By Kamal Choudhury Dec 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Flow Neuroscience’s at-home brain stimulation device to treat depression, offering an alternative to typical antidepressants that can cause side effects with long-term use, the company said on Thursday. Depression rates in the U.S. have surged 60% over the past decade, …
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WILMINGTON, Delaware., Dec 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that some actions by former President Joe Biden were invalid because he signed them using an autopen, including appointments to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Below is a look at the controversy and legality of the device. WHAT IS AN …
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Dec 11 (Reuters) – A Democrat-backed bill to extend an expiring Affordable Care Act federal subsidy for three years to help Americans pay health insurance premiums was failing to win enough votes to advance in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. (Reporting by Richard Cowan and Costas Pitas; editing by Scott Malone)
Dec 11 (Reuters) – A Republican bill to create new federal subsidies to help Americans fund health insurance savings accounts rather than extend Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring on December 31 was failing to win enough votes to advance in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; editing by Scott Malone)
By Steve Gorman Dec 10 (Reuters) – An environmental group filed suit on Wednesday seeking to prevent the U.S. Interior Department from placing an image of President Donald Trump’s face on annual entrance passes for national parks and federal recreational areas that go on sale next year. Federal law requires the $80-a-year “America the Beautiful …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The United States can use other measures to recreate the roughly $200 billion in revenues it is collecting under tariffs based on a 1977 law if the Supreme Court strikes down use of that law, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday. Greer, speaking at an …
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By David Shepardson Dec 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge rejected on Wednesday a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to throw out a lawsuit filed by a California agency to challenge the cancellation of more than $4 billion in federal grants for the state’s high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sacramento-based …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of key senators and the head of the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday sharply criticized provisions on military helicopter safety in an annual defense bill released this week. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the proposal would make the skies less safe, calling it …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. The court heard arguments in the …
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