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By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) -Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell nearly 27% in 2024, federal estimates showed on Wednesday, marking the steepest decline ever and reaching the lowest levels since 2019. Nearly 80,391 people died from drug overdose in the U.S. in 2024, compared with 110,037 deaths a year earlier, according to U.S. …

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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy and Congress are battling with the Trump administration to keep moving forward with a contract award to build the Navy’s next-generation fighter jet, according three people with knowledge of the matter. At the heart of the conflict is the F/A-XX program, intended to replace the Navy’s …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A hotline connecting the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers at Reagan Washington National Airport has been inoperable since March 2022, an FAA official told a Senate committee on Wednesday. The U.S. Army said on May 5 that it was suspending helicopter training flights in the vicinity of …

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By Kristina Cooke (Reuters) -Every time Barbara, a 35-year-old asylum seeker from Cuba, goes to her prenatal appointments in Louisville, Kentucky, one topic looms large among the other pregnant immigrants she talks to there: will their babies be born U.S. citizens? Barbara, who asked to be identified by her first name only for fear of …

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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization has reduced its management team by half and will have to scale back operations, its director-general said on Wednesday, four months after the United States announced it was leaving the agency and cutting funding. “To be blunt, we cannot do everything,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Unions representing staff in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research, animal health and nutrition agencies warned lawmakers of political interference and irreparable damage to their work from President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government in a letter sent on Monday night. More than 15,000 USDA staff have been …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Over 100 federal employees who screen coal miners for black lung disease and research other respiratory disease who had been terminated as part of sweeping government layoffs have had their jobs restored permanently, West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced on Tuesday. They comprise a large percentage of the …

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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home, were ruled eligible for parole by a Los Angeles judge at a re-sentencing hearing on Tuesday. The Menendez brothers, held in custody …

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