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Brown Family Ranch uses agriculture to teach Gary community
Chris Brown will sometimes work 16-hour shifts at U.S. Steel’s Gary Works facility. When he leaves the steel mill, his work day still isn’t over.
Instead, he’ll drive at least three miles away to Brown Family Ranch, located at 2246 Mississippi Street, and spend at least a couple of hours working there, caring for the animals and preparing events.
Brown Family Ranch owner Chris Brown stacks toys to be distributed at Dec. 20 event the ranch on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)
“At first, it was hard, but then it just became another chore,” Brown said. “After a while, it became easy, because I work around the clock at (Gary Works), and I’m nearby, so it made sense to stop by after my shifts. … Plus, I like to be here.”
The ranch has cattle, horses, chickens, goats and sheep, Brown said, and they’re hoping to get more animals soon. The space also has two arenas for rodeos and other events, he added.
Brown was born and raised in Gary, and he grew up on his family ranch, living next door. His father taught him to ride horses, Brown said, and he’s passed the love of the ranch down to his four daughters.
About 10 years ago, he opened the ranch up to the public, hosting rodeos, summer camps and other activities.
A horse peers from its stable as Brown Family Ranch owner Chris Brown distributes feed to his horses on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)
“(My dad) asked me if we could open it publicly and teach agriculture and even equestrianship here,” Brown said. “He thought that he felt it was a dying subject to be learned, and you don’t see a lot of it around here. So essentially, that’s what we did. We opened it publicly, and we started having bonfire parties and teaching agriculture and equestrianship.”
The ranch’s busy months are in the spring and summer, Brown said, but he keeps busy year-round.
From noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, the Brown Family Ranch will host a Christmas toy giveaway, giving out more than 700 gifts to children. They will also provide free cookies, cupcakes and hot chocolate, Brown said.
“I’ve got a feeling it’s going to go past 2 (p.m.),” he said. “Our idea was just to help out the less fortunate. Sometimes, it isn’t always about making money but just taking time to give back to the community and those who help you.”
Brown Family Ranch owner Chris Brown stands with his horse, Riley, in a stable on the ranch on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)
Brown is dedicated to giving back to the Gary community, especially the children. He likes teaching them about the animals and believes all children can learn something from the ranch.
During this year’s summer camp, the Brown Family Ranch hosted about 1,000 children and taught them about equestrianship and agriculture.
“One time, we were teaching them about chickens, and we held up an egg and asked where it came from,” Brown said. “One kid said, ‘That’s an egg, and it comes from McDonald’s!’ … We just laughed.”
Brown believes it’s important to have the ranch operating in an area like Gary, where there are fewer farms and animals around. If people are interested in the ranch, they can learn more about the animals, Brown said.
Chris Brown, owner and founder of Brown Family Ranch, a Black-owned ranch that has been operating for more than 50 years, works during the rodeo in Gary on Sept. 28, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
“Sometimes we’ll walk the horses out on the public streets,” he said. “Then, we’re right here off Martin Luther King Drive, and a lot of times the horses are out exercising and eating, and people often go by and wonder about this. With the traffic going past, we get people interested, and we get more people at the ranch.”
Brown’s family, including his wife, mother and children, help at the ranch. During the spring, summer and fall, the ranch also has about five employees, Brown said.
In the winter, Brown tries to do most of the work by himself.
“(Sometimes in the winter) you can be here for two to three minutes, and your hands are going to be frozen,” he added. “I try to not have anyone out here when it’s like that, and most of the time, I’ll just come, feed the animals, clean the stalls, get them some water, and that’ll be it.”
Louise Litt-Hall, Brown’s mother, said she’s proud of how her son has run the ranch.
“It’s truly a joy,” Litt-Hall said. “I don’t have to tell him what to do, and he just picked it up and started doing everything on his own. … I still work with him in the background, and he’s out in the front helping with programs and running things.”
Litt-Hall said she’s enjoyed watching the ranch grow and seeing the community embrace everything it has to offer. She’s also happy to have her family involved, including her daughter-in-law and granddaughters.
“The girls, they drive the tractors, and they have their own horses,” Litt-Hall said. “They ride their own horses, and they started teaching riding lessons and giving tours. … I’m really proud of them.”
Litt-Hall helps when she can, she said, including with cleaning the stalls and repairs around the ranch. She also helps oversee ranch operations, Litt-Hall said, especially because she’s helped since Brown was a child.
Both Brown and Litt-Hall are excited for what the ranch’s future holds, and Brown hopes that his daughters would be interested in running it when he’s done. He believes at least one will take over, especially because they’re interested in the rodeos and other events.
“They all like it here, and that makes me happy,” Brown said. “Sometimes they like to bring their friends by, and they’ll go to each other’s barns.”
Litt-Hall’s goal is for the ranch to remain in the family, so she hopes one of her grandchildren will take it over once Brown is done.
As of now, the Brown Family Ranch is working with the city to expand to get more parking space for their events, specifically the rodeos.
“We have contestants from all over the United States and from Canada,” Litt-Hall said. “It’s really growing, and we just need more space. That’s a good problem to have, and it makes me happy.”
Naperville Police Arrests for Dec. 11-16
The following items were taken from Naperville police reports and press releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt:
A 43-year-old man from Plainfield was arrested on a charge of driving on a revoked license at 3:07 p.m. Dec. 11 at North Route 59 and West Diehl Road.
A 20-year-old man from Chicago was arrested on a charge of retail theft not exceeding $300 at 11:28 p.m. Dec. 11 in the 1900 block of West Jefferson Avenue.
An 18-year-old woman from Peru was arrested on a charge of retail theft not exceeding $300 at 11:43 p.m. Dec. 11 in the 1900 block of West Jefferson Avenue.
An 18-year-old woman from Peru was arrested on a charge of retail theft at 11:51 p.m. Dec. 11 in the 1900 block of West Jefferson Avenue.
A 37-year-old man from Naperville was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol at midnight Dec. 12 at West 75th Street and Olympus Drive.
A 30-year-old man from Naperville was arrested on three warrants at 5:08 p.m. Dec. 12 in the 1600 block of Country Lakes Drive.
A 24-year-old man from Naperville was arrested on two warrants at 2:12 p.m. Dec. 15 in the 800 block of South Damen Avenue in Chicago.
A 30-year-old man from Naperville was arrested on four counts of possession of child pornography/visual reproduction on computer video at 4:12 a.m. Dec. 16 at the police station, 1350 Aurora Ave.
A 35-year-old woman from Aurora was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident to the police, improper lane usage, driving on a revoked license, driving without insurance, failing to surrender revoked/suspended/canceled license plates or registration and driving on a registration suspended for non-insurance at 4:06 p.m. Dec. 16 at the police station, 1350 Aurora Ave.
A 61-year-old man from Naperville was arrested on a warrant at 1:45 p.m. Dec. 16 in the 2800 block of Showplace Drive.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/naperville-police-arrests-blotter-december-4/
Attendance at Aurora’s Christkindlmarket up during good weather, down overall
Attendance at Aurora’s Christkindlmarket this year has been up around 20% during good weather, but so far it has been down overall.
That’s what Maren Priebe — CEO and general manager of German American Events, which puts on the Chicago-area Christkindlmarkets — told The Beacon-News heading into the final stretch of this year’s outdoor holiday market in Aurora.
The Christkindlmarket at Aurora’s RiverEdge Park, located at 360 N. Broadway, has been open Thursdays to Sundays since Nov. 21 and is now open every day through Christmas Eve.
