Food giant Nestle said it would remove all food, drug and cosmetic (FD&C) colors from its foods by mid-2026, handing a victory to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has called for the dyes to be phased out or banned.
Nestle said in a June 25 press release that most of its foods are already free of these dyes, but they signaled their commitment to remove them completely.
“This effort is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to provide consumers with a range of high-quality, nutritious foods and beverages that reflect the diversity and choices that they want,” the press release read.
“Consumers enjoy a wide variety of foods and beverages as part of their daily diet. They want choice and value shaped by a dynamic – and highly personal – combination of nutrition, quality, price and convenience,” Nestlé USA CEO Marty Thompson said in a statement.
The move to eliminate the dyes, which some studies have indicated are harmful to the health of children and others, shows that companies are beginning to fall in line with the MAHA, or Make America Healthy Again, initiative.
In addition to Kennedy, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is also calling for the dyes' removal. Makary and Kennedy said in April that they will be working together to get the food industry to remove them.
For now, they are eliciting cooperation from food companies rather than trying to impose mandates.
The focus is on “petroleum-based food dyes,” which include FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Yellow No. 5, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Blue No. 1, and FD&C Blue No. 2.
They would like to see these dyes removed from the American food supply by the end of 2026.
“For too long, some food producers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or consent,” Kennedy said in a corresponding statement.
“These poisonous compounds offer no nutritional benefit and pose real, measurable dangers to our children’s health and development. That era is coming to an end. We’re restoring gold-standard science, applying common sense, and beginning to earn back the public’s trust. And we’re doing it by working with industry to get these toxic dyes out of the foods our families eat every day,” he added.
Kraft Heinz, Conagra Brands Inc., and General Mills are also taking steps to end the production of foods using the dyes in their foods, although it doesn't seem like they will all meet the hoped-for 2026 deadline.
The end of 2027 seems like a more realistic deadline for some of them, but they all plan to make significant progress during 2026.
These food dyes, while not explicitly banned in Europe and other parts of the world, are more heavily regulated and often require warning labels when they are used in food products.
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright said on Thursday that the Trump administration is working to support a power grid that is reaching its limit.
Fox News reported that Wright cautioned that, currently, the Trump administration is working to prevent a disaster for the country:
"In my department, we've issued four emergency orders just in the last few weeks to stop the closure of reliable plants, so we can keep the lights on and stop pushing up electricity prices," Wright said on "Mornings with Maria."
"We were on a course that was a train wreck," he added. "We're doing everything possible now to sweep out the nonsense."
Earlier in the week, the DOE issued an emergency order to address the Southeast heatwave that is putting the power grid's capabilities under intense pressure.
According to the department, the stress puts sections of. The country is at risk of blackouts, and certain areas are at maximum utilization of the electric generating units.
"We had to issue an emergency order a few days ago just to let utilities in the Southeast run their plants at full capacity so they could keep the lights on. Under the Biden laws, that's illegal," Wright claimed.
According to the energy chief, it's only because of recent changes by the Trump administration on how energy generation and usage will be prioritized that the amount of power we have has been sufficient.
"Emissions rules would have prevented them from producing all the electricity they could, and they would have had rolling brownouts," Wright said. "That's just total nonsense."
The administration has been making major changes to boost grid capability and give the DOE access to emergency orders, and analyze electricity reserves in the U.S.
In February of this year, Wright signed a secretarial order as part of his plan to “Unleash [the] Golden Era of American Energy Dominance” under Trump's orders.
The order directed the DOE to pursue Trump's plan of American energy dominance, and he outlined nine core actions that would reduce regulatory barriers, expand domestic energy production, and modernize infrastructure.
The order also made it clear that the abundance of available energy was more important to the administration than net-zero carbon emission goals, saying that national security and economic competitiveness are top administration priorities.
"America is blessed with abundant energy resources – we are the world’s top oil and gas producer and a net energy exporter for the first time in decades," the order states. "Our energy abundance is an asset, not a liability."
