33 h. ago Family claims their toddler died after hospital staff misread medication: suit

De’Markus Page was brought to the University of Florida Health, Shands Children's Hospital, where his parents say the medical staff botched his medicine

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57 h. ago Trump ripped for invoking Bible’s command to care for children after fighting to keep SNAP food stamps from poorest kids

‘You literally fought in court to strip families of food assistance,’ Gavin Newsom tells president

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5 d. ago The Supreme Court is expected to say whether full SNAP food payments can resume

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to say Tuesday whether the Trump administration must start complying with lower-court orders that require full payments in the SNAP food program

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6 d. ago USDA orders states to ‘undo’ steps to offer full SNAP food benefit payments after Supreme Court pause

Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits each month

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8 d. ago US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

High court’s order comes after appeals court rejected Trump administration’s request to block November benefitsThe supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments.The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Supreme Court temporarily blocks full SNAP food stamp payments after Trump appeal

The USDA says funding is already going to states while the government wages a legal battle to freeze it

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8 d. ago Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge’s order to fully fund SNAP as food benefits start rolling into states

The USDA says funding is already going to states while the government wages a legal battle to freeze it

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8 d. ago Trump demands supreme court intervene after judges reject bid to halt Snap funding

Appeals court rejects administration’s legal effort and orders officials to pay November’s food aid benefits in fullThe Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown, and was denied later the same day.Now, the administration must continue to follow the orders of a lower court. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump finally agrees to fully fund SNAP food stamps during shutdown – for now

The USDA says funding is going to states while the government appeals a court order to do exactly that

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8 d. ago Nevada Department of Corrections is sued over man's death days before his scheduled release

A Las Vegas man's family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Nevada Department of Corrections after he was killed just days before his release

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8 d. ago Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk | Robert Reich

The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authorityThe Democrats had a great day on Tuesday. It’s crucial that they hone their economic message for next year’s midterms to focus on affordability and fairness.Trump is doing the opposite. Although a federal court ordered him to continue to provide food stamps to about 42 million low-income Americans who depend on them, Trump threatened to deny them anyway until the end of the government shutdown.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Car factory worker first person to be killed by a robot in horror death

The victim was 25-years-old when he became the first person in the world to be killed by a robot - and his death led to a huge lawsuit against the manufacturer of the machine

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9 d. ago Hospital blunder mistakenly sends letters to hundreds of families claiming their loved ones are dead

The system wrongly sent the letters to the families and relatives of more than 500 patients.

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1 week ago Trump threatens to withhold SNAP food benefits until the shutdown ends

The White House says it is ‘fully complying’ with a court order to continue funding SNAP food benefits

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2 w. ago Detroit paying nearly $6M in second death connected to bus driver with many crashes

The city of Detroit has agreed to pay nearly $6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a bus

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2 w. ago Man in court after victim stabbed to death at food and wine shop in South London

Man in court after victim stabbed to death at food and wine shop in South London  MyLondon

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2 w. ago HMRC apologises after wrongly stopping 35,000 families’ child benefit

One mother saw her child benefit stop after a trip lasting less than 24 hours

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3 w. ago Disney is fighting in court to keep food test results under wraps in doctor’s family’s wrongful death lawsuit

Legal documents alleged that Disney even tried to keep the restaurant’s menu secret in the court battle

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3 w. ago MLB star Mike Trout testifies in lawsuit over overdose death of teammate Tyler Skaggs

Angels star addresses friendship with Tyler SkaggsFamily suing team for $118m over death of pitcherLos Angeles Angels star Mike Trout testified Tuesday that he loved his teammate Tyler Skaggs like a brother and did not see any signs of drug use before the pitcher died of an overdose in 2019.Trout, one of the greatest baseball players of his generation, took the stand in a civil trial in California over whether the Angels should be held responsible for their former communications director, Eric Kay, giving Skaggs a fentanyl-laced pill that led to his death. Continue reading...

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