We start the day's other news with two announcements from the Food and Drug Administration aimed at protecting Americans' health.

First, officials are banning red dye number three from food for its potential cancer risk.

It was banned from cosmetics nearly 35 years ago.

The dye is now found in some sweets, flavored beverages, and oral medicines.

Regulators gave food manufacturers until 2027 to remove it from their products.

The FDA also proposed a rule today to make cigarettes less addictive by capping their nicotine levels.

Officials say that smoking is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S.

They estimate the rule could help nearly 13 million Americans quit within a year if implemented.

Today's action is a pivotal step towards reducing these monumental adverse health effects

and the more than a billion dollars spent per day in this country on smoking-related

health care costs and lost productivity.

The agency announced the plan in the final days of the Biden presidency. It's unclear if the

incoming Trump administration will support the proposal. The Supreme Court signaled support

today for a Texas law aimed at blocking children from seeing pornography online.

Critics of the measure say it violates the First Amendment by requiring age verifications like photo ID.

They say parents should filter what their kids see instead.

But members of the court's conservative majority pushed back, with Justice Samuel Lido asking,

quote, do you know a lot of parents who are more tech-savvy than their 15-year-old children?

Texas is among more than a dozen states with such laws on the books.

The court is expected to rule on the case by July.

In South Africa, police abruptly called off a rescue operation at an abandoned

gold mine where hundreds of people have been trapped underground. A rescue operation began on

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