Democrats have made giving government the power to negotiate drug prices a central campaign theme for decades. With the power to make it happen, they may fall short yet again.
More than 160 reports, obtained by Human Rights Watch, reveal details of mistreatment that asylum seekers described experiencing from border officials and while in U.S. custody.
Eric Adams, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, refused to be goaded into an exchange of insults with his Republican foe, Curtis Sliwa.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of an eroding trust in democracy in the Western Hemisphere and described challenges posed to open government by authoritarian leaders.
At his confirmation hearing, President Biden’s pick for envoy to Japan issued a warning to Beijing and defended his actions as mayor of Chicago after the killing of Laquan McDonald.
Responding to concerns from a key centrist, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the White House and leading Democrats are instead discussing a range of other taxes to pay for the plan.
Jonathan and Diana Toebbe planned for years to sell classified materials about submarine technology to a foreign government and were seeking as much as $5 million, the prosecution said in court.