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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

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Sep 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • npr.org
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Ngumoha reveals Iraola change that could boost his England chances

Liverpool youngster Rio Ngumoha has not enjoyed a blistering start to the season, but was named in England’s squad for their forthcoming UEFA Nations League matches.Ngumoha has not registered a goal...

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Sep 24 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool captain slams Dutch reporter following claims he forced Ronald Koeman to change World Cup tactics

Virgil van Dijk claimed media in the Netherlands had said that he had ruined Dutch football after allegedly telling Ronald Koeman to change formation during the World Cup; Koeman switched to a back five against Morocco, but would be eliminated on penalties

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Sep 24 • 3:49 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Konaté suffers knee sprain, leaves France’s training camp

Real Madrid center-back Ibrahima Konaté Konaté has suffered a minor sprain to his right knee and left the French national team’s training camp. Manchester United’s Leny Yoro will replace him in Zinedine Zidane’s squad. The French national team announced the following:“In agreement with the coaching staff, and following a cordial exchange between the medical staff […]

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Sep 24 • 2:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Young Australian scientists learn from Nobel Laureates

Nine early-career scientists joined Nobel Prize winners for a week of scientific exchange at the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

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Sep 24 • 12:26 AM EDT • Science • science.org.au
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Golf Insider Calls For Presidents Cup Overhaul

John Huggan argues the Presidents Cup is fading like the 1977 Ryder Cup, urging rule changes to make the International team competitive again.

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Sep 23 • 11:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Code changes wipe out illicit massage businesses in Gresham, city says

The City of Gresham says changes it made to its code last fall helped wipe out illicit massage businesses.

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Sep 23 • 10:49 PM EDT • Business • kptv.com
Sports Spotlight: Reese Duchsherer

From setter to standout attacker, Reese Duchsherer has embraced every change in her volleyball journey and is now leading BSC in nearly every major statistical category.

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Sep 23 • 7:42 PM EDT • Sports • kfyrtv.com
Red Sox Announce Major Schedule Change For Final Series

The Boston Red Sox will end the regular season a day early

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Sep 23 • 7:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
40-acre sports and entertainment complex planned for Leander

Game Changers Field of Dreams Inc. is making progress on a big sports complex north of Austin in Leander.

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Sep 23 • 7:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • bizjournals.com
New Yorkers could pay $26,000 out of pocket for climate change

“Energy. Impact. Action.” Is the official theme for Climate Week NYC 2026.

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Sep 23 • 7:09 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Breakthrough changes how we think about ice formation

In November 2026, scientists, politicians and diplomats from all over the world will meet at...

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Sep 23 • 6:43 PM EDT • Science • boisestate.edu
Trump SBA to Extend Comment Period After Ranking Member Markey Leads Effort to Rescind SBA Policy that Reclassifies Billion-Dollar Businesses as “Small Businesses”

