Do You Need a Barbecue Knife?
These specialty blades—cutlass-shaped mini machetes made for chopping grilled and smoked meats—aren’t a necessary addition to your grill game. But they’re fun, and they get the job done.
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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe
A network of local officials in Italy want to turn their cities into laboratories for the vehicles of tomorrow in the hope of catching up with the US and China.
Corporate America is having a weird tariff summer
Some big companies are reporting real financial pain from tariffs and economic uncertainty — but for others, business is booming.
Gear News of the Week: Amazon Buys Bee, VSCO Has a New App, and CMF Debuts a Smartwatch
Plus: Google Photos lets you convert images to videos, Microsoft has a 5G Surface, and Palmer Luckey asks if you’d buy a US-made laptop.
‘A different world’ – Spain’s transformation after World Cup fallout
BBC Sport looks at how Spain’s Euro 2025 compares to the controversy from their 2023 World Cup journey.
‘A different world’ – Spain’s transformation after World Cup fallout
BBC Sport looks at how Spain’s Euro 2025 compares to the controversy from their 2023 World Cup journey.
A mum and her disabled daughter lay dead at home for months. Why did no-one notice?
Alphonsine Djiako Leuga died first – before daughter Loraine Choulla died of malnutrition and dehydration weeks later.
Gregg Wallace ‘sorry’ but says he’s ‘not a groper’
The former presenter was sacked after 45 allegations against him were upheld by a review.
​​What is inside the GHF food aid box being distributed in Gaza?
BBC Verify examines the meals handed out to Gazans – and why their nutritional value is questioned by some experts.
How have RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies impacted America’s public health?
Before he entered politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a career out of stoking doubt about vaccines, promoting theories contradicted by mountains of scientific evidence on common vaccines which have been studied for decades and safely administered to hundreds of millions of people.
Now, six months in as head of Health and Human Services, he has instituted a number of policy changes on access to vaccines for both children and adults.
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly and health correspondents Rob Stein and Pien Huang talk through how these changes could impact public health and the public’s wallets.
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