A Social Security whistleblower whose complaint alleged that Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans' sensitive information says he's resigning because of actions taken against him since making the claim.

Charles Borges, the agency's chief data officer, alleged that more than 300 million Americans Social Security data was put at risk by DOGE officials who uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight. His disclosure was submitted to the special counsels office on Tuesday.

In a letter to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano, Borges claimed that since filing the complaint, the agency's actions make his duties impossible to perform legally and ethically and have caused him physical, mental and emotional distress.

After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators, serious data and security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable, Borges added.

The Government Accountability Project, which is representing him in his whistleblower case, posted Borges' resignation letter on its website Friday evening. Borges declined to comment.

He no longer felt that he could continue to work for the Social Security Administration in good conscience, given what he had witnessed, his attorney Andrea Meza said in a statement. She added that Borges would continue to work with the proper oversight bodies on the matter.

In his whistleblower's complaint, Borges said the potentially sensitive information put at risk by DOGE's actions includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.

Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for re-issuing every American a new Social Security Number at great cost, said the complaint.

Borges had served as the Social Security Administration's chief data officer since January.

The SSA declined to comment on Borges resignation or allegations against the agency in his letter to colleagues.

President Donald Trumps DOGE has faced scrutiny as it received unprecedented access from the Republican administration to troves of personal data across the government under the mandate of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.

Labor and retiree groups sued SSA earlier this year for allowing DOGE to access Americans sensitive agency data, though a divided appeals panel decided this month that DOGE could access the information.

Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, but taking a dip might be out of the question: Many of the beaches will caution against swimming because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination.

Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste. The advisories typically discourage beachgoers from going in the water because the bacteria can cause gastrointestinal illness, rashes and nausea.

There have been closures this week at some of the country's most popular beach destinations, including Keyes Memorial Beach in the Cape Cod village of Hyannis in Barnstable, Massachusetts; Benjamin's Beach on Long Island in Bay Shore, New York; and a portion of the Imperial Beach shoreline near San Diego. Even on the pristine, white sand beaches of Hawaii, the Hawaii State Department of Health is warning of a high bacteria count at Kahaluu Beach Park on the Big Island.

It's a longstanding and widespread problem. Nearly two-thirds of beaches tested nationwide in 2024 experienced at least one day in which indicators of fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels, conservation group Environment America said in a report issued this summer.

The group reviewed beaches on the coasts and Great Lakes and found that 84% of Gulf Coast beaches exceeded the standard at least once. The number was 79% for West Coast beaches, 54% for East Coast beaches and 71% for Great Lakes beaches.

The report also said more than 450 beaches were potentially unsafe for swimming on at least 25 percent of the days tested. A key reason is outdated water and sewer systems that allow contamination from sewage to reach the places where people swim, said John Rumpler, clean water director and senior attorney with Environment America.

These beaches are a treasure for families across New England and across the country. They are a shared resource, said Rumpler, who is based in Boston. We need to make the investment to make sure that literally our own human waste doesn't wind up in the places where we are swimming.

Other factors have also played a role in contaminating beaches, including increasingly severe weather that overwhelms sewage systems, and suburban sprawl that paves over natural areas and reduces the ecosystem's ability to absorb stormwater, Rumpler said.

But many people plan to jump into the ocean anyway. Despite a two-day warning of elevated fecal indicator bacteria last month at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, beachgoer Yaromyr Oryshkevych was not concerned.

I really dont expect to be in any kind of danger of fecal contamination, said Oryshkevych, a retired dentist. He said he didnt think Rehoboth was close enough to notable pollution to be concerned, and he expected the oceans natural currents to take care of any problems with contamination in the area.

Dana West, a federal worker visiting Rehoboth Beach, recalled an instance earlier this year where a dozen members of his vacationing party experienced gastrointestinal issues. The symptoms occurred after they went on a snorkeling excursion, an activity that increases the likelihood of swallowing seawater, off the coast of Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

It was an unpleasant experience, but he doesn't expect a repeat this weekend in Delaware.

But generally, I have no concerns about the level of fecal and bacterial matter, said West while admiring Rehoboths shore. I assume the local authorities will tell us if there are higher levels than normal.

Despite West's confidence, some beaches in the area of Rehoboth, including nearby Rehoboth Bay and Dewey Beach bayside, were indeed under water advisories this week. Such advisories are not always posted on public signs.

Environment America assessed beach safety in its report by examining whether fecal bacteria levels exceeded standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that trigger an alert to avoid the water. Fecal bacteria at those levels can cause illness in 32 out of every 1,000 swimmers.

In North Carolina, five beaches were under advisories in late August because of elevated levels of fecal bacteria. The beaches are open, but swimmers are advised that going in the water could be risky, said Erin Bryan-Millush, environmental program supervisor with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.

Hurricane Erin caused extensive erosion and storm surge in some coastal areas, according to the Department of Environmental Quality. Heavy rain events this summer also exacerbated the contamination problem in some areas, Bryan-Millush said.

Those storm drains carry everything, Bryan-Millush said. It could be really bad for someone who is immune compromised.

A Venezuelan man who was the subject of a high-profile health scare at Alligator Alcatraz this month aimed to return to his home country on Friday, his lawyer said.

This comes as a federal judge denied requests from both state and federal governments to pause the order to dismantle the immigration detention facility in the Everglades, and as the Scripps News Group has learned that detainees were already being removed from the facility, even before last week's court order was issued.

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'Alligator Alcatraz' detainee faced 'life-or-death situation,' attorney says

Lawyers and court documents reveal that some detainees are being deported while others are being transferred to ICE facilities like Krome in Miami-Dade County.

One immigration attorney said he has "never worked so hard to get a client deported" after his client experienced what he described as a life-threatening situation at the facility.

