By Tim Reid and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nick Gioia was terminated from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February as part of President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk’s effort to slash the size and cost of the federal government. Gioia was then reinstated and placed on paid leave after a court …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (This April 9 story has been corrected to say ‘water flow’ instead of ‘water pressure’ in paragraph 1, to recast paragraph 5, and to say the order covers only shower heads, not other appliances, in paragraph 6) President Donald Trump, after complaining about it for years, signed an order to lift restrictions …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge in Vermont questioned on Monday whether the Trump administration would instigate a “constitutional crisis” by not releasing a Turkish student at Tufts University from immigration custody if he concluded her arrest was unlawful. U.S. District Judge William Sessions raised that prospect during a hearing in Burlington as …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it has criminally charged a man it alleged carried out two recent arson attacks against the New Mexico Republican Party’s headquarters and a Tesla dealership in the state. The criminal complaint, dated April 12, charges Jamison Wagner with arson. No one was …
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -An earthquake measuring 5.2 magnitude struck the interior of San Diego County in California on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 13.4 km (8.33 miles), USGS said. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office’s substation in Julian, the mountain town in eastern San Diego County that …
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(Reuters) – Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said on Monday several hundred counterfeit units of its diabetes drug Ozempic were being distributed outside its authorized supply chain in the United States. The country’s health regulator seized the counterfeit injections on April 9 and is investigating them. Surging demand for Novo’s Ozempic, chemically known as semaglutide, has …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he expects to impose tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals in the not-too-distant future. (Reporting by Gram Slattery; Writing by Trevor Hunnicutt)
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of U.S. universities sued the Department of Energy in Massachusetts federal court on Monday over steep cuts to federal research funding in areas like advanced nuclear technology, cybersecurity, novel radioactive drugs, and upgrades to rural electrical grids. The universities – which include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A jury was selected on Monday for the retrial in Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the New York Times for allegedly defaming the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate in a 2017 editorial about gun control. Palin, 61, who was unsuccessful in her 2008 bid for the second-highest …
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By Maggie Fick and Bhanvi Satija LONDON (Reuters) -Trump administration cuts across federal health agencies have sent shivers through a biotech industry already struggling through a prolonged downturn, increasing concerns they will have a harder time getting products approved, investors, company executives and analysts said. Mass firings at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are …
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