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Indicators of the Week: Debate Edition

6:49pm June 28, 2024

Indicators of the Week is BACK! This week we're doing something just a little bit different. You see, it's the same 'ol Indicators of the Week you're used to, but as a nod to last night's presidential debate, this time, it's debate style.

On today's episode, your candidates argue over who has the best Indicator of the Week: the links discovered between health care prices and layoffs, stress-tested banks, and ... cow burps?

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Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, the first country to do so

12:39pm June 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

Levels of methane have increased particularly quickly since 2020. Livestock account for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, the U.N. Environment Program says.

FILE - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark walks along the High Line on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in New York. Thousands of people will gather in downtown Copenhagen on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024 to witness a historic moment in one of the world's oldest monarchies.

World News

Frederik X is proclaimed the new king of Denmark after Queen Margrethe II abdicates

10:12am January 14, 2024

by The Associated Press

Thousands of people spontaneously break into the Danish national anthem outside Christianborg Palace after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen proclaims the new king.

Queen Margrethe II announces her abdication from Christian IX's Palace, Amalienborg Castle, in Copenhagen, on Sunday, Dec. 31 2023, during her New Year's address.

World News

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II to step down on Jan. 14 after 50 years on the throne

2:23pm December 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

The queen announced during her New Year's speech that she would abdicate on the 52nd anniversary of her own accession to the throne at age 31 following the death of her father, King Frederik IX.

A woman stands in front of an blank canvas hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark, in 2021. Danish artist Jens Haaning sent the museum blank canvasses under the title Take the Money and Run.

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases

5:23pm September 18, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

Denmark's Kunsten Museum loaned artist Jens Haaning about $76,400 to create two pieces of modern art. Instead, he submitted two blank canvases and titled the work Take the Money and Run.

England forward Lauren James steps on Nigeria defender Michelle Alozie during their match in Brisbane, Australia, earning a red card.

England beats Nigeria despite a red card, and Australia advances as Sam Kerr returns

3:24pm August 07, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

The quarterfinal bracket is nearly set at the Women's World Cup. England beat Nigeria on penalty kicks after a red card for Lauren James, and two great Australia goals sent Denmark packing.

Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Baghdad, Saturday. Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq's government, following reports of the burning of a Quran by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

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Denmark's latest Quran burning sparks more outrage in Iraq and other Muslim nations

1:53pm July 24, 2023

Protesters set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy in Denmark's capital of Copenhagen, the latest such incident to draw condemnation from Muslim-majority countries.

Protesters gather in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, carrying Iraqi flags and images of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, on Saturday following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

Protesters try to storm Baghdad's Green Zone over Quran and flag burning in Denmark

9:45am July 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Saturday following reports an ultranationalist group burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, center, speaks to people while on an election campaign, in Holbaek, Denmark, Saturday, May 28, 2022.

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Denmark will hold a referendum on EU defense amid Ukraine war

4:46am May 31, 2022

by The Associated Press

Danish voters are being asked to choose whether to abandon the country's decision three decades ago to opt out of the bloc's common defense policy.

Chefs prepare food at Mexico's Dinner With Enrique Olvera And Jordi Roca during Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival presented By FOOD & WINE at Cosme NYC on October 15, 2015 in New York City. Cosme is one of six U.S. honorees

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A handful of the world's newly crowned 50 best restaurants are in the U.S.

1:10pm October 06, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

This year's list of the 50 best restaurants in the world includes six American eateries, all in either New York or California.