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This week, a giant sand maze in Miami, how to free yourself from big tech, Eric Adams’s bad luck streak, the fringe benefits of near-sightedness, and more.

Plus: Minneapolis Park Board considers canceling regional trail status for Midtown Greenway; Gov. Tim Walz signs bill to get rid of lead water pipes; Uber solicits customers' help lobbying; and more.

Norfolk Southern hired the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health to test the air in East Palestine homes. Experts say the testing it's conducting isn’t enough.

The criminal odyssey of Tao Liu took him from money laundering in Mexico to a massive scam in China to Trump’s exclusive New Jersey golf club. Investigators believed the mysterious businessman infiltrated U.S. politics as part of a Chinese intelligence operation.

Chinese American gangster Xizhi Li pioneered a new method that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite. A DEA investigation found the Chinese government may have been involved.