By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville said on Tuesday he will run for governor of Alabama next year, ending weeks of speculation about his political plans for the 2026 elections. “I will be the future governor of the great state of Alabama,” Tuberville, 70, said on Fox News. A former college …
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By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -The U.S. has stopped recommending routine COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant women and healthy children, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced in a social media post on Tuesday, circumventing the CDC’s traditional recommendation process. Kennedy, FDA commissioner Marty Makary and National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya said …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. will not seek the death penalty for a son of convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, if he is convicted on U.S. drug trafficking charges of his own, prosecutors said in a court filing. In a court filing dated May 23, …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday issued an order temporarily barring the U.S. Transportation Department from withholding federal funding from New York as the Trump administration seeks to kill Manhattan’s congestion pricing program. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman held the hearing just one day before the potential start date of the …
(Reuters) -Several leading public health, medical, civil rights, education and community organizations sent a letter to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urging him to reconsider recent government body reorganizations over concerns related to tobacco regulations. The letter, dated May 21, was signed by 87 organizations — including the American Association for Cancer Research, …
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Two weeks into the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, witnesses have accused the hip-hop mogul of everything from breaking into a rival’s home to taking ecstasy and attempting to intimidate or pay off witnesses in the case. Combs is not charged with any of these alleged crimes, but …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has ordered a halt to new student visa interviews as it considers requiring foreign students to undergo social media vetting as part of their application to study in the United States, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing a diplomatic cable. (Reporting by Susan Heavey)
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a student’s challenge on free speech grounds to a Massachusetts public school’s decision to bar him from wearing a T-shirt reading “There are only two genders” due to concern about the message’s effect on transgender and other pupils. The justices turned …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI will launch new probes into the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House during President Joe Biden’s term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a top official announced on Monday. Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster-turned-FBI deputy director, made the …
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By Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s latest orders seeking to revitalize the U.S. nuclear energy industry could pull the uranium market out of its current lull and boost investor interest, industry experts said. Spot uranium prices have fallen about 30% from peaks hit in 2023 as institutional investors pulled out, spooked by recession fears …
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