December 5, 2025 – Members of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement are heralding a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ultraprocessed foodmakers, helped in part by messaging under the Trump administration.

Earlier this week San Francisco’s Democratic city attorney, David Chiu, filed a lawsuit in the state’s Superior Court against 10 of the nation’s top f...

December 4, 2025 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday that it has deployed a version of artificial intelligence called “agentic AI” for “all agency employees” to assi...

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December 2, 2025 – Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is threatening to pull some federal food assistance funding from states that have refused to turn over recipient data, despite a federal order restricting the agency from doing so.

During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Rollins said her agency will stop sending federal funds for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

December 2, 2025 – The Trump administration is siding with Bayer in a Supreme Court case that could make it harder for individuals to sue pesticide makers over claims that their products cause cancer and other illnesse...