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Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 11th congressional district Jamie Ager smiles, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Fairview, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)

Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

With food prices up 23.6% over four years, smart shopping and cooking are essential. Here's how to eat well on a budget. Photo credit: Adobe Stock Images.

Creative ways to shop your pantry first to save money and reduce waste

By Stephanie Manley - Associated Press

A cut tree lies on the ground June 12, 2006, inside Unit 2 of the Mike's Gulch timber sale on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon. (AP Photo by Jeff Barnard) **FILE**

Trump administration declares end of the road for Clinton-era roadless rule

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference regarding the shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pa. on Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania is suing the USDA over cutting funding to a $1 billion food aid program for states

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

FILE - Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference regarding the shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pa. on Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania is suing the USDA over cutting funding to a $1 billion food aid program for states

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Small family farms in America illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Small family farms lead the American way of life

By Brooke L. Rollins

FILE - Cashier Josh Jimenez rings up egg for sale at a grocery store on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

U.S. egg prices fall for the first time in months but remain near record highs

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

Aviation fuel made in America, for America

By Kevin Welsh

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Trump administration ordered to unfreeze funding in dispute with Maine over transgender students

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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, left, holds a letter of intent to request changes to the state's SNAP and food dye legislation next to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Martinsburg, W. Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

RFK Jr. announces states can ban sugary soda from food stamp program

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A Red Star hen, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, stands on eggs inside her coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices, but U.S. remains hesitant

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

An activist holds up a sign about high egg prices during a protest against the Trump administration's policies outside the Texas Capitol, in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Why should America worry about Trump? Try the price of eggs, say some Democrats

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

The U.S. Department of Agriculture building is seen in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

USDA scholarship for students at historically Black colleges suspended

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Brooke Rollins speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

USDA reviewing University of Maine following Trump-Mills spat

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

A Wegmans grocery store stands in Fairfax, Virginia, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Wegmans recalls frozen chicken nuggets due to possible bone fragments

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024, shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (blue). (CDC/NIAID via AP, File)

Georgia officials put kibosh on poultry shows, swaps, sales after bird flu detection

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Dave Coughlin carries his 1-year-old son Thomas to their car to get him out of their flood-damaged home in Cranford N.J. on Saturday Sept. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, FILE)

New Jersey is using buyouts and barriers to battle flooding

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: DOGE should start with USDA

A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2018, file photo, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder, left, and Double Quarter Pound burger is shown in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press