Food programs with work requirements led more people to need mental health care

Story at a glance The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to help low-income families struggling with food insecurity. However, some states have tacked on work requirements to SNAP benefits, adding an additional hurdle to these populations struggling for food. For the first time, new research shows these work

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LIV Golf crowd shouts 'Let's go Brandon' to Trump, Greene, Carlson

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) were among the GOP figures who joined former President Trump at the LIV Golf event at his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey this weekend. At one point, the crowd gathered near where the trio were watching the action, in a tent just off a tee box, and broke out in a "Let's Go Brandon" chant, an online joke turned political slogan popularized on the right by critics of President Biden. Carlson, Greene and Trump

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Benzene traces spark recall of Banana Boat sunscreen

The company that produces the popular sunscreen Banana Boat recalled three batches of spray bottles on Sunday over concerns they contained trace amounts of the cancerous chemical benzene. Edgewell Personal Care Company, which is headquartered in Shelton, Conn., issued a voluntary nationwide recall for six-ounce cans of Banana Boat Hair & Scalp Sunscreen Spray SPF 30, according to a

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Seven dead in wrong-way Illinois interstate crash

Seven people died in a crash in Illinois on Sunday when a driver traveling the wrong way on I-90 hit another car and caused both vehicles to be engulfed in flames, Illinois State Police said. Authorities said the crash, which occurred at 2:11 a.m. on Sunday, killed the driver of the wrong-way car and one adult and five children passengers in the other car.  Authorities said the crash occurred in the westbound lanes of I-90 near milepost 33 in McHenry County. The car was traveling the wrong direction for “unknown reasons,” authorities said. State police identifi

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Biden cannot give China’s Xi the upper hand

China’s foreign ministry reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Biden that “those who play with fire will perish by it” during their two-hour phone conversation on Thursday. This barely disguised threat to the United States likely was related to the planned trip to Taiwan by House S

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