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By Dan Levine and Michael Erman -Vaccination rates for several diseases including measles, diphtheria and polio decreased among U.S. kindergartners in the 2024-25 school year from the year before, according to federal data posted on Thursday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new figures at a time when the country faces …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday questioned the failure of an air traffic controller to issue a warning about a potential collision in the moments before a crash between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 people. The board held a second day of hearings …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration has sent a letter to Harvard University saying it has referred the university to the U.S. Justice Department to address allegations of “Harvard’s antisemitic discrimination.” In late June, the Trump administration said an investigation had concluded Harvard violated federal civil rights law for failing to address …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two resolutions that would have blocked arms sales to Israel in response to civilian casualties in Gaza were blocked in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, although they garnered more support than similar measures earlier this year. The two resolutions were introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent aligned with …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Growing Democratic rancor in the U.S. Congress over President Donald Trump’s tactics on the federal budget is threatening the long legislative tradition of funding the government through bipartisan deals, while raising the risk of a partial shutdown this fall. Republicans stirred the Democrats’ distrust by clawing back $9 billion of …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A divided federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the fraud conviction of a former product manager at OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens, in what prosecutors called the first insider trading case involving digital assets. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed with Nathaniel …

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(Changes paraphrase to full quote in paragraph 7) By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has billed its plan to undo U.S. climate regulation as a way to cut costs for industry, but it may backfire by forcing automakers, utilities, and manufacturers into a future of regulatory uncertainty and litigation risk, according to lawyers …

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