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A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins Tuesday. American Bridge 21st Century’s $50 million effort adds financial firepower to Democrats’ attempt to flip control of Congress in the midterm elections. The party has struggled to match Republicans’ fundraising, and it […]

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – U.S. small-business sentiment fell in May and the share of owners planning to raise prices over the next three months increased to the highest level in nearly four years, suggesting inflation could remain elevated for a while. The National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index slipped 0.6 to 95.3 last month, falling further below its 52-year average of 98.0. […]

By Jason Lange and Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – Few Americans would abandon their party’s candidate over controversies such as Democrat Graham Platner’s Nazi-linked tattoo in Maine or Republican Ken Paxton’s fraud indictment in Texas, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, highlighting deep partisan divides that make winning paramount. Two-thirds of party-aligned respondents said they sometimes have to vote for a candidate they don’t like just to […]

By Andy Sullivan June 9 (Reuters) – Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner faces Democratic voters on Tuesday under scrutiny over online posts, a Nazi-linked tattoo and allegations he sent explicit texts in a Senate race that could determine whether his party wins control of the U.S. Senate in November. Platner, a Marine veteran who has campaigned as a populist outsider, is seen as the likely winner of Tuesday’s primary. A […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, June 9 (Reuters) – Treatments based on the same mRNA technology that delivered COVID-19 vaccines to market in record time are showing lasting benefit against the deadly skin cancer melanoma and early promise in pancreatic and brain cancers once considered impervious to immune system assault. The apparent breakthroughs in cancer vaccines – deemed one of the fastest-growing segments of cancer research – are arriving even as […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have now discovered fossils of a dinosaur that seems to fit the bill. Scientists said they unearthed bones of a Cretaceous Period dinosaur about the […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) – Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday. The report by the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli authorities have enabled settler attacks through financial and military support, in a […]

June 9 (Reuters) – AI is saving clinicians time, but the majority of healthcare professionals say training in the technology is inadequate, inconsistent or unavailable, a global survey by Philips showed on Tuesday. The study, Philips Future Health Index, was carried out through two quantitative surveys, one with 2,011 healthcare professionals and another with 20,085 patients across 10 countries. • Most AI use cases for healthcare professionals include using it as […]

SECUNDA, South Africa (AP) — Growing up witnessing the devastating effects of HIV in her family and community in South Africa pushed Olwam Plaatjie to start using preventive HIV medications three years ago. “Sometimes they’d lose weight, they would get sick and have to go to the clinic, and I didn’t want that for me,” she told The Associated Press. “I’d see the people I live with taking (antiretroviral) pills […]