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The U.S. Postal Service on Sunday will raise the price of a first-class Forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents, the latest in a series of increases aimed at stemming the agency's mounting financial losses.the USPS announced the increase in April, saying the higher price was intended to bolster its finances.  Click here for more on this story.

Click here to read about how a toddler who was pronounced dead after being pulled unresponsive from a pool at an Arizona residence was found to be breathing hours later in a hospital morgue, according to a recently released police report.  

Click here to read about how the rate of military families suffering from food insecurity has surged in the last two years, according to the latest annual survey of spouses, active-duty service members and veterans.  More than 41% of respondents in a new Military Family Advisory Network study said they experienced low or very low food security in 2025, up from about 16% in 2023.  

Click here to read about how nearly one year after President Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," the landmark tax and spending law's winners and losers are coming into focus.  The sweeping legislation lowered taxes for millions of households and businesses, while helping to pay for those tax cuts by cutting federal spending on programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. 

Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is suspected of crashing into a parked car and driving away from the scene Friday afternoon in Northern California, the Napa County Sheriff's Office said.  Pelosi allegedly struck a vehicle on the 6700 block of Yount Street in Yountville, around 2:30 p.m. local time, the sheriff's office said.  Click here for more on this story.  

A new program will work to help older Americans afford medication that helps with weight loss.

Kinney Drugs Director of Clinical Services Natalie Powers said she’s seeing the popularity of GLP-1 weight loss medications.  "They've demonstrated meaningful benefits for weight management and overall health,” said Powers.  Click here for more on this story.

Click here to read more about how in a June 17 news release from the U.S. Air Force, McDaniel, a trainee with the 737th Training Support Squadron, died June 16.  The Air Force said McDaniel was in his sixth week of Basic Military Training on June 12 when he experienced a “medical emergency” and was subsequently transported to Brooke Army Medical Center for treatment. McDaniel died at the hospital four days later. Here’s what we know about the flu outbreak lawmakers are connecting to McDaniel’s death. Click here for more.

When President Trump returned to power, a group of his former campaign and administration officials started a federal lobbying practice. Mo Strategies, which has registered an array of corporate clients, is now expanding into the newly-lucrative world of pardons.  Business is booming.  The Trump-linked firm has signed on to lobby for the law firm Blessinger Legal in Northern Virginia for "immigration and pardon-related discussions," federal lobbying disclosures in late May show. The engagement has already yielded the firm $500,000 in income, and more work is expected, Marty Obst, president of Mo Strategies, said in an interview.  Click here to learn more about this story.  

The Justice Department tells CBS News it "has released every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act," and maintains that those unreleased 3 million documents were either duplicative, unrelated to Epstein or protected by legal privilege.  But concerns persist about evidence that important documents are still being withheld. CBS News has analyzed the archive not only for what has been disclosed, but also for documents that appear to be absent.  Click here to find out more.  

2/1/26 was the deadline for all US Citizens to have a "Real ID" seal on their drivers license.  Now, if you don't have it, you will have to pay an extra fee when you travel by air.  Click here for full details.