Like most of these things, it began with a sick dog. A pet owner filed a complaint somewhere in the northeast. Connecticut and New Jersey agriculture officials reacted. Eight unopened Raaw Energy frozen dog food samples were taken from the shelves and sent to a laboratory. All of them tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes. Additionally, a number of them tested positive for Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella. That was in January of 2026. Over the next few months, a small pet food company’s operations were gradually and uncomfortably dismantled, serving as a reminder that “natural” and “raw” don’t always equate to…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
Finding out that the food you’ve been carefully choosing for your pet—the kind that costs more, comes in tubes, and promises to be closer to nature—might be the exact cause of their illness can cause a certain kind of dread. Following the announcement of a recall affecting over 400,000 pounds of raw pet food products by Adelphia, New Jersey-based pet food retailer Raaw Energy, LLC, thousands of pet owners in the northeastern United States are currently dealing with that situation. The recall, which was brought to the attention of the FDA, focuses on possible Listeria contamination in almost 60 different…
Nearly 375,000 bottles of a widely used antidepressant are being pulled from shelves across the United States, and for anyone who fills a monthly prescription for duloxetine, the news is jarring in that specific way pharmaceutical recalls always are — quiet, clinical, and yet somehow deeply personal. Breckenridge Pharmaceuticals, a New Jersey-based company, announced it is recalling both 30mg and 60mg versions of duloxetine delayed-release capsules, the generic form of Cymbalta. The drug is prescribed to millions of Americans managing depression, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia. The recall was initiated on June 4 and remains ongoing, covering…
It began quietly, as these things usually do. a notice of recall. Something taken from the shelves of a store. A government organization has added a new warning to its website. Almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk, and a few combination flavors were among the Silk and Great Value plant-based beverages that Danone Canada recalled in the summer of 2024 due to listeria contamination. What followed was anything but silent. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, those chilled beverages were directly linked to 20 illnesses, 15 hospital admissions, and three fatalities. No settlement number alters what transpired for…
When a reporter begins to ask questions that management would prefer not to answer, a certain kind of tension arises in the newsroom. It appears to be editorial disagreement from the outside. It may feel completely different from the inside. Tina Yazdani, a former CityNews Queen’s Park reporter, filed a lawsuit against Rogers Sports & Media at that awkward intersection, which is forcing Toronto residents to consider who is in charge of the story more than usual. Just two months after being abruptly fired from CityNews on April 2, Yazdani filed the civil lawsuit on May 28. The figures in…
In Bush Hill, Pembroke, it was a calm Monday morning. It’s the kind of morning when nothing noteworthy usually occurs. At quarter to nine on a June morning, a woman strolled along the pavement with her shopping bag in hand, as one might anticipate. Then, for no apparent reason, she turned up a stranger’s drive and repeatedly kicked the front of a yellow McLaren 570S that was parked. The 33-year-old Gareth Edwards wasn’t watching in real time. It took him ten minutes or so to catch up with the footage, and even then, it took him some time to comprehend…
The way this story developed on a Friday has a subtle significance. Real-weight court rulings frequently come at the end of the week, when things are a little quieter. Additionally, this one has weight. Trump appointee Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court decided that the Justice Department could give the Heritage Foundation access to hours of audio recordings of former President Joe Biden. In May, Biden filed a lawsuit against the DOJ to prevent just that. No, the court ruled. The actual recordings date back to 2017. At the time, Biden was not serving as vice president…
Finding out that a government organization has been surreptitiously overcharging elderly people on fixed incomes and that it was aware of this while remaining silent is especially unsettling. That’s essentially what seems to have happened with HMRC’s state pension tax error, which has now been connected to up to 8.7 million pensioners paying more income tax than is required by law. When considered separately, the figures appear modest. About £5 for each individual. It is simple to ignore. However, when you multiply that by millions of retirees, you get an estimated £43.5 million collected in just one year, possibly illegally.…
The fact that Carnival Corporation’s May 2026 data breach notice included a literal placeholder—a bracket in the letter that stated “your <> were obtained”—is instructive. That kind of impersonal communication says a lot for a company that has millions of travelers’ passport numbers, birthdates, and government-issued IDs. Not necessarily about incapacity. However, there are priorities.Slater Vecchio, a Vancouver-based law firm, filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Carnival Corporation in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on June 17, 2026, on behalf of Canadians impacted by a cybersecurity incident that was discovered on April 14 by the company’s own IT team.…
A world-class performing arts venue that lists outdoor screenings of Clue and The Princess Diaries as its primary calendar events has a subtly unsettling quality. That’s where the Kennedy Center is at the moment—it’s neither completely dark nor fully functional, but it’s in the middle. And the only reason it hasn’t completely closed is because of a federal court. The Trump administration is in an awkward legal position as a result of Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democratic ex-officio board trustee, filing the Kennedy Center shutdown lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper declared last month that the center’s board, which…