The Federal Trade Commission is starting an inquiry into the operations of pharmacy benefit managers who control access to prescription drugs for millions of Americans. The consumer protection agency said Tuesday that that it will order the nation’s largest PBMs to provide a range of information and records detailing how …
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When Tom Cruise portrayed naval aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the 1986 classic “Top Gun,” it helped inspire countless people to join the Navy. Now decades later, the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” is continuing its partnership with the U.S. Navy and could inspire yet another generation to join the armed …
Read More »Former President Barack Obama has had a virtual reunion with a young man whose innocent question in the Oval Office yielded a photo that hung for years in the White House, and for many, touched the heart of the American dream. “Is that Jacob? It’s Barack Obama. Do you remember …
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The National Rifle Association is promoting its annual convention in Houston over the Memorial Day weekend as a chance to “celebrate Freedom, Firearms and the Second Amendment!” But with two mass shootings just 10 days apart that killed 21 schoolchildren and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and 10 grocery shoppers in Buffalo, …
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The following is a transcript of an interview with former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that aired Sunday, May 22, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” The full interview transcript can be found below. MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve said that you’ve been disappointed in Republican leaders for not standing up for traditional …
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The “Greatest Show on Earth” is making a comeback — minus animals. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which ceased production in 2017 after a 146-year-run, will relaunch in September 2023, owner Feld Entertainment said on Wednesday. Tickets will go on sale in April of next year for a tour that …
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Republican Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are criticizing members of their own party in the wake of what officials are investigating as a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The alleged shooter, a white man, reportedly posted a conspiracy theory-filled white supremacist “manifesto” online prior to the attack and …
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A 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard, investigators said. Deputies found Joseph Anthony McKinnon’s body Saturday after neighbors called and reported an unconscious man in a yard in Trenton, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office said in …
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder says Americans’ voting rights are in serious danger, and that partisan gerrymandering – especially as practiced by Republicans redrawing electoral maps to splinter Democratic bases of support – is part of the reason that our democracy is “in need of serious renovation.” Holder (who is …
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An Alabama sheriff’s office said Tuesday that escaped murder suspect Casey Cole White and missing corrections official Vicky White, who is suspected of helping him escape, had a “special relationship.” The sheriff’s office did not provide any additional information about the alleged relationship. “Investigators received information from inmates at the …
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