WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials warned parents to avoid powdered infant formula sold by a Texas dairy producer, because a dangerous bacteria was found in one of the company’s products. The Food and Drug Administration issued the alert Friday on Crecelac Infant Powdered Goat Milk Infant Formula, after a sample collected from a Texas […]
A defendant in the Feeding Our Future trial testified Thursday that he doled out food to thousands of children in Bloomington, but wasn’t responsible for any of the financial paperwork that resulted in millions of dollars in federal reimbursements. Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, 33, of Burnsville, was the only one of the seven defendants in the […]
The first distribution of badly needed aid is expected to begin this weekend after rolling off a newly built US pier off the coast of Gaza. It is expected even as aid workers warn much more access is needed to the besieged territory where famine might be under way. Israeli restrictions and heavy fighting in […]
In many urban landscapes across the United States, including in Iowa, an invisible line divides not just neighborhoods but also their access to nature’s bounty — specifically, their tree canopy coverage. This division often traces back to historical discrimination policies like redlining, resulting in stark disparities in environmental quality and access to green spaces between […]
Feb. 14—Early indications are that the Committee on Church Cooperation will be asked to serve more people this year than ever before in its 50 years of existence, a CCC official said, and demand has more than doubled since 2020. “In the first two weeks of January, we had 56 new families,” said CCC Executive […]
WASHINGTON — The White House Medical Unit had “severe and systemic problems” with its pharmacy operations and provided health care to ineligible staffers before the Biden administration, according to a scathing report by the Defense Department‘s Office of Inspector General. The multiyear investigation was prompted in 2018 by complaints alleging that a senior military medical […]
One of six people indicted for their role in a drug trafficking ring that distributed thousands of fentanyl pills across Whatcom County and the Lummi Nation was sentenced to federal prison last week. Ahbdurman Ahmed, 33, of Seattle, was sentenced to six years in prison Jan. 5 in the Western District of Washington in U.S. […]