Category: Politics
A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts This Week
Several studies found that around 20 percent of U.S. patients who had emergency care were treated by someone outside of their insurance network, in [...]
Greene and Clyde Rack Up Fines for Defying House’s Mask Mandate
WASHINGTON — During a recent marathon session in the House, two Republican lawmakers from Georgia sat in full view of television cameras. Neither w [...]
MP Virginia Crosbie releases photo of death threat letter
The handwritten note saying "traitors hang" was sent to the MP's office just before Christmas.
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Covid: Nightingale surge hubs to be set up in eight hospitals, NHS England says
The hubs will be located at the Royal Preston hospital in Lancashire, St James' University Hospital in Leeds, Lister Hospital in Stevenage, St Geor [...]
Sleaze claims worried Blair aides, papers show
The new Labour PM faced questions in 1997 about the £650,000 renovation of a minister's flat.
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Brexit: How has pet travel to EU countries been affected?
Changes to rules on travel to the EU with pets have led to higher bills and some problems for owners.
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Pentagon Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo Bay
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is building a second courtroom for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay that will exclude the public from the chamber, the [...]
Michigan’s New Congressional Maps Undo Years of Gerrymandering
“The goal of creating partisan fairness cannot so negatively impact Black communities as to erase us from the space,” said Adam Hollier, a state se [...]
Pentagon Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo Bay
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is building a second courtroom for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay that will exclude the public from the chamber, the [...]
Biden and Putin Will Hold a Call on Ukraine
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has been sending conflicting signals. Over the weekend, Russia declared that 10,000 combat and special forces troops were re [...]
Federal Officials Say Early Omicron Data Suggests a Less Deadly Wave
WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials emphasized on Wednesday that data on skyrocketing coronavirus cases in the United States and from other c [...]
Harry Reid’s death leaves behind an enduring political legacy
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader who distinguished himself as one of the Obama-era Democratic Party’s premier political strategists [...]
Covid: Boris Johnson says enjoy New Year but get a booster
Boris Johnson says people should enjoy New Year in a sensible way, and urges them to get a booster jab.
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Voting Rights Tracker: What to Know About the U.S. Elections Fight
The current battle over voting rights — who gets to vote, how votes are cast and counted, who oversees the process — has turned what was once the h [...]
Insulate Britain protests cost police more than £4m
Forces in London, Manchester, Hertfordshire and Surrey spent more £4.3m to police the protests.
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