President Biden this week touted the year-old law meant to deliver the biggest expansion of veterans benefits in decades, though the effort is off to a rocky start. Exactly 365 days after putting into effect the PACT Act – meant to expand Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits for former service members who were exposed...
(NEXSTAR) — New York-based Sensio Inc. is recalling about 860,000 of its pressure cookers, which were sold under various brand names at several major retailers across the U.S. The company says it's received 63 incident reports, including 61 burn injuries — some injuries included second and third-degree burns to faces, torsos, arms and hands. According...
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an urgent recall for a set of pregnancy and ovulation tests the agency said it can no longer guarantee are safe. Manufacturer Universal Meditech has stopped supporting the tests, the FDA said, bringing their reliability and safety into question. The company issued its own recall for remaining stock...
A Marine at Camp Pendleton in Southern California was charged with sexual assault of a minor who was found in the camp barracks, the military announced Friday. The 14-year-old girl was missing from home for at least two weeks when she was discovered on the base on June 28. Family feared she had been sex...
A Nebraska judge upheld the state’s bans on abortion after 12 weeks and gender-affirming care on Friday, dealing a blow to advocacy groups who had challenged the law. Nebraska passed the bans together in May, combining the two policies in a last-second amendment. Lawmakers attempted to pass a 6-week abortion ban earlier this year but...
GOP presidential candidate and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez during a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines argued that candidates should "drop out" of the 2024 primary if they don't meet the criteria for the first debate. “I agree that if you can’t meet the minimum thresholds, you shouldn’t be trying to...
The death toll from a devastating wildfire in Maui has risen to 67, Hawaiian officials said Friday. The fire, which has destroyed the tourist town of Lahaina on Maui’s west coast, remains uncontained. “This is something that we’ve never seen in Hawaii and I think it’s the worst disaster many have seen throughout the country,”...
Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is calling for the DOJ to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his relationship with a GOP megadonor.