When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine …
May 20 (Reuters) – The United States is urging Ukraine to relax restrictions on imports of potash fertilizers from Belarus and to press European allies to follow suit, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, Washington has argued that dropping restrictions on the imports of the key …
SOFIA, May 20 (Reuters) – Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Wednesday said he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone and brought up visa-free travel for Bulgarian nationals to the U.S. “In my conversation with the American president, I insistently raised the issue of lifting U.S. visa requirements for Bulgarian citizens and …
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding. Children’s Hospital Colorado suspended medical treatments for transgender patients under 18 in January after it …
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti painted his conference’s 24-team College Football Playoff proposal as a way of making the regular season more meaningful — not less — and said he’s surprised he keeps having to explain that to a stout group of critics who favor a smaller expansion. “When …
PRAGUE, May 20 (Reuters) – A U.S. doctor is being transferred from Uganda to a hospital in Prague after coming into contact with a patient infected with Ebola, Czech health officials said. The doctor is showing no symptoms of the deadly virus and will be hospitalised as a precaution following a request from the United …
TOKYO, May 20 (Reuters) – A meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies last week may have lowered tensions but achieved no breakthrough, the UN’s Secretary-General said on Wednesday, raising the stakes for a visit by China’s Xi Jinping to Washington later this year. Xi and U.S. President Donald Trump did not …
MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday showed what it said was footage of troops delivering nuclear warheads to mobile Iskander-M launch systems, loading them and moving them undetected to launch sites as part of a major nuclear exercise. In a statement released to state media, the Defence Ministry said its forces had practised …
BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) – China will work with the U.S. on “reasonable” concerns regarding its rare earth export controls, the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday, in a statement that defended its restrictions as legitimate and lawful. Introduced in April 2025 in retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs, Beijing’s controls …
BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) – Two Japanese nationals and a Chinese national were injured in a knife attack “by a person with a mental disorder” at a restaurant in Shanghai on Tuesday, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. “The injured were promptly taken to hospital for treatment, and the suspect has been apprehended …