By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Los Angeles County said on Friday it reached a $4 billion tentative agreement to settle more than 6,800 sexual abuse claims dating back to 1959, calling it the costliest financial settlement in the county’s history. The deal will settle lawsuits filed by thousands who alleged sexual abuse and mistreatment in …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A North Carolina appeals court on Friday sided with a Republican candidate for a seat on the state’s top court who is contesting the results of last November’s election by finding that thousands of the ballots cast should not be counted unless voters can swiftly fix issues with their voter …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to proceed with millions of dollars of cuts to teacher training grants – part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives – handing the Republican president his first victory at the nation’s highest judicial body since he returned to …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Maggie Fick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration’s mass firings at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have removed employees critical to reviewing new medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising treatments to patients more quickly, former and current FDA sources told Reuters. The FDA is slated …
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Venezuelan man was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention after one month so that he could reunite on Friday with his ailing brother who needs his kidney donation to save his life. Jose Gregorio Gonzalez had been detained at his brother’s house in Chicago on March 3 after …
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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers over insulin pricing practices will likely move forward again after being paused amid President Donald Trump’s firing of the agency’s two Democratic commissioners. The FTC earlier this week had paused the case, given that Chairman Andrew Ferguson and fellow Republican …
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(Reuters) -Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine official ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. health secretary’s team sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Kennedy, a well-known vaccine skeptic, last week announced plans to reshape federal public health agencies, including cutting jobs of 10,000 employees …
By Nathan Layne, Alexandra Alper and Tim Reid (Reuters) -Members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team arrived at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, the agency told Reuters, a signal it could become the latest U.S. government agency to face job cuts. “Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and …
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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Two people working with billionaire Elon Musk on a bid to radically shrink the U.S. government have started work at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency tasked with enforcing antimonopoly laws and fighting consumer fraud by companies. Gavin Kliger, who was part of the team that arrived at the Consumer …
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By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was hit with an expanded federal indictment on Friday, charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking. Combs, 55, previously pleaded not guilty to an earlier three-count indictment. The new indictment includes additional charges of sex trafficking and …
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