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Bears’ Chicago talks complicate Arlington Heights stadium push

The mayor's office said "several" meetings have taken place over April and May between the team and city's top lawyers.

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May 21 • 3:56 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Senate GOP erupts over Trump DOJ 'anti-weaponization' fund, punts ICE, Border Patrol funding

Senate Republicans pause immigration bill push after a tense closed-door meeting over the Trump administration's surprise anti-weaponization fund.

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May 21 • 3:15 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Livonia-Westland Business Leaders Meet with MHA on Affordability

The MHA partnered with the Livonia-Westland Chamber of Commerce on May 14 to host an event at its Livonia offices to engage with business leaders about healthcare costs, listen to their needs and collaborate on potential solutions.

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May 21 • 1:10 PM EDT • Business • mha.org
McMullen County H.S. earns runner-up honors in UIL 1-A Science Competition

McMullen County High School students earned top honors at the University Interscholastic League State Academic Meet held May 18-19 in Austin, finishing as the state runner-up team in the Class

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May 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • kten.com
Blanche meets with Senate Republicans as Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund faces trouble on Capitol Hill

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday morning, a GOP aide told CNN, in an attempt to save the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund as the party weighs its fate.

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May 21 • 11:22 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Exclusive: Why Adnan Sami Doesn't Care About Getting 'Pulled Into Politics' After Meeting RSS Chief

Adnan Sami said, "So the politics, it doesn't bother me anymore."

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May 21 • 2:03 AM EDT • Politics • ndtv.com
City Councilman Phazon Nash holds final Entertainment District Focus Group meeting
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May 20 • 7:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • wsls.com
City Councilman Phazon Nash holds final Entertainment District Focus Group meeting
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May 20 • 6:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • wsls.com
Business, community leaders stress collaboration for growth at chamber meeting
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May 20 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • wtov9.com
Meet the deep sea disrupters charting the bathysphere

Here’s who’s currently leading the charge in automating the management of aquatic frontiers:

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May 20 • 5:28 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
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Las Vegas ranked No. 2 among North America’s top convention cities

Las Vegas was second, and three local resort hotels ranked in the top 10 for best destinations for a convention or meeting in 2025.

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May 20 • 4:22 PM EDT • Business • reviewjournal.com
Two Years. Two Deaths. Six Elections. Meet the Most Exhausted Voters in Texas.

Since Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee died, voters in her district have gone to the polls every few months to choose her replacement.

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May 20 • 2:52 PM EDT • Politics • texasmonthly.com
Inside NFL owners meetings: International Super Bowl talk, Rashee Rice fallout, Seahawks sale buzz and more

Plus, the Vikings narrowed their GM search, NFL owners approved another private equity investment and the league's Olympic flag football plans are taking shape

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May 20 • 2:33 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
EDC Fairhaven Friends Business Mixer with State Rep. Mark Sylvia – June 4 at 5:30pm

FAIRHAVEN’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INVITES YOU TO FAIRHAVEN & FRIENDS BUSINESS MIXER MEET STATE REP MARK SYLVIA, BUILD CONNECTIONS & EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES! JUNE 4, 2026…

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May 20 • 12:17 PM EDT • Business • fairhaven-ma.gov
Hong Kong Meeting Advances Landmark Equine Health Center Proposal

A major step forward for the safe international movement of competition horses in the Asia-Pacific region was announced in Hong Kong in April, with a plan to establish the first World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) Collaborating Center for Equine Health and Movement. The proposal was ...

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May 20 • 11:17 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Where Data Meets Care: Advancing Medicine Through Research

Research presented at a national healthcare conference this past month may already be shaping the care patients receive today. From safer opioid prescribing after surgery to better understanding cardiovascular risk and the role of mental health support in cancer care, Sutter Health researchers shared studies at the 2026 Health Care Systems Research Network Conference in […]

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May 20 • 10:18 AM EDT • Health • vitals.sutterhealth.org
Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Niko Dawson, Washington University in St. Louis -

Nikolas Dawson (he/they) is a second-year political science PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in formal theory and American politics. His fields of study include political behavior, elites, and minority politics (broadly [...]

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May 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • politicalsciencenow.com
Quantum Innovation Meets Future of Environmental Science

Researchers from across academia, government and industry gathered at Stony Brook University for the Quantum Information Science for the Geosciences Workshop.

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May 20 • 9:37 AM EDT • Science • news.stonybrook.edu
Meet a Health Hero: Cheryl Colleluori of HEADstrong Foundation

This 2025 finalist carried on her son’s legacy after his death from lymphoma, helping cancer patients find free lodging during treatments.

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May 20 • 7:45 AM EDT • Health • phillymag.com
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Germany Politics

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul attends the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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May 20 • 4:50 AM EDT • Politics • journal-news.com
Putin hails ‘unshakable foundations’ in meeting with China’s Xi
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May 20 • 4:06 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
China’s Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Beijing

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin hold talks just days after US President Donald Trump made an official visit to China.

