(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – A battle is brewing nationwide over whether recipients of SNAP benefits, also known as "food stamps," should be allowed to purchase soda and candy with their government food assistance.
Critics of the new push to ban soda and candy purchases under SNAP say it...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal website that used to feature the mainstream narrative on COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.
The covid.gov website shows a photo of President Donald Trump walking between the words “lab” and “leak”...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it’s investigating a startup that’s been launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere, allegedly as part of a scheme to “geoengineer the planet.”
According to the EPA, the company in question, Making Sunsets, has already launched...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump’s doctor says he is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief as the White House released results Sunday of Trump's recent physical exam. The 78-year-old Trump is 20 pounds lighter since his checkup as president in 2020 showed him bordering on obesity.
His physician, Navy Capt....
(Headline USA) An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.
Towana Looney is recovering well from...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last week, the New York Times revealed that numerous top government health officials have been reassigned to regional offices of the Indian Health Service, which provides federal health services to Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The reassigned officials include none other than former COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci’s wife,...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California did not materially comply with the requirements for seven of the 22 federal programs the state auditor examined, including “pervasive” noncompliance in its unemployment benefits program, which could put essential federal funding at risk.
“This report concludes that the State did not materially comply...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times has reported that numerous top government health officials have been reassigned to regional offices of the Indian Health Service, which provides federal health services to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
The reassigned officials include none other than former COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci’s...
(Headline USA) Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
The railroad filed the motion that is set to go to trial...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey better hit the treadmill—at least according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy jokingly called out Morrisey’s weight during a joint live press conference Friday on health efforts in West Virginia. Kennedy, 70, is known for his fit...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Utah became the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water after the state's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation Thursday that bars cities and communities from deciding whether to add the mineral to their water systems.
Utah lawmakers who pushed for a ban said...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into a claim that Pfizer delayed announcing the "success" of the COVID vaccine until after the 2020 election, according to the Wall Street Journal.
British drugmaker GSK brought the claim after one of its senior scientists, who previously worked at Pfizer,...