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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall for 60 baked products, including a variety of doughnuts, over concerns of potential listeria contamination.

The recall, which impacts approximately 2 million baked goods, was issued for products manufactured by FGF Brands, a pastry wholesaler that distributes baked goods within the U.S. and Canada, according to the FDA report. The reason for the recall, meanwhile, is listed as “potential for contamination with listeria monocytogenes."

Recalled products include a variety of filled and flavored donuts, cinnamon sticks, French crullers, and fritters, some of which are also sold at Dunkin’, and were produced before Dec. 13, 2024, according to the report.

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Follow 23-year-old Chris King on his morning routine. He wakes up, goes into his bathroom and puts in his contacts. He also swallows a pill.

But it's not just any pill. It's one that a gay man like himself in the 1980s wished into existence – and could have died while waiting for it.

King, like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, takes PrEP – preexposure prophylaxis – daily and by doing so, reduces his risk of contracting HIV through sex by 99%. The club DJ and event producer from New York considers it "kind of like a medical miracle."

But the Supreme Court may soon stop requiring insurers to cover PrEP and other preventive medical care services for free, pending the results of a case regarding the Affordable Care Act it's set to hear; it stems from a group of Texas small businesses that don't want to "encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity and intravenous drug use." The case could render it cost-prohibitive for many who rely on it.

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New York state moved to increase protections for abortion providers who mail pills out of state, days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for allegedly doing just that.

New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, on Monday signed into law a bill that permits doctors to request that their names be left off prescriptions for abortion pills. Instead, they can use the names of their medical practices.

“In deeply conservative states, they’ve weaponized the courts against providers, in state and out,” Hochul said in a press conference. She continued: “Other states, they want to target, harass, scare, intimidate doctors and patients. That may be OK in a place like Louisiana, maybe Indiana. But those are not our values in the state of New York. No.”

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Hospitals across the country are suspending or reevaluating their gender-affirming care programs for patients under 19, creating fear and confusion among transgender youth and their families.

Those who have put out public statements cited President Donald Trump’s executive order that directed federal agencies to take action against hospitals that continue to provide care, including threatening to cut federal funding and grants.

But the executive order, by itself, doesn’t make providing gender-affirming care illegal, especially in the 24 states that don’t have any laws prohibiting care, said Craig Konnoth, a law professor at the University of Virginia.

“Right now, hospitals and health systems are subject to no requirements to do anything because the executive order is not self-enforcing or self-executing but rather it relies on agencies to promulgate various kinds of agency actions,” he said.

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Senator Ruben Gallego has accused social media giant Meta of “presumptively bowing” to the Trump administration by making abortion-related content more difficult to find.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was accused of “shadow-banning” several non-profits who provide medication abortion to women in the US.

“I am deeply concerned at the chilling effect that suppressing content related to abortion has towards women,” Gallego wrote in a letter sent to the company on Friday. “Women around the country rely on medicated abortion as safe and effective way to address deeply personal health decisions.”

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