Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers
In response to palpable, bipartisan frustration among lawmakers over soaring costs for medical care, the chief executives of the country’s...
Mark Carney Says Firmly That ‘Canada Doesn’t Live Because of the United States’
When Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister last year, he was known mostly as a technocratic central banker who had...
Trump Could Begin Flying on Jet Donated by Qatar by This Summer
President Trump could start flying later this year on the 747 Boeing jetliner donated by the government of Qatar, after...
Why Your Weather App Is Freaking Out About the Snow
On Wednesday, when cellphone weather apps began warning their users that a sprawling storm system could drop a foot or...
Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked
The West African nation of Guinea-Bissau has suspended a controversial U.S.-funded study of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants there...
An Emboldened Trump’s Whipsaw Approach to the World
For days, President Trump insisted that he would accept nothing less than full ownership of Greenland. He dismissed concerns that...
House Rejects Measure to Bar Military Force in Venezuela
The House on Thursday just barely defeated a resolution that would have barred President Trump from taking further military action...
Why Trees Go Pop in the Freezing Cold
Snap, crackle and, sometimes, a giant pop. While many trees are dormant these months — and will remain so until...
How Britain’s Bases in Cyprus Could Be a Blueprint for Trump’s Greenland Deal
Few details have emerged about the framework of a tentative deal that President Trump said he had reached with NATO...
Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean Energy Loans
The Energy Department said on Thursday that it was in the process of revising or canceling more than $83 billion...
James Bernard, a Founding Editor of a Hip-Hop ‘Bible,’ Dies at 58
James Bernard, a founding editor and star writer of the seminal hip-hop magazine The Source who chronicled, with depth and...
Trump to Expand ‘Mexico City’ Abortion Rule to Include D.E.I and Gender
The Trump administration will broaden the “Mexico City policy,” which bars recipients of foreign aid from promoting abortion, to include...
We Asked 300 People About Health Care Costs. The Numbers Are Shocking.
When Congress allowed the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire at the end of December, my monthly health insurance...
House Passes Spending Package Over Democratic Revolt on ICE
The House on Thursday passed legislation to fund a broad swath of the government including the Department of Homeland Security,...
Alfred McLaren, 93, Dies; Submariner Led Secret Cold War Missions
The terrifying news came to Alfred S. McLaren, skipper of the U.S. nuclear submarine Queenfish, in the form of a...
