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Dispatch is censored on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and this might be the reason why

Nudity and other mature content has reportedly been censored in the Nintendo versions…

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Jan 29 • 5:53 AM EST • Technology • videogameschronicle.com
Lions may have Georgia Tech QB on NFL draft radar

The Detroit Lions reportedly talked with Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King at the Shrine Bowl.

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Jan 29 • 5:47 AM EST • Sports • lionswire.usatoday.com
How widespread sports betting affects NFL players: ‘People have said they’d kill me’

We asked NFL players about their interactions with sports bettors and fantasy players — and whether they participate themselves.

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Jan 29 • 5:30 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
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Opinion | A ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ on What’s Wrong With Public Health

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

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Jan 29 • 5:05 AM EST • Science • nytimes.com
Opinion | A ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ on What’s Wrong With Public Health

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

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Jan 29 • 5:05 AM EST • Health • nytimes.com
Hampton Town Meeting preview: Voters to weigh ICE pact, business trash

Should the town budget and proposed money articles gain approval, a homeowner with a $600,000 property will see a $301.24 increase in their tax bill.

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Jan 29 • 5:04 AM EST • Business • seacoastonline.com
Cairn and Peak Capture the Thrill of Climbing Mountains

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs and lows.

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Jan 29 • 5:01 AM EST • Technology • nytimes.com
TPS Expiration Under Trump Hits Haitian Workers in Critical Health Care Roles

Haitians are a vital source of employees for health care providers in many communities. The Trump administration is removing legal status next month for 330,000 of them.

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Jan 29 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • nytimes.com
How much B6 is safe? What to know about the supplement found in energy drinks

Poisoning caused by too much of the popular nutrient is rare, but cases are ticking up. Experts warn that people may not be aware they’re getting too much.

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Jan 29 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • nbcnews.com
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Why I decided to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health

“I don’t think people should have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records,” writes Liz Salmi.

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Jan 29 • 4:30 AM EST • Health • statnews.com
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Opinion: Colorado’s plan to cut sexual health education funding would erase real gains for rural students

The statewide program is a key element in Colorado’s commitment to support the mental health and well-being of our young people.

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Jan 29 • 3:30 AM EST • Health • coloradosun.com
Full UFC 325 press conference faceoffs
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Jan 29 • 3:18 AM EST • Sports • mmajunkie.usatoday.com
Full-length Replay: Big East Men's: DePaul at Georgetown

From Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

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Jan 29 • 3:17 AM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
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Inside Maryland’s High-Stakes Bid for Trump’s $50 Billion Rural Health Fund

The White House asked states to compete for a rare pot of new money dedicated to transforming health care across rural America.

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Jan 29 • 3:01 AM EST • Health • tradeoffs.org
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How an inspiring home video launched a main event fighter

How Francesca Hennessy - who headlines on BBC Two on Saturday - went from weight and dyslexia struggles to viral fame and in sight of a world-title shot.

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Jan 29 • 2:29 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com
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Weak dollar drives gold over $5,500 an ounce for first time, amid geopolitical and debasement fears

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Jan 29 • 2:24 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
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Iconic sports bar in Palo Alto reopens and prepares for the Super Bowl

Businesses are getting ready for big crowds and watch parties; that includes an iconic spot in Palo Alto that just reopened in time for the Super Bowl.

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Jan 29 • 2:22 AM EST • Sports • nbcbayarea.com
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Pakistan becomes latest Asian country to introduce checks for deadly Nipah virus

Authorities in Pakistan have ordered enhanced screening of people entering the country for signs of infections of the deadly Nipah virus after India confirmed two cases, adding to the number of Asian countries stepping up controls.

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Jan 29 • 1:24 AM EST • Health • reuters.com
Xavier 68-86 Seton Hall: What was that?

My first job in high school was cleaning bathrooms at a state park campground. Camping is a foul enough activity, but what people did in those bathrooms defies explanation. I say this to let you know I have stared into the dark heart of a man experiencing a bowel emergency and apparently the desire to […]

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Jan 29 • 12:55 AM EST • Sports • bannersontheparkway.com
6 biggest takeaways from Tesla's Q4 earnings call

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a $2B investment into xAI and the discontinuation of Model S and Model X in order to support Optimus robot production.

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Jan 29 • 12:02 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
At World’s Busiest Port, China’s Unbalanced Economy Comes Into View

The shipping traffic and factories never stop in China’s port city of Ningbo, but the local housing market has crashed and nearby restaurants sit empty.

