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Xbox's Latest Merger Means 'Forza Motorsport' Is Almost Certainly Done

Forza Horizon developer Playground and Forza Motorsport creators Turn 10 are merging into one studio focused on the Forza and Fable franchises.

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Sep 23 • 11:44 AM EDT • Technology • jalopnik.com
Words long used in the Caribbean and Bermuda are now part of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary has officially added over a dozen Caribbean words." | KMBZ

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Sep 23 • 11:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Suwanee health provider charged with Medicaid theft

A Suwanee behavioral health provider faces 31 felony counts after state prosecutors accused her of stealing more than $40,000 from Georgia Medicaid while traveling out of state.

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Sep 23 • 11:16 AM EDT • Health • fox5atlanta.com
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Palestine man wanted after skipping federal plea hearing in $170K theft case

A Palestine man accused with his wife of stealing from an Anderson County business of over $170,000 is wanted after no-showing his federal plea hearing Tuesday.

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Sep 23 • 10:11 AM EDT • Business • kltv.com
Sustainable Mendota Heights Business Spotlight

In 2021, Minnesota banned perchloroethylene, or perc, a chemical widely used in dry cleaning. Perc is associated with serious health risks and has been found in air, water and soil.This wasn't a

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Sep 23 • 9:58 AM EDT • Business • mendotaheightsmn.gov
Pageantry for Trump-Xi summit will mask feud over AI race

Donald Trump welcomes Xi Jinping to Washington for a state visit focused more on pageantry than policy, with low expectations for breakthroughs on long-standing feuds between the world’s biggest economies.

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Sep 23 • 9:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Roche Canada and Health Data Research Network Canada Announce First-of-its-Kind Partnership Focused on Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Care

Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) and Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada) today announced a novel partnership that uses health data from multiple provinces to better understand pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments and care across Canada. It marks HDRN Canada's first private-sector project and Roche Canada's first collaboration with HDRN Canada on multi-provincial health data research.

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Sep 23 • 9:05 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Sphere Entertainment and Disguise Sign Multi-Year Technology Partnership

Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE:SPHR) and visual technology company Disguise have entered into a multi-year partnership focused on developing technology for Sphere’s immersive entertainment venues.

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Sep 23 • 8:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
NEUPATH HEALTH TO HOST ANNUAL PHYSICIAN FORUM FOCUSED ON CLINICAL EDUCATION

TORONTO, September 23, 2026--NeuPath Health Inc. (TSXV:NPTH), ("NeuPath" or the "Company"), operates one of Canada’s largest networks of community-based, multidisciplinary medical facilities focused on the assessment and treatment of chronic pain, musculoskeletal/back pain, sports medicine and other pain-related medical services, today announced that it will host its annual Physician Forum from September 25 to 27, 2026, at Fairmont Le Château Montebello in Montebello, Québec.

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Sep 23 • 7:30 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics

