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AP Headline News - Apr 26 2024 07:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Falle. The idea is to help prevent food poisoning. The government's issuing a new ruling this morning. The AP has done a water. U.S. agriculture officials say poultry producers will be required to bring salmonella bacteria levels and certain chicken products to very low levels to prevent food poisoning. The regulations take effect in 2025. At that point, salmonella will be considered an adulterant, a contaminant that can cause foodborne illness when it's detected above certain levels in frozen breaded and stuffed raw chicken products. Donna Water, Washington. Protests are continuing a college campuses across the nation. Students demanding colleges cut financial ties to Israel, which is battling Hamas. When big university has now canceled graduation ceremony, the AP's Jackie Quinn. Student demonstrations and tensions are growing on the Los Angeles campus. USC has announced the big May 10th commencement ceremony is now canceled. It comes a day after 90 people were arrested on campus, one was cited for having a weapon. There will still be dozens of individual school ceremonies that day, with caps, gowns and diplomas, but the main event is canceled, as was the valedictorian's speech announced last week. Prompting anger among some students, I'm Jackie Quinn. At Donald Trump's Hush Money Trial in New York, David Packer will return to the witness stand today. Defense attorneys will try to poke holes in his testimony. He's the former national inquirer publisher who's described helping very embarrassing stories that Donald Trump feared would hurt his campaign. President Beijing's Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met this morning with China's president, Xi Jinping. Blinken warned about the dangers of any miscalculations between the two nations. This is AP News. Americans are having fewer babies. The AP's Shelley Adler. U.S. births fell last year. A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023. That's according to provisional statistics released by the CDC. It's about 76,000 fewer than the year before. And the lowest one year tally since 1979, Nicholas Mark is a University of Wisconsin researcher who studies how social policy and other factors influence health and fertility. "The level of fertility that we're seeing is not super low. It's very similar to European countries. This is not like something to be alarmed about it at all." The provisional numbers released by the CDC are based on more than 99.9 percent of the birth certificates filed last year. I'm Shelley Adler. The Dow dropped 375 points yesterday. The S&P fell 23 points. I'm Rita Foley, AP News. When everyone's on the same page, getting things done at work is easy. Make a bigger impact at work with Grammarly. Grammarly is your secure AI writing partner that allows your team to make their point and move faster. You can even save time by going from spending hours editing drafts to just seconds. In the 96 percent of Grammarly users that say it helps them craft more impactful writing, sign up and download Grammarly for free at Grammarly.com/podcast. That's Grammarly.com/podcast. Easier said, done.