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B.C. RCMP Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet indicated that the search for the fourth missing individual has been hindered by adverse weather and challenging site conditions.
The area remains inaccessible to motorists, with no indication of when the highway will be reopened.
According to a Wednesday press release from the White House, not only has Trump succeeded, but he appears to have set a new record.
Prescription drug prices have recorded their largest annual decline in more than six decades, providing the Trump administration with a major talking point as its Most-Favored-Nation drug-pricing initiative takes effect.
The White House says prices have fallen 3.9% since Trump returned to office and describes the annual decline as the steepest since 1963.
Trump launched the initiative through a May 2025 executive order aimed at ending the longstanding disparity between what Americans pay for prescription medicines and prices charged for the same drugs overseas.
Those companies represent approximately 86% of the branded prescription drug market, according to the White House.
The agreements generally require participating manufacturers to provide American patients access to Most-Favored-Nation pricing on covered medicines and establish similar pricing for newly launched drugs.
The latest numbers give Trump fresh evidence to argue that one of his signature healthcare policies is beginning to deliver measurable savings for American patients, the White House said.
The Trump administration is also pointing to its TrumpRx platform as another major component of its effort to drive down prescription drug costs for American patients.
Some of the most dramatic reductions involve GLP-1 medications, which previously could carry monthly list prices exceeding $1,000.
The administration has also announced substantial discounts on fertility medications, insulin, inhalers, cholesterol treatments and dozens of other prescription drugs.
For some medicines, advertised cash-price reductions range from 50% to 90% or more compared with previous list prices, the administration’s release noted.
Trump has made prescription drug costs a centerpiece of his healthcare agenda, arguing that Americans should no longer be forced to pay substantially more for the same medicines than patients in other developed countries.
TrumpRx was launched by the president in February.
Under the deals, drugmakers agree to offer Americans the same or lower prices than those charged to patients abroad — a significant shift after decades of higher domestic pricing.
“Last night, President Trump delivered on a core promise to the American people — ending the era where Americans pay far more for the same drugs than patients overseas,” the White House said in a statement at the time.
“TrumpRx means lower prices at the pharmacy counter, starting now.”
Trump framed the announcement as a long-awaited breakthrough.
“For years, politicians from both parties have promised to bring down prescription drug prices and make health care more affordable, but they all failed,” Trump said at a White House presser.
“It’s the biggest thing to happen in health care, I think, in many, many decades,” the president added.
Unlike Medicare or private pharmacy benefit programs, TrumpRx does not sell drugs directly. Instead, the website connects patients with manufacturers who have signed onto the pricing agreements.
As the weeks pass, concern continues to build over one of the most recognizable figures in American politics, with growing calls for more information about his condition and when—or if—he will return to public life.
Questions surrounding Sen. Mitch McConnell’s health intensified this week as his hospitalization stretched into another week, prompting renewed calls for his office to release additional information about his condition.
McConnell, 84, has remained out of public view since he was admitted to a Washington-area hospital on June 14.
“The Senator continues to improve,” McConnell’s office said in a statement, adding that he appreciates the support and well wishes he has received during his recovery.
The latest public photographs of McConnell were taken June 4, roughly 10 days before his hospitalization.
It was one of several recent appearances in which the senator required assistance moving around the Capitol, including the use of a wheelchair.
Two days later, on June 6, McConnell chaired a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on President Trump’s military and defense strategy, marking his last known public appearance before entering the hospital.
His health has drawn increasing public attention over the past several years following a series of medical incidents.
In March 2023, McConnell suffered a concussion and fractured a rib after falling during a dinner event in Washington, sidelining him for more than five weeks.
Following the second incident, his office said he had been evaluated by medical professionals and attributed the episode to lightheadedness.
Additional falls and injuries throughout 2024, along with his increasing reliance on a wheelchair because of lingering effects from childhood polio, continued to raise questions about his health.
His current hospitalization began on June 14.
Subsequent media reports, citing emergency-dispatch audio, indicated first responders were called to McConnell’s residence for an unconscious person, although his office has not confirmed those reports or disclosed a diagnosis.
In a July 8 letter to McConnell’s Washington office, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentuckians had “grown increasingly concerned” about the senator’s well-being and ability to continue serving.
