Pork producers could soon be opening their piggy banks.

Millions of Americans who purchased pork products may qualify for part of a $117 million class-action settlement tied to claims that pork prices were improperly inflated.

The settlements apply to consumers who indirectly bought eligible raw pork products between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018.

Eligible purchases could include grocery-store bacon and other pork items, including pork bellies, loins, shoulders, ribs and pork chops.

The litigation arose from allegations that major processors conspired to drive up pork prices by restricting supply and using industry data to shape the market.

Companies named in the case, including Agri Stats, Clemens, Hormel, Seaboard, Triumph, Tyson and Smithfield, have denied the allegations.

Still, the agreements bring the litigation to a close without a trial and without a determination of whether the companies were at fault.

“The court has not ruled that the defendants did anything wrong, and the companies deny any allegations of wrongdoing,” the settlement’s website states.

In total, the current settlements make $117.065 million available for consumers.

While a handful of companies agreed to pay millions, there is no set amount of money that each impacted person will receive. 

Eligible consumers who file valid claims will receive a share of the settlement based on the number of people who submit claims and the amount of pork they bought.    

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The settlement applies to consumers in a whopping 25 states, including New York, California, Florida, Illinois and Michigan.

Not every pork product qualifies, either. Organic pork and products labeled ‘no antibiotics ever’ are excluded, as are certain pork products that were marinated, seasoned, flavored or breaded.

Consumers who believe they qualify have until October 29 to submit a claim.

And even though part of the form asks for ‘purchase information,’ buyers do not have to enter a receipt from years ago. 

The website confirms, ‘you do not need to provide any documentation at this time. However, the Settlement Administrator may ask for additional information or documentation to support your claim.’

After buyers submit their claim online, they will receive a confirmation email with a unique code – the website says to keep both the email and the code for the time being. 

Customers can also submit their claim by mail, if they choose. 

There have also been earlier settlements in the case involving JBS and Smithfield totaling $95 million, but the deadline to claim money from those settlements has already passed.

Meanwhile, Agri Stats agreed to certain business-practice changes but is not making a cash payment as part of the settlement. 

A group of Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae returned to federal court Monday in an effort to revive their lawsuit against the sorority’s national organization, alleging its leaders improperly permitted a transgender woman to join a chapter.

Allie Coghan, one of the plaintiffs, told Fox News Digital that although she has graduated, she hopes the appeal will create a legal precedent involving single-sex private organizations and limit the ability of national bodies to override the wishes of local members.

“We were promised a sisterhood, and we were given a brother,” Coghan said. “If Kappa wants to redefine the word woman to include men in the definition, that’s fine, but they have to go through the proper procedures to do so and allow members to vote, which they did not.”

The dispute dates to 2022, when Artemis Langford, a transgender student, was admitted to the University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Coghan said Langford’s admission moved forward despite objections raised by her and other members of the sorority.

According to Coghan, the chapter also departed from its usual membership voting process.

Rather than using the chapter’s standard recruitment application, she said members were instructed to vote through Google Forms that were not anonymous and were connected to their email accounts.

“They were knocking on girls’ doors asking for proof that you had voted,” Coghan said. She also alleged that chapter officers warned members they could be branded “transphobic” if they opposed the prospective member’s admission.

Coghan said members and parents tried repeatedly to reach Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national leadership, but executives did not return calls and later stopped responding to emails.

She and several fellow sorority members eventually filed a legal challenge against the organization.

The initial lawsuit was dismissed by US District Judge Alan B. Johnson, who ruled that Kappa Kappa Gamma, as a private organization, could interpret its own membership requirements.

However, the alumnae, supported by the Independent Women’s Law Center, appealed the ruling to the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral arguments in Denver Monday.

It was very surreal to be back. I mean, we were in college. We just wanted to be sorority girls, finish our degrees, graduate, go out into the real world,” Coghan said.

“I remember when I was trying to decide if I wanted to sign my name on this, asking the lawyer, am I [going to] be married with kids before there’s any sort of resolution? And he just kind of laughed at me and said, ‘I guess it depends on how soon you get married.’ Well, I actually just got married two weeks ago,” she added.

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Coghan described the situation in school as toxic and said the sorority house became a “political war zone.” She said that while Langford did not live in the house, the student was granted 24/7 access to the living quarters and common rooms, including an area young women needed to walk through to get to the showers.

“The entire dynamic of the house completely shifted. It became a political war zone,” Coghan said. “You would see him sitting in the common rooms upstairs, and girls have to walk past those rooms to get to the shower. We don’t have a space to undress to get into the shower, so you would just walk in your towel and go take a shower and come back.”

While Coghan has since graduated, she said a sense of duty to younger women keeps her involved in the case and seeking a resolution in the courts.

“I don’t understand how the feminist movement has shifted so much that it’s no longer pro-women, it’s pro-woman erasure,” Coghan said.

“I hope that it will really set a standard of woman means woman. Woman does not mean man who thinks he is woman. Woman is not up for interpretation. A woman is an adult human female,” she later added.

Coghan and her fellow plaintiff, Hannah Holtmeier, also spoke on the “Riley Gaines Show” podcast, discussing the moment they said their chapter president told them that if they didn’t like the change in their house, they were welcome to drop out of the group.

“She basically told us, ‘If you don’t like it, your values don’t align with Kappa’s, and you can drop,’” Holtmeier told Gaines. “Being told that, ‘If you don’t like it, you can drop’ and not live in a house that I had called a home for already a year and a half was absolutely mind-boggling to me.”

She echoed Coghan’s comments about conditions in the sorority house, saying women would sometimes act as lookouts for one another when they were in the shower to ensure the hallway was clear.

