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Albertsons, America's second-largest grocery chain, is reportedly informing suppliers that will be affected by the new Trump administration tariffs that it's not the company's problem, according to a recent letter:Albertsons, which owns 2,200 grocery stores across the U.S., sent a letter to suppliers in late March spelling out how it would deal with price hikes. “With few exceptions, we are not accepting cost increases due to tariffs,” the letter read (emphasis in the original). The letter laid out the grocer's reason for the policy was "maintaining the value propositions our customers expect.” In other words, to keep grocery prices low...

(Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025) – Today, at the direction of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walk issued guidance to all State agencies directing them to enhance identity and immigration verification practices when determining eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This guidance is one of many steps toward fulfilling President Trump’s Executive Order 14218, which directs USDA and other federal agencies to “enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, to ensure that taxpayer funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien.” “President Trump has made...

A Florida woman was denied service at a Taco Bell because none of the workers spoke English. Apparently the Chalupa Supreme Combo doesn’t translate South-of-the-border. Alexandria Montgomery posted a video of the entire incident as it unfolded in the drive-thru of the Taco Bell in Hialeah. “Nobody here speaks English? Nobody in the back speaks English? So you can’t take my order,” Montgomery said. At one point another staffer intervened, but that individual claimed not to speak English, too. “She doesn’t want to help me because she don’t speak English. But you know the menu. You work here, so you...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its intent to withdraw from the 2019 Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico, with termination effective in 90 days. The current agreement has failed to protect U.S. tomato growers from unfairly priced Mexican imports, as Commerce has been flooded with comments from them urging its termination. This action will allow U.S. tomato growers to compete fairly in the marketplace.With the termination of this agreement, Commerce will institute an antidumping duty order on July 14, 2025, resulting in duties of 20.91% on most imports of tomatoes from...

Mass layoffs and a sweeping restructuring at the Department of Health and Human Services could disrupt programs that deliver support for Holocaust survivors and kosher meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities. ..... Snip..... Jewish social services agencies throughout the country deliver kosher offerings to peoples’ homes as part of the Meal on Wheels program. Holocaust survivors also receive other assistance from the ACL through a special program administered by the Jewish Federations of North America. An estimated 40,000 Holocaust survivors live in the United States today JFNA, which has been fielding calls and emails about the federal cuts...

If HHS Secretary and healthy food advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his way, SNAP will stand for Soda Not Allowed Period. On Friday, Kennedy brought his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign to West Virginia, where Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that he will be seeking permission from the Department of Agriculture to put soda on the list of items that cannot be bought through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often referred to by its former name of food stamps, according to The Washington Post.

Pennsylvania has initiated a large-scale chicken elimination program in response to a severe outbreak of avian influenza. This decisive action aims to prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus, which poses a significant threat to both the poultry industry and public health. The elimination process involves the humane euthanization of infected and exposed birds. This step is crucial to containing the virus and preventing its spread to other farms. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is coordinating closely with local farmers to ensure the culling is carried out efficiently and humanely. The outbreak has led to heightened biosecurity measures across...

Promises made, promises kept. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last summer. Critics claimed, without evidence, that Trump’s tariff plans would raise inflation. Many economists argued that while the rate of price increases might slow, prices would not decline and Americans would simply have to adjust to the new higher price level. In February, however, the core producer price index for final demand declined by 0.1 percent. In other words, prices of goods and services— excluding food and energy—sold by U.S. businesses came down. The broader...

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump ruined former President Joe Biden’s economy without once mentioning high prices or the record high deficit. Goldberg argued that Trump inherited a “very robust” economy, crediting the Biden administration for adding nearly 16 million jobs to the U.S. economy, though she failed to mention this was largely a result of the U.S. recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-host also did not mention that inflation rose to a peak of 9% during the Biden administration and that the deficit reached record-breaking levels largely due to the previous White House’s...

The premise of With Love, Meghan is Meghan showing us how she makes life’s smallest moments and interactions absolutely magical for her friends and family—and herself, honestly. Each episode features at least one guest, and they’re, more often than not, her closest friends, which I found so charmingly authentic. Everything about the series feels endearing, cozy, and positively enchanting—and I actually learned a lot in addition to being entertained! - She’s such a warm, wonderful, gracious host - She didn’t try to make the show into a celebrity parade - The royal family fumbled the bag catastrophically - I feel...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has hit the ground running with a five-pronged strategy to combat the inflated price of eggs.Egg prices are skyrocketing, and it isn’t simply a matter of inflation. Grocery prices rose by more than 20% on President Biden’s watch, but the average price of a dozen eggs went up 237%, from $1.47 in January 2021 to $4.95 last month. This matters for American families because eggs are a healthy, accessible and generally affordable source of protein.In many cases, families are seeing prices of $6, $7, $10 or more. This is due in part to continuing outbreaks...

