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(Reuters) -A panel of outside experts to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously to recommend the use of updated COVID-19 vaccines, as authorized by the FDA, in those aged six months and older for the 2024-25 immunization campaign. The agency’s recommendation comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked vaccine …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday allowing abortions for women facing medical emergencies in Idaho – for now – despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure does nothing to lift the confusion in many states surrounding when emergency abortions are permissible, according to legal experts. The case is …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The chair of the Federal Communications Commission asked AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and other cable and telecom carriers to detail efforts to crack down on fraudulent political robocalls that are generated by AI, the agency said Thursday. Last month Steven Kramer, a Louisiana Democratic political consultant, was indicted over a fake robocall …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to permit – for now – abortions to be performed in Idaho when pregnant women are facing medical emergencies, as the justices dispensed with the contentious issue without actually deciding the underlying legal issue in the case. The 6-3 ruling revived a federal …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House Correspondents’ Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside the studio during the first presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump. The press pool, made up of representatives of major news organizations, accompanies the president on foreign …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house enforcement of laws protecting investors against securities fraud, dealing a blow on Thursday to the agency’s powers in a ruling that could reverberate through other federal regulators. The decision, a setback for President Joe Biden’s administration, upheld …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has criminally charged 193 people, including 76 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, with participating in health care fraud schemes worth $2.75 billion, the agency said on Thursday. The two-week operation ensnared defendants accused of illegally distributing millions of pills of the stimulant Adderall. It also included $176 million in …

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