by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu | Jul 13, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — A federal program that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell discounted drugs to certain health care providers was intended to expand services and lower costs for low-income consumers. But federal investigators found some hospitals are keeping the...
by Basma Amer & Loumay Alesali | Jul 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hollywood icon Jane Fonda joined forces with domestic workers Thursday to urge Congress to provide better protections against sexual harassment for in-home workers. “This is not a new thing for me to want to stand with women workers. When the MeToo...
by Giulia Petroni | Jul 12, 2018 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Weeks before the July 16 summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was scheduled, Putin’s predecessor, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, suggested that the two leaders focus on strategic nuclear...
by Minghe Hu | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – California’s new law providing consumers with more protections againt data collected by Internet and other companies highlights the need for better federal data privacy laws, a senior Democratic lawmaker and several experts say. Current federal laws...
by Xin Liu | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — A senate committee is considering a proposal to give the FTC more authority to supervise credit bureaus and impose harsher civil penalties from those that don’t follow standard credit reporting procedures and report wrongful data. A Federal Trade...
by Charlene Zhang | Jul 12, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the current four-year college system leads to “mountains of debt” and not enough of the technical skills needed in today’s workforce. Speaking at the Economic Club, Ryan also reproved the Trump...
