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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands, according to two sources familiar with the plans. The energy checklist largely reflects promises Trump made on the campaign trail, but […]

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands, according to two sources familiar with the plans. The energy checklist largely reflects promises Trump made on the campaign trail, but […]

By Leah Douglas and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally. So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan. Nearly half […]

By Leah Douglas and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally. So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan. Nearly half […]

By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – More than 200,000 prescriptions for copies of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are getting filled by U.S. patients each month, an industry group told the U.S. drugs regulator in a letter, saying it should consider their role in alleviating the obesity drug supply crunch before barring them. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to remove Wegovy from its shortage list, which has […]

By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – More than 200,000 prescriptions for copies of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy are getting filled by U.S. patients each month, an industry group told the U.S. drugs regulator in a letter, saying it should consider their role in alleviating the obesity drug supply crunch before barring them. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to remove Wegovy from its shortage list, which has […]

(Reuters) – Donald Trump on Friday said he would nominate Scott Bessent to be the 79th U.S. Treasury secretary and frontman for the president-elect’s aggressive economic policies, a slate that financial markets already anticipate will add to economic growth in the near term but also rekindle inflation. Here are five charts sensitive to that agenda that the incoming cabinet official may want to keep on his radar: BALLOONING US DEBT […]

(Reuters) – Donald Trump on Friday said he would nominate Scott Bessent to be the 79th U.S. Treasury secretary and frontman for the president-elect’s aggressive economic policies, a slate that financial markets already anticipate will add to economic growth in the near term but also rekindle inflation. Here are five charts sensitive to that agenda that the incoming cabinet official may want to keep on his radar: BALLOONING US DEBT […]

By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Josh Smith WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank have concluded, based on satellite images.  The facility, known as the February 11 plant, is part of the Ryongsong Machine Complex in Hamhung, North Korea’s second-largest city, on the country’s east coast.  Sam Lair, […]