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LAB RETRIEVERS TOP DOG
abrador retrievers are still tugging hardest on dog
lovers’ heartstrings, but poodles strutted back into the American Kennel Club’s most popular dog breeds for the first time in nearly a quarter- century.
The club’s annual
popularity rankings came out in March, drawn from more than
800,000 purebred
puppies and older pooches that joined the nation’s oldest canine registry last year. After Labs, the top 10 are: French
bulldogs, golden retrievers, German shepherds, poodles, bulldogs, beagles, Rottweilers, German shorthaired pointers, and dachshunds. The rarest breed is the Norwegian lundehund. The smallish dogs boast extra toes and unusual flexibility that once helped them climb Norwegian cliff s to hunt puf ins nesting in narrow crevices.
Europe and Asia for nearly a year. State and federal of icials
remain hopeful that the disease won’t spread as extensively as an outbreak in 2015, which resulted in the deaths of about 50 million chickens and turkeys, causing egg and meat prices to soar.
CALIFORNIA REJECTS STUDENT CURBS
C
alifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that stops one of the most prestigious U.S.
universities from being forced to turn away thousands of students
from its incoming freshman class. The state Supreme Court had
previously ordered the University of California, Berkeley, to reduce its enrollment. It agreed with a neighborhood group that had argued more students would aff ect the environment, and that adding more students would worsen the housing shortage and increase rents in the San Francisco area. School of icials said they would have
had to reject about 2,600 students for the new class who can now be accepted.
BLACK RESIDENTS MOVING TO SMALLER CITIES
T AVIAN FLU HITS 21 STATES S
even million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due
to avian influenza. Spread of the disease is largely blamed
on the droppings of wild birds, such as ducks and geese, that often show no signs of illness. Studies suggest the virus can be tracked into secure chicken and turkey barns via equipment, workers, mice, small birds, and even dust particles. Infected wild birds have been found
in at least 21 states, and the virus has been circulating in migrating waterfowl in
he largest African American population growth in pure numbers
over the past decade didn’t take place in Atlanta or Houston, long identified as hubs of Black life, but rather in less congested cities with lower profiles: Fort Worth; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Each gained between 32,000 and
40,000 new Black residents from 2010 to 2020, according to 2020 census figures. Meanwhile, Black residents left the
nation’s largest cities, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, by the tens of thousands.
According to the 2020 census,
African Americans make up 14% of the U.S. population, 58% of whom live in the South.
POSTAL SERVICE GASES UP D
emocrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an
investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan $2 BILLION COVID FUNERAL AID T
he federal government has provided more than $2 billion to
help cover funeral costs for more than 300,000 families of people who died from COVID-19, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced. More than 965,000 people have died in
the U.S. from the virus. The COVID-19 funeral assistance
program provides up to $9,000 per funeral and covers COVID-19 related deaths since Jan. 20, 2020. The average amount awarded per death is $6,500, according to FEMA.
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to replace 90% of its aging mail trucks with gasoline-powered vehicles. The plan has drawn sharp criticism
from the Biden administration, Democratic lawmakers, and environmentalists, who say it falls far short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change. An electrified fleet would save about
135 million gallons of fuel per year, said Adrian Martinez, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a
Republican donor and ally of former President Donald Trump, has said the 10% EV production is the best the Postal Service can do, given its “dire financial condition.”
An additional $3.3 billion would be
needed to convert the entire USPS fleet to battery-powered electrics, DeJoy said.
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