The Best Protein Pancakes You’ll Ever Make

While I'm all for indulging in an occasional Pancake Sunday ritual to feed the soul, when it comes to day to day healthy eating, I generally steer my nutrition clients away from sweet carb-centric breakfasts like pancakes. The reason? We tend to burn through those simple carbs in white flour super-quick and wind up sleepy and magically still-hungry, not long after eating despite having just devoured a mountain of flour, syrup, and butter.

Trump’s DACA decision looms

President Donald Trump continues to weigh phasing out a program that has protected young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children - with a decision to sunset the program possible as early as this week. The administration has been reviewing its options on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for months - opting to continue the Obama administration policy when it took office despite Trump's bellicose campaign rhetoric.

AOPA Files Official Complaints Over FBO Fees

On Aug. 28, AOPA, along with seven affected pilots, filed FAA Part 13 complaints over egregious FBO pricing practices at Illinois's Waukegan National Airport, North Carolina's Asheville Regional Airport, and Florida's Key West International Airport, on behalf of its membership. At each of these airports, a single FBO controls all transient ramp space and fuel services, which means each FBO possesses a monopoly position and significant power over access to a public airport.

‘Smothered’ and ‘shoved aside’ in rural America

"Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president. Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa.

U.S. not getting kids to eat veggies, critique of claim says

The Department of Agriculture has invested seven years and several million dollars in a popular program that claims it gets students to eat significantly more fruits and vegetables. But as a recent critique of the research behind the program reveals, "significantly more" often means an amount as small as a single bite of an apple.

Grocery Shopping in College: 16 Ways to Save Money

Whether you're spending your Freshman year in off-campus housing or you just left a dorm-and meal plan-behind, one big change is on the horizon this school year: you need to make food for yourself with your own kitchen, two hands, and brain. And that means besides making time in your busy schedule to cook, you'll also have to budget for the shopping as well, which can be tough on a college student income.

‘Worthless’ Subway ‘Footlong’ sandwich settlement is thrown out: U.S. court

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class-action settlement intended to resolve claims that the Subway sandwich chain deceived customers by selling "Footlong" subs that were less than a foot long. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago called the settlement "utterly worthless," even as it rewarded the customers' lawyers for convincing Subway it was better to make the case go away than fight.

This is Transparent Discrimination: ACLU’s Chase Strangio on Trump’s Military Trans Ban

The White House has reportedly prepared a memo for the Pentagon outlining President Trump's call to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. The memo instructs the Pentagon to refuse to admit transgender people to the military and to stop paying for the medical treatments for transgender people currently serving.

VA reform laws are rare legislative bright spot in 2017 for Trump, Congress

As President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed another bill into law that was designed to make internal reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs, it was a fresh reminder that one of the few areas of legislative success for Congress and the Trump Administration in 2017 has come on a subject that has drawn strong bipartisan cooperation, with the simple goal of ensuring better treatment for the nation's veterans. "To fulfill our great patriotic duties, we must take care of our great veterans," the President said in a speech to the American Legion in Reno, Nevada, where he later signed into law a bill that modernizes the benefits claims appeals process at the VA, to help speed decisions for veterans.

In a Florida first, white man to be executed for killing black man

For the first time in state history, Florida is expecting to execute a white man Thursday for killing a black person - and it plans to do so with the help of a drug that has never been used before in any U.S. execution. Barring a stay, Mark Asay, 53, is scheduled to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987.

Optimism in advance of Ohio crop harvest

Though some of Ohio's corn and soybean farmers might be pessimistic about this year's yield, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not. Despite the excessive rain that fell in Ohio and the necessary replanting for many, sometimes multiple times, the USDA has a reasonably sunny prediction for Ohio's average yield on corn, soybeans and wheat.

Van Nuys Airport gets first solar rooftop project, Long Beach Airport may be next

When Curt Castagna built four new airplane hangars at Van Nuys Airport, he started to think about all the wasted space - on the roof. So he decided to fill up that space by going into the solar energy business, a first for his group and a first for the general aviation airport.

Ga-Asi MQ-9B SkyGuardian Completes Faa Approved Flight

The MQ-9B is a STANAG 4671 -compliant version of the PredatorA B product line. )--On August 16th General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. flew a MQ-9B SkyGuardiana Remotely Piloted Aircraft from Laguna Airfield at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., through National Airspace, to its Gray Butte Flight Operations facility near Palmdale, Calif.

Senators: Federal purchase to help NY concord grape growers

Concord grape growers in New York are getting a boost from the federal government, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture planning to buy juice for nutrition programs. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the USDA will use up to $18 million to purchase surplus grape juice, which will help stabilize prices farmers receive.

Commentary: World War II vets fire back at Nazi march

The Nazi flags and salutes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend were a tough sight for anyone who had anything to do with the bloodiest war in human history. "I signed up to fight Nazis 73 years ago and I'll do it again if I have to," tweeted World War II veteran and former Michigan Rep. John Dingell.