for the money again.That’s because over the past 13 years, Kutcher has quietly embarked on a successful tech investing career through his fund A-Grade Investments, which he founded in 2010 along with entertainment manager Guy Oseary and billionaire Ron Burkle.Investments in companies like Uber, Airbnb, Spotify and Warby Parker have paid…

Revolutionary move-to-earn fitness project Fight Out is now approaching $4 million in investment during its presale with boxing star Savannah Marshall hosting the project at her gym.The former world boxing champ is an ambassador for the project – not only to help promote and market it but provide exclusive content for users.Fight Out is set to upend the fitness world by rewarding users who complete workouts and building Web3-integrated gyms in key locations around the world.The native FGHT token has now seen more than $3.8 million of investment since launch, with the price of the token increasing every 12 hours.Early…

CNN  —  Members of Congress are urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pressure China to do more to curb the flow of fentanyl and synthetic opioids into the United States on his visit to the country which is expected to take place in the next few days. On Wednesday, a group of 14 Republican senators led by Marco Rubio of Florida wrote to Blinken ahead of his trip highlighting China’s role in the “fentanyl crisis” as one of many issues they wanted him to address. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses from July of 2021 to July…

Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has refused to say if her government will reinstate alcohol bans in Alice Springs town camps.A decision on the bans has been pushed back until next week after Ms Fyles met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra. Source: Sky News

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion created by merging neutron stars. Researchers said on Tuesday that they used data from the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to uncover the first example of the phenomenally rare type of binary star system. The findings are published in the journal Nature. The arrangement, known as CPD-29 2176, is so astonishingly rare that only about 10 such systems are believed to exist in the Milky Way galaxy. CPD-29 2176, is…