Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Biden adds Ozempic to list for Medicare price negotiation In one of its last actions, the Biden administration released the next 15 drugs selected for Medicare negotiation and the blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic will be among those bargained...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default. Yellen told congressional leadership in a letter that the Treasury Department will begin the measures Tuesday after a...
A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court ruling that found protections for so-called Dreamers to be unlawful, suspending the program in Texas while otherwise limiting its ruling in the event of an appeal. The ruling upholds a lower court ruling that found Biden administration efforts to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
The Supreme Court said Friday it would review a case involving a group of Maryland parents who sued their children’s school district over its refusal to allow them to opt out of elementary school classes that use books with LGBTQ themes or characters. The parents, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, sued Montgomery...
Progressive congressional staffers withdrew their 32-hour week proposal just a day after receiving widespread blowback from both sides of the aisle about the plan. “The letter failed to make two things clear: First, that progressive congressional staff are dedicated to serving the American people no matter how many hours it takes to get the job...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on President-elect Trump's defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, to divest from thousands of dollars worth of defense company stocks held by his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, due to potential conflicts of interest.
The primary lobbying group representing the fossil fuel industry joined five Republican attorneys general Friday in a lawsuit challenging restrictions on offshore drilling announced in the waning days of the Biden administration. The American Petroleum Institute (API) joined Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia in suing over the restrictions, which closed off several million acres...
Insurance giant State Farm has canceled a Super Bowl ad that was set to air during the big game in February — in part, it said, over the raging wildfires in California. “Our focus is firmly on providing support to the people of Los Angeles. We will not be advertising during the game as originally...
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a law requiring TikTok’s parent company to divest from the popular video-sharing platform or face a ban was constitutional, siding with the government in a battle over free speech and national security. The decision marks a sharp loss for TikTok, although the app’s fate is still undecided. The ban...
Protesters are set to descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of President-elect Trump’s inauguration, an event that will lay bare how the resistance has changed in the eight years since he first took office. Organizers of the People’s March, which is being put together by a diverse coalition of groups including the Women's March,...
Investor Kevin O’Leary, widely known as a star from “Shark Tank,” said he offered TikTok’s owners $20 billion in cash to buy the platform during a Friday appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.” A bipartisan bill, which President Biden signed, called TikTok a threat to national security and forces ByteDance, the platform's Chinese parent company, to divest from the...
President-elect Trump has expressed support for a negotiated solution with Iran on all outstanding issues, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stated that Tehran is ready for constructive dialogue with the West about nuclear power and willingness to improve relations with the United States.
