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Negotiations on $3.5 trillion U.S. investment bill making progress -Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators to a massive U.S. bill that would invest up to $3.5 trillion to expand social programs and attack climate change have made progress in recent days but have not yet b...
Oct 18, 2021
U.S. administers 408.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 408,797,942 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and distributed 494,655,075 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Oct 18, 2021
Earlier breast cancer screening would narrow mortality gap for Black women, U.S. study finds
(Reuters) - Racial disparities in breast cancer survival in the United States could be cut by more than half if Black women got mammograms every other year starting at age 40, according to findings fr...
Oct 18, 2021
Ecuadorean indigenous communities sue to halt oil development
QUITO (Reuters) - Indigenous communities from Ecuador's Amazon on Monday sued the government to halt plans by President Guillermo Lasso to increase oil development in the country, calling the expansio...
Oct 18, 2021
U.S. House committee rejects Bannon ‘privilege’ argument in Jan. 6 probe
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol told Steve Bannon that it rejected his arguments for failing to coope...
Oct 18, 2021
Olympics-Small minority of U.S. Olympians oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandate, say officials
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said on Monday its decision to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for those competing at next year's Beijing Olympi...
Oct 18, 2021
Trump sues U.S. House panel investigating Jan. 6 attack -court document
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, alleging...
Oct 18, 2021
U.S. State Dept IG launches probes into end of Afghanistan operations -Politico
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department's inspector general is launching a series of investigations into the end of the Biden administration's diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, Politico reported on ...
Oct 18, 2021
Biden to speak to Senator Manchin on spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he was going to speak with Senator Joe Manchin, the centrist Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia whose vote is crucial to the pass...
Oct 18, 2021
Morocco police seize over one tonne of cocaine in Tangier port -statement
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco police said they seized on Monday one tonne and 335 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a container ship in Tangier Med Port. The ship departed from Brazil and was heading to t...
Oct 18, 2021
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