By Alex Carlen The United Arab Emirates likes to present itself as part of the solution to the climate crisis. The oil-rich Gulf state has committed to Net Zero by 2050, hosted COP 28, and even declared “championing climate action” as one of three strategic objectives for this week’s session of the United Nations General Assembly. But behind the scenes the UAE has quietly built one of its closest political relationships in Europe with the party most hostile to climate action in Britain: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. There is no evidence that the UAE is funding Reform. But a new FairSquare report, Petro-populism: the UAE–Reform threat, published today, documents a growing political relationship that should concern anyone interested in the integrity of British democracy. Reform’s leaders have embraced the UAE’s political model and promoted positions that align closely with the Emirati government’s priorities, while the UAE has given Farage and his party unusually warm access and public backing. What is emerging is not simply a relationship between British politicians and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad. Democracy for Sale relies on its readers. If you already support us, thanks so much. If you don’t, sign up to support fearless independent investigative journalism. Subscribe Back in January, Nigel Farage appeared at a GB News event in Dubai. On the 50th floor of a tower overlooking the luxury resorts and upscale residences of Palm Jumeirah, the Reform leader declared: “I want Clacton to look like this.” At the event – which Farage never declared on his official register of interests – senior Emirati officials mixed with British expats. Farage was keen to flatter. “We recognise you are our friends”, he said, assuring them that “a Brexit London, a Reform London, will remember you.” Controversy surrounding Reform’s finances and its susceptibility to foreign influence have centred around high-profile donations from billionaire crypto donors, and the jailing of Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, for accepting bribes to give pro-Russia speeches. Far less attention has been paid to Reform’s blossoming new alliance with the UAE, an oil-rich authoritarian state with a track record of ruinous anti-democratic interventions. Farage wasn’t always so fond of the UAE. Back in 2023 he called it an “absolute monarchy with an abysmal human rights record.” Now Reform’s hierarchy calls the UAE home. Deputy leader Richard Tice splits his time between his constituency and Dubai and has called on the UK to learn from the UAE. The party’s treasurer Nick Candy runs a firm which has been in partnership with a UAE-state linked firm since 2024. Nadhim Zahawi sits on the board of an Abu Dhabi think tank alongside an array of the most senior UAE officials and is reportedly close to three brothers of the country’s despotic ruler Mohammed Bin Zayed. Reform’s leading lights have effusively praised the UAE’s governance model, defended it from criticism, and advanced its political agenda in the UK. GB News, whose two major shareholders – the Legatum Foundation and Paul Marshall – have strong links to the UAE, has been more than happy to broadcast UAE propaganda and was forced to pay damages in 2025 after airing a false claim about a UK charity by the UAE “disinfluencer” Amjad Taha. The UAE has responded in kind. When the UAE Minister for Foreign Affairs conducted an official visit to the UK in May, Farage was the only non-government figure granted an audience. UAE state media publicised the meeting, and said that they discussed “the strategic relations between the two countries and ways to enhance them in a manner that serves mutual interests.” For the UAE these ‘mutual interests’ largely concern its paranoia over political Islam, and in this regard the UAE-Reform alliance is part of a broad and troubling pattern. Following a crackdown on dissent at home in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the UAE has offered material and political support to a range of violent and authoritarian actors willing to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood with no regard for the consequences. Its meddling in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and most notably Sudan, have been devastating. The UAE’s strategy of seeking out partners on the political fringes who it believes will advance its interests is not unique to Britain – it extends beyond the Middle East to Europe and the US. In France, it has offered clandestine support to Marine Le Pen through secret meetings, as well allegedly funding trips to the region after which Le Pen returned with a renewed focus on the UAE’s perceived enemies – Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. Left-wing opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has accused the UAE of smearing him and of “encouraging discrimination, hatred or violence”. In the US, the UAE actively supported the rise of Donald Trump, establishing itself as a key ally during both his first and second terms. Around these relationships sits a wider ecosystem of figures willing to amplify UAE narratives, that even extends to Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson. Subscribe In Britain, the UAE has used a combination of aggressive diplomacy and illicit, disruptive tactics to achieve its policy goal of eliminating any perceived threat from political Islam. In 2012, for instance, it threatened to block billion-pound arms deals with the UK and stop inward investment if David Cameron did not act against the Muslim Brotherhood and rein in the BBC’s coverage of the group – going so far as to suggest, with no supporting evidence, that the group had infiltrated the BBC. It has financed smear campaigns against a high-profile UK charity and funded a mercenary to secretly surveil, and possibly assassinate, a British national on British soil. In Reform UK, the UAE has finally found an ally willing to not only ban the Muslim Brotherhood, but to publicly vilify the group and repeat the UAE’s claims that dangerous Muslims are a fifth column in British society, a narrative that aligns with the Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiments that underpin Reform’s populist politics. The Rycroft review into foreign interference concluded that “hostile states and non-state actors have a clear incentive to attempt to undermine UK democracy.” The UAE’s network and alliance with Reform must be understood within that framework. It is a powerful, disruptive and deeply authoritarian actor with the resources and networks to intervene in our politics, and a track-record of doing so in a multitude of other countries. The evidence of the threat the UAE poses is overwhelming. The question is whether parliamentarians are willing to call the UAE out and demand action using the tools that the government has to respond. Placing the UAE on the “Enhanced Tier” of the Foreign Registration scheme alongside Russia and Iran would send a powerful signal to the UAE that its meddling will no longer be tolerated, and would place Farage’s next trips to the UAE under the scrutiny they deserve. Alex Carlen is research and advocacy manager at London based human rights organisation FairSquare and author of its new report Petro-populism: the UAE–Reform threat. Subscribe

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Sep 23 • 6:50 AM EDT • Politics • democracyforsale.substack.com
Cocktail stories: Mayan’s Punch, Barro Negro

Agave-focused Barra Negro in Athens, Greece, offers imbibers a twist on the Porn Star Martini with Mayan's Punch.

