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The COVID-19 pandemic has kept many people from giving the gift of life and it's not getting any better.

Red Cross officials say while donors across the country have rolled up a sleeve to give this summer, the need for blood and platelets remains crucial for patients relying on lifesaving transfusions.

People are hoarding stuff in Yakima again.

Right now, hospitals are responding to an atypically high number of traumas and emergency room visits, as well as overdoses and resulting transplants.

The world faces a chocolate ‘drought’ over the next few years, an expert warns. Political unrest in the Ivory Coast, where 40 per cent of the world’s cocoa beans are grown, has ‘significantly’ depleted the number of certified fair trade cocoa farmers...