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By Julia Harte and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses. Philadelphia officers in riot gear pushed reporters away from the encampment at the University of Pennsylvania before …

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Final testing of U.S. retail dairy samples came back negative for viable H5N1 bird flu virus, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. The FDA said it finished its laboratory research into 297 retail dairy samples tested for bird flu, after previously reporting that preliminary results showed the commercial milk supply …

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By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president’s estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to stop making public statements about the case before his expected testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case …

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By Abhirup Roy SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s decision to gut Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging team is scrambling plans for rolling out new fast-charging stations and may delay President Joe Biden’s efforts to electrify U.S. highways. Last year, the Biden administration announced rules for an ambitious plan to expand the country’s charging infrastructure and jump-start EV …

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(Reuters) -McDonald’s U.S. franchises are considering launching a $5 meal deal, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, as the fast-food chain looks to draw more inflation-hit customers to its restaurants. Global restaurant chains such as McDonald’s and Starbucks have seen lower-income customers opting to eat more meals at home amid a cost-of-living …

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(Reuters) – About one in eight adults have taken a drug belonging to the GLP-1 class of medications for weight loss and related conditions, a poll by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) showed on Friday. The data also showed that 6% of those polled said they were currently using a GLP-1 drug, such as Novo Nordisk’s …

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By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday proposed a rule that would ban listed derivatives used to bet on U.S. elections and other major real world events. The CFTC voted in favor of the proposal, with three commissioners supporting it while two did not back it, in …

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By Clark Mindock and Ross Kerber (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s attorney general said he is firing the outside legal team hired to defend a state law prohibiting state pension systems from contracting with companies that limit investment in the oil and gas industry, days after a judge temporarily blocked the statute’s enforcement. Republican Attorney General Gentner …

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By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) – The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action. By a 5-1 vote, …

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By Nandita Bose, Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to pause shipments of thousands of bombs to Israel over the U.S. ally’s attacks on Rafah won praise from some critical Democrats, but won’t stop protests about Gaza that have dogged his reelection effort, strategists and organizers say. Biden’s …

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