WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders released the Medicare Dental, Hearing and Vision Expansion Act on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The bill would greatly expand enrollees' access to dental, ...

Ahead of Friday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Public Citizen released a new research brief shining a light on the hundreds of ...

Putting the millions of Americans who use digital payments systems at risk of fraud, the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) is taking up a resolution to block the Consumer ...

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at the Gaza ...

Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report exposing the stark disparities in life expectancy based on income, education, race ...

The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, Executive Director of Social Security Works:“For decades, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has had contracts with every state that allow parents ...

Rep. Al Green of Texas has pledged to soon introduce articles of impeachment against the president.

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Following the recent declaration by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that meme coins have “no use,” and ahead of the first-ever White House crypto summit on Friday, March 7th, Public ...