"I've practiced immigration law for over a decade. I deal with a lot of terrible situations of detainees. I've never experienced anything as terrible as the life-or-death situation, which my client still finds himself in," said attorney Eric Lee.

Lee represents Luis Manuel Rivas Velasquez, who is known to his 166,000 Instagram followers as car enthusiast "Luis Frio."

"Luis Velasquez is a 38-year-old Venezuelan man who came to the United States lawfully and was paroled into this country in 2024. In the last month, he's found himself living a total nightmare," Lee said.

According to Lee, Velasquez was detained in Alligator Alcatraz in early August when he became seriously ill.

"He caught some disease which is going viral inside of this facility, and as a result, was essentially unable to breathe. He collapsed," Lee said. "If it wasn't for one of his cellmates, who happened to have been a nurse from Cuba, he may very well have passed away in Alligator Alcatraz."

The incident occurred around Aug. 6. The following evening, in response to widespread rumors that a detainee had died, Homeland Security officials stated that Velasquez had fainted, was taken to the hospital and then returned to Alligator Alcatraz.

Lee said that in the days that followed, his client was taken to a facility in another state.

"They shipped him away to the new Fort Bliss facility that has just opened up outside of El Paso, Texas," Lee said.

According to Lee, no one including Velasquez's family knew where he was until he called Lee last week.

"He was begging to be released. He had sounded like there were tears in his eyes, and he was asking me, 'Please, lawyer, get me out of here. They're denying me access to my medication. I'm worried I'm going to die in here. All I want to do is go home and see my family,'" Lee said.

Over the course of at least a week during which Lee alleges Velasquez hadn't been allowed to change clothes, was denied access to his blood pressure medication, and wasn't allowed to self-deport Velasquez's name was missing in ICE's detainee locator.

"Disappearances like the type that the Trump administration has engaged in, in the case of Mr. Velasquez, are unlawful," Lee said.

This comes despite statements encouraging self-deportation from Gov. Ron DeSantis and top Trump administration officials.

Eventually, Lee says Velasquez was moved to an ICE processing facility in El Paso, where the hope is to get him on a flight back to Venezuela on Friday. But Lee was reportedly unable to board a flight on Friday as his lawyer was told the flight was full.

"We don't know if his ongoing detention is in retribution for his courageous decision to tell the truth about what's happening to him, but that is increasingly what it looks like," Lee said.

The Florida Department of Emergency Management, which runs Alligator Alcatraz, forwarded questions to ICE.

ICE and other Homeland Security have acknowledged they have received our emails with questions about Velasquez, but so far have not provided any information.

This article was written by Jamie Ostroff for the Scripps News Group in West Palm Beach.This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States.

The move is a setback for the Republican administration's efforts to expand the use of the federal expedited removal statute to quickly remove some migrants in the country illegally without appearing before a judge first.

President Donald Trump promised to engineer a massive deportation operation during his 2024 campaign if voters returned him to the White House. And he set a goal of carrying out 1 million deportations a year in his second term.

But U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., suggested the Trump administration's expanded use of the expedited removal of migrants is trampling on individuals' due process rights.

In defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them, Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion issued Friday night. Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk.

The Department of Homeland Security announced shortly after Trump came to office in January that it was expanding the use of expedited removal, the fast-track deportation of undocumented migrants who have been in the U.S. less than two years.

The effort has triggered lawsuits by the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups.

Before the Trump administration's push to expand such speedy deportations, expedited removal was only used for migrants who were stopped within 100 miles of the border and who had been in the U.S. for less than 14 days.

Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, didn't question the constitutionality of the expedited removal statute, or its application at the border.

It merely holds that in applying the statute to a huge group of people living in the interior of the country who have not previously been subject to expedited removal, the Government must afford them due process, she wrote.

She added that prioritizing speed over all else will inevitably lead the Government to erroneously remove people via this truncated process.

Cobb earlier this month agreed to temporarily block the Trump administrations efforts to expand fast-track deportations of immigrants who legally entered the U.S. under a process known as humanitarian parole a ruling that could benefit hundreds of thousands of people.

In that case the judge said Homeland Security exceeded its statutory authority in its effort to expand expedited removal for many immigrants. The judge said those immigrants are facing perils that outweigh any harm from pressing pause on the administrations plans.

Since May, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have positioned themselves in hallways to arrest people after judges accept government requests to dismiss deportation cases. After the arrests, the government renews deportation proceedings but under fast-track authority.

Although fast-track deportations can be put on hold by filing an asylum claim, people may be unaware of that right and, even if they are, can be swiftly removed if they fail an initial screening.

Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the states U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next years congressional elections.

Kehoe made the announcement just hours after Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain five more seats in the 2026 midterm elections. It marked a win for President Donald Trump, who has been urging Republican-led states to reshape district lines to give the party a better shot at retaining control of the House.

Missouri is the third state to pursue an unusual mid-decade redistricting for partisan advantage. Republican-led Texas took up the task first but was quickly countered by Democratic-led California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking voters to approve a map aimed at giving his party five more seats.

Kehoe scheduled Missouri's special session to begin Sept. 3. He released a proposed new map that targets Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleavers Kansas City-area district by stretching it eastward into rural Republican-leaning areas.

His agenda also includes another Republican priority a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to approve citizen-initiated ballot measures, such as abortion-rights and marijuana legalization amendments adopted in recent years.

Kehoe cast both items as a defense against liberal politicians and activists.

Missouris conservative, common-sense values should be truly represented at all levels of government," he said in a statement.

Democrats were quick to express outrage. Missouri state House Minority Leader Ashley Aune called Kehoe a Trump puppet attempting to steal a congressional seat for Republicans and gut the ballot initiative process.

