Less sugar, less salt: USDA proposes nutrition changes to school meals
The Agriculture Department on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals that would impose the first limit on added sugar in lunches and breakfasts...
Author : Elizabeth Chuck
At least 2 children killed in Staten Island house fire, New York police say
Two children were killed and two others were critically injured after a house fire Friday morning on Staten Island, New York City officials said.Firefighters received...
Adnan Syed is hired by Georgetown University to work on prison reform
Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was tossed in September after he served 23 years behind bars, has been hired by Georgetown University to work on...
School lunch is too costly for a growing number of families. Will a White House pledge help?
This story was produced by NBC News’ Elizabeth Chuck as part of the 2022 National Fellowship at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.The end...
Florida hospital ignored years of complaints about surgeon, patients and families allege
An orthopedic surgeon in Florida caused “hundreds of devastating injuries” while his hospital ignored complaints from patients for years after he started displaying signs of...
Free school lunches for all are ending. But House passes deal on summer meals, other child nutrition benefits
The House passed a bill Thursday to extend food assistance measures for children, drawing praise from advocates who said the legislation would help millions of...
Free school lunches for all set to end, creating ‘perfect storm’ amid high inflation
A federal waiver that made school breakfasts and lunches free to students regardless of their family’s income is set to expire June 30, eliminating a...
A surgeon’s lawsuit highlights gender disparities and workplace discrimination in medicine
The surgeon faced a dilemma: continue an operation that could kill an extremely sick patient on the operating table or sew the patient up, extending...
Covid’s toll in U.S. reaches 1 million deaths, a once unfathomable number
The U.S. on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for...
Harvard ignored sexual harassment by a professor for years, lawsuit claims
Three graduate students are suing Harvard, alleging the university repeatedly failed to act on sexual harassment by a prominent anthropologist on its faculty. The lawsuit, filed...