Tag: clinton
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India’s capital grapples with toxic winter air pollution
NEW DELHI (AP) — Even for a city considered one of the world's most polluted, the Indian capital hit a new low this past week.
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California cities see chance to cash in on marijuana
By Robin Respaut SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Californians are expected to pass a ballot measure on Election Day legalizing recreational marijuana, and the prospect has cities and counties seeing dollar signs. Proposition 64 would impose state taxes on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. Economists warn that burdensome taxes and fees on the nascent industry…
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U.S. FDA panel narrowly backs Cempra’s antibiotic solithromycin
The effectiveness of Cempra Inc’s antibiotic to treat community-acquired pneumonia outweighs the risk of liver injury, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration narrowly concluded on Friday. The panel voted 7-6 that the drug, solithromycin, should be approved to treat the kind of pneumonia that recently affected U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.…
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Clinton: half of Trump supporters belong in ‘basket of deplorables’
By Jeff Mason NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Friday that half the supporters of her Republican rival Donald Trump belonged in a “basket of deplorables” of people who were racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic. Speaking at an evening fundraiser in New York, the former U.S. secretary of state…
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Clinton says ‘conspiracy theories’ about her health not a concern
(Reuters) – Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, on Monday said that she was not distracted by rumors of ill health and that attacks on the Clinton Foundation were not rooted in fact. Clinton, speaking on her campaign plane, also said she continued to support a “no-fly zone” over Syria. (Reporting by Jeff Mason,…
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Clinton says ‘conspiracy theories’ about her health not a concern
(Reuters) – Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, on Monday said that she was not distracted by rumors of ill health and that attacks on the Clinton Foundation were not rooted in fact. Clinton, speaking on her campaign plane, also said she continued to support a “no-fly zone” over Syria. (Reporting by Jeff Mason,…
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Clinton urges U.S. Congress to reconvene, pass Zika bill
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged federal lawmakers currently on summer recess back into session to pass a crucial funding bill to combat the Zika virus as she visited a health clinic at the heart of a local outbreak in Miami on Tuesday. Lawmakers should pass the $1.1 billion bipartisan bill for the mosquito-borne…
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Clinton urges U.S. Congress to reconvene, pass Zika bill
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged federal lawmakers currently on summer recess back into session to pass a crucial funding bill to combat the Zika virus as she visited a health clinic at the heart of a local outbreak in Miami on Tuesday. Lawmakers should pass the $1.1 billion bipartisan bill for the mosquito-borne…
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Olympics-Drop in alkalinity to blame for green pool-Rio organisers
* FINA says water tanks ran out of chemicals * Pool water to turn blue later on Wednesday (Updates with FINA reaction, Canada team, details) By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The Rio Olympics diving pool will be back to its blue colour later on Wednesday, Games organisers assured, blaming a…