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May 19 • 11:34 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
2026 KPAX-Scheels Sports Awards: Big Sky's Averi Larson and Cormack Batt

It's our final day of introducing you to our finalists for this year's KPAX-Scheels Sports Awards, and today, we meet the duo from Big Sky High School in Averi Larsen and Cormack Batt.

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May 19 • 2:21 PM EDT • Sports • kpax.com
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Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
France Politics

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech during a conference named "No Money for Terror", on the sidelines of the G7 finance ministers meeting, aimed at cutting off financing of

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May 19 • 1:43 PM EDT • Politics • journal-news.com
DOJ Accessibility: What Businesses Should Do Now Rather Than Later

For many organizations, the work needed to meet these standards needs to be started now if they plan to meet even the extension. ​

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May 19 • 12:30 PM EDT • Business • rollingstone.com
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Roundup: More identity verification tech for digital health exchanges

Verato launches a shared identity verification infrastructure to simplify healthcare operations. Epic makes IAL2-compliant patient identity tools from 1Kosmos and Vouched available in MyChart, while Zoom adds AI-driven human assurance in video meetings.

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May 19 • 12:10 PM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
Entertainment District Focus Group meets for the last time

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – The Berglund Center is awaiting an upgrade, but the city is just not sure what the upgrade will be yet. That’s why Roanoke City Council Member, Phazhon Nash, organ…

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May 19 • 11:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • wfxrtv.com
Why Warren Buffett's meeting guide expects bigger crowd next year

Tilman Versch, who's published numerous guides to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, explained why he's optimistic about attendance next year.

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May 19 • 10:49 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Central's Jacie Reardon embraces chaos of multi-sport spring, enters state among top throwers

Reardon is ranked top-three in the discus, shot put and javelin ahead of this week's state meet.

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May 19 • 8:54 AM EDT • Sports • grandforksherald.com
MEET THE SAILORS, FLY-BYS AND NON-STOP ENTERTAINMENT – WHAT NOT TO MISS IN CAGLIARI THIS WEEKEND

The first stop on the ‘Road to Naples’ for the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup is happening this weekend in Sardinia, on the beautiful waters of the Bay of Angels sat before the bustling port city of Cagliari. Forecasters are predicting ‘champagne’ conditions for the eight teams contesting the Prelim Regatta, and if the sea-breeze comes in, we can expect a feast of top-class international foiling in the world’s most exciting fleet-racing class – the AC40.

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May 19 • 8:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • americascup.com
Meet the new Trader: Nomadic Envoys

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • arcraiders.com
Meet Ed Gallrein, the man in the middle of the Donald Trump-Thomas Massie fight

The race against Rep. Thomas Massie has overshadowed the campaign for Ed Gallrein, the farmer and former Navy SEAL recruited to run against him.

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May 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
International health experts meet in search for Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine options

A panel of experts led by the World Health Organization will ​meet on Tuesday to discuss if there ‌are any vaccine options to help tackle a major Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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May 19 • 3:43 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Australian medical college leader suspended from position over alleged health and safety breach

Dr Sharmila Chandran suspended until 20 September as Royal Australasian College of Physicians agrees to work with regulator to meet its obligations

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May 19 • 1:48 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Planning Commission to discuss entertainment zones

The Vacaville Planning Commission will meet Tuesday evening to discuss the possibility of entertainment zones in Downtown Vacaville, conduct a General Plan Consistency Review for the Capital Improvement Program, amend the Vandengate…

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May 18 • 9:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • thereporter.com
Politics in park prove positive

More than 30 political candidates descended upon Cody for Politics in the Park, drawing voters from around the basin for the opportunity to meet, learn and voice their concerns.

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May 18 • 3:30 PM EDT • Politics • codyenterprise.com
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Fort McCoy holds April 2026 meeting of Safety & Occupational Health Advisory Council

Fort McCoy held a special meeting of the installation Safety and Occupational Health Advisory Council (SOHAC) on April 1, 2026, that included Fort McCoy...

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May 18 • 3:02 PM EDT • Health • army.mil
Meet ‘Snuffleupagus,’ a newfound fish sporting shaggy camouflage

Found near Australia, Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a shaggy swimmer that closely resembles Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street.

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May 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Greed meets greed: DraftKings to close its Wrigley Field sportsbook at the end of May over Illinois tax

DraftKings announced it is closing its Wrigley Field sportsbook May 31, citing Illinois's new per-bet tax on internet wagers as the core reason.

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May 18 • 12:33 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
Meet Dr. Claw: The open-source AI assistant revolutionizing the research workflow

Lehigh University researchers have built the first “AI for Science” software tool designed to support the entire project workflow for research scientists. Dr. Claw is an open-source, full-stack AI research assistant that helps users refine ideas, conduct literature reviews, run experiments, draft and review papers, write grant proposals, and build presentations. It eliminates the need to toggle between specialized AI tools—such as deep research agents for source evaluation or code generators for data analysis—by unifying these capabilities within a single interface.