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is still untangling the financial webs that were woven by criminals when the federal money was flowing at the height of the pandemic.
Case in point, a former news presenter from Phoenix was found guilty by a federal jury in Texas of conspiring to cheat the government of COVID-19 relief funds following a weeklong trial, as The Daily Mail reported.
Stephanie Hockridge and her husband, Nathan Reis, co-founded Blueacorn, which was a financial technology company that directed businesses in applying for the government Paycheck Protection Program.
Before her 2018 retirement from television, Hockridge spent seven years as a news anchor for Phoenix's ABC15.
“This defendant exploited a national emergency to personally profit from a taxpayer-funded program intended to support vulnerable individuals and small businesses,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
“This conviction demonstrates the Department’s commitment to holding individuals accountable for defrauding the government and wasting taxpayer money.”
She and Reis were said to have falsified paperwork in order to seek loans totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars that they did not qualify for.
They allegedly went on to establish a business called "VIPPP" where they advised clients on how to submit false PPP loan applications in exchange for kickbacks proportional to the amount of the loans, as stated in their indictment.
A jury convicted Hockridge of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; however, she got off on the other four charges.
A maximum of twenty years behind bars is in her future after she receives sentencing in the next few months.
“During a time of crisis in our country, this defendant abused the generosity of the American people by stealing money dedicated to the survival of small businesses to fraudulently enrich herself,” said Acting U. S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson for the Northern District of Texas. “We are proud of the diligent work of our law enforcement partners to hold her accountable and bring her to justice. Make no mistake, our efforts to bring such fraudsters to justice are ongoing.”
Hockridge said she sought to expose and prevent fraud, claiming she was misled. Her legal team attempted to justify her behavior by saying it was "a sincere effort to support small businesses during a time of unprecedented need" and blamed her husband for keeping her in the dark.
Reis will face a trial in August of this year. The charges against him included four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
“This verdict is a victory for justice, accountability, and the American public,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher J. Altemus Jr. of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Dallas Field Office. “In a time of crisis, the Paycheck Protection Program was created as a lifeline to keep small businesses afloat and families fed."
Founding member of British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Mick Ralphs died Monday at age 81 from complications of a stroke he had in 2016, Bad Company's website said in a statement.
Ralphs was a guitarist, singer and songwriter for the two bands, and achieved success on the Billboard charts with Bad Company in the 1970s.
He is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November with Bad Company.
“Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground,” Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers said in a statement.
“He has left us with exceptional songs and memories. He was my friend, my songwriting partner, an amazing and versatile guitarist who had the greatest sense of humour.”
Ralphs and Rodgers came together in 1973 after leaving their previous bands. In a 2015 interview with Gibson Guitars, Ralphs said they didn't intend to form a band, only to write songs together.
Drummer Simon Kirke from Rodgers' former band Free asked if he could sit in on their jam sessions, and the trio realized they only needed a bassist to have a complete new band.
The result was Bad Company, which had such hits as "Can't Get Enough," "Good Lovin' Gone Bad," and "Feel Like Making Love."
The band's first album was recorded in a week and included many live takes.
Ralphs said his recording style was about capturing a moment rather than having a perfect sound.
“We actually did the whole thing in one take live,” Ralphs said in the Gibson interview. “It wasn’t perfect, but we just said, ‘Yeah, that’s great, it’s going to capture the moment.’ That’s what I like to do in recording. It doesn’t have to be perfect as long as it captures the moment. That’s what it’s all about.”
The band's popularity was enduring, and Ralphs continued to put out more albums and perform until the day before his stroke in 2016.
The stroke marked the end of his music career; he had been bedridden ever since.
He will take his place in rock history with his bandmates.
President Donald Trump was in compliance with the War Powers Resolution when he ordered strikes on three nuclear testing sites in Iran, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said on NewsNation on Sunday.
Congress was notified of the strikes "well within" the 48-hour window required, Rounds said in an interview that pushed back on critics who said Trump acted outside his constitutional authority.
