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US egg giant Cal-Maine says government is investigating price increases

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press Shares of Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, fell in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company acknowledged it is being investigated by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine said it received notice of the investigation into egg price increases last month. Cal-Maine said it is cooperating with the investigation. The company’s shares fell more than 4% in after-hours trading. Egg prices have hit record highs in recent months, largely due to a bird flu epidemic that has forced farmers...

LA County reaches $4 billion agreement to settle sexual abuse claims at juvenile facilities

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 5, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday. The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, far surpasses a $2.6 billion settlement reached in 2022 with Boy Scouts of America that was the largest aggregate sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history at the time. “On behalf of the County, I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who was harmed by these reprehensible acts,”...

Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 2, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters decided Tuesday to enshrine the state’s voter ID law in the state constitution. The state was also electing its top education official, who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump’s second term, will be elected Tuesday in a race between the teachers union-backed incumbent and a Republican-supported critic. Both contests had sharp partisan divisions, though they have drawn far less spending and national attention than the race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Polls closed at 8...

US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 29, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald Trump, according to federal court documents made public Friday. The change in policy was made in February by Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the academy’s superintendent, in response to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January, according to a court filing by the U.S. Justice Department in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The president’s order...

Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 20, 2025. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement. Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, finalizing its dismantling is likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created...

Trump fires 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, seeking more control over regulators

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 19, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By WILL WEISSERT and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, intensifying efforts to exert his administration’s control over independent agencies across the government. Related Articles National Politics | Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service National Politics | Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients National Politics |...

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 19, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, LGBTQ, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping agenda. Related Articles National Politics | Trump fires 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, seeking more control over regulators National Politics | Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients National Politics | Judge...

Johns Hopkins to slash nearly 2,000 jobs after losing $800 million in federal grants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 14, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

More than 2,000 positions related to global health are being cut from the Johns Hopkins University after the Baltimore institution saw $800 million in federal grants disappear, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Hopkins’ medical school; the Bloomberg School of Public Health, including its Center for Communication Programs; and JHPIEGO, the university’s health initiative that focuses on global public health, will be affected by the cuts. USAID was the main funder for both JHPIEGO and CCP. “This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID...

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, World News.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day on Saturday. Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political — and at times violent — rooted in women’s efforts to improve their rights as workers. Women watch a concert while they participate in the flash mob “Beautiful secular outing” by wearing hats to a...

New EPA guidance says spending items greater than $50,000 must get approval from DOGE

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new guidance directing that spending items greater than $50,000 now require approval from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The guidance, issued this week, escalates the role that the new efficiency group, known as DOGE, plays in EPA operations. “Any assistance agreement, contract or interagency agreement transaction (valued at) $50,000 or greater must receive approval from an EPA DOGE team member,? the EPA guidance says, according to documents obtained by The Associated...