It marks the worst threat to the integrity of our state government since pro-slavery lawmakers voted for Missouri to join the Confederacy in 1861, Aune said in a statement.

Missouri is represented in the U.S. House by six Republicans and two Democrats Cleaver and Rep. Wesley Bell in St. Louis.

Cleaver called the proposed redistricting an attack on democracy perpetrated by Trump.

This attempt to gerrymander Missouri will not simply change district lines, it will silence voices. It will deny representation, Cleaver said in a statement while vowing not to concede the seat.

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Missouri Democrats have little ability to prevent Republican lawmakers from enacting a new map. Unlike in Texas, where Democrats left the state for two weeks to delay a vote, Missouri Democrats' absence would not prevent a quorum for business. And although Democrats could filibuster in the Senate, Republicans could use procedural maneuvers to shut that down, as they did earlier this year to pass a proposed constitutional amendment restricting abortion.

Republicans won a 220-215 House majority over Democrats in 2024, an outcome that aligned almost perfectly with the share of the vote won by the two parties in districts across the U.S., according to a recent Associated Press analysis. Although the overall outcome was close to neutral, the APs analysis shows that Democrats and Republicans each benefited from advantages in particular states stemming from the way districts were drawn.

Democrats would need to net three seats in next years election to take control of the chamber. The incumbent presidents party tends to lose seats in the midterm elections, as was the case for Trump in 2018, when Democrats won control of the House and subsequently launched investigations of Trump. Seeking to avoid a similar situation in his second term, Trump has urged Republican-led states to fortify their congressional seats.

In Texas, Republicans already hold 25 of the 38 congressional seats.

Texas is now more red in the United States Congress, Abbott said in a video he posted on X of him signing the legislation.

Newsom, who has emerged as a leading adversary of Trump on redistricting and other issues, tauntingly labeled Abbott on X as the presidents #1 lapdog following the signing. Democrats already hold 43 of Californias 52 congressional seats.

Voting rights groups filed a lawsuit this week ahead of Abbotts signing the bill, saying the new map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters. Texas Democrats have also vowed to challenge the new map in court.

Some Missouri Republicans had pushed for a map that could give them a 7-1 edge when redrawing districts after the 2020 census. But the GOP legislative majority ultimately opted against it. Some feared the more aggressive plan could be susceptible to a legal challenge and could backfire in a poor election year for Republicans by creating more competitive districts that could allow Democrats to win three seats.

Republican officials in Florida, Indiana and elsewhere also are considering revising their U.S. House districts, as are Democratic officials in Illinois, Maryland and New York.

In Utah, a judge recently ordered the Republican-led Legislature to draw new congressional districts after finding that lawmakers had weakened and ignored an independent commission established by voters to prevent partisan gerrymandering. Republicans have won all four of Utahs congressional seats under the map approved by lawmakers in 2021.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday many of President Donald Trump's tariff policies are unconstitutional but the ruling allows the measures to stay in place while the administration appeals to the Supreme Court.

The panel of 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled President Trump lacks the legal authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which has underpinned many of the orders that have increased tariffs on imports to the U.S.

"We discern no clear congressional authorization by IEEPA for tariffs of the magnitude of the Reciprocal Tariffs and Trafficking Tariffs," the court wrote in its ruling on Friday.

"We conclude Congress, in enacting IEEPA, did not give the President wide-ranging authority to impose tariffs of the nature of the Trafficking and Reciprocal Tariffs simply by the use of the term 'regulate . . . importation.'"

But the ruling also does not order the immediate end to tariffs. The 7-4 decision eliminated that requirement and gives the Trump administration until October 14 to potentially appeal its decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If the ruling stands, the government may be required to refund certain import taxes from the $142 billion it has collected through the new tariffs since they were enacted.

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The ruling applies to tariffs President Trump imposed on "Liberation Day" on April 2 and to tariffs imposed in February against Canada, China and Mexico.

Certain other tariffs are not affected by this ruling, including those President Trump imposed on steel and aluminum and on automobiles.

President Trump on Friday indicated his administration would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

"ALL TARIFFS ARE STILL IN EFFECT!" The president wrote on social media. "Today a Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end."

"With the help of the United States Supreme Court, we will use them to the benefit of our Nation."

Budget carrier Spirit Airlines said Friday that it has filed for fresh bankruptcy protection months after emerging from a Chapter 11 reorganization.

The no-frills airline said it intends to conduct business as normal during the restructuring process, meaning passengers can continue to book trips and use their tickets, credits and loyalty points. The company said its employees and contractors would still be paid.

Spirit President and CEO Dave Davis said the airline's previous Chapter 11 petition focused on reducing debt and raising capital, and since exiting that process in March "it has become clear that there is much more work to be done and many more tools are available to best position Spirit for the future.

In a quarterly report issued earlier this month, Spirit Aviation Holdings, the carrier's parent company, said it had substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern over the next year which is accounting-speak for running out of money. Spirit cited adverse market conditions" the company faced after its most recent restructuring and other efforts to revive its business.

That included weak demand for domestic leisure travel, which Spirit said persisted in the second quarter of its fiscal year, and uncertainties in its business operations that the Florida company expects to continue for at least the remainder of 2025.

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Known for its no-frills, low-cost flights on a fleet of bright yellow planes, Spirit has struggled to recover and compete since the COVID-19 pandemic. Rising operation costs and mounting debt eventually led the company to seek bankruptcy protection in November. By the time of that Chapter 11 filing, the airline had lost more than $2.5 billion since the start of 2020.

When Spirit emerged from bankruptcy protection in March, the company successfully restructured some of its debt obligations and secured new financing for future operations. Spirit has continued to make other cost-cutting efforts since including plans to furlough about 270 pilots and downgrade some 140 captains to first officers in the coming months.

