Following today’s impeachment vote? Here’s what else is happening. – CNN

Posted: December 18, 2019 at 8:50 pm

"The law of double jeopardy in New York state ... provides very narrow exceptions for prosecution," Justice Maxwell Wiley said in court, citing the principle that an individual can't be tried twice for the same conduct. "The indictment is dismissed."

Justice Department watchdog testifies before the Senate Homeland Security Committee

"If you're getting information that isn't advancing, and in fact potentially undercutting, or simply undercutting your primary theme or theory as was happening here ... you'd look at the Carter Page file and say, should I keep going on this?" Horowitz told the committee, explaining that the FBI wasn't finding much to corroborate allegations that Page was working with Russia.

US and South Korea fail to reach cost-sharing agreement for US troops

The current cost-sharing agreement between Washington and Seoul is due to expire at the end of 2019, but the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and US State Department said a next round of talks has been scheduled for January.

Appeals court delivers blow to Obamacare

In the case brought by Texas and joined by the Trump administration, which argued the entire law should be thrown out, the panel has told a lower court that it must consider whether the individual mandate can be separated from the rest of the law.

The court acknowledged that when the lower court reviews its opinion it might once again hold that the entire law must fall.

But the appeals court ruling stated, "It is no small thing for unelected, life-tenured judges to declare duly enacted legislation passed by the elected representatives of the American people unconstitutional."

Trump administration proposes allowing imports of certain drugs from Canada

The first proposed rule would allow states, potentially working with wholesalers and pharmacists, to develop programs to import certain drugs from Canada. The list does not include insulin, even though many diabetic Americans have traveled north to buy the drug because prices are lower there.

The second draft guidance would allow manufacturers to import lower-cost versions of brand-name drugs that they sell in foreign countries. Agency officials said drug makers are interested in doing this but have not been able to because of contracts with other players in the supply chain.

CNN's Erica Orden, Marshall Cohen, Ryan Browne, Tami Luhby, Dan Berman, Joan Biskupic and Ariane de Vogue contributed to this report.

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