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May 18 • 12:28 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to.

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May 18 • 11:26 AM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
Meet the Graduates: School of Business Majors Are Going Places

Meet the spring 2026 graduates of the College of Charleston School of Business and find out what they're doing next.

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May 18 • 10:18 AM EDT • Business • today.charleston.edu
Lululemon takes battle with Chip Wilson public, calls founder 'misguided' and 'outdated'

Lululemon responded publicly to founder Chip Wilson's campaign in a letter to shareholders, where it urged them to vote in its favor at its annual meeting.

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May 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
State council says Wisconsin facing ‘mental health crisis’

The Interagency Council on Mental Health has released a report outlining how Wisconsin can meet residents’ mental health needs.

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May 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • captimes.com
Colorado GOP plays with fire as primary approaches

Over the next several weeks, the Colorado Republican Party will make consequential decisions that will determine just how relevant it will be in 2026 and beyond. The 600-member Colorado Republican State Central Committee will meet on May 30 to elect a new state chair following the resignation of Brita Horn. The Colorado Republican Primary Election […]

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May 18 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Cavaliers crush Pistons to reach conference finals: Instant takeaways

The Cleveland Cavaliers dominated the top-seeded Pistons in Detroit in Game 7 of their playoff series and will meet the New York Knicks next.

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May 17 • 10:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Won’t be anything left’: Trump issues warning to Iran after national security team meeting

President Donald Trump met with top members of his national security team on Saturday to discuss the path forward on the Iran war, a source familiar with meeting told CNN, a day before he said Tehran “better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them.”

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May 17 • 3:49 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Everton 1-3 Sunderland: What Moyes said

Merlin Rohl is the very first German player to score for Everton in the Premier League and the newest nationality to strike for the Toffees in the competition since Guinea-Bissau's Beto in December 2023. Everton manager David Moyes has lost his last three Premier League meetings with his former sides.

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May 17 • 1:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Laredo Public Health offers school vaccines ahead of new year

Parents should check their child’s immunization records before classes start to ensure they meet Texas vaccine requirements for school enrollment.

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May 17 • 12:41 PM EDT • Health • kgns.tv
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WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

The WHO said the outbreak does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency like COVID-19, and advised against the closure of international borders.

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May 17 • 10:36 AM EDT • Health • abc7.com
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

The WHO said the outbreak does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency like COVID-19, and advised against the closure of international borders.

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May 17 • 10:36 AM EDT • Health • abc7ny.com
Senate parliamentarian deals blow to $1B security proposal for White House

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules.

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May 17 • 10:32 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Conte set for showdown talks with Napoli within 10 days

Napoli are in a hurry to know Antonio Conte’s plans for the future and according to Gazzetta, the Italian tactician will meet with club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis and director Giovanni Manna within...

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May 17 • 5:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Only 3% of students meet standards in science: National assessment data revealed

Partial data from Israel’s 2025 Meitzav national assessment exams has been revealed, showing that only 3% of ninth-grade students met the benchmark in the science exam, while 54% failed.

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May 17 • 4:10 AM EDT • Science • israelnationalnews.com
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€100m Liverpool target may remain in Bundesliga

Yan Diomande Transfer Race Takes Fresh TwistLiverpool Target Faces Bayern ShadowYan Diomande has become the sort of name that turns recruitment meetings into longer conversations. At 19, with 13 goals...

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May 17 • 2:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

The World Health Organization said the outbreak does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency, and advised against the closure of international borders.

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May 17 • 1:05 AM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo global health emergency

The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 cases and 80 deaths, does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency.

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May 16 • 10:55 PM EDT • Health • bbc.com
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Senate parliamentarian deals blow to $1 billion security proposal for White House

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules.

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May 16 • 10:39 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
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Senate parliamentarian deals blow to $1 billion security proposal for White House

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian.

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May 16 • 10:39 PM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
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WHO says Ebola in Congo, Uganda is global public health emergency

The World Health Organization said in a statement that the outbreak, however, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency.

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May 16 • 9:55 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
Iran's status for World Cup gains some clarity

Iran announced its preliminary World Cup roster on Saturday following meetings with FIFA that appeared to make progress toward the country participating in the tournament.

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May 16 • 8:33 PM EDT • Sports • seattletimes.com
Schmitz Custom Meats opens for business in Dell Rapids

Schmitz Custom Meats held a grand opening Saturday, offering a community celebration, meet and greet, drinks, and of course, delicious food.

