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Amodei, Altman, and Musk rally around call to slow AI down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for an AI slowdown on Saturday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and others, also chimed in.

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Sep 12 • 1:21 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

The CEO of Anthropic said the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up.

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Sep 12 • 12:38 PM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com
Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Niño might bring record slow storm season

On Saturday, 2026 set a record for the longest a season has begun without a storm that has reached winds of 64 mph to qualify as a hurricane — at least in the satellite era, said Nick Novella, a meteorologist at the government's Weather Prediction Center.

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Sep 12 • 11:45 AM EDT • Science • pbs.org
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Dario Amodei says he's now 'convinced' world should slow AI's advance

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a new essay on Saturday that he's 'become convinced' in recent months that AI development needs to slow down.

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Sep 12 • 10:43 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Checking In on the Cardinals’ 2025 Draft Class

Sadly, the minor league season is winding to a close with only Springfield and Memphis still playing. I thought now would be a good time to check out how last year’s draft class fared in their first professional season. First Round (5th overall) – Liam Doyle, LHP Doyle started the season slow, but ended up […]

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Sep 12 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists find Ozempic may slow aging itself

Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood sugar control, and several biological signs of aging. Its effects went beyond those seen with calorie restriction, raising the possibility that GLP-1 drugs could tap into a separate biological pathway linked to longevity.

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Sep 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Key matchups for Panthers vs. Bears in Week 1

One of the key matchups for Sunday's season opener will be between Panthers QB Bryce Young and his history of slow starts.

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Sep 12 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A federal health program for 9/11 responders is still short-staffed

Doctors working with the government program to help survivors with 9/11-related illnesses warn about staffing shortages and slow approvals.

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Sep 11 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • politico.com
PREVIEW: Can Fulham punish Liverpool’s slow starts at Anfield?

Liverpool are beginning to find rhythm under Andoni Iraola, but their starts have not always matched the quality of what has followed. Fulham may see that as their best route into Saturday’s game at...

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Sep 11 • 4:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘The slow clearance process is itself a security problem’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

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Sep 11 • 12:47 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
How to watch Lena Winslow vs Galena high school football

You can watch Lena Winslow football all season long with NFHS Network, including this week’s game against Galena.

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Sep 11 • 10:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Greater Baton Rouge commercial construction emerging from slowdown

New commercial construction is beginning to pick up across the Baton Rouge area after several years of higher construction costs and interest rates limiting development, according to Charlie Colvin of… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

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Sep 11 • 10:22 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Scientists Think Flipping a Single Switch in Your Body Could Slow Down Aging

Aging is a complicated puzzle, but one of its biggest pieces might be a receptor that fails to clear away damaged, senescent cells.

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Sep 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Top NY hospital system Northwell Health reports stunning 75% explosion in 9/11 cancers over last three years: 'Slow-motion health disaster'
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Sep 10 • 3:57 PM EDT • Health • nypost.com
Can MSFT Stock Rally on the Back of Dynamics 365 Business Applications?

Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Activate targets Salesforce migrations as AI agents expand, but slowing growth and softer bookings cloud the stock's rally.

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Sep 10 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
‘Marshals’ star Luke Grimes talks ‘slowly and cautiously’ introducing romance for Kayce in season 2 (exclusive)

Luke Grimes previews season 2 of ‘Marshals,’ including potential romance for Kayce: ‘How we do that in the way that the audience allows it and doesn’t get upset by it?’

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Sep 10 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
TCB Selects Christophe Beck as Its 2026 Person of the Year

Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck refuses to shrink from complicated and thorny problems. As the opponents to data centers have grown exponentially, Beck has become a major public spokesman on how to reduce the water and electricity used in the centers. As Minnesota’s economy has produced slow growth, Beck’s spoken bluntly about needed changes in the

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Sep 10 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • tcbmag.com
As elective surgical volumes drag in 2026, health system execs say solid demand is still in sight

Though surgical volumes were a sore spot for major for-profit health systems in the opening half of 2026, executives said this week they are optimistic those service lines will stay afloat for the | In fireside chats this week, leaders of the country's largest for-profit systems acknowledged a slowdown in demand that will generally continue through 2026. They also affirmed continued investments to meet future anticipated demand, particularly in ambulatory settings.

