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Letter signed by ‘J. Epstein’ to Larry Nassar cites ‘our president’

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From CNN’s Kara Fox

Warning: This post contains language readers may find disturbing.

A handwritten letter signed by “J. Epstein” appears to make crude references to President Donald Trump in a short 2019 message from jail addressed to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar.

The letter does not explicitly name Trump, but instead refers to “our president.” The message appears to have been sent in August 2019, the same month Epstein died by suicide. Trump was president at the time.

It is included in the latest collection of Epstein documents released by the Justice Department. “Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls,” the letter reads.

Authorities have not accused Trump of any wrongdoing or charged him with any crimes in connection with Epstein.

“Dear L.N.,” the letters reads, “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls.” The letter makes another lewd reference to Trump’s treatment of women.

“Life is unfair,” the letter reads.

While not referencing this specific letter, the Justice Department released a statement saying some of the documents released “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” against the president.

“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on the letter.

While the letter is addressed to an “L.N.,” a photo of the envelope – postmarked on August 13, 2019 and addressed to the former Olympic doctor and sex offender – was released by the DOJ. The envelope was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City to Nassar, who was listed as an inmate at a federal prison in Arizona.

The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein died. Prison staff are authorized to read and inspect outgoing mail, which can cause delays. It’s not clear why Epstein’s letter was permitted by prison officials to be sent and why it was delayed.

CNN previously reported that while he was jailed, Epstein sent a letter to Nassar — although the contents of the letter were not disclosed. It was discovered by prison officials investigating Epstein’s suicide weeks after his death. It is not known if Nassar and Epstein had a relationship.

The FBI in 2020 requested from its laboratory a handwriting analysis be done to compare the letter to other writings from Epstein, according to another document posted on Tuesday from the DOJ. It did not say what the lab concluded.

Nassar, the longtime doctor for the USA gymnastics team and Michigan State University, is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison on child pornography charges. More than 150 women and girls publicly told a court he sexually abused them.

The envelope, addressed to Larry Nassar at 9300 S. Wilmot Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85756, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, was marked as “return to sender,” as the addressee was “no longer at this address.”

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La FDA aprueba la píldora Wegovy e inaugura una nueva era en los medicamentos orales para bajar de peso con GLP-1

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Por Meg Tirrell, CNN

La FDA aprobó una nueva versión en pastillas del medicamento para bajar de peso Wegovy de Novo Nordisk.

La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) aprobó el lunes una versión en pastillas diarias del medicamento para bajar de peso Wegovy de Novo Nordisk, lo que presenta una nueva opción para los pacientes que busquen un tratamiento de la obesidad entre los medicamentos que ya han revolucionado el sector.

El medicamento, que Novo Nordisk llama simplemente píldora Wegovy, utiliza el mismo ingrediente activo (semaglutida) que el Wegovy original, junto con su medicamento hermano para la diabetes, Ozempic.

Tanto Wegovy como Ozempic, que imitan la hormona GLP-1, se administran mediante inyecciones semanales, al igual que los medicamentos rivales de Eli Lilly, llamados Zepbound y Mounjaro. En total, aproximadamente uno de cada ocho adultos estadounidenses dice estar tomando actualmente alguno de estos medicamentos, según datos del grupo de investigación de políticas sanitarias KFF. La píldora Wegovy mostró una pérdida de peso y efectos secundarios prácticamente similares a los de la inyección de Wegovy en ensayos clínicos y estará disponible con receta médica en EE.UU. desde enero, según Novo Nordisk.

“Creemos que ampliará el acceso y las opciones para los pacientes”, declaró a CNN el Dr. Jason Brett, director médico principal de Novo Nordisk en EE.UU., en una entrevista. “Sabemos que hay pacientes que simplemente no se inyectan”.

La dosis inicial de la píldora Wegovy costará US$ 149 para los pacientes que la paguen de su bolsillo, según un acuerdo anunciado en noviembre con el Gobierno de Trump. Es probable que el precio del medicamento aumente a través del autopago a medida que aumenten las dosis, aunque Novo Nordisk aún no ha revelado esos precios. Los pacientes cuyo seguro cubra el medicamento probablemente tendrán un copago más bajo.

La píldora Wegovy es uno de los dos medicamentos orales GLP-1 que se espera que salgan al mercado en los próximos meses. El otro, de Lilly, se llama orforglipron —hasta que reciba una marca comercial— y se espera que la FDA lo autorice para el verano.

Las píldoras no se han comparado directamente en un ensayo clínico, pero en estudios separados la Wegovy mostró una pérdida de peso promedio del 14 % a lo largo de 64 semanas, en comparación con el 2 % del placebo, mientras que el orforglipron mostró una pérdida de peso del 11 % a lo largo de 72 semanas con su dosis más alta, en comparación con el 2 % del grupo placebo. La inyección de Wegovy mostró una pérdida de peso del 15 % en su ensayo principal, frente al 2 % del placebo, mientras que Zepbound mostró una pérdida de peso del 21 % con su dosis más alta, en comparación con el 3 % del grupo placebo.

Los problemas gastrointestinales, como las náuseas y los vómitos, son los efectos secundarios más comunes de los fármacos GLP-1, lo cual también se observó en los estudios de las píldoras. En general, el 7 % de los participantes en el ensayo de la píldora Wegovy interrumpieron el tratamiento debido a los efectos secundarios, frente al 6 % del grupo placebo. En el estudio de orforglipron, hasta el 10 % de los pacientes interrumpieron el tratamiento, en comparación con el 3 % que recibió placebo.

Una diferencia entre los medicamentos es que la pastilla Wegovy debe tomarse con el estómago vacío y un poco de agua, y se indica a los pacientes que no coman, beban ni tomen otros medicamentos durante 30 minutos después de tomarla. Una versión en pastillas de semaglutida aprobada para la diabetes, llamada Rybelsus, no se ha utilizado tan ampliamente como Ozempic, en parte por esa razón, según los médicos.

Lilly afirma que, en los ensayos clínicos, orforglipron se tomó una vez al día a cualquier hora, sin restricciones de comida ni de agua.

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Former Sen. Ben Sasse announces he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is ‘gonna die’

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By Donald Judd, CNN

(CNN) — Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”

“Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do,” Sasse, 53, wrote on X.

“I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, ‘Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.’ Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.”

Sasse represented Nebraska in the US Senate from 2015 to 2023 before resigning to serve as the 13th president of the University of Florida. He resigned as university president last year to focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.

In the Senate, Sasse was one of seven Republicans who voted to convict President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial in relation to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.

His frequent criticism of Trump drew the president’s ire; Trump called the Nebraska Republican a “grandstanding, little-respected senator” during a 2022 rally.

“I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight,” Sasse wrote on Tuesday.

“One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.”

Although pancreatic cancer accounts for just about 3% of all new cancer cases in the United States, it’s the third leading cause of cancer deaths and is projected to become the second leading cause of cancer deaths by the end of this decade.

Finding pancreatic cancer early could help increase a patient’s chances of surviv

Control-Tower.biz Santa Barbara Holiday Mood Index

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Christmas Week · Storm Cycle · Community Response

Control-Tower Insight:

When conditions are unstable, communities don’t look for louder voices — they look for clear signals.

 

 

Executive Signal Summary

Overall Mood: Cautious, compassionate, locally focused

Behavior Pattern: Protect → Prepare → Support → Preserve tradition

Community Posture: High trust in local action, low patience for ambiguity

 

Santa Barbara this week is not panicking — it is prioritizing.

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