Trump admin policy would reclassify 114,000 larger businesses as “small” to access small business resources and win federal contracts meant for small businesses Letter (PDF) (Washington, September 23) – This week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced its plans to extend the deadline to submit comments on its controversial proposed rule regarding small business size standards until November 20. The Trump SBA’s announcement came shortly after Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), alongside 12 of his Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Administrator Kelly Loeffler demanding that the Trump SBA rescind a harmful policy that would dramatically redefine what a small business is. The Administration’s proposed policy would change the small business size standard to designate 114,000 larger companies some with annual revenue above $1 billion—as small businesses, giving these businesses access to small business resources and federal contracts typically set aside for actual small businesses. In the letter, Ranking Member Markey and the lawmakers emphasized that small businesses will be shut out of the federal contracting space as government agencies award contracts to larger businesses, causing small businesses to lose revenue, lay off workers, or close their businesses entirely. “For more than 70 years, SBA’s mission has been clear: promote and protect the interests and viability of small businesses. By proceeding with this proposed methodology and rule, SBA moves further away from its mission of facilitating healthy small business participation in the U.S. economy. We urge SBA to rescind these proposals, meet in earnest with small businesses across the country, and discuss the proposal and methodology with congressional committees of jurisdiction. SBA must be committed to developing measured increases to the size standards that do not reward large, billion-dollar companies but instead helps our small businesses survive, grow, and thrive.” The lawmakers highlighted the following points in their letter: Under the Trump SBA’s new size standards, the highest receipts-based standard would exceed $1 billion in annual revenue—more than 20 times the current $47 million maximum—and the highest employee-based standard would reach 3,600 employees—more than twice the current 1,500 employee maximum. Specific increases include an increase in size of nearly 492% for banks, 1,500% for law firms, and more than 2,051% for private equity firms. Of the 114,000 businesses that would be newly classified as small, more than 37,000 of these businesses have collectively won more than 100,000 federal contracts worth approximately $71 billion in Fiscal Year 2025 alone without a small business designation. If SBA included the awards won by these 37,000 businesses in its Fiscal Year 2025 analysis, small business contracts would have accounted for 38% of all federal contracts, instead of the 27% that SBA announced this summer. The letter was co-signed by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Christopher Coons (D-Dela.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Ranking Member Markey is fighting to protect small businesses in Massachusetts and across the country from the Trump SBA’s harmful policies that put big businesses and billionaires over American small businesses, workers, and families. In August, Ranking Member Markey slammed the Trump SBA’s proposal to overhaul its small business size standards to benefit big businesses over small businesses. In July, Ranking Member Markey and House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to rescind the Trump administration’s policy that bans green card holders from accessing essential Small Business Administration (SBA) loans to start and grow their businesses. Also in July, Ranking Member Markey and Senator Hirono submitted a comment letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) opposing a proposed rule change by Trump’s SBA to the 8(a) Business Development Program that would harm underserved small business owners and entrepreneurs. In June, Ranking Member Markey released a new report highlighting Trump’s drastic reduction in federal contracting dollars awarded to American small businesses. ###

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Sep 23 • 6:23 PM EDT • Business • sbc.senate.gov
One Penn State Position Group to Watch vs. Wisconsin

Penn State kicks off Big Ten play this week against Wisconsin, and it will be the first real test of the season for the Nittany Lions. Wisconsin has played Penn State close over the last decade and change. Since 2012, the largest margin of victory for the Nittany Lions is only 15 points, and that …

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Sep 23 • 5:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Baptist Health, Cigna reach agreement restoring in-network access for patients

Baptist Health has announced a multi-year agreement restoring in-network access for Cigna members to Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital services. The change is effective immediately.

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Sep 23 • 5:00 PM EDT • Health • news4jax.com
How President Trump's influence has changed Texas politics
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Sep 23 • 4:48 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash

Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can't.

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Sep 23 • 4:05 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Planet Announces Amazon.ia – A New Tool That Combines Satellite Data, Science and AI to Protect the Amazon

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced the launch of Amazon.ia - Inteligencia Ambie...

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Sep 23 • 4:02 PM EDT • Science • businesswire.com
‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

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Sep 23 • 3:51 PM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Changes Coming to Texas Secretary of State Business Filings, Sept. 29th

The SOSPortal, a new Business Filing system, will be launched on September 29, 2026.

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Sep 23 • 2:29 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
England captain Harry Kane eyes combining MLS stint with NFL kicker role

Kane is "fairly close" to agreeing a new contract with Bayern Munich but is still considering a change of sports at the end of his career.

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Sep 23 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Steelers Sights & Sounds: JPJ Practices, Offensive Line Changes Coming?

PITTSBURGH — During Wednesday’s practice at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, the Pittsburgh Steelers prepared for Sunday’s home matchup with […]

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Sep 23 • 1:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bears’ First Personnel Domino Falls After Embarrassing Week 2 Loss

The Chicago Bears did not wait long to make a change after their ugly Week 2 loss. Two days after […]

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Sep 23 • 1:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Holland America continues to raise the bar for cruise ship entertainment with 4 new shows on Oosterdam

Last year's "Fosse and Verdon, The Duet That Changed Broadway" was only the beginning of a whole new approach to onboard productions.