The region has seen unusually heavy and record-breaking snowfall this season, with one Saturday in November even breaking a Chicago daily snowfall record set in 1951. Weather officials have called this year the “quickest start to winter” since 1978, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Priebe said it was “pretty awesome” to see people still coming out to all of the Christkindlmarket locations despite the weather. The area is now seeing “the typical weather from back in the day,” she said, which people seem to have forgotten after seeing more mild weather over the last few years.
“People forgot even that it snows that way here in the Midwest,” she said. “We were all a little surprised.”
Although attendance numbers are down overall in Aurora, the holiday market’s first week of the season saw a 20% increase in attendance over last year, according to Priebe. She said that if there had been “standard holiday weather” throughout the season, attendance likely would have stayed up that same amount.
In total, Aurora’s Christkindlmarket saw around 275,000 visitors last year, she said. Before opening day, officials told Beacon-News columnist Denise Crosby that the market could easily see 325,000–350,000 attendees this year, barring any kind of weather occurrence.
With the weather expected to start warming up heading towards Christmas, Priebe said she expects attendance numbers to come back up again and to rise over last year’s. Weather really has a big impact on whether or not people show up, she said.
People stand in line for hot chocolate at Aurora’s Christkindlmarket on Dec. 18, 2025. (R. Christian Smith/The Beacon-News)
Priebe attributed to repeat business much of the increase in attendance seen this year during days with more standard weather. The Aurora market has a good following now and is becoming a family tradition, one that people are bringing others along for, she said.
Plus, good news travels fast, Priebe said. The Aurora location is larger than other markets and convenient, she said, with a Metra station and free parking within walking distance.
Although Chicago’s Christkindlmarket has faced limits to capacity, Priebe didn’t mention that as contributing to the increased attendance at Aurora’s market. When asked about it, she said each market’s location has its own following and has different reasons people visit.
The people of Aurora have been “so inviting” and it has been a pleasure to work with them, Priebe said. The venue for the market, she said, is “such a beautiful location.”
Aurora’s Christkindlmarket is the first event being held at RiverEdge Park since it was closed for renovations. While that work is still ongoing, it has already added new additions that are benefiting the market, including brand new bathrooms on the north and south sides of the park, according to Priebe.
Already, the market has expanded because of the renovations, with nearly 70 vendors this year compared to the 55 when it first began in Aurora a few years ago, Priebe said. Plus, there’s even more room to expand into, she said.
Those who visit Christkindlmarket in Aurora this year will find vendors of all kinds, from ornaments to hand-made crafts to German foods. Some of these booths, especially for the food, have seen long lines — which Priebe said is part of the atmosphere.
“It’s the crowds, the people, the conversations,” she said. “It puts people in positive spirits.”
Children watch glass blowing at Aurora’s Christkindlmarket on Dec. 18, 2025. (R. Christian Smith/The Beacon-News)
New this year, according to Priebe, is a gingerbread man scavenger hunt. Those who find the various gingerbread people around the market can bring their free punch card to an information tent for prizes.
Aurora’s Christkindlmarket also has expanded glass blowing classes and a brand new beer stein, Priebe said. Those looking to get any of the market’s collectable cups should go as soon as possible, she said, as they are in very limited supply.
rsmith@chicagotribune.com
Biden White House Coordinated Mar-A-Lago Raid Before Taking Conversations ‘Offline’
Biden White House Coordinated Mar-A-Lago Raid Before Taking Conversations ‘Offline’
Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, revealed that the Biden White House was actively “coordinating” with the Department of Justice regarding an FBI search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence – before the discussion later moved “offline.”
In an interview with the New York Post, Mizelle said he had reviewed “smoking-gun emails” exchanged in the months leading up to the controversial raid. The messages involved officials from President Joe Biden’s White House Counsel’s Office, Merrick Garland’s DOJ, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), indicating significant coordination among the agencies.
Mizelle said he personally reviewed email exchanges between officials at Biden’s White House Counsel’s Office, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department, and the National Archives and Records Administration in the months before the raid on President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. The emails showed detailed discussions about the Trump records, with the National Archives serving as custodian of the documents.
