By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Christy Santhosh Dec 5 (Reuters) – U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains. The committee recommended …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The city of San Diego has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a city police officer as the youth was fleeing another teenager who had opened fire on him, U.S. media reported on Friday. The …
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By Jeff Mason and James Oliphant WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not attending the draw for the 2026 World Cup to receive a prize, but he got one anyway. Trump, who has campaigned aggressively this year for a Nobel Peace Prize, was given FIFA’s inaugural peace prize for …
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(Corrects headline to all newborns) NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) – A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in one of the most sweeping changes to vaccine policy under Kennedy’s …
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By Andrew Chung Dec 5 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th century constitutional provision has long been understood. …
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By Steve Gorman Dec 5 (Reuters) – A blast of Arctic air gripped much of the central and eastern portions of the U.S. on Friday in sub-freezing temperatures well below normal for this time of year, setting records from Iowa and Michigan to New York. The frigid weather pattern stemmed from a fluctuation in the …
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By Daniel Wiessner Dec 5 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said on Friday that President Donald Trump had the power to fire Democratic members of two federal labor boards, a major victory in the Republican president’s bid to rein in agencies meant to be independent from the White House. The U.S. Court of Appeals …
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Dec 5 (Reuters) – Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical creations of leaning towers and sweeping sheets of curved metal such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, made him a superstar in the world of architecture, died on Friday. He was 96. Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry’s chief of staff, confirmed his death in an email …
By Jack Queen NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) – A Florida federal judge on Friday cleared the Justice Department to release grand jury transcripts from its sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein, which could shed light on the deceased financier’s ties to rich and powerful people including President Donald Trump. The Justice Department asked U.S. …
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By Joseph Ax Dec 5 (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled Indiana House of Representatives on Friday approved a new congressional map targeting the state’s two incumbent Democrats, setting up a showdown next week in the state Senate, where the mid-decade redistricting faces more opposition. Friday’s vote was 57 to 41 in favor, mostly along party lines. …
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