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By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is allowing vaping brand Juul to keep its e-cigarettes on the market, providing relief to a company that has struggled for years after being widely blamed for sparking the teen vaping trend. FDA regulators said Thursday that Juul’s studies show its e-cigarettes are less harmful for adult smokers, who can benefit from switching completely to vaping. The FDA decision applies to both tobacco- and menthol-flavored versions of the reusable product, which works with nicotine-filled cartridges sold in two different strengths. Juul previously discontinued several fruit and candy flavors that helped drive its popularity but…

By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum under a new order that authorizes him to conduct “elevated review” of activities ranging from leases to rights-of-way, construction and operational plans, grants and biological opinions. The enhanced oversight on clean-energy projects is aimed at “ending preferential treatment for unreliable, subsidy-dependent wind and solar energy,” the Interior Department said in a statement Thursday. The order “will ensure all evaluations are thorough and deliberative” on potential projects on millions of acres of federal…

Angel City Football Club defender Savy King, who collapsed in a May 9 game against the Utah Royals, said Wednesday in an interview with “Good Morning America” that she doesn’t remember much of what happened that night. “I remember that I wasn’t feeling right and I remembered I grabbed my leg because I was trying to distract myself from the fact that I felt I was going to pass out,” King said in an interview with Will Reeve. “I remember the medical staff coming onto the field.” King, 20, collapsed in the second half of the game. The medical staff…

Exactly 30 years ago, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac adopted credit reports and their scores from FICO as a basis for mortgage credit decisions (approval or denial) and risk-based loan pricing. That FICO credit scoring monopoly is about to end after a July 8 announcement from Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (the agencies’ conservator and regulator), allowing the mortgage giants to also use VantageScore. “Effective today, to increase competition to the credit score ecosystem and consistent with President Trump’s landslide mandate to lower costs, Fannie and Freddie will ALLOW lenders to use VantageScore 4.0,” Pulte posted…

By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda. The White House had described the package as a test case and said that if Congress went along, more would come. The House’s approval would mark the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request to Congress, and even then the results were…

EL SEGUNDO — Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams told the team he planned to retire rather than continue his standout NFL career after eight seasons, a club spokesman confirmed while the opening day of training camp was underway Thursday morning. Williams spent seven of his eight years in the NFL with the Chargers. After splitting the 2024 season between the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers, Williams re-signed with the Chargers on a one-year, $6-million contract in March. It seemed to be a natural reunion given Williams’ history with the team and, especially, with quarterback Justin Herbert. Williams was hampered…

Earlier this month, Congressional Republicans pushed through the passage of their Orwellian titled “Big Beautiful Bill” on a party-line vote. While the massive cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs like SNAP coupled with the unprecedented tax giveaways to billionaires dominated the headlines, this bill also contained a little-noticed provision to provide a whopping $170 billion for President Trump’s immigration agenda, including $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). To put this in context, this is more money than most countries, including Canada, Italy, and Israel, spend on their military and makes ICE the “highest-funded federal law enforcement agency…

By Jordan Rau | KFF Health News and Irena Hwang | The New York Times Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, Encompass Health Corp., and other for-profit corporations have had rare but serious incidents of patient harm and perform below average on two key safety measures tracked by Medicare. Yet even when inspections reveal grave cases of injury, federal health officials do not inform consumers or impose fines the way…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey who as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan worked on cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, said in a note to colleagues that “fear is the tool of a tyrant” and that her firing without reason should fuel “a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.” “If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” Comey said in the note, which was obtained by The Associated Press on…

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row, another setback for the U.S. housing market, which is mired in a sales slump as affordability constraints shut out prospective homebuyers. Related Articles 5 ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ changes to marketplace insurance Wall Street hangs near its record as PepsiCo and United Airlines fly and health care stocks sink Fewer Americans file for jobless benefits last week as layoffs remain at historically healthy levels US retail sales bounce around in a whipsaw trade environment Republican senators caution Trump against firing Fed…