Levemir is critical for young people and pregnant women, patients say. But it won’t be sold in the U.S. after this year. A year ago today, Novo Nordisk announced significant list price reductions on its insulin medications. Unlike co-payment caps or discount cards, these were real cuts in the actual cost to patients and payers, by 75 percent for vials and prefilled injection pens (FlexPens) of NovoLog, and by 65 percent for Novolin and Levemir. The new prices would begin January 1, 2024. “Novo Nordisk remains committed to ensuring patients living with diabetes can afford our insulins, a responsibility we take seriously,” senior vice president for market access Steve Albers said in a statement. Eli Lilly and Sanofi, the other two major insulin manufacturers, also cut their prices around that time, mainly due to a Democratic-passed change in Medicaid rebate policy that would have led to significant losses for the three companies. Praised by insulin users and advocates, it was seen as a positive step for a pharmaceutical industry that rarely gives patients much to smile about. But last November, Novo Nordisk made a different announcement. Levemir, one of the drugs that got a price cut, would be fully discontinued in the U.S. at the end of 2024. (The FlexPen version would be discontinued next month.) Supply disruptions, the company said, would begin to hit patients in January—the same month the price cuts took effect. The alternative to Levemir that Novo Nordisk makes for the U.S. market sells for over three times as much.

New Orleans police officer Rodney Vicknair sexually abused a teen girl he met on the job. He is one of hundreds of officers arrested for child sexual abuse. At least 1,800 state and local police officers were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022, The Post found. Abusive officers were rarely related to the children they were accused of raping, fondling and exploiting. They most frequently targeted girls who were 13 to 15 years old — and regularly met their victims through their jobs. But while many school systems and churches have created practices and policies to root out predators, law enforcement agencies have largely treated child sexual abuse as an isolated problem that goes away when an officer is fired or prosecuted — rather than an always-present risk that requires systemic change. There is no national tracking system for officers accused of child sexual abuse. At a time when police departments across the country face staffing shortages and are desperate to hire, there are no universal requirements to screen for potential perpetrators. When abuse is suspected, officers are sometimes allowed to remain on the job while investigations of their behavior are left in the hands of their colleagues.

A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.

A Montana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony charges connected to an effort to create a giant sheep hybrid for captive hunting, the Justice Department announced. Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80,…

Luxurious vicuña garments have their origin in the Andes. The Indigenous people who collect the wool have almost nothing to show for it.

A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.

"Both kinds of corporate misbehavior—underpaying taxes and overpaying executives—ultimately make working families the victim through smaller paychecks and diminished public services."

Many of the fans who attended the Kansas City Chiefs wild-card round victory over the Miami Dolphins at Arrowhead Stadium in January and suffered from frostbite due to the extremely cold conditions are now facing the need for amputations, according to a report from Kansas City television station Fox4. Seventy percent of the frostbite victims who have sought medical attention at the Grossman Burn Center this winter are now facing the need for amputations, according to the report. Dr. Megan Garcia, the medical director at Grossman Burns Center, said many of those victims are Chiefs fans who attended the Jan. 13 wild-card game. That contest began with a temperature of minus-4 at kickoff and a windchill that dipped to minus-27, making it one of the four coldest games in NFL history.

Don Lemon said Wednesday that his partnership with Elon Musk went down in flames, hours after the former CNN anchor conducted an interview last week with the erratic billionaire for the debut episode of his new independent web-based show.

The United States is a lonely country. The pandemic didn’t help, but it wasn’t the cause: the amount of time Americans spend talking and socializing with one another has been declining for at least two decades, about an hour and a half less per week in 2019 than in 2003. We’re having less sex than ever — the percent of 18-to 29-year-olds who reported having had none at all in the previous year doubled between 2008 and 2018 — and we’re getting sadder, too: the rate of depression in the same age bracket nearly doubled between 2017 and 2023. Queerness once appeared to offer an antidote of sorts to social atomization. In the mid-twentieth century, queers flocked to cities, escaping the strictures of the nuclear family and the detached houses of suburbia in search of somewhere else, anywhere else, to drink and talk and fuck. If the mortgage and the kids and the normative jobs were the presumed American ideal, then the queer city presented an alternative, one in which the desire for physical contact and communal connection — disco in the ’70s, the East Village in the ’80s, AIDS activism in the ’80s and ’90s — replaced, at least in theory, the desire for consumerist accumulation. Today, one could be forgiven for thinking that we have actualized the queer future dreamt by those mid-century city dwellers. Much of their subcultures has become our mainstream: we gesture at it in house-inspired music (Renaissance, Chromatica, the new Ariana single); we memorialize it through documentaries like Paris Is Burning; we watch it enacted and reenacted (with diminishing returns) on Drag Race; we take sides in the shade war between Eileen Myles and Patti Smith; we study the history of ACT UP and apply it to our own political struggles. And a tremendous number of young people seem to be queer these days: more than seven percent of Americans and twenty percent of Zoomers, by some estimates, now identify as not-straight in some way.

