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(Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The 28th meeting of the United Nations “Conference of the Parties” on climate, known as COP28, runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, …

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By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) – U.S. babies born in 2022 gained roughly a year in life expectancy compared with babies born a year earlier, federal data showed on Wednesday, marking progress after two consecutive years of declines largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth for 2022 newborns was 77.5 years, up from …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it had adopted a new aircraft certification policy requiring key flight control design changes to be considered “major” like the system involved in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. In late 2020, Congress passed sweeping legislation to reform …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior Republican lawmaker, expressing concern for the gun manufacturing industry, on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to turn over records about its Oct. 27 decision to temporarily stop issuing export licenses for most civilian firearms and ammunition. Representative James Comer, chair of the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, …

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(Reuters) – Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, a disgraced former powerhouse lawyer in South Carolina already serving life in prison for the murder of his wife and son, received a 27-year sentence on Tuesday for his guilty plea to nearly two dozen financial crimes. The sentence handed down in a Charleston courtroom, part of the plea deal …

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By Susan Heavey and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior Biden administration officials met with the makers of RSV immunizations for children this week to underscore the need for manufacturers such as Sanofi and AstraZeneca to urgently meet demand as winter approaches, the White House said on Tuesday. At a meeting at the White House on …

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