At one point, a Biden White House official proposed taking the conversation “offline,” likely to prevent it from being preserved under federal disclosure laws. After that suggestion, the email trail abruptly ended.
“We have concrete evidence that Biden’s White House was very much involved in the most unprecedented, unjust and improper law enforcement act, really in the history of our country, which is to use the FBI to raid the home of a political rival and former president of the United States,” Mizelle said. He explained that the abrupt end of email communications made clear that the White House was coordinating the effort and deliberately putting Justice Department officials in contact with the National Archives about the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
The revelation follows the release of internal FBI and Justice Department memos showing that the bureau’s Washington field office believed agents lacked probable cause to execute the Mar-a-Lago search warrant before the raid.
A source familiar with the emails confirmed to reporters that the conversations Mizelle described do exist.
The emails as described by Mizelle also clash with DOJ’s purported independence from the commander-in-chief as well as a memo put out by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, limiting officials’ interactions with the White House.
“[T]he Justice Department will not advise the White House concerning pending or contemplated criminal or civil law enforcement investigations or cases unless doing so is important for the performance of the President’s duties and appropriate from a law enforcement perspective,” the July 21, 2021, memo stated.
Biden White House aides insisted that the president was not aware of the FBI’s planned search beforehand — with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declining to comment 18 times on the unprecedented action the day after the raid.
“If they have a memo that they’re violating, that’s a problem,” Mizelle, who left the DOJ in September, said when asked about the memo. “If they tell the American people they’re not involved and they were in fact involved, that’s a problem.”
Trump’s legal team alleged that the National Archives, the White House Counsel’s Office, and senior Justice Department and FBI officials closely coordinated the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Attorneys Todd Blanche and Christopher Kise described the evidence as “disturbing but not surprising,” pointing to a May 2022 letter from acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall, which referenced communications with the White House Counsel. Trump’s lawyers argued this suggested the Archives were acting as an arm of the prosecution.
After Wall’s letter, a federal grand jury subpoenaed the documents, and Trump’s team turned over an initial batch on June 3, 2022. Trump’s team sought all communications about the raid, but prosecutors claimed privilege over certain internal DOJ emails. The Biden administration long claimed there was limited involvement in the missing records case, but the evidence proves otherwise.
What began as a routine archival retrieval escalated sharply when Garland launched a criminal investigation in March 2022. The FBI ultimately seized 102 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, leading to Trump’s June 2023 indictment.
Mizelle noted that the emails he reviewed contradict claims that the Biden White House had no role in the decision to raid Trump’s residence. Officials appear to have moved discussions offline to avoid creating a paper trail, but the tone of the communications sent an unmistakable directive to the Justice Department to act.
Trump’s team continues to investigate the raid, probing the involvement of multiple agencies and the White House in what some see as a coordinated effort to target a political rival.
Ironically, months after the raid on Mar-a-Lago, it emerged that Joe Biden mishandled classified documents, first at his Penn Biden Center office in D.C., then at his Wilmington, Delaware home. Biden was ultimately let off the hook in February 2024, after Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that while Biden “would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” and chose not to recommend prosecution.
Meanwhile, the case against Trump collapsed in July 2024 after a judge ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith had been improperly appointed.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/19/2025 – 18:00
Brest es eliminado de la Copa de Francia por Avranches, de tercera división
PARÍS (AP) — El equipo de tercera división Avranches eliminó al Brest de la Ligue 1 el viernes en la Copa de Francia.
El club de Normandía se clasificó dentro de los últimos 32 con una victoria por 5-4 en penales después de que los equipos empataran 1-1 tras los 90 minutos.
Brest jugó la mayor parte del partido con diez hombres después de que Julien Le Cardinal fuera expulsado a mitad de la primera mitad.
Otro equipo de la Ligue 1, Angers, evitó por poco el mismo destino en Les Herbiers de tercera división. El resultado en el tiempo regular fue un empate sin goles, pero Angers avanzó con un marcador de 6-5 en penales.
En otros enfrentamientos, Montpellier de segunda división ganó por 1-0 ante el Canet Roussillon de quinta división, Reims despachó fácilmente 4-0 al IC Croix de quinta división, y Laval venció con un solo gol en un enfrentamiento de clubes de segunda división a Guincamp.
Le Mans, tercero en la Ligue 2, trabajó para lograr una victoria de 2-1 en Perigny de sexta división y Lens venció a Feignies Aulnoye 3-1 en casa.
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Valencia y Mallorca empatan 1-1 en La Liga
VALENCIA, España (AP) — Los equipos en apuros de La Liga, Valencia y Mallorca, compartieron los puntos en un empate 1-1 en el estadio Mestalla el viernes.
Samú Costa adelantó a Mallorca a mitad del primer tiempo y parecía que se encaminaba a lo que habría sido solo su segunda victoria fuera de casa.
Sin embargo, el equipo local mostró más energía después del descanso y consiguió un merecido empate siete minutos después de iniciada el segundo tiempo. Hugo Duro anotó su sexto gol de la temporada y deleitó a los 41.000 espectadores al conectar un centro de Thierry Correia.
Valencia se mantuvo en el quinto lugar desde el fondo de la tabla con solo una victoria en sus últimos 12 partidos de La Liga. Estaba un punto por encima de la zona de descenso.
Apenas tres días después de ser eliminado de la Copa del Rey por el Deportivo La Coruña de segunda división, Mallorca recibió con agrado el punto. Extendió su racha en la liga a cuatro partidos sin perder y lo elevó al puesto 14.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/valencia-y-mallorca-empatan-1-1-en-la-liga/
Family of late pitcher Tyler Skaggs settles lawsuit with Los Angeles Angels over fatal overdose
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels reached a confidential settlement Friday in a lawsuit over the drug overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
The decision to settle was reached after a two-month civil trial in Southern California over whether the Angels should be held responsible for Skaggs’ 2019 death after he snorted a fentanyl-laced pill provided by the team’s communications director, Eric Kay.
Skaggs’ widow, Carli, and his parents filed the lawsuit alleging the MLB team knew or should have known Kay was a drug addict and dealing painkillers to players. The settlement closes a painful six-year process, the Skaggs family said in a statement.
“We are deeply grateful to the members of this jury and to our legal team,” the family said in the statement. “Their engagement and focus gave us faith, and now we have finality. This trial exposed the truth and we hope Major League Baseball will now do its part in holding the Angels accountable. While nothing can bring Tyler back, we will continue to honor his memory.”
The team has contended officials didn’t know Skaggs was taking drugs and would have sought him help if they did.
“The death of Tyler Skaggs remains a tragedy, and this trial sheds light on the dangers of opioid use and the devastating effects it can have,” the team said in a statement Friday.
Jurors began deliberating earlier this week.
Orange County Superior Court Judge H. Shaina Colover thanked jurors for their diligence. “That is why this matter was able to be resolved today,” she said before releasing them.
Six years ago, the 27-year-old left-handed pitcher was found dead in the suburban Dallas hotel room where he was staying as the Angels were supposed to open a four-game series against the Texas Rangers. A coroner’s report said the player choked to death on his vomit, and a toxic mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone was found in his system.
Kay, a longtime Angels employee, was convicted in 2022 of providing Skaggs with a counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl and sentenced to 22 years in prison. His criminal trial in Texas included testimony from five MLB players who said they received oxycodone from Kay at various times from 2017 to 2019.
MLB players including outfielder Mike Trout, Angels President John Carpino and Skaggs’ and Kay’s relatives testified during the trial in a Santa Ana courtroom. Witnesses for the plaintiffs described how Kay was acting erratic at the stadium and found with multiple plastic bags filled with pills at his home and later hospitalized for a drug overdose. They also recounted how Kay got players massage appointments, tee times and even prescription medication and was paid by players for stunts like taking a fastball to the leg.
