Tag: Children

Smithfield agrees to pay $2 million to resolve child labor allegations at Minnesota meat plant

MINNEAPOLIS -- Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest meat processors, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor...

Australian states back national plan to ban children younger than 16 from social media

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia’s states and territories on Friday unanimously backed a national plan to require most forms of social media to bar...

USDA bans school lunch fees for low-income families

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for free or reduced price school meals cannot be charged processing...

An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged...

They made 36 million Corn Poppers. Here's how they pick the right ones for the Toy Hall of Fame

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- When curators at the National Toy Hall of Fame learned last fall that the Fisher-Price Corn Popper had been voted...

Fisher-Price recalls over 2 million 'Snuga Swings' following the deaths of 5 infants

NEW YORK -- Fisher-Price is recalling parts of over 2 million infant swings across the U.S., Canada and Mexico due to a serious...