Politics

The nation’s hospital groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over a new federal rule that would require them to disclose the discounted prices they give insurers for all sorts of procedures. The hospitals, including the American Hospital Association, argued in a lawsuit filed in United States District Court in Washington that the new rule […]

WASHINGTON — The Department of Agriculture, brushing aside tens of thousands of protest letters, gave final approval on Wednesday to a new rule that would remove nearly 755,000 people from the federal food-stamp program. The rule, which was proposed in February, makes it more difficult for states to allow able-bodied adults without children to receive

“Impeachment by its nature, it’s a political process.” “What people think is going to happen can turn out to be very different from what happens.” “Because it has to do with elected officials holding another elected official to account for their conduct.” When the framers of the Constitution created a process to remove a president

For the second time, Michael J. Gerhardt will appear before Congress as an expert on impeachment. In 1998, when President Bill Clinton was facing impeachment, he was the only expert on a panel of 19 witnesses summoned by both parties to offer insight into the process. His credentials Thirty years ago, Mr. Gerhardt published his

Labour’s shadow chancellor has outlined his party’s pledges on inequality, setting out policies that include scrapping universal credit and raising the living wage to £10. Speaking in Birmingham, John McDonnell said scale of the reforms pledged by Labour “is significant” but that people’s ambitions had been limited by almost a decade of “Conservative and Lib

“Impeachment by its nature, it’s a political process.” “What people think is going to happen can turn out to be very different from what happens.” “Because it has to do with elected officials holding another elected official to account for their conduct.” When the framers of the Constitution created a process to remove a president

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — VoteVets, the political action committee that backs liberal veterans running for office, has endorsed Pete Buttigieg for president, the first major organization to support the mayor of South Bend, Ind. The endorsement brings Mr. Buttigieg, a former Navy officer who served in Afghanistan, new defenders in a 2020 Democratic presidential contest that

Race equality campaigners say votes from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities shouldn’t be underestimated in the upcoming general election. The Runnymede Trust has calculated that about one third of UK constituencies will have at least a 15% population made up of these groups by 2021. BBC community affairs correspondent Adina Campbell reports from

An influential political power broker who was a witness named in the Mueller report was among eight people charged with conspiring to conceal the source of excessive contributions to groups supporting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. Prosecutors say George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who was a cooperating witness in

World leaders are in London for the 70th anniversary summit of the Nato military alliance. Among them is US President Donald Trump. He’s been talked about a lot this election campaign, as Labour accused Boris Johnson of looking to strike a trade deal with the United States that would put the NHS on the negotiating