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May 16 • 6:48 PM EDT • Business • dakotanewsnow.com
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. Chart of the Week BYD Eyes 20 Dealership Locations After Canada Greenlights Chinese EV Imports ‘Sledgehammer’ Carbon Price Deal Boosts Emissions by 230Mt, Aims for Fall 2027 Pipeline Approval ‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn Electricity Strategy Aims for Doubling by 2050, Allows ‘Flexibility’ for Gas Power Plants Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah Diluted Carbon Price Misses ‘Reality of the World We’re In’, Could Impede Diversified Trade: Climate Institute $200B in Clean Energy Investment Will Need On-Time Delivery, Reliable Policies, Trade Association Says ‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands What a Supercharged El Niño Could Mean for Canada Canada’s future is electric, and here’s how a power grid superhighway would get us there (Toronto Star) The Perilous Waters of Hecate Strait (Globe and Mail) Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East (The Guardian) Farmers confront rising cost of fertilizer and fuel as spring seeding under way (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Clarkson forecasts 24% decline in offshore oil, gas capital expenditures (Oil & Gas Journal) Pipe Dreams: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa (Oil Change International) Developing countries must hold the pen to script the fossil fuel transition (Climate Home News) Iran war threatens the dream of a post-oil economy in the Gulf (Washington Post) U.S. Oil, Gas Work Force Hits Lowest Level Since 2022 (Rigzone) Why Polestar Is Doubling Down on Net Zero as Rivals Pull Back on EVs (Bloomberg) Why this Michigan utility plans to sell its hydro dams for $13 (E&E News/Politico) Levees can no longer save New Orleans (Vox)

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Prep Sports Report: Brossart scoring machine takes team title in Class 1A girls region track meet

By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter The Brossart girls track and field team was a scoring machine that produced points in nearly event during the Class 1A, Region 4 meet on Friday at Brossart. In 11 of the 18 events, Brossart picked up 10 points or more and finished with a 166 team total to...

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Indiana Farmer Balances High-Profile Ag Politics With Family Farm Values

Indiana farmer Tyler Everett shares his experience welcoming Brooke Rollins into his combine and meeting President Trump. Back on the farm, he focuses on making smart financial choices and protecting family time.

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Fake lawyers, scientists, chefs and punters: meet the ‘white monkeys’ paid to make Chinese businesses look global

A foreign face is often thought to add prestige to a product or business – what’s behind this unregulated economy?

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Colorado Politics Calendar May 18-24

CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber, […]

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World Health Organization Must Prioritize Workers, Experts Say

After Trump stopped funding the WHO, the agency retreated from occupational safety and health programs, putting millions of workers at risk as the planet warms, advocates contend. They hope its leaders change that when they meet next week.

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Joao Pedro transfer news: Barcelona sporting director Deco meets with Chelsea striker's agent
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Opinion: DPW Building Committee Needs to Change How It Conducts Its Business

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, I drove to downtown Amherst in the middle of the afternoon to attend a meeting of the committee overseeing the construction of the town's new DPW facility — the DPW Building Committee (DPWBC). There was essentially one agenda item: reviewing the evaluation criteria that will be used to select a

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Trump leaves China with breakthroughs — and unfinished business on Xi’s biggest fights

Trump returns from China summit praising Xi and trade progress, but Taiwan, AI, human rights, and Iran remain unresolved after high-stakes talks.

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2026 Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain hosts the Vegas-set ceremony this weekend, with Megan Moroney and Ella Langley among the top nominees

Yahoo rounded up everything there is to know about the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday, from the evening's full roster of performers and nominees to who Twain is most excited to meet.

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Andrew Abbott leaned into some science to get his season back on track

