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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic and Republican U.S. senators announced plans on Friday to force a vote on a resolution to prevent military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, seeking to rein in President Donald Trump’s escalation of pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is sponsoring the war …

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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Germany’s Merck KGaA on Thursday said they had struck a deal that would cut the cost of some drugs needed for in-vitro fertilization in exchange for protection from future tariffs. Trump also said Merck would offer all new drugs launched in the U.S. at the prices …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -The largest U.S. business lobbying group filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers. The lawsuit by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which says it represents 300,000 businesses, is the group’s first against the Trump administration since the Republican …

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By Sneha S K (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced the names of nine products, under a new fast-track review process, which could potentially get approval within one to two months of filing a complete application. The regulator said it has selected Merck KGaA’s fertility drug Pergoveris, Sanofi’s Type 1 diabetes …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the price of Novo Nordisk’s best-selling weight-loss drug would be lowered and that negotiations over price changes would be swift. Trump made the comments during a White House event on fertility treatments and drug pricing. He was asked by reporters to identify the name of …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who later became a critic, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland, CNN reported on Thursday, citing two sources. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)

By Jana Winter, Ted Hesson and Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown, according to emails seen by Reuters, even as other federal workers go without pay. The pay plan was …

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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military carried out a new strike on Thursday against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, and in what is believed to be the first such case, there were survivors among the crew, a U.S. official told Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not …

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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Labor unions filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Thursday, alleging that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of people who are legally in the United States by searching their social media for specific viewpoints, including criticism of Israel. The complaint is the latest legal challenge to …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors in Texas have for the first time filed terrorism charges targeting antifa, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday, citing President Donald Trump’s recent designation of the far-left anarchist movement as a terrorist organization. Cameron Arnold of Dallas and Zachary Evetts of Waxahachie, Texas, were charged on Wednesday with …

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