The billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is taking his recent campaign of animal advocacy to the nation’s biggest supermarket chain, adding Kroger to a list that already includes fast-food giant McDonald’s.  In a letter Tuesday to Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen, Icahn said he’s seeking two seats on the company’s board …

The Legal Aid Society has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of surreptitiously collecting genetic material from thousands of New Yorkers and storing it indefinitely in a “rogue” DNA database. According to the lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, the police routinely offer people …

Starbucks workers at a store in Seattle have voted 9 to 0 to join a union, a first in the city and state where the coffee chain is headquartered and bringing closer to home a burgeoning labor movement among its workers that stretches across the country. “We’re excited for what …

The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb that aired Sunday, March 20, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He’s also a Pfizer board member, and he joins us from Westport, Connecticut. Good morning to you, …

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary FundMohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser for Allianz Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Click here to browse full transcripts of “Face the Nation.” …

Montgomery County Coroner Dave Colbert’s job usually entails him showing up at a crime scene after the action has subsided. But in the warm early evening hours of June 8, 2017, Colbert responded to a 911 call of a male victim believed to be dead by snakebite, and he said …

Singer Grimes sat down for a cover story with Vanity Fair, and the interview uncovered that she had another – secret – baby with Elon Musk.  Writer Devin Gordon went to Grimes’ house for the interview and while talking to the pop star, whose real name is Claire Boucher, a baby …

Inflation around the U.S. reached a new 40-year high in February, with consumer prices jumping 7.9% from a year ago — the fastest annual rate since the Reagan administration. Rising costs of energy, housing and food drove the increase, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The price of energy has …

Jupiter, Florida — Major League Baseball extended its deadline for reaching a labor deal to Tuesday at 5 p.m. for salvaging Opening Day as scheduled on March 31. Locked-out players and team owners engaged in a series of intense negotiations that began Monday and stretched into early Tuesday morning as …

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds delivered the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, criticizing the Biden administration on crime, inflation, and Russia’s place in the world, saying it feels like the U.S. has reverted to the late 70s and early 80s.  Reynolds said she’s “worried …