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The White House will release an executive order Monday afternoon intended to require insurance companies, doctors and hospitals to give patients more information about precisely what their care will cost before they get it. “The president knows the best way to lower costs in health care is to put patients in control by increasing choice […]

Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt are the final two in the battle to become the next prime minister. They will go through to a ballot of the wider membership of the Conservative Party, but who are the members who will have the deciding vote? James Clayton reports for Newsnight.

THE LAND OF FLICKERING LIGHTS Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics By Michael Bennet Michael Bennet is disappointed, and he’s running for president. In “The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics,” the Democratic senator from Colorado has not written a typical, triumphal campaign memoir. Instead, the book

There is “absolutely no evidence” Russia influenced the Brexit result using Facebook, the company’s vice-president, Sir Nick Clegg, has said. The former deputy PM told the Today programme the company had carried out analyses of its data and found no “significant attempt” by outside forces to sway the vote. Instead, he argued that “the roots

• The White House unveiled the economic portion of its Middle East peace plan, pledging to improve the lot of the Palestinians. The 38-page plan sets ambitious goals, but there are no concrete dollar commitments from the United States. • President Trump on Saturday delayed plans for nationwide raids to deport undocumented families, but he

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg faced a tense crowd at a town-hall event in South Bend on Sunday, fielding questions about a shooting by a city police officer last week as the audience booed, applauded and shouted over him. Mr. Buttigieg, seated on a stage next to the police chief, responded calmly to

The types of responses the United States could undertake are broad if the United States was willing to use the same tactics that Iran has mastered, said Sean McFate, a professor at the National Defense University and the author of “The New Rules of War.” “If we want to fight back, do it in the

Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and congressman from Pennsylvania, said he was joining the crowded field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020. With an announcement on his website on Saturday, Mr. Sestak became the 24th Democratic candidate running for president. “I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a United Nations report described how a team of Saudi assassins called Mr. Khashoggi a “sacrificial animal” before his murder. The U.N. report urged an F.B.I. investigation into the slaying. But in an interview

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said that Boris Johnson should explain why the police were called to the flat he shares with his girlfriend on Thursday night. “I think it is always easier to just give an explanation,” he said. But Mr Fox added that the row should not be a “distraction” from policy