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(Reuters) – Nearly 87,000 Americans died from drug overdose in the United States in the 12-month period ending September 2024, a decline of about 24% from the previous year, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT This is the fewest overdose deaths in …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – A U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation into the agency’s funding for the University of Maine could compromise research on biofuels, vegetables, and “forever chemicals” that have been polluting the state, said an advocate and a state lawmaker. USDA announced the investigation Friday after President Donald Trump clashed with Governor Janet …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators on Tuesday called for new funding to boost air traffic control staffing, speed training of new controllers and provide new incentives to retain aviation workers. Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senators John Hoeven and Jerry Moran introduced legislation that would authorize $100 …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to indefinitely suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program, saying the Republican had exceeded his executive authority by abruptly shutting down the program. U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead in Seattle, in ruling for a coalition of U.S. refugee backers who sued to …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s conviction for a 1997 murder-for-hire plot and granted him a new trial, concluding on Tuesday that prosecutors violated their constitutional duty to correct false testimony by their star witness. The justices, in a 5-3 ruling authored by …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to end his campaign to claw back funds previously granted for greenhouse gas reduction projects, saying that effort is illegal. The senators, who sit on the Senate environment and public works committee, said Zeldin’s well-publicized social media …

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(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of U.S. government workers have been fired in recent weeks, according to a Reuters tally of announcements tracking President Donald Trump’s plan to shrink the federal workforce. So far, few indications of those lost jobs have appeared in the various formal measures of the U.S. job market. Economists will be …

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