Even before the recent salmonella outbreak, America’s egg industry was struggling to fend off another threat: allegations that it was cruel to chickens.

Business – Poultry – Meat and Seafood – Food and Related Products – United States

If all goes according to plan this fall, a girl somewhere in China’s Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can’t have sex with him. And he’ll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.

Sex education – Education – Abstinence-Only – Sexuality – United States

Paris Hilton may have a purse problem. (AP/Las Vegas Police Department) Celebrity Beat: Paris Hilton’s claim that the purse in which Las Vegas police allegedly found cocaine hits a snag when her Twitpic of said Chanel purse is revealed; however, police may have given purse back to Hilton instead of booking it into evidence, according to Radar Online; in further evidence that the heiress is having a bad week, a judge rules that Hilton did not live up to her promotional contract for the 2006 movie “Pledge This!” and may …

T.I., leaving court in 2009. (Associated Press) The big story of the day remains the arrest of rapper T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, who were charged with drug possession after being pulled over in Hollywood Wednesday night. Here are some of the new developments in the situation since the story broke early this morning.

Tameka Cottle – TI – Drug possession – Rapping – Los Angeles

Amid high unemployment and a weak economy, employers have been shifting health care costs to workers, according to a study released Thursday.

Health care – United States – Health care reform – Insurance – Politics