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In what has already been a historically bad year for Democrats, it just may be that they're about to lose again to Donald Trump, this time in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette. The Dems' Putin smear was supposed to paint President Trump as a friend of the tyrant and beneficiary of Russian meddling in the election.
House Republicans unveiled on Monday their long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. The bill sets the stage for a bitter debate over the possible dismantling of the most significant health care law in a half-century.
Might Republicans make job-based health insurance taxable? And how can you fight an insurance denial for lung-cancer screening? Also, can pharmacists prescribe drugs? Here are answers to some recent questions from readers. Q: I've heard that Republicans plan to change the system so that I'd have to pay income taxes on my health insurance benefits.
"This is an extraordinary time in journalism," said CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker this morning referencing the Donald Trump era. "Many organizations in the United States have never done better work.
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Monday that dealing with the Medicaid expansion in a repeal of former President Barack Obama's health care law must be a "negotiated agreement." Toomey also said the sickest people, such as those with serious pre-existing conditions, should be covered through a high-risk pool that is subsidized by the government to make it affordable.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought Monday to clarify his denial to the Senate about contact with Russian officials during the presidential campaign, a misstatement that led him to recuse himself from overseeing federal investigations into meddling by the Kremlin in the U.S. election. Reports that Mr. Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice during the campaign sparked a storm of demands last week on Capitol Hill for the former U.S. senator from Alabama to recuse himself from the investigations or resign.
Former Obama administration spokesman Josh Earnest is scheduled to participate in a Harvard University forum about interactions between the White House and the media. Earnest was White House press secretary under Democratic President Barack Obama from 2014 until Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.
FBI Director James Comey is set to visit Massachusetts to mark the opening of the Boston FBI division 's new offices and to speak at a cybersecurity conference amid wiretapping accusations lodged by Republican President Donald Trump . Trump claims Democratic former President Barack Obama tapped his phones during last year's election.
In the days after President Donald Trump's first travel ban was introduced on January 27, clients streamed into Neha Vyas' Seattle law office. Some just wanted to hear a reassuring voice.
Former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton planned to jump into the 2018 governor's race Tuesday, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner. The 53-year-old lawyer from Barberton served three terms in Congress and eight years in the state Legislature, where she was the youngest woman ever elected at age 29. She also served on her local city and county councils.
Looks like Barack Obama isn't letting something like a little wiretapping accusation stand in his way of being the coolest ever. Obama brought his new favorite pastime, reminding Americans what they're missing , to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Around the turn of the century a bandit rode in from Mexico, robbed a small Texas bank, and fled back across the border. A Texas Ranger picked up his trail and nabbed him in a Mexican village.
The day Donald Trump took office, I wrote a column arguing that what was new and frightening here was that he had no reverence for the civic and governmental institutions of this country. This had never been true of a president before, at least in the modern era.
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. The Senate last week passed SB 81, the Jeffery Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to individuals in accordance with a statewide standing order.
Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. less Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, ... more A trailer carries the logo for Teamsters Local 294 on Monday, March, 6, 2017, outside the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. They are facing a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan.
Montana Republicans have convened their meeting to pick a candidate for the U.S. House special election on May 25. Delegates from across the state spent Monday afternoon meeting with the seven people competing for the party's nomination before gathering in a Helena hotel ballroom to vote in the evening. A total of 202 delegates are voting.
President Donald Trump is again citing corporate investments planned before he took office as evidence that his policies are growing jobs and business. "We are already winning again, America!" he tweeted Monday after Exxon Mobil announced the latest details of an expansion initiative that actually began in 2013.
Republicans in the House of Representatives announced their alternative to Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare today, while promising that it would repeal much of the provisions of the Obamacare healthcare law, including its expansion of the Medicaid program. President Trump and fellow Republicans had repeatedly promised to repeal and replace the troubled healthcare law left behind by Obama.