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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Thursday it will boost its supply of monkeypox vaccine by making available an extra 1.8 million doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos shot, as the number of reported cases in the country rose above 13,500. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease …

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By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) -A longtime senior executive at Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping the company engineer a 15-year tax fraud, in an agreement that will require him to testify about its business practices at an upcoming trial. Allen Weisselberg, 75, the former chief financial officer at the …

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By Jasper Ward and Valerie Volcovici NASSAU, BAHAMAS (Reuters) – The U.S. climate bill signed into law this week restores the country’s credibility as a leading player in U.N. climate negotiations, international officials said. The $430 billion bill passed by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, after more than a year of tense negotiations, lays out …

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(Reuters) -Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday it was engaged in “quiet diplomacy” with the United States regarding a potential prisoner swap that would include basketball star Brittney Griner. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star, was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia on drug charges on …

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By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Over 650 workers at Google owner Alphabet Inc are demanding it offer abortion benefits to contractors, suspend donations to anti-abortion politicians and better protect users from abortion-related disinformation and police requests. The demands were sent this week in a petition to executives seen by Reuters. They reflect concerns …

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By Zeba Siddiqui LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -A team of hackers from two North American universities won the “Capture the Flag” championship, a contest seen as the “Olympics of hacking,” which draws together some of the world’s best in the field. In the carpeted ballroom of one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas, the few …

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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday reinstated a decades-old North Carolina ban on abortions performed after 20 weeks of gestation, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing states to freely regulate procedures to terminate pregnancy. Although so-called late-term procedures are rare, abortion rights proponents said Wednesday’s ruling chips away at reproductive …

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