ANALYSIS — Dan Flynn

“Habeas Corpus, the ‘great writ’ that incarcerated people can use to get out of jail, is used by immigration lawyers working to keep foreign nationals who’ve landed in the United States from being detained or deported.”

“But Habeas Corpus comes with one drawback. There is no time clock. Judges are not required to make timely decisions or any decision at all.”

What to know: A school meal program has been paused in Peru after it was blamed for children getting sick in several regions of the country.

Almost 100 children fell ill in Piura in early April after consuming food provided by the Wasi Mikuna program, which includes 4.2 million students across the country.

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A sharp rise in colorectal cancer among adults younger than 50 has renewed focus on diet, food safety and other lifestyle risks, underscoring the complex web of environmental and behavioral influences on long-term health.

A long-awaited report into one of the largest E. coli O157 outbreaks in the United Kingdom has finally been published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

In the 2022 outbreak, there were 259 confirmed Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157 cases, including seven secondary infections.