OPINION

Executives overseeing UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit management said they were working to lower drug costs for consumers. The multiple plaintiffs who’ve filed class-action lawsuits against the company might disagree.

While the bank’s CFO wouldn’t comment on major financial regulatory measures, Goldman spends big on efforts to influence policy.

The California senator — in the spotlight thanks to her sharp interrogations of Jeff Sessions and other officials — met with major Democratic fundraisers last weekend.

Talking to investors on their second-quarter earnings calls, Jamie Dimon railed against the “stupid shit we have to deal with,” while Citigroup CEO Corbat looked forward to having more “people in the seats” with power over bank regulation.

Republicans have slipped provisions into appropriations bills to prevent the SEC from requiring companies to disclose their political spending.

President Donald Trump’s defenders say Don Jr., in seeking opposition research from a Russian, did no more than a DNC consultant who wanted information about Trump’s campaign manager from Ukrainian Embassy staff.

Buck McKeon, a former GOP lawmaker who represents both Saudi Arabia and Lockheed Martin, also pushed through last month's sale of $500 million worth of precision-guided munitions to the Kingdom.

IRS forms released Wednesday showed which industries donated to the Republican Governors Association under new chairman Scott Walker.

Behind what many frame as a battle in the name of either consumer protection or legal-system waste lies a fight between big bank and attorney lobbyists with vested interests.

The education secretary's brother, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, developed an Afghan military strategy that leaned more heavily on private contractors.

The vice president's political action committee courted potential donors at the offices of a lobbying firm that represents Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.

Democrats' move to block a health care initiative they once supported spotlights the party’s populist challenge in the Trump era.

President Donald Trump’s son may have run afoul of federal campaign finance law last June when he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised “damaging information” on his father’s election opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Justice Antonin Scalia said citizens should be required to “stand up in public for their political acts.” But language inserted in recent appropriations bills protects so-called “dark money” groups, with their anonymous donors, from IRS scrutiny.

President Donald Trump and Congress repealed Obama-era online privacy rules. A California bill would protect the state's users — but tech companies who want to sell browsing histories are lobbying against it.

Department's compliance counsel says Trump officials are engaging in "conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company."

A childhood sexual abuse survivor and victims' rights advocate explains why we need to talk about "stealthing," a practice where a man removes a condom without his partner's consent.

Jerry Brown's former economic adviser says the single-payer bill that California Democrats quashed would have saved the state billions of dollars and been a boon for business.

The New Jersey governor's historically unpopular term ends in January. Is he battling a Kushner competitor in hopes of finally landing a Trump administration job?

Jeff Bezos assembled a team with ties to Obama and Bush Justice department antitrust chiefs — and likely Trump’s as well.

A new film, "Nobody Speak," argues that the president and his billionaire allies are trying to destroy the First Amendment.

“Single payer” seemed politically possible — until California Democrats helped insurers and drug companies halt a measure designed to create a Medicare-for-all system.

As Whole Foods opens stores in low-income neighborhoods, it's likely gaining access to billions of taxpayer dollars — adding to the sizable bundle of government subsidies that already goes to Amazon.

Opinion: Artificial intelligence will be good for marketers and consumers, if they learn to trust it. By Lars Fløe Nielsen, chief development officer of Sitecore.

Employees of Lockheed, GE and Boeing — which have given $2.2 million to members of the House Armed Services Committee — now sit on a panel tasked with rewriting how the Defense Department purchases military equipment and services.

The American Action Network, which doesn’t disclose its donors, has given millions of dollars to further Paul Ryan’s legislative wish list, including the Republican health care bill and corporate tax cuts.

Despite record donations from party groups, centrist Jon Ossoff couldn’t win the Georgia special election. Will Democrats take Bernie Sanders’ advice and start backing progressives?

Of the 23 senior White House officials with direct policy influence, 16 have some connection to the billionaire political donors, says a new report. Vice President Pence is a longtime Koch ally.

Safariland, which paid a $30 million settlement for selling defective bulletproof vests, spends $80,000 a year lobbying for federal funding and receives a third of the federal dollars spent on body armor.