By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city officials and appointing an independent official to oversee it, citing a decade of worsening violent and dangerous conditions inside the facility. In a 77-page decision, U.S. District Judge Laura …
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By Sneha S K (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it is starting a process to remove fluoride supplements for children from the market, the latest federal action against the tooth-strengthening mineral. Fluoride is a mineral that occurs naturally in water, soil and air that has been demonstrated to prevent …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states filed two lawsuits on Tuesday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s administration from forcing them to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation, counter-terrorism and emergency preparedness grant funding. The states in a pair of lawsuits filed in federal …
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By Dietrich Knauth, Blake Brittain NEW YORK (Reuters) -Five American small businesses asked a U.S. court on Tuesday to halt President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, arguing that he overstepped his powers by declaring a national emergency to impose across-the-board taxes on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy. …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters. He said its removal prevented lawmakers, insurance companies and taxpayers from seeing the growing cost of more frequent natural disasters and from planning for …
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(Reuters) – The Texas health department reported 717 cases of measles in the state on Tuesday, an increase of eight since its last update on Friday, as the U.S. battles one of the worst outbreaks of the childhood disease in the country. Cases in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, rose to 405 from …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called on President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy U.S. health secretary to recuse himself from decisions related to former clients and employers in the healthcare industry for at least four years. Jim O’Neill, a health policy adviser with ties to several healthcare companies, is …
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By Andrea Shalal and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Tuesday a 10% universal tariff on goods entering the United States would stay in place but U.S. officials were in talks with many countries to lower additional tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Greer told CNBC he would speak to …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -One of President Donald Trump’s most contentious policies – his attempt to restrict automatic birthright citizenship – arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court this week with an unusual twist: The justices may focus on something else entirely. Federal judges in Washington state, Massachusetts and Maryland issued orders blocking Trump’s January executive …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs, the rapper and music mogul who discovered world-famous artists and helped bring the genre into the mainstream, went on trial in New York on Monday on charges that he ran a two-decade racketeering and sex trafficking conspiracy. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. Here is …
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