The furloughs and downgrades announced last month go into effect Oct. 1 and Nov. 1 to align with Spirit's projected flight volume for 2026, the company noted in its quarterly report. They also follow previous furloughs and job cuts before the company's bankruptcy filing last year.

Despite these and other cost-cutting efforts, Spirit has said it needs more cash. As a result, the company said it may also sell certain aircraft and real estate.

And as discount carriers struggle to compete with bigger airlines many of which have snagged budget-conscious customers through their own tiered offerings Spirit is attempting to tap into the growing market for more upscale travel. It is now offering flight options with tiered prices, the higher-priced tickets coming with more amenities.

Spirits aircraft fleet is relatively young, which has also made the airline an attractive takeover target. But such buyout attempts from budget rivals like JetBlue and Frontier were unsuccessful both before and during the bankruptcy process.

Spirit operates 5,013 flights to 88 destinations in the U.S., the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Panama and Colombia, according to travel search engine Skyscanner.net

The U.S. government is offering a funeral with military honors for Ashli Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot and killed while attempting to force entry to a secure area of the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer shot Babbitt when she attempted to climb through a window into the Speaker's lobby. The Department of Justice and the Capitol Police both cleared the officer of wrongdoing following the incident.

In an August 15 letter obtained by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier told Babbitt's family that the Air Force was reversing an earlier decision, made in 2021, to deny the family's request to extend Babbitt military honors.

"After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli's death. and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect," Lohmeier wrote.

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The Trump administration announced in May it would pay close to $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Babbitt's estate.

The lawsuit, which originally sought $30 million, alleged that the officer who shot Babbitt failed to de-escalate the situation. It also alleged that the Capitol Police were negligent and should have expected that the officer who shot Babbitt was "prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner."

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted sentences for more than 1,500 criminal defendants charged in association with Jan. 6 attack. He referred to those convicted as hostages, and had made it a campaign promise to pardon their sentences.

A drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris is spreading rapidly through Texas hospitals, posing significant risks to vulnerable patients in long-term care facilities and those with compromised immune systems.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 2,800 cases of Candida auris nationwide this year, with Texas accounting for approximately 727 of those cases.

The fungus is particularly concerning because it's difficult to treat and spreads easily in healthcare settings.

"This type of fungus, it is not for the general population to be alerted; it is more so found in hospital settings, nursing care facilities," Brazos County Health District Epidemiologist Aaliyah Thomas said.

The fungus can survive on hospital surfaces and spread through contaminated medical equipment, making proper disinfection protocols critical for prevention.

"I make sure I clean everything, wipe everything down between every patient to make sure that we're not transmitting any germs or other extra infections, that's not necessary," Registered Nurse and Public Health Nurse Navigator, Rai Janiece Robinson-Aleman said.

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Thomas explained how the infection can spread in healthcare facilities.

"If you're touching the door knobs, if you're at the hospital, and you're touching the bedside table and then we're sharing these different items in the hospitals so then someone else can touch it and then it can become infected in our body it gets in our bloodstream," she said.

While the risk to the general public remains low, long-term hospital patients face the greatest danger from this infection.

Thomas emphasized that prevention requires proper education and protocols among healthcare workers.

"I think it's important to educate healthcare workers on infection control because if the healthcare workers in these facilities can disinfect and sterilize properly we can see a decrease of this outbreak," she said.

Health experts stress the importance of maintaining vigilance in healthcare settings to protect vulnerable patients from this emerging threat.

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.

This story was originally reported by Ezekiel Ramirez with the Scripps News Group in Waco.

President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson that he won't be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch.

Trump, who sent a letter to Johnson, R-La., on Thursday, is using whats known as a pocket rescission when a president submits a request to Congress to not spend approved funds toward the end of the fiscal year, so Congress cannot act on the request in a 45-day timeframe and the money goes unspent as a result. It's the first time in nearly 50 years a president has used one. The fiscal year draws to a close at the end of September.

The letter was posted Friday morning on the X account of the White House Office of Management and Budget. It said the funding would be cut from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, an early target of Trump's efforts to cut foreign aid.

If the White House standardizes this move, the president could effectively bypass Congress on key spending choices and potentially throw into disarray efforts in the House and the Senate to keep the government funded when the next fiscal year starts in October.

The use of a pocket rescission fits part a broader pattern by the Trump administration to exact greater control over the U.S. government, eroding the power of Congress and agencies such as the Federal Reserve and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others. The administration has already fired federal workers and imposed a historic increase in tariffs without going through Congress, putting the burden on the judicial branch to determine the limits of presidential power.

A White House official, who insisted on anonymity on a call with reporters to discuss the move, declined to say how the administration might use pocket rescissions in the coming years or what the upper limits of it might be as a tool. The official expressed confidence the administration would prevail in any legal challenges and said a goal of the proposed spending cuts was to make the cleanest case possible for these types of clawbacks.

Winding down USAID

Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that USAID is essentially being shuttered and congratulated White House budget director Russ Vought for managing the process.

USAID is officially in close out mode, Rubio said. Russ is now at the helm to oversee the closeout of an agency that long ago went off the rails.

The 1974 Impoundment Control Act gives the president the authority to propose canceling funds approved by Congress. Congress can within 45 days vote on pulling back the funds or sustaining them, but by proposing the rescission so close to Sept. 30 the White House argues that the money won't be spent and the funding lapses.

What was essentially the last pocket rescission occurred in 1977 by Democratic then-President Jimmy Carter, and the Trump administration argues its a legally permissible tool despite some murkiness as Carter had initially proposed the clawback well ahead of the 45-day deadline.

