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#10 Sugary Beverage Consumption Among SNAP Recipients - By Angela Rachidi and Thomas O'Rourke for Center On Opportunity and Social Mobility, Matt Walsh/Corey Ryan Forrester, Mark Hayman M.D., Shipwreck, Matthew Yglesias, Tracy Beanz/Gator Gar, and Brick Suit/Joe Pags on X
The House Agriculture Committee recently failed to pass an appropriations bill that would have authorized a pilot program to test whether nutrition-based restrictions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could improve health outcomes for low-income households. This is just the latest rejection by Washington policymakers of proposals designed to improve nutritional outcomes for SNAP participants. Despite opposition to restrictions driven by industry groups and advocates, ensuring that SNAP dollars reinforce nutrition remains one of the most promising policy tools to support the health of low-income households. But SNAP has not effectively addressed nutrition, with the data pointing to some concerning trends. According to our analysis, SNAP households consume higher levels of unhealthy foods compared to non-SNAP households, specifically sugary beverages...
#9 Desantis Pushes Florida Surgeon General for CDC Director Role - Alex Nitzberg for Fox News, Ron DeSantis, Leading Report, Ian Jaeger, William Makis MD, and Chief Nerd on X
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants President Donald Trump to tap Sunshine State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director. DeSantis contends that the public health official could do more for the state at the CDC than he can now. "Overhauling the CDC would be beneficial to FL. Joe could do more for FL as CDC Director than as FL Surgeon General," the governor said in a post on X. DeSantis agreed with someone who suggested that Ladapo "as CDC Director is the right pick, the transformative pick, the history-making the pick, the pick that would save the Republic."
#8 Prime Minister Urged to Call ‘Emergency Meeting’ After Trump Administration Cuts Funding to Seven Australian Universities - Patrick Staveley for Sky News, Elon Musk/Sunny, amuse, Senator Matt Canavan, and JB/Jon Real Estate Guy on X
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced calls to respond after the Trump administration cut funding to seven Australian universities. The administration's move came after US agencies asked Australian researchers to justify why they should continue receiving American research grants. The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes - male and female. The institutions that have had their funding cut are the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Technology Sydney, University of NSW, Charles Darwin University, Macquarie University, and UNSW...
#7 First Black Republican Congresswoman Mia Love Dies at 49 - Jaroslav Lukiv for BBC News, Speaker Mike Johnson/Mia Love Family, Terrence K. Williams, Breaking 911, and Mario Nawfal on X
Mia Love, the first US black Republican congresswoman, has died aged 49 in Utah, her family has announced. "She passed away peacefully" on Sunday, surrounded by family at her home in the town of Saratoga Springs, a statement said. Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had represented the state of Utah in the House of Representatives. Her daughter Abigale said earlier this month that Love had no longer been responding to treatment for brain cancer. "In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and, as her words and vision always did, soared heavenward," said the family statement, which was posted on X. Paying tributes to Love, Utah Governor Spencer Cox wrote: "A true trailblazer and visionary leader, Mia inspired countless Utahns through her courage, grace, and unwavering belief in the American dream...
#6 President Obama reflects on 15 years of the Affordable Care Act - Obama Foundation, Barack Obama, Sean Davis, Joe Biden, and Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS on X
I know it can feel like a different era sometimes. But fifteen years ago, I signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Now nearly 50 million people have received health care through the ACA. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the Affordable Care Act is a reminder that change is possible when we keep fighting for progress.#5 Pam Bondi Warns Rep. Jasmine Crockett to ‘Tread Carefully’ Over Call for Elon Musk to Be ‘Taken Down' - Taylor Penley for Fox News, Gunther Eagleman, Philip Anderson/Eric Daugherty, Ron Smith, DeVory Darkins, and Tara Bull on X
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to "tread very carefully," days after the Democrat got attention from Trump allies for suggesting Elon Musk should be "taken down.""She is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk, and we are going to fight to protect all the Tesla owners throughout this country," Bondi vowed on this week's "Sunday Morning Futures." She reiterated her previous pledge that widespread violence against Tesla owners and dealerships — which have seen electric vehicles engulfed in flames and defaced with hostile imagery — will "come to a stop."
#4 Trump Targets Lawyers Who He Says File ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuits Against His Administration - David Rohde for NBC News, MSNBC, Croxxed Out, Flopping Aces, and World News Tonight on X
A new memo from President Donald Trump that authorized the attorney general and the homeland security secretary to sanction law firms that file lawsuits they deem “frivolous" is a major escalation of his intensifying assault on law firms, legal experts and former Justice Department officials told NBC News. The presidential memorandum, “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” also ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to recommend revoking attorneys’ security clearances or terminating law firms' federal contracts if she deems their lawsuits against the administration "unreasonable" or "vexatious."
#3 Homan Insists All Migrants Deported to Apocalyptic El Salvador Prisons Were Gang Members - Ryan King for New York Post, Grabien, Aaron Rupar, Thomas Kennedy, Military Vet/Shabazz Stuart, and Gut Check Media/Grok on X
Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said the Trump administration is confident that all of the migrants it deported to El Salvador’s apocalyptic prisons are Venezuelan gangbangers. President Trump invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to fly the alleged members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang to prisons in El Salvador. Those efforts have since been paused by the courts over concerns about due process. Many of the migrants on those flights did not have a documented criminal history in the US, according to court filings from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official...
#2 Texas Private School’s Use of New ‘AI Tutor’ Rockets Student Test Scores to Top 2% in the Country - Nikolas Lanum for Fox News, Austen Allred, Halo Rogers, Dark Violet, and TheLegalProcess/Matt Bateman,
A Texas private school is seeing student test scores soar to new heights following the implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) "tutor." At Alpha School in Austin, Texas, students are placed in the classroom for two hours a day with an AI assistant, using the rest of the day to focus on skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork. "We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience for all of our students, and as a result our students are learning faster, they’re learning way better. In fact, our classes are in the top 2% in the country," Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price told "Fox & Friends."
#1 Wildfires in the Carolinas Burn More Than 6,000 Acres, Prompting Evacuations, a Burn Ban and National Guard Deployment - Karina Tsui for CNN, Gov. Henry McMaster, JOSEPH SAKOWSKI, Mario Nawfal, Annie M. Dance, and Newsweek on X
High temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity are causing a group of wildfires to spread rapidly through western North Carolina, risking further damage to areas already ravaged by Hurricane Helene. “In my career, 20-year career, this is the most fuel I’ve seen on the ground,” North Carolina Forest Service spokesperson Jeremy Waldrop told CNN affiliate WLOS, describing the large number of leaves and trees that fell during the hurricane. “A lot of heavy fuels we’ve seen on the ground currently,” Waldrop added. While in South Carolina, the governor declared a state of emergency because of the wildfires, in both South and North Carolina, the fires have been similarly difficult to contain due to timber downed by Hurricane Helene...
