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Key Points The Biden administration brings a starkly different vision for U.S. international engagement, including global health, compared to the “America First” foreign policy doctrine of its predecessor. At the top of the agenda is addressing COVID-19, re-engaging with the global community more broadly, and pursuing a stepped-up emphasis on global health security. The administration …

PHOENIX — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s most sweeping set of asylum restrictions less than two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The rules had been set to take effect Monday. The court order has limited immediate impact because the government has largely suspended asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border during …

Angry public health groups on Wednesday predicted President Trump’s scaled-back plan to limit flavored e-cigarettes will fall far short of its goal of stopping a surge in youth vaping, arguing that the imminent policy is an election-year capitulation to industry interests. The administration plans to announce this week that it will ban an array of …

THE PROGNOSIS Roger Severino, director of the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) The Trump administration argues it needs better tools to investigate a growing pile of complaints from medical providers that their religious freedom has been violated. A federal judge dismissed its claims yesterday, in a ruling that blocks a new “conscience …

In what appears to be another effort to curb immigration in the United States, the White House has issued a proclamation titled, “Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System,” which will deny immigration visas for those who lack health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs. …

With unemployment at a record low, restaurants across the U.S. are facing one of the worst labor shortages in decades. Now, as the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration continues, restaurant owners have another hurdle to contend with: fire reliable, undocumented workers in a tight labor market, or keep those employees and risk fines or criminal …

Matt Zapotosky National security reporter covering the Justice Department July 9 at 5:58 PM A federal judge in New York on Tuesday denied a bid from the Justice Department to replace the team of lawyers on the census citizenship question case, writing that its request to do so was “patently deficient.” The department had earlier …

Image copyright Reuters President Donald Trump delivered an address on Monday touting his administration’s environmental efforts while criticising Democratic measures. He praised his policies for improving air and water quality and creating new energy jobs, and again defended leaving the “unfair” 2015 Paris climate accord. “Punishing Americans is never the right way to produce a …