Andrew Abbott locked in on the stick-figure graphic of himself. The world of biomechanics is very advanced. But with Abbott going through the worst rut of his big league career, he opened up to some new ideas to get himself back on track. He asked for some help, and he leaned into some sports science. He said the stick figures made it clear, and he credits biomechanics for helping him get his season back on track. Over his last three starts, he has allowed two total runs in 17 ⅔ innings. “There’s a photo of (me) last year and the year before on a graph, and this year is in a different color,” Abbott said. “You see where you are in comparison to that. Where the hands are at this moment, where your feet are, where the knee is, where your head is at, where your shoulders are at, it breaks it all down if you want it.” When Abbott saw his mechanics in this objective way, he recognized exactly what had been going wrong. “When my tempo, my feet and my hands are aligned, then normally my mechanics are sound,” Abbott said. “And when my mechanics are sound, my stuff behaves normally. The fastball is jumpy. I’m up in velo. My extension is better.” Abbott said that he started diving more into his biomechanics in the middle of April. The Reds have a biomechanics team, which works closely with pitching coach Derek Johnson and hitting coach Chris Valaika. Leading the group is biomecahnics manager Franky Mulloy. “I laugh every day,” Francona said. “When Franky starts talking, I start laughing. I remind him to know his audience.” Francona isn’t a scientist. The Reds’ manager jokes about his own comprehension of the data. But it’s easy for him to recognize the value that the biomechanics team is providing. “That’s why we got them,” Francona said. Abbott said that he had his first big biomechanics-oriented meeting in the middle of April. Behind the scenes, there was already a lot of communication going on within the Reds’ staff. “Franky calculates all the things, builds it into these graphs, and DJ gets them,” Abbott said. “They have their internal communication. Then, we go to them and ask what about this or that. The main thing for me is arm angle.” The data shows Abbott how his arm angle evolves from start to start. He hasn’t meant to change it. But just like all of us, our posture might be different from one day to the next. Pitchers’ arm angles can make minor shifts without the pitcher or even coaches noticing. But the data can’t miss a change like that. Abbott recognized that his arm angle had been moving around without him noticing. Now, he checks in with the data to make sure that his mechanics are in sync. “They get into these cool looking graphs,” Abbott said. “I can’t really describe them. I don’t know what they are. But for me, it’s a photo of a stick figure of myself.” The stick figure of his current positioning is superimposed over previous versions of himself. With that format, Abbott can compare his mechanics on any given day to what they were when he was pitching at his very best. “It was very noticeable from the moment I saw this year as black compared to two years ago and last year, it was very, very different,” Abbott said. “I could see with my eyes without having to ask any questions about the difference in the photos.” For any pitcher, there are a lot of moving pieces in your delivery. For Abbott to be the best version of himself, he needs his head, his arm, his hand, his knee and his feet to be on the right “tempo.” “Tempo is a word I’ve used a lot,” Abbott said. “Getting everything in certain areas working together.” He has been much better at that recently. The data backs that up, and so does Abbott’s ERA. The biomechanics data has also given the Reds’ staff and Abbott some better ideas for some training that he can do between starts. He has added drills to shore up areas of his body that Abbott needed to make stronger. “They make a plan based off what they see,” Abbott said. “If things start changing, we know what to revert back to.” Overall, Abbott says that he’s not a very analytical guy. There’s so much information out there, and he says that it’s important for him to not get too analytical when he breaks down his specific pitches. He has learned the value of being “analytical about mechanics.” And the way that the Reds presented that information to him made it easier for him to make the right adjustments without being overloaded by information. “It was a very simple fix,” Abbott said. “It took a long time to finally get there, feel the results and see it. But for the most part, it was very simple to apply it.”

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City Council Business Meeting on May 19, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.

The agenda for the City Council Business Meeting on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. will be as follows:

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From left, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Commander Clair Haynes, and Commissioner Mark Rowley meet police officers to discuss operational planning, in London, Friday, May 15,

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From left, Commander Clair Haynes, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan meet police officers to discuss operational planning, in London, Friday, May 15, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet with police officers to discuss operational planning ahead of this weekend's protests in London, Friday, May 15, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)

