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At the end of the study, the participants who took orforglipron kept more than 70% of their earlier weight loss off, while the placebo group kept around 38-50% off.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Boeing earlier Tuesday reported the delivery of 47 commercial jets in April, up from 45 in April 2025.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

JBS’s first-quarter profit slid to $220.6 million, or 20 cents a share, from $500.2 million a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

“I’d like to be remembered as someone who really tried to make things better,” the writer told his Observer editor earlier this year, according to the AP.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

I had left Ikuma two weeks earlier with fourteen dogs.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell