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Merck is suing the federal government over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham equivalent to extortion

Biden's pick spent five years as the head of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services and served in the Obama administration.

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas on March 30, 2023, issued a ruling in Braidwood Management v. Becerra striking down a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires private health insurance plans to cover preventative healthcare services without patient cost-sharing. 

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The mother of a 17-year-old Honduran migrant who died in U.S. custody says her son had epilepsy but showed no signs of being seriously ill before he left for the United States

The Honduran foreign minister said his government is in contact with the family of the teen who died

Cause of death is not yet known for 17-year-old Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, discovered unconscious in US custody.

‘We knew this was going to be a difficult transition,’ Homeland Security secretary says

Investigators trying to determine cause for teen’s death, which occurred in a Florida shelter on Wednesday

A 17-year-old boy from Honduras died this week in U.S. immigration custody