American health insurance seems to frustrate everyone. Patients complain that it’s expensive and complicated. Providers say it buries them in paperwork and can negatively affect patient care. Poll after poll indicates that most people simply don’t trust their health insurance provider or the health care system itself. Fully 70 percent of the country thinks American
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday met with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus as his bid for the speakership in the next Congress hangs in the balance. House members will vote Friday on reelecting the Louisiana Republican as speaker, but it’s unclear whether Johnson will have the votes, though no other
The company is set to release its fourth-quarter and full-year financials on Jan. 29. Tesla Inc., the leading electric vehicle (EV) maker in the United States, reported a rare annual decline in vehicle deliveries in 2024. On Jan. 2, the Texas-based technology company issued a quarterly report on its production and deliveries covering the final
Sen. Josh Hawley demanded that the heads of the Department of Homeland Security and FBI testify publicly about the New Year’s Day truck ramming attack. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Chris Wray to testify about the New Year’s Day truck ramming attack in New Orleans.
President Joe Biden is expected to “permanently” block new offshore oil and gas development in some U.S. coastal waters, a last-ditch effort to cement his climate legacy in his final weeks in the White House, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The executive order would prohibit the sale of new drilling rights in sections of America’s outer continental
Washington — President Biden on Wednesday is marking the 235 judicial confirmations he secured during his single term in the White House, a figure that surpasses that of his predecessor, President-elect Donald Trump. Joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, Mr. Biden is delivering remarks from the White House
Washington — The FBI briefed members of the House Homeland Security Committee on the truck attack in New Orleans, in which authorities say a man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd in the French Quarter on New Year’s Day. A committee aide said Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division David Scott told committee members