Oz, Trump’s Medicare Nominee, Pledges to Divest Interests in Health Care Stocks
The celebrity doctor said he would divest from his interests in many drug, medical and insurance companies, worth millions of dollars.
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Dr. Oz: How His Millions Collide With Medicare
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Trump Labor Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer Faces Pressure at Senate Hearing
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Warren presses Trump CFPB nominee if he'd refuse 'unlawful directives'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pressing President Trump's nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about his loyalty to the Trump administration and whether he would ...The Hill - 1d -
Senate Democrats press Trump's FTC commissioner nominee over agency independence
Multiple Senate Democrats on the Commerce, Science and Transportation on Tuesday pressed President Trump's Federal Trade Commissioner nominee, Mark Meador, over the independence of the agency amid ...The Hill - 1d -
House Democrats call on Trump to rescind order against gender-affirming care
More than 80 House Democrats are calling on President Trump to revoke an executive order to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender young people, alleging the ...The Hill - 5h -
Trump solicitor general nominee: Ignoring courts conceivable in 'extreme cases'
President Trump’s nominee for solicitor general said in his confirmation hearing Wednesday that there are “extreme cases” where it is conceivable that an elected official could defy a court order. ...The Hill - 1h -
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Trump administration guts USAID humanitarian office, despite pledge to save its work
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Trump 'doesn't care' what happens to Ukraine, former foreign minister claims as U.S.-Kyiv relations sour
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Macron pushes back on Trump claims at White House meet, warns him to 'be careful'
French President Emmanuel Macron used his visit to the U.S. to publicly push back on President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Ukraine.ABC News - 1d -
Trump’s nominee for solicitor general won’t rule out ignoring court orders in ‘extreme cases’
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
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Trump Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations
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Stock Market Sees Biggest Declines of Trump’s Presidency So Far
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Trump’s ‘DJT’ stock falls for seventh straight trading session
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.’s stock fell for its seventh trading session in a row, as worries about inflation and consumer strength continued to weigh on the broad market.MarketWatch - 1d -
LGBTQ health groups sue Trump over orders targeting diversity, transgender rights
Nine LGBTQ, health and HIV organizations sued the Trump administration Thursday over three executive orders targeting transgender people and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which ...The Hill - 5d -
UK pledges £200mn for Grangemouth refinery
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5 Podcasts About Beauty, Skin Care and Self-Care
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UnitedHealth tumbles 9% on WSJ report the DOJ is investigating Medicare billing practices
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UnitedHealth Medicare Advantage bombshell exposes $83 billion in government waste
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Germany’s election winner pledges ‘independence from US’
Friedrich Merz says the Trump administration is ‘largely indifferent’ to Europe’s fateFinancial Times - 2d -
Can UK banks stay the course on their climate pledges?
Lenders warn that slow government action may force a rethinkFinancial Times - 2d -
President Trump is losing the stock market war to the rest of the world so far. Here's where investors are taking advantage
Emerging market stocks, China and European stocks are beating U.S. indexes since the inauguration of Donald Trump.CNBC - 5d -
US companies left out of defence stock rally amid Trump’s Pentagon cuts
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Fit for a pontiff: The Roman hospital caring for Pope Francis
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Short Novels Dominate International Booker Prize Nominees
Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long. But it is the one favored by critics.The New York Times - 1d -
Behind the scenes with the best actor nominees for the 2025 Oscars
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