By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Donald Trump wants to make South Carolina the end of the road for Nikki Haley in their battle for the Republican nomination. Haley aims to survive and take their fight into the multistate Super Tuesday contest in March. Opinion polls show the former U.S. president with a clear advantage in …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt universities have agreed to pay a combined $166 million to resolve claims that they favored wealthy student applicants, pushing total settlements in a federal antitrust lawsuit over college financial aid practices to $284 million. Lawyers for a proposed class of hundreds of thousands of current and …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former longtime National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre mismanaged the gun rights group and cost it millions of dollars through wasteful spending to support a lavish lifestyle, a jury found on Friday, recommending that he repay $4.35 million. In a civil corruption case brought by …
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By James Oliphant and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his party are scrambling to contain the fallout from a conservative Alabama court ruling that prompted some state providers to suspend in vitro fertilization treatments, while Democrats seized on the outcome as more evidence that reproductive rights are under assault. …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature has passed legislation that would ban anyone under age 16 from social media platforms in a move that supporters have said would protect young people from online risks to their mental health. The measure, which goes to the desk of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis after being passed by …
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By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -Many pharmacies across the U.S. could not transmit insurance claims for their patients after UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare reported a hack earlier this week, the American Pharmacists Association said on Friday. “This is resulting in delays in getting prescriptions filled,” the association said in a statement. The disruptions from the attack …
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – The Alabama Attorney General’s office had “no intention” of prosecuting providers of in vitro fertilization or families who use their services, it said on Friday after the state’s top court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children. Following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that allowed parents to sue …
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(Reuters) -At least 54 people were taken to a hospital with nausea after police responded to emergency calls about exposure to hazardous materials on Friday at a pharmaceutical packaging facility in eastern Pennsylvania, police said. Police in Upper Macungie Township, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia, were called to the Sharp Services facility there with …
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By Gram Slattery and Tim Reid COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -Nikki Haley’s campaign will launch a “seven-figure” ad buy aimed at Super Tuesday states, campaign manager Betsy Ankney told reporters on Friday, a signal that Haley plans to continue campaigning for the Republican nomination even if she loses by a large margin in South Carolina. …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump was formally ordered by a New York judge to pay more than $454 million after being found liable for manipulating his net worth, in a civil fraud case brought by New York state’s attorney general. The payment includes the $354.9 million penalty that Justice Arthur Engoron of …
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