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Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene: In some Harry Potter version of 21st-century London, a group of deathless UK Treasury officials gathered from across the last century huddle over warm pints and glasses of Chardonnay. Around the table there are officials from the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1970s, 2022 and today. Inevitably, in May 2026, the subject of conversation is the disintegration of the current Labour government. Despite its huge majority in parliament, it has been reduced to tatters by catastrophic local election result. These exposed the fact that rather than having a government with a clear popular majority, the UK is like most other modern societies divided into 5 segments each of which commands between 26 and 16 percent of the vote. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the leadership at Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street - where the Prime Minister and the Chancellor (Treasury Secretary) work - seem paralyzed. They are caught between mounting discontent over unfairness and the cost of living, and tough fiscal strictures that push them into making unpopular spending decisions. In the London pub, the Treasury officials from across the ages, can barely hide their satisfaction at the latest display of democratic politics caught in the vice-grip of financial logic. “Remember the mur d’argent and the banker’s ramp?” “Just like yesterday!” There are smirks around the table. Then the representative of 2026 pipes up: “One thing you have to say about the current lot (referring to the latest hapless Labour government), you don’t have to teach them about the bond market!” There is a murmur of ascent from the Treasury Mandarins. The trauma of the fiscal crisis of September-October 2022 sits deep. Back then, in the final stages of Tory decay, a ‘mini budget’ that challenged fiscal orthodoxy led to a brief but fierce panic in one of the oldest government bond markets in the world (aka gilt market). Now all you have to do is to mention the “bond market” to hush debate. [ Paul Mason@paulmasonnews In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/ 3:57 PM · May 12, 2026 · 466K Views 224 Replies · 674 Reposts · 3.93K Likes ](https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082?s=20) “And the funny thing is”, the young man in the huddle continues, “they don’t even want to talk about … ”. There is a sudden hush. Significant looks are exchanged around the table. About? One of the senior figures puts down his glass with a decisive “clink”. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has entered their thoughts. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a grubby pub in Bloomsbury, two conspirators from the camp of Critical Macrofinance huddle over cans of low-alcohol IPA. They look at each other and blurt out loud: “The Bank!” “Everyone in the bloody Labour party is talking about the bond market. But why aren’t they even mentioning … the Bank of England!?” “Why is no one talking about Voldemort?” In Paul Mason’s blogpost, after much chest-thumping about basic fiscal logic, the basic point about the Bank of England is buried in the fine print at #3 in his list of suggestions as to what a radical Labour government might actually be able to do! [ Conflict & Democracy Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! It may seem unfair to focus on Labour MP Paula Barker for her off-the-cuff assertion that the bond market would have to “fall in line” with Andy Burnham, should he replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. But Burnham himself told the New Statesman that Labour had to “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets… Read more 2 days ago · 100 likes · 3 comments · Paul Mason ](https://htsf.substack.com/p/down-with-the-bond-market-down-with?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Back in Bloomsbury they shake their heads and ask: “Didn’t we learn anything from the Eurozone crisis?” Meanwhile, as if summoned to the conversation by some higher force, the “pink pages” announce: “The days of ultra-cheap government borrowing have come to an end” and Martin “Whizzard” Wolf publishes the graph of the season Look at the UK in 2026, perilously positioned on the upper edge of the pack. No wonder no one in London needs any lessons about the “bond market”. But, look again. Imagine how they feel in Rome. What is London’s nightmare in 2026? The nightmare is that you end up like Italy in the early 2010s during the Eurozone crisis. Once comfortably situated in the middle of the pack, watching with horror as your ten-year yields explode to 7 percent and “spreads” become a national nightmare. One of the largest economies in Europe, a founding member of the euro, stigmatized. But the message of the Italian experience is ambiguous. After all, the stigma didn’t last. In 2026, Italy borrows at rates lower not only than the UK but the US. The US, which, as everyone knows, enjoys the “exorbitant privilege” of being the issuer of reserve, safe asets. What kind of magic is this? How did Italy, in the space of fifteen years, go from being good, to bad and back again? Which brings us back to our dissident friends in their Bloombury boozer and their memories of the Eurozone crisis. Italy never was Britain - with its ongoing fiscal deficits. Without interest payments, on primary balance, from 2000 to 2020 Italy ran a tight fiscal ship. Even in 2008 it barely went into deficit and when it was being put on the rack in the early 20210s its primary surplus matched that of austere Germany. So, what happened? How did it end up stigmatized? Of course Italian politics didn’t help. Berlusconi was at the helm and he had legal issues. But amongst friends in the Bloomsbury pub, Berlusconi is a sideshow, the name we whisper to each other is “Trichet”. From 2004 to 2011 the ECB was headed by Jean-Claude Trichet, ex of the French Treasury, more German than the Germans. After 2009 as the news of the Greek fiscal disaster broke, the European bond markets wento into panic mode and Trichet began a brutal game of cat and mouse. Between 2009 and 2011, Trichet intervened in the bond market to help, only when he thought he had compliance with austerity. When he thought they were uncooperative, he withdrew. In the summer of 2011, he even made direct suggestions to his Italian counterparts in Rome, as to how Italy should be governed. It was this cat and mouse game that drove the bond markets crazy and exposed Italy to a violent squeeze. When Mario Draghi took over the ECB at the end of 2011 and declared “whatever it takes”, the pressure on Italy, gradually eased. It is that starring role that has made Draghi into the towering figure in European politics that he remains today. So now you see why voices in London hush when it comes to the Bank of England. “The bond market” isn’t an irresistible objective force like the weather or an avalanche. It can appear like that. But that depends on the way it is being handled, or not handled by the central bank. Which is why the silence about the Bank of England in London right now is so significant. If you think this all sounds a bit fishy, coming from a left-liberal Keynesian like myself, well, let me introduce you to Robin Brooks, who, to put it mildly, plays on a different quidditch team to me. Here, from the position of a fiscal hawk is Robin’s celebratory account of the Bank of England’s role since 2022; In October 2022, at the height of the bond market blow-up in the UK, something incredible happened. Governor Andrew Bailey told British pension funds the Bank of England would end its support program for the country’s fragile gilt market, drawing a line under how much help the central bank was willing to give to exposed pension funds and - implicitly - the government. By the end of that week, Kwasi Kwarteng - the finance minister - had resigned. Prime Minister Liz Truss would soon follow. This episode is so incredible because it contrasts with what happened in the Euro zone earlier that year. Bond