“The Constitution clearly gives the President the authority to act on our nation’s behalf,” Rounds said.
“Second of all, the War Powers Act, which is in place, was responded to appropriately. They were supposed to notify congressional leaders within 48 hours. They were well within that range of notifying them of the actions [that] were taken, so the law has been complied with. The Constitution is being complied with,” Rounds continued.
In Rounds' view, the Constitution was being applied just as “the founders wanted it to work.”
”The president is the chief. The commander in chief has the responsibility. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant in the way they wrote the Constitution. They understood that Congress takes a long time to act. They also understood that in times in military conflict or in times of great danger or emergencies that the president needed the authority to be able to respond quickly and effectively and decisively,” he said.
“This president did just exactly that. It is working the way the founders wanted it to work in the first place,” Rounds added.
Congress was notified of the strikes after bomber planes were safely out of Iran's airspace, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said.
It makes total sense that Trump would not want some members of Congress like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to know about a planned attack in coordination with Israel, given their anti-Semitic comments and positions.
Clearly, he couldn't trust some Democrats to maintain confidentiality with the press or even with our enemies, as treasonous as that would be.
Rounds had a warning for Iran in another interview with The Hill on Sunday.
He said it was "time Iran understands they will never have a nuclear weapon" and that "there will be a price to pay" if they continue to be a "purveyor of terrorism" in the region.
WATCH: @SenatorRounds warns Iran to "give up your nuclear ambitions or there's more to come" during an interview with @ChrisStirewalt on "The Hill Sunday." pic.twitter.com/WT5fIlAqdl
— The Hill (@thehill) June 22, 2025
Some reports about the strikes have said that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) were briefed about the strikes, but Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that Trump was wrong for not getting congressional authorization before the strikes and demanded that the full Congress be briefed.
President Donald Trump's plans to strike Iranian nuclear facilities without putting troops on the ground have the backing of the American people.
A new poll from Rasmussen Reports found that a plurality of Americans favor a U.S. air or naval strike on Iran to destroy its nuclear program without putting troops on the ground and engaging in a military operation to force regime change in Tehran.
This poll is particularly relevant after the announcement from the White House on Saturday evening that the U.S. Air Force had conducted airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, including the underground Fordow nuclear site.
Leading up to the strikes, the opinion of the American people has been fairly static, with strong support for military strikes but strong opposition to a ground war reminiscent of the Gulf War or the war in Afghanistan.
Trump appears to recognize this desire and is going to extreme lengths to decapitate the threat that Iran presents while avoiding a costly ground war that would risk American lives.
Israel is doing a majority of the heavy lifting, as they have thoroughly destroyed Iran's air forces and air defense equipment. Furthermore, Israel is using its air superiority to destroy Iran's ballistic missile capabilities.
As a result of Israel's dominance of Iran, American bombers faced little to no danger of being shot down, meaning there was little reason not to take advantage of the situation and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities after decades of sabre-rattling.
The Rasmussen Reports poll found that a plurality of Americans also support Israel's war against Iran, which is a fundamentalist Islamic state that sponsors terrorism in the Middle East.
If Iran had been allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, there was a high chance that Iran would allow their terrorist proxies to use such weapons, most likely against Israel.
The need to destroy Iran's nuclear research has existed for years, but it wasn't until Israel decapitated Iran's air capabilities that striking Iran's facilities became a safe bet.
Trump appears to have accomplished that goal by deploying B-2 bombers carrying advanced weapons designed to penetrate and destroy underground facilities. The next step for Trump will be resisting calls from war hawks and Israel to put boots on the ground and keep Americans happy.
While the U.S. gets to sit back and surgically destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, it remains Israel's war to topple the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. While the Trump administration will support Israel materially, Trump is committed to keeping U.S. troops out of harm's way.
The key priority for Trump is to avoid kicking off a decades-long war in the Middle East where American lives are sacrificed for fruitless nation-building.
Iran has a standing army and is a highly defensible region, meaning that a conventional war was never an option, but none of that will be necessary. All of this is great news and further cements Trump's masterful reputation in foreign policy.
