(Corrects dateline to May 21) (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted its advisory panel’s recommendations on vaccines for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus. The recommendations were approved on May 13, 2025, and are now official recommendations of the CDC. (Reporting by Sneha S K in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Detained Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil must be allowed to meet with his wife, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. The order by U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark, New Jersey, comes after Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied her …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration will halt funding of $365 million awarded during the previous administration for rooftop solar power in Puerto Rico and redirect it to fossil fuel burning plants and maintenance of infrastructure, it said on Wednesday. Puerto Rico has long dealt with widespread power outages due to the U.S. …
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(Reuters) -The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge’s order requiring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to answer questions and disclose documents about its operations. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. ordered DOGE to turn over some records to the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and …
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(This story has been corrected to fix the name of the firm in paragraph 3) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has chosen Darryl Nirenberg, a lawyer and former U.S. Senate staffer, to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Romania. The White House and State Department have yet to comment on the outcome of Romania’s …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is investigating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and pressing charges against a New Jersey congresswoman, leveraging its control over the criminal justice system to pursue Democratic rivals. Cuomo, a candidate for New York City mayor, is under federal scrutiny over allegations he lied to Congress about …
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(Reuters) -A new federal assessment has identified significant undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in parts of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, the U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The resources identified by the U.S. Geological Survey in what is known as the Mowry Composite Total Petroleum System could bolster domestic energy …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a first for a Pentagon chief and something he said would become a monthly occurrence. Hegseth has made talking about his Christian faith a part of his daily life at the Pentagon, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Representative Gerald Connolly has died following his diagnosis with cancer of the esophagus last year, his family said in a statement posted to the Virginia lawmaker’s account on X on Wednesday. He was 75. Connolly, first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008 and the top Democrat on the …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative has recently assigned a team to review operations at the National Transportation Safety Board, a spokesperson for the NTSB confirmed on Wednesday. DOGE has been assigning teams to a number of independent agencies and recently sought to review agencies that are part of …
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