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Your food may soon come with warnings. The Food and Drug Administration plans to propose labeling this fall for the front of food and drink packages to help Americans make healthier choices to address exploding obesity rates by flagging products containing high levels of sodium, saturated fat or added sugars.?https://wapo.st/3MJ8glF

Researchers studied the effect of five laws requiring supermarkets and restaurants to reduce waste, part of a broader effort to keep food out of landfills, where it contributes to climate change.

When Scott Stein was growing up in New York, he’d often visit his grandfather on Long Island and admire a Japanese flag hanging on the wall in his den. About 34 years ago, Scott Stein inherited the flag after his grandfather died and hung it on his own wall for many years until he decided one day to tuck it inside a box for safekeeping. The flag included the name of the deceased soldier who had owned it, Yukikazu Hiyama. “I started to realize a while back that maybe it wasn’t the best home decor,” said Scott Stein, who donated the flag he inherited from his grandfather.

Mortgage rates fell on Thursday to their lowest level since April 2023 — 6.2 percent?for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, down from 6.35 percent a week before, according to Freddie Mac.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 11.3 million tons of closet castoffs and other textile waste ended up in landfills in 2018. When deciding whether to make a purchase, ask yourself these questions to make your deliberations easier and help you become a sustainable fashionista.?

“We only get one chance to get it right.” In Opinions, Casey Cep takes us inside the highest-rated organization in the United States: https://wapo.st/4efV5o6

Some Posties spent a day riding around in Ubers, Lyfts, and Waymos. This is what we learned. https://lnkd.in/gSyXnwE7

“I have a more enhanced view of what’s coming, and I am myself more sensitized to developing that muscle of looking at the world from the point of view of what is real and what isn’t real. So I am on alert.” Read Oprah Winfrey’s Q&A with Opinion columnist Josh Tyrangiel about what excites (and worries) her about artificial intelligence: https://wapo.st/3ZhG553

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