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The number of children in America living in poverty jumped dramatically after just one month without the expanded child tax credit payments, according to a new study. Advocates fear the lapse in payments could unravel what they say were landmark achievements in poverty reduction.

Intel said it is buying Israeli company Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in a deal that could give the California chipmaking giant an edge in the business of making custom-designed chips.

Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.

Protesters opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other restrictions withdrew their vehicles from a key U.S.-Canadian border bridge Saturday though access remained blocked while other demonstrations ramped up in cities across Canada, including the capital, where police said they were awaiting more officers before ending what they described as an illegal occupation.

Twenty-five percent of the American workforce was unemployed. Soup lines prevailed throughout the nation. Veterans of World War I, the war to end all wars, marched on Washington, D. C. demanding the pensions they were promised by the government. They were badly mistreated by the likes Douglas MacArthur. Millionaires were bankrupted by the market collapse. Grown men who were previously employed in good positions were selling apples on street corners or begging for a few cents as they held out their tin cups, awaiting the generosity of anyone with a penny to spare.