As drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy become more popular for weight-loss, many healthcare plans, including Medicare, are not covering the costs right now. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports for Sunday TODAY.
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Online influencers feel torn on how to speak about Israel-Hamas war
As the war between Israel and Hamas enters second month, influencers who make their careers online say that the conflict has become unavoidable.
As Biden and Xi gear up for a high-stakes meeting, experts have low expectations
U.S.-China relations, marred in the past year by a series of inflection points, have reached one of the most tense periods perhaps since 1972, when the two nations established diplomatic ties.
Two students accuse Hillsdale College of retaliating against them after reporting sexual assaults
Two young women who reported to their conservative Michigan college that they were sexually assaulted by male students have accused the school in a lawsuit of conducting “phony investigations” into their allegations and then blaming them “for being raped.”
Biden shifts into campaign mode with more attacks on Trump
President Biden is shifting more into campaign mode, with plans to increasingly attack his likely 2024 Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.
23-year-old fleeing from northern Gaza details journey south
23-year-old Tarik Yaghi, who said he was studying I.T. at the Islamic University of Gaza, told NBC News that his journey fleeing from northern Gaza to the south was “basically torture.” Yaghi said he saw tanks and “bodies thrown left and right” during the trek.
Megan Rapinoe will play her final soccer game tonight before retirement
U.S. soccer legend Megan Rapinoe will play her final professional soccer game against Gotham FC Saturday night at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium.
Man in custody in slaying of Detroit Jewish community leader Samantha Woll released without charges
A xx-year-old (geography, where’s he from?) man (“man” unless we know something more about his job relationship to Woll) was charged on Friday with the slaying of prominent Jewish community leader Samantha Woll, police said.
Pilot accused of trying to stop engines midflight after taking magic mushrooms asked ‘Am I dead? Is this hell?’
The off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to shut down the engines of an airborne plane last month after taking magic mushrooms thought he was dreaming and had questioned if he was in hell, he said in an interview published Saturday.
Mother of slain Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig says ‘a piece of my heart’ was taken
The mother of a Nashville college student who was killed by a stray bullet said “there’s a piece of my heart that was taken” as her father questioned why a “repeat criminal” allegedly responsible for the crime was released back on the street.