A ranch seasoning sold at Walmart has been recalled due to salmonella risk, according to authorities.

Blackstone Products of Providence, Utah is recalling certain lots of Blackstone Parmesan Ranch seasoning products, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration news release. The recall is based on California Dairies, Inc. recalling dry milk...Read more

Disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had numerous relationships with the rich and powerful across South America and the Caribbean, a Miami Herald investigation has found.

When Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez nationalized the ports at Puerto Cabello in 2009, Epstein advised the chief executive of the Dubai ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Brian O’Hara has resigned as police chief of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of “concerning substantiated findings” that he concealed evidence during an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, Mayor Jacob Frey announced late Tuesday.

The Minnesota Star Tribune has reached out to O’Hara for comment...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax plan for the November ballot would raise the homestead exemption to $250,000 and require the Legislature to enact a plan to eliminate property taxes entirely for the vast majority of Floridians who own the homes they live in, he announced Wednesday.

DeSantis said he was calling the ...Read more

CHICAGO — The aftershocks of the “Broadview Six” case collapse have now spread to another high-profile case, where lawyers for a Texas man accused of being a low-level participant in a massive COVID-19 testing scam with a former Loretto Hospital executive say the same federal prosecutor committed “flagrant and pervasive” misconduct in ...Read more

The U.S. denied an Iranian state television report on a draft interim peace deal that said maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could return to normal within a month of it coming into effect.

“This report from Iranian controlled media is not true and the MOU they ‘released’ is a complete fabrication,” the White House said in a ...Read more

Kenneth Iwamasa, who made $150,000 a year as a live-in assistant to Matthew Perry, faces up to 15 years in prison at his sentencing hearing Wednesday for his role in the actor's death.

Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death. Iwamasa admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry, 54, with ketamine ...Read more

The Cuban immigrants that the Trump administration is sending to Mexico as part of its mass deportation agenda are struggling to find shelter, healthcare, food and work while living in cities with extreme violence perpetrated by organized crime, according to a report published Wednesday by an international human-rights organization .

Cuban ...Read more

An unofficial draft of a U.S.-Iran interim peace deal says maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz can return to normal within a month of the agreement being finalized, according to Iranian state television.

It’s unclear how recent the document, reported by IRIB News and which excludes military vessels, is or whether the U.S. has agreed...Read more

Spend time on social media and you will see debates with titles like “I destroy MAGA mom on vaccines” or “Conservative philosopher owns feminist student.” These popular videos focus on clip-worthy gotcha questions, one-line zingers and screaming matches edited for virality.

These “debates” would be unrecognizable to the ...Read more

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.

Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.

This silence comes in the wake ...Read more

Extreme weather is posing a growing threat to the power supplies Americans rely on.

In 2021, a fierce winter storm left millions of Texans without electricity and water for days. Hurricane Helene in 2024 knocked out power to about 5 million customers across the U.S. Southeast.

Beyond the immediate human and economic toll, ...Read more

For too many women, the journey to motherhood ends in death. Maternal mortality – the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth – is not a rare tragedy. Globally, the maternal mortality rate is unacceptably high – about 260,000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth in 2023. In the U.S., it is...Read more

You know the feeling – the itchy eye that is just begging to be scratched.

Before you start rubbing your eyes, you may want to think twice about the potential consequences.

While eye rubbing may seem harmless, people who rub their eyes are at risk of infections or damage to their cornea.

Fortunately, there are a ...Read more

Israel stepped up attacks on Lebanon and said its ground forces would move further into the country, potentially complicating U.S.-Iran talks on an interim peace deal.

Israeli forces, who are fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, will move beyond a strip of land roughly 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) into the south of Lebanon, the military said....Read more

Spanish police seized information from the ruling Socialist Party’s headquarters, as part of a broad criminal investigation that’s gripping the country and roiling the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Officers of the Civil Guard, one of the country’s main security forces, entered the party’s main office in Madrid early ...Read more

A fire broke out at Russia’s Black Sea port of Tuapse after another Ukrainian drone attack overnight, as authorities continue to clear up damage to coastline following multiple strikes in recent weeks.

The blaze at a marine terminal in the Tuapse district of Krasnodar region began after drone debris fell on the facility, the regional task ...Read more