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Big 12 negotiating capital partnership that would allow schools to opt in to more funding: Sources

The partnership would focus on expanding commercial and business operations while offering a capital line of credit to 16 universities.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 11:59 PM EST • Business • nytimes.com
Michigan authorizes probe into athletic department after Sherrone Moore firing

Michigan is looking inward in the aftermath of firing Sherrone Moore as a law firm investigates the athletic department's handling of the situation

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9:57 PM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
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Explore powerful narratives of marathon runners at Health and Fitness Expo

Discover the stories and excitement as runners gather at Health and Fitness Expo for the marathon weekend.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:46 PM EST • Health • nbcdfw.com
Enquirer names Cincinnati high school athletes of the week, Dec. 12

Cincinnati.com readers selected the Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine's Athletes of the Week from high school sports action through Dec. 7.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:25 PM EST • Sports • cincinnati.com
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Google Weather for Wear OS breaks on original Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch

Back in September, Google stopped offering its Weather app for new Wear OS 6 devices. Google Weather has now stopped working due to a bug...

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:24 PM EST • Technology • 9to5google.com
Roseville high school students of all abilities take part in Unified Sports Day

Student athletes from across Roseville took part in an event Friday that brought together those with and without disabilities.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:09 PM EST • Sports • kcra.com
Trump 'willing to put the federal government behind' changes to NIL

President Donald Trump spoke on NIL and college athletics during a bill signing ceremony honoring the "Miracle On Ice" hockey team on Friday.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:01 PM EST • Sports • usatoday.com
Why one trauma doctor sees self-driving cars as a 'public health breakthrough'

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Dr. Jonathan Slotkin about the new data released by Waymo about accidents and their self-driving cars.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 5:27 PM EST • Health • npr.org
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San Mateo Medical Center Health Campus Completes Major Renovation & Expansion

San Mateo, California – San Mateo County’s public hospital has been transformed into a state-of-the-art health care campus, rebuilt to meet California’s seismic safety standards and reimagined to better serve patients and staff. Community leaders gathered today to celebrate the opening, calling it a major investment in public health and a welcome upgrade for the tens of thousands of residents who rely on the County for medical and other care.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 4:18 PM EST • Health • smcgov.org
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MIT HEALS leadership charts a bold path for convergence in health and life sciences

MIT HEALS leaders outline a unified vision for advancing health and life sciences at MIT, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration, translational research, and strengthened clinical partnerships to drive biomedical innovation and accelerate high-impact solutions across the Institute.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 4:00 PM EST • Science • news.mit.edu
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MIT HEALS leadership charts a bold path for convergence in health and life sciences

MIT HEALS leaders outline a unified vision for advancing health and life sciences at MIT, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration, translational research, and strengthened clinical partnerships to drive biomedical innovation and accelerate high-impact solutions across the Institute.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 4:00 PM EST • Health • news.mit.edu
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Watch Folsom vs. Cathedral Catholic in California 1-AA football championship: Live stream, tickets

The game begins at 8 p.m. on Friday at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 3:45 PM EST • Sports • syracuse.com
Female athletes protesting transgender competition in sports drop lawsuit against OSAA

Two female athletes dropped a lawsuit they had filed alleging that the OSAA discriminated against them for protesting transgender competition in women's sports.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 3:41 PM EST • Sports • katu.com
Universities Try to Maintain Secrecy on How They Pay Athletes

Bloomberg asked more than four dozen public universities to disclose details of their spending on student athletes and got little back.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 2:45 PM EST • Sports • bloomberg.com
Campus Radicals: Their childhoods disrupted by politics, courageous girls are fighting back

High school swimmers challenge transgender athletics policies as campus radicals expose extremism in K-12 schools and universities nationwide this week.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 2:43 PM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
Exposed: the business linked to baby deaths across the world

A year-long investigation into the Free Birth Society reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors.Lucy Hough talks to the investigative correspondent Lucy Osborne about her reporting.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 1:41 PM EST • Business • theguardian.com
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Jacobs Entertainment to demolish Bonanza Inn

Jacobs Entertainment has elected to demolish Bonanza Inn rather than renovate it as part of their redevelopment efforts near the J Resort.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 1:17 PM EST • Entertainment • kolotv.com
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First Brands Advances Business Stabilization Initiatives and Long-Term Paths to Create Value and Drive Growth

