The food, valued at $800,000, cost an additional $130,000 to burn, all paid for by taxpayer dollars. A million pounds of food and nearly a million dollars in taxpayer funds — poof. Up in smoke. What a ...

The United States is set to destroy nearly 500 metric tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food meant for starving people ...

All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a ...

America Has Been Struggling With the Metric System For More Than 200 Years ... It remains law–although it has been substantially amended over time–to this day, writes the US Metric Association.

Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between “traditional” and “progressive” values. This is an extract from ...

Today the US remains in the company of Liberia and Myanmar as one of only three countries worldwide not to make extensive use of a metric system. Myanmar is currently trying to switch to metric.

The metric that could tell us when it’s safe to reemerge May 4, 2020 More than 5 years ago A medical worker administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru facility in San Antonio on March 17.

The U.S. destroyed 500 metric tons of expired food aid but says help to Haiti and other urgent-need regions will continue.