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DOJ Says Egg Producers Manipulated Prices During Election Years By 2024, eggs had become more than breakfast. They had become one of the defining symbols of the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Every trip to the grocery store came with another reminder of inflation, and a carton of eggs became one of the easiest ways to measure the rising cost of living. Now, the federal government says there was more going on behind those prices. The U.S. Department

Thinking About Selling Homemade Food in Texas? Know the Rules First Selling homemade food in Texas falls under one of the state's fastest-growing small business laws. The Texas Cottage Food Law gives home cooks a legal path into business while drawing firm boundaries around products carrying greater food safety risks. Lawmakers broaden those opportunities in 2025, yet meat, poultry, seafood, raw milk, and several other products remain outside the law. Confusion follows when l

The Mexican Immigrant Who Became One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Three Allied nations pinned their highest military decorations onto the chest of a young Mexican immigrant while General John J. Pershing looked on. France honored him. Italy honored him. The United States honored him. Marcelino Serna became one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I after volunteering to fight for a country that did not require his service. One distinction remained abse

The People Yelling "Come Here Legally" Usually Have No Idea How Immigration Works Public debates about immigration often collapse into a single sentence. "They should have come here legally." It sounds tidy and decisive, but it also reveals how few Americans have ever interacted with the immigration system beyond repeating what they have heard from politicians, television pundits, or the loudest far-right influencer on social media. Most U.S. citizens never file an immigratio

Starr County Entrepreneurs Gather to Strengthen Their Digital Marketing Skills The conference room at the Starr Center reached capacity as business owners from across Starr County gathered for a Lunch and Learn focused on digital marketing. Before the presentations began, attendees enjoyed a catered lunch and the opportunity to connect with fellow entrepreneurs. Rose Benavidez, president of the Starr County Industrial Foundation, welcomed those in attendance and introduced th

How a Royal Affair Changed the Course of French Politics Louis XV inherited a crown before he reached adulthood. At fifteen, he married twenty-two-year-old Maria Leszczyńska in 1725. The marriage began with genuine warmth. The young king remained faithful through the early years, and the royal couple produced children at a staggering pace. Between 1727 and 1737, the queen endured ten pregnancies, including the birth of the Dauphin and several daughters. Court celebrations acc

Donald Trump sold his immigration crackdown with a familiar economic promise: remove undocumented workers from the labor market and American workers will have more opportunities. The economics have proved considerably less cooperative. A 2026 working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined communities exposed to increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity during Trump’s second term. Researchers found that as likely undocumented men di

The World Cup Had One Champion But Someone Else Tried to Win the Spotlight Spain spent years earning the right to lift the 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy. President Donald Trump apparently thought he had earned a spot in the victory photo. If you've followed Trump over the years, none of this came as a surprise. He has long demonstrated a remarkable ability to turn virtually any event, whether it belongs to him or not, into a stage where the spotlight somehow drifts in his direct

Your Pet Can Now Pick Up Prescriptions at the Pharmacy For years, pet owners have made an extra stop after leaving the veterinarian, then driving across town to a specialty pet pharmacy or waiting days for medications to arrive in the mail. Now, one of the country's largest pharmacy chains is changing that routine. Beginning this week, CVS Pharmacy announced that it will now fill prescriptions for many common pet medications at thousands of its locations nationwide, making it

The word estropajo traces its roots to the Latin word stuppa, referring to coarse flax or hemp fibers used for cleaning. Over centuries, the term evolved through Spanish into the word we know today. But the practice itself is far older.

Tourists arrive on Hollywood Boulevard looking for celebrities, and the first place they head is the yellow brick road of stars stretching down the sidewalk. The first stop is usually Marilyn Monroe's star at 6774 Hollywood Blvd, the most visited on the Walk. James Dean, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, and Muhammad Ali come next. But in Hollywood, foot traffic drawn by notoriety and vandalism counts as 'popular' by the same metric. Few pieces of real estate in Am

Everyone knows about the raids, but fewer people are tracking the paperwork behind them. Wednesday morning, unmarked vehicles circled unsuspecting subjects, carrying them away in handcuffs. The raids that people see on the news are now happening in Starr County. Residents believed this would never reach them. What's landing in Starr County didn't start there. It started with a plan built in Washington, long before any vehicle circled a parking lot in Rio Grande City looking f

Japan's Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, passed in 1962, bars companies from exaggerating how a product looks on packaging. The Consumer Affairs Agency enforces the law, and violations bring fines, corrective orders, and administrative surcharges reaching 3 percent of the sales generated by the misleading claim. A shrimp printed on a noodle cup must resemble the shrimp inside. A slice of cheese on a wrapper must match the size of the cheese a

My son turned 24 today, and for the first time in a long time, I did not celebrate his birthday without him. I need you to understand what a strange sentence that is for me to type. There was a time when Vicente came to his own birthday parties. SpongeBob cake, a piñata, a kid who hadn't yet been handed the keys to his own life and didn't know he could refuse. Vicente showed up because showing up was still someone else's decision. He didn't know he had a choice. Then he got o

Texas drivers love a technicality, and the five-day grace period on vehicle registration is the closest thing the state offers to a built-in alibi. The catch involves a detail most people gloss over: those five days are working days, not calendar days, which means a sticker that expires on a Friday effectively buys almost nothing extra before the following Friday rolls around. The rule comes from Section 502.407 of the Texas Transportation Code. The window starts the day afte

A woman stood up at a Tai Lopez event, microphone in hand, and asked a question common among small business owners: whether to focus on building her marketing agency or her personal brand. Lopez responded by asking to see her dominant hand, fingers pressed together. He then asked her name. She said it was Mildred, and that she goes by Millie. He asked her where she was from. She said she was Mexican. "Are those your real eye color?" he asked her. She admitted to wearing color

Say the name Ramón Ayala anywhere norteño music plays, and the recognition is instant. He's the King of the Accordion, the man behind "Un Rinconcito en el Cielo," a six-decade catalog that turned him into the defining voice of the genre on both sides of the border. The man on his birth certificate isn't the man who built any of it. Ramón Ayala, the musician everyone assumes is Ramón Ayala, was born Ramón Covarrubias Garza on December 8, 1945, in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He was

Hazte para acá! Grab your cafecito, and get comfy, and let that café con leche cool off a little before we consider journaling for beginners at a $555 price tag. Need to rejuvenate your alma? Pues que crees? Chiquis Rivera is hosting Alma de Luz, an "intimate wellness and self-love experience." Fancy, huh? Wait until you see the price tag. Honestly, when did healing become a ticketed event? Here's how she sold it: the experience ran four hours, 11 AM to 3 PM, tucked away near

Hazte para acá! Grab your cafecito, because this chisme es puro compadrismo. So Televisa's new melodrama, "Tierra de Amor y Coraje," hasn't even premiered yet and it's already got half of Mexico's entertainment internet in a chancla-throwing contest. The show, produced by José Alberto "El Güero" Castro, is a remake of a 1970s Brazilian telenovela about three ranching brothers who fall for the daughter of their family's enemy. Cowboys, cattle, Arizona desert, forbidden love. S

Forget whatever diarrhea cyclosporiasis is producing. America faces a more dire epidemic right now, and this one spreads through Instagram grids instead of contaminated produce: the ChatGPT flyer. Scroll through any small-business social media page in July 2026 and the symptoms show up within seconds. The font leans slightly, brushed across the top like a swoosh pulled from a font pack nobody requested. Little rounded boxes flank the text, each holding a tiny icon of a fork,