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WASHINGTON — Legislation aimed at reducing delays when Medicare Advantage plans require preapproval for care could hit the House floor under fast-track rules for bills that have broad support.

The bill, sponsored by Rep...Read more

WASHINGTON — Recent proposals to regulate artificial intelligence show Democratic paths diverging between cooperation and compromise on the one hand and sweeping regulations on the other.

Growing public angst about the ...Read more

When Americans think about campaign finance, they usually picture wealthy donors, political action committees and super PACs pouring money into elections.

But some of the most revealing money moves happen inside...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The euphoria at Chris Rabb’s election night party last month hadn’t even started to wane before the democratic socialist and his supporters — dancing and hugging after capturing a rarely open ...Read more

When Congress passed sweeping Medicaid cuts as part of President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill last year, the headline numbers were grim: Some 7.5 million people were expected to lose coverage due to changes to the ...Read more

A 1965 “Wizard of Id” comic strip by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker went as follows: The diminutive but tyrannical king is addressing his subjects on the need for peace and harmony. He then proclaims, “We must all live...Read more

AI is unpopular. And nearly a billion people use ChatGPT.

AI is destroying jobs. And fields predicted to have been eliminated by AI, like radiology, continue to grow and leverage the technology to improve their work.

AI ...Read more

The Trump family is openly looting the federal government. Congressional Republicans have decided that's fine.

My congressman, Rep. Bob Onder, recently sent a constituent email praising the Trump White House for its anti-...Read more

Elected officials throughout the country are failing to help their constituents, which is their job. Right now in the United States, too many people in power work instead to represent corporate interests, billionaire ...Read more

Government has never been known as a model of efficiency. Yet a new report from the Government Accountability Office should make even the most hardened cynic blanch.

Last week, the GAO revealed that the federal government...Read more

Born in the 1890s and nearly killed off 20 years ago, the historic Yerkes Observatory along the shores of southeast Wisconsin’s Geneva Lake is getting a new life.

Instead of condos and a high-end resort, scientific ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s decision to leave a long, aggressive interview with the slanted, outdated “Meet the Press” show drew the usual outrage from liberal critics who always gave free passes to Democratic ...Read more

Recurring legal setbacks haven’t deflected the White House from its plan to impose a worldwide tariff regime. Whether the fourth variant of this protectionist strategy, proposed last week, will fare better in the courts ...Read more

In the case of United States vs. James Brien Comey Jr., the U.S. president’s security is pitted against the bedrock right to free speech enjoyed by Americans.

Two federal charges have been lodged against former FBI ...Read more

The most encouraging redistricting news of the year came from two states that did nothing.

Illinois lawmakers adjourned without drawing new congressional maps. South Carolina legislators, including Republicans, rejected ...Read more

Fidelity Investments, the big brokerage and mutual fund firm, long has had a rule protecting its small retail clients from plunging into initial public stock offerings while the shares were still subject to IPO-related ...Read more

The U.S. and Europe tried unsuccessfully for 35 years to end the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Moscow also failed, sending “peacekeepers” after Azerbaijan’s attacks on Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020; these ...Read more

With Tom Steyer all but eliminated from California’s top-two gubernatorial runoff in November, he joins a long conga line of beaucoup-bucks, self-funding candidates who tried to buy their way into elected office in our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress spent another day stalled on the renewal of a key surveillance authority Tuesday, as President Donald Trump declined to help clear a legislative path and instead dug in on his temporary choice in ...Read more