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An Idaho woman who said her toddler twins died last year after being vaccinated faces murder charges connected to their deaths, authorities said. A grand jury indicted Andrea Shaw, who is accused of suffocating her 18-month-old twins in May 2025, on two counts of first-degree murder on June 29, according to court records and a news release from the Payette Police Department. While appearing last year on an internet show produced by Children’s Health Defense – an anti-vaccine group founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Shaw said her twins died after getting vaccinated. Kennedy…

President Trump said Monday that retailer Walmart will lower prices on many of its products, including the cost of beef, after his administration requested price drops to coincide with the nation’s 250th anniversary. Mr. Trump said Walmart is “stepping up in a big and bold way.” “This is a huge deal for the many millions of Americans who, smartly, shop at Walmart, which is a truly patriotic company who loves the U.S.A,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. Walmart issued a statement saying it was lowering prices on thousands of goods, including groceries, household essentials, outdoor living, toys, and apparel.…

Uno de cada tres convocados de la selección es catalán, pero lo de Catalunya y La Roja es complicado, que diría Rajoy. “¿Por qué algunos aficionados apoyan a los jugadores de su equipo cada fin de semana, pero luego desean que pierdan en el escenario más importante del deporte?”, se preguntaba hace poco el New York Times, en un artículo sobre la curiosa relación entre Catalunya y la selección. Hay gente que se alegra cuando gana España y a su vez cuando pierde. Hay independentistas que celebran sus goles en silencio, que se justifican diciendo que hay muchos jugadores del…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors are seeking leniency at next-week’s sentencing of a Turkish-Iranian businessman who admitted to helping Iranians and their government evade sanctions and who provided key testimony at a 2017 corruption trial that strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey. The prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to a New York federal judge that international gold trader Reza Zarrab provided substantial help to the U.S. when he revealed paying millions of dollars in bribes to government and banking officials in Turkey and provided key testimony at the December 2017 trial. His testimony preceded the conviction…

Although Champagne didn’t mention it Monday, the government has also tried to trim spending, although it will not be nearly enough to pay for the new bills. Last year’s budget proposed cutting the federal bureaucracy by about 40,000 jobs through attrition and targeted pink slips. But that only goes part of the way to undoing the dramatic 42 per cent increase of about 110,000 in public service employees between 2015 and 2025.

The Braves have sent right-hander Ian Hamilton outright to Triple-A Gwinnett, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That indicates he cleared waivers after being designated for assignment last week. Hamilton has the right to elect free agency but probably won’t exercise that right. Players with at least three years of service time have the right to reject outright assignments but those under five years of service have to forfeit their remaining salary commitments when they do so. Hamilton is in that three-to-five window and is making $1.05MM this year. With almost half a million still to be paid out,…

Rep. Mike Lawler introduced legislation on Monday that would ensure unspent federal housing voucher funding would still go to help families in need of rental assistance. The New York Republican’s new bill comes four months before the November midterm election, in which candidates are vying to show voters they care about their cost-of-living concerns. Mr. Lawler’s seat is one Democrats are looking to flip. His Housing Voucher Reallocation Act would require the Department of Housing and Urban Development at the end of each fiscal year to redistribute any leftover housing voucher funding to public housing agencies that already spent their…

A team of international scientists, including Mexican researcher Nora Vázquez Laslop, has discovered an antibiotic whose mechanism of action could open new ways to fight bacterial resistance to medicines, according to new research published in the science journal Nature.  Vázquez, acting professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, helped identify the compound manikomycin from soil bacteria (Streptomyces rimosus), known for decades for producing other antibiotics such as terramycin and oxytetracycline, one of the antibiotics in the tetracycline family. Nora Vázquez Laslop (third from right) and Alexander S. Mankin (far right) are co-directors of the…

Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Ruben Gallego rescinded their support of Graham Platner on Monday, with Khanna additionally calling for the Democratic nominee to drop out of the Maine Senate race. It’s a significant reversal from two formerly staunch Democratic defenders of Platner, following a POLITICO report that a woman who dated Platner said he forced her to have sex with him five years ago. Platner has denied the allegations, but he also posted on social media that he was “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward” for his candidacy. “I’ve been very clear that sexual assault…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The grandfather of a man who was shot and killed by the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis over the weekend says he wants answers from law enforcement. Evaniel Johnson said he is waiting to see if video footage supports the police narrative that his 20-year-old grandson, Tyrin Johnson, turned toward U.S. guard members with a gun while running from them early Sunday. Memphis police say the guard members were responding to a report of gunfire. The National Guard members had been assigned to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis created last year by President Donald Trump, who has…