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., December 12, 2025--First Brands Group, LLC ("First Brands" or the "Company"), a leading global supplier of aftermarket automotive parts, announced today a series of decisive steps the Company has taken to stabilize its operations, strengthen leadership, and maintain continuity of supply and service for customers, including:

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Dec 12, 2025 • 12:55 PM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Serato Debuts 'SLAB' – Its First Standalone Beatmaking Device

Created in partnership with AlphaTheta, it features a 7-inch OLED touch display, 16 RGB pads, stems control – and it's small enough to fit in your backpack.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 11:58 AM EST • Technology • hypebeast.com
Giant structure discovered deep beneath Bermuda is unlike anything else on Earth

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 11:54 AM EST • Science • livescience.com
Doogan, O’Neil, Roussell, Men Lacrosse Named Finalists for the 2026 RVA Sports Awards - University of Richmond Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. – Maggie Doogan , Aidan O'Neil , Aaron Roussell and the Richmond men's lacrosse program have been named finalists for the 2026 RVA Sports Award...

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Dec 12, 2025 • 11:03 AM EST • Sports • richmondspiders.com
Veteran Dem. operative offers scathing 6-word rebuke of Trump

The operative said that Trump was "done" in several states where Democrats defeated Republicans in elections this year.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 10:53 AM EST • Politics • masslive.com
Resident Evil Requiem is "like jumping into a cold bath after sitting in a hot sauna"

Resident Evil: Requiem is "like jumping into a cold bath after sitting in a hot sauna" in terms of how it splits Leon and Grace's sections, Capcom say.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 10:10 AM EST • Technology • rockpapershotgun.com
Resident Evil Requiem's Leon and Grace will have differing gameplay like "jumping into a cold bath after a hot sauna"

Resident Evil Requiem's dual protagonists will represent two styles of gameplay, which its developers describe as "jumping into a cold bath after a hot sauna".

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Dec 12, 2025 • 10:05 AM EST • Technology • eurogamer.net
Local companies join STEM Night to showcase science careers

This year, North Godwin added local businesses to its STEM Night to highlight careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9:37 AM EST • Science • schoolnewsnetwork.org
Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’

"People decided that it was time that we took our future into our own hands"

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Technology • aftermath.site
Owls Receive HERO Sports Group of Five All-America Honors - Kennesaw State University Athletics

KENNESAW, Ga. – Highlighted head coach Jerry Mack being named HERO Sports Group of Five Coach of the Year, Kennesaw State football received two All-America honors on Friday.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • ksuowls.com
2026 Flathead Valley Winter Sports Preview

The snow has fallen and the sun is officially on hiatus, which means Flathead Valley athletes are trading in their cleats and knee pads for goggles, headgear and basketball shoes. Area teams and athletes over the last few weeks have been amping up their preparation ahead of the start of the high school winter sports […]

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Dec 12, 2025 • 6:56 AM EST • Sports • flatheadbeacon.com
Utah State’s Noah Avinger Named HERO Sports All-American - Utah State University Athletics

LOGAN, Utah – Utah State senior cornerback Noah Avinger has been named to the HERO Sports Group of Five All-American second team it was announced on Friday.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 4:53 AM EST • Sports • utahstateaggies.com
Sports quiz of the week: big climbs, unlikely comebacks and elite camels

Have you been following the big stories in cricket, football, motor racing, darts, climbing, athletics and the NFL?

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Dec 12, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Sports • theguardian.com
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‘You won’t understand unless you chew on it’: Hideo Kojima wants you to remember his games for decades

With narrative storytelling, multimillion-dollar budgets and A-list casts, Hideo Kojima’s arthouse games — including the critically acclaimed “Metal Gear Solid” and “Death Stranding” franchises — are as cinematic as, well, cinema.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 12:02 AM EST • Technology • cnn.com
Lululemon is dialing back the in-store clutter

The athleisure giant is finally making changes to its overcrowded, inventory-packed stores.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 12:01 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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The real reason behind Trump’s nasty breakup with Europe

Jonathan Freedland speaks to the US military scholar Joseph Stieb about the Trump administration’s national security strategy

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Dec 12, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Connections: Sports Edition hints for Dec. 12, 2025, puzzle No. 445

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
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Daddy's Coming Home with Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred

It seems Lilith annoyed her father so much, he’s about to burn it all down: Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred arrives April 28, 2026, and the Paladin class is available now with pre-purchase.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 9:45 PM EST • Technology • news.xbox.com
The Witness and Braid Creator Jonathan Blow Announces New 250-Hour Puzzle Game, Order of the Sinking Star | The Game Awards 2025

