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Tighter ICE Inventories Lift Coffee Prices

6 days 18 hours ago
December arabica coffee (KCZ26 ) closed up +4.90 (+1.71) on Monday, and January ICE robusta coffee (RMF27 ) closed up +37 (+1.15%). Coffee prices rose sharply on Monday, with robusta climbing to a 1-week high. Tight coffee inventories are underpinning prices. ICE arabica inventories fell to a 1.5-month low of...

Cattle Close Mixed on Monday as Feeders Find Strength

6 days 18 hours ago
Live cattle futures fell anywhere from a nickel to $1.25 across most contracts on Monday. Cash trade was reported by USDA at $224-225 live last week, with a few leaking towards $220. Feeder cattle futures were up 65 cents to $1.42 at the close. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was...

Officials investigate fire at Mississippi police department tied to fatal shooting of Black toddler

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Person arrested after fire at police department where officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley had worked

In the early hours of 31 October, a fire broke out at the Senatobia police department in Mississippi, which has been embroiled in controversy recently after one of its officers shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old. Though the cause of the fire has not been reported, it is being investigated as arson by agents with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In June, then Senatobia police sergeant Hunter Foster shot Kohen as he sat in his mother’s arms in a Walmart parking lot. Foster, who is white, was responding to a report of an alleged shoplifting; Kohen, his mother and the driver of the vehicle, are Black.

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Rockstar plans to let users pre-load GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the game requires up to 212GB "depending on your device" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Rockstar plans to let users pre-load GTA VI on November 10, ahead of its November 19 launch, and says the game requires up to 212GB “depending on your device”  —  Rockstar says to make sure you have ‘ample space’ on your device. … You're going to need a lot of extra storage space …

Boat burial reveals leprosy strain in fifth-century Germany

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Visigothic and Vandal forces marched into Italy and conquered Rome; the Huns spread fear and terror on their campaigns through Western Europe; the Franks expanded their domain southward—the fifth century was an era of profound, often violent upheavals in Europe, and at the same time one of great mobility. Researchers from the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) have now identified a specific example of this mobility in the Fallward burial ground in what is now the district of Cuxhaven.