By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON -U.S. Republicans continued on Wednesday a years-long effort to override a 2018 California law that bans the sale in the state of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, arguing in a House Agriculture Committee hearing that the law is overly burdensome to farmers. Proposition 12, which also sets housing …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic, has been making sweeping changes to reshape vaccine, food and medicine policies. The most far-reaching of his moves culminated in the layoff of all 17 members of a panel of vaccine experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Missouri’s Republican attorney general filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing reproductive healthcare provider Planned Parenthood of misleading women about the potential risks of using the abortion drug mifepristone. The lawsuit by the office of Attorney General Andrew Bailey claims Planned Parenthood tells patients that the drug is “safer than many other …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that the Trump administration was not in a rush to nominate a new Federal Reserve Chair to replace Jerome Powell. “We are getting the process underway. Obviously it’s going to be President Trump’s decision, and we’re not in a rush,” Bessent told Bloomberg TV in …
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(Corrects to add dropped word ‘interpreter’ to the headline) By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An Afghan who moved to the United States after working for the U.S. military in his home country was seized by armed, masked immigration agents, put in a van and taken out of state, attorneys and members of Congress said on …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders at an AI summit on Wednesday, the White House said late on Tuesday. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department accused a panel of New Jersey federal court judges of political motives for declining to permanently appoint Republican President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba as the state’s top federal prosecutor. The judges on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey named Desiree Grace, the …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowd of pedestrians outside a Los Angeles nightclub over the weekend, injuring dozens of people, some critically, was charged on Tuesday with 37 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said. The suspect, Fernando Ramirez, 29, a resident of San Clemente, …
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(Corrects day of week in first sentence) By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday he would send lawmakers home a day early for a five-week summer recess to avoid a political fight over files on disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move averts …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on White House access by Associated Press journalists after the news organization declined to refer to the body of water long called the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America as he prefers. The …
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