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The “junk” charges for electronic deposits into school meal accounts will be prohibited starting in the 2027-28 academic year for those eligible for free and reduced-price lunches.

The suit seeks damages exceeding $5 million for customers across the country and alleges that McDonald’s breached its duty to disclose a risk of contamination.

Kamberlyn Bowler, a high school freshman from Colorado, has been diagnosed with a rare and potentially life-threatening complication of the foodborne pathogen.

The outbreak, likely linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, joins a list of other E. coli incidents from fresh produce, especially precut, prewashed fruits and vegetables.

“Corporate profits must not come at the expense of people’s ability to put food on the table,” read the letter from Sens. Warren, Casey and Wyden to the fast-food chain’s CEO.

In letters sent to General Mills, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the lawmakers asked the corporations to end their “pattern of profiteering.”

The development happened days before a trial was scheduled to begin in the death of a 21-year-old Ivy League student who drank the highly caffeinated beverage.

A lawsuit alleges that a girl who lived with her family at the organization’s center in Missouri endured years of sexual abuse from another child on the campus.

The first-in-the-nation law will ban Red 40 and five other synthetic colors that have been linked to behavioral issues.

“We’ve been running all around Tampa trying to find these supplies to make sure he’s OK for the next few days,” Brandon Bracciale said of his 71-year-old dad, Stephen Bracciale.

“We’re all better for having known him,” the police chief of Blackshear, Georgia, said of firefighter Vernon Leon Davis. “He would do anything for anybody.”

Payment processors collect more than $100 million a year in fees from school meals, with lower-income families getting hit the hardest, according to a report from July.

Research indicates that concussions and their cumulative impact contribute to problems like CTE in football players, but it’s not easy to predict who is most at risk.

Electronic theft of the funds that low-income families use to buy groceries has proliferated, and most states don’t reinstate stolen benefits when federal dollars aren’t available.

School safety experts say cellphones are not only a distraction in class, they can also be a distraction during an emergency, when survival may depend on split-second decisions.

Alumni and advocates are pushing for more oversight of Elevations Residential Treatment Center, part of the same company as a wilderness camp where a boy died.

The bill prohibits foods containing synthetic dyes that have been tied to neurobehavioral problems in some children from being served during school hours.

A global computer outage is halting businesses, grounding planes and creating work stoppages after something went wrong with a software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

Hot car deaths are a tragic common occurrence during warm weather. Experts say creating simple routines can reduce the risk. WRC’s Susan Hogan reports.

A Netflix docuseries has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of sperm donation, particularly the lack of stopgap measures that might prevent donors who have been banned by one country from simply going elsewhere to donate more. Released earlier this month, “The Man With 1000 Kids” explores the fallout from the case of serial sperm donor Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch man who fathered children around the globe via donations to sperm banks, as well as through private meetings he reportedly held dir…