From Reuters Daily Briefing
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By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor
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- Choose wisely: They either can go against their principles by supporting what critics decry as a slush fund or they can oppose a president who just ended the careers of two of their fellows in the primaries. For now, they’ve taken to yelling at Todd Blanche, who will need their support if he wants to drop the first word from his current job title of acting attorney general.
- Entry burn: The U.S. is making plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at major U.S. airports in “sanctuary cities,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said. Airline, travel and business groups predict chaos at Newark Liberty airport for tourists, Americans returning home and crucial cargo shipments.
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- 50-bed unit: The U.S. said it would open the center at an air-force base in central Kenya to serve Americans who were exposed to the virus but remained asymptomatic. Many Kenyans oppose the plan and a legal-advocacy group sued, saying the center could endanger public health.
- Latest figures: The World Health Organization said there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and that 223 people are suspected to have died because of the virus. And from the Reuters Fact Check department: 'Hanta' does not mean 'scam' in Hebrew.
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- Health: The American Cancer Society is recommending an option from Guardant Health that can detect whether genetic material from a tumor is circulating in a person’s blood. Note that the ACS also says that the old-fashioned colonoscopy screening remains the gold standard.
- Insurance: More Americans are dropping out or being kicked off Obamacare health insurance for non-payment in past years, particularly in Kentucky and Idaho. The decline was largely due to pandemic-era subsidies expiring, which dramatically raised the cost of the plans.
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- No free drink: Italian hotels can refuse to serve their guests tap water, Italy’s highest court ruled. A tourist sued the five-star Hotel Sassongher in Corvara after it refused to give her tap water during meals, instead offering mineral water for 7 euros a bottle.
- Voters incorporated: A Delaware judge ruled that the beach town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.
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- Australian state police did not prepare a threat assessment before the mass shooting at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration that killed 15 people, an inquiry into the attack heard.
- Authorities arrested eight students on suspicion of arson over a fire at a girls’ boarding school in Kenya that killed 16 students.
- Rescue divers saved four gold prospectors from a flooded cave in Laos. Two remain missing.
- A Canadian man accused of selling the legal but potentially lethal chemical sodium nitrite to people who killed themselves pleaded guilty to aiding suicide.
- A German court sentenced a former Red Army Faction member to 13 years in prison for armed robberies and attempted kidnapping. Daniela Klette, 67, was arrested in 2024 after evading capture for more than three decades.
- French lawmakers voted to repeal the slavery-era “Code noir” that defined the legal status of enslaved people as “movable property” and justified their abuse.
- Latest sports trend: Tamara Korpatsch skipped the customary handshake after defeating Wang Xinyu after a tense match at the French Open. Virat Kohli did the same after he and Australian batter Travis Head exchanged heated words during a cricket match in Hyderabad.
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