markets in Spain and Italy were under pressure amid high inflation and rising interest rates. In the middle of this, Mario Draghi - Italy’s Prime Minister - resigned, compounding pressure on bond markets of high-debt countries on the Euro periphery. Unlike the Bank of England, the ECB caved. It bought Italian and Spanish government bonds in an effort to cap yields and introduced a new tool that signaled to markets it might do such caps more frequently going forward. Faced with pressure on bond markets, the ECB capitulated to political pressure from high-debt countries like Italy and Spain. The Bank of England stood its ground and toppled the Truss government. This kind of thing has long-lasting consequences. It means markets price a higher probability of yield caps in the Euro zone, which keeps Italian and Spanish yields artificially low, while markets feel free to push up UK yields without fear of central bank intervention. As I flagged in yesterday’s post, this means you really can’t compare UK yields to those of other high-debt countries. The UK looks worse, but only because its central bank isn’t interfering with markets. There’s more to this than just that 2022 episode. The Bank of England has also been much more aggressive in its quantitative tightening (QT) than other central banks. If one motivation for quantitative easing (QE) is to lower bond yields - especially longer-dated ones - then it stands to reason QT pushes yields up. The left chart above shows a four-quarter moving average of UK government debt issuance (black line) in percent of GDP and which sectors absorb this issuance, including the Bank of England (blue bars). The right chart above compares the Bank of England’s accumulation or run-off of government bonds (blue line) with that of other central banks, where this blue line is the same as the blue bars in the left chart. The Bank of England was quicker and more aggressive than other central banks in downsizing its bond holdings, so UK yields will have risen more than elsewhere also for this reason, not just because of Governor Andrew Bailey’s remarks in October 2022. Back in October 2025, after a conversation in New York with friends in British politics, my sense of dysphoria was such that I raised the issue of the Bank of England openly in the FT Since 2008, the UK has slid into a deep economic and political predicament. Growth has stagnated to a degree far worse even than in the 1970s. The Tory leadership’s wager on the Brexit referendum spectacularly backfired, leaving the UK isolated from Europe and at the mercy of its special relationship with the US, many of whose political class regard the UK as a basket case. After years of austerity, the Labour party lurched to the left and then back to the centre. The Tory party has been eclipsed by the populist nationalism of Reform. Any British government should be worrying first and foremost about how to restart growth. Instead, Keir Starmer is beset by shades of the gilt market panic triggered by the Liz Truss government in 2022. The debt level is higher than in recent years, but there is no cause for panic. UK debt is at far from critical levels and of long duration. Whether you want to “take back control” or launch progressive economic policy, a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank. Since 1997, the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow. But independence is what you make of it. And in the wake of the gilt market crisis of September 2022, relations between the Bank of England and the UK government need a reset. In normal times, there is no doubt that an inflation-targeting independent central bank can serve a country well. But since 2008, the UK and other advanced economies have not had the luxury of such simple problems. To their credit, central bankers around the world have not stood on orthodoxy. After 2008, the US Federal Reserve rescued the global banking system and, through quantitative easing, it stabilised the Treasury market in the face of huge deficits. In Europe, things were trickier. Both the Bank of England under Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet’s European Central Bank played cat and mouse with national governments. This was a high stakes wager that between 2010 and 2012 escalated bond market tension and triggered a disastrous turn to austerity. Shaken by the impact of those shocks, their successors, Mark Carney and Mario Draghi adopted a more protective stance (assuming you were not the government of Greece). Recall that Draghi’s legendary slogan, “Whatever it takes”, was uttered to face down the City of London’s bond vigilantes. In 2015, Draghi launched QE — financial repression by another name. In 2016, Carney used the authority of the Bank of England to stabilise markets following the vote for Brexit, an exemplary demonstration of how central banks can underpin democratic choice, even when those choices are wrong headed. All these were independent central bankers steeped in the best practice of the 1990s, who recognised that historic crises demanded radical action. It was the price surge of 2021-2023 that poisoned the atmosphere. Though the shock came mainly from the supply side, central banks ended up in the dock. Nowhere more so than in the UK. The Bank of England reacted with aggressive normalisation. Faced with a cost of living crisis, the governor called for workers to accept real wage cuts. In early 2022, as gas prices were at record levels and Russia’s army was poised to invade Ukraine, the Bank adopted a stringent programme of quantitative tightening, elevating interest rates. When the Truss government got itself in trouble, the Bank took almost a week to come to the rescue. Rather than enacting a charade of normality, it is time to recognise that in 2025 the UK faces a period of historic transition. To meet this challenge, what is needed is a new concordat with the Bank. This should not ignore inflationary pressures or the long-run trajectory of debt, but should affirm the priority of reviving investment-led growth. One could follow Donald Trump in demanding interest rate cuts. The Bank could shadow the ECB in its commitment to capping Eurozone yields. But the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022. The Bank’s slowing of QT last month was a concession. An immediate and complete end would send the right signal. Such a concordat will not by itself restore sanity to politics, solve the housing problem or rebuild the NHS. But it would help to lift the fear of bond market crisis, which is paralysing the effort by democratic politicians to answer the fundamental questions facing the nation. Now, that call for a new concordat between government and Bank of Englands seems more urgent than ever. The problem is that in October 2025, Starmer still had some authority. Today the government is in tatters. And when you are the “under the harrow” - to echo a phrase of Montagu Norman’s from the 1920s - it is the worst possible time to consider institutional change. To make general arguments at a time of crisis can only seem like special pleading rather than a general argument for long-term change. The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic institutional reform that Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated first past the post electoral system and its replacement by a moderated form of proportional representation. And thirdly - whilst we are saying the quiet parts out loud - Britain needs to reopen the question of EU membership. What the local election results of 2026 show is that this remains a key issue. And what they also show is that there is a clear majority that would favor a return. Until these basic features of Britain’s political economy are addressed the country will carry on its politics as though in a haunted house, governed by governments that lack actual majorities, conjuring up false constraints whilst ignoring the real ones. This one is for DG and MI. I love writing the newsletter. If you enjoy it too and fancy buying me a coffee once a month, you know what to do. Click below! Subscribe