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Jan 29 • 12:00 AM EST • Business • nytimes.com
Laura Coates assesses the new video showing Alex Pretti clashing with agents days before his death
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Jan 28 • 11:47 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Nationals ink another pitcher, designate one for assignment
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Jan 28 • 10:50 PM EST • Sports • roundtable.io
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What Did Houston Texans RB’s Social Media Post Mean?
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Jan 28 • 10:30 PM EST • Sports • roundtable.io
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in ‘The Rip’
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Jan 28 • 9:34 PM EST • Entertainment • cnn.com
Prosecution requests July 1 state trial for Mangione in health care executive's killing

Defense attorneys for Luigi Mangione, charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024, said the date is unrealistic with a federal case also pending.

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Jan 28 • 8:46 PM EST • Health • nbcnews.com
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The Most Underrated and Disrespected Player on the Chicago Cubs
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Jan 28 • 8:30 PM EST • Sports • roundtable.io
America at a Boiling Point: From ICE Protests to an Attack on Rep. Omar

An attack at a town hall in Minneapolis, amid a surge in threats against lawmakers, was the latest sign of the fraying of the nation’s political fabric.

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Jan 28 • 7:47 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
US ski resorts devastated as worsening crisis impacts business: 'It's been really slow'

"You lose people, employees."

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Jan 28 • 7:45 PM EST • Business • yahoo.com
VA reorganization aims to shift health care workforce to hubs with growing veteran population

Congress directed the VA to make similar changes under the first Trump administration, but blocked it from implementing them under the Biden administration.

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Jan 28 • 6:46 PM EST • Health • federalnewsnetwork.com
Trump Rallies Business Leaders to Fund Accounts for Babies

The President joined with celebrities, CEOs, and officials to stoke support for the new Trump Accounts.

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Jan 28 • 6:42 PM EST • Business • time.com
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Geoff Mason, Sports Producer Thrust Into Covering Terrorism, Dies at 85

He played a critical role in ABC Sports’s reporting on the attack by a Palestinian group at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich that left 11 Israeli team members dead.

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Jan 28 • 6:30 PM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
Floods push crocodiles into Mozambican towns as health concerns rise

Floods in Mozambique have led to a new threat. Crocodiles are appearing in submerged towns and have killed at least three people. Torrential rains and severe flooding over the past month have killed more than 100 people in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Thousands of homes have been destr...

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Jan 28 • 6:28 PM EST • Health • wral.com
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Sergey Brin Spends $20 Million on California Political Effort Amid Wealth Tax Debate

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, is donating toward campaigns to solve California’s housing crisis, spurring other billionaires to pitch in. Their efforts may also help ward off a wealth tax.

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Jan 28 • 6:15 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
How to watch: Tennessee at Georgia

Another road test for Tennessee.

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Jan 28 • 6:10 PM EST • Sports • rockytoptalk.com
Get an Expert Guide to What’s Driving D.C.

In our newly relaunched Politics newsletter, Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta illuminates the people and powers shaping the nation’s capital

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Jan 28 • 5:35 PM EST • Politics • wsj.com
Attack on Ilhan Omar Follows Years of Trump’s Targeting Her

President Trump has spent years demonizing and dehumanizing the Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota, fueling escalating threats against her.

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Jan 28 • 5:33 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Music notes: Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding and more

The video for Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" — the fifth single from her album 1989 — has become her latest to rack up 1 billion views on YouTube. It's her sixth video to hit that milestone, following “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off,” “You Belong With Me,” “Bad Blood” and “Look What You Made Me Do.”

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Jan 28 • 5:30 PM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Speak at Saudi Business Forum

The Democrat and the hard-right commentator found at least one thing to agree upon as they spoke at a conference in Riyadh.

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Jan 28 • 5:26 PM EST • Business • nytimes.com
As major CEOs respond to ICE Minneapolis crackdown, CNBC survey finds many leaders saying it’s 'not relevant to their business'

Apple, OpenAI CEOs respond to ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, but a CNBC survey finds some business leaders sensing no business need, or fearing Trump backlash.

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Jan 28 • 5:19 PM EST • Business • cnbc.com
Rick Scott launches video series spotlighting Florida entrepreneurs

'Everything is possible when you work hard.'

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Jan 28 • 5:10 PM EST • Politics • floridapolitics.com
How violent videos on social media affect mental health

Dr. Varsha Radhakrishnan of Tufts Medical Center discusses how watching violent and distressing videos on social media can have harmful health effects.

