ABU DHABI / WASHINGTON, APRIL 29, 2026 — For 55 years, the United Arab Emirates participated in one of the most powerful economic arrangements in the world. OPEC — the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — was the mechanism…
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 — Why These 10 Drugs Were Chosen — and Why They Matter Medicare drug price negotiation did not start with cheap generics or obscure specialty medications. It started with the drugs that cost the most and…
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 — Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for a second time by the Justice Department on charges of threatening President Trump — this time in a new case filed after a federal judge dismissed…
NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 2026 — Monday night’s NBA playoff triple-header delivered exactly what the first round needed — a sweep, a potential upset of the season’s best team, and the greatest player in the world refusing to let his…
NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 2026 — When COVID-19 vaccines proved that mRNA technology could be deployed at mass scale in under a year, cancer researchers saw something beyond pandemic response. They saw a platform. The same biological machinery that instructed…
TALLAHASSEE, APRIL 28, 2026 — Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature opened a special session Tuesday to consider a new congressional map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis that would redraw district lines across the state — a move that could flip four US…
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2026 — The COLA Math That Nobody Explains to Retirees Every October, the Social Security Administration announces the following year’s cost-of-living adjustment with a headline percentage. Every November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces the…
HOUSTON / WASHINGTON, April 28, 2026 — A federal judge in Texas ordered the release of Hayam El Gamal and her five children from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention last Thursday, finding the government had failed to meet its legal…
NEW YORK, April 27, 2026 — Why This Week Is the Most Important of 2026 In a normal earnings week, five major companies reporting in three days would be significant. This is not a normal earnings week. Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta,…
WASHINGTON / MOSCOW, April 27, 2026 — Iran has submitted a new peace proposal through Pakistani mediators that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with the United States — but explicitly sets aside all discussion of…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 27, 2026 — There is no diplomatic relationship in the world that carries more historical weight, more institutional memory, and more current-day complexity than the one between the United States and the United Kingdom. The arrival of King…
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 — What Medicaid Work Requirements Actually Require The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025, introduced work requirements for adults in the ACA Medicaid expansion group — specifically, adults without dependent…