Mehmet Oz testifies before Senate committee, won’t commit to opposing cuts to the Medicaid program he would run
Celebrity doctor and former Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz told senators he has the experience and reform ideas ...
Alan Simpson, three-term senator known for barbed wit, dies at 93
Alan K. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served three controversy-rich terms in the U.S. Senate - a tenure animated by a ...
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Close calls at Washington DC airport raise questions about why changes weren’t made before crash
When Congress pushed ahead last year with adding 10 new daily flights to Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration had data showing an unnerving number of near mis ...
RFK Jr.’s First Big Defeat on CDC Chief Tests Limits of Vaccine Agenda
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.
The Testing of John Thune
The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?
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Give Students a Chance To Be on the Right Side of History
It’s too soon to know whether we will come to regard demands for fossil divestment or “justice for Palestine” as righteous ...