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Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul both tapped into the powerful Tea Party movement, fueled by frustration with big government and overspending, to win their seats in Congress.

In the Senate, tea party darlings Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky and Ted Cruz (R) of Texas have often stood shoulder-to-shoulder as allies. In March 2013, when Senator Paul launched his nearly 13-hour talking filibuster opposing the nomination of John Brennan for Central Intelligence Agency director and condemning the use of drones, his freshman colleague from Texas helped him on the Senate floor by ...

A drop in the average price of Kenyan tea eroded 2014 pretax profit at Limuru Tea by 95 percent last year to 2.10 million shillings ($22,727), the company said on Tuesday. The firm said the average price of black tea, of which Kenya is the world's leading exporter, slid 16 percent to 180 shillings per kg, wiping out 11 percent of its total revenue that fell to 92 million shillings. Lower ...

Rand Paul, a conservative libertarian and precursor of the Tea Party branch of his party, will become the second major Republican to join the 2016 presidential race when he announces his candidacy on Tuesday. Rand has summoned supporters and reporters to a speech at 1600 GMT in Louisville, Kentucky, where he has served as senator since January 2011. Paul will follow Texan Ted Cruz, who launched ...

More than a thousand years ago, Buddhist monks in Japan began a daily ritual of grinding green tea leaves into powder, mixing it into hot water with a bamboo whisk, then sharing the tea from a single cup. ...

A much-loved Canadian tea chain -- DAVIDsTEA -- is hoping for a warm reception from American investors as its launches plans for an initial public offering.

More than a thousand years ago, Buddhist monks in Japan began a daily ritual of grinding green tea leaves into powder, mixing it into hot water with a bamboo whisk, then sharing the tea from a single cup.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than a thousand years ago, Buddhist monks in Japan began a daily ritual of grinding green tea leaves into powder, mixing it into hot water with a bamboo whisk, then sharing the tea from a single cup.

Bengaluru, April 6 (IANS) Coffee and tea planters in southern India on Monday opposed the reduced incentives for bulk exports in the new foreign trade policy that came into effect from April 1. "Reduction of two percent from five percent on rates of rewards in the Vishesh Krishi Gram Udyog Yojana to three percent under the new Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) makes exports unviable ...

The state-linked Cool Japan Fund, comprised mostly of taxpayers' money, on Monday said it will invest about 260 million yen ($2.18 million) in a company that plans to operate upmarket green tea cafes in the United States. The fund will own 49.9 percent of Green Tea World USA Inc which aims to open its first cafe this year in California, Cool Japan Fund Managing Director Masayuki Suzuki said at a ...

Consuming 16 cups of iced tea each day led to renal failure, doctors wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Title: Man's Iced Tea Habit May Have Swamped His Kidneys Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM

Doctors said the man drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day.

© AP Photo/Larry Crowe This May 21, 2007 file photo shows a glass of iced tea in Concord, N.H. Doctors have traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day. He said he drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day.

Doctors said the man drank about 16 8-ounce cups of iced tea every day.

Doctors believe a man's excessive iced tea drinking -- about a gallon daily -- is what caused his previously unexplained kidney failure last year.

Brooks Hays LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 2 (UPI) -- As a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights, black tea consumed in high quantities may cause serious kidney damage.

In just seven years, TWG Tea has gone from three employees to 3,000, from one salon in Singapore to 44, stretching across 15 countries. Last year, TWG became the first international tea company to open tea salons and retail boutiques in China.

After a 56-year-old man experienced kidney failure, his doctors discovered that his habit of drinking excessive amounts of iced tea every day was likely the culprit, according to a new report of his case. The man's kidney function has not recovered, and he remains on dialysis, said Dr. Alejandra Mena-Gutierrez, of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who treated the patient and wrote the ...

The North American Tea Championship (NATC) selected the 16 best, premium hot teas from the fall 2014 harvest. The evaluation -- the only independent and professionally-judged tea competition in North America -- was held Feb. 26-27 in Las Vegas. All of the teas are available in the marketplace.