A new Inspector General report has found that former President Joe Biden's administration allowed rampant abuse of remote work by federal employees.
The new report, released by the Office of Personnel Management on Friday, details a culture lacking any oversight or effective management of remote workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that led to massive numbers of workers staying home in both the public and private sector.
Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell issued a statement saying, "Under the previous administration, OPMʼs telework and remote work policies were mismanaged and oversight was virtually nonexistent. That era of telework abuse is over. At President Trumpʼs direction, OPM has restored in-person operations to ensure federal employees are working for the taxpayers.”
President Donald Trump has made optimization of the federal government a priority in his 2nd term in the White House, and he plans to both cut the federal workforce down significantly while ensuring the remaining workers are efficient.
The Biden administration didn't seem to care about ensuring taxpayer dollars were spent well and allowed employees to abuse lax requirements for years.
The new report from the OPM confirmed that an astounding 58.1% of employees sampled failed to meet minimum requirements for in-office work under President Biden's leadership.
Furthermore, the report found that nearly one-third (29.7%) had lapsed telework agreements, 21% had discrepancies in their paperwork, and 15% did not have any approved agreements on file, likely due to intentional fraud or abuse.
The picture painted by the report is one of fraud and waste that the Biden administration was facilitating.
Shortly after being sworn in, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies and departments to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements” and return all federal workers to the office.
That executive order does give department heads the power to carve exemptions from return-to-work policies, but it's clear that the Trump administration wants federal workers in the office and working hard for their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
Those employees who are allowed to work from home will be subject to new internal controls and compliance reviews to ensure there is no fraud or abuse of the system.
If you ask many Americans, President Biden never had a positive legacy. However, these continued discoveries of corruption and general mismanagement by the Biden administration only serve to hack down any legacy that Biden may have had with more centrist voters.
This report is further vindication for President Trump, who has long accused Biden of being incompetent and mismanaging the federal government and costing taxpayers billions.
The Trump administration is prioritizing taxpayers and will end every source of waste to cut back on the ballooning debt that threatens to swamp the nation.
Attempting to pin the spread of wildfires across the state on President Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said on Wednesday that National Guard members had been diverted from firefighting duties to quell rioting.
Although Newsom was still in the process of requesting $40 billion in federal relief funds for California in the upcoming congressional spending bill, which would require Trump's signature following its passage by a Republican majority, the accusation flowed from the Democrat like he had nothing to lose.
Eight separate wildfires are raging across California at the moment, forcing residents to evacuate areas close to San Diego and Sacramento, as Breitbart News reported.
A statement from Newsom’s office said outlined the state executive office's concerns when he said, "As multiple fires burn across the state today, a critical firefighting resource is short-staffed due to President Trump’s illegal federalization of California’s National Guard troops.
"CAL FIRE crews responding to the Monte Fire in San Diego have had to fill in gaps left by a California National Guard (CalGuard) Joint Task Force Rattlesnake team that is understaffed due to the federalization of some of its members."
Where the presidential fault comes in is as yet to be seen, but Newsom went on to say that his group, "Task Force Rattlesnake," is made up of around 300 California National Guard members, who worked under CAL FIRE to prevent the fires.
Then the governor got to the heart of the issue when he asserted that, "More than half of that team has been diverted to Los Angeles as part of President Trump’s illegal federalization of the Guard."
The Ninth Circuit may soon rule that what the governor's office calls "illegal" is actually quite legal.
The three-judge panel, which included an appointee of President Joe Biden, "sharply questioned Newsom's argument that Trump had failed to sufficiently justify his decision to send 4,000 National Guard troops to protect federal buildings and support immigration authorities as they conduct arrests and enforcement operations," according to Politico's Thursday report.
After rioters assaulted local police and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Newsom refused to assign blame. Additionally, he sidestepped the issue of his administration's long-standing inability to clear brush from forests.
