Left (Clockwise from top left): Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo, Junior Cabrera-Colon, and their son Jayden (GoFundMe). Right: Jose Luis Rodriguez (Reading Police Department). A Pennsylvania family that went missing earlier this month was found dead over the course of a week in different locations. According to a press release from the City of Reading in Berks County,…
The Slovak Parliament must reject constitutional amendments that would limit individuals’ ability to legally change their gender identity, resulting in substantial harm to the LGBTQ+ community, Amnesty International urged on Wednesday. Rado Sloboda, director of Amnesty International Slovakia, condemned the proposed amendments as “draconian,” stating: While the proposed changes specifically target the rights of LGBTI persons…
Reports of Salmonella in raw meat-based pet food in the United Kingdom have declined again from the record levels seen in 2022. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) collected data on Salmonella from animals, feeding stuff and animal by-products (ABP) in England, Wales and Scotland. The number of positives from cattle, sheep, pigs and…
[co-author: Sara Petermann]* With changes in presidential administration often come seismic policy shifts, and policy with respect to healthcare is no exception. On May 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced its updated guidance policy regarding the use of the code “999999999” as a placeholder in hospital machine-readable files (“MRFs”). According to…
In 2047, Ahmad Hakim and his family are climate refugees fleeing the Levantine Consolidation Zone after Ahmad refused to place his daughters in mandatory fertility conscription. The family seeks sanctuary in CoralNet, a community governed though “judicial meshes” combining human, AI, and nonhuman perspectives. It’s unlikely that we’re less than 25 years away from animals…
Left inset: Footage allegedly showing Karl Geiger dragging out a bloody mattress from his home after his ex-wife’s murder (WBAL/YouTube). Right inset: Patricia Watson-Geiger (Mitchell – Wiedefeld Funeral Home). Background: The Maryland home where Karl Geiger lived with Patricia Watson-Geiger before allegedly killing her (WBAL/YouTube). A Maryland man accused of gunning down his ex-wife was…
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for Algerian authorities to put a halt to excessive control over civil society groups and urged them to enact new laws based on accepted international standards for freedom of association. According to the group, a current proposed bill that seeks to update Law 12-06, enacted in 2012, does not…
Trump, aided by RFK Jr., is dismantling the U.S. food safety network – LexBlog Skip to content Source link
As EBG previously reported, on March 10, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) is exploring rulemaking to eliminate the pathway allowing entities to self-affirm that food ingredients are Generally Recognized as Safe (“GRAS”). Earlier this…
Another week, another interesting BigHand survey. This time the BigHand team tackled pricing and budgeting issues. The bottom line: every client wants budgets and financial transparency, but few lawyers want to do it. (At least those in law firms.) The survey is pretty comprehensive. It looked at data points from five years of surveys and…
