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In this photo provided by Becky Mourey, Becky Mourey, center, and her husband Jim, left, meet with representatives for Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky at her offices on Capitol Hill, Washington DC in May 2022. Mourey and other ALS patients spent more than two years advocating for the approval of the new drug, Relyvrio, a treatment for ALS. Patients say they are now facing insurance and financial hurdles to access the drug, which costs $158,000.

ALS patients contend with $158K price tag on new drug

In this photo provided by Becky Mourey, Becky Mourey, center, and her husband Jim, left, meet with representatives for Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky at her offices on Capitol Hill, Washington DC in May 2022. Mourey and other ALS patients spent more than two years advocating for the approval of the new drug, Relyvrio, a treatment for ALS. Patients say they are now facing insurance and financial hurdles to access the drug, which costs $158,000.

December 19, 2022, 8:46am Health

For two years, Becky Mourey pushed the Food and Drug Administration to approve an experimental drug for her Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read story

FILE - A registered nurse works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient in Los Angeles. Hospital systems around the country are rolling out fees for some messages that patients send to physicians, saying their providers are increasingly spending more time poring over online queries, some so complex that they require the level of medical expertise normally dispensed during an office visit. (AP Photo/Jae C.

Want to email your doctor? You may be charged for that

FILE - A registered nurse works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient in Los Angeles. Hospital systems around the country are rolling out fees for some messages that patients send to physicians, saying their providers are increasingly spending more time poring over online queries, some so complex that they require the level of medical expertise normally dispensed during an office visit. (AP Photo/Jae C.

December 18, 2022, 6:43am Health

The next time you message your doctor to ask about a pesky cough or an itchy rash, you may want to check your bank account first — you could get a bill for the question. Read story

FILE - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Advisory Council, tells a joint Congressional Atomic Committee that U.S. military establishment to his knowledge had never found it necessary to use exportable type isotopes for the development of new war machines. The hearing continued on charges of mismanagement in AEC.

Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, U.S. says

FILE - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Advisory Council, tells a joint Congressional Atomic Committee that U.S. military establishment to his knowledge had never found it necessary to use exportable type isotopes for the development of new war machines. The hearing continued on charges of mismanagement in AEC.

December 17, 2022, 4:49pm Politics

The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his leading role in World War II’s Manhattan Project. Read story

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during a roundtable discussion with Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022.

Douglas Emhoff tours 988 call center for mental health

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during a roundtable discussion with Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022.

December 16, 2022, 2:32pm Nation & World

Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, on Friday visited a 988 call center that's part of the recently launched national hotline intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency. Read story

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters after a court hearing, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, in New York. Rudy Giuliani beat a contempt order and avoided jail in an ongoing dispute over money he owes to his ex-wife, Judith Giuliani, as part of their 2019 divorce settlement.

Giuliani likely committed misconduct over 2020 election, D.C. Bar panel finds

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters after a court hearing, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, in New York. Rudy Giuliani beat a contempt order and avoided jail in an ongoing dispute over money he owes to his ex-wife, Judith Giuliani, as part of their 2019 divorce settlement.

December 15, 2022, 12:01pm Nation & World

Attorney disciplinary regulators recommended Rudy Giuliani be disbarred after a Washington, D.C., Bar committee announced a preliminary finding that he likely violated at least one attorney practice rule in pressing Donald Trump’s failed legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Pennsylvania. Read story

Sen. Bennet unveils bill to revise agricultural visa system

December 15, 2022, 11:54am Business

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado unveiled long-awaited legislation Thursday to revise the agricultural visa system and offer migrant farmworkers a path to permanent residency — a last-ditch effort to enact changes after bipartisan talks fell apart. Read story

President Joe Biden speaks after a toast in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner.

White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests

President Joe Biden speaks after a toast in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner.

December 15, 2022, 10:42am Health

The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter. Read story

Biden administration proposes crackdown on scam Medicare ads

December 14, 2022, 5:16pm Health

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed a ban on misleading ads for Medicare Advantage plans that have targeted older Americans and, in some cases, convinced them to sign up for plans that don’t cover their doctors or prescriptions. Read story

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just one sign of the vast changes in the polar region, where the climate is being transformed faster than anywhere else on Earth. An annual report, to be released Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 by U.S. scientists, also documents rising Arctic temperatures and disappearing sea ice.

Starving seabirds on Alaska coast show climate change peril

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just one sign of the vast changes in the polar region, where the climate is being transformed faster than anywhere else on Earth. An annual report, to be released Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 by U.S. scientists, also documents rising Arctic temperatures and disappearing sea ice.

December 13, 2022, 12:57pm Nation & World

Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic’s fast-changing climate is threatening the ecosystems and people who live there, according to a report released Tuesday by U.S. scientists. Read story

Paul Hudson of Sarasota, Fla., holds up a photo of his daughter Melina who was killed at 16 years old along with the photos of almost a hundred other victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, as he speaks to members of the media in front of the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.

Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing appears in U.S. court

Paul Hudson of Sarasota, Fla., holds up a photo of his daughter Melina who was killed at 16 years old along with the photos of almost a hundred other victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, as he speaks to members of the media in front of the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.

December 12, 2022, 2:54pm Politics

More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism Read story