Politics
Yahoo News Photo StaffNew York City gay pride parade
Tens of thousands of marchers paraded through New York streets Sunday in a huge Gay Pride parade, with many proudly carrying rainbow flags or waving virulently anti-Trump signs.
- Garance Franke-Ruta
Three weeks in July: Opposition groups gear up for next phase of health care fight
The longer the bill is out for the public to see, the better the odds of rallying support to halt it, progressives believe.
- Jon Ward
McConnell once praised ‘slow and steady deliberation.’ Why is he discarding that now?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used to defend the institutions he's now discarding while pushing for a quick vote on the GOP health care bill.
Hunter WalkerPresident Trump hasn’t faced the White House press corps since February: Why it matters
In his five months in office, Trump has held far fewer solo news conferences than any of his predecessors dating back to President Reagan.
Dylan StablefordReporter unloads on deputy press secretary at White House briefing: ‘What you just did is inflammatory!’
President Trump’s ongoing battle with the media boiled over during the White House press briefing on Tuesday when a reporter tore into Sarah Huckabee Sanders for complaining about the “constant barrage of fake news.”
- Gabby Kaufman
Trump resorts have a fake Time cover on the walls, featuring guess who?
The Washington Post reports at least four of President Trump's golf resorts have phony Time magazine covers featuring the commander in chief.
- Liz Goodwin
Senate Republicans suddenly delay health care vote, Trump tells GOPers he won't 'like' if bill fails
Senate Republican leadership abruptly decided to delay a vote on their plan to begin voting on a sweeping and controversial overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
- Matthew Dallek
Why it’s so hard to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare—or almost anything else
Republicans keep trying to roll back social welfare programs but seldom succeed. Americans often agree with them in the abstract but like their benefits.
- Michael Walsh
Hillary Clinton: Reading ‘Harry Potter’ builds compassion for immigrants, refugees
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited a study that found reading “Harry Potter” helped to build compassion for marginalized groups in children.
- Julia Munslow
U.S. human trafficking report demotes China; Myanmar upgraded
The State Department’s annual trafficking report, released Tuesday, found progress as well as backsliding and has already been criticized for two moves.
- Taylor Rogers
Attack ads pressure GOP senators on health care bill
Amid increasing uncertainty that Senate Republicans will be able to pass their health care bill before the July 4 recess, numerous super-PACs and advocacy groups have taken it upon themselves to run attack ads to sway the vote.
- Gabby Kaufman
Former GOP Rep. Jolly: Affordable Care Act gave me a ‘safety net’
A Florida Republican who earlier campaigned against the Affordable Care Act came to a new view of it after he lost his insurance coverage.
- Dylan Stableford
Trump promotes faulty White House math on health care
In addition to the elementary math error, the president's tweets attacked CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post and the New York Times as "fake news."
- Olivier Knox
White House warns Syria may be readying chemical attack
The White House warned strongman Bashar Assad that his regime would pay heavily for the slaughter of civilians.
- Hunter Walker
White House tells ‘Obamacare victims’ that ‘help is on the way’ amid Senate push
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence held a “listening session” in his office with people who said they had negative experiences with Obamacare.
Garance Franke-RutaDonald Trump is on track to break his promises on Medicaid. It may not be a ‘read my lips’ moment.
Bush went against his party in raising taxes, spurring outrage among conservatives -- especially an ambitious House member from Georgia's Sixth District named Newt Gingrich -- while Trump's position finally puts him in sync with his own party.
Liz GoodwinCBO: Senate health bill leads to 22 million fewer insured Americans by 2026
The Senate health care bill would cause 22 million more people to be uninsured by 2026 than under current law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office announced Monday.
- Caitlin Dickson
Under Sessions, who will keep tabs on the cops?
In a handful of cities, citizens and federal monitors struggle to continue police reforms as the Justice Department shows signs of backing off.
- Liz Goodwin
Senate GOP updates health care bill to include 6-month lockout for uninsured
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday updated the health care bill he is whipping votes for to penalize people who do not have insurance and wish to purchase it on the exchanges. The new bill says that people who have lacked insurance coverage for 63 days or more must wait six months before reentering the marketplace. The Senate health care bill gets rid of Obamacare’s individual mandate that requires everyone to purchase health insurance or pay a fine.
Dylan StablefordAl Franken: Democrats ‘gotta stop riding in limousines’
The Minnesota senator admits his party has a public perception problem — but not as big as the GOP’s when it comes to health care.
- Julia Munslow
GOP lawmakers scramble to defend health care bill
Yahoo News' continuing coverage of the Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. We’ll combine our own reporting with the best insights from around the Internet to give you the latest on the future of health care in America.
- Gabby Kaufman
‘He colluded or obstructed’: Trump turns Russia suspicions against Obama
Continuing a theme he has pushed lately, the president took issue with his predecessor’s lack of response to Russian interference in the election.
Dylan StablefordWhite House adviser Ivanka Trump: ‘I try to stay out of politics’
Ivanka Trump told “Fox & Friends” that she speaks up when she disagrees with her father on certain issues — but does not “profess to be a political savant.“
- Liz Goodwin
CBO likely to say millions lose coverage under Senate health care bill
Experts from across the spectrum expect the CBO to predict widespread coverage loss when it scores the Senate version of the health care bill.
- Caitlin Dickson
As Trump tries to fix VA, GOP health care bill threatens coverage for millions of vets
The president signed a bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs while a health care bill he supports threatens the care of countless vets.
