By Michael Erman (Reuters) -U.S. regulators on Thursday expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to 16- and 17-year-olds, as public health officials have urged Americans to get a third shot due to concerns about the new Omicron variant of the virus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it amended its emergency use authorization …
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By Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New York’s attorney general is seeking to question former U.S. President Donald Trump under oath as part of the state’s civil fraud investigation of his namesake business, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The attorney general, Letitia James, wants Trump to sit for a Jan. 7 deposition …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Brian Deese on Thursday declined to predict whether price increases would continue through 2022, but said most independent forecasters continued to see inflation “moderating meaningfully” over the course of next year. Deese said prices for gasoline, natural gas and used cars were falling, but those drops might not …
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By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California must prepare for an influx of women seeking abortions in the liberal state if the U.S. Supreme Court ends the constitutional right to the procedure, dozens of women’s health and rights groups said in a report released on Wednesday. The report by the Future of Abortion Council …
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(Reuters) – Four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles earned Time magazine’s “Athlete of the Year” honour, the publication said on Thursday. The 24-year-old gymnast traveled to the Tokyo Games this year with the intent of rewriting the recordbooks but instead brought about a groundbreaking, global conversation around athletes’ mental well-being. She dropped out of the …
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(Reuters) -U.S. railroad operators Union Pacific Corp and BNSF Railway said on Thursday they were suspending their COVID-19 vaccine mandate for their employees, two days after a judge blocked the Biden administration’s inoculation rule for federal contractors. Union Pacific said 73% of its 31,000 employees were fully vaccinated as of Dec. 8, adding that it …
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By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office is seeking to question former President Donald Trump under oath as part of a fraud investigation, said on Thursday she was suspending her campaign for New York governor, weeks after announcing a run. Her decision to abandon the campaign comes after …
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By Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) – (This December 7 story corrects typo in first paragraph) Starving manatees will soon be fed by hand in Florida, a rare wildlife intervention to save the marine mammals whose natural food is vanishing from the effects of pollution, state officials told Reuters. “Unified Command does have approval to move forward …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virginia’s Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin this week pledged to remove the state from a regional cap and trade carbon market using “executive action.” Virginia passed a bill in March 2020 under Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …
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(Reuters) – There is an about 95% chance of La Nina conditions continuing during the Northern Hemisphere winter 2021-22, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Niña weather pattern, characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, was expected to transition to more neutral conditions during the April-June period next …
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