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CVS Health said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $69 billion in a deal that would combine the drugstore giant with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States and has the potential to reshape the nation’s health care industry. The transaction, one of the largest of the year, reflects the increasingly blurred lines between the traditionally separate spheres of a rapidly changing industry.

"Saturday Night Live" got into the Donald Trump's expense. The show's cold open, inspired by Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," featured WATCH: "SNL" COLD OPEN "Mr. President, I came to warn you, it's time to come clean for the good of the country," Day's Flynn said. "There's a lot of people from your past that could come back to haunt you.

Former FBI shows he was not acting on his own when he communicated with Russian officials, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said. "I think that in his factual basis for the plea he sets out that he wasn’t acting as a rogue agent, that, in fact, he was acting at the knowledge and direction of people who were senior members of the transition team," Democratic presidential election and possible collusion by Trump associates. The fa

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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he believes it's time to start moving the families of American military personnel out of North Korea pushes the U.S. closer to a military conflict. Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he will also urge the Pentagon not to send any more dependents to South Korea. "It's crazy to send spouses and children to South Korea, given the provocation of North Korea.

President Donald Trump's friend Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax Media, said Special Counsel Robert Mueller "poses an existential threat to the Trump presidency." Ruddy, who spoke as part of a roundtable on ABC News' "This Week" Sunday, said he has talked to the president about the federal probe of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by Trump associates. "I've spoken to the president quite a bit about it recently," Ruddy said. "He sees this as, you know, something that is going to go away pretty quickly.

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CAPITAL SOURCE Mayor Martin J. Walsh reportedly needled Representative David Nangle about his getting behind Third District candidate Lori Trahan.  CAPITAL SOURCE City voters approved the Community Preservation Act in 2016, allowing for a 1 percent surcharge on residential and business property taxes, beginning last July.  capital source The unfolding race to succeed outgoing US Representative Niki Tsongas in the Third Congressional District has created a web of odd alliances and pitted former colleagues in arms against one another.

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg’s husband is accused of allegedly assaulting and harassing four men.   Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg said he will cooperate fully with an investigation launched by his Senate colleagues while his husband, Bryon Hefner, 30, enters an in-patient treatment center for alcohol dependence.   Dianne Feinstein of California said potential evidence against the president is coming partly from ‘‘the continual tweets’’ from the White House.  The Senate majority leader previously said he was looking at drafting a write-in candidate for the election.

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg’s husband is accused of allegedly assaulting and harassing four men.   Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg said he will cooperate fully with an investigation launched by his Senate colleagues while his husband, Bryon Hefner, 30, enters an in-patient treatment center for alcohol dependence.   Dianne Feinstein of California said potential evidence against the president is coming partly from ‘‘the continual tweets’’ from the White House.  The Senate majority leader previously said he was looking at drafting a write-in candidate for the election.