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Trump said that the decision would allow patients to make better choices about their health care and better understand out-of-pocket costs. “You’ll get much better pricing and you’ll get the doctor that you want,” Trump said at a White House event highlighting the signing of an executive order. Trump said his order would force hospitals to offer more information to patients about the services that they were paying for so they could search out a better doctor. “Some rich people may not be too happy about that,” he said. Two doctors present who spoke at the event agreed that Trump’s decision wou

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A Republican military veteran is hoping to oust Democrat Jeanne Shaheen from her U.S. Senate seat. Retired Brig.

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday targeting Iran’s supreme leader and his associates with financial sanctions, the latest action the US has taken to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and supporting militant groups. The sanctions follow Iran’s downing of a more than $100 million US surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz.

WASHINGTON — The White House will block counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying before a House panel about allegations by a government watchdog that she violated the Hatch Act, increasing the likelihood of another subpoena battle between the two branches of government. White House lawyers planned to reject the House Oversight Committee’s request for Conway to appear at a Wednesday hearing, according to two White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity Monday to freely discuss private deliberations. The White House counsel will argue that in ac

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso Monday, said Rep.

MIAMI — There is outrage over Trump administration policies that have torn migrant families apart and left some children locked up. There is pervasive fear of immigration raids. And there is the new political reality that Latino voters came out in such force in the 2018 congressional midterm elections they helped flip key seats in the House to Democrats from Republicans. If there was ever a campaign in which Democratic contenders for the White House were sure to engage in an early courtship of Latino voters, it would be the 2020 race.

MORE in an interview broadcast Sunday expressed willingness to speak with Iranian officials without preconditions while warning of the consequences of war. "I'm not looking for war, and if there is, it'll be obliteration like you've never seen before. But I'm not looking to do that. But you can't have a nuclear weapon," Trump told NBC’s MORE “absolutely a hawk” and said he wanted “hawks” and “doves” equally represented in his administration. “If it was up to [Bolton], he'd take on the whole world at one time, OK?

Democratic state attorney generals and environmental groups are gearing up for what is expected to be a precedent-setting legal battle with the Trump administration over its rollback of an Obama-era power plant pollution rule. They argue the new Trump rule won't do enough to stop climate change and that the administration is ignoring the Clean Air Act's (CAA) requirement that the federal government manage pollution that is harmful to human health. There are high stakes.

Tensions spilled over at a town hall held Sunday by South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE following the fatal police shooting of a black man, drawing further scrutiny on the Democratic presidential candidate's record. The town hall, which was held in South Bend a week after Eric Logan, an African American man, was killed by a police officer, grew tense as visibly angry black residents confronted Buttigieg and Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski over systemic failures with the city's law enforcement.  Buttigieg, speaking calmly as audience members grew increasingly vocal, said the ci