By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it authorized state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid to eligible patients, in a bid to improve access to the treat…
Senator Graham says he will not cooperate with Georgia Trump election probe
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham will not comply with a subpoena issued by a grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, attor…
UK ministers, including new Finance Minister, to tell Johnson to go-reports
LONDON (Reuters) -A group of cabinet ministers are about to tell Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit, including the man who has just been appointed as the new finance minister, media reports said on Wednesday. BBC Political Editor Chris Mason said Tra…
Social unrest over spiralling living costs spreads to France’s railways
By Caroline Pailliez and Antony Paone PARIS (Reuters) -Railway workers in France went on strike on Wednesday, disrupting travel across the rail network days before the summer holidays begin and at a time of unrest in other areas of the economy as high …
Boris Johnson clings on as clamour for resignation grows
By Elizabeth Piper, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Cabinet ministers gathered in Boris Johnson’s official residence on Wednesday to tell him to quit as British leader, after he insisted he would not stand down in the face of a mounti…
FDA decision on Eisai, Biogen Alzheimer’s drug due in January
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will expedite its review of Eisai Co Ltd’s and Biogen Inc’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, with a decision due by Jan 6, 2023, the companies said on Tuesday. Lecanemab, like t…
Nadhim Zahawi appointed UK finance minister
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed Nadhim Zahawi as finance minister on Tuesday, replacing Rishi Sunak who earlier quit in protest at Johnson’s leadership. Zahawi, 55, inherits an economy that is likely heading for a shar…
Florida’s 15-week abortion ban takes effect after a brief injunction
(Reuters) – Florida’s ban on abortions past 15 weeks of pregnancy is now in effect after a court order blocking its enforcement on Tuesday was automatically put on hold. Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said last week that he would grant the request of …
Factbox: Can Boris Johnson be forced out, and how is a successor chosen?
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance and health ministers resigned on Tuesday, in what could be the final blow for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s premiership. Johnson narrowly survived a confidence vote last month, giving him 12 months of immunity from…
Mexican grandfather, synagogue teacher among victims of July 4 shooting
By Brendan O’Brien and Tom Polansek HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) – A teacher at a synagogue and a grandfather in his 70s who came from Mexico to visit his family were among the six people killed in the shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago su…