Ozempic maker to testify before Senate committee on weight loss drug prices
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Washington — Lawmakers will question the maker of popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday focused on what Sen. Bernie Sanders has called "outrageously high" prices Americans pay for the drugs.
Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen is testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, led by Sanders.
Sanders, a Vermont independent, told reporters on Monday that the hearing is about "simply asking Novo Nordisk why they continue to rip off the American people."
The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic described lofty goals when the company was created, telling the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday that the company wanted to create multiple deep-water submersibles that could be deployed around the world.
Washington — The FBI revealed Monday that the man arrested in connection with the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump earlier this month had in his vehicle a list of dates and venues where the former president had appeared or was expected to appear and a search of one of his cell phones revealed searches of how to get from West Palm Beach to Mexico.