95-year-old retirement home resident starts his own Taylor Swift fan club

After a worker expressed disappointment that Taylor Swift wouldn't respond to her letters, 95-year-old Frank Uryasz took matters into his own hands. And word's getting out.

Eli Lilly says weight-loss pill a candidate for speedy approval under new US program

Eli Lilly said on Thursday its experimental weight-loss pill met most criteria for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new national priority voucher.

Trump sets refugee ceiling at record-low 7,500 with focus on white South Africans

President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document published on Thursday said.

Democrats excluded from briefing on US military strikes off South America, senator says

President Donald Trump's administration held a Republicans-only briefing about U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels near Venezuela, in what one senior Democrat on Thursday called a dangerous trend of increasing partisanship in national security.

Trump shaves China tariffs in deal with Xi on fentanyl, rare earths

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with Chinese President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs in exchange for a crackdown on fentanyl and increased rare earths exports.