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Sep 23 • 6:41 AM EDT • Business • thespiritsbusiness.com
This week in Santa Cruz County business: Summit on economic opportunities for local arts; Verve workers reach tentative contract; voting underway for Lookout List

A Monterey Bay Economic Partnership summit focused on improving the economic health and quality of life of Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties, a union deal for local Verve Coffee Roasters employees and how to show your favorite local businesses some love – it's all part of Jessica M. Pasko's weekly column.

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Sep 23 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • lookout.co
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Quality Behavioral Health named in $18.8M federal case alleging Medicaid fraud, forced labor

The federal government is seeking to seize nearly $18.8 million in cash, bank funds, and precious metals as part of a civil forfeiture case alleging a Detroit-area behavioral health provider defrauded Medicaid and used forced labor involving people receiving treatment.

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Sep 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.

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Sep 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • propublica.org
Nvidia establishes Israeli research group focused on AI for medicine and science

The Applied AI Architecture group has begun recruiting researchers in Israel and will work on AI applications ranging from genomics and drug discovery to new materials.

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Sep 23 • 1:52 AM EDT • Science • calcalistech.com
Dolly Parton’s estate accuses her nephew of threatening violence and to destroy his aunt’s legacy

Dolly Parton’s estate has accused the country music icon’s nephew of threatening violence and to destroy his aunt’s legacy and business empire and have asked a judge to keep him away from its employees and business dealings | KNX News 1070 AM

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Sep 23 • 1:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Dolly Parton’s estate accuses her nephew of threatening violence and to destroy his aunt’s legacy

Dolly Parton’s estate has accused the country music icon’s nephew of threatening violence and to destroy his aunt’s legacy and business empire and have asked a judge to keep him away from its employees and business dealings

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Sep 23 • 1:40 AM EDT • Business • abcnews.com
How opencast mining risks reawakening dormant geological faults

New study finds subsidence caused by groundwater extraction can take place as far as 20km from site of mine

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Sep 23 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
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Federal complaint alleges Medicaid fraud, forced labor by Quality Behavioral Health CEO

The federal government is seeking to seize nearly $19 million in bank funds, cash, and precious metals linked to Quality Behavioral Health, alleging the organization’s CEO used Medicaid beneficiaries as forced labor and submitted claims for services that were not provided.

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Sep 22 • 10:36 PM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
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Dolly Parton’s estate files lawsuit against terminated nephew, claims he made violent threats

Bryan Seaver is accused of “threatening” his late aunt’s estate and “those associated with Miss Parton’s legacy.”

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Sep 22 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
'It's a sick act': Kenner business owner accused of mounting hidden camera in bathroom

More cameras and memory devices were found at the man's home and his business, according to Kenner police.

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Sep 22 • 8:21 PM EDT • Business • wwltv.com
Merck Life Science Expands Bengaluru Manufacturing with €13 Million Investment

Merck Life Science is expanding its manufacturing capabilities in Bengaluru with an investment of approximately €13 million, strengthening the company’s ability to supply critical materials to customers across India and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The expansion at Merck Life Science’s Jigani site in Bengaluru will introduce biological buffer manufacturing alongside the facility’s established chemistry capabilities. The investment is designed to enable faster and more reliable access to critical materials used by customers across research, diagnostics, biotechnology and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The development further advances Merck Life Science’s “in-region, for-region” approach, under which the company is expanding manufacturing capabilities closer to the markets and customers it serves. By adding biological buffer production in India, the Jigani expansion will broaden the site’s manufacturing capabilities while strengthening Merck Life Science’s regional supply infrastructure for the rapidly developing life sciences sector across India and Asia-Pacific. The company said the expansion reflects both the contribution of its teams and its collaboration with government and industry stakeholders. Merck Life Science acknowledged the support of India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), the German Embassy New Delhi, and Invest India in helping strengthen life science manufacturing capabilities in the region. The investment comes as India continues to expand its role across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and biomanufacturing value chains, increasing demand for dependable regional access to materials supporting research and manufacturing operations. The Bengaluru expansion reinforces Merck Life Science’s focus on building manufacturing capacity within Asia-Pacific and supporting customers through a more regionalised supply network.

