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Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That’s obvious enough.

But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change. Going veggie can drastically reduce your carbon footprint.

This is all at a personal level. What about when you multiply such changes by 7 billion people, and factor in a growing population?

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Swimming's world body FINA has promised to investigate fresh allegations of Russian doping if they can be substantiated by evidence.

CLEVELAND - Authorities say a Cleveland man who called the U.S. Secret Service and threatened to kill President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been indicted in federal court.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles signed former New York Giants wide receiver Rueben Randle to a one-year contract Wednesday.

New Zealand police run social experiment with child actor to highlight the kind of person they want to recruit

New Zealand police run social experiment with child actor to highlight the kind of person they want to recruit

Earlier this year, when President Barack Obama’s first visit to Buenos Aires was announced, human-rights organizations in Argentina threatened to fill the streets in protest when he arrived. The visit was scheduled for March 24th, coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the country’s last coup d’état and the beginning of a brutal dictatorship. During the junta’s seven-year reign, military hit squads disappeared tens of thousands of people, torturing and killing most of them and abducting hundreds of their children. Читать дальше...

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LOS ANGELES, March 23 (UPI) -- Ken Howard, star of the TV show "White Shadow" and the president of the performers union SAG-AFTRA, died Wednesday at his home near Los Angeles. He was 71.

Jennifer Garner says the youngest of her and Ben Affleck's three kids, son Samuel, 4, hates the paparazzi the most. In 2013, the 43-year-old actress, who stars in the...

– Travel was the single biggest government line item from 2012 to 2014 – The Nigerian elite has a taste for luxury travel – Either top government officials like president or even governor prefer to fly comfort private jets instead of commercial The Financial Times, London based journal, has published a report on how Nigerian […]

Phife Dawg's rhymes gave life to rap. The Queens-bred wordsmith -- who helped form the game-changing hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest alongside...

A Pennsylvania high school graduate hoarded a gallery of naked photos of under-aged girls and spread it throughout his school.

Say goodbye to the soccer-mom SUV.

NEWARK, New Jersey - A project to build a long-delayed second rail tunnel under the Hudson River will get $70 million to start preliminary engineering work and will benefit from accelerated federal environmental reviews, officials announced Wednesday.

KISSIMMEE, Florida - Veteran right-hander Jeremy Hellickson will be the starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in their season opener at Cincinnati on April 4.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A movie director was released from jail Wednesday after serving a year behind bars for the death of a crew member killed by a train during filming of a movie about singer Gregg Allman.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A movie director was released from jail Wednesday after serving a year behind bars for the death of a crew member killed by a train during filming of a movie about singer Gregg Allman.

(AP) — A movie director was released from jail Wednesday after serving a year behind bars for the death of a crew member killed by a train during filming of a movie about singer Gregg Allman. A Superior Court judge ordered former "Midnight Rider" director Randall Miller to be set free after a hearing at which prosecutors agreed Miller's good behavior had earned him early release halfway through a two-year sentence. Miller had just begun making a biographical movie about the Allman Brothers Band singer on Feb. Читать дальше...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Latest on President Barack Obama's visit to Argentina (all times local):

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — An avid bicyclist was killed when her cycle was struck from behind by a car driven by an 80-year-old in northern Wisconsin.

American Airlines Group Inc.,, which hasn’t allowed employee profit-sharing in new labor contracts reached since its late 2013 merger with US Airways, said it would offer a program to employees.

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Last night The Pine Box in Seattle celebrated it’s 4th anniversary. For the occasion, Stoup Brewing Company created The 4th Nail, the official anniversary beer. Next Tuesday, March 29th at Stoup Brewing, starting when the taproom open at 3:00,  they will release bottles of The 4th Nail.... The post Stoup Brewing releasing The 4th Nail, its first bottled beer appeared first on Beer News.

A “Muslim Day at the Capitol” event in St. Paul took a fresh turn Wednesday when Minnesota GOP Chairman Keith Downey took the stage to address controversial remarks about Muslims by Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

OTTAWA, Kansas - Jurors convicted an eastern Kansas man on Wednesday in the fatal 2013 shootings of three adults and an 18-month-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase in a rural creek.

The terror attacks at the airport and other locations in Brussels on Tuesday are likely to affect tourist traffic from India to Europe this summer.