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  May 13, 2026
 
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Customers shop in the produce section of a grocery store, May 11, 2026, Portland, Ore.

Trade policies and extreme weather also have weighed on U.S. food prices in the last year.

 

 
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Dr. Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington.

Marty Makary headed the agency for just over one year.

 

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The per-gallon price is displayed electronically above the grades of gasoline available from a pump at an Exxon gasoline station in Litttleton, Colo., Tuesday, May 12, 2026.

Inflation came in hot last month.

 
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A key biological pathway could explain how coffee helps protect against chronic disease.

 

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A small boat splashes past a row of ship-to-shore cranes at Khlong Toei Pier in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 3, 2026.

Shipping companies are absorbing the brunt of the costs — for now.

 

Their two fire-tube boilers were incurring high costs: $40-50k a year for scale cleaning and $150-200k every five years for repairs and maintenance. Adding to these costs was the loss of throughput during boiler downtime.

 
Bel Group's Babybel production facility, Brookings, S.D.

The Babybel and Laughing Cow owner expects the addition to complement its GoGo Squeez line.

 
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It’s a shocking number of trees to destroy.

 

 
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