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Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman is the lone Republican signed onto Democratic Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s prescription drug pricing bill. The PRICED Act was introduced last week with more than 15 Democratic cosponsors. “Our health care policy really does need to be bipartisan,” Westerman told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a phone interview Tuesday. Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman is the ...

A report published Monday detailed how the country’s 82 biggest nonprofit hospitals resemble big business despite getting breaks on income and property taxes and collecting tax-deductible donations. “Last year, patients spent roughly one out of every seven U.S. healthcare dollars within these healthcare networks. Many are household names: Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Foundation, Dignity Health, and Partners HealthCare,” government ...

Wayfair employees have planned a walkout after learning the online furnishing company is going to fulfill an order to furnish migrant camps and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is voicing her support. The retailer is going ahead with a $200,000 bed and furniture sale to a Texas detention facility. Almost 550 Wayfair employees signed a letter on June 20 ...

The Michigan GOP Headquarters was vandalized with explicit graffiti twice in two separate incidents on Saturday morning and Monday night, according to a press release from the group. “FUCK ICE” was spray painted prominently on the front of the building Saturday, the statement said. Another overnight attack Monday left an additional “FUCK ICE” message in conjunction with multiple “FUCK COX” ...

The Trump administration filed an extraordinary last-minute request at the Supreme Court in the census citizenship question case Tuesday, asking the justices to resolve a late-breaking controversy just hours before handing down their decision. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals provoked the government’s petition after a Tuesday afternoon ruling, in which it authorized a federal judge in Maryland to ...

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is about to sign a law mandating gun dealers carry a “smart gun” model once one becomes commercially available. “Smart Guns” recognize the user and are rendered inoperable by unauthorized use. While there are a number of “smart guns” being developed by gunmakers, no model is available for sale yet in the U.S. A ...

A new document leaked Tuesday appears to show a Google engineer suggesting in an internal email that classifying prominent conservatives as “Nazis” could help the company wipe out far-right content. “Today it is often 1 or 2 steps to Nazis, if we understand that PragerU, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro et al are Nazis using the dog whistles you mention in ...

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Omarosa Manigault-Newman for failing to file financial disclosures after she was fired from her White House position in December 2017. In the complaint, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt said that Manigault-Newman violated the Ethics in Government Act by “knowingly and willfully” failing to file a financial disclosure after her ouster. Hunt said that White ...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will both be getting new leaders, marking the latest shakeup within the immigration agencies. Mark Morgan, the acting director of ICE, will soon be leading CBP, according to a Tuesday New York Times report. Deputy ICE Director Matthew Albence is expected to take over Morgan’s position atop the agency. The ...

Mexico’s deployment of National Guardsmen and other ground troops on the U.S.-Mexico border has already begun to disrupt the movement of migrants. The inflow of Central American migrants into the U.S. has been stunted following the deployment of several thousand ground troops on Mexico’s northern and southern borders, The New York Times reported Monday. The troop deployment was brought on ...

Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation to legalize the use and sale of marijuana Tuesday, according to a press release from NORML, a company “working to reform marijuana laws.” Illinois residents who are 21 and older will be able to legally have up to 30 grams of marijuana, and out-of-staters can have up to 15 grams at a time. ...

Seven out of more than 150,000 who say they have been cheated by their for-profit colleges are suing the Department of Education over stalling their applications for loan forgiveness. The plaintiffs argue that their failure to assess applications in a timely manner goes against the Obama-era Borrower Defense to Repayment law. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was also sued after reversing ...

Rabbi Dan Rodkin urged his Boston congregation to consider firearm ownership for the protection of both religious services and the families of the faithful. Rodkin is deeply troubled by increasing anti-Semitism in America and fears that the recent security upgrades at his Shaloh House synagogue may not be enough to ensure safety, he told WBUR “Morning Edition” in an interview ...

The chairmen of the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees hope to decide this week whether to subpoena former special counsel Robert Mueller, California Rep. Adam Schiff said on Tuesday. “We need to resolve this this week, and I hope we will. One way or another, he needs to come in and testify, and time is running out,” Schiff told ...

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy offered former President Barack Obama’s border supplement on Monday evening as an amendment to the Democrat-backed border supplemental appropriations bill. “I am asking you to consider an amendment that reflects the language that President Obama sent of $762.8 million to fund ICE so they can do their job, provide beds, so we can drop the ...