Papadopoulos wraps up lengthy interview with House panels

WASHINGTON — George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, made his first appearance Thursday before congressional investigators.

Papadopoulos, the Chicagoan who was sentenced in September to two weeks in prison as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, was meeting in closed session with two GOP-led House committees. It is one of several interviews that GOP-led panels are conducting as part of their investigation into partisan bias at the

Justice Department.

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian intermediaries during the 2016 campaign.

Trump announces plan to lower drug prices

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs.

But the plan would not apply to medicines people buy at the pharmacy, just ones administered in a doctor’s office, and officials say the complex proposal could take more than a year to put into effect.

The plan is structured as an experiment through a Medicare innovation center empowered to seek savings by the Affordable Care Act. That’s the law also known as “Obamacare,” which Trump is committed to repealing.