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National Chicken Council says new USDA FSIS Salmonella framework lacks data, research
OCTOBER 17, 2022: The US Department of Agriculture revealed its new regulatory framework in an effort it says would help reduce Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products. "We support ...
Jody Heemstra Oct 17, 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture
Handpicked numbers were the golden ticket to the $1.13B Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey
MARCH 27, 2024, UPDATE: NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) - Someone in New Jersey who bought a single ticket overcame the odds Tuesday night (March 26, 2024) and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking...
Jody Heemstra Mar 27, 2024
Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill
MARCH 28, 2023: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map ...
Jody Heemstra Mar 28, 2023
After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril
SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Fifty years after the U.S. Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived. But some scientists and activists fe...
Jody Heemstra Aug 05, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
Jerry Lee Lewis, outrageous rock 'n' roll star, dies at 87
UNDATED (AP)- The untamable and often outrageous rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at 87. Spokesperson Zach Furman said Lewis died Friday morning at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Of all...
Jody Heemstra Oct 28, 2022 kait jarbeau / CC
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
WASHINGTON (AP) - Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court dec...
Jody Heemstra Apr 19, 2024
Noem, again, sending South Dakota National Guard soldiers to U.S.-Mexico border
FEBRUARY 20, 2024: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will deploy South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border later this spring (2024). This will be the fifth time during Noem's tenure th...
Jody Heemstra Feb 20, 2024
Disrupting and Degrading - One Year of U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Its Enablers
he United States, along with an international coalition of over 30 allies and partners, has imposed sweeping sanctions, export controls, and other economic measures since the start of Russia's unprovo...
Jody Heemstra Feb 25, 2023
Is the center of the USA's population still in Missouri? US Census Bureau will release data next week
Next week (Nov. 16, 2021) the U.S. Census Bureau will announce where the U.S. center of population was in 2020, a way to summarize population shifts every decade. The colonial town of Chestertown, Mar...
Jody Heemstra Nov 12, 2021
'That '70s Show' actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023, UPDATE: LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge sentenced "That '70s Show" star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison Thursday (Sept. 7, 2023) for the rapes of two women two de...
Jody Heemstra Sep 07, 2023 Oscar Rohena / CC