The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care

By ALEXANDER BURNS and JENNIFER MEDINA June 3, 2017 For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law — with some rhetorical license — as a government takeover of health care. Now, cast...

Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States and Business

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and KATE KELLY June 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out a vision this coming week for sharply curtailing the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure and calling upon...

US missile defense triggers alarm in Russia, China as North Korea issues new warnings

The Pentagon’s successful interceptor missile defense test this week is seen as a step toward reducing the nuclear risk from North Korea, but now China and Russia are seeing the U.S. technology as a threat.Regardless, North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun...