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March 22 (Reuters) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Wednesday the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration had approved the expanded use of its drug in children aged 5 to 11 years to treat an ultra-rare disease that causes high cholesterol.

OTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - U.S.
President Joe Biden on Friday said the United States is prepared to "act forcefully" to protect Americans, commenting after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Tim Ahmann) "Make no mistake: the United States does not ... seek conflict with Iran, but be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people," Biden told reporters during an official visit to Canada.

The drug, Evkeeza, was approved in February 2021 as an additional treatment with other lipid-lowering therapies for patients aged 12 years and above with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

GitHub Copilot is designed to keep the developer's mind in the flow by suggesting code or predicting whole methods, similar to writing an email or doing a Google search where the next few words are suggested.

Regulators have a responsibility to ensure that banks do not abuse those privileges. Banks are different from most private-sector companies. They are insulated from market discipline by various forms of federal protection because, like the power companies that keep the lights on, they provide a public service that is essential to a modern economy. Policymakers - in Congress, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve - have a duty to explain to the American public how things were allowed to spin so far out of control.

Although most imagine coders tapping on a keyboard in a darkened room, in practice they are writing, researching and bringing systems and components together, which means repeatedly stopping to find more information.

Whether it´s accelerating the end of gas-fired plants, oil drilling and internal-combustion cars, or clearing the way for vehicle electrification and wind and solar energy production and transmission, there are thousands of opportunities to avoid the very worst possibilities for our future. From local government to heads of state, officials at all levels should exercise whatever authority they have to dismantle the dangerous machinery of fossil fuels and replace it quickly with clean, renewable energy.

If bankers are required in the future to return some of what they have gained from their poor decisions, it might have a sobering effect. Congress should also require clawbacks of executive compensation and dividends at failed banks.

Accused by Trump and the former president's allies in the House of Representatives of a political "witch hunt," prosecutor Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, has hit back at Republican "interference" in the investigation.

Greg Becker, the chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, testified before Congress in 2015 that his institution, like others of its size, "does not present systemic risks." Signature Bank officials also lobbied for, and benefited from, the 2018 changes. In 2018, a bipartisan bill weakened regulatory oversight of midsize lenders like Silicon Valley Bank, reversing key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act. Congress bears responsibility, too. The new law increased the threshold for the strictest category of regulatory scrutiny to $250 billion from $50 billion.

Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 budget would bump ATF funding by 7.4 percent with a total $1.9 billion with the goal of tightening gun laws.
The money would be used, in part, to seek stricter rules and legislation related to firearms registration as Biden continues to make part of his priorities combating gun violence in the U.S.

The U.N´s scientific assessment, approved by 195 nations, says that existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure - all of the coal-fired power plants, oil wells and gas-powered vehicles already built or on the way - will generate enough greenhouse gas pollution to warm the planet by a catastrophic 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, this century.

South Carolina, which was 27-28 and four games under .500 in SEC play last season, is 23-2 and 6-0 after sweeping Missouri. First-year Washington coach Jason Kelly picked up his biggest series win so far when the Huskies won two of three on the road against a top 10-ranked UCLA.

It may be many more years before we fully reckon the effects of the catastrophe unleashed two decades ago. More than half of Iraqis are too young to remember life under Saddam Hussein. Some now aspire to a society and government that looks beyond sectarianism and towards a brighter future, as the 2019 Tishreen movement, and the re-emergence of participants in 2021´s elections, showed. Yet the low turnout underscored that others have given up on democracy, thanks to those who boasted that they were bringing it to justify their war.