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Kennedy’s Vaccine Adviser Gains Sweeping CDC Role Despite Legal Pushback

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In Washington’s halls of health policy, a behind-the-scenes power struggle has erupted. Lawyers inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) tried — and failed — to stop a controversial expansion of authority for Retsef Levi, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines. Levi, once an outside adviser, was …

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Death Penalty Spotlight: Utah to Pursue Capital Punishment in Charlie Kirk Assassination Case

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The state of Utah has announced it will seek the death penalty against Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a public appearance at Utah Valley University. Why the Death Penalty Is on the Table Robinson faces an aggravated murder charge, with prosecutors pointing to three aggravating factors: the attack …

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Judge Orders Giuliani to Pay $1.4 Million in Legal Fees After Bitter Fight With Former Attorneys

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Rudy Giuliani’s latest courtroom battle doesn’t involve elections or indictments—it’s about the bill. A New York judge has ruled that the former mayor of New York City must pay $1.36 million plus interest to his one-time defense team, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, for years of unpaid legal work. The law firm sued Giuliani back in …

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Trump’s Appeals Court Pick Sparks Conservative Rift, But GOP Leadership Stands Firm

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Rebecca Taibleson sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, a nominee for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, facing fire not from Democrats—but from conservatives who say she isn’t “pure” enough for the bench. Despite her résumé—federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, clerk to Antonin Scalia, ally of Brett Kavanaugh—the right-wing pushback has been unusually …

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Court Slams Brakes on Trump-Era Health Department Shakeup

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The Trump administration’s plan to dramatically reshape the nation’s health bureaucracy has been thrown into limbo, with a federal appeals court refusing to greenlight sweeping cuts and closures. At the heart of the fight: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s blueprint to slash 10,000 jobs, collapse nearly 30 divisions into half that number, and shutter …

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Saudi Social Development Bank Pumps $1.7 Billion Into Citizens and Startups, 90,000 Beneficiaries Counted

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Saudi Arabia’s Social Development Bank (SDB) has rolled out SAR6.5 billion ($1.73 billion) in financing during the first nine months of the year, directly reaching more than 90,000 people and enterprises across the Kingdom. The update came during the bank’s third-quarter board meeting, chaired by Human Resources and Social Development Minister Eng. Ahmed bin Sulaiman …

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Santos Stumbles as Mega-Deal with ADNOC Unravels

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Australian energy giant Santos woke up to a market shock on Thursday after Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC-led consortium abruptly pulled the plug on its $18.7 billion takeover bid. The fallout sent Santos shares crashing more than 13%—their steepest drop in over five years. The deal, once hailed as potentially the largest all-cash corporate buyout in Australian …

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Fed Trims Rates, Signals More to Come — One Lone Voice Wanted a Deeper Cut

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The Federal Reserve pressed the rate-cut button for the first time in nine months, trimming its benchmark by a quarter of a percentage point and hinting that two more reductions are likely before the year closes. The move, aimed squarely at calming nerves over a softening job market, carried broad support across the central bank …

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Gulf States Slash Interest Rates in Lockstep with U.S. Fed

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The ripple from Washington traveled swiftly across the Gulf on Wednesday. Hours after the U.S. Federal Reserve trimmed rates by 25 basis points, the region’s central banks moved in unison, pulling their own key rates lower. For Saudi Arabia, the heavyweight of the bloc, the repo rate slipped to 4.75% and the reverse repo to …

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Dubai’s VFS Global Targets $2 Billion Loan Package to Reshape Debt Load

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VFS Global, the world’s largest visa outsourcing giant with roots in Zurich and Dubai, is gearing up to lock in fresh funding worth around $2 billion. The move isn’t about expansion—it’s about reshaping its balance sheet, refinancing older borrowings, and covering transaction costs. The financing is structured as a mix of U.S. dollar and euro …

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