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Pushback against pocket rescissions

The move by the Trump administration drew immediate backlash in parts of the Senate over its legality.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a statement that the Constitution makes clear that Congress has the responsibility for the power of the purse and any effort to claw back funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

Instead of this attempt to undermine the law, the appropriate way is to identify ways to reduce excessive spending through the bipartisan, annual appropriations process," Collins said. Congress approves rescissions regularly as part of this process."

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York warned that Trump's use of the pocket veto could undermine the normal funding process and risk a painful and entirely unnecessary shutdown. After all, any budget agreements reached in the Senate could lack authority if the Trump White House has the power to withhold spending as it sees fit.

Schumer said in a statement that Republican leaders have yet to meet with Democrats on a path to fund the government after the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 just as Trump tries an unlawful gambit to circumvent the Congress all together.

"But if Republicans are insistent on going it alone, Democrats wont be party to their destruction, Schumer said.

No exceptions

Eloise Pasachoff, a Georgetown University law professor and expert on federal spending issues, has written that the Impoundment Control Act allows rescissions only if Congress acts within 45 days, meaning the the White House alone cannot decide to not spend the funds.

This mandatory language admits no exceptions, indicating that Congress expects the funds to be used as intended before the end of the fiscal year if it does not approve the proposed rescission, Pasachoff wrote in an academic paper last year.

What's in the funding?

The funds in the pocket rescission package include $3.2 billion in development assistance grants, $520 million for the United Nations, $838 million for international peacekeeping operations and $322 million to encourage democratic values in other countries.

Trump had previously sought to get congressional backing for rescissions and succeeded in doing so in July when the House and the Senate approved $9 billion worth of cuts. Those rescissions clawed back funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

The Trump administration has made deep reductions to foreign aid one of its hallmark policies, despite the relatively meager savings relative to the deficit and possible damage to America's reputation abroad as foreign populations lose access to food supplies and development programs.

In February, the administration said it would eliminate almost all of USAID's foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance abroad. USAID has since been dismantled, and its few remaining programs have been placed under State Department control.

The Trump administration on Wednesday appealed to the Supreme Court to stop lower court decisions that have preserved foreign aid, including for global health and HIV and AIDS programs, that Trump has tried to freeze.

The New York Post first reported the pocket rescission.

Two people died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from eating raw oysters that were harvested in Louisiana, according to state health officials.

According to NBC News, the oyster-related deaths from Vibrio vulnificus were reported earlier this week during a meeting of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force.

The individuals who died had consumed the oysters at separate restaurants, one located in Louisiana and the second located in Florida, according to the Louisiana Illuminator, which cited an official with the Louisiana Department of Health.

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Vibrio vulnificus is naturally found in warm coastal waters, such as the Gulf bordering Louisiana, and infections are more common between the months of May and October.

People can contract the Vibrio vulnificus infection when contaminated water enters the body through an open cut or skin wound. The infection can also be contracted by eating contaminated raw or undercooked seafood.

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Nearly two dozen cases of flesh-eating bacteria infections have been reported so far this year in Louisiana, and at least four of those cases have been fatal.

New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment.

The latest death was announced on Thursday. Officials said they had concluded that the death of a person with the disease who died before mid-August is associated with the cluster.

Officials said 114 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease as of Thursday, while six people are hospitalized.

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The bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease had been discovered in 12 cooling towers on 10 buildings, including a city-run hospital and sexual health clinic, health officials said. Remediation efforts have since been completed on all of the cooling towers.

Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia that is caused by Legionella bacteria, which grow in warm water and spread through building water systems. The city's outbreak has been linked to cooling towers, which use water and a fan to cool buildings.

People usually develop symptoms a cough, fever, headaches, muscle aches and shortness of breath between two days and two weeks after exposure to the bacteria, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

City health officials say people who live or work in the area should contact a health care provider if they develop flu-like symptoms.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections, delivering a win for President Donald Trump and his desire to hold onto a slim GOP majority in the U.S. House.

The Texas map drafted in rare mid-decade redistricting prompted fierce protests from Democrats and sparked a gerrymandering tug-of-war for voters in states across the country.

Before Texas lawmakers passed their new map, California had passed a bill that will ask voters to approve new Democratic-leaning districts to counter any Republican gains in Texas.

The incumbent president's party usually loses congressional seats in the midterm election. On a national level, the partisan makeup of existing districts puts Democrats within three seats of a majority.

Texas Democrats have vowed to challenge the new map in court. They delayed a vote in the state House by two weeks by fleeing Texas in July in protest and to rally support nationally. And they were assigned round-the-clock police monitoring upon their return to ensure they attended Wednesday's session.

But the large Republican majority in the Texas Legislature made its ultimate passage all but inevitable.

Because the Supreme Court has blessed purely partisan gerrymandering, the only way opponents can stop the new Texas map would be by arguing in court that it violates the Voting Rights Act requirement to keep minority communities together so they can select representatives of their choice.

Republican leaders have denied that the map is racially discriminatory and contend that the new map creates more new majority-minority seats than the previous one. They have also been explicit in their desire to draw a new map for the goal of electing more Republicans.

The nations top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's current deputy.

The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as Kennedy tries to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research.

Two administration officials said Jim O'Neill, the second-in-command at the Department of Health and Human Services, would supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist. O'Neill, a former investment executive who also served at the federal health department under President George W. Bush, does not have a medical background. The officials, who confirmed the change, requested anonymity to discuss personnel decisions before a public announcement.

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A flashpoint is expected in the coming weeks as a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics, is expected to issue new recommendations on immunizations. The panel is scheduled to review standard childhood shots for measles, hepatitis and other diseases.

Two Republican senators called for congressional oversight and some Democrats said Kennedy should be fired. He is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill on Sept. 4.

