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Retail pharmacies must fill prescriptions for drugs that can terminate pregnancies under federal civil rights law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday afternoon.

California lawmakers recently enacted SB 54, which will create an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program in California, only the fourth EPR program in the country. Critics of EPR point out it effectively acts as a regressive tax hike by further inflating the cost of basic consumer goods.

Regulators and policymakers have turned their attention to a concern often raised by independent pharmacists: regulating pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. However, doing such a thing will do nothing to reduce drug prices, as they bargain to obtain lower prices for their clients.

Markets took a hit after yet another red-hot inflation report showed consumer prices surging to new 40-year highs.

Maintaining technological progress is not easy, but America’s federalist system gives us an advantage that we must not squander.

Medicare Advantage Plans on the whole provide higher quality care at a lower cost than fee-for-service Medicare.

The United States imported 22% of its oil from Saudi Arabia as recently as 2014, a percentage that has dropped to 8% this year, according to my analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.

Jill Biden’s press secretary tweeted an apology Tuesday morning after the first lady referred to Latinos “as unique as the breakfast tacos in San Antonio,” a failed attempt to compliment the community at a conference in the Texas city that drew swift criticism from advocacy groups.

Maher al-Agal, a leader of the Isalmic State terrorist group, was assassinated by a U.S. drone that struck in northwest Syria, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed Tuesday.

Corporate earnings kick off this week and are “under pressure” as recession fears escalate, analysts warn.

Here’s how Britain’s beleaguered Conservative government can save itself—and, by example, perhaps the world.

For the first time time ever, a federal court ruled that under the Fifth Amendment, the government must compensate innocent owners who had their property destroyed by police.

He endorses, they pay: Donald Trump has figured out a way to collect campaign-donor money from politicians seeking his blessing.

It may be every politician’s favorite fantasy—weaponizing the IRS. Last week it was reported that two high-ranking former FBI officials who had been fired by then President Trump were both subjected to a rare type of IRS audit. The report has Congress asking if the audits were targeted.

Some analysts believe Occidental Petroleum shares don’t have much room left to run after a massive rally this year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree allowing all Ukrainians to apply for fast-track Russian citizenship, expanding previous efforts to allow those in some southern and eastern Ukrainian regions to apply.

In today's context, the mainstream GOP is a part of the progressive left.