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Sep 23 • 12:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • creators.yahoo.com
A City That Works: Chicago’s housing shortage demands a rethink of our building code

Zoning changes are only part of the answer. Chicago also needs to rethink building rules that add costs while offering limited safety benefits.

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Sep 23 • 12:34 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Madonna is the most-nominated artist at this year's VMAs. No one has ever made a comeback quite like this.

It's been 27 years since Madge won a VMA. That's likely to change on Sunday night.

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Sep 23 • 11:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Dragon Age Director Finally Says What Fans Have Been Thinking For Years: The Fade Needs To Go

Mark Darrah also shared what he'd change about the other games in the series

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Sep 23 • 11:30 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Valkyries first playoff game marks Thrive City’s shift to permanent ‘entertainment zone,’ allowing to-go alcohol

The Valkyries are set to host their first playoff game at Chase Center Sunday and it marks the start of a permanent change at Thrive City, as full-time entertainment zone which allows customers at the bars and restaurants to take alcoholic beverages out into the 11-acre piazza outside the arena.

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Sep 23 • 11:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Yankees reveal change to lineup plan ahead of postseason

The Yankees are making a major lineup change.

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Sep 23 • 11:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How do you feel about Palace's start to the season?

As we enter the season's first international break, we want to hear your thoughts on the opening five games of the Premier League. It has been a mixed start to life under Pierre Sage after a summer of change at Crystal Palace. Sage replaced arguably the Eagles' greatest manager in Oliver Glasner and saw some key players leave and others become unsettled.

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Sep 23 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Should UNC make a change at QB?

UNC didn’t get much out of the most important position on Saturday.

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Sep 23 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2 midterm elections that brought on new eras in US politics

Two 19th-century elections are a reminder that a sizable midterm shift, like the one expected in November, can signal long-lasting changes in American politics that set the country in a new direction.

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Sep 23 • 8:46 AM EDT • Politics • theconversation.com
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Minnesota Craft Beer’s Next Round

Can recent changes offer a lifeline for Minnesota’s craft brewery industry?

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Sep 23 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • tcbmag.com
Penguins’ lineup battle temperature check

A lot can change quickly for the picture of building the NHL roster. Take a look at the last 48 hours, where Blake Lizotte was announced as being out on a week-to-week basis, and Ben Kindel got injured during the preseason game with a day-to-day designation. Add in more injuries to Ville Koivunen and Justin […]

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Sep 23 • 8:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
National Trust, after battling with Trump, to announce legal defense fund

The preservation group, which sued to stop the White House ballroom, says it will push back against the administration’s changes to historic sites and laws.

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Sep 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Lost your job? What to know about COBRA, marketplace health insurance

As layoffs hit North Texas, workers facing job changes may also have to figure out what happens to their health insurance.

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Sep 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dallasnews.com
Reflections on 15 Years of the “Moneyball” movie

The 2011 movie brought sabermetrics to the mainstream, and changed baseball forever.

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Sep 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SBA considers changing definition of a small business

The change could create new opportunities to land lucrative federal contracts.

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Sep 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • marketplace.org
Robertson tells Spurs to 'forget' past woes

Andy Robertson has urged his Tottenham team-mates to forget about their struggles over the past two seasons as they try to haul themselves off the bottom of the Premier League table.Former Liverpool full-back Robertson, who joined Spurs on a free transfer, said it was down to the players themselves to change the mindset at the club, which has suffered back-to-back 17th-placed finishes over the past two seasons.

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Sep 23 • 7:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'De Zerbi is in an impossible position'

Tottenham's Roberto de Zerbi as well as Xabi Alonso of Chelsea are in an "impossible position" this season, believes The Observer's Rory Smith. The managers took charge of their clubs in the spring and oversaw a lot of activity in the transfer window, with Chelsea and Spurs ending the summer as the second and third highest spenders respectively. Smith says the changes to their squads is why De Zerbi and Alonso need time to build coherence in their sides.

