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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it does not expect AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail Evusheld to provide protection against the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5. The subvariant has been causing concern among scientists after its rapid spread in the United States in December. While the agency is awaiting additional data to verify …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -An Italian man pleaded guilty on Friday in New York to impersonating editors and agents in order to steal more than 1,000 unpublished book manuscripts belonging to authors like Margaret Atwood and the actor Ethan Hawke. Filippo Bernardini, 30, a London resident who had been employed there by Simon …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said on Friday he plans to join other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-managed devices. Evers, a Democrat, told WISN-TV in Milwaukee he would issue an order banning the short-video app owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance, early next week. He …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – South Carolina’s Republican-created congressional map deliberately split up Black neighborhoods in Charleston to diminish their voting power and must be redrawn, a three-judge federal panel ruled on Friday. The Republican-controlled legislature adopted the map last year after the 2020 U.S. Census as part of the once-a-decade redistricting process that all …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – New Mexico police are investigating shots fired at an office of the state’s attorney general last month in connection with attacks on residences and the business of four other Democratic officials that have raised concerns of political violence. Multiple shots were reported on Dec. 10 at the former campaign headquarters …

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ZURICH (Reuters) – Roche announced on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review to the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s bispecific antibody Glofitamab. Glofitamab is intended for patients with relapsed or refractory large b-cell lymphoma. The FDA is expected to make a decision on approval of the cancer immunotherapy by July 1, 2023. …

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By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 people on Friday during a ceremony at the White House to mark two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a White House official said. The award, one of the …

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By Rory Carroll (Reuters) -The NFL will not resume the game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals that was postponed on Monday after Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field, the league said on Thursday. The Bengals were leading 7-3 in the first quarter of the game in Cincinnati …

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By Sharon Bernstein and Kate Fishman SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day on Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and disrupting road travel with flash floods, rock slides and toppled trees. At least two fatalities have …

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