Yeganeh Torbati

The fertility industry says the price increases are partly a reaction to inflation, but patients feel captive to clinics that freeze eggs and embryos.

Abidemi Rufai’s brazen and repeated pilfering of coronavirus relief funds eventually helped freeze the entire unemployment system in the state of Washington.

The government ignored a top health official’s warning to greenlight a lucrative vaccine developed by a company close to Ayatollah Khamenei.

The organization, United for Clean Power, has run ads urging liberal members of Congress to tank the Democrats’ reconciliation bill if it omits more expansive climate measures.

Businesses and advocates are buying ads and calling lawmakers as the Senate moves toward considering climate, health-care and tax legislation

A company with ties to President Donald Trump was paid millions to review applications for relief, but most were approved automatically.

Congress wrote a covid relief law that tried to block the firm from accessing money. But the Small Business Administration still gave money to companies in which it has a significant investment. The Washington Post’s investigation highlights the disconnect between lawmakers who approve funding and the federal agencies that spend it.

A House subcommittee report found that White House and Cabinet officials pushed for $700 million in aid for the trucking firm Yellow Corp.

The local sheriff’s office said that the 26-year-old was charged after “intentionally and knowingly causing the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” though it didn’t provide details about which law was broken.

Municipalities are hiring lobbyists to try to rapidly secure money, even as the Biden administration works to simplify the process for soliciting funds.

Years-long battle over prescription drug prices reaches apex as industry spends tens of millions to alter plan.

Manchin reportedly supports new requirements for the expanded child tax credit that would likely end the benefit for thousands of families in his state.

Federal funds meant to ease the economic shock of the pandemic are coming to an end. “It just feels like being discarded,” one worker said.

Use of automatic subscriptions has exploded in recent years. Some companies make it easy to sign up but very difficult to cancel, and consumer complaints have piled up.

Apria, which rents ventilators and other equipment, settled with federal prosecutors over accusations of submitting thousands of false claims the same month it delivered a debt-funded dividend to investors.

The fierce Trump ally doubles down on baseless claims of election fraud despite the costs to his business.