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Dual threat puts the most vulnerable at risk on what’s expected to be the hottest day of the year. Temperatures, humidity should lower over the weekend.

The companies and their rivals say their enormous size and scope makes them the best candidates to fix America’s health care system. After a new wave of mergers, they're under pressure to prove it.

Oak Street Health runs primary care centers mostly for lower-to-middle income people with Medicare Advantage plans.

CVS Health is plunging deeper into providing primary care with an approximately $10.6 billion deal to acquire Oak Street Health

"Combining Oak Street Health's platform with CVS Health's unmatched reach will create the premier value-based primary care solution," said CVS CEO Karen Lynch.

New reports suggest CVS is prepared to pay as much as $10.5 billion for the Chicago-based primary care center operator.

Stock futures edge higher as Treasury yields steady; Powell speech in focus as markets embrace higher Fed rates; Oak Street Health soars on new CVS takeover report; Bed Bath & Beyond plummets as retailer plans $1 billion capital raise and Boeing to cut 2,000 jobs as U.S. Corporate layoffs escalate.

Among them: the family of the woman chairing the mayor’s reelection campaign fund, contractors that are Lightfoot financial backers and two clout-heavy real estate investors whose children attended the Catholic elementary school where Lightfoot’s daughter was a student.

CVS Health is reportedly exploring a $10 billion deal to buy Oak Street Health. Will that make CVS stock a buy?