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India’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework membership will strengthen region – Yellen

By David Lawder NOIDA, India (Reuters) -India’s membership in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) will make supply chains resilient between the Asian country and the United States and help the entire region, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday. Yellen said strong trade and investment, and people-to- people ties make the bilateral economic and …

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GSK to limit U.S. use of ovarian cancer drug to some populations

(Reuters) -Britain’s GSK said on Friday it will limit the use of its ovarian cancer treatment Zejula in the United States, to patients with some genetic anomalies when given as a second option to keep their cancer at bay. The drugmaker would restrict the second-line maintenance indication for Zejula to only patients with harmful, or …

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Tropical Storm Nicole lashes Florida, downing power lines and killing two

By Brian Ellsworth and Rich McKay MIAMI (Reuters) -Tropical Storm Nicole swept across Florida on Thursday, weakening but still carrying a powerful punch with a mix of heavy rains and fierce winds that downed power lines, flooded homes and left at least two people dead. As many as 350,000 homes and businesses across Florida were …

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U.S. FDA approves AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drugs

(Reuters) – Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Friday its lung cancer drugs Imfinzi and Imjudo have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when used along with chemotherapy for treatment of adults with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. (Reporting by Amna Karimi in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)

Factbox-Over 62,000 without power in Florida from storm Nicole

(Reuters) – More than 62,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power on Friday after storm Nicole crashed into the state’s east coast. Utilities have already restored service to nearly 90% of the roughly 600,000 customers who lost power since the storm first hit. The system weakened into a depression on Thursday night …

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Runoff election in Georgia may decide fate of U.S. Senate, again

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Control of the U.S. Senate may once again be decided in Georgia, weeks after Election Day as a tight race between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker was headed to a Dec. 6 runoff. With more than 99% of the vote counted, Warnock is narrowly leading against Walker, a …

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Standing ovations for conservative U.S. justices at Federalist Society event

By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett received standing ovations from members of the conservative Federalist Society on Thursday at its first annual convention since the court overturned a nationwide right to abortion. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch also received applause at the event of …

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Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Chicago police are investigating a noose that was found at the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an act the Illinois governor condemned as a symbol of racist hatred. The incident led to a temporary halt in construction, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing the construction consortium that …

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Control of U.S. Congress hangs in balance as states labor to count ballots

By Tim Reid and Joseph Ax PHOENIX (Reuters) -Two days after Americans went to the polls, the political world remained on tenterhooks on Thursday, with both chambers of the U.S. Congress up for grabs as election officials painstakingly tallied hundreds of thousands of votes in a process that could take days to resolve. Republicans have …

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U.S. judge strikes down Biden’s student debt relief plan

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald …

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