By Patrick Wingrove, Maggie Fick and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. could deliver a policy win for the Trump administration in just a few months after the Food and Drug Administration enlisted GSK to help it fast-track approval of a decades-old drug to treat an autism-related disorder. The FDA’s unusual …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Missouri’s bid to revive a Republican-backed law intended to prevent enforcement of several federal gun laws in the state. The justices turned away Missouri’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that the state law violated language in the U.S. Constitution called the …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction for helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, steering clear of a case that continues to hound President Donald Trump and his administration. The justices turned away …
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, to avoid a lawsuit brought under an American anti-terrorism law alleging that it did business with a group blamed for downing a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014. The justices turned away Sberbank’s appeal …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -After being sentenced to four years in prison on Friday over his conviction on prostitution-related charges, Sean “Diddy” Combs returned to a Brooklyn jail where he has spent more than a year in conditions his lawyers call violent and inhumane. Prosecutors say the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center have …
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By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster to move a proposed consumer class action lawsuit over rigged ticket prices out of federal court and into private arbitration. The justices turned away Live Nation’s appeal of a lower court’s decision …
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By Andrea Shalal and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if President Donald Trump decides negotiations with congressional Democrats to end a partial government shutdown are “absolutely going nowhere,” a senior White House official said on Sunday. As the shutdown entered its fifth day, White House National …
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By Dietrich Knauth and Phil Stewart (Reuters) -A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon, a setback for the president as he seeks to dispatch the military to cities over the objections of their Democratic leaders. The ruling by U.S. District …
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(This October 4 story is repeated without any changes to the text.) By Jack Queen, Brad Heath and Kripa Jayaram WASHINGTON, October 4 (Reuters) -After mobilizing hundreds of federal agents and thousands of soldiers to the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump has declared victory over what he called a “crisis” of crime in Washington, and …
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NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) -U.S. forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, adding that the U.S. would also start looking at drug trafficking occurring on land. Trump made the comment during a speech at Naval Station Norfolk, next …
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