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Jan 28 • 5:09 PM EST • Health • wcvb.com
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Tyler Austin on transitioning back to MLB
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Jan 28 • 5:00 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Blackstone's biggest hedge fund business returned 12% in 2025, sources say

Blackstone's biggest hedge fund platform, Absolute Return Composite (AR), returned nearly 12% last ​year, beating the benchmark HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index's 7.1% gain, two ‌people familiar with the numbers said on Wednesday.

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Jan 28 • 4:45 PM EST • Business • reuters.com
Browns hire George Warhop as OL coach
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Jan 28 • 4:42 PM EST • Sports • nbcsports.com
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Republicans Gave ICE a Slush Fund. Democrats Want to Limit It.

The sweeping domestic policy law that Republicans muscled through Congress last year made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the country, with no strings attached.

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Jan 28 • 3:43 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Hearing on Veterans Affairs Health Care System

The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee will hear testimony from Secretary Doug Collins on proposed changes to the department's health care system.

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Jan 28 • 3:30 PM EST • Health • c-span.org
Singer "Kid Rock" & Entertainment Policy Advocates Testify on Concert Ticket Fees

Singer "Kid Rock," Live Nation Entertainment VP Dan Wall & entertainment policy advocates testify to a Senate Commerce subcommittee on ticket prices and fees.

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Jan 28 • 2:30 PM EST • Entertainment • c-span.org
Henry Cavill suits up for eternal battle in first look at long-gestating 'Highlander' reboot

After a long wait, Henry Cavill shares the first look at his turn as Connor MacLeod in Chad Stahelski's upcoming 'Highlander' reboot: 'This has been quite the journey for me.'

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Jan 28 • 2:10 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Here's the Secret Galaxy S26 Ultra Display Security Feature You'll...

You guys know what a privacy screen is, right? A privacy screen allows someone viewing a display straight-on to be able to view content, while any off angle brings a tint... #GalaxyS26Ultra #Samsung

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Jan 28 • 2:04 PM EST • Technology • droid-life.com
Geauga County’s largest behavioral health provider to merge with Ashtabula agency

Ravenwood Health will merge with Ashtabula County’s Community Counseling Center as longtime CEO Vicki Clark retires, expanding behavioral health services.

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Jan 28 • 1:46 PM EST • Health • cleveland.com
Iran delegates import powers as US war threats keep economy unstable

Iranian governors gain new powers as country prepares for possible war amid sanctions and looming geopolitical tensions.

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Jan 28 • 1:17 PM EST • Politics • aljazeera.com
1st Zipps Sports Grill location reopens following Homeland Security raids

Zipps Sports Grill in Tempe, located near McClintock Drive and Warner Road, reopened on Jan. 28, the company announced.

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Jan 28 • 1:08 PM EST • Sports • fox10phoenix.com
Google brings its Nano Banana image generator to Chrome

Following its recent AI makeover of Gmail, Google is bringing more Gemini-powered tools to Chrome. Starting today, a host of new features are rolling for the browser, with more to come over the next few months.

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Jan 28 • 1:00 PM EST • Technology • engadget.com
Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware

A fake VS Code extension posing as a Moltbot AI assistant installed ScreenConnect malware, giving attackers persistent remote access to developer syst

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Jan 28 • 12:46 PM EST • Technology • thehackernews.com
Paramount+ plans move into short-form video, UGC: internal docs

Paramount executives want to add short-form video and user-generated content to Paramount+, according to leaked emails and presentations.

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Jan 28 • 12:33 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Review: AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a little faster and a lot more power-hungry

The tradeoffs for the $499 9850X3D make it hard to get excited about.

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Jan 28 • 11:41 AM EST • Technology • arstechnica.com
With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.

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Jan 28 • 11:00 AM EST • Science • nytimes.com
Former utility commissioner Tim Echols reflects on Georgia's new power politics

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Georgia Public Service Commission has entered a new era. After nearly two […]

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Jan 28 • 10:38 AM EST • Politics • wabe.org
Leak shows Google's new Aluminium OS in action for the first time

In screenshots and videos, we get a first peek at Google's new operating system that combines Android and ChromeOS.

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Jan 28 • 10:26 AM EST • Technology • pcworld.com
Women's College Hoops Spotlight: Georgetown Coach Praises 'Best' UConn Team

FOX Sports' Laken Litman breaks down Georgetown coach Darnell Haney's eyebrow-raising comments after UConn throttled his team.

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Jan 28 • 10:23 AM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon retiring as retailer gains more wealthy shoppers amid inflation

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon retires after 40 years, leaving behind a transformed retail giant that attracts higher-income shoppers through convenience.