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Sep 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans Bowl O’Meter

Projections are slow to notice the Orange but it just takes one to get things cookin’

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Sep 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Trafford has just become our most important player overnight'

The momentum of the game changed 180 degrees when the referee incorrectly awarded Chelsea a penalty. Daniel Farke was a bit slow to react to Chelsea's substitutions, allowing them to take control of midfield for a crucial 15-minute period. Leeds regained some of the momentum for their third goal, but Chelsea rode their luck for the late goals.

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Sep 10 • 5:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Zia Yusuf: the polarising figure in Reform’s ranks

Self-styled ‘shadow home secretary’ is a ‘slowly ticking timebomb’ who could scupper his party’s chance of power, say critics

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Sep 10 • 5:05 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
Dengue outbreak in Hillsborough County: Health officials warn spread could take time to slow

Health and mosquito control officials are warning residents that Hillsborough County’s dengue outbreak could take time to wind down as crews continue working to find and treat mosquito breedi…

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Sep 9 • 6:15 PM EDT • Health • wfla.com
Policy vs. Practice: Digitizing Mexico's Healthcare Ecosystem

Mexico's new digital health law mandates EHRs and telemedicine, but market and infrastructure gaps could slow real-world adoption.

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Sep 9 • 12:48 PM EDT • Health • mexicobusiness.news
N.C. population growth slowing but political impact still significant

While North Carolina’s population rose by 180,000 residents from 2023 to 2024, its growth rate diminished to 146,000 residents between 2024 and 2025.

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Sep 9 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Peripheral vascular disease: Answers to common questions

“Peripheral vascular disease is something we can often prevent or slow down by addressing the risk factors early,”

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Sep 9 • 10:32 AM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business
Best TV shows of fall 2026: ‘Slow Horses,’ ‘Monster,’ ‘VisionQuest,’ more

A reimagining of a Stephen King classic. A trio of best friends trying to save the world. A return of a critically acclaimed crime drama. A bevy of new seasons

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Sep 9 • 10:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity