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Sep 23 • 7:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.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
Phillies Make Don Mattingly Decision After Hated Rival’s Stunning Change

The Philadelphia Phillies offered a response on their permanent manager decision after a shocking announcement from a division rival.

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Sep 23 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Many coaches negelct their health. After Shawn Clark’s death, his widow wants to change that

Jonelle Clark founded the Shawn Clark Legacy Foundation and the 61 Initiative to convince coaches to get checkups and monitor their health.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Discord’s Controversial Age Checks Are Back: Here’s What the Backlash Changed

The restriction will roll out to all users from today, marking you as either a teen or an adult.

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Sep 23 • 5:56 AM EDT • Technology • uk.pcmag.com
Siena poll: Hochul's lead over Blakeman sees little change among likely voters

Likely voters also voiced their opposition to renaming Lake Ontario and large data centers being built near them.

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Sep 23 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Siena poll: Hochul's lead over Blakeman sees little change among likely voters

Likely voters also voiced their opposition to renaming Lake Ontario and large data centers being built near them.

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Analysis | How have data center politics changed? Look at Texas’s Republican governor.

Times have changed for Gov. Greg Abbott when it comes to AI issues.

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Sep 23 • 5:25 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Big Ten football power rankings after Week 3

Big Ten teams had a pretty easy weekend, for the most part. Did the poower rankings change at all?

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Sep 23 • 4:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ranking every NFC East quarterback after their Week 2 performances

Week 2 changed the pecking order a little, but the NFC East quarterback race is already shaping up to be one worth watching all season.

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Sep 23 • 4:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Will P&G’s (PG) New Science-Led Head & Shoulders and Oral-B iO Push Change Its Narrative?

In recent months, Procter & Gamble has rolled out new Head & Shoulders formulations featuring the HydraZinc Complex and expanded its Oral-B iO line, emphasizing clinically tested scalp and oral care technologies now available across multiple product collections in the U.S. market. These launches highlight how Procter & Gamble is leaning on science-led product innovation to reinforce its brands and support its broader shift from pricing-driven growth toward offering more tangible consumer...

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Sep 23 • 4:17 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Tennessee Titans re-sign Drew Moss to the practice squad

The Tennessee Titans made a practice squad change by re-signing offensive guard Drew Moss and waiving Jimmy Ciarlo.

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Sep 23 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It's clear, Liverpool have signed an incredible African star

Liverpool have signed an absolute gem, it's now becoming official. The Reds have been busy over the course of the last 12 months. We've seen a real generational change occur at Anfield. Liverpool's te...

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Sep 23 • 3:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vikings Get Intriguing Justin Herbert Take Amid Chargers Struggles

The Minnesota Vikings don’t have a long-term solution yet at QB. That could change in the coming weeks if Kyler Murray performs well and leads the Vikings to wins. However, if that doesn’t happen and Minnesota needs to lean on Carson Wentz again this season, then general manager Nolan Teasley might need to look at […] The post Vikings Get Intriguing Justin Herbert Take Amid Chargers Struggles appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 23 • 2:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Catholic Health to eliminate 40 positions systemwide

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Catholic Health says it’s implementing staffing changes at select locations to address patient needs, including the elimination of 40 positions systemwide. In a r…

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Sep 22 • 11:02 PM EDT • Health • wivb.com
State Question 845 would remove political party limits on Oklahoma’s judicial nominating commission

State Question 845 on Oklahoma's November ballot would eliminate the rules limiting how many members of the state's judicial nominating commission can come from the same political party—a change suppo...

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Sep 22 • 10:57 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Hundreds of Hawaii residents could lose Obamacare health insurance benefits in fraud crackdown

Hawaii’s ACA marketplace is run on the federal exchange Healthcare.gov, so the state doesn’t know how many of Hawaii’s enrollees are caught up in Trump's national fraud sweep.