Le baguette, le croissant, éclair…some of the words that come to mind when I think France. I eat a gluten-free diet at home due to gastrointestinal sensitivities associated with wheat, yet every time I come to Europe, I find myself wondering why baked goods and pasta don’t make me sick the same way they do in the US… I want to start off by stating that I’m not celiac. Celiac disease is an immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Over time, it causes inflammation that damages the small intestine’s lining, leading to some...

The left has come out in force to attack D.O.G.E. and Elon Musk. Why? First, The Left doesn’t want to upset the candy apple cart (government waste and corruption). Second, the Left wants to pretend that they hate the rich (although George/Alexander Soros are huge donors, not to mention Bill Gates and most of Hollywood elites are billionaires/millionaires). But the saddest act of all are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. These two clowns had the Social Security data and never looked at it … allegedly. What would they have found if they had looked at the Social Security books? According...

At one of the confirmation hearings in the Senate, for President Trump's nominee Robert F. Kennedy to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy asked an interesting question, slightly paraphrased below: How is it that the wealthiest nation on the earth, the United States of America, is not the healthiest nation on earth? How is it we have increasing levels of Obesity, Depression, Diabeties, etc? The question assumes the wealthier a nation is, the healthier it should be. This is not necessarily true. Many of the problems noted by RFK Jr. are diseases caused by abundance. Wealth is the...

The GLP-1 saga epitomizes the unsustainable corruption within our medical system Story at a Glance: •In early 2023, a private conference with pharmaceutical industry leaders and investors highlighted anti-obesity and Alzheimer’s drugs as the next big money-makers and had the FDA head as its keynote speaker. •Since then, the FDA has taken questionable steps to promote these drugs, particularly Ozempic, an anti-obesity medication. There's been a massive push to get everyone, including children, on Ozempic, using shockingly aggressive marketing tactics. •This rush is eerily similar to the fen-phen craze, a temporary weight loss drug later pulled from the market for...

Amid widespread reports of “strange lights” in the New Jersey sky, former Gov. Chris Christie said he saw a drone above his home and wants an investigation. “That was a drone over my house, and I’ve never seen anything like that before and I’ve been living at that house for 30 years,” Christie said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. The lights and drone sightings over New Jersey have prompted security concerns and potential safety threats. Christie and others have called for an investigation. The New Jersey lights mystery continues to swirl as two men were arrested Saturday afternoon on...

Momentum is building among Democrats to oust their ailing leader on the House Agriculture Committee, part of the party's generational shake-up on Capitol Hill in the wake of their demoralizing losses in November. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) — the committee’s current ranking member — faces a challenge from fellow Democratics Reps. Jim Costa of California and Angie Craig of Minnesota for the post in the next Congress. And, according to more than two dozen House Democratic lawmakers and aides granted anonymity to discuss the matter, Scott is poised to lose the vote if he doesn’t step aside before then. “The...

VIDEOI have been cooking Char Siu foods for almost two months. Ribs, chicken, and pork shoulder are among the foods I have been preparing Char Siu style. So naturally, as we approached Thanksgiving the thought came to my mind about possibly preparing Char Siu turkey. What was appealing to me was the fact that most of my in-law relatives are not crazy about Turkey so perhaps they would be more open to eating Char Siu turkey mixed with vegetables. In this video I prepare the Char Siu turkey and present some of their reactions which turned out to be overwhelmingly...

It’s no secret that we have tons of delicious and healthy recipes, and these 20 dishes have been some of our most popular this year. From flavorful smoothies to cozy soups to creamy overnight oats, there’s no shortage of possibilities for every meal. Options like our High-Protein Peanut Butter-Brownie Baked Oats and Weight-Loss Cabbage Soup stole the hearts of EatingWell readers this year, and they’re bound to impress you, too.

There’s a pressure campaign inside Donald Trump’s inner circle, but not for the reasons you might think. Melania Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are “ganging up” on the president-elect to change his fast food diet and push him to eat healthier, Page Six reported Thursday. The duo are reportedly going to extreme lengths to initiate the change, with an anonymous source telling the gossip site that Melania—a retired supermodel—has even started to cook for her 78-year-old husband. “Melania has, on occasion, been cooking family dinners at Trump Tower for the president and their son, Barron,” a source claimed to...