As of midnight, the United States government is in shutdown mode. With both sides blaming each other for holding the country hostage, the immediate effects could be felt at national parks and in air travel, along with over 1 million government employees working for the military now working without pay. The last time a shutdown happened was in Trump’s first presidency in 2019.
The cost of some of your prescriptions could be going down soon. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer committed yesterday to lowering US drug prices and investing $70B in domestic manufacturing. Several of its medications will be sold at an average 50% discount on a forthcoming federal website, dubbed TrumpRX.
and Jolene is on the minds of everyone in Kyle, Texas. Not the Dolly Parton song, but a 400-year-old stagecoach heritage oak tree that is directly in the path of a street widening project. A project to halt the project and save the tree garnered over 2,000 signatures, but instead, the city has decided to relocate the tree to a new spot down the road at a cost of almost $1 million, with no guarantee of survival.
and THAT’S TRENDING.