No explanation given for CDC director's ouster

Kennedy has not explained the decision to oust Monarez less than a month after she was sworn in, but he warned that more turnover may be ahead.

Theres a lot of trouble at the CDC and its going to require getting rid of some people over the long term, in order for us to change the institutional culture, Kennedy said at a news conference in Texas.

The White House has only said that Monarez was not aligned with President Donald Trump's agenda.

Monarezs lawyers said she refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts. She is fighting her dismissal, saying the decision must come directly from Trump, who nominated her in March. The president has not said anything publicly about the matter.

It's unclear if O'Neill, who was just sworn in as HHS' deputy secretary, will remain in both roles as acting CDC director.

Monarez tried to block political interference, departing CDC officials say

The saga began Wednesday night with the administration's announcement that Monarez would no longer lead the CDC. In response, three officials Dr. Debra Houry, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and Dr. Daniel Jernigan resigned from senior roles at the agency.

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The officials returned to the office Thursday to collect their belongings, and hundreds of supporters gathered to applaud them as they left the Atlanta campus. There were bouquets of flowers, cheers and chants of USA not RFK.

Daskalakis, who resigned as head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, I fear that children will be hurt by poor decision making around vaccines.

You cannot dismantle public health and expect it to still work," he said.

Jernigan stepped down as director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and Houry quit her post as the agency's deputy director and chief medical officer.

Houry told The Associated Press that Monarez had tried to guard against political meddling in scientific research and health recommendations.

We were going to see if she was able to weather the storm. And when she was not, we were done, Houry said.

Dr. Richard Besser, a former CDC acting director, said Monarez told him that she had refused orders to fire her management team. He also said she refused to automatically sign off on any recommendations from Kennedys handpicked vaccine advisers.

Dr. Monarez was one of the last lines of defense against this administrations dangerous agenda, said Besser, now president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which helps support The Associated Press Health and Science Department.

Health agencies have faced turmoil since Trump took office

The CDC has long been the target of controversy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the agency struggled to balance politics and public health.

The strife only increased this year with Kennedy elevating unscientific ideas at the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, while pushing waves of layoffs.

Earlier this month, a police officer was killed when a man opened fire at the agencys headquarters because of anger over COVID-19 vaccines, which have been the subject of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. A memorial to the officer remains outside the building, close to where staff members gathered Thursday.

Monarez stands to become the shortest-serving director since the CDC was founded in 1946, exacerbating a leadership vacuum that has persisted since Trump took office. He initially chose David Weldon, a former Florida congressman who is a doctor and vaccine skeptic, but yanked the nomination in March.

Monarez was tapped next to lead the $9.2 billion agency while serving as its interim director. However, questions immediately emerged within Kennedys circle about her loyalty to the Make America Healthy Again movement, especially given her previous support of the COVID-19 vaccines that Kennedy has routinely criticized.

Vaccine panel changes prompt demands for new oversight

Kennedy rarely mentioned Monarez by name in the way he did other health agency leaders such as Mehmet Oz of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or Marty Makary of the Food and Drug Administration.

One issue has been Kennedy's handling of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of outside experts who make recommendations to the CDC director on how to use vaccines. The recommendations are then adopted by doctors, school systems, health insurers and others.

The panel is expected to meet next month, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said any recommendations issued then will be lacking legitimacy.

Serious allegations have been made about the meeting agenda, membership, and lack of scientific process being followed," said Cassidy, who heads the Senate committee overseeing Kennedy's department. He added that "these decisions directly impact childrens health and the meeting should not occur until significant oversight has been conducted.

Cassidy, a doctor, provided crucial support for Kennedy's nomination after saying Kennedy had assured him that he would not topple the nations childhood vaccination program.

And yet, according to a government notice, the committee on Sept. 18 will take up votes on vaccines that have been settled fixtures for children, including shots to protect against hepatitis B and a combination shot against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

Kennedy is a longtime leader in the anti-vaccine movement, and in June, he abruptly dismissed the entire panel, accusing members of being too closely aligned with manufacturers. He replaced them with a group that included several vaccine skeptics and then he shut the door to several doctors organizations that had long helped form vaccine recommendations.

Departing CDC officials worry science will be compromised

Houry and Daskalakis said Monarez had tried to make sure scientific safeguards were in place.

For example, she tried to replace the official who coordinated the panels meetings with someone who had more policy experience. Monarez also pushed to have slides and evidence reviews posted weeks before the committees meetings and have the sessions open to public comment, Houry said.

HHS officials nixed that and called Monarez to a meeting in Washington on Monday, Houry said.

Daskalakis described the situation as untenable.

I came to the point personally where I think our science will be compromised, and thats my line in the sand, he said.

Medical and public health organizations said they worried about the future without Monarez in charge.

The scientific community is beginning to draw a line in the sand and say, No way,' said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.

The parents of the two schoolchildren fatally shot in a Minneapolis church spoke out for the first time on Thursday afternoon, with some imploring the shaken community to address the root causes of shootings that target schools.

Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed on Wednesday morning when a shooter opened fire at a Mass that hundreds of students at Annunciation Catholic School attended.

City officials increased to 15 the number of injured children, who are ages 6 to 15. Three parishioners in their 80s also were injured. Only one person a child was in critical condition.

A call to action

In a statement released Thursday, Moyski's parents described Harper as a bright, joyful, and deeply loved 10-year-old" who was adored by her younger sister.

As a family, we are shattered, and words cannot capture the depth of our pain, the statement read.

The 10-year-old's parents said that they were focused on healing in the wake of the shooting, but added that they hoped Harpers memory would fuel action that might prevent shootings going forward.

No family should ever have to endure this kind of pain, Harpers parents wrote. We urge our leaders and communities to take meaningful steps to address gun violence and the mental health crisis in this country.

