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The House voted Thursday to narrowly approve a Republican-drafted measure that would eliminate numerous provisions of the Affordable Care Act - the first step toward keeping one of President Trump's campaign pledges and a victory for GOP lawmakers who have long railed against Obamacare, as the ACA is commonly known. Eyeing a victory, a jubilant Trump tweeted during the vote that, if successful, Republicans would gather for "big press conference at the attractive Rose Garden of the White House" immediately afterwards.
In this Nov. 18, 2016 photo, a faded photo collage showing images of the 14 victims who were killed in the Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernardino terror attack is adorned with artificial flowers at a makeshift memorial near the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., where the shooting took place. Family members of San Bernardino terror attack victims are suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for providing platforms to aid terrorists.
The House Financial Services Committee approved legislation Thursday that severely weakens the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and puts consumers at risk of unfair and abusive financial practices, according to Consumers Union. Washington, DC - infoZine - The Financial CHOICE Act, sponsored by Representative Jeb Hensarling , is expected to be voted on by the full House of Representatives later this month.
Tax negotiations between the House and Senate stalled again Thursday as lawmakers hunted for a package that wouldn't provoke a veto from Gov. Sam Brownback, or else would win enough votes to override his veto.
Delivering at last, triumphant House Republicans voted Thursday to repeal and replace the "Obamacare" health plan they have reviled for so long, overcoming united Democratic opposition and their own deep divisions to hand a major win to President Donald Trump. The 217-213 vote was a narrow victory, and ultimate success is far from assured since the measure must still make its way through a highly skeptical Senate.
The Republican health care plan that passed the House on Thursday targeted a key protection for Americans who get their health insurance through work. It would allow health insurance companies to impose lifetime and annual caps on benefits for those who get coverage through a large-employer plan.
It's been another week in a world in which Donald Trump is president. None of what's happened over the past seven days is very pretty, but let's figure out what's important.
Republicans are claiming a triumph by pushing their legislative centerpiece scuttling much of President Barack Obama's health care law through the House. It was a perilous journey, and its Senate pathway will be at least as bumpy with little doubt the measure will change, assuming it survives.
Flashback to 2015, and The Press's front-page coverage of the implications of the closure of Bootham Park Hospital Earlier this week, The Press launched a Fighting Fake News campaign, to highlight the dangers of fake news and underline the importance of proper, professional journalism. We all know what fake news is, or think we do.
Former President Barack Obama weighed into France's presidential election on Thursday and gave his backing to Emmanuel Macron. (May 4) Media: Associated Press
A marcher hands a sign-up sheet to a participant during the march and rally in support of immigrants on Nov. 21, 2016. Luis Barrios, an undocumented immigrant who lives with his wife and children in Derby, will get to stay in the United States for another 30 days.
Today a bill to repeal major parts of Obamacare won backing from a majority in the US House of Representatives . That means the bill will now be put to a vote in the Senate, which could lead to Barack Obama's healthcare plan being completely reformed - and parts of it replaced with Trump's own vision.
Congressman Chris Collins is being raked over the coals for admitting on CNN he didn't read the entire American Act Healthcare Act before passing it yesterday. However, the same thing happened when Obamacare was rolled out.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will mark the service and sacrifice of America's diplomats on Friday in a what's expected to be a poignant ceremony in front of the State Department's memorial wall. As Tillerson's review gets underway, the staff he is set to address Friday is already grappling with the implications of a widespread leadership vacuum in the senior tiers of the great majority of its bureaus and at a third of its embassies.
The Dalai Lama's meetings with Trump's predecessor Barack Obama and former US presidents have drawn protests from China. China today dismissed reports that its foreign minister put off his visit to New Delhi last month to attend a RIC meeting to protest India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to travel to Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as part of Southern Tibet.
As Kansas lawmakers look at repealing the pass-through income tax exemption for business, Gov. Sam Brownback and others doggedly stick to their assertion that it has created new business entities. They are correct, but those new businesses overwhelmingly were created to avoid taxes and resulted in little real economic growth.
Republicans are claiming a triumph by pushing their legislative centrepiece scuttling much of U.S. President Barack Obama's health care law through the House. It was a perilous journey, and its Senate pathway will be at least as bumpy with little doubt the measure will change, assuming it survives.
Since he was indicted on allegations related to an extramarital affair, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has shifted into attack mode, zeroing in on the St. Louis prosecutor who launched the investigation with comments decried by some critics as politically or racially charged.
When American college student Amanda Knox was charged in Italy with the 2007 death of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher , her case became international news. Everyone had an opinion of Knox's guilt or innocence.
Two potential Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin have voting records that could call into question their conservative credentials and hurt them in a potentially crowded GOP primary. Kevin Nicholson and Nicole Schneider are among several possible challengers to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2018.