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(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Friday threw out a Biden administration directive narrowing who can be targeted by immigration agents for arrest and deportation, siding with officials in Texas and Louisiana challenging the policy in court. The directive, finalized in a memorandum issued last September by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), instructed …

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By Michael Erman (Reuters) -U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Friday said Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and effective for use in children aged 6 months to 17 years old as a committee of scientists will meet next week to vote on whether to recommend the regulator authorize the vaccine in children. …

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By Andrew Hay TIERRA MONTE, N.M. (Reuters) -When U.S. President Joe Biden visits New Mexico on Saturday to meet victims of the state’s largest ever wildfire, Daniel Encinias hopes to ask him for a new house. Encinias’ home and hundreds more in northern New Mexico were torched in April after controlled burns by the U.S. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) late on Friday issued an order rescinding a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the United States by air test negative for COVID-19. The order signed by https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/rescission-global-testing-order-p.pdf.pdf CDC Director Rochelle Walensky takes effect for flights departing to the United States from a foreign …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge on Friday rejected the National Rifle Association’s bid to end an investigation by that state’s attorney general into alleged corruption at the gun rights group. Justice Joel Cohen of the New York state court in Manhattan said the NRA did not show that Attorney …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A congressional panel investigating last year’s assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters presented evidence at its prime-time hearing that the former president posed a danger both to American democracy and his vice president, Mike Pence. Representative Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of …

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By David Shepardson and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration will scrap a paint scheme for Air Force One proposed by former President Donald Trump, after the Air Force determined the design would create too much heat for the presidential aircraft, a U.S. official said on Friday. The current exterior color scheme on the …

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