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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday instructing drug companies to reduce prices of prescription drugs or face consequences from the federal government. But the effort amounts to price control since it’s not limited to just government programs — and similar policy initiatives in other sectors have prompted shortages, according to Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Washington-based libertarian-leaning Cato Institute think tank. "We have seen government price controls in housing," Cannon told Fox News Digital Monday.

Isaac Allen, owner of Red Barn Diesel Performance, was sentenced May 7 to three years of probation for tampering with environmental monitoring devices on multiple diesel vehicles and obstructing the investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Maine, U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen sentenced Allen to a three-year term of probation and a $40,000 fine, the maximum recommended amount for his offense level. Allen initially pled guilty to the crime in November 2024. As part of his...

Storms are expected to start Wednesday over Nebraska and parts of the Dakotas, expanding to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Thursday. Rotating supercells are possible. That first batch of storminess will shift toward the Mid-Atlantic into Friday before a new — and potentially more significant — round materializes over the Plains this weekend. The past two weeks have been unusually quiet by May standards, with hardly any tornado activity in the Plains. There were a couple tornado reports over East Texas on May 6, but otherwise the last...

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What a night! Anticipation filled the air as students hugged each other before scholarship presentations. Who, they wondered, would receive an all-important scholarship? Students, parents, relatives, teachers, and members of donor organizations all gathered in the Estes Park High School auditorium on Wednesday night to honor the 2025 graduates of Estes Park High School and Eagle Rock School. Estes Park Principal Sonja Greenway recognized the years of hard work leading up to scholarship night and emphasized the ongoing connection between Estes Park and the students.

A May heat wave is scorching portions of the central United States with near record-breaking high temperatures, raising concerns about wildfires and heat stress on people not used to the summer-like warmth. Temperatures will soar well into the 90s and may even approach 100 degrees through May 13 over a thousand square miles of the northern Plains, AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said. This is significantly warmer than some locations in the southeast U.S., including Miami, Florida, which should only see highs in the mid-80s. Extreme heat will also scorch much...

A drill rig stands at a Fervo Energy geothermal site under construction near Milford, Utah, in 2023. Republican lawmakers are pushing to launch a series of geothermal energy projects on federal land in the Southwest. GOP members of the House Committee on Natural Resources convened for a hearing in Cedar City, Utah, on Monday to advocate for galvanizing geothermal energy projects, a renewable-energy source that takes heat from deep beneath the earth and uses it to generate energy for heating, cooling and electricity. The process is similar to fracking, but...

“Carry-On” was a huge hit for Netflix. “Nickel Boys” earned Oscar nominations. And now “Sinners” has opened to rave reviews. These three very different films share one common bond, says Brittany Chandler, director of Film New Orleans. They all shot in and around New Orleans. “Sinners” reportedly spent more than $65 million on location in Louisiana. Yet all that success was jeopardized last fall when Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry, backed by the state’s House of Representatives, moved to eliminate the state’s film tax credits. That would have dealt a devastating...

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