By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon’s new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders said on Friday. However, the Pentagon’s effort to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects — whether they are in …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, which it obtained late last month after a long court fight, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee’s closed-door meeting will come just …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Swiss drugmaker Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ first gene therapy for treating patients with a type of bladder cancer. The therapy , Adstiladrin, was approved for adult patients. It has be to administered once every three months into the patient’s bladder via a urinary catheter. Ferring did …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is preparing to vote on urging the Justice Department to pursue at least three criminal charges against former president Donald Trump, including insurrection, Politico reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people familiar with the matter. (Reporting By Paul Grant; …
(This Dec. 15 story has been refiled to add the name of CARB spokesperson in paragraph 13) By Laura Sanicola and Erwin Seba (Reuters) – Californian regulators voted Thursday to approve a plan to reduce the state’s carbon-dioxide emissions by 85% by 2045, reaching carbon neutrality then, including by cutting petroleum usage to one-tenth of …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles regional head of the U.S. agency that enforces U.S. labor laws has sided with scholarship basketball and football players at the University of Southern California (USC) seeking recognition as employees and the right to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) director of the agency’s …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Friday launched its long-planned “China House” unit, an internal reorganization to help expand and sharpen its policymaking toward its top geopolitical rival. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in May announced the creation of China House, calling it a department-wide, integrated team that would coordinate and implement U.S. …
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By Julia Harte (Reuters) – The number of botched executions in the United States reached a record high in 2022, according to a report released by a non-profit capital punishment research group on Friday, even as the overall number of inmates put to death remained near a five-decade low. Seven of the 20 executions attempted …
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((This Dec. 8 story has been corrected to fix paragraph 8 to make clear Whelan was given a bad-conduct discharge from the Marine Corps, not a dishonourable discharge).) (Reuters) – Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on espionage charges, did not figure in a prisoner exchange …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – John Morton, the U.S. Treasury’s first climate counselor, is stepping down, effective Friday, but says he is confident his work in coordinating climate change policies across the department will continue – even beyond the Biden administration. Morton, who left climate change advisory and investment firm Pollination Group to join …
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