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Sep 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • biopharmaapac.com
Portland Police chief accused of violating state law by criticizing city councilor’s past tweets

Did Portland Police Chief Bob Day break the law when he criticized a city councilor last week? That’s a question several Portlanders are asking state officials to answer.

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Sep 22 • 6:22 PM EDT • Politics • opb.org
Tempe EnVision center to teach food science classes

Join the Sustainability team each month for free classes at the EnVision Center focused on growing food, cooking, and connecting to nature! Check out our upcoming schedule and sign up early to ensure …

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Sep 22 • 6:01 PM EDT • Science • yourvalley.net
3 takeaways from Taylor Tomlinson's memoir, 'Actually, Nevermind'

Taylor Tomlinson is used to turning the most personal parts of her life into comedy. Now, she’s putting them on the page in her debut memoir, “Actually Nevermind,” which is out on Sept. 22.

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Sep 22 • 5:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Harrisburg LaunchBox, Rotary Veterans Initiative partner for business bootcamp

The Harrisburg LaunchBox, housed under the Lambert Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State Harrisburg, has partnered with the Rotary Veterans Initiative to host a six-week, veteran-focused business bootcamp, beginning in October.

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Sep 22 • 4:57 PM EDT • Business • psu.edu
Ambassadors in Arvada, Colorado to make Olde Town safer, cleaner for businesses and community

A new program is designed to help visitors, businesses and unhoused community members in Arvada's Olde Town.

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Sep 22 • 4:54 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Supreme Court Order Gives Parents Custody of Baby in Surrogacy Fight

A surrogate refused to have an abortion after the fetus was diagnosed with a serious heart problem. She asked the justices to block a court order giving custody to the biological parents.

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Sep 22 • 4:52 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Microsoft is killing an Office app you've used for decades

Microsoft's advice for saving your work turns it into something you can't change

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Sep 22 • 4:17 PM EDT • Technology • thestreet.com
Kenner Police arrest business owner after finding hidden cameras in restrooms

A Kenner business owner is accused of recording people inside the bathroom of his business. According to his L...

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Sep 22 • 2:50 PM EDT • Business • louisianaradionetwork.com
Rise of the Plasticorals: Plastic Has Fused With Coral in Okinawa and Could Enter the Rock Record

Scientists found melted plastic embedded inside coral rubble on three subtropical Japanese beaches.

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Sep 22 • 2:22 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’

A sixth grader's viral science project used lipstick and two trained cats to find out if cat butts touch every surface.

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Sep 22 • 1:47 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’

A sixth grader's viral science project used lipstick and two trained cats to find out if cat butts touch every surface.

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Sep 22 • 1:47 PM EDT • Science • sg.style.yahoo.com
13-year-old boy accused of stealing multiple cars again, breaking into businesses in Oakland County

A 13-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly trying to steal multiple cars and breaking into businesses in Pontiac and Waterford Township.

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Sep 22 • 1:45 PM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
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Police seek suspects accused of stealing alcohol from East Stroudsburg business

Stroud Area Regional Police are asking for the public’s help identifying two suspects accused of stealing alcohol from a business in East Stroudsburg.Police sai

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Sep 22 • 1:37 PM EDT • Business • fox56.com
Hayden Panettiere's death was caused by the toxic effects of fentanyl and other drugs, ruled 'accidental'

The Greenville County Coroner's Office said that the 36-year-old's cause of death has been ruled as "toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine." The manner of death h...

