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A federal judge on Monday sided with a coalition of drug companies and blocked the Trump administration from implementing a policy that would require prescription drug manufacturers to disclose list prices in TV ads. “To be clear, the court does not question HHS’s motives in adopting the [rule],” Mehta wrote. “Nor does it take any view on the wisdom of requiring drug companies to disclose prices. That policy very well could be an effective tool in halting the rising cost of prescription drugs.

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MORE on Monday said he would “no longer deal with” the U.K.’s ambassador to the U.S. after leaked cables revealed the diplomat’s blunt assessment of the Trump administration.  In a pair of tweets, Trump bristled at Ambassador Kim Darroch’s description of him as "inept" and suggested a new British government could make changes.  “I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him.

Attorney General MORE said Monday that he believes the Trump administration can legally add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, though the Supreme Court ruled against its inclusion last month. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said he has been in regular contact with MORE about the question, which the president is determined to see featured on the decennial survey. “I agree with him that the Supreme Court decision was wrong,” Barr told the AP.

In 2005, the Palm Beach police were told by the mother of a young girl in West Palm Beach that her daughter had been brought to the Democratic donor’s mansion and asked to have sex with him for money. This kicked off an intensive, one-year undercover investigation. The police sifted through Epstein’s garbage and interviewed 17 witnesses, including the housemen, who told of sex toys and dildos left behind after the underage girls left.

Clinton, who has taken a lower public profile since the 2016 presidential race, issued a statement through his press secretary, Angel Ureña, claiming to know “nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein is purported to have committed. “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” the statement reads.

Kobach is declaring his run for Senate in Kansas following Sen.

“Being honest with ourselves, we had to look at how much money we were raising, where we were in the polls,” Swalwell said at his campaign headquarters, before claiming that he “moved the needle on the debate stage with an issue I was very passionate about.” “So we’ve achieved that,’” he said in reference to gun control measures.

PHILADELPHIA — James Nolan was working in the University of Pennsylvania’s admissions office in 1966 when he got a phone call from one of his closest friends, Fred Trump Jr. It was a plea to help Fred’s younger brother, Donald Trump, get into Penn’s Wharton School. ‘‘He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t,’’ Nolan, 81, said in an interview. ‘‘He said, ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton.

WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, Senator Elizabeth Warren bet on two unusual strategies for her presidential campaign: She would swear off exclusive fund-raisers, and she would pepper voters with intricate policy proposals. Her middling first-quarter fund-raising totals and her heavy spending left some Democratic operatives wondering if she was making a giant mistake. But on Monday, the Democratic candidate offered new evidence to suggest her gamble is paying off.