Among the federal government’s many responsibilities is the work it does to protect public health. Federal agencies monitor our food supply to ensure safety, conduct research to better understand emerging health threats, provide funding for public health programs in communities and work to detect and respond to disease outbreaks. Americans rely on these efforts every day—in a 2024 online survey, 74% of respondents said that “if the federal government issued safety guidance about food you eat regularly,” they would follow it. Changes to Federal Public Health Capacity The Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal government have resulted in significant impacts on our nation’s public health capacity over the past 20 months, affecting the response to health concerns such as measles, Ebola and cyclosporiasis. Agencies with core public health, food safety and disease prevention responsibilities experienced large workforce decreases during the first year of the administration. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, the workforce in February 2026 was 26.7% smaller than in September 2024 before the start of the Trump administration. The Food and Drug Administration saw a similarly steep decline of 21.6%. Agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Food Safety and Inspection Service also experienced large workforce decreases. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); Changes can also be seen in crucial public health occupations. The number of federal food inspectors, for example, decreased by more than half between September 2024 and February 2026, going from 1,035 to 473. This is the lowest number of food inspectors employed by the federal government since at least 2005. By February 2026, there were also 33.3% fewer federal public health program specialists, whose work includes advising federal funding recipients on public health activities and analyzing the effectiveness of public health programs. Government’s capacity is diminished as employees with specialized knowledge and experience in protecting the public and responding to health risks depart, leaving agencies less prepared to carry out their public health missions. There also have been vacancies in critical high-level leadership positions at public health agencies, most notably at the CDC, which had a permanent Senate-confirmed director for less than a month between January 2025 and early August 2026. Although the CDC has previously been led by acting directors at the start of an administration, the nearly yearlong gap since the departure of the administration’s first permanent director in August 2025 is without precedent. As of August 2026, the FDA is also currently without a Senate-confirmed commissioner following the previous commissioner’s resignation in May 2026. Additionally, public health agencies are experiencing increased politicization of their leadership ranks. In agencies such as the CDC and Food Safety and Inspection Service, the number of individuals in the Senior Executive Service—the most senior career leaders in government—has declined significantly, while at the same time the number of political appointees has reached record levels. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); At the CDC, for example, the number of career SES decreased 42.9% between December 2024 and February 2026, while the number of non-Senate confirmed political appointees at the agency was six times larger than the agency’s historical average from 2009 and 2024. Knowledgeable career leaders are integral to the ability of public health agencies to carry out their work with scientific integrity and professional judgment, and rapid leadership turnover and increased politicization threaten agencies’ ability to make evidence-based decisions to protect our health. The upheaval and politicization in public health agencies have also negatively affected employee engagement. Strong employee engagement is crucial to the ability of agencies to carry out their mission and successfully provide essential services to the public. In the 2025 Public Service Viewpoint Survey conducted by the Partnership for Public Service, the Department of Health and Human Services—which encompasses major public health agencies such as the CDC and FDA—had an employee engagement and satisfaction score of 20.4 out of 100, one of the lowest among large agencies. Only 2.8% of HHS employees indicated trust in their political leaders and only 8.7% reported confidence that they could report a suspected violation of law or regulation without retaliation. Employees at HHS also reported that the agency’s ability to provide services to the public had suffered. Nearly half of employees at HHS, 47.5%, said their work unit was worse at delivering quality services compared to its performance in 2024. In addition, 57.8% said their work unit was performing worse at fulfilling stakeholder needs. In addition to the work done within federal agencies, the federal government also distributes significant funding for public health and disease prevention work to state and local governments, nonprofits and small businesses—funding which has been significantly disrupted. At the CDC, for example, there was a 71.9% decrease in the amount of project grant funding issued in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The FDA also issued far less funding in fiscal year 2025—a 21.3% decrease from its fiscal year 2024 funding. Changes in federal funding include the ending of grants to community organizations that worked on HIV prevention and the cancellation of funding for research into improvements to patient safety and healthcare quality. These changes go beyond federal agencies to impact the broader public health ecosystem, including the state and local health departments responsible for much of the on-the-ground public health work in their communities. About 80% of the CDC’s domestic funding is directed towards state and local partners—meaning that cuts to CDC funding can ultimately result in cuts to state and local public health capacity. Federal agencies also provide expertise and assistance to state and local health agencies as they deal with particular health challenges, but workforce cuts have resulted in fewer federal employees available to help. The Impact of Changes to Public Health Capacity These changes to federal public health capacity are not abstract concerns. Disrupted programs, reduced funding and lost expertise at public health agencies across all levels of government threaten the public’s physical well-being and safety. In some cases, this has already led to harm. The most immediate impacts of federal cuts were seen in interruptions to ongoing public health programs and crisis responses. In one instance, when CDC grants were canceled during the 2025 Texas measles outbreak—the most severe measles outbreak in 25 years—public health officials in Lubbock, Texas were forced to pause parts of their measles response work supported by the frozen funding. Lubbock’s director of public health further said that a lack of available CDC experts to reach out to for advice “definitely” impacted the department’s response to the measles crisis. Cuts to federal funding also forced Dallas County Health and Human Services to cut staff and cancel 50 community vaccination clinics during the outbreak. Public health work outside of major outbreak responses was also disrupted. For example, in April 2025, the Milwaukee Public Health Department was unexpectedly unable to reach experts on lead poisoning due to firings at the CDC when responding to concerns about lead contamination in Milwaukee public schools. Due to federal workforce cuts, several programs at the CDC, including Alzheimer’s and epilepsy programs, have also become trapped in limbo—existing on paper, but without the staff necessary to operate. More recent crises reveal how federal cuts have weakened the public health infrastructure needed to prevent and respond to dangerous new outbreaks. Internationally, cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated funding for disease testing and contact tracing abroad, which delayed detection of and responses to the 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While international outbreaks may seem far removed, the unchecked spread of disease in any country can quickly pose a danger to economic well-being, security and health around the world. Within the United States, public health cuts inhibited responses to the summer 2026 outbreak of the food-borne parasite cyclospora. At the federal level, cuts to funding for lab equipment and for CDC staff with expertise in parasitic infections—including 9 out of 11 staff members at the lab responsible for identifying parasitic outbreaks in 2025— contributed to the largest reporting delay in outbreak cases at the CDC in 15 years. Conflicting communications from the FDA about the source of the outbreak, which followed cuts to the agency’s communications department, additionally led to confusion among the public about how to best avoid infection. At the same time, cuts to HHS funding and support for local and state public health slowed some health departments’ responses to the crisis. The exact costs of these delays, constraints and confusion in public health responses are difficult to estimate. However, their message is clear: federal cuts have already made containing threats to public health even more of a challenge. Conclusion Protecting public health—from food safety to disease prevention—is one of the federal government’s most important missions. Dramatic and haphazard cuts to federal agencies and funding have already disrupted the public health system, impacting the response to challenges such as measles, lead poisoning and cyclosporiasis. The U.S. public health system needed improvement before these disruptions. Since 2022, federal leadership and coordination in response to public health outbreaks has been on the Government Accountability Office’s High-Risk List of areas in need of attention to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. Recent cuts only compound these concerns. The chaotic dismantling of government and resulting disruptions to crucial functions like public health and disease prevention highlight the need for meaningful reform and concrete policy proposals to reimagine how government can better serve the public and be more effective, responsive and accountable. To learn more about the impact of federal cuts to public health and science more broadly, visit The Cost of Cutting American Science. Learn more For more information on the Partnership for Public Service’s government reform initiative, visit Government for a New Era. View here In line with The Cost of Cutting American Science, federal workforce data in this brief is as of February 2026

