By Patrick Wingrove NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday sent the White House the details of a drug pricing pilot for official review, according to a government website. The pilot, titled Global Benchmark for Efficient Drug Pricing (GLOBE) Model, will need …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior leaders at the U.S. Justice Department are urging swift charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, despite hesitation from prosecutors who believe more investigation is necessary, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The move comes a week after the administration pushed out …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States would give proceeds from tariff revenues to farmers. “We’re going to take some of that tariff money and give it to our farmers,” Trump said at the White House. The U.S. farm economy is slumping this year due to low crop prices …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned senior U.S. military officers from around the world to a meeting in Quantico, Virginia next week, five officials told Reuters on Thursday, a rare gathering of U.S. military leadership in one location. It was not clear why Hegseth has ordered …
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By Ismail Shakil (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had filed lawsuits against California, New York, and four other states for not providing their voter registration lists to the department. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that …
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By Leah Douglas and Cassandra Garrison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said Mexico has not adequately enacted protocols to curb the spread of New World screwworm, a sign of tension between the two countries as they navigate the northward march of the pest. Rollins blamed a recent screwworm detection less than …
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By Bo Erickson, Courtney Rozen and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration has raised the stakes in a showdown with U.S. Senate Democrats over a looming partial government shutdown, threatening to permanently remove workers from some federal agencies if funding runs out next Tuesday. The White House’s Office of Management and Budget — …
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(Reuters) -Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering adding certain symptoms of autism to an official list of side effects that can be compensated through a government vaccine injury program, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing an adviser. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which shields vaccine manufacturers from most lawsuits …
By Julie Steenhuysen, Julia Harte and Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) -Doctors are already facing worried women asking whether taking Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism in their children just days after U.S. President Donald Trump urged women to “fight like hell” to not take it. Trump, at a White House press conference on Monday flanked …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “commercial voyeurism” does not qualify as prostitution, his defense lawyer argued on Thursday in urging a judge to set aside a jury’s verdict finding the hip-hop mogul guilty on prostitution charges. Combs, 55, faces up to 20 years in prison if the July …
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