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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Mike Johnson, the untried speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, vowed on Wednesday to push forward with a $14.3 billion Israel aid bill, despite advice by nonpartisan researchers that his plan to offset the cost would actually increase the federal deficit. In his first real test as Congress’s …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Over 15 million people in the United States, around 4.5% of the population, had received the updated COVID-19 shots by Oct. 27, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson said on Wednesday, lagging behind last year’s vaccinations. Close to 23 million people had received updated …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Three Tennessee families of transgender children on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and hormones, for patients under 18. In their petition, the first filed before the nation’s highest court in a series of lawsuits over similar …

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By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer told jurors on Wednesday that prosecutors in his fraud trial sought to portray him as a “villain” and a “monster” because they could not prove he stole billions of dollars from the cryptocurrency exchange’s customers. Attorney Mark Cohen began …

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By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) – Predictions marketplace KalshiEX LLC sued the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday, saying the regulator overstepped its bounds when it rejected a proposal to use derivatives contracts to bet on congressional control. In June, Kalshi sought to list contracts that would let users bet on whether a …

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