Starbucks unveiled a new cup lineup that the company says will keep more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic out of landfills every year. The new cups, announced ahead of Earth Day, are made with up to 20% less plastic and will require less water to make, but come amid a new report that found plastic production continues to pose a major problem, producing more emissions than even the aviation industry.
Max Azzarello of St. Augustine, Florida, who police identified as the man who set himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's trial was taking place, stands a day earlier outside the same courthouse, April 18, 2024. A metal can sits on the ground at the scene where a man lit himself on fire in a park outside Manhattan criminal court in New York, April 19, 2024.
White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment on the overnight limited air strike Israel fired at Iran and what the U.S. response would be.
Hours before Israel launched a drone strike against Iran on Thursday night, Israeli officials gave a heads up to their US counterparts in Washington: an attack was in the works, they said, and without sharing specifics, indicated it would be carried out in the next several days, according to a senior US official.