GOP and Dems start talking about compromise health bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will move next week on a measure to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but, predicting failure, other senators…
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigns
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has resigned after opposing President Donald Trump‘s appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, NBC News has confirmed with two people familiar with the…
Donald Trump: Six Months into His Presidency
Thursday marks six months since U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in as the country’s 45th president. It has been a chaotic half-year in the…
CBO says repealing Obamacare without replacement would leave 32 million more Americans without coverage
WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans’ proposal to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement would leave 32 million more Americans without health insurance over the…
Trump: Voter Fraud Commission Will Be ‘Very Transparent’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a voter fraud commission launched under his administration will be “very transparent” and the results will be made…
Trump Jr. allowed to testify about meeting with Russian lawyer
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Tuesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has “no problem” with Donald Trump…
TrumpCare implodes as two more Republicans turn against it
Monday, two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the American Health Care Act, derailing the GOP’s long winded attempts at repealing and replacing ObamaCare….
Anti-Net Neutrality Groups Say Millions Of ‘Fake’ FCC Comments Are From Russia
Conservative U.S. groups that support the Federal Communication Commissions’ potential move to gut net neutrality rules are claiming that millions of pro-net neutrality comments…
We regulate doctors to protect the public from harm – why not journalists?
Shutterstock David Maslove, Queen’s University, Ontario Should journalists be licensed? The Conversation Canada commissioned two articles to argue for and against the idea. Read the…
Trump Attacks Media for Coverage of Son’s Russia Meeting
President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. media Sunday, accusing it of “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY” in its reports on his eldest son’s meeting last year…
Fukushima nuclear plant operator to dump contaminated water into sea
Image by IAEA Imagebank via Flickr Tokyo (dpa) – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant will release radiation-contaminated water into the Pacific…
U.S. Health Care System Rated the Worst of 11 Developed Nations
As Republicans struggle to agree on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, the Commonwealth Fund has rated the U.S> health care system as the…
Internet storm over Trump Jr.’s Russian interlocutor
WASHINGTON — Natalia Veselnitskaya has become an internet sensation, and in politics that’s hardly ever a good thing. The Russian lawyer, little-known until she surfaced…
‘Extreme’ Use of Painkillers and Doctor Shopping Plague Medicare, New Report Says
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, July 13, 2017, 9:30 a.m. In Washington, D.C., a Medicare beneficiary filled prescriptions for 2,330 pills of oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine…
Trump’s choice to head FBI backs special counsel, promises independence
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI during the highly sensitive investigation into Russia’s efforts to sway the 2016 election pledged Wednesday…
China to open first overseas military base in Djibouti
Ships carrying personnel for China’s first overseas military base have set sail to begin setting up the facility in Djibouti, as the country’s rapidly modernising…
Donald Trump Jr. Releases Emails Leading up to Meeting with Russian Government Attorney
Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (Donald Trump, Jr.) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Donald J Trump Jr, the…
The Supreme Court, religion and the future of school choice
John E. Taylor, West Virginia University The Supreme Court recently decided that Trinity Lutheran Church should be eligible for a Missouri state grant covering the…
The G20 summit shows a world divided in its attitudes toward globalization
Jennifer Johns, University of Liverpool The theme of this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, is “Shaping an Interconnected World”. The gathering of 20 world…
On abortion, persistent divides between – and within – the two parties
Abortion has long been a contentious issue in American politics and one that splits deeply along partisan, ideological and religious lines. Today, a 57% majority…