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By Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. congressional committee has asked data brokers and personal health apps to explain how they handle users’ reproductive health data amid concerns states will use the information to track patients seeking abortion where it is illegal. Democrats on the House of Representatives Oversight Committee said they were concerned that …

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By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday that he has not yet made a decision on whether to cut some U.S. tariffs on imports from China, saying his administration was reviewing them “one at a time.” Biden had been due to discuss the tariffs with his advisers on …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/family-seating/June-2022-notice warned airlines it may issue regulations prohibiting them from charging extra fees to allow young children to sit next to accompanying family members. The agency, citing a 2016 law that required it to review U.S. airline family seating policies, issued a notice urging …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the use of ballot drop boxes, which increased substantially across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, is illegal under state law. In a 4-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority also said voters cannot have other people return their completed ballots in person …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -A wildfire forced the closure of part of California’s Yosemite National Park on Friday and threatened some of the largest and oldest giant sequoia trees in the world as the state faced another potentially devastating fire year. Authorities blocked access to the park’s largest stand of sequoias and told visitors to …

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(Fixes typo in headline) MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday the United States had asked that U.S. fighters detained in Ukraine be recognised as combatants, the Interfax news agency reported. (Reporting by Reuters, Editing by William Maclean)

By Christopher Walljasper and Steve Gorman CHICAGO (Reuters) – An 8-year-old boy suffered a severed spinal cord from a gunshot wound to his chest in the July Fourth attack on a Chicago-area parade that left seven dead, a family spokesman said on Thursday, with his twin brother and mother also wounded. Cooper Roberts was one …

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