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America's doomsday "preppers" are worried about a breakdown after the 2024 election. Parents of color are feeling the pinch of parent PLUS college loans. And concerns are rising about Ozempic, the diabetes drug that also causes weight loss. |
πGood morning! It's John, your Short List editor, here again with the stories that really hit the mark this week in USA TODAY. |
Could the election cause society to collapse? These people think so. |
π³️A small but growing segment of Americans consider themselves "preppers" − people prepared to survive without assistance during disasters. Increasingly, however, the catastrophe preppers fear is not floods or earthquakes, but a breakdown of government immediately following the 2024 election. Read more |
How parents are being buried by their kids' student loan debt |
π΅With the rising costs of college, parent PLUS loans have become popular among low-income parents of color. The country's total parent PLUS debt averages more than $29,000 per borrower – and often a lot more. In conversation with Parent PLUS borrowers, most of them Black, USA TODAY found many resigned to spending the rest of their lives buried under debt. Read more |
Can you lose too much weight on Ozempic? Ask Sharon Osbourne. |
⚕️Frustrated with her constantly fluctuating weight, Sharon Osbourne last December started taking Ozempic – a medication intended for the treatment of type 2 diabetes that causes weight loss. Now Osbourne says she's gone off of it after she lost 42 pounds and "couldn't stop losing weight." Read more |
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