Angels attorneys pointed out that Skaggs was hooked on painkillers before he signed with the Angels in 2013. They said Skaggs got his teammates into taking pills and got Kay to provide them but kept it secret out of concern it could jeopardize their MLB careers. Had team officials known Kay was dealing drugs, or Skaggs was taking them, they would have done something, the lawyers said.
Witnesses also sparred during the case over how much money Skaggs would have made as a pitcher had he lived. Experts for the plaintiffs said he could have reeled in between $91 million and $101 million, while the Angels put the figure at no more than $32 million.
Skaggs had been a regular in the Angels starting rotation since late 2016 and struggled with injuries repeatedly during that time. He previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
After Skaggs’ death, the MLB reached a deal with the players association to start testing for opioids and to refer those who test positive to the treatment board.
Rusty Hardin, an attorney for the plaintiffs, welcomed the settlement and said the amount remains confidential. Hardin said there were rules in place and the Angels ignored them.
“The changes need to be by teams like the Angels who let this happen,” Hardin said.
Before the judge announced the settlement Friday, jurors had remained behind closed doors after lawyers for both sides had gone to speak with Colover.
Late Wednesday, jurors had sent out a note asking whether they “get to decide the punitive damage amount,” saying there is no field for it on the verdict form. The judge said she would send a note replying that if they decide there should be punitive damages, they would decide how much at a later time.
The jury did not work Thursday and resumed deliberations Friday morning.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/tyler-skagg-los-angeles-angels-lawsuit-settlement/
Trump anuncia acuerdos con nueve farmacéuticas para reducir precios de medicamentos
Por SALLY HO
El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció el viernes que nueve fabricantes de medicamentos han acordado reducir el costo de sus medicamentos de receta en Estados Unidos.
Las compañías farmacéuticas Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis y Sanofi ahora mantendrán bajo control los precios de los medicamentos para Medicaid para igualar lo que cobran en otros países desarrollados.
Como parte del acuerdo, los medicamentos nuevos producidos por estas compañías también se cobrarán al llamado precio de “nación más favorecida” en todo el país.
Los precios de los medicamentos para los pacientes en Estados Unidos pueden depender de varios factores, incluyendo la competencia que enfrenta un tratamiento y la cobertura de seguro de gastos médicos. La mayoría de las personas tienen seguro a través del trabajo, el mercado de seguros individual o programas gubernamentales como Medicaid y Medicare, que los protegen de gran parte del costo.
Los pacientes en Medicaid, el programa financiado por estados y el gobierno federal para personas con bajos ingresos, ya cuentan con un copago nominal de unos pocos dólares para surtir sus recetas, pero precios más bajos podrían ayudar a los presupuestos estatales que financian los programas.
Los precios más bajos de los medicamentos también ayudarán a los pacientes que no tienen cobertura de seguro y tienen poca capacidad para negociar mejores ofertas en lo que pagan. Pero incluso con los descuentos de hasta el 50% encontrados a través del sitio web del gobierno, los pacientes podrían tener que pagar aún cientos de dólares al mes por algunas recetas.
William Padula, profesor de economía farmacéutica y de la salud en USC, dijo que Medicaid ya tiene las tarifas de medicamentos más favorables, que en algunos casos estarán cerca de lo que es el precio de “nación más favorecida”, por lo que queda por ver qué otros impactos podría tener, como más investigación y desarrollo.
“No puede ser malo. No veo mucho inconveniente, pero es difícil juzgar cuál es el beneficio”, dijo Padula.
Y aunque es significativo que Trump haya logrado que los grandes fabricantes de medicamentos se sentaran a la mesa para negociar precios más bajos, tomará años evaluar cuán efectiva es esta iniciativa en términos de que más personas obtengan más de los medicamentos que necesitan.