“It was to the point where girls would have like a lookout basically when they’re in the shower. They would text their roommate, say, ‘Hey, I’m coming back,’ and they would have to clear the hall,” Holtmeier said.

“It was definitely an unnerving feeling in those intimate spaces, especially upstairs when that’s where our showers were.”

The recent oral arguments before the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver represented a new phase in the legal battle.

The three-judge panel is considering whether to overturn the lower court’s dismissal and revive the breach of contract lawsuit.

The plaintiffs argued the national leadership of the group could not legally redefine core membership terms, including what constitutes being a “woman,” without a formal vote from the organization’s members or an amendment to its bylaws. The appeals court’s ruling will determine whether the lawsuit remains dismissed or is allowed to move forward.

Fox News Digital reached out to Kappa Kappa Gamma for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

A teenage girl was killed when a private garbage truck crashed into several people in Manhattan’s crowded, nightlife-heavy East Village neighborhood.

The unidentified 15-year-old was struck at about 9 p.m. Friday as the sanitation truck made a right turn at 14th Street and First Avenue, according to NBC 4 New York.

She had been riding a Citi Bike with a 13-year-old friend when the truck hit the crowd, leaving the older girl pinned beneath the vehicle, authorities said.

“The police went and then tried to shake her, but she wasn’t responsive,” one witness told the outlet.

“And then, a bunch of police came in. They pulled her and then they pulled that person out and they gave that person CPR for about 10 minutes,” the witness added. “There was no response.”

A doorman at nearby O’Hanlon’s Bar told the New York Daily News that both girls appeared to have suffered serious injuries in the devastating crash.

“The truck hit both of them,” 59-year-old Tony Roman told the outlet.

“The one underneath the truck, the body and bike, both looked mangled. The other one, a girl, was on the floor sitting up,” he said. “It was scary, the city is no place for bikes.”

The girl’s 13-year-old friend was also injured. While her condition remains unclear, a bystander said she was taken to Bellevue Hospital with severe injuries to her leg and pelvis, according to a post on X. 

Disturbing photos captured a huge emergency response at the scene, with at least six ambulances reportedly rushing to the intersection.

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‘I heard a loud sound, like a scream,’ a 22-year-old witness told New York Daily News.

‘The truck had run over them. It looked like two women. One of the women on the bike was crushed under the truck. They were giving her CPR and pumping her chest. The other one on the other side was lifted into an ambulance,’ they added. 

‘It didn’t look good. It was crazy. There were cops everywhere.’

Footage showed police and firefighters swarming the area and quickly throwing up crime tape around the privately owned truck, which sat motionless in the middle of the road.

The mangled remains of a blue Citi Bike could be seen crushed beneath one of the truck’s massive wheels, while a lone Puma sneaker lay abandoned on the street nearby. 

Hours later, detectives were still swarming the normally lively street, examining evidence as traffic continued to pile up around the scene. 

The NYPD said the truck driver, who remained at the scene, was being questioned as they launched an investigation into the deadly crash, according to NBC. 

Multiple city cameras at the intersection are believed to have captured the crash and could provide crucial evidence for investigators, including which vehicle had the right of way, police said. 

The truck was operated by Badger Daylighting, a Bronx-based company that specializes in hydrovac excavation, according to the NY Daily News. 

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Cuba suffered another nationwide power grid failure Friday, plunging millions of residents into darkness in what was at least the island’s sixth major blackout since President Donald Trump halted fuel supplies to the country in January.

Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines confirmed the islandwide outage in a post on its official X account, saying authorities had started “activating service-restoration protocols” to bring electricity back online.

For many Cubans, the latest blackout added to an already punishing daily struggle. “No one can stand these constant blackouts. There isn’t enough food, there’s no water, there’s no electricity — you have no idea,” Mercedes Rodriguez, a 60-year-old Havana worker waiting for public transportation, told The Associated Press. “The country is in such a sad state, and there are no words for what we’re going through.”

Officials said the collapse began after an apparent breakdown in transmission lines in western Cuba. The malfunction knocked out service as far east as Matanzas province before the eastern portion of the national electrical system was also disconnected.

State-run newspaper Granma said unstable weather conditions had compounded the problems facing Cuba’s already fragile power network.

By nightfall, electricity had returned to roughly 5% of Havana customers, official figures showed. The capital has about 862,000 electricity users.

Authorities were also creating small electricity-distribution “micro-islands” in Camagüey, Pinar del Río and Granma provinces, while beginning to restore power systems supporting hospitals and other essential emergency services.

Major power failures have become a recurring feature of life in Cuba over the past two years as the island confronts a deepening economic crisis.

The outages have grown more severe since January, when the United States introduced an energy blockade intended to pressure Cuba into changing its political system.

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Those measures have blocked Cuba from obtaining fuel needed to run its thermoelectric plants, along with replacement components necessary to repair and maintain an aging power infrastructure that is often obsolete.

Just one tanker of fuel has been delivered since, by a Russian tanker in March.

The two most recent nationwide blackouts occurred in early August, following others in July and March, as well as several regional outages.

Even when the national power grid is working, Cubans regularly endure outages lasting more than 30 consecutive hours.

The blackouts have had a significant impact on the population and, combined with the energy embargo, have led to transportation limitations, reduced work hours and flight cancellations, in addition to serious public health consequences.

The power outages also affect basic activities such as cooking, water supply, and internet and telephone service.

Abilén Marrero, a homemaker, sat resignedly at the entrance to her building in central Havana on Friday.

“Maybe it’ll come back this afternoon or tomorrow—there’s no way to know. We just have to wait,” she said.