Big tobacco companies are aiming their marketing at children and teens, and policymakers must step in. DeWine made that statement in 1990 as a Republican congressman mounting one of his first big ...

Rep. Ron Marshall claims two of the tobacco industry's largest players have been violating a settlement agreement to not ...

It all started, Tucker Carlson told me, with a “boner joke.” In October 2023, the former Fox News host sat down with the internet comedian Theo Von in a Las Vegas hotel room to record an episode of ...

On Thursday, Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director, Russell Vought, passed through his Senate committee hearing 11-0, a unanimous vote. Vought's nomination will now go to the full Senate.

Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says he is "struggling" with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. At the end of Kennedy's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On Friday night, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell strode onto the Senate floor and, without a moment’s hesitation, voted against the Republican president’s nominee for secretary of defense.

“The buying capacity of Filipinos has increased and it will be wise to increase taxes on tobacco products to keep up with the changing times,” ASH Philippines Director-General Maria Encarnita B.

A Senate panel unanimously advanced President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Transportation (DOT), former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), on Wednesday. Duffy, the former five-term Republican ...

They monitor everything under the sun,“ Gatchalian said. The senator said that tobacco products are highly regulated, adding that the Internet Transaction Act (ITA) will soon be implemented to ...

Speaking at a Senate hearing, Dr. Maria Encarnita Limpin of Action on Smoking & Health Philippines said further taxation of tobacco products would prevent the increase in smoking prevalence ...

Ohio’s former Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was officially sworn in as a United States Senator on Tuesday, filling the seat previously held by now-Vice President JD Vance. Husted was appointed to the seat ...