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By Dan Levine and Chad Terhune (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk, which lobbied to win Medicaid reimbursement for its obesity drug Wegovy, is fighting to keep that coverage as some U.S. states struggle with the treatment’s costs, according to state documents, company emails and interviews with lawmakers and advocates. Novo’s lobbying efforts helped to convince 14 U.S. …

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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -The University of Arizona on Monday cited academic freedom as it became the seventh elite institution to decline a Trump administration proposal offering nine schools preferential consideration for federal funding in exchange for agreeing to a set of policies. Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin have …

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(Corrects garbled and missing words in sixth paragraph) By Jonathan Landay, Sarah N. Lynch and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including U.S. intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Donald Trump’s drive for retribution against his perceived enemies, according to government records and a source …

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By Diana Novak Jones and Joseph Ax CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal judge in Chicago on Monday grilled U.S. immigration officials about federal agents’ use of tear gas and other forceful tactics against protesters as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown in the city. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has repeatedly expressed concern that federal agents …

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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When two alleged drug traffickers survived a U.S. military strike last week in the Caribbean, they left the Trump administration with a decision to make: send them back home, or find a way to keep them detained. The U.S. last month started a campaign of attacks in …

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