The confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, an appeals court judge, has been unusually contentious.

When it comes to the use of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions, no one seems to be happy with the way it’s playing out.

Stacy Perry enjoys sitting on the sidelines at soccer games and cheering on her children.

Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump’s personal physician for over 30 years, ignited a firestorm this week when he claimed Trump associates raided his office and seized the president’s medical records in 2017 after the doctor told reporters that his patient takes a hair-loss drug.

U.S. Senate candidate Todd Rokita likely violated ethics laws as Indiana's secretary of state by repeatedly accessing a Republican donor database from his government office, prompting party officials to lock him out of the system until he angrily complained, three former GOP officials told The Associated Press.

While running for president, Donald Trump made no secret of the fact that he was running an expressly anti-abortion campaign, and while his administration has since attempted to make a number of policy changes aimed at restricting women's reproductive rights, the recently released draft of the Department of Health and Human Service's new strategic plan seems to be taking that fight further than ever before.

Nevada’s Medicaid program, caught in the political crossfire over rising health-care costs, is far different than the limited federal-state health insurance partnership for the “deserving poor” that President Lyndon Johnson unveiled in 1965.

There is a memorable episode in the now-classic sitcom Scrubs in which the conniving Dr. Kelso unveils a plan to peddle useless “full body scans” as a new revenue stream for the perpetually cash-strapped Sacred Heart Hospital. The irascible but ultimately patient-protecting Dr. Cox objects loudly. “I think showing perfectly healthy people every harmless imperfection in their body just to scare them into taking invasive and often pointless tests is an unholy sin,” he says. Undeterred, Kelso launches an advertising campaign that promotes the scans in a tear-jerking television commercial and a billboard screaming “YOU may already be DYING.”