By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – After a decades-long struggle, a Native American tribe won the right to resume its hunting traditions off Washington state’s coast when federal regulators granted a waiver on Thursday allowing the Makah people to hunt up to 25 gray whales over a decade. As part of its 1855 treaty with the …
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(Reuters) – The federal government plans to redo this year’s quality ratings of private Medicare plans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move could deliver hundreds of millions in additional bonus payments to insurers next year, benefiting Medicare insurers at a time when their business is under …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The founder and the top doctor of a San Francisco-based telehealth startup were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday with running a fraudulent $100 million scheme to distribute Adderall and other stimulants online. Done Global founder Ruthia He and clinical president David Brody are the first to …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas called on the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reconsider a precedent established in 1977 that has allowed advocacy groups, trade associations and other organizations to routinely bring court challenges to government policies on behalf of their members. Thomas laid out his position in an opinion …
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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to turn over audio recordings of a special counsel interview with Democratic President Joe Biden. The measure passed 216-207 on a party-line basis with one Republican joining Democrats in voting no. …
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By Christy Santhosh (Reuters) – Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on Thursday. The report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., on Wednesday voted to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization, signaling the campaign by evangelicals against abortion is widening to include the popular fertility treatment. Earlier at its annual meeting, a proposed amendment to the church’s constitution that would …
By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -The White House will nominate markets regulator Christy Goldsmith Romero as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair imminently as it targets the week of July 8 for her first hearing, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. Goldsmith Romero, a Democratic commissioner at the Commodity Futures …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Oklahoma’s highest court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the last two known living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 seeking reparations for the violence and destruction that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black people. The Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a judge’s decision last year to dismiss …
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(Reuters) – – Labor talks at U.S. ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are a looming risk for retailers, manufacturers and other shippers already grappling with longer transit times and higher costs. The International Longshoremen’s Association contract covering 45,000 dockworkers at three dozen ports stretching from Maine to Texas expires on Sept. …
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