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In 2001, Congress implemented partial Medicare coverage for telehealth, allowing remote visits with doctors and other forms of long-distance care—a response to the increasing need, in particular, for people in rural areas to reach specialists, and an essential service especially after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when lawmakers expanded that coverage to a broad […]

Amid negotiations, Democrats may feel like they finally have some leverage against the Trump administration, according to a political science scholar.

Former government officials rarely write good books. Whatever insights they may have acquired tend to be buried by self-justifying recriminations, personal loyalties, and the fear that unsolicited candor will prove disqualifying in some future administration. Tomorrow Is Yesterday, a new book by veteran peace negotiators Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, is an exception. It tells […]

AMD relies on TSMC for most of its manufacturing, but the US government has made clear that bolstering Intel is a top priority.

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Fighting corruption is more than punishing ‘bad apples.’ But international policies against it often fail to address root causes.

The government shut down for the first time since 2019 after Republicans and Democrats failed to solve a dispute over health care costs.

This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The White House will open 13.1 million acres of public land to coal mining while providing $625 million for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced. The efforts came as part of a suite of initiatives from the Department of the […]

Neither Republicans nor Democrats have taken the exit paths they had. All signs are pointing to a chaotic, long affair.