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Sep 22 • 1:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Urbandale to host Civility Dialogues event today

A community conversation focused on how people can disagree without losing the ability to work together and finding common ground will take place today at the Urbandale High School Performing Arts Center. The free Civility Dialogues event will feature Tom Vilsack, CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation and former Iowa governor and U.S. secretary…

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Sep 22 • 11:32 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
A Geico Holiday Special? Insurance Giant’s New CMO Widens Spotlight on Entertainment

Geico’s famous animated Gecko used to turn up only in TV commercials. He recently enjoyed guest-star billing on a podcast. The cartoonish figure with the sophisticated accent appeared in June on WNBA ...

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Sep 22 • 11:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Trump in address to world leaders at UN defends his decision to start Iran war

Trump accused Iran of stalling to make a deal to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an endgame to the war until after the midterms

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Sep 22 • 10:59 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Kenner business owner arrested, accused of video voyeurism after camera found in bathroom

During a review of the recordings, the business owner, identified as Henry Rios, 57, of Kenner, was seen manipulating the position of the camera and later putting the device in his office, according to police.

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Sep 22 • 10:55 AM EDT • Business • wdsu.com
Fort Worth barber accused of sexually assaulting child at business, police say

Police say there may be more victims, particularly among Spanish-speaking youth.

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Sep 22 • 10:54 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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What CDC's new teen health survey shows, and what it skips

Teen suicide risk hit a 10-year low in 2025. Guns, sexual violence, and self-harm. Where are the 2025 data on transgender teens? Missing data changes public health policy. Teen suicide risk hit a 10-year low in 2025. CDC asked more than 10,000 high school students over 100 questions in spring 2025. Yesterday, it published a report covering a fraction of them. The report focsed on five areas: diet, physical activity, sleep, digital behaviors, and mental health, reflecting the priorities of the Make America Healthy Again movement. There was good news. Fewer teens seriously considered suicide in 2025 than in any survey year since 2015: 14%, down from 20% in 2023. Sadness fell. Underlying Conditions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Sports participation, which dipped to 49% in 2021, is back to its 2015 level of 58%. Daily PE fell from 27% to 20% in two years, while fewer students eat breakfast daily than a decade ago. Guns, sexual violence, and self-harm. The questionnaire is public, and it goes well beyond those five areas. Students answered questions about sexual violence, self-harm, and whether they got help when they felt sad or anxious. They said how quickly they could get a loaded gun. They reported whether food ran out at home and whether they felt close to people at school. There were questions about sexual identity, including whether they were transgender. The report did not publish any of the answers students gave to those questions. CDC posts the raw survey data online, so anyone can see what the report left out. The report doesn’t cover the health of sexual minority students. Among students who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, questioning, or another non-straight identity, persistent sadness fell from 66% to 57% between 2023 and 2025. Serious thoughts of suicide fell from 41% to 30%. Those drops were bigger than the ones among straight students, although the gap remains wide: 28% of straight students reported persistent sadness, about half the rate of LGBQ+ students. About 1 in 7 girls reported sexual violence in the past year. One in 6 students hurt themselves on purpose. Among students who needed help for sadness or anxiety, half rarely or never got it. And among students who had seriously considered suicide, 43% said they could get a loaded gun without an adult’s permission. One protective factor rose sharply. In 2023, 55% of students said they felt close to people at their school; in 2025, 63% did. CDC’s earlier research ties that kind of connection to better mental health. Where are the 2025 data on transgender teens? In 2023, CDC's national survey asked high school students, for the first time, whether they were transgender. Their answers are the only nationally representative data on transgender teens, and their mental health is by far the worst of any demographic. That year, 71% of transgender students reported persistent sadness, 54% seriously considered suicide, and 26% attempted it, compared with 38%, 18%, and 8% of cisgender students. But we don’t have 2025 data. The timing matters because students took the survey in spring 2025, as federal policy toward transgender youth shifted. On January 28th, an executive order directed agencies to end federal support for gender-affirming care for people under 19, and several hospitals paused that care within days. In February, the CDC said it would no longer process transgender identity data. Later in 2025, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and HHS ended the 988 Lifeline’s dedicated line for LGBTQ+ youth. Researchers disagree about how much state policy shapes trans teens’ mental health. A 2024 Trevor Project study estimated that anti-trans laws increased suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth. Critics dispute its methods and its estimates. The 2025 survey could have added national evidence to that fight. CDC collected the data but hasn’t publicly released it. Missing data changes public health policy. Surveillance works as a feedback loop. It can show officials whether their policies help or hurt. The CDC didn’t provide data on the students most exposed to transgender policy shifts. The report kept measures that frame health as personal choice, like fruit, breakfast, and sports. It left out measures that track policy, like gun access, mental healthcare, food at home, and school climate, all of which respond to what legislators and agencies decide. HHS did not respond to questions that I sent on September 21st.