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Remembered by his life, not death

Fletcher Merkel's his father, Jesse Merkel tearfully read a statement on Thursday outside of the church where his son was killed, saying the eight-year-old loved his family and friends and enjoyed fishing, cooking and playing any sport.

Because of the shooter's actions, Merkel said, we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him and watch him grow into the wonderful young man he was on the path to becoming.

Please remember Fletcher for the person he was and not the act that ended his life, Merkel said.

Even as Merkel mourned the loss of his son, he said he was thankful for the swift and heroic actions of adults and students inside the church without whom this could have been a tragedy of many magnitudes more.

Acts of heroism

Minneapolis doctors and law enforcement echoed Merkel's sentiment throughout the day on Thursday, describing the grueling escape children and teachers endured, as well as the heroic rescue efforts that saved countless lives.

When one of the students who was injured during the shooting went in for a CT scan on Wednesday, she was visibly distressed.

Without hesitation, a nurse at the hospital who was not assigned to respond to the mass casualty event sat with the young girl throughout the procedure even though safety protocols stipulate that medical staff should clear the room to prevent radiation exposure.

The nurse put a little lead on, stayed there and held her hand and held her hair while she went through scanners so she didnt have to go through alone, Dr. Jon Gayken, one of the head trauma surgeons at Hennepin County Medical Center, said.

Several medical first responders many of whom were stationed just blocks away from the church have children enrolled at the Catholic school, officials announced on Thursday.

Those are the types of things we witnessed yesterday, Gayken said.

Despite the unimaginable tragedy of the day, Gayken said, there were far less casualties than there could have been.

Children follow active shooter training

Marty Scheerer, the chief of Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services, credited unrecognized heroes, like the children and teachers in the church who followed their active shooter safety trainings, despite the chaotic and incessant hail of gunfire.

Children protecting other children often laid on the floor and covered each other up while teachers ushered kids to safety.

That was key, Scheerer said.

The first police officer entered the church without hesitation just minutes after the 911 call reported the shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian OHara said.

Parishioners told O'Hara that it was the first time that the children and others there had any sense that they might be safe and survive.

When officers entered the church, they encountered children that had blood on them from not because they were injured, but because of blood pressure from other kids, OHara said at a separate news conference later in the day.

There's going to be countless lessons of bravery, from young children all the way up to elders, OHara said.

A wide range of small imports to the U.S. will lose duty-free status starting on Friday, as the Trump administration ends de minimis exemptions on imported goods valued at less than $800.

Starting on Friday, all commercial shipments that were formerly eligible for de minimis exception will be subject to full U.S. duties and inspection by customs officers.

The change expands the new application of customs fees, which previously only applied to parcels from China and Hong Kong since May. Under the new rules Friday, all countries trading with the U.S. will be subject to new customs inspection and taxes on qualifying parcels.

Personal items & letters will not be affected by the changes. There will also be exemptions for personal travel and gifts, a senior administration official said.

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But the Trump administration has focused on de minimis shipping as a health and safety hazard, particularly concerning the shipment of fentanyl and other drugs and drug materials.

Most customs seizures in 2024 involved de minimis shipments, a senior administration official said. Such stoppages accounted for 97% of intellectual property seizures and 77% of health and safety seizures. Weapons parts and drug components were frequently seized, the official said, with more than 800 fentanyl cases.

"President Trump's ending of the deadly de minimus loophole will save thousands of American lives by restricting the flow of narcotics and other dangerous and prohibited items, add up to $10 billion a year in tariff revenues to our Treasury, create thousands of jobs and defend against billions of dollars more lost to counterfeiting, piracy and intellectual property theft," said White House trade and manufacturing senior counselor Peter Navarro.

Russia launched a major air attack early Thursday on Kyiv that included a rare strike on the city center, killing at least 21 people, wounding 48 and damaging European Union diplomatic offices, authorities said.

The bombardment of drones and missiles was the first major Russian attack on Kyiv in weeks as U.S.-led peace efforts to end the three-year war struggled to gain traction. Britain said the attack sabotaged peace efforts, while top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas summoned Russias EU envoy to Brussels over the strikes that damaged EU offices.

Ukraine on Thursday requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the overnight bombardment, while two of Ukraines top envoys were set to meet Friday with the Trump administration regarding mediation.

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The Kremlin said Russia remained interested in continuing peace talks despite Thursday's air attack, which was one of the war's biggest since it began in 2022.

Among the dead were four children between 2 and 17, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyivs city administration. He said more people could still be under the rubble, and search and rescue efforts continued on Thursday evening.

Rare attack on center of Kyiv

The attack was one of the few times Russian drones and missiles have penetrated the heart of Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 598 strike drones and decoys and 31 missiles of different types across the country early Thursday, most of them striking targets in Kyiv.

At least 33 locations across all 10 of the city's districts were directly hit or damaged by debris, Tkachenko said. Thousands of windows shattered as nearly 100 buildings were damaged, including a shopping mall in the city center.

Oleksandr Khilko arrived at the scene after a missile hit the residential building where his sister lives in the capitals Darnytsia district. He heard screams from people who were trapped under the rubble and pulled out three survivors, including a boy.

Its inhuman, striking civilians, Khilko said, his clothes covered in dust and the tips of his fingers black with soot. With every cell of my body I want this war to end as soon as possible. I wait, but every time the air raid alarm sounds, I am afraid.

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Sophia Akylina said her home in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district was damaged.

Its never happened before that they attacked so close, the 21-year old said. Negotiations havent yielded anything yet, unfortunately people are suffering.

EU and UK summon Russian envoys after strikes hit their buildings

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said two strikes landed 20 seconds apart about 165 feet from the EU Mission to Ukraine building in Kyiv. She said no staff were injured in the strike.

