Popular peanut butter recalled after link to salmonella outbreak

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others have been investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella senftenberg infections and they are linked to a product so many of us enjoy daily.
Investors, retailers bracing for another week of bad news

Soaring costs and swollen inventories have retailers on the ropes, and investors fear that the punishment won't ease anytime soon.
College grads party, leave a mess at the Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial was briefly closed Saturday morning on the eve of its centennial anniversary festivities after a graduation celebration left the most visited site on the National Mall a bit of a mess, the National Park Service said.
U.S. military flies first shipments of baby formula to Indiana from Germany

U.S. military aircraft will deliver 132 pallets of baby formula from Germany to Indianapolis over the weekend, in support of a Biden administration initiative that aims to quickly increase supplies of the food source amid a national shortage.
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Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol

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Even as gas prices rattle economy, Americans can't stay off the road

The shocks of high gasoline costs are ricocheting through the economy, and industry analysts see little relief on the horizon.
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressed Arizona lawmakers to help reverse Trump's loss, emails show

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden's popular-vote victory and choose "a clean slate of Electors," according...
Judge: COVID asylum restrictions must continue on U.S. border

A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border
CDC urges Pfizer booster for children ages 5 to 11

U.S. health advisers are urging a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11
U.S. lawmakers urge binding vote on Puerto Rico statehood

A group of Democratic congress members is proposing a binding plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a state or gain some sort of independence
Dispatcher may be fired for allegedly hanging up on supermarket worker during massacre

A 911 dispatcher who allegedly hung up on a Tops employee trapped inside the Buffalo supermarket during Saturday's mass shooting that killed 10 people has been placed on administrative leave and is facing possible termination, according to county...
Ukrainian troops surrendering at Mariupol registered as POWs

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered
Experts: U.S. may be barreling toward recession in next year

The U.S. economy could be heading for a recession in the next year, according to growing warnings from banks and economists, as a sudden bout of economic pessimism hammers financial markets that had been counting on sustained economic momentum.
Edwards ousts North Carolina Rep. Cawthorn in GOP primary

First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn has lost to North Carolina state Sen. Chuck Edwards in the Republican congressional primary
Spy agencies urged to fix open secret: A lack of diversity

The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd’s murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America’s intelligence agencies
Interrogation, uncertainty for surrendering Mariupol troops

Russia says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops who doggedly defended a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered
Doctor who fought church gunman remembered as kind protector

Friends and colleagues of Dr. John Cheng say they were not surprised the quiet, kind and calm sports medicine physician saved others by rushing at the gunman firing on a Southern California church luncheon
Buffalo shooter let some people see plans just before attack

Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling...
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