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Sep 22 • 10:31 AM EDT • Health • celinegounder.com
Micron reportedly ends production of 2GB GDDR7 used by GeForce RTX 50

Micron appears to be moving away from 2GB GDDR7 as its catalog shifts toward 3GB devices. The older 16Gb parts were already used on RTX 50 cards.

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Sep 22 • 10:30 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
Hayden Panettiere cause of death revealed: Report

The actress’ death was ruled an accident caused by the toxic effect of several drugs, including fentanyl.

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Sep 22 • 10:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • newsnationnow.com
IU Health Expands Fishers, Indiana Hospital To Meet Growing Population, Care Needs

See how IU Health used evidence-based design and Lean methods to expand its Fishers campus for one of Indiana's fastest-growing communities.

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Sep 22 • 10:14 AM EDT • Health • healthcaredesignmagazine.com
Xbox Is Merging Its Two Forza Teams Into One Studio Focused On Forza Horizon And Fable

Playground Games and Turn 10 are merging

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Sep 22 • 10:13 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Two Rochester teens accused of crashing stolen car into unoccupied Greece business

Greece Police say two 16 year old's crashed a car that was stolen during an armed robbery in Rochester.

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Sep 22 • 10:10 AM EDT • Business • whec.com
Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game

The RPG powerhouse has been rehoused

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Sep 22 • 10:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • kotaku.com
Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game

The RPG powerhouse has been rehoused

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Sep 22 • 10:01 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
$10M Ill. fire station puts firefighter health, safety at center of design

Buffalo Grove's new Fire Station 25 features cancer-reduction measures, sleep-focused bunk rooms, expanded apparatus bays and a larger fitness area

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Sep 22 • 9:37 AM EDT • Health • firerescue1.com
GOP Sen. calls for probe of Trump Jr. wedding party bankrolled by Russian

He is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Donald Trump Jr. used his proximity to the presidency for financial benefit

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Sep 22 • 9:23 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
GOP Sen. calls for probe of Trump Jr. wedding party bankrolled by Russian

He is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Donald Trump Jr. used his proximity to the presidency for financial benefit

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Sep 22 • 9:23 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
GOP Sen. calls for probe of Trump Jr. wedding party bankrolled by Russian

He is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Donald Trump Jr. used his proximity to the presidency for financial benefit

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Sep 22 • 9:23 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Jaguar Health Receives Fee Waivers from FDA

Company remains sharply focused on its ongoing rare disease intestinal failure global development program for microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) and SBS for crofelemer powder for oral solution, targeting an NDA filing for MVID mid-2027SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / (NASDAQ:JAGX) (Jaguar) family company Napo Pharmaceuticals (Napo) today announced that the U. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Napo's request for a waiver of the fee associated with the Pres

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Sep 22 • 9:05 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Canning: Preserving food with science

METRO DETROIT — Canning is a scientific based food preservation method that’s been used throughout the centuries to keep foods from spoiling. It can provide a family with nutrients and save them money during hard times.

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Sep 22 • 8:57 AM EDT • Science • candgnews.com
Kenner business owner accused of filming customers with hidden cameras in his bathroom

Police have identified three victims so far and recovered over 500 photos and videos. Here’s more.

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Sep 22 • 8:24 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Sabbatical Spotlight: Associate Professor of Political Science Jeremy Strickler

Dr. Jeremy Strickler, an associate professor of political science and UTC faculty member since 2016, used his professional development leave to advance research on presidential leadership and U.S. drug control policy, co-author a book chapter about camping, and develop a new course on American political culture.

