(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced Casey Means, a physician and health entrepreneur with ties to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as his nominee for the next surgeon general of the country. Means, 37, is a vocal proponent of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and is a co-founder of the health …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice charged a New York man with federal hate crimes in an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, accusing him of assaulting Jewish victims, including two Columbia University students, during three separate protests over the war in Gaza. The DOJ said that Tarek Bazrouk, 20, “deliberately targeted and assaulted …
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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said any effort by the Trump administration to deport migrants to Libya would clearly violate a prior court order barring officials from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first weighing whether they risk persecution or torture if …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use to study the causes of autism spectrum disorder, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said on Wednesday. The new platform will first focus on …
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By AJ Vicens DETROIT (Reuters) -Hackers have tried to extort “multiple” school districts in the United States using previously stolen data from education software and cloud provider PowerSchool, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The California-based provider, which serves more than 60 million students globally, disclosed in December 2024 that personal information from …
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By Patrick Wingrove and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as next week that would revive an effort to decrease drug costs by tying the amount the government pays for some medicines to lower prices abroad, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Turkey’s state-controlled Halkbank asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a lower court ruling saying it could be prosecuted on criminal charges it helped Iran evade American sanctions. In a petition posted this week on the Supreme Court’s website, Halkbank said it was entitled to “absolute immunity” under the …
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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge has sided with a U.S. regulator’s decision last year to take Eli Lilly’s blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro off a list of medicines in short supply, a ruling that could dash patients’ hopes of regaining access to cheaper copies of the popular therapies. …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Wednesday that a White House budget proposal that slashes funding for federal law enforcement agencies was about $1 billion below what the bureau had sought, and asked them to authorize more money. The White House budget proposal, released …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it will hold a meeting of experts on May 22 to discuss COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for the upcoming immunization campaign. The meeting comes after the appointment of Martin Makary as FDA commissioner. Makary had earlier raised concerns about a number of public health efforts during …
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