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Sep 22 • 10:16 PM EDT • Health • hawaiinewsnow.com
Administrators strike down University Senate vote against health benefits plan

On Friday, Sept. 18, the University of Minnesota Senate voted 150-6 on a resolution calling for a pause on the implementation of this year’s healthcare benefits plan, which was announced July 22. Both the Faculty and University Senates met on Friday for special sessions, which included employee testimonies on how the changes to benefits will...

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Sep 22 • 7:27 PM EDT • Health • mndaily.com
White Sox Change Tune on Munetaka Murakami Contract Extension
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Sep 22 • 7:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Moussa Diaby: Leverkusen Has Changed Its Mentality

Returning from a global journey, the French winger discovers a transformed club fueled by championship grit and a personal evolution that prioritizes defensive discipline alongside his trademark pace.

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Sep 22 • 5:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Liverpool's transfer strategy facing biggest change in years

Liverpool are in a period of transition as a club, and more big changes are coming. Since last season ended, Arne Slot, Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes have all moved on from Anfield.As well as th...

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Sep 22 • 5:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.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
Eagles practice squad news: Gabe Hall released

The Eagles’ PS is undergoing some changes.

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Sep 22 • 4:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TSSAA releases 2027-29 football classifications. Here's what's changed

The TSSAA announced its new classifications for the 2027-29 cycle. Here are the major changes in the football classifications.

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Sep 22 • 3:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Third-generation CEO Andy Heily shifts Krusteaz’s focus as consumer tastes change

Andy Heily, third-generation CEO of Krusteaz Co., discusses leading the Tukwila food manufacturer and balancing family business with personal passions.

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Sep 22 • 3:26 PM EDT • Business • bizjournals.com
What Will Be Inside Trump’s D.C. Arch?

President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery has undergone a significant change in purpose since the project was first presented as a monument commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary. The 250-foot structure was designed to include public spaces, exhibits ...

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Sep 22 • 3:09 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
After new federal requirements, changes coming to the Oregon Health Plan

About 600,000 Oregon Health Plan members will soon receive a notice that Medicaid is about to change.

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Sep 22 • 2:35 PM EDT • Health • opb.org
Simmons football postpones homecoming, changes game time after player death

The Hollandale School District postponed Simmons football's homecoming and changed game times on Sept. 21, following the death of a player.

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Sep 22 • 2:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Brees Changes Story About Making Comeback With Broncos

Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton says he never heard about Brees contacting Broncos, and Brees backed him up.

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Sep 22 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Beats 360 Pre-Orders Open at Amazon With Cushion Kits on Sale, Plus More Beats Deals

The new Beats 360 headphones were announced today, and can be pre-ordered on Amazon ahead of their launch on Thursday. They're available in Black, Cloud, plus a bundle where you can style the headphones however you'd like thanks to interchangeable ear cushions and headbands. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

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Interoperability roundup: New AI connections, more QHINs

HealthEx enables users to connect medical record data to more applications and devices, including Meta's Muse artificial intelligence assistant, as more health tech companies and HIEs participate in TEFCA.

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Morocco’s youth between hope and resignation

On September 23, Moroccans will elect a new parliament. Despite a growing economy, many young people feel left behind. While some are prepared to fight for political change, others see emigration as their only option.

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Sep 22 • 1:27 PM EDT • Politics • dw.com
Planetary crisis heightens global inequality of health opportunities

The worldwide inequality of health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis - climate change, loss of biodiversity and environmental pollution.

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Sep 22 • 1:27 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
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5 novels that offer horror and thrills for the season change

This batch of horror novels comes with plenty of reasons to keep the lights on — may your fictional nightmares stay safely between the covers.

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Sep 22 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Scientists Tracked The Earth's Center Of Mass Using Satellites, And It's Shifting Around Down There

Over the course of a year, the Earth's center of mass changed significantly.

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Sep 22 • 12:41 PM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?

