It's a New Hampshire showdown: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who finished in a near tie in the Iowa caucuses, will go mano a mano Thursday night. With Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary at stake, the Democratic rivals will face off in a debate on MSNBC (9 p.m. ET). The debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham will be moderated by NBC’s Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow. It comes on the heels of a town-hall-style event Wednesday night on CNN, at which Clinton and Sanders argued over which one is the better "progressive."Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton Sen. Bernie Sanders stand together before the start of the NBC/YouTube Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, S.C. , on Jan. 16. (Photo: Mic Smith, AP) Congress to address skyrocketing prescription drug costs
The man best recognized for hiking the price of an HIV drug more than 5,000% — Martin Shkreli — will testify before Congress Thursday alongside other pharma company executives and FDA officials about the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs. Don't expect the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, LLC to say much, though; he's expected to plead the Fifth Amendment after his new lawyer told him to zip it. Brand-name medicine costs have more than doubled in the past five years. A recent Kaiser Health tracking poll found that 72% of Americans consider drug costs to be unreasonable. Overdose deaths from opioids, including heroin and
Overdose deaths from opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, have more than tripled since
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