The food bank provides food and other supplies for the pets of senior citizens, low-income families, people with disabilities or terminal illnesses, veterans, and homeless community members.
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Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
When state media broadcasts funerals for fighters killed in Syria or Yemen while Iran’s hospitals lack basic supplies, the disconnect between rhetoric and reality becomes glaring.
In polling conducted by YouGov in April 2025, majorities in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden opposed their countries’ developing their own nuclear arsenals, and even higher percentages opposed American nuclear weapons being stationed in their country.
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Siegfried Hecker,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
Vertical proliferation is when the nations that already have nuclear bombs—there are nine—add to their arsenals, as China is doing now.
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