Ryan Cummings News Today

Community reaction to the announcement this evening has been quick and jubilant.

Expanding insurance coverage of high-priced injectable weight-loss drugs for state workers will cost taxpayers $210 million in the first year of the initiative. But at least one economist says that estimate is way off and is expected to be millions more.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office estimates the drugs— which include Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic – will cost taxpayers $210 million the first year. But others put that number much higher.

Yet unless youre constantly pulling out a calculator, youre unlikely to know whether your wages are keeping up with inflation, whether the stock market has actually hit a real peak or whether a lottery jackpot is as sweet as the marketers claim.

It is not clear which case or cases triggered the investigation. There have been many, and many complaints residents have taken to City Hall.

Sanders’ calls for lower drug prices has become a hallmark of his politics.

The country’s growth and strong job market has done little to diminish widespread unhappiness about inflation and high interest rates

ECOWAS urgently needs to reinvent itself, especially having set what can be characterised as a wrong precedent

ECOWAS urgently needs to reinvent itself, especially having set what can be characterised as a wrong precedent

If found guilty, the state is seeking an enhanced sentence, because “the defendant expressed intent to commit multiple mass shootings.”