It was only after the terrible Los Angeles flames earlier this year that Newsom authorized $50 million to be spent on legal challenges against future Trump initiatives, despite the fact that turning down the funds will equate to a ] fiscal shortfall of $10–$20 billion in California.
But this isn't exactly a new issue; the wildfires actually started while President Biden was in Los Angeles.
Biden diverted police resources from their possible role as evacuation guides, as pointed out by multiple news sites at the time.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Trump hinted that his reluctance to provide Newsom the $40 billion he is requesting could be attributed to Newsom's actions: “[H]atred is never a good thing in politics.” “[H]atred is never a good thing in politics.”
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance was removed from the left-leaning social media site Bluesky shortly after he had joined and shared his initial post.
Vance, who is thought of as a way forward for Republicans who hope to elect another conservative during the 2028 election cycle, has long been a source of frustration for the left, as The New York Post reported.
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance's first post on the X competitor said. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”
As a follow-up, the VP commented on the Supreme Court's decision to preserve Tennessee's ban on transgender minors receiving medical treatment.
“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote. He also included a screenshot of the conservative justice’s statement which was in agreement with the 6-3 ruling.
“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice president continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”
“What do you think?”
The writer Marc Caputo of Axios noted the change and stated that Vance's Bluesky account was suspended within twelve minutes after the post and his announcement on X about joining the site.
A message that said: “Not found. Account has been suspended,” was emblazoned across what had been Vance’s Bluesky page.
There has been no indication that the current vice president's comments were in violation of Bluesky's community guidelines in any way.
The suspension was only temporary, as the account was reinstated within a few minutes of its suspension.
The company responded to the account suspension, saying, “Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past.
“The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity,” the spokesperson added. “We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky.”
GOP Senator Mike Lee posted on X, outraged at the company's reaction, saying, “Why’d it take BlueSky 17 whole minutes to ban @JD Vance? What kind of self-respecting, leftist censorship takes that long to stamp out free speech?”
Likewise, influencer Charlie Kirk asserted that the platform banned Vance “for offending them," saying, “And thanks to Elon Musk, we get to point and laugh at them instead of howling in anger about censorship. And thanks to us using our free speech on 𝕏, mocking and laughing at them, they’ve been forced to reinstate him!”
According to a new poll, while some Americans blame President Donald Trump for unrest in Los Angeles, they also support his decision to call in the National Guard to quell violent protests over his immigration policy.
After Trump's promise to deport vast numbers of illegal aliens, ICE operations around the country sparked protests in Los Angeles and other locations, some of which became violent, causing immense damage.
Trump sent 4,000 National Guard men and 700 Marines to combat unrest, over opposition from Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and local politicians who feared escalation.
The poll is one of numerous measures of Americans' views on Trump's immigration policies and the protests.
Critics have voiced concerns about the techniques used by immigration officers during the raids and the treatment of migrants by federal authorities, even if the raids are following legal orders.
The split of American opinions against Trump's immigration crackdown was on full display at the Los Angeles protests.
According to recent polls, many Americans are in favor of using military force to quell violent protesters, but many still have issues with Trump's overall handling of the matter.
On the specifics of some deportations, 62 % believe Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien deported by Trump and hailed as a saint and “Maryland Man” by Democrats and the establishment media, is an MS-13 gang member, while 32 percent say he “should have been defended.”
According to the Harvard-Harris poll, 46% of Americans are happy with Trump's job performance, while 50% are unhappy.
There are other polls that show Trump doing well while dealing with this immigration problem as well.
According to a recent Pew study, 83% of people think illegal immigrants should be deported, with 32% favoring deportation for all immigrants, and 51% expressing interest in just some immigrants being deported.
Among Hispanics, 53% "somewhat" or "strongly" back Trump's deportation strategy, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by the League of American Workers.
CNN went into a frenzy over the widespread support that the American people have shown for Trump's immigration plans.
This despite the fact that the people of the United States want illegal immigrants to be deported. Period. Particularly of concern are all of the dangerous felons that former President Joe Biden accepted into the country during his tenure.