“Allowing speculation to continue in the media is not fair to the Senator or to Kentuckians,” Beshear said, urging McConnell to provide information directly to the public.
Marlin Stutzman echoed those concerns during an interview Thursday with NewsNation.
“I have not heard from him, and I think it’s a question that Republicans should be asking because he does represent the state of Kentucky,” Stutzman said.
He added that McConnell’s constituents deserve additional information about the senator’s condition, Newsweek reported.
Earlier this year, the vice president of the United States made a stunning statement. In an interview with Fox News, JD Vance said that Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) “definitely” committed fraud when she applied for a visa to enter the U.S.
At the time Fox noted:
Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday said the Justice Department is looking into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., committed immigration fraud, citing longstanding allegations that she married a man critics claim is her brother.
Speaking to reporters, Vance was asked about the administration’s anti-fraud task force — established by President Donald Trump to combat fraud, waste, and abuse across federal benefit programs — and whether it would focus on Omar, a frequent Trump critic.
“You read the things about Ilhan Omar… who she married and whether she didn’t marry this person or that person,” Vance said. “It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the law.”
The comments followed a podcast interview in March, during which Vance informed conservative commentator Benny Johnson that he had discussed potential legal action against the congresswoman with White House immigration advisor Stephen Miller.
“We think Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said at the time.
“If we think that there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime,” he added. “And that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”
That was then. On Sunday, President Trump posted to his Truth Social platform a link to a Just the News story claiming that the Department of Homeland Security was not responding to the outlet’s requests for information regarding Omar due to “enforcement proceedings“:
The federal government is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into allegations of immigration fraud by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., citing a legal exemption for ongoing investigations.
Just the News filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the records in January, seeking the records pertaining to any investigations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the allegations that Rep. Omar, who represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, married a relative in order to help him remain in the country.
Omar has denied the allegations. No court records, DNA evidence, or other documentary proof has ever substantiated that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Omar’s legal husband from 2009–2017, was her biological brother.
“ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings,” ICE told Just the News in response to the FOIA in May.
The FOIA exemption cited by the agency “applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings,” the reply reads.
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan first said in December last year that the Department of Homeland Security was investigating whether Omar committed immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother, Just the News reported. “We’re pulling the records, we’re pulling the files,” Homan said in an interview with Newsmax last year. “We’re looking at it […] I’m running that down this week.
The basic timeline of Omar’s publicly documented marriages and relationships is more clearly established. Omar was born in Somalia and spent part of her childhood in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in the United States in 1995. In 2002, Omar applied for a marriage license with Ahmed Hirsi. The two did not complete a civil marriage at the time but entered into what Omar has described as a faith-based Islamic marriage.
Omar and Hirsi separated in 2008. The following year, Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Omar has said she and Elmi separated in 2011 through a faith-based divorce. In 2012, she resumed her relationship with Hirsi. After winning election to the Minnesota House of Representatives, Omar filed for a legal divorce from Elmi in 2017. The divorce was finalized that year. Omar and Hirsi subsequently married legally in 2018.
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Dozens of Americans remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flash floods and mudslides tore through the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border region, leaving hundreds dead and triggering an enormous international search-and-rescue operation as authorities race to locate survivors trapped in isolated communities.
The Nepal Tourism Board reported Thursday that 63 Americans were among hundreds of foreign tourists who had not yet been located, although officials cautioned that the number of missing U.S. citizens has fluctuated as communications are restored and rescue teams reach previously inaccessible areas.
Two Americans, described as a man and woman in their 50s, were among 27 foreign tourists successfully rescued from the devastated Rasuwa district, providing a rare piece of encouraging news as the massive recovery effort continued.
The disaster struck around 8:40 a.m. local time Wednesday when an enormous torrent of water, mud, rocks and other debris surged through northern Nepal near its border with China’s Tibet region, overwhelming communities along the Trishuli River and destroying buildings, bridges and roadways in its path.
Officials initially believed seismic activity may have triggered the disaster, but subsequent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey determined that the seismic signal was generated by a massive glacial collapse and debris flow rather than a conventional earthquake.
The scale of the devastation has become clearer by the hour, with more than 350 people reported dead across the broader disaster zone by Thursday while more than 1,000 remained missing in Nepal and China.
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