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Sep 22 • 8:12 AM EDT • Politics • blog.utc.edu
Business Culture Podcaster Sammi Cohen Is Launching Social Commerce Network (SCN), a Livestreamed News Show Inspired by TBPN and Aimed at Being a Next-Gen CNBC

Sammi Cohen has hundreds of thousands of followers who tune in to her podcast focused on the intersection of business, tech and culture — and she thinks they’re hungry for a live dose of her brand of ...

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Sep 22 • 7:53 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Kenner business owner accused of secretly recording employees in bathroom, police say

Henry Rios, 57, arrested on three counts of video voyeurism

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Whether you like it or not, celebrities have an impact on politics

The global groundswell of support for Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian advocacy serves to remind us that maybe celebrity activism really is that deep after all, writes Cheek’s Varsha Yajman. Subscribe In the last week, publications, podcasts, and influencers that have either rarely or never spoken about Israel’s genocide in Palestine have flooded my social feed. And it was all because singer Ed Sheeran and his team dropped Macklemore as his opener for saying “Free Palestine” on stage. Millions raised, millions speaking up in support of Palestine - all of this confirming my view that, whether I like it or not, celebrities do have an impact on political outcomes. And this is interesting when much of the time celebrity activism can induce an eye roll - I love to see Charli XCX pointing out a Palestinian flag in the crowd, but it’s hardly the bold symbol of allyship that some fans would make it out to be. But there’s a line between healthy scepticism and outright dismissal - and I’d argue that the latter lets the rich and powerful off far too easily. For instance, actress Jennifer Lawrence, once outspoken about her political views, last year told The Times she no longer believes celebrities have a role to play: “Celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart.” While it’s a narrative she might find comfort in, it simply is not true. Grassroots movements often garner worldwide attention when celebrities and other high-profile spokespeople bring a mainstream platform to their causes. And this frustrates me. We have had three years of a live-streamed genocide. Macklemore himself has been calling for a Free Palestine long before he booked the Sheeran concert. Yet it’s the high-profile fallout of the last week that finally seems to have made saying “Free Palestine” socially acceptable in the mainstream. It feels like the collective mood has shifted, where calling out censorship is now the obvious response - not just the business of ‘radical’ activists. To recap, Sheeran’s decision followed an ultimatum from billionaire Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, one of the venues Sheeran was scheduled to perform at: either drop Macklemore as your opener after only two of the eight scheduled shows, or you do not play at any stadiums. Sheeran’s disappointing decision to stand on the side of billionaire-led censorship has ultimately seen a surge in support for Free Palestine. It began when all his openers and his backing band pulled out of Sheeran’s tour, in solidarity with Macklemore and with the Palestinian cause. It was met with an uproar of support from those who had never or barely touched politics before: influencers lip-syncing to Macklemore’s music, singers like Jack Antonoff singing “Free Palestine,” and publications and podcasts standing with Macklemore. And finally, we saw material support: Macklemore donated $1 million in profits from his two nights opening for Sheeran’s tour to several Palestinian aid groups and called for Sheeran and Kraft to match it, which they have since promised to do. We’ve also seen children’s entertainer Ms Rachel follow suit with a $1 million donation to Palestinian aid, and publication PopBase has donated $10,000. Anera, a humanitarian aid group working in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan, said donations since Macklemore’s announcement were more than triple this month’s daily average. The group’s Instagram page has also gained 8,000 followers. Macklemore far from the first celebrity to speak and participate in politics in the Western World. In 1924, singer Al Jolson supported Republican candidate Warren G. Harding for president, and decades later, celebrities such as Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and Aretha Franklin voiced their public support for the Civil Rights movement. More recently, in the lead-up to the 2024 US election, ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah partnered with the organisation Power the Polls to recruit poll workers to address shortages- a problem disproportionately affecting voters of colour. The campaign saw 170,000 new sign-ups - 35,000 of which came directly through the TV show’s link - resulting in the recruitment of 713,000 total poll workers that year, an almost three-fold increase on the organisation’s goal. Alongside recruiting workers, celebrities in the US (where voting in elections is not compulsory) have made a huge difference by calling for people to register to vote. Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024 saw over 400,000 visitors on the voter registration site within 24 hours of her Instagram post. In 2023, Swift had urged her fans to register, resulting in 35,000 new voter registrations. Similarly, Ariana Grande promoted voter registration in 2019 by setting up booths at concerts on the American leg of her tour, resulting in over 33,000 voters registering. And the same thing is happening closer to home. This year, musician Jack River successfully called for government action to ensure creatives in Australia do not have their work scraped by generative AI companies. Celebrity as the mediator between the punter and the politician Celebrity activism isn’t just a feel-good news story - research tells us it actually makes a difference. By directing attention to issues affecting the average person, like voting inaccessibility or a lack of action on a genocide, researchers Alfred Archer and Amanda Cawston state that “celebrities can play a useful bridging role between political elites and the people they represent”. Alternatively, in a world where talking about politics is “not cool,” or where people lack exposure or knowledge to engage with politics, celebrities can act as an educational resource or an entry point into the political world - when they speak up about an issue, their audience gets exposed to it. Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival is a perfect example. Rodrigo partnered with twelve organisations focused on women’s issues, such as reproductive rights. These organisations had stalls at the festival for people to meet them and were also featured heavily on social media, giving their issues global attention and raising $20 million for the organisations. We have also seen celebrities at award shows such as the Emmys wearing F*CK ICE pins, referring to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s treatment and detainment of people - generally people of colour. When celebrities speak up about political issues in public forums, they put the issue at the forefront of mainstream media, rally their supporters, and make it clear that, however much they disagree, the government cannot simply ignore it. Our over-reliance on celebrities versus our politicians As much as I love seeing my favourite celebrity use their platform for a good cause, there is an important question to ask: not whether celebrity activism is good or bad, but whether we should have to rely on celebrities. And the answer would, in an ideal world, be no. In an ideal world, or merely a just world, action on Palestine would’ve happened decades ago, climate change would be taken seriously, and most importantly, people would understand their democratic rights. However, that is not our reality. Only around 28 per cent of Australian Year 10 students reach proficiency in civics and citizenship. In the US, almost two-thirds of people under 30 say high school civics education didn’t prepare them to understand voting deadlines, how to research candidates, or how to vote by mail. When civics education is weak, our trust in these institutions and our understanding of change-making processes also decline. ​This is where celebrity steps in and becomes our main source of reliance. As Mary R. Connelly notes in _The Tartan, “_Celebrities will always be involved in campaigns in one form or another, but their presence is not what causes people to vote blindly. The lack of political engagement and literacy is what allows celebrities to wield their influence on the political sphere so impactfully.” About the author ​Varsha Yajman is the Digital Content Producer at Cheek Media. She is a youth advocate and lawyer with a background in climate litigation and is passionate about looking at the intersection between race, climate justice, and mental health. Thanks for reading Cheek Media Co. ! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share

