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Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceuticals to lower the lists prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs; however, how much older Americans can expect to save when they fill a prescription remains unclear.

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Drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease and blood cancers among those affected by price negotiations

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,08/15/24-8:32AM, 77 Reads
The Biden administration says Medicare recipients will save about $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket costs for medications to treat diabetes, heart disease, types of arthritis and other ailments under
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Ukraine is reaching its "strategic goal" in the offensive in the Kursk region. Zelenskyy said in a nightly address that the advance had significantly increased the "exchange fund" for Ukraine.

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Zelenskyy says Ukrainian troops have taken full control of the Russian town of Sudzha

By SAMYA KULLAB AND HANNA ARHIROVA SAMYA KULLAB AND HANNA ARHIROVA - Associated Press
Thu,08/15/24-4:24AM, 97 Reads
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country's troops had taken full control of Sudzha, the largest Russian town to fall to Ukraine's forces since the start of their cross-border incursion more
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Benedictine sisters, Rose Marie Stallbaumer, left, and Barbara McCracken, right, look through corporate resolution archives and newspaper clippings at the Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kan., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. For the past two decades the community has participated in activist investing, a process in which they partner with other religious organizations to buy the stocks of companies they hope to positively influence. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism

By TIFFANY STANLEY TIFFANY STANLEY - Associated Press
Thu,08/15/24-7:06AM, 115 Reads
ATCHISON, Kansas (AP) — Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City.
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This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 4 p.m EDT and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Ernesto northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico and moving over open waters, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (NOAA via AP)

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Ernesto grows into Cat 2 hurricane as it aims for Bermuda, leaving many in Puerto Rico without power

By DÁNICA COTO DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press
Thu,08/15/24-6:05AM, 115 Reads
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto strengthened into a Category 2 storm Thursday night as it barreled toward Bermuda after leaving hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico without power or water. Sweltering heat enveloped the U.S. territory, raising concerns about people’s health.
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