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MAHA gets states to sign waivers further restricting SNAP purchases

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The 41.7 million people who received monthly SNAP benefits in 2024 have long known they cannot use what were once called food stamps to purchase alcohol, tobacco, personal care products, or even hot and prepared foods. In 2025, one state after another is adding soda pop to that “verboten” list, along with non-calorie sodas, fruit and vegetable drinks that contain less than 50 percent natural juice, and other unhealthy beverages, and...

83% of Democrats Support Abortion as Democrat Party Fully Supports Abortions Up to Birth

LIFESITE NEWS – Support for abortion has increased among Democrats and decreased among Republicans since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, with Republicans hitting a record high of 78% identifying as pro-life, according to a Gallup analysis published June 9. The analysis discovered that Democrats had become more supportive of abortion in the years leading up to the Dobbs decision, but support for legal abortion spiked — jumping 13 points to...

NIH scientists sign open letter criticizing Trump administration’s grant cancellations, firings

Virology expert says NIH funding cuts could be detrimental to life-saving research

With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices

It’s unclear if the move results from bureaucratic dysfunction or is an effort to replace ACIP members ...

Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign Grow Louder

"RFK Jr. is unfit to lead. We're calling for his immediate resignation ... "

The Best Part of Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’? Shredding Obamacare

KFF Health News – Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also be called Obamacare Repeal Lite, its critics say. In addition to causing millions of Americans to lose...

‘We Don’t Want Them’: Trump Signs Travel Ban on Citizens From 12 Countries

President Trump’s proclamation barred travel from a variety of countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East.

Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them.

Ostriches on a British Columbia farm have died of the avian flu. Canada ordered hundreds of others to be culled. But two top Trump administration officials have objected.

Trump administration will ‘aggressively revoke’ Chinese student visas in major escalation with Beijing

Trump's decision will that will significantly impact the fate of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students.

Ex-Rep. Charlie Rangel, fixture on Capitol Hill for nearly half a century, dead at 94

NEW YORK POST – Former New York City Congressman Charlie Rangel, a fixture on Capitol Hill and Democratic power player for nearly half a century, died Monday. He was 94. Rangel, 94, was a Harlem political institution who spent his life in public service, from the Korean War to becoming the first African American to chair the influential House Ways and Means Committee. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970 after challenging civil-rights leader Adam...

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