No diplomatic mission should ever be a target. In response, we are summoning the Russian envoy in Brussels, Kaja Kallas, the European Unions top diplomat, said Thursday in a post on X.

The British Council, which promotes cultural relations and educational opportunities, also said its Kyiv office had been severely damaged in the attack and was closed to visitors until further notice.

The organization posted a photo showing the building with its windows and entrance smashed open and surrounded by glass and debris. A guard was injured and is shaken but stable, council chief executive Scott McDonald posted on X.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Russian President Vladimir Putin was sabotaging hopes of peace following the senseless strikes. The Russian ambassador to London was summoned to the foreign office.

Diplomatic efforts to reach peace have stalled

Thursday's attack is the first major combined Russian mass drone and missile attack to strike Kyiv since U.S. President Donald Trump met with Putin in Alaska earlier this month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X following the attack. We expect a response from everyone in the world who has called for peace but now more often stays silent rather than taking principled positions.

While a diplomatic push to end the war appeared to gain momentum shortly after that meeting, few details have emerged about the next steps.

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Western leaders have accused Putin of dragging his feet in peace efforts and avoiding serious negotiations while Russian troops move deeper into Ukraine. This week, Ukrainian military leaders conceded Russian forces have broken into an eighth region of Ukraine seeking to capture more ground.

Zelenskyy hopes for harsher U.S. sanctions to cripple the Russian economy if Putin does not demonstrate seriousness about ending the war. He reiterated those demands following Thursday's attack.

Trump bristled this week at Putins stalling on an American proposal for direct peace talks with Zelenskyy. Trump said Friday he expects to decide on next steps in two weeks if direct talks arent scheduled.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said that it was clear that a meeting between President Zelenskyy and President Putin will not take place."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized both Putin and Zelenskyy after the Thursday attack on Kyiv.

She said that Trump was not happy about this news, but he was also not surprised by Russias Thursday air assault on Ukrainian capital.

Leavitt noted that Ukraine has also launched effective assaults on Russias oil industry in recent weeks.

Perhaps both sides of this war are not ready to end it themselves, Leavitt said. The president wants it to end, but the leaders of these two countries must want it to end as well.

Russia says it targeted 'military-industrial complex'

Russias Defense Ministry said it carried out a strike against military air bases and companies within Ukraines military-industrial complex using long-range weapons, including Kinzhal missiles.

All designated objects were hit, the ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine has ramped up domestic arms production to fight Russias invasion. Many weapons factories operate covertly, with some embedded in civilian areas with superior air defenses. Indiscriminate Russian attacks claiming to target Ukraines defense industry have killed many civilians.

The Russian Defense Ministry also said it shot down 102 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly in the countrys southwest. A drone attack sparked a blaze at the Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, local officials said, while a second fire was reported at the Novokuibyshevsk refinery in the Samara region.

Ukrainian drones have repeatedly struck refineries and other oil infrastructure in recent weeks in an attempt to weaken Russias war economy, causing gas stations in some Russian regions to run dry and prices to spike.

Ukraines national railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, reported damage to its infrastructure in the Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions, causing delays and requiring trains to use alternative routes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a food safety alert Thursday after nearly 100 people fell ill due to a Salmonella outbreak in recalled eggs.

The CDC says 95 people in 14 states have gotten sick, most of them in California and most of them between June and July of 2025. 18 people were hospitalized and none of those who fell ill have died.

The agency has traced an outbreak of Salmonella to a specific run of cage-free eggs sold by Country Eggs, LLC of Lucerne Valley, CA.

The eggs were sold mainly in California and Nevada, to grocery stores for consumers to buy and to food service distributors. They were sold from Jun 16, 2025, through July 9, 2025 in cartons labeled Nagatoshi Produce, Misuho or Nijiya Markets. Cartons are marked with the code CA 7695.

The manufacturer recalled the eggs on Wednesday. Customers are directed to return purchased eggs for a refund, or throw them out.

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Symptoms of Salmonella include diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps. They may start just hours after eating contaminated foods and typically last as long as 7 days. The young, the old and the immunocompromised are at risk of more severe symptoms, which may require hospitalization. The CDC recommends that you call your doctor if you suspect salmonella contamination and are experiencing symptoms like excessive diarrhea or vomiting or body temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Social media influencer Emilie Kiser spoke out on her platforms Thursday for the first time since her 3-year-old son tragically drowned in the family's backyard pool in May.

Trigg Kiser was found unconscious when authorities first arrived at the scene in Chandler, Arizona, and he later died at the hospital, according to police.

Emilie said she takes full accountability for the incident and "should have done more to protect him."

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According to court documents, Emilie was out with friends while her two sons were home with her husband and their father, Brady.

Brady told police he was distracted by their newborn while Trigg was playing outside. After losing sight of Trigg, he went to check on him and found him in the pool.

A police report regarding the incident stated surveillance footage showed Trigg was left unsupervised outside the home for at least nine minutes and had been in the water for at least seven minutes before he was found.

NBC News reported, citing police records, that Brady was watching an NBA game at the time and that Trigg did not intentionally go into the pool, but rather fell in accidentally.

Chandler Police initially recommended that Brady be charged with a class 4 felony of child abuse. However, the Maricopa County Attorneys Office said it determined that he would not face charges because there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction.

"One of the hardest lessons I carry is that a permanent pool fence could have saved his life, and it's something I will never overlook again," said Emilie on Thursday.

"I never thought we would experience grief in this way or the pain of losing him so suddenly," Emilie wrote. "It's a pain, heartache, and void that no family should ever have to endure."

She said she will be "establishing more boundaries" with what she shares online moving forward.