Many Medicare beneficiaries can now get coverage for obesity drugs such as Wegovy. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Starting in July, Medicare began allowing eligible beneficiaries to get obesity drugs for $50 a month. Less than two months in, CVS and Walgreens tell NPR they’ve each filled around 100,000 such
“The Witcher” Season 5 co-producer Rae Benjamin, who is also the cowriter of the animated feature “The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep,” has been selected to receive this year’s Starz #TakeTheLead award at the Humanitas Prizes awards show and toast next month, one of several honors the org revealed on Wednesday. Benjamin will be presented
An Indian jewellery brand has removed their new advertisement for the upcoming festival of Rakshabandhan, also known as Rakhi, after backlash over the outfit worn by the female lead. The ad featured popular Bollywood actor Kriti Sanon celebrating the Hindu festival in which sisters tie a thread called Rakhi over their brothers’ wrists. Sanon, who
X will really mark the spot for NFL content. The social-media outlet is launching “NFL Gametime,” a new project that offers an NFL feed weaving data, news and creators into the overall user experience. X users can choose to put the new topic-focused stream alongside mainstay feeds like “For You” and “Following.” The stream will
Fifty eggs suspected to be those of endangered parrots were intercepted at South Africa’s main airport in Johannesburg last Thursday – and some of them have now hatched. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle them in a “homemade incubator bag” carried as hand luggage, according to the Department of Forestry,
While other country music singers remained silent — or outright discriminated against — the LGBTQ+ community, Parton was always an outspoken supporter and ally. “I got a huge gay following and some really macho-looking women,” Parton told Andy Warhol in a 1984 Interiew magazine story. “To me, people are people… Many of my friends are
