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By James Oliphant and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for students to attend schools, the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday, a move public health experts warned could trigger severe outbreaks among children, tourists and those with compromised immune systems. Ladapo, along with Florida Governor Ron …

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By Steve Gorman CHINESE CAMP, California (Reuters) -A cluster of lightning-sparked wildfires raged across portions of two Northern California counties on Wednesday, forcing widespread evacuations and engulfing part of an historic Gold Rush mining town once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants. Wind-whipped flames from nearly two dozen separate blazes have scorched more than 13,000 …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Wednesday his planned oversight visit to an intelligence agency was cancelled as a result of criticism by far-right activist Laura Loomer.  Warner had been scheduled to meet on September 5 with staff at the …

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By Emily Green, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Many family members of unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children who are part of a group the Trump administration attempted to deport over the weekend did not want their children returned to Guatemala, according to an internal Guatemalan government report that contradicts assertions made by U.S. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday moved to end a Biden-era designation of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. The department said Venezuela no longer met the TPS requirements.  Temporary Protected Status is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two of the three remaining commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. nuclear safety watchdog, told a Senate hearing on Wednesday they feel President Donald Trump could fire them if they obstruct his goal to approve reactors faster. Trump signed executive orders in May that set goals of fast-tracking …

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(Reuters) -Pfizer and Moderna on Wednesday defended their COVID-19 vaccines as having saved millions of lives worldwide, in separate responses to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that pharmaceutical companies should justify the success of their pandemic drugs. In a post on Truth Social, Trump asserted that he has seen “extraordinary” data from companies such as …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Recent staff losses at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the departure of two dozen senior leaders, could compromise the agency’s ability to respond to natural disasters this year, according to a report by a government watchdog agency. Disaster experts and FEMA employees have warned that understaffing, inexperienced leadership …

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