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Jan 28 • 10:20 AM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
‘A sacred space of healing’: Church of Jesus Christ transforms health center in Liberia

A health center in Liberia was in ruins until it was transformed into “a sacred space of healing” through a project funded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Jan 28 • 9:42 AM EST • Health • deseret.com
Apple's 'Creator Studio' App Bundle Now Available for $12.99 Per Month

Apple today launched the new Creator Studio that was initially unveiled two weeks ago, providing content creators with access to six Apple apps for $12.99 per month or $129 per year. Creator Studio includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, along with Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on the Mac. Final Cut Pro is Apple's video editing software, Logic Pro is for audio editing and creation, and Pixelmator Pro is an image editing app that Apple purchased in 2024.

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Jan 28 • 9:30 AM EST • Technology • macrumors.com
Opinion | When Conservative Politics Hit Cash-Starved Universities

If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.

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Jan 28 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Our Darwinian Approach to Health Care Costs

In his latest column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman presents his Venn diagram of health care cost problems and shows how, in our fragmented health system, reducing one health cost problem often makes another worse.

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Jan 28 • 9:00 AM EST • Health • kff.org
Starbucks Says Turnaround ‘Ahead of Schedule’ as Sales Rebound

The coffee chain’s stock jumped after a better-than-expected earnings report.

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Jan 28 • 8:31 AM EST • Business • nytimes.com
After D.C. clears homeless encampments, health workers warn of growing risks

While Trump administration officials say that sweeps of homeless encampments make public spaces safer, health workers say they are disrupting care for people with serious medical needs and increasing the risk of illness and death.

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Jan 28 • 8:09 AM EST • Health • wamu.org
Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis

President Trump often blusters his way through a crisis, refusing to back down. Minneapolis tested the limits of that strategy.

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Jan 28 • 7:58 AM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Kemi Badenoch apologises for Suella Braverman mental health claim

But she branded defectors from the Conservative party "drama queens", saying people who did not agree with the direction she was taking the party "need to get out the way".

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Jan 28 • 7:56 AM EST • Health • bbc.com
How to Communicate About Quantum Technology — Science-Backed Tips For Talking Quantum

Research shows that most people know little about quantum technology, making clear, balanced communication essential.

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Jan 28 • 7:39 AM EST • Science • thequantuminsider.com
Peter Murray Tapped as CEO of Professional Bowlers Association and Head of Media for Lucky Strike Entertainment (Exclusive)

Murray had been the founding CFO of the MMA promotion Professional Fighters League.

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Jan 28 • 7:30 AM EST • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
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Barry Keoghan Is Nearly Unrecognizable with Long Hair in London, Plus Halle Berry, King Charles, Queen Camilla and More

Barry Keoghan is nearly unrecognizable with long hair in London, plus Halle Berry, King Charles, Queen Camilla and more. From London to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between, see what your favorite stars are up to.

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Jan 28 • 7:00 AM EST • Entertainment • people.com
What Happens to Your Body When You Take Vitamin D Supplements Every Day Long Term?

A daily vitamin D supplement can support bone strength, muscle function, and balance—especially in people who are vitamin D deficient.

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Jan 28 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • health.com
Lucky Strike Entertainment and PBA Appoint Peter Murray as CEO Of PBA and Head of Media for Lucky Strike Entertainment

Lucky Strike Entertainment and PBA Appoint Peter Murray as CEO Of PBA and Head of Media for Lucky Strike Entertainment

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Jan 28 • 7:00 AM EST • Entertainment • pba.com
HIV and Heart Health: What You Need to Know

In our latest blog post, we re highlighting the link between HIV and heart health. Explore why people living with HIV face a higher risk of heart disease and...

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Jan 28 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • hiv.gov
New Jacksonville health center to bring expanded services, welcome patients regardless of insurance

A Jacksonville health center is expanding its reach to treat more people, especially those who do not have insurance.