The Apple Watch Series 12 is now available, two years after the Series 10 introduced the current thinner design. But is it worth upgrading? While last year's Series 11 brought just four changes, the Series 12 is a much more substantial update, with a new chip, twice as much RAM, redesigned health sensors, exclusive health and audio features, tougher cover glass, 5G connectivity, and new case materials. The Series 12 starts at the same $399 price as the Series 10 did in 2024.

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Circle Stock Spikes As Binance Takes $100 Million Slice

Circle stock reversed early gains as Binance, the world's busiest crypto exchange, says it's paying $100 million for stake in the USDC stablecoin issuer.

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Early Earth Was a Molten, Asteroid-Blasted Hellscape. Scientists Now Know When That Changed

A new study narrows the timeline for the emergence of life on Earth.

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Sep 22 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • gizmodo.com
Jewel on Emotional Inheritance, Mental Health, Motherhood, More

Singer-songwriter Jewel sits down with TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to talk about her nonprofit, Inspiring Children Foundation, and the #NotAloneChallenge. She opens up about growing up in Alaska and overcoming challenges from her childhood. Jewel also talks about motherhood: “I really love being a mom. I wanted to be a mom, and I was in a really privileged position that I could change a lot of my life to make sure my son was the center,” she shares.

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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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Scientists develop real-time AI monitoring for an advanced nuclear reactor component

Just as a clogged kitchen sink can bring household routines to a halt, a blockage in a nuclear reactor's heat exchanger can slow operations and require urgent attention. Researchers at the U.S. Department ...

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Planetary crises deepen global health inequality, paper warns

The global inequality in health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. Addressing it is more than a question ...

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Sep 22 • 10:10 AM EDT • Health • phys.org
XBOX Moves Rare Under Activision & Obsidian Entertainment to Bethesda

XBOX's ongoing changes have seen developer Rare moved under Activision's wing, whereas Obsidian is now under Bethesda.

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Duke employee health insurance premiums to rise by 10% to 50% under new salary-based system

Duke Human Resources announced Tuesday morning that changes would be coming to employee health insurance next year. Mainly, a new five-tier, salary-based health insurance premium structure, which could cost some employees 50% more in monthly premiums.

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Joanna Gaines Says She Avoided 1 Side of Magnolia’s Business for 10 Years. Now She’s Leading It.

The founder of Magnolia said a key aspect of the business was something she turned away from for years. That just changed.

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Should Rangers Fans be Optimistic?

The Texas Rangers have not been able to reach the playoffs since winning the World Series in 2023. That could change this season.

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BBC Audio | The Inquiry | How did Italian politics become stable?

Italy was once known for political instability, so how did that change?

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Sep 22 • 9:04 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
RFK Jr.-linked group offered access to U.S. officials for a fee

A nonprofit with ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event, documents show.

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Sep 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • latimes.com
'It's Fine, I'll Take It As Is': The Customer's Words That Changed My Business

My outsider complex made me think everything had to be perfect. It was stopping me from swinging bigger.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warns U.S. over escalation

The IRG warned Monday that it would “change the geography of the war” if the United States escalates the conflict

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Bridging Climate Action and Health Security through One Health

Climate change is increasing the risk of infectious disease outbreaks, threatening health security around the world. A One Health approach is essential to managing growing risks at the intersection of people, animals, and the environment.

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HealtHIE Nevada and b.well Connected Health Launch HealthRecords Nevada to Bring Statewide Health Information Directly to Consumers

/PRNewswire/ -- HealtHIE Nevada, Nevada's statewide nonprofit health information exchange and trusted infrastructure for secure health data exchange, and...

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Alabama man convicted of wife’s 1985 murder gets new trial, judge calls bite mark evidence ‘junk science’

Charles McCrory was convicted after an expert said he bit his wife during her murder. But the expert has since changed his mind.

