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The nation’s largest food distributor has immediately stopped carrying the nation’s scariest plant. Well, sort of. Sysco, the world’s largest broadline food distributor, has announced it will no longer buy iceberg lettuce from Mexico after the now-deadly ‌cyclosporiasis outbreak. The Houston-based company’s CEO Kevin Hourican recently told Reuters it is not buying lettuce from Taylor Farms after the U.S. Food and Drug ​Administration linked ‌the “explosive diarrhea” parasite to Taco Bell, who served lettuce from ​Taylor Farms operations in central Mexico.  “We’re not buying iceberg lettuce from them, and we’re not buying it from Mexico,” Hourican said in an ​interview.…

High-energy whirlpools speckle the sun’s surface.  New telescope images show characteristic swirls of magnetized plasma across a 19-kilometer-wide patch of the sun’s surface. The observations, reported August 5 in Nature, are the most detailed taken of the sun to date. The images also provide evidence for a type of fluid instability that might explain the sun’s outbursts, such as solar flares and eruptions.   “This instability occurs everywhere at the…

Published on 05/08/2026 – 16:23 GMT+2 London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested a 47-year-old woman after four people were stabbed in Covent Garden on Wednesday. In a statement, the force said officers were called to reports of a stabbing in the capital’s popular shopping district at around 12:30 pm. Four men,…

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