By Leroy Leo and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, making one of them the first treatment in the United States based on the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR gene editing technology. Casgevy, developed by partners Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, and bluebird …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that New York state could bar gun owners from carrying weapons in “sensitive locations” like parks, zoos, bars and theaters, but it blocked enforcement of new restrictions on bringing firearms on private property open to the public. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions in Nevada, police said on Thursday. Anthony James Polito, 67, also had mailed nearly two dozen suspicious letters to faculty at …
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By Costas Pitas and Andrew Goudsward LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Department of Justice on Thursday filed new criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, accusing him of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes while spending millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle. Hunter Biden, 53, was hit with three felony and six …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Teamsters union that represents U.S. workers at United Parcel Service on Thursday said it would respond to the firing of about 35 newly organized workers at the delivery company by filing unfair labor practice charges and potentially striking. The roughly three dozen affected specialist and administrative workers at UPS’s Centennial hub …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity. Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao has to remain in the continental United States ahead of his sentencing for violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws, U.S. District Judge Richard Jones said on Thursday. Last month, Binance Holdings agreed to pay over $4.3 billion and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump arrived at a New York court on Thursday to attend his ongoing civil fraud trial, where his defense team is arguing that the former U.S. president’s family company did not manipulate the value of its properties to win favorable financing. The trial, which kicked off in October, …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers unveiled an annual defense policy bill leaving out most of the divisive social issues, such as abortion rights and treatment of transgender service members, that had threatened to derail the must-pass legislation. The Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees released the 3,000-page text of the …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate leaders vowed on Thursday to keep trying to reach an agreement to provide billions of dollars in new security aid to Ukraine, but faced uncertainty about doing so quickly after Republicans blocked a sweeping foreign security assistance bill. Senate Republicans voted unanimously on Wednesday to …
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