By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – At least four people were killed in severe storms in the near Texas’ border with Mexico amid heavy rain and flooding, officials said on Friday. Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties in Texas faced among the heaviest storms, which lasted for about 48 hours, local officials said. Hidalgo County said at …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said it will investigate a close call that occurred on Friday between a Delta Air Lines flight and a U.S. Air Force jet near Reagan Washington National Airport. The incident follows a mid-air collision on January 29 near the same airport involving a passenger jet …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, has been pushed out, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Marks, who played a key role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in developing COVID-19 vaccines, was given the choice by a Health and Human Services official to resign or be …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to temporarily pause its efforts to shut down Voice of America, stopping the government from firing 1,300 journalists and other employees at the U.S. news service that were abruptly placed on leave earlier this month. U.S. District Judge J. …
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By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from pursuing efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest rebuke from the courts in the White House’s efforts to remake the federal government virtually overnight. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson …
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By Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs at the U.S. Agency for International Development and shut the agency, even as Trump promised that the U.S. would provide assistance to Myanmar following a devastating earthquake. Humanitarian aid experts expressed …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted authorization to market the first test that can be performed entirely at home for detecting three sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The home test, developed by privately held company Visby Medical, does not require mailing samples to a lab like other existing home-based STI tests. The …
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(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Elon Musk and members of the cost-focused Department of Government Efficiency that he spearheads can make further cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development while they appeal a lower court order that had barred them from doing so. A three-judge panel of the Virginia-based …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein MARTINSBURG, West Virginia (Reuters) – West Virginia banned food dyes on Friday and said it would restrict the use of food stamps to buy soda, advancing two priorities of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Flanked by school children, Governor Patrick Morrisey signed legislation banning seven food dyes …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s launch of a civil rights probe into whether Los Angeles is taking too long to issue permits to carry a concealed handgun drew criticism on Friday from advocates who called it a sharp departure from the department’s longstanding approach. Attorney General Pam Bondi in …
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