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May 15 • 3:04 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com
Moss Point holds community forum for sports complex project feedback

On Thursday, Moss Point community members and leaders attended a meeting at City Hall to discuss community concerns over the city’s plans for a sports complex.

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May 14 • 11:32 PM EDT • Sports • wlox.com
Public Notice: Ashland City Council Business Meeting Agenda - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News

Ashland City Council Business Meeting Agenda Tuesday, May 19, 2026Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast on Spectrum 180. Public comment is

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May 14 • 11:19 PM EDT • Business • ashland.news
Business owners impacted by Winston Weaver fire learn about filing claims for compensation

Business owners affected by the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant fire attended a meeting to discuss filing claims for compensation from a $4.5 million class action settlement.

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May 14 • 11:15 PM EDT • Business • wxii12.com
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How 4 Colleges Are Helping Close Health-Care Gaps

They’re establishing training programs, student-run clinics and community-based care models to meet their neighbors’ needs and educate students.

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May 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • insidehighered.com
Council approves Entertainment Zone; review set for fall

An Entertainment Zone was officially established in downtown Winters at the May 5 Winters City Council meeting after a final vote was delayed to allow more time for public feedback.

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May 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • wintersexpress.com
Trump and Xi set for second day of talks after Taiwan warning

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet on Friday to wrap ​up a two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals but also a stark warning from Xi that mishandling the Taiwan ‌issue could push U.S.-China relations to a very dangerous place.

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May 14 • 6:02 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Cuban government says CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with officials in Havana

The meeting was reportedly held to foster political dialogue between the two long-strained adversaries

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May 14 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Cuban government says CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with officials in Havana

The meeting was reportedly held to foster political dialogue between the two long-strained adversaries

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May 14 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
'Boy Meets World' star Rider Strong confesses 'shame and fear' of aging: 'I'm letting the world down'

Rider Strong says he's struggled with 'shame and fear' around aging, with his 'Boy Meets World' costars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle describing the 'body dysmorphia' that Hollywood can breed.

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May 14 • 4:19 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Witness accounts vary of Josh Wooten encounter during Board meeting

'The initial contact appeared to be a friendly tap on the shoulder.'

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May 14 • 3:30 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Six Popular iPhone Apps Now Available on CarPlay

Apple's CarPlay system for accessing iPhone apps on a vehicle's dashboard screen has received six popular apps in recent weeks: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Google Meet, WhatsApp, and the indie artist streaming platform Audiomack. Make sure you have the latest version of each app and they will automatically appear on CarPlay. ChatGPT Starting with iOS 26.4, CarPlay supports voice-based conversational apps.

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May 14 • 12:10 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
2026 KPAX-Scheels Sports Awards: Loyola's Sammy McHugh and Joe Grunow

We roll on introducing you to our finalists for this year's KPAX-Scheels Sports Awards, and next, we meet the finalists from Loyola Sacred Heart High School in Sammy McHugh and Joe Grunow.

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May 14 • 11:49 AM EDT • Sports • kpax.com
Engineering a Legacy: Meet the Boca High Science Olympiad Star Senior

Senior Spotlight: Ryan, Boca High. 5x Science Olympiad champ & robotics star. Off to Georgia Tech for Engineering!

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May 14 • 9:43 AM EDT • Science • palmbeachschools.org
AI filmmaking startup Flick lands $6M seed funding: pitch deck

Meet the AI filmmaking startup Flick, which joined Y Combinator and raised a $6 million seed. It wants to be a go-to tool for creatives.

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May 14 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Meet Anno Takahiro, founder of Japan’s hottest political party

The software engineer and sci-fi writer wants to use AI to reshape politics

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May 14 • 8:55 AM EDT • Politics • economist.com
Lions vs. Bears Thanksgiving Day kickoff time, network announced

The Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears will meet on Thanksgiving Day. Kickoff time and TV info was released.

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May 14 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Business formations hit all-time high as ‘under-employed’ Americans turn to side hustles to make ends meet

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The Graduation Issue 2026: Best of graduating seniors in men’s sports

Meet the best men’s athletes graduating in the Class of 2026.

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May 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • thedp.com
Pageantry meets politics: Xi’s stark Taiwan warning counters Trump’s optimism

Xi warns Trump that mishandling Taiwan could spark U.S.-China conflict; trade, Iran crisis, and economic ties also dominate Beijing summit.

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May 14 • 6:20 AM EDT • Politics • scrippsnews.com