Bacon, Doughnuts Pose New Health Risks for Alaska’s Bears

NBC News and the Associated Press are all over it.

“Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon,” announces an NBC News headline. “These and other hunting methods — condemned as cruel by wildlife protection advocates — had been outlawed on federal lands in 2015 under Obama.”

That’s how the network introduces an Associated Press story. NBC is running this news under the heading, “Trump Effect” and the story elaborates that the new rule will allow the use of “spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens” and also “motor...