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The Eli Lilly & Co. logo at the company’s Digital Health Innovation Hub facility in Singapore, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEli Lilly on Thursday said its closely watched obesity pill helped patients maintain the majority of their weight loss after they switched directly from taking the company’s injection Zepbound and Novo Nordisk’s rival shot Wegovy in a late-stage trial. The company also said it has filed for Food and Drug Administration approval of the daily GLP-1 pill, called orforglipron, for obesity. The FDA in November said it awarded a priority review voucher to that pill,…

Pro-Zionism is today’s respectable form of antisemitism. It is welcomed by the Israeli government and pro-Zionists everywhere as a boon to the self-declared Jewish state. By contrast, anti-Zionism, long espoused by most Jews and gentiles until the end of the Second World War, and by many leftist Jews and gentiles since, is depicted by pro-Zionists as antisemitism incarnate. Indeed, any position critical of Israel or its ongoing genocide in Gaza, or that even mildly supports internationally recognised Palestinian rights, is now equated with antisemitism. In the wake of the Sunday massacre in Sydney, which killed at least 15 people during…

Mustafa Hatipoglu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesVisa said on Thursday that it successfully completed hundreds of AI transactions as part of a pilot program that kicked off after the company’s product event in April.The payments network and rivals across the fintech industry are racing to build tools that allow consumers to task artificial intelligence agents with completing certain transactions.”This is going to be the year we see an enormous amount of material adoption, and consumers really starting to get comfortable in a bunch of different agentic environments,” said Rubail Birwadker, Visa’s head of growth products and partnerships, in an interview.AI…

It’s time for everyone’s favorite holiday tradition — CNBC’s annual anonymous media executive predictions! CNBC spoke with 16 of the most powerful and influential executives in U.S. media, sports and entertainment, who all offered a prediction for the year ahead, under the condition of anonymity so they could speak freely and make bold bets. This year, we break the forecasts into three categories: M&A predictions, sports predictions and miscellaneous. Before we begin, a few shoutouts from last year’s list. (You can find the full slate here.) One executive predicted Comcast would acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros.…

VAR isn’t about perfection.As much as we’d like it to be, VAR is actually about checking the validity of a referee’s on-field decision. And – as Howard Webb, the head of referees, made clear in August – there has been a subtle move this season to give still further priority to the on-field decision. The VAR has been told only to intervene if there is a “clear and obvious error”. If it is a subjective decision, or one which is marginal, the VAR will stick with the referee’s call, and keep quiet. Inevitably, that means the VAR might not 100…

Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s return to form is as welcome as it is unexpected. The striker has undoubted pedigree but his first 10 appearances for Leeds yielded only one goal. His last season at Everton brought just three goals in 26 Premier League games.The 28-year-old England international has eclipsed that tally by scoring in four matches in a row. Since coming off the bench to score at Manchester City, he has followed up by netting in the win over Chelsea as well as the draws against Liverpool and Brentford. In doing so, he has been a key figure in turning Leeds’ season…

Emily KeoghDec 18, 2025, 05:54 AM ETCloseBased in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCLDebutants. Underdogs. Minnows. Having never reached the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) before, Belgian side OH Leuven were given every label imaginable and written off before a ball was even kicked. They arrived with humble expectations, but not even those inside the club dared to dream of a fairytale run that ultimately saw them seal the final spot in the knockout-phase playoffs as the 12th-best team in Europe.On Wednesday night, after a 3-0 defeat to Arsenal and Valerenga’s loss…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In a rare judgment, the European Union’s highest court sided with a Syrian refugee’s appeal in a landmark case that sought damages against the European border and coast guard agency, Frontex, opening the way for other victims to do the same.The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union sent the case of Alaa Hamoudi v. Frontex back to the General Court for re-examination after finding that it failed to properly examine his alleged expulsion alongside 21 other migrants from Greece to Turkey in 2020.The court considered that the evidence presented by Hamoudi had been ”sufficiently…

A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday as European Union leaders weighed a major loan to help the Ukrainian government.Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in Miami on Saturday, according to an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview a meeting that hasn’t yet been publicly announced.The official said that Witkoff and Kushner will sit down with Dmitriev, after meetings with Ukrainian…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thailand on Thursday carried out more airstrikes on Cambodia, claiming its jet fighters struck a warehouse where the Cambodian army had stored rockets that have been deployed to deadly effect in combat that began last week.The two nations have been fighting over patches of territory along the border that both claim. Several disputed areas contain the remains of centuries-old temples that have been damaged by the fighting, with Thailand claiming Cambodian forces had used them as bases.The latest round of widespread fighting began on Dec. 8, a day after a border skirmish wounded two Thai…