Order of the Sinking Star is an upcoming puzzle game that features 1,000 puzzles that can take up to 500 hours to complete, and we saw it in a live demo.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 8:52 PM EST • Technology • ign.com
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.”…

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Dec 11, 2025 • 8:50 PM EST • Technology • arstechnica.com
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Riverside outlasts Ascension Catholic and secures second LHSAA state title

Riverside took possession for the final time knowing that it needed only to kneel out the remaining minute and 15 seconds before it could secure a football state championship.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 8:16 PM EST • Sports • nola.com
Michael Jordan was already a basketball legend. Now, he’s one in NASCAR too

Thursday's settlement was that significant for NASCAR's teams that Jordan just made himself a transformative figure in yet another sport.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 7:37 PM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
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Employers join forces at career fair to boost local business hires post-Helene

Employers gathered at the Valley Hope Church in Swannanoa on Thursday, Dec. 11, to take part in the Black Mountain Swannanoa Chamber Foundation career fair.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:42 PM EST • Business • wlos.com
Mount Healthy Schools considers levy to avoid sports, arts cuts

Athletics and fine arts are facing possible elimination as Mount Healthy City Schools deals with what's described as a 'fiscal emergency' by its superintendent.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:11 PM EST • Sports • wlwt.com
A new dawn in global health: UHC as the path toward national health stewardship

The UHC High‑Level Forum in Tokyo marked an unmistakable turning point. It signaled a shift from dialogue to pragmatic action, with health and finance ministries jointly designing country‑owned, fiscally grounded UHC strategies to move beyond fragmented, crisis‑driven responses toward resilient, durable health systems that can make Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a reality. UHC means ensuring...

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:01 PM EST • Health • ifpma.org
Japan: Promote Safe Sports by Ending Abuse, Discrimination

The Japanese government’s Japan Sports Agency (JSA) should adopt policies to promote safe sports in Japan by ending abuses and discrimination against athletes, 12 nongovernmental organizations and individuals said in a joint letter to Junichi Kawai, the JSA’s commissioner.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Sports • hrw.org
Browns vs. Bears Week 15 predictions, weather: Arctic temperatures expected

The DBN staff predicts the Week 15 games, plus the national media make their predictions for Browns vs. Bears.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 4:00 PM EST • Sports • dawgsbynature.com
West Palm Beach is at the 'epicenter’ of Florida’s business growth, leaders say

Related Ross Executive Vice President Jordan Rathlev and health-tech firm Visium CEO John Rajchert speak to Fox News Digital about the influx of businesses and employees moving to West Palm Beach and how their companies are leading the charge.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 2:15 PM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
Can Jasmine Crockett’s Vibes-Based Politics Work in Texas?

The champion of the clapback is the ultimate advocate of base mobilization as a path to victory. It’s not clear it will work statewide.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 2:14 PM EST • Politics • nymag.com
Big Play Entertainment opens Dunwoody center in time for holiday break

Brandon and Ray Wooldridge, the father and son who own Big Play Entertainment Atlanta, picked a spot in Dunwoody after a tornado demolished the family’s business outside of Nashville.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 1:45 PM EST • Entertainment • appenmedia.com
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Some lawmakers see path for health care compromise after failed Senate votes
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Dec 11, 2025 • 1:17 PM EST • Health • cbsnews.com
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Gaza’s maternal and newborn health system ‘decimated’, UN warns

Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying almost all hospitals, cutting off medical supplies and driving sharp rises in maternal deaths, miscarriages and newborn fatalities amid mass displacement and hunger.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 1:09 PM EST • Health • news.un.org
Sports360, the newest immersive exhibition at the Science Center, opens this weekend

The 9,500-square-foot Sports360 exhibition is designed to immerse visitors in the science of athletic performance.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 12:40 PM EST • Science • kidsburgh.org
Reimbursement expected to drive implementation of CCTA, coronary plaque analysis

For years, imaging experts have predicted that CCTA may become the primary imaging modality for coronary artery disease and eliminate the need for invasive diagnostic catheterizations. That prediction is now coming true.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 12:33 PM EST • Business • cardiovascularbusiness.com
Lorwyn Eclipsed's Proliferating Elf Commander Might Put Lathril Out of Business

Christmas comes early for elf players with a brand new Golgari elf commander that brings back proliferation, -1/-1 counters, and introduces us to the new blight mechanic from Lorwyn Eclipsed!