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Jan 28 • 6:01 AM EST • Health • news4jax.com
The surprising science behind how certain foods can make you smell more attractive

Beneath fancy perfumes and deodorants, our food choices may be quietly shaping our natural scent in unexpected ways

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Jan 28 • 6:00 AM EST • Science • scientificamerican.com
Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

In 1953, Kuwait established the world’s first sovereign wealth fund to invest the country’s oil revenues and generate returns that would reduce its reliance on a single resource. Since then, over 100 separate funds have been created to preserve national wealth and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability. Today, they manage over $10 trillion in global assets. In this discussion with GJIA, political economist Kathryn Lavelle explains the increasingly novel dynamics that surround fund behavior and what the world can come to expect from their growing presence in international financial markets. GJIA: When it comes to the roles sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in global markets and politics, what would you say makes them unique? Kathryn Lavelle: Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) operate on behalf of governments as investors. That in itself is a strange relationship. Within them, a core contest takes place between the state’s interests (or sovereign) part of the dynamic, and the money interests (or wealth) part of it, and these two aspects are frequently in contradiction, serving fundamentally different goals. SWFs are also quite fascinating because when you talk to the people who manage these funds, they have an interest in convincing you that the decisions are made almost exclusively on a financial basis—they really will go to great lengths to differentiate their government owners and those who make the management decisions. At the same time, these people ultimately answer to someone in power. Therefore, for most SWFs, it remains deeply unclear who is actually making the investment decisions and for what purposes. Of course, it is not always clear how other vehicles, such as hedge funds and private equity make the decisions they do, but I think what a lot of people find particularly disconcerting about SWFs is that they seem to act on behalf of people who have a different identity from their own. People who could be trying to manipulate politics and markets in a way that would have a long-term effect on their own populations. Regular investors come and go at will, and they only share an interest in profit as far as most of us understand. However, SWFs have that extra “sovereign” part right behind them that obscures their true interest. GJIA: These funds can be found in countries all across the globe, in both authoritarian states and democracies. Would you say SWFs differ in their goals and structures between regime-type? KL: It is not necessarily regime type that makes the goals and structures of SWFs different. It has to do with their economies. Let’s look at a country like China. There’s going to be a debate about exactly how to characterize the regime, but it is a country with many different kinds of sovereign wealth funds, and a particularly opaque state connection to each. At one time, some of the state-owned Chinese oil companies created specialized investment vehicles listed outside Chinese markets that excluded parts of the firms that were more associated with human rights violations. At the same time, the China Investment Corporation (CIC)­—China’s largest SWF—draws a lot of concern, not necessarily because of its investment activities, but because of the dynamics of global politics. So, I wouldn’t really tie differences to regime types themselves in a wholesale way, but rather to how such funds are perceived and how they are structured. Saudi Arabia’s SWF is getting all kinds of attention for its involvement in Hollywood, and this takes me right back to when I was a student in the 1980s, when people were concerned about Japanese investment entities buying assets in Hollywood. They aren’t quite the same in financial terms, but it’s the same kind of concern about foreign investment that drives people to be suspicious, and the whole idea that “foreigners are influencing Hollywood.” This holds true across industries, and it reflects where politics are in places like the United States right now. One metric we can try to look at is transparency, where all the funds will tell you, “we are transparent.” The problem you’ll keep running into with this approach is how you value things. When trying to do comparative studies of equity markets, you’ll find that every country doesn’t use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles like we do in the United States. A fund may appear opaque politically and not want people to show what they’re invested in or what their intent with that investment is, but they could also just not be able to report it because of the way it was purchased, or the kinds of shares they purchased. There are some assets out there that really are difficult to put a monetary value on. GJIA: To what extent do domestic politics shape SWF behavior in both the investing “home” country and the recipient “host” country? KL: This depends on the type of fund present and also on the extent to which voters’ political views are able to influence the fund. For example, in a democratic home state like Norway, the SWF doesn’t invest in nuclear weapons or tobacco because of social concerns, but there is a continuing debate over whether it should invest in oil, even though that’s where most of the money comes from. The degree to which Norway will continue to make those investments, and whether they contradict the government’s overall climate goals, is an open question in Norwegian politics. Because of the way the fund’s governance is structured, it may not be easy to resolve. On the other hand, some people consider pension funds, like the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) in Ohio, to be quasi-SWF. They have a very strict separation between the people who make up the management division and the fund owners. No teacher or professor would want to invest in things that may harm the future of their students. At the same time, a fund manager might see an opportunity in a diversified multinational corporation that offers a good return, despite it deriving part of its revenue from e-cigarettes. These contests are very apparent. Domestic politics can work in host countries too. A good example is Singapore’s SWF, Temasek, investing in Thailand’s telecommunications sector. If you study political economy, you already know that countries everywhere are uncomfortable with foreign ownership of their telecom sectors