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        <title><![CDATA[Jessica Brice - Investigative Reporter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Drug Cartels Are Shifting Their Money Laundering to Crypto. Cops Can’t Keep Up]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Gunmaker’s Lobbying Shows How Trump’s Tariffs Changed the Game]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Firms close to the administration have seen a surge in revenue as they advise businesses on how to avoid the import duties and play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ in Trump's Washington]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Mann]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Global Fertility Trade: A Story of Extraction, Exploitation and Opportunity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Following human eggs as they’re exchanged across open, gray and black markets — reaping rewards for an extremely high price.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Natalie Obiko Pearson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:20:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘The Egg’: How We Reported Our Story on the Global Fertility Industry]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[More than a dozen journalists reported in person on five continents and in 11 countries to tell this story.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Natalie Obiko Pearson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden Aims to Impose Tightest Gun-Export Restrictions in Decades]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Commerce Department to wind down its involvement in industry’s premier trade show after helping companies boost overseas sales to record levels]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Kocieniewski]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:30:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six Key Takeaways from Bloomberg’s Gun Export Investigation]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/how-the-us-commerce-department-is-supporting-gun-exports-abroad</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Hundreds of US Government Employees Became Gun Industry Sales Reps]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In some of the most violent countries in the world, the Commerce Department has a mandate to help US gunmakers hunt for new customers.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Americanas Managers Presented Conflicting Information Over Debt]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristiane Lucchesi]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An Americanas store in Brasilia, Brazil, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Americanas SA imploded following a revelation that it was hiding more than 20 billion reais ($3.8 billion) of debt and has since filed for bankruptcy protection.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ford’s Electric Pickup Is Built From Metal That’s Damaging the Amazon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Bloomberg investigation traced much of the aluminum in the F-150 to a refinery in Brazil accused of sickening thousands of people]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sheridan Prasso]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Destino da Amazônia está em jogo na eleição brasileira]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 05:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World Sees Brazil’s Election as a Climate Flashpoint. Brazilians Have Other Concerns]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lula, the favorite against Bolsonaro, is promising to reverse rainforest-destroying policies and protect the climate. He’ll also have to keep the country from going hungry.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McDonald’s Linked to Amazon Deforestation in New Report]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Brazilian group alleges that companies supplying beef to the restaurant chain have bought cattle originating from illegally cleared ranches.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Big Beef Loan Scrapped Amid Uproar Over Amazon Deforestation]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Bloomberg investigation reveals how the supply chain of meat processing giant JBS is deeply embedded in Amazon rainforest deforestation hotspots.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mira Rojanasakul]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Brazil’s rainforest is being stolen and cleared at an accelerating pace, and the Bolsonaro government is fanning the flames.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 04:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A New Link Tracing Beef From Amazon Rainforest to Grocery Stores]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Meatpackers have taken much of the blame for deforestation, but a watchdog group is seeking to hold retail outlets accountable, too.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slave Labor at Brazilian Cattle Farms Focus of New Report]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[More than a dozen instances of severe worker rights violations were found in a small part of top producers’ supply chains.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why It’s So Hard to Stop Amazon Deforestation, Starting With the Beef Industry]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ranchers clear land in Brazil's rainforest to raise cattle for export.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-17/saving-the-amazon-starts-with-cleaning-up-the-beef-industry</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil Reports Almost 70,000 New Covid Infections in Record Day]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mario Sergio Lima]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:42:33 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes care of a Covid-19 patient inside the Semi-intensive Care Unit (SCU) at Hospital Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, July 24, 2020. Brazil on Tuesday reported almost 68,000 new Covid-19 cases, an all-time high that eclipses the previous record by more than 20% and rivals the numbers seen in the U.S., whose population is 50% bigger.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lockdown or Not, Cases Soar From Mexico to Argentina]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Brice]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:36:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TOPSHOT - Government health workers perform a rapid COVID-19 test on Chief Leno of the Kunaruara tribe at his village beside the Tapajos River of the Santarem municipality in western Para state, Brazil on July 10, 2020. - The Chief and his tribe live in a very remote area, no-one in their village has contracted COVID-19 and they believe that their natural medicinal remedies will protect them from the novel coronavirus. (Photo by TARSO SARRAF / AFP) (Photo by TARSO SARRAF/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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