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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday took steps to increase oversight of food additives as part of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have worked to enact some priorities of the MAHA movement that supported Kennedy’s 2024 presidential bid and later helped elect Trump, like curbing recommendations for some childhood vaccines. The FDA on Monday issued a proposed rule that would require food manufacturers to notify the agency when they deem a food additive to be “Generally Recognized as Safe,” or GRAS, according…

A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in the litigation. The defendants, which also include Snap Inc’s Snapchat, had argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of…

A federal judge in Texas last week struck down a 1930s law that imposed regulations on firearm suppressors and guns that are considered the most dangerous, more than a year after President Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating taxes on those items. The ruling could allow firearm owners to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other certain firearms without registration, while also removing a layer of background checks. Last year, Republicans eliminated a $200 tax on those devices under Trump’s massive tax and spending cut bill. The regulations are required under the National…

The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was similarly shut down because of mishandled remains, authorities said. Illinois state officials, meanwhile, suspended the license of one of the funeral home’s directors, alleging bodies were being kept in an unrefrigerated area in “deplorable conditions.” The discovery came months after neighborhood residents began noticing a “stench” emanating from the funeral home, which led some to complain to the city. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said it was notified by state and…

While a number of Florida-domiciled property insurers have begun rebuilding their policy portfolios in the last 12 months, Tampa-based Heritage Insurance has continued to shed policies in recent years. The selective underwriting strategy, along with other changes, appears to have made a difference: Heritage reported a Q2 profit of almost $62 million. That’s a 28.5% increase in net income for the second quarter of this year, compared to Q2 2025. The company also posted a microscopic 65% combined ratio as of the end of June this year. That’s eight points lower than what the insurer reported at this time last…

A judge approved a $106 million settlement Thursday that ends a yearslong legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans. The 18-story hotel project partially collapsed in October 2019, killing three people and damaging nearby property. A grand jury ultimately decided against indicting anyone in the deadly collapse, but lawsuits were filed, including one brought by the City of New Orleans in August 2020 naming the building owners, their partners and contractors. The various lawsuits were consolidated into one case that includes a total of 490 plaintiffs, such as…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit against Stony Island Reclamation Co., Land and Lakes Co., and J.L.W. Trucking LLC, which operated a facility under the name of Whole Earth Compost, alleging that the companies endangered the environment and public safety by allowing fires to break out at the Harbor View waste facility, a closed landfill site. Raoul’s lawsuit, filed in the Cook County Circuit Court, alleges how the companies allowed fires at the site and created an explosion risk at the facility that threatened the health and welfare of nearby residents. The facility, which was closed in 2003,…

The reinsurance industry’s robust earnings and abundant capital, evident since 2023, have led to increasing competition and a softening market. “The key question is whether reinsurers can maintain underwriting discipline or will irrational competition emerge, leading to another traditional soft market cycle,” said AM Best. The ratings agency says the “question is hardly a new one,” given the experience of reinsurance cycles over many years. “The next 12 months may ultimately determine whether the market is entering a new era of sustained underwriting discipline or continuing down the path of yet another traditional soft market cycle,” said AM Best in…

A major earthquake hit Colombia on Monday morning, burying people under rubble and causing severe destruction to buildings and infrastructure in the Pacific region and the central Andes. The magnitude 7.4 tremor struck at 7:34 a.m. local time near the town of San José del Palmar, Choco province, according to the US Geological Survey. There was at least one aftershock, but no tsunami warning. The event is the first major test for President Abelardo de la Espriella, who was sworn in on Friday in a ceremony in Cali. He said he would travel to the coffee-producing region of Pereira, which…

Virginia, the world’s largest data center hub, has released a long-delayed study that examined the state’s eastern region groundwater supply and the resource-hungry industry’s possible impact on it, finding declines are likely in a critical aquifer due to population growth and industrial use and urging stricter regulations. Produced by environmental scientists, the report — which the state for more than six months had refused to release — said regulators should have more authority to reject industrial water withdrawal permits, force entities to examine alternative sources of water and clamp down on users who might be using more water than they…