By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden hosted a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to tout their fight against high prescription drug prices and push companies to cut the cost of inhalers for asthma sufferers. Biden said prescription drugs made by the same pharmaceutical company cost …
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – The son of a Dominican lawmaker was fatally shot at a gas station in Houston, Texas, according to police, who said on Wednesday they were searching for four men wanted for what they called a targeted killing. The Houston Police Department identified the victim of the shooting, which took place …
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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Migratory waterfowl are to blame for widening avian-flu outbreaks in Texas cows and poultry, and wild birds carrying the virus should be heading north soon, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said. The U.S. government since last week has reported cases of the disease in seven dairy herds in Texas and …
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By Nathan Layne, Gram Slattery and Tim Reid GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) -Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States “animals” and “not human” in a speech in Michigan on Tuesday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail. The Republican presidential candidate, appearing with several law …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in six battleground states in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that cited concerns about the economy and Biden’s performance. Trump garnered a lead of between 2 and 8 percentage points among voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, …
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(Reuters) – Lottery players across the United States will be scurrying to purchase their Powerball tickets on Wednesday with hopes of striking it rich by winning the whopping $1.09 billion jackpot, the fourth largest in the game’s history. The drawing, set for 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT on Thursday), is the 40th since the last …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Recovery teams opened a second channel enabling smaller vessels to navigate the Port of Baltimore on Tuesday but most commercial shipping remains blocked by the collapsed bridge and stranded container ship that brought the structure down a week ago. A team including the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of …
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By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House held a scaled-down iftar dinner on Tuesday to celebrate Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, after some invitees turned the president down over frustrations in the Muslim community over his policy toward the Israel-Gaza war. President Joe Biden met with Muslim leaders before having a …
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By David Shepardson and Yuka Obayashi WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -The head of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday urged the White House to scrutinize the relationship between Nippon Steel and the Chinese steel industry, citing national security concerns amid bipartisan opposition in Congress to the Japanese company’s $14.9 billion deal to acquire U.S. Steel Corp. …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump were both expected to easily win primaries in four states on Tuesday, including battleground Wisconsin, after clearing the field of challengers and clinching their parties’ nomination. Both candidates continue to contend with protest votes, however, and political observers will be paying …
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