Elizabeth Chuck

When supermodel Beverly Peele’s son Trey Peele was 11, his mother told him something shocking about his father.

Facing a labor shortage, some health care systems and federal contractors are temporarily lifting their requirements. One physician called the move “absurd.”

A romance author charged in the 2018 fatal shooting of her husband scored a legal victory this week when a judge ruled that a blog she wrote titled “How to Murder Your Husband” can’t be presented as evidence against her. Nancy Crampton-Brophy’s murder trial in her spouse’s death began Monday. The lifeless body of Daniel Brophy, 63, was found June 2, 2018, in the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he taught, authorities said. Crampton-Brophy, then 68, was arraigned on a charge of murder in Septembe…

With store shelves empty and online retailers out of stock, some parents are considering measures they wouldn’t normally take to feed their infants.

A grand jury on Friday indicted Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy in the deaths of her young children, handing down three counts each of murder and strangulation, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office announced. Clancy, 33, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been held without bail and is being treated in a medical facility following her attempted suicide on Jan. 24, when officials said her kids were discovered unconscious in the family’s basement. Her older children — 5-year-old Cora Clan…

As one of the largest invasions in 50 years unfolded on the streets, sea and skies over Israel, misinformation about the assault proliferated on social media. In one instance, a widely circulated video of an Israeli airstrike was said to show a retaliation to Saturday’s surprise attack by Palestinian group Hamas, which has left hundreds dead. “BREAKING: Israeli Air Force is striking terror targets in Gaza,” read the caption of the video, which was shared on Facebook and social media platform X.…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that bans four food additives linked to health problems, marking the first time that a state has outlawed chemicals allowed by the Food and Drug Administration. Starting in 2027, California will prohibit red dye No. 3, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propylparaben after Newsom, a Democrat, signed Assembly Bill 418 into law Saturday. All four ingredients have already been made illegal in the European Union and some other parts of the…

An Ivy League student with a heart condition died after she drank Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined, according to a lawsuit. The legal complaint, which was filed Monday morning in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and was first obtained by NBC News, calls the beverage a “dangerous energy drink” and argues that Panera failed to appropriately warn consumers about its ingredients. The suit was…

Millions more U.S. households had difficulty securing enough food last year compared to 2021, including 1 million more households with children, a bleak report from the U.S. Agriculture Department showed Wednesday. The increase interrupted a yearslong trend of declining hunger in the U.S. Previous reports from food banks and the U.S. Census Bureau have indicated that hunger is increasing as low-income people struggle to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and from the end of expanded food assi…

All Panera Bread restaurants are now displaying “enhanced” disclosures about the restaurant chain’s highly caffeinated lemonade, a spokesperson said Saturday, following a lawsuit that was filed by the family of a young woman who died after drinking the beverage. Monday’s lawsuit, which was first obtained by NBC News, alleges that Sarah Katz, an Ivy League student with a heart condition, died after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade last year. A large Charged Lemonade contains 390 milligrams —…