“Es bueno para sus acciones y es bueno para su futura” investigación y desarrollo, comentó Padula sobre las compañías farmacéuticas. “Es claramente influyente, pero ¿todo esto sumará un efecto importante? Nada realmente importa aquí a menos que nuestra salud mejore como país”.
Funcionarios del gobierno federal dijeron que los fabricantes de medicamentos también venderán medicamentos en presentación comercial en la plataforma TrumpRx, la cual se lanzará en enero y permitirá a las personas comprar medicamentos directamente de los fabricantes.
Compañías como Merck, GSK y Bristol Myers Squibb también acordaron donar suministros significativos de ingredientes activos a una reserva nacional y formularlos y distribuirlos en medicamentos como antibióticos, inhaladores de rescate y anticoagulantes según sea necesario en una emergencia.
Bristol Myers Squibb, con sede en Nueva Jersey, anunció además que donará al programa Medicaid su anticoagulante insignia. Conocido como Eliquis, es el medicamento más recetado de la compañía y también uno de los más utilizados por Medicaid.
Padula dijo que las donaciones, que abarcan algunos de los medicamentos más importantes del mundo, son un paso significativo hacia la equidad en salud y un reconocimiento de que los fabricantes de medicamentos pueden permitirse buscar ganancias en otras áreas de sus operaciones. Eliquis ya ha sido uno de los medicamentos más rentables jamás fabricados.
“Es una medida hacia la equidad en salud que pueden permitirse dado que ha sido un éxito tan rotundo”, dijo Padula sobre la donación de Eliquis.
Otros grandes fabricantes de medicamentos, como Pfizer, AstraZeneca, EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk y Eli Lilly, llegaron a acuerdos similares con el gobierno de Trump previamente este año.
Aunque no se divulgaron los términos individuales, el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha negociado ahora precios más bajos de medicamentos con 14 compañías desde que Trump envió públicamente cartas a ejecutivos de 17 compañías farmacéuticas sobre el tema, en las que señaló que los precios en Estados Unidos para medicamentos de marca pueden ser hasta tres veces más altos que los promedios en otros lugares.
Trump dijo que a efectos prácticos amenazó a las compañías farmacéuticas con aranceles del 10% para que “hicieran lo correcto”.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Mass Attacks: We’re On Our Own
Mass Attacks: We’re On Our Own
Authored by Mike McDaniel via American Thinker,
The attacks at Bondi Beach, Australia and at Brown University remind us western democracies remain uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks, even terrorists armed with common firearms rather than the automatic weapons employed in the Middle East and other hot spots.
In Australia at least 16, aged 10-87, were killed and some 40 were wounded at a “Chanukah by the Sea” celebration. Yes, the victims were largely Jews, and amazingly, the police think [admit] it was terrorism.
In this case, the two killers were apparently not “known wolves.”
Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old father, Sajid, allegedly stormed the family-friendly Chanukah by the Sea event armed with shotguns and a bolt-action rifle…
Akram was disarmed by a bystander and eventually critically wounded by police during the 20-minute attack, while Sajid was killed.
At Brown University, during final exams, a man dressed in black entered a lecture hall, “yelled something” and opened fire, apparently with a handgun. Two were killed and nine were wounded. A “person of interest” was detained but was apparently released and the actual killer remains at large. As this is written, there is no apparent motive.
What both attacks have in common is that once they began, the victims were sitting ducks. Gun laws and regulations assured the killers their victims would be unarmed.
Australia doesn’t absolutely ban private ownership of guns, but is an anti-liberty/gun paradise that recognizes no right to self-defense. Citizens may own a narrow range of guns, but restrictions are sufficient to make Australia the envy of American gun grabbers. The entire nation is essentially a gun-free zone. With nearly all of what anti-liberty/gun cracktivists say is necessary to ensure absolute public safety, the Bondi Beach massacre should not have been possible. The Premier of New South Wales, therefore, wants even more gun control:
NEW: Chris Minns, the Premier of New South Wales, is calling for stronger gun-control measures in the wake of the deadly attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, which left 15 victims dead.
