A man collapsed behind President Donald Trump during an Oval Office press conference on Thursday with drugmakers to expand coverage and reduce prices for popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy. Officials rushed to help him after his collapse, and the press was quickly removed. As he collapsed, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz supported his head as he was lowered to the floor...

A guest at the Oval Office collapsed at a press event Thursday afternoon — in the presence of President Trump and others, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, who rushed to his aid. The scary moment, which was caught on camera, came as the White House was rolling out an obesity-drug announcement before the attendee appeared in distress and the video feeds were cut. “Are you OK? Gordon, you OK?” asked Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks as the man began to fall over...

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown, and was denied later the same day. Now, the administration must continue to follow the orders of a lower court. Moments after that ruling came down, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments...

Malnourished and dehydrated people are crawling through the desert on their elbows and knees in constant terror of being caught by fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), humanitarian organizations have warned. The journey from the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher to the town of Tawila is just 30 miles, but nonetheless perilous as gunmen rove around, robbing people, taking them hostage and in some cases slaughtering them by the dozen, the organizations say...

The BBC has been accused of doctoring a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump in a program that aired a week before the 2024 presidential election, making him appear to encourage the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The British broadcaster “completely” misled viewers by splicing together separate sections of a speech Trump gave that day in a Panorama program, a former adviser to the BBC wrote in an internal whistleblowing dossier, The Telegraph newspaper reported...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered a plan Friday to end the government shutdown, headlined by a one-year extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits and a short-term spending bill. “Democrats have said we must address the health care crisis, but Republicans have repeatedly said they won’t negotiate to lower the health care costs until the government reopens,” Schumer said on the floor, with other Democrats in the chamber. “So let’s find a path to honor both positions.”...

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he ordered the Department of Justice to investigate meatpacking companies that he said are artificially inflating beef prices, reflecting his broader affordability agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump said meatpacking companies are driving up beef prices “through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation” and promised to protect American cattle ranchers from such practices...

Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s wealth grew by at least 2,292%, largely through stock trading, during her 37 years in Congress. The former House speaker, who announced Thursday that she will retire from Congress in 2027, had a $2,675,036 minimum net worth in the year she began serving and a $63,996,050 minimum net worth in 2024, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of assets and liabilities listed in her congressional financial disclosures. An analysis by Quiver Quantitative estimates her current net worth more precisely at $278,760,000 million...

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