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President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, have praised each other in public, but the mood has been more testy in formal talks behind closed doors.

We already know how high the stakes are for patients and their families — and rolling over now could hurt all of medicine.

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday that Iran’s military capabilities have been “severely degraded” across “every domain” following the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic Republic.

Trump said he’s optimistic over the possibility of China buying U.S. oil.

Trump claimed to know what the Chinese president was really talking about.

“Those business people are here to make deals and to bring back jobs,” Trump said of the dozens of executives and entrepreneurs that accompanied him on his historic trip to Beijing.

The United States is moving to indict former Cuban president Raul Castro over 1996 plane shootdown.

Trump and Xi are set to meet on Friday to wrap up a two-day state visit that has featured pomp, business deals, Iran wrangling and some tension over Taiwan. [Full Story]

‘Louisiana’s [pro-life] efforts have been thwarted by certain medical providers, private organizations, and States that abhor laws like Louisiana’s and seek to undermine their enforcement,’ wrote Justice Alito.

The potential indictment — which must be approved by a grand jury — is expected to focus on Cuba's 1996 downing of two planes operated by a humanitarian group.

Only Thomas and Alito publicly dissented.

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Central planners had a rational vision: replace the anarchy of the market with conscious coordination. Vivek Chibber explains why calculation and incentive problems undermined that vision, but a different sort of socialism can still flourish.

A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.