LOADING ERROR LOADINGNBC News’ Kristen Welker on Wednesday asked Mehmet Oz — the former talk show host and heart surgeon who now runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — about President Donald Trump’s repeated claim, mockingly dubbed “MAGA math,” that he’ll get pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices by more than 100%. AdvertisementThen Welker asked Oz the obvious: “Cutting drug prices by 400%, anything over 100%, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? They’re equal, so it’s 100%.’”Welker pointed out that Trump has boasted about reducing drug prices by up to 1,500%. Oz fired back: “Well, if you take a drug that is $200 or $240 like we did last week and reduce it to $10, those are the numbers you’re talking about.”AdvertisementWhat? He then pivoted to talking about how important it was to reduce drug prices.

Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was prepared to sue the Trump administration in a “nanosecond” if the White House moved forward with the deployment of the National Guard to San Francisco. Newsom’s statement comes as the Trump administration is preparing to dispatch more than 100 federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area this week as it ratchets up immigration enforcement in the region, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. Local leaders, meanwhile, have stressed that troops aren’t needed and emphasized that the National Guard isn’t equipped to address issues like a drug crisis. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, meanwhile, emphasized that the presence of federal agents would only spur anxiety and fear. Because Truth Still Matters Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Reporting In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays grounded in facts and empathy.

Republican gubernatorial challenger state Sen. Darren Bailey participates in a debate, on Oct. 18, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) via Associated PressFour family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois were killed in a Montana helicopter crash, his campaign said Thursday. Zachary Bailey was piloting the helicopter when it went down, said Aaron Del Mar, who is Darren Bailey’s running mate and serving as a family spokesperson. Pritzker said on Thursday that he and his wife expressed their condolences to the Bailey family. During his run governor, Bailey railed about crime in Chicago and proposed eliminating the state’s gun licensing system, saying it doesn’t stop people from using guns illegally.

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I really don’t,” Trump replied. Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. pic.twitter.com/qoShp4Q9Mx — Acyn (@Acyn) October 12, 2025Advertisement“I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound,” he said, perhaps a bit wistfully. “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. What Mayor Mike and Trump don’t get is that it’s not about “earning” your place in heaven.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is getting real about why he thinks former Vice President Kamala Harris lost against President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign. And by the way, she did a decent job for [only] having 90 days,” Dillion continued. Dillion went on to ask Sanders, “Why is there such a cover-up with Biden’s mental decline? Sen. Bernie Sanders got candid about what led to former Vice President Kamala Harris' demise in the 2024 presidential campaign. Watch Sanders’ appearance on “The Tim Dillon Show” below.

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“I think we need to speak plainly to people, and I think we need to call it what it is: This is giving mob boss,” Hostin said. Trump reportedly said Tuesday he would donate “any money I would get” from the DOJ to charity. AdvertisementTrump himself recently bragged that he had “raised” more than $1.5 billion “in various forms” since the 2024 election alone. Hostin surmised that the exchange was “probably about a business deal.”“This is about a mob boss extorting the government for his own personal … gratitude and enrichment,” Hostin fumed. By becoming a member, you support a newsroom that asks the tough questions, no matter who’s in charge.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine flipped yet again Wednesday, with an announcement of new economic sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies. And that statement came just two weeks after Trump proposed letting Ukraine use U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles against Russia. Putin has insisted that Russia should get territory it has been unable to seize despite 44 months of trying. It’s unclear what the new sanctions on Russia can accomplish that previous rounds of sanctions have not. “They’re massive sanctions, sanctions on oil, the two biggest oil companies, among the biggest in the world,” Trump boasted Wednesday.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips is under pressure to quit. via Associated PressGrooming gangs survivors have demanded that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips resign before they will take part in the inquiry into the scandal. The four women, who quit their roles in the probe this week, say Phillips is “unfit” to continue in her role and must leave government. AdvertisementIn a letter to home secretary Shabana Mahmood, published on X, they accused the minister of “betrayal” after she dismissed their criticisms of how the grooming gangs inquiry is being run. Their concerns centre around fears that the scope of the inquiry may be broadened out to investigate wider sexual abuse and not just grooming gangs.

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FILE - People climb steps to the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 11, 2024. If Virginia complies, the Justice Department said it would officially end its investigations. AdvertisementAs a public university, the University of Virginia was an outlier in the Trump administration’s effort to reform higher education according to the president’s vision. The Justice Department expanded the scope of its review several times and announced a separate investigation into alleged antisemitism in May. The University of Virginia deal with the Justice Department did not include one of the investigations the federal government had launched into the college.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) slammed the Trump administration’s spending priorities in recent weeks, as several Americans are feeling the impact of the long-running government shutdown. AdvertisementWithout the extension, millions of Americans are expected to see their healthcare premiums skyrocket. “There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20 billion. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 million for the Homeland Security Secretary. There is enough money to renovate the White House ballroom,” Schatz added.

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