NBC NEWS – A woman has sued a Florida dairy farm state officials linked to an outbreak of infections from consuming raw milk, claiming she lost her unborn child while she was caring for her toddler who got sick from the milk.
Rachel Maddox claimed that she didn’t know about the risks involved with raw milk and that her child became seriously sick after having consumed the product, according to the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in...
Foundation for Economic Education – FEE has published several articles over the years on the dangers of occupational licensing regulations.
In short, occupational licensure imposes additional legal requirements on someone entering a particular profession. These exist in industries ranging from medicine to hair-braiding (yes, really).
Often, defenders of such regulations point to their role in ensuring safety in fields such as medicine. However, a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) highlights that even in critical...
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Guns, Race, and Profit: The Pain of America’s Other Epidemic
Firearm violence is killing Americans at the scale of a public health epidemic. The suffering is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by segregation, disinvestment, hate crimes, and other forms of racial discrimination. (Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam, 8/19)
The National Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Went Dead. States Are Scrambling To Help.
LGBTQ+ youth lost dedicated support on the 988 Suicide & Crisis...
With Tasmania's salmon companies reeling from unprecedented losses due to disease and warm weather, the industry is told it will face investigation by the Environment Protection Authority.
FOX NEWS – A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife's sister and parents before setting their house on fire 35 years ago will be put to death next month, which could extend the Sunshine State's record number of executions to 12.
David Pittman, 63, is set to be executed on Sept. 17 under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday.
Pittman was convicted in 1991 and sentenced to death on...
ARS TECHNICA – Boar's Head plans to reopen the Jarratt, Virginia, facility at the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak last year despite federal inspections continuing to find sanitation violations at three of the food company's other facilities, according to federal records obtained by The Associated Press.
The AP obtained 35 pages of inspection reports via a Freedom of Information Act Request.
Those reports cover inspections between January 1 and July 23 at three other Boar's...
While Erica Kahn was photographing the night sky during a trip out West, a wild bat got tangled between her camera and her face, then scrambled partly into her mouth.