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Sep 21 • 3:54 AM EDT • Politics • cheekmedia.substack.com
High diesel prices pressure Colorado agriculture

Silage harvest has begun in earnest in Colorado, and the choppers and trucks and pack tractors are all rolling and making east-slope mountains of cow chow. The silage will be used as part of cattle rations at dairies, ranches and feedyards across the area and the availability and growing conditions for silage and the state’s […]

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Sep 21 • 2:30 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Chimpanzees once used for vaccine research get health checks as part of long-term care

Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments are getting health checks at their new home in Liberia. The West African chimpanzees receive care such as teeth cleanings and X-rays

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Sep 21 • 1:30 AM EDT • Health • telegraphherald.com
Forest Green Rovers footie prescribed for poor mental health

Football is being used to help people experiencing low mood, loneliness and other mental health challenges.

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Sep 21 • 1:19 AM EDT • Health • bbc.com
Mixed mycorrhizal forests foster a richer diversity of understory herbs

In temperate forests, canopy trees shape understory herb diversity through the fungal partnerships they make

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Sep 21 • 1:04 AM EDT • Science • advancedsciencenews.com
Strain-reduced battery electrode design accommodates multiple ions

Avoiding lattice distortion in multivalent batteries enables the harmonious storage of both calcium and magnesium ions.

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Sep 21 • 1:02 AM EDT • Science • advancedsciencenews.com
Roy Zektzer: Simple, scalable quantum technologies

Bringing quantum technologies from the lab onto the chip, Roy Zektzer aims to make quantum research more accessible.

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Sep 21 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • advancedsciencenews.com