The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to keep hospitals from charging markups on discounted drugs for Medicare patients and says that could save consumers $1.1 billion next year, according to estimates obtained by the AP. The rule expected Thursday comes as the Republican administration tries to show it’s tackling the challenges of affordability for U.S. families.
CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela (AP) — Black smoke from fires in flattened buildings and the smell of decomposing bodies spread across ruins Thursday, eight days after Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes, while rescue teams pulled on a thread of hope that they might still find survivors trapped beneath the rubble.
CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela (AP) — Rescuers pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement early Thursday, ending a grueling dayslong operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days earlier.
NEW YORK (AP) — For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn’t sign the Declaration of Independence — the lawyer and statesman John Dickinson.
Thousands of fans packed Bayfront Park on Wednesday night, turning downtown Miami into a sea of red, white and blue as the U.S. men’s national team defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to the World Cup round of 16.
Social media fitness influencer Wes Watson pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated battery in connection with a violent confrontation at a Miami-Dade County gym last December.
Miami-Dade Animal Services is featuring Tina, a young mixed-breed dog, as she waits for adoption while also reminding pet owners to take precautions ahead of the July 4 holiday and fireworks.
ROME (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X had formally broken with the Catholic Church. It also excommunicated its bishops and priests, and warned its faithful that they too face the harshest sanctions in the church.
A Cutler Bay man and woman were arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting outside of an IHOP that deputies say left two men wounded more than two months ago.