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By Tami Luhby, CNN

(CNN) — Battling to regain its market share over rival Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk announced Tuesday that it will reduce the list prices of its popular weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes drugs Ozempic and Rybelsus by up to half starting in 2027.

The $675 monthly list price is aimed at making the GLP-1 medications more accessible for patients whose costs are linked to the list price, including those who have high deductibles or who pay co-insurance for medications through their job-based plans.

Wegovy’s list price is currently $1,349 and Ozempic’s and Rybelsus’ list prices are $1,028, but those with insurance coverage can pay as little as $25 a month.

The move is the latest in the GLP-1 price wars between Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, which manufactures the weight loss drug Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro. Both companies are seeking to capture more of the soaring demand for obesity medications and have been lowering their prices for those willing to pay cash and forgo insurance. Both have also signed “Most Favored Nation” deals with the Trump administration, which included giving them expanded access to Medicare patients.

The list price change does not have an impact on the self-pay prices, the Danish drugmaker said.

Prices for Wegovy pills through direct-to-consumer channels range from $149 to $299 a month, depending on dosage, while the Wegovy injectable pen costs $349 a month, with a discounted $199 price available for new patients for the first two months.

The Ozempic injectable pen costs between $349 and $499 a month, depending on dosage, with new self-pay patients paying $199 for the first two months.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the list price reductions.

Once the leader in GLP-1 medications, Novo Nordisk has lost ground to Eli Lilly, which now captures more new prescriptions for obesity medications. Novo Nordisk earlier this month forecast that its sales and profit growth would decline this year, sending its stock price plummeting. The company on Monday revealed disappointing weight loss results in a trial for CagriSema, its next-generation obesity drug.

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By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a Texas woman who is attempting to sue the Postal Service, claiming it withheld her mail because she is Black.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the 5-4 opinion ruling that federal law exempts the USPS from such lawsuits even in some cases where mail carriers intentionally refuse delivery.

“Given the frequency of postal workers’ interactions with citizens, those suits would arise so often that they would create a significant burden for the government and the courts,” Thomas wrote for the majority.

Lebene Konan, a Texas real estate agent and landlord, claimed that the USPS has for years intentionally declined to deliver her mail because of a “racially motivated harassment campaign.”

Konan alleged the post office that covers two rental properties she owns in suburban Dallas changed the lock on her post office box and then declined to deliver the mail to the property. She claimed that happened because the carrier and postmaster did not “like the idea that a Black person” owned the properties. She filed more than 50 administrative complaints, according to court records, and received written confirmation from postal authorities that she was entitled to have her mail delivered.

At one point, Konan said, local postal officials taped a sign to her mailbox announcing in bright red letters that they would not deliver the mail to her tenants.

A federal district court in Texas granted the USPS’ request to dismiss the case. While Americans may generally sue the government for harms that it causes, Congress carved out an exception for claims involving the “loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission” of mail. The federal court reasoned that what happened to Konan was covered by that exemption.

But the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, allowing the lawsuit to proceed. The exemption, the appeals court ruled, was intended to cover unintentional loss of mail and similar problems – not intentional acts. The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday threw out that appeals court decision.

Advocates on Konan’s side said the case was about more than just the delivery of mail, but also about ensuring that Americans have the ability to sue the government when it intentionally causes harm.

“The majority concludes that the postal exception captures, and therefore protects, the intentional nondeliv­ery of mail, even when that nondelivery was driven by ma­licious reasons,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent. “Because this interpretation expands the scope of the exception beyond what it can reasonably sup­port, and undermines the FTCA’s sweeping waiver in the process, I respectfully dissent.”

Sotomayor was joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, and two other liberals, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Thomas in the majority.

The Justice Department told the Supreme Court that the mail was withheld for a technical reason. Konan, it said, was required to maintain a directory of her current tenants and failed to do