The Republican legislation would limit future federal funding for Medicaid, which covers low-income people, about 1 in 5 Americans. Republicans blamed the law for rising insurance premiums and high patient out-of-pocket costs, and criticized its requirement that everyone have...
So the president’s ability to work with Congress – which sees fiscal health as a top priority – is about to be seriously tested. Never mind that his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, says he wrote virtually all of it. What Trump has said is that it’s better to...
“The Western Balkan countries have an unequivocal European perspective”, Jean-Claude Juncker said on March 9 at an EU summit in Brussels. Juncker made this statement after meeting 27 other European Union leaders.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on March 9 that “profound differences” have overtaken the many common interests shared by Germany and Turkey, and called for efforts to change that.
The story told in Planned Parenthood’s new ad has a very different ending for women and their babies more than 300,000 times a year. The Washington Post also noted that those clinics are not required to provide family planning services, either, which is one of the most...
Two unnamed sources told Politico that Huntsman was offered the key post at the end of last week. If eyebrows were raised, it was to acknowledge that Trump had, in uncharacteristic fashion, appointed not only a qualified person to this sensitive government position, but also a...
USA officials have rejected China’s proposal for Washington to halt war games with South Korea in exchange for a pause in the North’s nuclear-weapons program.
The elephant in the room was Brexit and the question of when UK Prime Minister Theresa May would formally invoke Article 50, the mechanism for leaving the EU. “He was not able to remain neutral or impartial and the heads of states of governments should have considered...
Payroll services firm ADP Inc., which compiles its own monthly employment report based on its customers’ statistics, gave a much higher figure for February job gains than the government. Instead of a blowout, we got a repeat from the previous month of a solid...
After House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled the American Health Care Act this week, members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus made their own bet: that Trump isn’t very committed to passing Ryan’s vision for health care reform, and can be swayed to their way of thinking.