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By Michael Erman, Mariam Sunny and Julie Steenhuysen ATLANTA (Reuters) -A panel of vaccine advisers named by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday said that COVID-19 shots should be administered only through shared decision-making with a healthcare provider, scrapping a broad recommendation but maintaining access through health insurance. The two-day meeting highlighted deep …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, on Saturday demanded a meeting with President Donald Trump to avoid a government shutdown when funding ends on September 30. In a letter addressed to Trump, Schumer and Jeffries said Republican congressional leaders had repeatedly and publicly …

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By Nate Raymond and Kanishka Singh BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its campaign against Harvard University on Friday, placing new restrictions on the Ivy League school’s ability to access federal funds for student aid, citing concerns about the “financial position” of the oldest and richest university in the United States. The Department of …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday Republicans will hold a convention for the 2026 midterm elections, as his party seeks to maintain its narrow control of Congress. National party conventions generally only take place in presidential election years. “The Republican Party wants, very badly, a Convention for the …

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By David Morgan and Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The threat of a U.S. government shutdown surged on Friday, as the U.S. Senate rejected a short-term funding bill to keep federal agencies operating after September 30 and then left town for a week-long break. The lawmakers voted 44-48 to defeat a stopgap spending bill …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top prosecutor who is overseeing a criminal mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James resigned from his post on Friday, after President Donald Trump called for him to be removed from the job, according to an internal email seen by Reuters and …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from disfavoring arts organizations deemed to be promoting “gender ideology” when deciding which ones should receive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that a policy the NEA adopted …

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By David Shepardson and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican who leads oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, joined Democrats on Friday in criticizing FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s recent threats against Disney and local broadcasters for airing “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” The conservative senator from Texas, one of the most powerful Republicans …

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By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) – In a chaotic scene at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago suburbs, Illinois Democratic candidates running for Congress said they were tear-gassed, shot with pepper balls and shoved to the ground by federal agents on Friday while protesting against President Donald Trump’s immigration surge into the city.  Since …

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