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Chocolate candies that were sold in multiple states are being recalled over the potential presence of an undeclared milk allergen, which could cause a "serious or life-threatening" reaction to people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk.

The Office of the Surgeon General isn’t often in the news these days, but it's powerfully influential.

Top Utah officials are suing Snap Inc., which owns the social media platform Snapchat, and accusing it of creating an algorithm that makes the app addicting to children, as well as enabling the illegal sales of drugs and sexual exploitation. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox and state Attorney General Derek Brown filed the lawsuit Monday, saying Snap...

Democrats must focus on Trump's economic policies, such as raising food and medical prices, to end his reign of terror and stop the spread of MAGA policies.

Senate Democrats are starting to pick up the pieces after Republicans muscled President Trump's “big, beautiful bill” through the upper chamber Tuesday, with Vice President Vance breaking a tie vote to send the mammoth legislation back to the House. “This bill is bad. It’s bad economically. It’s bad morally. This bill is just wrong,” Sen....

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a group of Democrats on Tuesday in introducing a bill requiring Congressional notification of any major layoffs at the State Department and other agencies under the panel’s jurisdiction.  The move comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated July 1...

President Trump on Tuesday said he was somewhat confident that his tax and spending megabill can pass the upper chamber, as senators head to the floor to vote. When asked about his confidence level, the president replied, “I don’t know, what does confident mean when you have one vote and you have 100 people going...

President Trump knocked AT&T after his conference call experienced glitches. “I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly,” Trump wrote Monday in a post on Truth Social. “This is the second time it’s happened,” he continued. “If the...

President Trump has instructed his top Cabinet officials to adjust regulations to curb policies that encourage American tourism and financial transactions with Cuba, in line with his campaign promise to stand with the Cuban people and hold the Communist regime accountable.

Sixteen Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday challenging the Department of Education’s cuts to mental health funding for schools. In April, the Education Department announced the $1 billion cut to mental health funding, citing concerns with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives embedded in the contracts.  The states allege the...

In early 1943, Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

Tesla stock tumbled Tuesday as founder Elon Musk continues to feud with President Trump over the pending GOP spending package. Republicans have proposed a series of rollbacks in the bill, including a strike to electric vehicle (EV) credits, which could roil Tesla’s profits. The company’s stock dropped by almost 6 percent in early trading Tuesday,...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he thinks he has a deal with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — a major breakthrough more than 25 hours after lawmakers began considering the measure on the Senate floor. But Thune also cautioned he’s a “realist,” indicating that he’s not counting...

Three-quarters of U.S. adults say the future of democracy faces a serious threat, according to a survey. The latest poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist, shows that when asked if they see a "serious threat" to the future of democracy in terms of issues dividing the nation, 76 percent of respondents said they do. Another 24 percent...