WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., announced Tuesday that he won’t seek re-election in 2024, a shocking move to many of his colleagues that will further thin the ranks of Republican institutionalists in Congress. He plans to finish out his two-year term, he said in a statement, writing on X: “I believe there is a…
Drugmaker Eli Lilly announced on Thursday a new website that will allow patients to get a weight loss drug prescription through a telehealth provider — a move, the company says, that will improve access to the extremely popular and effective drugs, including its recently approved drug, Zepbound. The new website, called LillyDirect, joins a growing list…
Naoko Takemaru was an artistic “triple threat” who inspired her students in Japanese language and her colleagues with her spirit. Patricia Navarro-Velez was an accounting expert with a larger-than-life personality. And Jerry Chang loved research so much that he had decided to donate his body to science. That was how friends and colleagues at the…
Days after being awarded $148 million in damages against Rudy Giuliani in a defamation suit, two former Georgia election workers have filed a new lawsuit against the former Trump lawyer over remarks he made about them immediately after Friday’s verdict. Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. on…
Department of Homeland Security officials are warning about the impact of policies being discussed in negotiations between the White House and Congress that would increase deportations, deny many migrants the right to seek asylum and make detention mandatory, according to current and former officials who spoke to NBC News. “It would break the border,” one current Homeland Security official predicted. “It…
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff spoke Tuesday to the owner of a Jewish-owned falafel restaurant in Philadelphia that was the target of protests the White House has called antisemitic, offering support amid heightened political tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. In the call, Emhoff and Michael Solomonov, the Israeli American chef and owner of Goldie, talked about…
A legal battle is brewing, over some coffee. Taylor Sheridan, the creator and showrunner of the hit Paramount show “Yellowstone,” is suing one of the show’s stars, Cole Hauser, over the logo for his coffee company, Free Rein. The suit, filed last month by Bosque Ranch, the equine facility where the show is filmed, which…
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy voiced support for a variety of far-right conspiracy theories at the fourth GOP presidential primary debate Wednesday, suggesting at one point that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was an “inside job.” “Why am I the only person on this stage, at least, who can say that Jan. 6…
Twenty-one people were injured in an apparent explosion at a downtown hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday afternoon, authorities said. Firefighters initially received calls about a structure fire shortly after 3:30 p.m. at the Sandman Signature Fort Worth Downtown Hotel and then quickly afterward received “multiple calls that were coming in that area there…
Russian police raided another gay bar over the weekend, video posted by a Russian media outlet showed, less than two weeks after the country’s highest court designated LGBTQ activists as extremists. The video, shared Saturday by the local news outlet Ura.ru, appears to show riot officers entering a darkly lit bar or club and then…