because a foreign entity could monitor or manipulate our communications with each other. In the case of Temasek, there was significant pushback from Thai citizens surrounding the deal, which went on to influence national political sentiment toward Singapore as a whole, underscoring the risks some SWFs may face with their investment choices. In this case, fund behavior led to the dissolution of the entire Thai government in 2006 and a subsequent coup d’état. GJIA: To address some of this unease, the Santiago Principles were established in 2009 to ostensibly promote trust and transparency. From your perspective, have these mechanisms actually changed fund behavior? KL: In international relations theory, we always like to have a clear set of norms and best practices­—the orientation we want the proverbial ship to be going in. In that regard, the Santiago Principles at least got the discussion going about which direction SWFs should take at a time when people were very skittish about the growing size of these funds. Nobody wanted them to be out there and potentially destabilizing economies, so talks about disclosure, conditions for withdrawal, and the independence of managers were helpful when initiated. The biggest stumbling block was that there wasn’t exactly a good way to measure compliance with the Principles, let alone how to hold funds to them. If you read the Principles, they’re overall quite vague. In general, a fund doesn’t want to reveal how and why they make certain investment decisions because that information is proprietary—a fund makes money off of how and why it makes decisions—so how do you reconcile that with loosely-defined ideas of openness? Some decisions might have a political purpose. The bottom line is that trying to figure out and assign a score to compliance is not easy, and it is therefore the reason why the Santiago Principles never really got off the ground to the point where they could truly direct fund behavior. GJIA: Many emerging markets are looking to build their own SWFs from mineral and oil revenues. Historically, have funds shaped development trajectories in these countries? KL: I think the big story in international emerging markets investment is that the investment is increasingly no longer unidirectional. In the past multinational corporations of primarily Western background were the main form of foreign direct investment in a country. That has changed dramatically, to the point where you have companies from so-called “developing countries” taking over companies in the United States. Therefore, the landscape of international investment has changed, and I think SWFs are certainly a possibility to be the next step in the game. Historically, you didn’t need an entire financial vehicle to reinvest commodity revenues in your country, but as emerging markets get more financially sophisticated, their capacity to operate such funds has increased. SWFs would allow treasuries to move from relying on holding foreign exchange assets like cash or government bonds to having broader financial markets and targeted growth areas, while easing pressure on welfare expenditures. GJIA: With their increasing financial weight, do you see the presence of SWFs being a factor in the political choices leaders will have to make with regard to domestic and foreign policy? KL: It will depend on just how big the funds get. One of the reasons people are already apprehensive is because of their scale, and if certain SWFs in certain countries achieve a large-enough size, the presence will absolutely be cause for concern. The other factor political leaders will have to consider are their objectives. It’s not always clear how to define a SWF, or even where its activity is concentrated, but it is certainly a worry from the perspective of national security of opaque external investment. More than that, I think one of the most interesting questions going forward is whether the United States, the home to the world’s largest financial markets, will develop its own fund, for which the Trump administration announced a plan. There have also been several proposals in Congress. Were it to come into being, it would have tremendous weight. At the same time, one of the hallmarks of U.S. capitalism is a lack of government ownership of shares, so it would not be clear how such a fund would be received in domestic politics, or which direction it would take. Given how politically fragmented the country is, a Democratic administration would likely be concerned about different sectors of the economy, such as healthcare, and want investment there, rather than a Republican administration, which might prefer defense industries. No investment vehicle could thrive under conditions of such instability. Moreover, it remains unclear where the money to fund a theoretical U.S. SWF would come from. It would be a fundamentally different entity depending on whether it is financed with debt, economic surplus, commodities, or the sale of state companies, as in the case of Singapore. If it is debt, or government borrowing of some form, then the fund would have to outperform whatever the cost of that debt is, which is not an easy thing to do. I think our political leaders have enough on their plate. Our system has worked well keeping political and investment functions generally separate. We have seen different forms of business rise and fall, and even the perception of different countries, all of which funds are tied to. Unless a major SWF either starts—like in the case of the United States—or collapses—an issue that concerns the Saudis, I don’t see any political tsunamis on the horizon. . . . Kathryn Lavelle is the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the exchange between domestic and international and political institutions with a particular emphasis on political economy and multilateralism. Dr. Lavelle’s first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets, explored the political circumstances that surround large issues of stock in the developing world. After being granted tenure at Case Western, she was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and named the William A. Steiger fellow, a designation given to the most promising political scientist in her class of fellows. While in Washington during 2006-2007, she worked on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services on issues related to domestic and international monetary policy. Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University; an M.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia; and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Georgetown University. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted by Sid Mehrotra. Image Credit: Jason Leung, Unsplash Content Licenses, via Unsplash

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