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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it will not take action against compounding pharmacies making copies of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy until a federal court delivers its ruling in a lawsuit against the agency. The health regulator announced last month that there was no longer a shortage of Novo’s Wegovy …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -The U.S. agency that enforces the labor rights of private-sector workers is abandoning its defense of a law barring the president from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic member. The National Labor Relations Board since last week has notified courts in at least six …

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By P.J. Huffstutter, Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek CHICAGO/WASHINGTON – Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill – an economic lifeline for about 150 area organic grain farmers. But construction is on hold following the Trump Administration’s …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by 19 Republican-led states led by Alabama to block five Democratic-led states from pursuing lawsuits accusing major oil companies of deceiving the public about the role fossil fuels have played in causing climate change. The justices declined to hear a case that …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the arrest of a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University will be followed by others. “This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other …

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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on some anti-Israel activists. Mahmoud Khalil, a student at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, was …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON -The Trump administration rolled out a new app on Monday that will allow immigrants in the United States illegally to “self deport” rather than face possible arrest and detention, building on President Donald Trump’s deportation push. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection app, called CBP Home, will offer an option for …

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