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(Refiles to clarify number of flights in paragraph 4, to more than 4,000 from more than 4,00) By Doyinsola Oladipo and David Shepardson NEWARK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said staffing issues were causing delays at several airports including Newark and Denver on Monday, just hours after the top U.S. transportation official said air traffic …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he had signed an executive order directing his administration to permit an access road to the Ambler mining district in Alaska to unlock domestic supplies of copper and other minerals. The White House also announced a $35.6 million investment in Canada’s Trilogy Metals, one of the …

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(Reuters) -The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, and to Chicago to suppress protests and bolster immigration enforcement. National Guard were also deployed in recent months to Los Angeles and Washington.  Below is a look at the president’s legal authority for using the military in U.S. cities, …

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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Novo Nordisk’s challenge to the U.S. government’s program that gives its Medicare health insurance plan the power to negotiate lower drug prices, the latest in a barrage of lawsuits brought by drugmakers to fail. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

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By Mariam Sunny, Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman (Reuters) -A top U.S. health official on Monday called for the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot to be broken up, drawing a quick rebuke from vaccine maker Merck, which said there is no scientific evidence that shows any benefit to doing so. The U.S. CDC earlier on Monday pulled …

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By Marisa Taylor and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes.  Bill Pulte, director …

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(Reuters) -The acting director of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, in an X post on Monday called on vaccine manufacturers to develop three separate monovalent vaccines to replace the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. This comes hours after O’Neill signed off on a vaccine advisory panel’s recommendation against the use of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before the age …

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