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A growing and sophisticated variety of alcohol-free beverages are hitting bars, restaurants and grocery stores as mocktails become more popular. America's Test Kitchen hide caption

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Fake drinks that don't taste fake: The rise of the mocktail

A growing number of people are saying "bottoms up" to alcohol-free cocktails

A pickup bed liner is lodged into a tree after a tornado in Montebello, Calif., in March. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption

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Tornado forecasts are more accurate. Why aren't they saving more lives?

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Fake drinks that don't taste fake: The rise of the mocktail

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As the climate gets hotter, the Arctic is spending more days as open ocean. Sea ice is shrinking. It's breaking up earlier in the spring and forming later in the fall. Kathryn Hansen/NASA hide caption

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How melting Arctic ice could be fueling extreme wildfires in the Western U.S.

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A health worker administers a measles vaccine during a vaccination drive, prompted by a measles outbreak, in Navi Mumbai, India, in December 2022. A new UNICEF report finds that India has the world's largest number of children with zero doses of childhood vaccines: 2.7 million Bachchan Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption

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Why millions of kids aren't getting their routine vaccinations

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Smoke rising over Khartoum, Sudan, this week after an internationally brokered cease-fire failed. Marwan Ali/AP hide caption

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Khartoum's hospital system has collapsed after cease-fire fails

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