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Sep 22 • 7:15 AM EDT • Science • al.com
Summer spending put Alonso in 'impossible position'

Chelsea's Xabi Alonso as well as Roberto de Zerbi of Tottenham are in an "impossible position" this season, believes The Observer's Rory Smith. The managers took charge of their clubs in the spring and oversaw a lot of activity in the transfer window, with Chelsea and Spurs ending the summer as the second and third-highest spenders respectively. Smith says the changes to their squads is why Alonso and De Zerbi need time to build coherence in their sides.

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Love Letters to San Francisco: How snakes and science build students’ confidence

For 27 years, Chris Giorni has been taking The City’s kids out of the classroom and into the dirt, where a little courage can change how they see themselves.

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ECB, EU central banks oppose stablecoin bank deposit rule

Stablecoin issuers should not be required to hold a minimum proportion of ​their reserve assets as bank deposits because ‌they could leave lenders exposed to changes in the stablecoin market and less sticky deposits, the ECB ​and other EU central banks said ​on Tuesday.

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Local clinics brace for federal benefit cuts for refugees

Thousands of refugees who legally came to America face hunger due to changes in federal law approved as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Sep 22 • 6:03 AM EDT • Health • jsonline.com
Is 50 the new 60?

Subscribe TL;DR: Younger generations are showing signs of worse health compared to earlier-born cohorts at the same age This backward “drift” is showing up both in mortality risk and chronic disease Worsening trends in obesity and diabetes are the most consistent signals Taking the long view, we’ve made astonishing gains in health and life expectancy in the last century. Global average life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 years in 1900 to 73 years in 2024. (But don’t forget, there were still old people when life expectancy was 32). As people lived longer, they also generally lived healthier along the way. It turns out that avoiding things that can kill you early, like malnutrition and lots of childhood infections, also keeps you healthier later in life. In a classic 2004 paper, Finch and Crimmins proposed that cohorts of children who benefited from fewer early life infections had less lifetime exposure to inflammation and cardiovascular disease later in life, accelerating mortality improvements at older ages. Poor nutrition in the womb has also been linked to a higher risk of later chronic disease. The upshot is that improvements in childhood health can pay dividends many decades later. The combination of better living conditions (nutrition, sanitation) and medical advances (antibiotics, vaccines, blood pressure meds, etc) meant that people’s healthy lifespan generally expanded, even as they lived longer. Aging researchers call this best-case scenario “compression of morbidity”—meaning we delay the onset of disease and disability even faster than the years of life we are adding. During my 20+ year research career, we could generally bank on the idea that younger generations would not only live longer but also keep getting healthier along the way. “60 is the new 50” as they say… Enter “Generational Health Drift” Sadly, this expectation of steady progress may be changing. You’ve probably heard that US life expectancy gains have slowed to a crawl in the past couple of decades. Mortality improvements are also slowing (though less dramatically) in many other high-income countries (you can read more about that in a review paper I wrote here). Mortality is a very blunt health measure, but it is often a good barometer for the broader population health trends happening underneath. And we are now seeing that younger generations may be in worse health at similar ages compared to earlier born cohorts. My collaborator Prof. George Ploubidis at University College London coined this worsening health in more recently born cohorts “generational health drift.” “Generational health drift” is bad news on multiple fronts. Most obviously, we don’t want our health progress to go backward. But the timing is also bad, since our populations are aging. In demographic terms, “population aging” means that the proportion of the population at older ages (i.e >65 years) is increasing. Fun demography fact: Current population aging is not due to the recent declines in the birth rates making the news, but declines in fertility decades ago, after the “baby boom.” As baby boomers reach older ages, the smaller cohorts behind them mean the percentage of older adults will increase. For example, the share of the population age 65 and older in the US increased from 12.4% in 2004 to 18.0% in 2024. This story of population aging was written long ago. Many worry that population aging will put pressure on health care and pension systems. But if people reach older ages in better health than in years past, those fiscal pressures would be less dire than projected. Healthy older people can also continue to contribute to society in many valuable ways, including paid work, caregiving, community service….even high political office 🤷. On the flip side, if younger generations