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Millions of older Americans in Medicare are about to receive a benefit that has never existed before: coverage of obesity drugs. Starting Wednesday, eligible beneficiaries can get GLP-1s to treat obesity for a copay of just $50 per month. It’s a watershed move that could unlock a vast new patient population for Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and dramatically expand access to medications that were previously out of reach for many people ages 65 and above. Medicare Part D, or prescription drug plans, already cover some GLP-1s for conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but federal law has banned coverage solely for…

Can’t see the video above? Watch it here. President Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations. More than a year into his second term, the White House has taken a sweeping approach to curbing illegal and legal migration. Ximena Bustillo, NPR’s immigration policy correspondent, breaks down the five strategies that make up the administration’s mass deportation policy. They include providing historic funding for immigration enforcement agencies, stripping legal pathways, reshaping previously little-known immigration courts and expanding the infrastructure focused on increasing the number of those detained and deported. It’s a strategy that limits immigrants’ options for arguing for permission to…

Baby boomers are having some second thoughts about the whole “till death do us part” thing. Instead of waiting for someone to land in a coffin to go their separate ways, they’re going to the courthouse.Longer lives have married people wondering whether they actually want to spend their now-extended golden years with some not-so-golden feelings about the person next to them. A growing number of people over 50 — especially those over 65 — are deciding that they don’t.The face of divorce has a lot more wrinkles and gray hair than it used to, and that brings with it a…

President Donald Trump slammed gasoline retailers for failing to lower prices for Americans.In a Monday evening Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the retailers must lower prices immediately because they are too high.”There will be no gauging, which is totally illegal,” he wrote, likely referring to gouging, the act of overcharging customers. “If retailers don’t do this, big problems lie ahead!”He said retailers should “start targeting around the $2.50 a gallon number,” and warned that California should stop charging heavy taxes on its gasoline. The state is set to increase the gas tax rate from 61.4 cents per gallon to…

Under the stadium lights of Madison Square Garden, people cheered for Brennan Lee Mulligan, the game master of “Dimension 20”, and the tabletop roleplaying game show’s most famous face.The show, run by Dropout — a media company spun off from the former CollegeHumor — involves Mulligan or other game masters weaving a fantastical tale of adventure and magic.Mulligan wouldn’t have been able to do hours long games, at stadiums and in the show’s recorded form without Skye Smith, his lore keeper.When Business Insider asked Smith to sum up her work, she described herself as the “Google, or Wikipedia, for ‘Dimension…

Haitian flags are displayed in a store on June 25, 2026 in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s effort to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The future of the Temporary Protected Status program, and the legal status of 270,000 people who still have it, is at risk after a big Supreme Court ruling last week. The court’s ruling allowed the Trump administration to move forward with…

The U.S. Supreme Court Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Supreme Court’s conservative majority took a sledgehammer to much of the federal government’s regulatory structure Monday, striking down almost all the limits that Congress—and the courts—had previously established to protect the independence of regulatory agencies that make up roughly a third of the federal government. The court’s decision reversed a 90-year-old precedent that had protected multi-member and term-limited agency heads from being fired, except for misconduct or malfeasance in office. The decision could also open the door to allowing presidents to fire at will not…

Cargo thieves have a new target.Investigators with the Cook County Sheriff’s office in Illinois said last week they recovered a pair of trailers with $1.3 million worth of data center supplies at a Chicago-area truck yard.Officials said the organized retail crime unit was tipped off about a trailer containing about $300,000 worth of copper wire spools, which had been reported stolen from Pine Hill, Alabama. Copper wiring is a key supply for building and connecting data centers.After inspecting the trailer and finding the wire, investigators said the truck yard owner told them that the person who delivered that load had…

Comcast logo on the wall of a building at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, July 18, 2019.Roberto Machado Noa | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnalysts think Comcast is priming for deals. Comcast leadership says they’re wrong.The company announced Monday it plans to separate its two primary businesses — cable broadband and the media units of NBCUniversal and Sky. It’s the second major structural change for the decades-old company in recent months, and it’s raising questions of potential future deals for either half of the company. But on a call with investors to discuss the split, Comcast executives came ready with cold…

Eli Lilly and Regeneron are among the first seven companies the U.S. Food and Drug Administration selected for a pilot program designed to accelerate reviews of new domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, CNBC has learned. Lilly, Regeneron, Amneal, Cellares, Fujifilm Biotechnologies, Kriya Therapeutics and Kyowa Kirin are the first companies that will participate in the FDA’s PreCheck pilot program, according to FDA spokesperson Benjamin Nichols. The initiative will allow regulators to start reviewing new manufacturing facilities while they’re under construction to catch and correct any issues, which the FDA estimates could save companies up to 14 months. Producing more drugs domestically…