Politics

A patient has blood drawn at a community health center in Burton, W. Va. (AFP/Getty Images) Among the most important — and little understood — new insurance rules put in place by the Affordable Care Act was a requirement that health plans cover a basic set of benefits. The requirement was part of a package … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the NCAA college football game between Army and Navy at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (Stephanie Scarbrough / Associated Press) ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ … Read more

President Trump visits the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, earlier this year to address employees. (Craig J. Orosz / Associated Press) During President Trump’s first two years in office, his standing with many voters was buoyed by a surge in manufacturing that helped create millions of jobs and undergirded the whole U.S. economy. … Read more

On this day 226 years ago — July 26, 1784 — Benjamin Franklin considered whether society was in need of a “remedy for luxury” in a letter to his trusted advisor, Benjamin Vaughn. In it, Franklin methodically argued against such a need. The current growing clamor for the regulation of wealth makes Franklin’s thoughts on … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump at a rally in West Allis, Wis. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Donald Trump promotes himself as a man divorced from party ideology, a president-elect just as open-minded to input from Al Gore as from Newt Gingrich. But with his Cabinet nearly complete, he has chosen one of the most consistently conservative … Read more

Mentally disabled workers are helping prepare for November’s election by cleaning polling booths and inspecting balloting machines–a jobs breakthrough that advocates hope could lead to more county contracts in the future. The Ventura County elections office has contracted with ARC-Ventura County for disabled workers to wipe smudges and dirt from 4,000 polling booths and to … Read more

In the early days of the campaign, Arnold Schwarzenegger often said with pride that he would spend his own money on his campaign because he didn’t need the money of interest groups or big donors. “I have enough money already,” he said. But during a brief trip this week to New York, Schwarzenegger — at … Read more

University of California President Janet Napolitano in April. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Top aides to University of California President Janet Napolitano interfered with a state audit of her office’s finances, suppressing campus criticism of its services and operations, according to findings of an investigation ordered by the UC Board of Regents. Napolitano approved … Read more

Former Sen. Gary Hart stunned the political world Tuesday by re-entering the race for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination seven months after he angrily quit the campaign over reports that he had spent a night with a Miami model. “Let’s let the people decide,” Hart, accompanied by his wife, Lee, and son John, told more … Read more

While campaigning for a Senate seat, JD Vance participated in a rib-eating contest at the Ohio State Fair in August 2022. (Gaelen Morse / Bloomberg) The ebullient audience at the Republican National Convention was ready to be served up some red meat, but Usha Chilukuri Vance, onstage to introduce her husband, vice presidential candidate JD … Read more