Category: Politics

Importing prescription drugs from Canada has long been seen as an easy solution to skyrocketing drug prices for U.S. patients. But now that President Donald Trump and Democrats are pushing to make those cross-border sales legal, Canadian health experts are issuing a dire…

Congressional efforts to pass a national data privacy law could face a major obstacle: California’s powerful bloc of House Democrats. That’s because many California Democrats are happy with their home state’s new privacy law, which is tougher than what Republicans…

Martin O’Malley’s announcement Thursday that he will not run for president may not have upended the 2020 presidential field. But by endorsing Beto O’Rourke at the same time he revealed his own departure from the race, O’Malley significantly advanced the…

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he reserved the right to weigh in on the Justice Department’s case against a top executive in a Chinese technology company, if it would help him close a trade deal with Beijing or…

Kamala Harris has booked her first 2020 ticket to Iowa. The freshman senator will travel for the first time this year to the first-in-the-nation caucus state on Oct. 22-23, as she prepares for a potential presidential run. Harris, a California…

President Donald Trump’s flair for the unpredictable has taken a toll on his defense leaders, handing them orders and major policy shifts with little or no notice — ranging from his transgender ban, a military parade and a separate Space…

China’s foreign minister warned Tuesday warned that the United States and China should not view each other with a “Cold War mentality” amid escalating trade tensions between the two nations. The remark by Wang Yi, who is also a Chinese…

Rep. Kevin Cramer, the Republican nominee for Senate in North Dakota, questioned whether the allegation of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be disqualifying for his Supreme Court nomination even if it were true. In an interview with a…

The year was 1937. Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts had to decide which was more important: his intellectual integrity, or the integrity of the court as an institution. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing plan—which FDR billed as a measure to…

Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive physician who was the runner-up in Michigan Democrats’ primary for governor last month, is launching a new political action committee to harness the energy from his upstart campaign. El-Sayed’s new group, SouthPaw MI PAC, aims to…