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It. Was. Quite. The. Reaction.

A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference about weight-loss medications.

Video of the event shows Dr. Mehmet Oz coming to the aid of the man. Trump slowly stood up from behind the Resolute Desk and watched.

A White House guest who was attending President Trump’s announcement about lowering the cost of obesity drugs fainted in the Oval Office, causing the event to be cut short. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement shortly after that the man was OK and identified him as a representative of one of…
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Trump took credit for a Biden-era program Thursday, while saying Biden couldn’t have done it.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she was optimistic about the prospect of negotiating an end to the government shutdown after President Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that the ongoing standoff likely hurt Republicans on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections. “I thought the president was pretty frank this morning about the fact that, you know, they lost,…
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President Donald Trump held a lavish party at his Mar-a-Lago resort mere hours before millions of Americans lost their federal food benefits.

The Trump administration announced its newest pharmaceutical agreement under its Most Favored Nation policy Thursday, striking deals with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to sell their GLP-1 products at discounted prices.  According to senior administration officials, the two manufacturers have agreed to sell their injectable GLP-1 products for a monthly starting price starting of $245 for people on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as…
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a new interview raised concerns over the U.S. economy as inflation increases, saying he sees a “weakening” in the job market. “The lower income wages haven’t gone up for a long period of time,” Dimon told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an interview that aired Wednesday. “There’s … weakening in…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved to a “low security” prison in New Jersey after spending time at a Brooklyn detention center.   On Oct. 30, Combs was transferred to FCI Fort Dix, where he will likely serve the rest of his 50-month prison sentence after being found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.   Diddy’s new home has drug rehab program   Diddy’s lawyers asked the judge in his case…
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is declaring that Tuesday’s elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and other states were a total “disaster” for Republicans and “terrible for America.” “Look, last night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout. The results in New Jersey were disastrous, the results in Virginia were terrible,” Cruz told Fox…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will give remarks as the record government shutdown stretches into its 37th day. Democrats, despite the lapse in funding, are celebrating Tuesday’s sweeping election victories as a signal that voters may be turning on President Trump and Republicans ahead of next year’s midterms. They have also renewed their confidence,…
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GOP Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) on Wednesday said Republicans face a “bloodbath” in midterm elections if they don’t get moving on President Trump’s agenda. “If we sit back on defense and if we side with the moderates and if we undermine President Trump, then it will be a bloodbath in the midterms and that will…
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President Trump on Thursday morning is set to announce new deals he made with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk that would lower the price of some GLP-1 weight loss medications. Trump’s strategy to lower prescription drug prices has been put to the test in recent months after he rolled out an executive order earlier…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday clarified his remarks warning that China would “win the AI race,” suggesting Beijing is close behind the U.S. on artificial intelligence technology and that it is “vital” for Washington to pull ahead. In an interview with the Financial Times, Huang offered a stark assessment: “China is going to win…
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The MSNBC host delivered a scorching monologue Wednesday about this week’s various elections.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) brushed off claims from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that the Georgia Republican is on a “revenge tour” within the GOP. Greene in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill” on Wednesday night denied that she wanted to run for Senate in Georgia, as Ocasio-Cortez asserted, calling the upper chamber a place…
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October job cuts are the highest for the month since 2003, according to a Thursday report from analyst Challenger, Gray and Christmas.  Employers’ job cuts totaled 153,074 for the month of October, marking a 174 percent increase from this time last year. “This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the…
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Thursday that she will not seek reelection after serving for nearly four decades in the lower chamber.  Meanwhile, the government shutdown hit a new record of 37 days as millions of Americans are poised to feel the heat after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would…
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi is calling it quits. The California Democrat announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection for another term, closing the book on a storied, four-decade career through which she rewrote history as the country’s first female Speaker, advanced some of the most consequential legislation of the modern era, and secured her place as…
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Democrats’ election sweep Tuesday night sent a message that voters are tired of the Trump administration’s “extremism” and that they want leaders who prioritize day-to-day issues in their communities. “I think there’s two takeaways: One is that it was a clear message to Donald Trump that folks are tired…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Democratic leaders will give remarks at a hearing Thursday morning, as high health care premiums and dwindling funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are at the forefront of the ongoing government shutdown battle. The issue of affordability has also been in the spotlight in recent days…
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Critics couldn’t compute the president’s latest boast.

Their big shift to Democrats in 2025 may be more about a Trump backlash than renewed affection for the party.

The right-wing firebrand, who’s been the subject of much speculation recently, denied the report.