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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration’s nominee to oversee a $42 billion government fund to bring high-speed broadband internet to unserved or underserved parts of the United States denied on Thursday that she would administer the program to benefit Starlink owner Elon Musk. Democrats have suggested that Musk, a billionaire and close adviser …

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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – The United States will deploy biometric capabilities in partnership with Colombia to help manage migration and disrupt criminal activity, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a visit to Bogota on Thursday. “Today we have signed a statement of intent for biometric cooperation and it will reaffirm …

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(Reuters) -Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are probing a claim by GSK that Pfizer delayed announcing its COVID shot’s success in 2020 until after that year’s election, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said on Wednesday GSK’s former head of vaccine development, Philip Dormitzer, had told his colleagues about …

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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Two U.S. Federal Trade Commission members fired by President Donald Trump sued him on Thursday, saying their removals violated federal law and a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent upholding agency independence. Trump’s firing of Democratic commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on March 18 defied a law allowing the …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday that members of Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team did not make the agency’s decision to test Starlink terminals. Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau also said at a U.S. Senate hearing that no Starlink terminals have been plugged …

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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -Some U.S. health regulators who review medical devices and tobacco products for safety and efficacy are struggling to meet deadlines mandated by Congress due to Trump administration layoffs, three scientists working on the projects told Reuters. On Thursday, the government said it will cut jobs across health agencies, including 3,500 at …

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By Helen Coster, Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) -When Muhlenberg College learned in January 2024 – as pro-Palestinian protests were sweeping campuses across the United States – that it was under investigation for discriminating against Jewish students, the small liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania took action. The college fired a tenured professor who had been …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reshape federal public health agencies on Thursday, including cutting 10,000 employees and centralizing some functions of the FDA, CDC and others under his purview. The job cuts include 3,500 at the Food and …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. senators on Thursday criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to act for years to address helicopters in “dangerous proximity” to commercial airplanes near Reagan Washington National Airport. “Why did the FAA not act on 15,000 reports of dangerous proximity? How were these helicopter routes allowed to remain when …

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