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By Ahmed Aboulenein, Robin Respaut and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a contract for investigating the association between vaccines and autism prevalence, a government website showed. It was not immediately clear how the contract fits with existing initiatives pushed by …

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By Ateev Bhandari and Anirban Sen (Reuters) – Nasdaq on Friday fired an employee for social media posts related to conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s shooting, saying they were in clear violation of its policy. Kirk, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at a Utah university. “Nasdaq has …

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(Reuters) – Kenvue’s interim CEO Kirk Perry met Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to try and dissuade him from listing Tylenol as a potential cause of autism in an upcoming report, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Perry argued at the hastily scheduled meeting this week that there …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The suspect in custody in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is named Tyler Robinson, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday. (Reporting by Jana Winter and Sarah N. Lynch)

By Tim Reid, Courtney Rozen, Nathan Layne and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Graphic videos that swept across social media of Charlie Kirk’s shooting made the activist’s death an indelible moment, forcing young Americans to confront the public killing of a prominent political leader not much older than themselves.  Kirk, 31, co-founder of the conservative …

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By Andrew Hay and Brad Brooks OREM, Utah (Reuters) – U.S. investigators on Thursday released photos and a video of a person of interest in the fatal shooting of influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said they had found the rifle believed to have been used in the politically charged killing. Kirk, a 31-year-old author, …

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