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By Leah Douglas, Michael Erman and Renee Hickman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A commission led by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday issued a report that said processed food, chemicals, stress and overprescription of medications and vaccines may be factors behind chronic illness in American children. The report, from the commission named after the …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A split U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major case involving religious rights in American education. With conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself from the case, the 4-4 ruling …

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By Ryan Patrick Jones (Reuters) -The federal government is winding down production of the penny coin following a bipartisan effort to nix the lowest-denomination of U.S. currency over cost concerns, according to a plan outlined by the Treasury Department on Thursday. The department placed its final order for blank pennies in May, it said in …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and ordered it on Thursday to reinstate employees terminated in a mass layoff. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston at the behest of a group of Democratic-led …

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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Security guards opened fire on a woman who drove toward the gates of the CIA’s headquarters near Washington, D.C. on Thursday, ignoring orders to stop, and she was then taken into custody, according to a person familiar with the matter. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a check …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Rapper Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi testified on Thursday at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial that the hip-hop mogul broke into his home in 2011 after discovering Mescudi was dating his on-and-off girlfriend Casandra Ventura. The incident is one of a number of violent and threatening acts that prosecutors …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Mariam Sunny WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is proposing a $6.8 billion budget request for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the 2026 fiscal year, its Commissioner Martin Makary said on Thursday, a cut of around 5.5% from its $7.2 billion budget this year. The White House had on …

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By David Morgan, Bo Erickson and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a sweeping tax and spending bill that would enact much of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and saddle the country with trillions of dollars more in debt. The bill, passed by a single-vote margin, would fulfill …

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