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  • Pharma price cut proposals from US government could be steep, analysts say

    Pharma price cut proposals from US government could be steep, analysts say

    By Michael Erman (Reuters) -Pharmaceutical companies are due to receive by Thursday the U.S. government’s opening proposal for what are expected to be significant discounts on 10 of its high-cost medicines, an important step in the Medicare health program’s first ever price negotiations. Five Wall Street analysts and two investors told Reuters they expect the…

  • Haley raises $1 million since Trump donor warning, but loses a prominent funder

    Haley raises $1 million since Trump donor warning, but loses a prominent funder

    By Alexandra Ulmer and Tim Reid (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign said it had raised $1 million since Donald Trump issued a warning to her donors, even as at least one prominent benefactor of hers turned off the taps, saying Trump was now the de facto party nominee. Trump issued a threat…

  • US Senate struggles to clinch border deal, Ukraine aid at stake

    US Senate struggles to clinch border deal, Ukraine aid at stake

    By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipartisan U.S. Senate talks on a border security deal that some have set as a condition for further Ukraine aid have hit a critical point, lawmakers said on Thursday, though the chamber’s top Democrat said the negotiators would continue to push forward. A small group of senators…

  • Chinese music student convicted in US of threatening pro-democracy activist

    Chinese music student convicted in US of threatening pro-democracy activist

    By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A Chinese music student was convicted on Thursday of U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and threatened to report her activities to Chinese law enforcement. A federal jury in Boston found Xiaolei Wu,…

  • ‘We have a problem:’ Boeing 757 loses wheel while taxiing

    (Reuters) -The nose wheel of a Boeing 757 passenger jet operated by Delta Air Lines popped off and rolled away as the plane was lining up for takeoff over the weekend from Atlanta’s international airport, according to the airline and regulators. A Federal Aviation Administration notice filed on Monday said the aircraft was lining up…

  • US signs up record 21.3 million people for 2024 Obamacare plans

    US signs up record 21.3 million people for 2024 Obamacare plans

    (Reuters) – A record 21.3 million Americans have so far enrolled for coverage under Obamacare health insurance for 2024, a 31% jump over the year earlier, and the highest since its inception, the U.S. government said on Wednesday. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, was signed in 2010 and was former U.S.…

  • Energy Transfer: Dakota Access oil pipe won’t shut after environmental study

    Energy Transfer: Dakota Access oil pipe won’t shut after environmental study

    By Arathy Somasekhar and Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) – Energy Transfer does not expect the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) after a long-pending environmental review of a section that runs under a lake and is opposed by nearby Native American tribes, Executive Chair Kelcy Warren said…

  • US pushes for pause in Gaza as Israel suffers worst loss of soldiers

    US pushes for pause in Gaza as Israel suffers worst loss of soldiers

    By Arafat Barbakh, Emily Rose and Jeff Mason GAZA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners during a proposed month-long ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reported on Tuesday, as the White House said its envoy was having active discussions on the issue. Qatar, the U.S. and Egypt have…

  • US FDA seeks ‘boxed warning’ for CAR-T cancer therapies

    US FDA seeks ‘boxed warning’ for CAR-T cancer therapies

    By Gnaneshwar Rajan and Gursimran Mehar (Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator on Monday asked a host of drugmakers, including Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson and Novartis, to add a serious warning on the label of their cancer therapies that use CAR-T technology. The other cancer therapies include Bristol Myers Squibb’s Breyanzi and its partnered therapy,…

  • US defense secretary makes first public appearance, virtually, since hospitalization

    US defense secretary makes first public appearance, virtually, since hospitalization

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made his first public appearance, virtually and from home since his secret hospitalization, during a meeting on Ukraine’s military needs on Tuesday but skipped over prepared remarks that would have addressed his health. Austin, 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Dec.…