“It means introducing a bill to parliament to — I mean, to be really blunt — make it… pic.twitter.com/26WQz63Ssg
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 15, 2025
The “horrifying weapons that have no practical use in our community” were a shotgun and bolt action rifle.
At Brown, the gun was reportedly a handgun, not an “assault weapon.” Rhode Island, which recently passed a ban on many types of semiautomatic firearms, does not ban most guns outright and does grudgingly issue concealed carry permits, but has magazine restrictions and a seven day waiting period for gun purchases. Unsurprisingly, Brown prohibits all firearms on campus.
By the rhetoric of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists, the Bondi Beach and Brown attacks should have been impossible. Both are magical gun-free zones expressing the good intentions of the morally and intellectually superior. Good intentions, however, inevitably fall prey to reality. Between 1950 and 2024, 92% of American mass attacks occurred in gun-free zones.
But aren’t mass shooting deaths higher in gun-crazy America than anyplace else? Not quite. From 2009 to 2015, America was #11 in the world. The most dangerous county? Norway. Even France and Belgium were more dangerous.
In 2015, the Texas Legislature allowed concealed handguns on college campuses. A professor who was about to retire resigned in protest, and students affixed colorful dildos to their backpacks in another act of protest whose connection to guns remains mysterious. With all those dildos, one was bound to go off? Just as anti-liberty/gun cracktivists wailed when concealed carry laws swept the nation, there would be blood running in the streets and classrooms and gunfights would be as common as sunshine.
None of that came to pass. Americans taking the time and effort to obtain concealed carry licenses are uncommonly law-abiding. The same has been true in the 29 “constitutional carry” states that require no vetting or permit for concealed carry.
But won’t the police protect us? Not here—consider Uvalde–or in Australia:
To be fair, the police did eventually shoot both attackers and stop the attack, but by the time they managed that the damage had been done. At Brown, the only factor limiting damage was the killer’s lack of marksmanship and eventual decision to quit shooting.
Read the rest here…
Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/19/2025 – 17:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mass-attacks-were-our-own
Bolonia vence a Inter de Milán en penales y avanza a la final de la Supercopa de Italia
RIAD, Arabia Saudí (AP) — Bolonia se enfrentará a Napoli en la final de la Supercopa de Italia la próxima semana después de vencer el viernes en penales 3-2 a Inter de Milán tras un reñido empate a uno en Arabia Saudí.
Ciro Immobile acertó el cobro decisivo para el debutante en la Supercopa, Bolonia, después de que Alessandro Bastoni, Nicolo Barella y Ange-Yoan Bonny fallaran para el Inter.
Lews Ferguson y Jonathan Rowe también anotaron para Bolonia, mientras que el argentino Lautaro Martínez y Stefan de Vrij convirtieron para el Inter.
El resultado significa que Bolonia jugará contra Napoli el lunes en Riad. El campeón de la Serie A venció a AC Milan 2-0 en la primera semifinal el jueves.
La Supercopa de Italia se juega entre los ganadores y subcampeones de la Serie A y la Copa de Italia de la temporada pasada, con todos los partidos celebrados en Arabia Saudí.
Inter tomó la delantera después de solo 70 segundos en el Estadio Al-Awwal Park en Riad. Bastoni avanzó antes de cruzar al segundo palo donde Marcus Thuram remató de volea espectacularmente.
Bolonia igualó el marcador diez minutos antes del descanso a través de Riccardo Orsolini. El ex extremo de la Juventus anotó desde el punto de penalti después de que se considerara que Yann Bisseck había cometido mano.
Ambos equipos tuvieron oportunidades de ganar en el tiempo reglamentario, pero la falta de puntería y el buen desempeño de los porteros llevaron el juego a los penales.
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