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Dec 11, 2025 • 12:09 PM EST • Technology • draftsim.com
IOC urges sports bodies to let Russian youth teams and athletes compete again with flag and anthem

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC took a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports Thursday by advising governing bodies to let the countries’ youth teams and athletes…

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Dec 11, 2025 • 11:45 AM EST • Sports • wtop.com
IOC urges sports bodies to let Russian youth teams and athletes compete again with flag and anthem

The IOC has taken a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports. It’s advising governing bodies of Olympic sports to let youth teams and athletes compete with their full identity of national flag and anthem.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 11:38 AM EST • Sports • apnews.com
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CNBC Sport: Utah breaks the private equity seal with historic $500 million investment

Utah may have designed a template for other schools to bring in private capital to help fund their athletic programs.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 10:15 AM EST • Sports • cnbc.com
HB 289 could expand wrongful death act to unborn children in the Sunshine State

Two possible abortion bills already sparking debate.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 10:13 AM EST • Politics • mynews13.com
Nike Is Returning to Its Roots in College Sports

Nike is doubling down on college athletes. Its new all-encompassing relationship at LSU is the launchpad for its new Blue Ribbon Elite NIL program.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 10:00 AM EST • Sports • sportico.com
The Last Days of Matthews Arena, Boston’s Overlooked Sports Cathedral

Northeastern’s 115-year-old Matthews Arena will host its final game this weekend before demolition begins for a new facility.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Sports • si.com
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Read Todd Combs' goodbye letter to Geico employees after he quit Berkshire Hathaway to join JPMorgan

Todd Combs, Warren Buffett's longtime deputy and Geico's CEO since 2020, thanked his employees and heralded his successor in an internal email.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 8:12 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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The Witness, Braid Creator Teases New Game Reveal at The Game Awards

Jonathon Blow to show off next project

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Dec 11, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Technology • pushsquare.com
Game Preview: Montreal Canadiens @ Pittsburgh Penguins 12/11/25

Who: Montreal Canadiens (15-11-3, 33 points, 4th place Atlantic Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (14-7-7, 35 points, 4th place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Broadcast locally Sportsnet Pittsburgh, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The long homestand rolls on with matinee games at PPG Paints this weekend against San Jose (3pm on Saturday) and Utah […]

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Dec 11, 2025 • 7:15 AM EST • Sports • pensburgh.com
This Week in Sports Trivia: December 11, 2025

How closely were you following the sports news this week? Find out and test your knowledge by taking The Athletic's weekly quiz.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
Scientists find a massive hidden CO2 sponge beneath the ocean floor

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of years. These porous breccia deposits store far more carbon than previously sampled ocean crust. The discovery reshapes how scientists view the long-term balance of carbon between the ocean, rocks, and atmosphere. It also reveals a hidden mechanism that helps stabilize Earth’s climate over geological timescales.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Warren Buffett watchers weigh in on Todd Combs' surprise exit

After praising Todd Combs for years, Warren Buffett gave him a "rather cool sendoff" in Monday's press release, one Berkshire watcher said.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:22 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Islanders Gameday News: Here come the Ducks

They’re not your father’s Ducks! Or at least not your older brother’s Ducks, or something. Tonight the Islanders host a Fairly Strong Ducks of Anaheim team that is first in its division at a very respectable 19-10-1. After years of “very tough negotiator” Pat Verbeek at the helm, it seems he just needed to hire […]

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:15 AM EST • Sports • lighthousehockey.com
Meet the winners of our Athlete of the Playoffs polls for the fall sports

Be sure to check providencejournal.com/sports each week for the Longplex Athlete of the Week polls throughout the winter sports season.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:03 AM EST • Sports • providencejournal.com
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Ed and Linda Whitacre contribute $7M to support health research, engineering and athletics at UT San Antonio - UT San Antonio Today

The Whitacres’ continuous investment in UT San Antonio demonstrates how philanthropy can advance education, discovery and health.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Health • news.utsa.edu
Business leaders make their 2026 predictions for the Magnificent 7: ‘I’d rather be in Jensen’s seat than anywhere else’

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 5:58 AM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Business leaders make their 2026 predictions for the Magnificent 7

'I’d rather be in Jensen’s seat than anywhere else'

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Dec 11, 2025 • 5:58 AM EST • Business • fortune.com
Braid and The Witness Creator Jonathan Blow Teases The Game Awards Announcement

Jonathan Blow has just "announced an announcement," teasing he just may be getting on a plane today to join a "gaming industry event coming up." All roads lead to The Game Awards!