Under legal pressure from Open Vallejo, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office disclosed new footage Tuesday that shows the moment a former Vallejo police officer shot a teenager following a high-speed chase that ended in a North Vallejo neighborhood. The disclosure comes six days after Open Vallejo compelled the Napa County Sheriff’s Office to release hours of video from the Jan. 11 shooting by American Canyon Police Ofc. Joshua Coleman. In 2020, this newsroom named Coleman as among a group of officers who participated in the city’s “Badge of Honor” ritual, in which officers bend the tips of their star-shaped badges to commemorate shootings. The January shooting in Vallejo is the second shooting in as many months by an officer linked to badge-bending. In late November, Vallejo Police Cpl. Matthew Komoda shot and wounded a 17-year-old, who police say was armed. The Vallejo Police Department is one of the most lethal law enforcement agencies in the country, data shows. A 2020 analysis by Open Vallejo found that as of June 2019, almost 40% of officers then employed by Vallejo had been in at least one shooting; a third of those had been in two or more. Nationwide, almost three-quarters of police officers reported having never fired their weapon in the line of duty, according to a 2016 Pew Research survey of 7,917 sworn officers. The January shooting is Coleman’s first since leaving the Vallejo Police Department, and his fifth overall, Open Vallejo research shows.

Senator Ron Wyden has found that the DoD banned the use of such locks for U.S. government systems, but deliberately kept information about the backdoors from the public.

With Trump allies taking over the RNC and cleaning house, one of the casualties was a minority outreach program that seemed to be working for Republicans.

In reviewing dozens of MrBeast videos from over the years, Donaldson has nearly erased himself as a person from his episodic output. If viewers don’t really see him having fun, that’s by design. Donaldson has outright said he sees “personality” as a limitation for growth, once noting in a podcast that hinging your content on who you are as a person means risking not being liked. And if someone doesn’t like a creator as a person, they may not give the videos a chance. McLoughlin’s comments hit at another bleak possibility: Viewers may hardly see MrBeast having fun in his videos because he’s not actually having a good time. In podcasts, Donaldson tells hosts that he goes so hard, he won’t stop working until he burns out and isn’t able to do anything at all. With a laugh, he admits that he has a mental breakdown “every other week.” If he ever stops for a breather, he says, he gets depressed. MrBeast is so laser-focused on generating content on YouTube that he describes his personality as “YouTube.” He acknowledges that this brutal approach to videos, which has cratered many creators over the years, is not healthy. “People shouldn’t be like me. I don’t have a life, I don’t have a personality,” he said in a podcast recorded in 2023.

In testimony to Congress, the mother of a deepfake porn victim says the students accused of creating the AI-made nude images continue to share class with her daughter.

For decades, we’ve been told police officers just need training and resources to do their jobs correctly. These items, including cultural sensitivity training, implicit bias training, de-escalation training, and so on, cost billions every year. But we know from the senseless killings of Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, and many others that no amount of training or resources will stop police from killing Black and brown people. Nor will it ensure that police treat people with dignity and respect. Worse still, the “training” that cops already receive often glorifies violence, reinforces racist ideas, and is taught by officers with histories of misconduct. A damning new report has once again underscored that point. A recent investigation by the New Jersey Comptroller revealed that at least 46 states have paid a for-profit training company called NJ Criminal Interdiction—which does business under the name “Street Cop”—to fill police officers’ heads with hateful rhetoric and bad legal advice. At a conference attended by more than 1,000 law enforcement officers from across the country, Street Cop trainers urged police officers to make unconstitutional traffic stops and indiscriminately shoot at those who defy their authority.

The North Carolina Department of Labor last week fined a farm in Nash County $187,509 after the death of a seasonal farm worker from apparent heat exhaustion last September. The department cited Barnes Farming with what’s called a “willful serious violation” along with two other “serious” violations.

Judge Scott McAfee found some of the counts against the former president and some of his co-defendants were lacking details.

The Washington-funded news station Radio Free Asia may leave Hong Kong about the same time the city’s domestic national security bill is expected to be passed at the end of this month, a staff member has revealed. The station, funded by the United States Agency for Global Media, a United States government body, was expected to move some of its Hong Kong staff to Taipei or to its Washington headquarters, the source added.

Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.