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29.05 01:53 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States could authorize emergency use of some currently unapproved immune system boosters called adjuvants to make a swine flu vaccine more effective, an official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

29.05 00:28 MIAMI (Reuters) - A popular U.S. Roman Catholic priest photographed frolicking with a woman on a Florida beach announced on Thursday he had joined the Episcopal Church to pursue the priesthood in a faith that allows married clergy.

29.05 00:22 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A higher U.S. minimum wage is providing a cushion to the economy when it is most needed, according to a report released on Thursday.

28.05 23:48 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jay Leno, the popular late-night host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," bows out of his 17-year run on Friday and heads for prime-time television in a major shake-up of U.S. network programing.

28.05 22:33 HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford's estranged wife asked a federal court to allow her to intervene in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's $8.5 billion civil fraud action against her husband, arguing she has a right to half his property and needs to get on with her life.

28.05 20:42 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has upheld the wider use of DNA sampling as a law-enforcement tool similar to fingerprinting, giving firmer legal footing for more extensive use of genetic material in fighting crime, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

28.05 20:07 FLORENCE, Colo. (Reuters) - Over the hill from the first hole at Sumo Golf Village is the Federal Correctional Complex. Golf pro Randy Burross could hit the prison with a single drive.

28.05 19:28 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obese women can safely gain just a small amount of weight when pregnant, but doctors need to do more to help women stay slim before they get pregnant, U.S. policy advisers said on Thursday.

28.05 19:15 CHICAGO (Reuters) - More summer-like weather is expected to show up in the southern areas of the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt over the next week, giving farmers a chance to catch up on corn and soybean planting, a forecaster said Thursday.

28.05 18:35 (Corrects tax treatment of health benefits in paragraph 23)

28.05 18:23 MIAMI (Reuters) - The first tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed on Thursday off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

28.05 17:29 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Countless workers in the United States are trapped in jobs they would like to leave because they cannot get health insurance elsewhere, calcifying innovation and mobility in the world's largest economy.

28.05 17:11 NEW YORK (Reuters) - One out of eight U.S. households with a mortgage ended the first quarter late on loan payments or in the foreclosure process, in a crisis that will persist for at least another year until unemployment peaks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday.

28.05 15:53 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions.

28.05 05:24 BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has "stepped back from the brink" and is much better shape than it was months ago, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.

28.05 02:52 HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally funneling $12.4 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.