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Dec 11, 2025 • 5:46 AM EST • Technology • ign.com
From classroom to community: Student’s journey exemplifies ‘public health in action’

When Waveney Brooks transferred to the University of Kentucky as a sophomore, she never imagined that a classroom experience would open the door to real-world public heath practice across Kentucky. What started as a broad introduction to the many disciplines of well-being soon grew into a purposeful public health career path defined by mentorship, community engagement and purpose.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Health • uknow.uky.edu
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UK Sports Cardiology helps marathoner back to chasing 50-state goal

After a midrace cardiac arrest, Brian Rice was advised not to run again. But with help from UK HealthCare’s Sports Cardiology Program, Rice is back chasing his dream of running a marathon in every state.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Sports • uknow.uky.edu
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Connections: Sports Edition hints for Dec. 11, 2025, puzzle No. 444

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
The New WHO Pandemic Treaty and Global Health Governance: Incorporating Common but Differentiated Responsibilities into PABS  - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly unanimously adopted the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement, an international treaty designed to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. The product of three years of arduous negotiations, the treaty marks a new era of global cooperation in public health. However, core aspects of the agreement remain unresolved—notably the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) System, which is intended to ensure equitable access to pandemic-related materials and benefits. To support the successful implementation of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” should be formally incorporated into the negotiating agenda of the PABS annex. Introduction For the first time, an international treaty has enshrined the principle of “One Health,” the compelling idea that the health of animals, humans, and the environment all contribute to pandemic risks. SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009–10), Ebola (2014–16), and COVID-19 all emerged through zoonotic spillover from animal hosts—respectively, civets, hogs, and bats. Together, they underscore the need for a coordinated, cross-sectoral approach. The Pandemic Agreement responds to this call, requiring state parties to acknowledge the ecological interplay and commit to a comprehensive “One Health” strategy. Specifically, Article 5 charges governments to address “the drivers of pandemics and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious disease at the human-animal-environment interface,” including wild animal markets, deforestation, and antibiotic overuse. Yet the effectiveness of this “One Health” vision depends equally on the free flow of scientific information and data among countries and institutions. Just as environmental and animal health factors have been neglected in past global frameworks, so too has data sharing been marginalized, despite its centrality to timely detection and response. The Pandemic Agreement takes an important step by requiring governments to enhance data collection and cooperate with the World Health Organization (WHO). However, these provisions will remain aspirational without a robust Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex. The PABS system will determine whether countries and researchers can rapidly exchange pathogen samples and genetic data while ensuring equitable access to resulting research and development, including diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Without such mechanisms, the treaty’s promise to operationalize “One Health” and strengthen global preparedness will risk becoming largely symbolic, echoing earlier failures to translate shared principles into coordinated action. Equity Concerns When the 2025 Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement, it left the difficult question of access to pathogens and the sharing of resulting benefits to be addressed in a separate agreement. Negotiations on this separate agreement, PABS, are now underway in Geneva. Yet governments remain divided over fundamental questions of equity between the countries that primarily contribute to the system and those that primarily draw from it—and consequently benefit. For example, wildlife in countries bordering the equator is likely to produce PABS materials, but companies in Europe are likely to use them to develop lucrative products. The most likely contributor countries are likely to be those biodiverse countries around the equator, such as Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia, where the number of human-mammalian viral host interactions is large. Conversely, countries most likely to benefit from this material are those with the technology, investors, and infrastructure to capitalize on genomic data, such as the United States, EU member states, and Japan. This imbalance reflects a broader pattern seen in prior international frameworks. Now, as in the past, the wealthiest countries in the world (a useful heuristic is membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)) disproportionately benefit from systems in which pathogens and genomic sequencing data are contributed to a common source. Under the International Agreement on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the “Plant Treaty” or “Seed Treaty”) and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework, companies from Europe and North America disproportionately withdraw biological samples and data for development into lucrative medical products. Their governments and companies have both statutory and contractual claims to the products that those companies correspondingly produce. PABS appears poised to follow the same pattern. The text calls for strong language on access to pathogens and associated data, but the corresponding benefits that should flow to poorer countries are couched in equivocal or non-binding language. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities To address these inequities, the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” should be formally incorporated into the negotiating agenda of the PABS annex. Common but differentiated responsibilities are often a feature of climate change negotiations. The basic principle is that, even though all countries should reduce carbon emissions, governments that became rich and powerful through massive carbon emissions (e.g., France, the United Kingdom, the United States) should have a greater obligation to address the resulting crises. Applied to PABS, it would require that governments hosting and supporting companies developing lucrative products carry greater obligations toward the cost of running the PABS system; share benefits or final medical products; and transfer technology to help countries worldwide develop their own capacities to innovate and manufacture vaccines during an emergency. For example, an annex could mandate that any company based in an OECD country that withdraws PABS material would be obligated to donate the resulting diagnostics, therapeutics, or vaccines to the WHO during a public health emergency or pandemic. Questions remain about how robust those donations would be, but the principle is that they should deliver highly significant lifesaving benefits to be equitably shared. Theoretically, this approach mirrors the PIP Framework, in which companies withdrawing influenza samples are required to pay half of the operating costs. In practice, however, the framework has fallen short. The PIP Framework Secretariat has struggled to secure payments from companies, with companies often disagreeing over how much is owed. Additionally, without another pandemic influenza to test the strength of the agreement during a public health emergency, corporate compliance with sharing mechanisms remains unknown. Even if these limitations did not characterize the PIP Framework, partially paying for operating expenses does not address the inequity in access to genetic data and pathogen samples that left less developed countries last in line for COVID-19 vaccines (and, before them, H1N1). Common but differentiated responsibilities would go further, addressing governments’ legitimate grievances regarding information sharing. It would make withdrawals of PABS material and resulting products more transparent, building trust across the board. Enforcement and Enduring Success A key implication of this approach is that the governing mechanism of the PABS must have real enforcement authority. The WHO Pandemic Agreement delegates its core governance responsibilities to a Conference of the Parties (COP)—a governing body composed of one representative from each participating government, similar to those established under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement COP is charged with oversight functions but ultimately possesses no real authority to compel a government to take any action it does not wish to take. The text does not give the COP the ability to, for example, sanction a party that does not comply with either textual obligations or PABS provisions. In other words, there are no effective mechanisms in place to ensure compliance. Perhaps just as significant, establishing a meaningful enforcement mechanism within the PABS system would strengthen the WHO’s credibility and its ability to ensure compliance across global health governance. By setting a precedent for accountability, such a mechanism could enhance the organization’s authority not only within the Pandemic Agreement but also in enforcing the revised International Health Regulations and other frameworks for public health emergencies. Conclusion The PABS annex can—and should—be different. It should establish clear responsibilities for funding as well as for sharing the diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines that result from contributions to the system. The system, in turn, must include a dedicated body empowered to hold governments and the corporations they sponsor accountable for their responsibilities before, during, and after pandemics. Doing so would restore trust in the broader agreement, which was eroded as commitments were repeatedly diluted while parties scrambled to meet their own self-imposed deadlines during the Pandemic Agreement negotiations. A robust PABS Annex would cement a grand social bargain. Wealthier countries and their corporations would gain unimpeded access to scientific information essential for developing and manufacturing lifesaving medical products. As such, they would stand to gain considerable economic benefit. Yet that privilege must be matched with responsibility. The grand bargain must include not only the right to innovate, but also the duty to ensure that innovation serves all. As medical products are developed and produced through collective contributions, every person must have equal access. All human beings deserve an equitable chance to survive—to save their own life, the lives of their families, and the well-being of their communities. … Sam Halabi, JD, MPhil, is the Bette Jacobs Endowed Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Health and the Director of the Center for Transformational Health Law at Georgetown Law. He serves as the co-lead for the WHO’s Working Group on Regulatory Consideration on AI and Health’s training workstream. He earned his JD from Harvard, his MPhil from Oxford, and undergraduate degrees from Kansas State University. Lawrence Gostin, LLD (Hon.), JD, BA, is University Distinguished Professor and Founding Director and Timothy and Linda O’Neill Professor of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is the author of Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future (Harvard University Press, 2021); Global Health Law (Harvard University Press, 2014); Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 3rd ed., 2016); Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press, 3rd ed., 2018); Law and the Health System (Foundation Press, 2014); Principles of Mental Health Law & Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010). He also directs the WHO Collaborating Center at Georgetown University. Image Credit: United States Mission Geneva, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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