It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers.

But nearly four years after the ...Read More

A recent immigration surge brought newcomers to every state this year, helping to offset a continued drop in U.S. births while contributing to a national upswing of about 3.3 million new residents, according to new U.S. ...Read More

ORLANDO, Fla. — A sliver of pavement under an I-4 overpass is the place a half dozen unsheltered men call home.

They sleep in a group to look out for each other’s safety and ensure their few belongings aren’t stolen...Read More

NEW DELHI, India — At the outset of 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was riding a wave of international acclaim and anticipating an election campaign that looked like such a formality he talked of a thousand-year ...Read More

MIAMI — In Cuba the population is fighting shortages of food, fuel and medicine while a collapsing electrical grid that resulted in three nationwide blackouts this year continues to leave many people in the dark.

In ...Read More

WASHINGTON — Washington is full of people who obsess about the daily news cycle and who is “winning” it. But looking back on her 24 years in the Senate and nearly half a century in politics, Sen. Debbie Stabenow said...Read More