(Reuters) -The New York State Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the new mpox strain, adding to the global concerns over the spread of the little-known variant. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were three confirmed cases in the country — in California, Georgia and New …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. Representative with little intelligence experience, should be confirmed as the top U.S. spy on Wednesday morning, as Republicans line up behind a nominee once seen as among President Donald Trump’s most controversial picks. The Senate voted 52-46, along party lines, on Monday on a procedural …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its chief financial officer and three other employees, accusing them of making “egregious payments” for New York City hotels used for migrants, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Tuesday. A DHS spokesperson called the employees “deep state activists” in a statement but …
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By Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York Mayor Eric Adams may soon be free of the criminal case that had cast a shadow over his administration. But the reputational damage of being charged with corruption could hamper his reelection campaign, political analysts say. On Monday, the Justice Department directed federal prosecutors in New York …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that a Turkish author and her son can be extradited to Turkey to face charges that he caused a reckless, fatal car crash in Istanbul and then fled the country with the help of his mother. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell in Boston …
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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk on Tuesday directed his ire at U.S. law firms that have teamed up with advocacy groups to challenge the Republican’s sweeping policy changes in court. “Which law firms are pushing these anti-democratic cases to impede the will of the people?” Musk, the world’s richest man, wrote …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -An estimated 127.7 million viewers tuned in for Sunday’s Super Bowl National Football League championship broadcast by Fox, the largest audience in TV history for a single-network telecast, the Nielsen ratings agency said on Tuesday. The figure includes U.S. viewers who watched on the Fox broadcast network, Fox Deportes, Telemundo and the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he objects to federal judges blocking his effort to cut government waste and hopes the court system is going to allow him to do what he was elected to do. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose in Washington; Editing by Chris Reese)
President Donald Trump in a new executive order inked on Monday encouraged the U.S. government and consumers to purchase plastic drinking straws at a time when several countries have issued a ban on non-biodegradable single-use plastics. The new order backtracks on Biden administration’s efforts to lower consumption of such plastics, which damage ecosystems and contaminate …
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday alleged that President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel has been secretly overseeing the ouster of the bureau’s leadership before being confirmed for the role. Senator Dick Durbin said he learned about Patel’s alleged role in …
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