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Trump Plans to Impose 100% Tariffs on Generic Drugs Starting in 2028. What Would That Do to Prices?
A photo of Ibuprofen tables USP 200 mg in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 25, 2015. —Francis Dean—Corbis/Getty Images President Donald Trump announced this week that he plans to impose tariffs on generic drugs imported into the U.S. starting in 2028—a policy that experts say could have far-reaching consequences for the prices and availability of those…
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Despite tax credits, filming in L.A. is still sluggish
Tax incentives for film and television productions have not been enough to counter a still-sluggish environment for filming in the greater Los Angeles region, according to a new report. For the three-month period that ended June 30, there were a total of 4,711 shoot days in the greater L.A. area, a nearly 13% decline from…
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‘More egg on the faces of prosecutors’: Expert blasts Trump DOJ’s new prosecution threat
A legal expert told CNN on Thursday that President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ attempts to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith could backfire. David Aronberg, former state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, responded to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who has requested the Department of Justice consider criminal…
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Another cyclosporiasis outbreak investigated as cases of diarrhea-causing illness continue to mount
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it’s looking into another cyclosporiasis outbreak, the second cluster this summer, that’s sickened at least 72 people. The federal agency has yet to link the latest diarrhea-causing parasitic outbreak to a specific product or location. It’s initiated a traceback investigation, a process where officials trace food that…
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Todd Blanche implicated during testimony from a member of Epstein’s inner circle
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was implicated in a cover-up, lawmakers concluded on Thursday as a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s circle evaded questions from a House committee. Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender Epstein. The session…
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Los Angeles Film and TV Production Sinks 12% Despite New Tax Credits, FilmLA Study Shows
Though California’s expanded production tax credit has brought 170 films and TV shows to the Golden State in the past year, that hasn’t halted the decline in on-location shooting in Los Angeles as the number of shoot days in the second quarter of 2026 fell 12% year-over-year in FilmLA’s latest report as reality TV’s continued…
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1975 Los Angeles restaurant guide is a trip down memory lane with prices from a bygone era
Forget $20 cocktails. In 1975 Los Angeles, that much cash could buy chateaubriand for two at the Brown Derby, two coffees — and still leave $2 in your pocket. Redditors ate it up this week when one user cracked open a vintage copy of “The Menu Guide of Los Angeles,” revealing the wildly cheap-looking prices once…
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Whoopi Goldberg slams transphobic criticism of Elliot Page’s ‘The Odyssey’ casting: ‘Don’t go see the damn movie’
Whoopi Goldberg spoke out against the transphobic backlash to Elliot Page’s role in “The Odyssey.” On Tuesday’s episode of “The View,”Goldberg and her co-hosts defended Page — who came out as a transgender in 2020 — being cast in the Christopher Nolan movie following criticism from conservatives like Ben Shapiro. “I don’t understand. If you feel…
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Hot faces fill the erotic thriller ‘Her Private Hell,’ but the plot is never in focus
The irony of Neon giving Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest erotic noir a wide theatrical release is that “Her Private Hell” will be some moviegoers’ public one. Both times I’ve seen it, a fraction of the audience has walked out. This, I suspect, suits Refn just fine. To him, mass appeal is for rubes.…
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‘Completely ridiculous’: GOP’s ‘shameful’ Jeffrey Epstein stunt torn to shreds on CNN
One Democratic lawmaker is fed up with how the GOP is handling the investigation into the crimes committed by disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, joined CNN’s Brianna Keilar on “CNN News Central” to discuss an ongoing interview of former Barclays CEO…