reach retirement age in worse health and with more disabling conditions, this could magnify the societal challenge of population aging. Evidence for worsening generational health A recent paper that I LOVED in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Leah Abrams and colleagues examined which birth cohorts (aka generations) were behind worsening US mortality. Behold the Lexis diagram (cue swooning demographers). Calendar time is on the x-axis, age on the y-axis. Birth cohorts can be followed over time as they age on the diagonal lines moving up and to the right. This figure plots the year-on-year % change in all-cause mortality at a given age. Green shading indicates mortality improvements over time, white is stagnation, and gray shading indicates worsening mortality. Following the diagonal line for those born in 1950, you can see a noticeable shift from green to gray that follows this cohort for most of their lives. This gray shading shows generally worsening mortality for the 1950 to 1959 birth cohorts compared to their predecessors across all ages. Concerningly for my GenX and elder millennial peeps, there was also a deterioration in mortality for birth cohorts born in the 1970s and 1980s, visible as dark gray areas at ages 30 to 45 during the 2010s. While some of these mortality changes reflect specific shocks such as the opioid epidemic, most deaths still occur from major causes of death such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. For cancer, the gray in the top left corner of the figure below reflects the legacies of smoking for older cohorts, followed by a period of green with improvements in cancer mortality as smoking rates declined. But the white/gray shading in the bottom right corner highlights a stagnation and reversal of the cancer trends, with cohorts born around 1970 to 1985 experiencing worsening cancer mortality. This deterioration was most noticeable for colon cancer mortality, possibly linked to obesity or dietary factors. Not just dying more, but less healthy along the way. A recent paper by Dr. Laura Gimeno of University College London (of which I am a co-author), found evidence that more recently born cohorts in Great Britain have stagnating or worsening health. A stylized picture of what“generational health drift” might look like: The review paper found: Rates of childhood overweight and obesity were highest among Gen Z. Rates of diabetes in the 40s almost doubled from 3.1% among the Baby Boomers to 5.9% in Generation X. Gen Z reported higher rates of poor mental health in adolescence compared to earlier-born groups. These UK results are consistent with studies showing worsening health across generations in the US as well. A 2021 US study found that more recently born cohorts had worse biological markers (like blood pressure and blood sugar) than earlier generations at the same age. A separate 2022 study of Americans aged 50 and over found that more recently born generations had a higher number of chronic diseases, with younger age of disease onset. A 2024 Lancet paper found that in the US, women born in 1945 had 33% obesity prevalence at age 50, rising to 48.2% for women born in 1970 turning 50. So what’s going on, and can we turn it around? We don’t have a definitive answer for what’s causing the deteriorating health of younger cohorts, but circumstantial evidence points to worsening trends in obesity and diabetes in both the US and UK. Remember that cohort trends reflect lagged effects of early environments, and younger generations have faced both earlier onset and more severe obesity across their lifetimes. Despite these very concerning trends, the future is not set in stone. We’ve reversed poor generational health trends before: drops in smoking are a major reason cancer and heart disease deaths fell so dramatically in recent decades. GLP-1 drugs may finally turn the tide against rising rates of obesity and diabetes, though it is still early days. But things could also get worse…for example from a return to higher levels of childhood infectious diseases that can have a lasting impact on health. See for example: [ ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) [ Don’t You Forget About Me(asles): The Virus That Erases Immune Memory ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Jenn Dowd, PhD · March 24, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Even as an optimist, emerging data on the “generational health drift” has my full attention. For most of my research career, we took it for granted that each generation would be healthier than the last. But if present trends continue, **50 could be the new 60….**and Gen Z celebrities will soon look older than Paul Rudd :). Stay well, Jenn Share the Health! If you found this post useful, please share it with a friend. Share

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List of DVD release dates for Sept. 22 and beyond

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: SEPTEMBER 22: Toy Story 5 22: Scary Movie 22: Young Washington 22: Evil Dead

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An artist went viral on Instagram and it changed his finances

"I was, like, piecing together 500 bucks, and then all of a sudden, I could pay my rent."

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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. 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