By Gnaneshwar Rajan and Gursimran Mehar (Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator said on Monday companies will be required to add a serious warning on the prescribing information for cancer therapies known as CAR-T, made by Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and others. The other cancer therapies include Bristol Myers Squibb’s Breyanzi and its partnered …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A union representing 29,000 professors and staff at the California State University (CSU) reached a tentative deal on Monday night to call off a five day strike after one day, ending uncertainty for more than 450,000 students on 23 campuses. The California Faculty Association and the CSU have been bargaining for …
By Steve Gorman and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A man suspected of shooting eight people to death and wounding another in suburban Chicago has turned up dead hundreds of miles away in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an encounter with law enforcement there, police said on Monday. The death of 23-year-old Romeo …
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By Steve Holland MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) -As New Hampshire voters prepared to cast their votes in the state’s first-in-the nation primary Tuesday, a robocall is circulating in the state urging Democrats to stay home – using a fake audio of U.S. President Joe Biden. “It’s important that you save your vote for the November …
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By John Kruzel (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to temporarily let U.S. Border Patrol agents cut or remove razor-wire fencing that Texas officials placed along part of the Republican-governed state’s border with Mexico to deter illegal border crossings. The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted a request by President Joe Biden’s administration …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a $10 billion lawsuit by Mexico seeking to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court judge’s decision dismissing the case on …
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By James Oliphant EPPING, New Hampshire (Reuters) – At a campaign event in eastern New Hampshire, last week, Melinda Tourangeau was wearing a Nikki Haley button on her lapel and a broad smile on her face. Tourangeau, 57, said she would be thrilled to cast a vote for Haley in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Just as …
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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday took aim at Republican curbs on abortion rights, a galvanizing issue for Democrats that they hope will boost enthusiasm among their base, attract independent voters, and increase turnout in November. Women in America face …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said on Monday it had approved more than $228 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in New York state from the COVID-era American Rescue Plan’s $10 billion Capital Projects Fund, aimed at connecting rural and underserved communities. THE TAKE With Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary possibly cementing former president …
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By Rich McKay and Julia Harte (Reuters) – The deep freeze that gripped the U.S. South this weekend forced a band of alligators at a North Carolina wildlife park out of their comfort zone, trapping them under an ice layer with only their toothy snouts jutting above the frozen surface, enabling them to breathe. Year-round …
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