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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) -Developers are on track to add 33 gigawatts of solar power in the U.S. this year, accounting for about half of the total new electricity generating capacity planned for the country in 2025, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. If the plans are realized, large-scale solar power additions …

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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -More than 750 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services staff have urged Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guarantee federal health workers’ safety after a shooting this month at CDC buildings in Atlanta, according to a letter released on Wednesday. The signatories, including former leaders at the Centers for Disease …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is in a better position than federal courts to release materials that would satisfy public curiosity about the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case.  In rejecting the Justice Department’s bid to unseal records from the …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution – a premier museum, education and research complex for U.S. history and culture – to accept his demands, just like he did with colleges and universities by threatening to cut federal funding. In a social media post, …

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By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A 28-year-old transgender woman from the U.S. began a legal challenge on Wednesday to the rejection of her asylum application in the Netherlands where she had sought political asylum saying she no longer felt safe in the United States. Veronica Clifford-Carlos, a visual artist from California, came to the …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator has allowed a study of Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ gene therapy to resume, less than three months after halting it following a patient’s death. The drugmaker’s shares soared over 30% in morning trading on Wednesday. Rocket’s mid-stage trial, testing its experimental therapy, RP-A501, for a genetic disorder called Danon disease, was halted …

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(Reuters) -The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday recommended that all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19, differing from federal policy that no longer recommends routine vaccination for healthy children. In its latest policy document, AAP said all young children aged 6-23 months should receive a COVID-19 shot regardless of previous doses or SARS-CoV-2 infection. …

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By Gerardo Gomez (Reuters) -Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier hunkered down for a second night in the Texas Capitol building rather than accept a mandatory police escort in a redistricting battle as President Donald Trump seeks to keep Republican control of Congress. This time she expects to have a bit more company. Collier was one …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday it may withhold up to 25% of federal transit funding for New York state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority if the agency does not improve safety for subway track maintenance workers. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued a directive in August 2024 to the MTA’s New …

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