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This image released by McDonald’s shows the McPlant plant-based burger and and the new plant-based McPlant Nuggets. The nuggets will be available along with the burger at McDonald’s restaurants in Germany starting Feb. 22. (McDonald’s via AP)

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Fowl-free: McDonald's debuts plant-based McNuggets
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Wed,02/15/23-4:03PM , 173 Reads
McDonald’s McNuggets are going fowl-free.

The Chicago-based fast food giant is introducing plant-based McNuggets next week. Germany will be the first market to get them.
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A gambler adds money to a slot machine at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City NJ on Aug. 8, 2022. Figures released on Feb. 15, 2023 by the American Gaming Association show the U.S. commercial casino industry won over $60 billion from gamblers in 2022, its best year ever. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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US casinos top $60B in revenue in 2022, their best year ever
By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press
Wed,02/15/23-10:46AM , 217 Reads
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Commercial casinos in the United States won more than $60 billion from gamblers in 2022, the best year in the industry's history.
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In this photo supplied by Macaulay Library/Cornell Lab of Ornithology, pine siskins enjoy a backyard thistle feeder. Chad Witco of Audubon's Migratory Bird Initiative recommends them to attract the lively birds. (Julie Blondeau/Macaulay Library/Cornell Lab of Ornithology via AP)

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Gear, goods to celebrate birds and a big global count
By KIM COOK - Associated Press
Wed,02/15/23-9:54AM , 285 Reads
If you're planning to take part in the four-day, global Great Backyard Bird Count this month (Feb. 17-20), or if you just love birds, there's plenty of gear and goods to help you enjoy them.
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This image provided by Macaulay Library/Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows two girls watching birds through a window with binoculars, bird lists and cameras in Elm Grove, Louisiana, during the Great Backyard Bird Count in February 2022. About 385,000 people from 192 countries took part in the 2022 count, and their results have been used by scientists to study bird populations worldwide. (Emily Tubbs/Macaulay Library/Cornell Lab of Ornithology via AP)

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At 25, Backyard Bird Count shows power of citizen science
By JULIA RUBIN - Associated Press
Wed,02/15/23-9:30AM , 239 Reads
It’s a given that when the Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday, Steve and Janet Kistler of Hart County, Kentucky, will be joining in. They’ve done so every year since the now-global tradition began 25 years ago.
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