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Sep 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • ourpublicservice.org
The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity

Among the federal government’s many responsibilities is the work it does to protect public health. Federal agencies monitor our food supply to ensure safety, conduct research to better understand emerging health threats, provide funding for public health programs in communities and work to detect and respond to disease outbreaks. Americans rely on these efforts every day—in a 2024 online survey, 74% of respondents said that “if the federal government issued safety guidance about food you eat regularly,” they would follow it. Changes to Federal Public Health Capacity The Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal government have resulted in significant impacts on our nation’s public health capacity over the past 20 months, affecting the response to health concerns such as measles, Ebola and cyclosporiasis. Agencies with core public health, food safety and disease prevention responsibilities experienced large workforce decreases during the first year of the administration. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, the workforce in February 2026 was 26.7% smaller than in September 2024 before the start of the Trump administration. The Food and Drug Administration saw a similarly steep decline of 21.6%. Agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Food Safety and Inspection Service also experienced large workforce decreases. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); Changes can also be seen in crucial public health occupations. The number of federal food inspectors, for example, decreased by more than half between September 2024 and February 2026, going from 1,035 to 473. This is the lowest number of food inspectors employed by the federal government since at least 2005. By February 2026, there were also 33.3% fewer federal public health program specialists, whose work includes advising federal funding recipients on public health activities and analyzing the effectiveness of public health programs. Government’s capacity is diminished as employees with specialized knowledge and experience in protecting the public and responding to health risks depart, leaving agencies less prepared to carry out their public health missions. There also have been vacancies in critical high-level leadership positions at public health agencies, most notably at the CDC, which had a permanent Senate-confirmed director for less than a month between January 2025 and early August 2026. Although the CDC has previously been led by acting directors at the start of an administration, the nearly yearlong gap since the departure of the administration’s first permanent director in August 2025 is without precedent. As of August 2026, the FDA is also currently without a Senate-confirmed commissioner following the previous commissioner’s resignation in May 2026. Additionally, public health agencies are experiencing increased politicization of their leadership ranks. In agencies such as the CDC and Food Safety and Inspection Service, the number of individuals in the Senior Executive Service—the most senior career leaders in government—has declined significantly, while at the same time the number of political appointees has reached record levels. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); At the CDC, for example, the number of career SES decreased 42.9% between December 2024 and February 2026, while the number of non-Senate confirmed political appointees at the agency was six times larger than the agency’s historical average from 2009 and 2024. Knowledgeable career leaders are integral to the ability of public health agencies to carry out their work with scientific integrity and professional judgment, and rapid leadership turnover and increased politicization threaten agencies’ ability to make evidence-based decisions to protect our health. The upheaval and politicization in public health agencies have also negatively affected employee engagement. Strong employee engagement is crucial to the ability of agencies to carry out their mission and successfully provide essential services to the public. In the 2025 Public Service Viewpoint Survey conducted by the Partnership for Public Service, the Department of Health and Human Services—which encompasses major public health agencies such as the CDC and FDA—had an employee engagement and satisfaction score of 20.4 out of 100, one of the lowest among large agencies. Only 2.8% of HHS employees indicated trust in their political leaders and only 8.7% reported confidence that they could report a suspected violation of law or regulation without retaliation. Employees at HHS also reported that the agency’s ability to provide services to the public had suffered. Nearly half of employees at HHS, 47.5%, said their work unit was worse at delivering quality services compared to its performance in 2024. In addition, 57.8% said their work unit was performing worse at fulfilling stakeholder needs. In addition to the work done within federal agencies, the federal government also distributes significant funding for public health and disease prevention work to state and local governments, nonprofits and small businesses—funding which has been significantly disrupted. At the CDC, for example, there was a 71.9% decrease in the amount of project grant funding issued in fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The FDA also issued far less funding in fiscal year 2025—a 21.3% decrease from its fiscal year 2024 funding. Changes in federal funding include the ending of grants to community organizations that worked on HIV prevention and the cancellation of funding for research into improvements to patient safety and healthcare quality. These changes go beyond federal agencies to impact the broader public health ecosystem, including the state and local health departments responsible for much of the on-the-ground public health work in their communities. About 80% of the CDC’s domestic funding is directed towards state and local partners—meaning that cuts to CDC funding can ultimately result in cuts to state and local public health capacity. Federal agencies also provide expertise and assistance to state and local health agencies as they deal with particular health challenges, but workforce cuts have resulted in fewer federal employees available to help. The Impact of Changes to Public Health Capacity These changes to federal public health capacity are not abstract concerns. Disrupted programs, reduced funding and lost expertise at public health agencies across all levels of government threaten the public’s physical well-being and safety. In some cases, this has already led to harm. The most immediate impacts of federal cuts were seen in interruptions to ongoing public health programs and crisis responses. In one instance, when CDC grants were canceled during the 2025 Texas measles outbreak—the most severe measles outbreak in 25 years—public health officials in Lubbock, Texas were forced to pause parts of their measles response work supported by the frozen funding. Lubbock’s director of public health further said that a lack of available CDC experts to reach out to for advice “definitely” impacted the department’s response to the measles crisis. Cuts to federal funding also forced Dallas County Health and Human Services to cut staff and cancel 50 community vaccination clinics during the outbreak. Public health work outside of major outbreak responses was also disrupted. For example, in April 2025, the Milwaukee Public Health Department was unexpectedly unable to reach experts on lead poisoning due to firings at the CDC when responding to concerns about lead contamination in Milwaukee public schools. Due to federal workforce cuts, several programs at the CDC, including Alzheimer’s and epilepsy programs, have also become trapped in limbo—existing on paper, but without the staff necessary to operate. More recent crises reveal how federal cuts have weakened the public health infrastructure needed to prevent and respond to dangerous new outbreaks. Internationally, cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated funding for disease testing and contact tracing abroad, which delayed detection of and responses to the 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While international outbreaks may seem far removed, the unchecked spread of disease in any country can quickly pose a danger to economic well-being, security and health around the world. Within the United States, public health cuts inhibited responses to the summer 2026 outbreak of the food-borne parasite cyclospora. At the federal level, cuts to funding for lab equipment and for CDC staff with expertise in parasitic infections—including 9 out of 11 staff members at the lab responsible for identifying parasitic outbreaks in 2025— contributed to the largest reporting delay in outbreak cases at the CDC in 15 years. Conflicting communications from the FDA about the source of the outbreak, which followed cuts to the agency’s communications department, additionally led to confusion among the public about how to best avoid infection. At the same time, cuts to HHS funding and support for local and state public health slowed some health departments’ responses to the crisis. The exact costs of these delays, constraints and confusion in public health responses are difficult to estimate. However, their message is clear: federal cuts have already made containing threats to public health even more of a challenge. Conclusion Protecting public health—from food safety to disease prevention—is one of the federal government’s most important missions. Dramatic and haphazard cuts to federal agencies and funding have already disrupted the public health system, impacting the response to challenges such as measles, lead poisoning and cyclosporiasis. The U.S. public health system needed improvement before these disruptions. Since 2022, federal leadership and coordination in response to public health outbreaks has been on the Government Accountability Office’s High-Risk List of areas in need of attention to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. Recent cuts only compound these concerns. The chaotic dismantling of government and resulting disruptions to crucial functions like public health and disease prevention highlight the need for meaningful reform and concrete policy proposals to reimagine how government can better serve the public and be more effective, responsive and accountable. To learn more about the impact of federal cuts to public health and science more broadly, visit The Cost of Cutting American Science. Learn more For more information on the Partnership for Public Service’s government reform initiative, visit Government for a New Era. View here In line with The Cost of Cutting American Science, federal workforce data in this brief is as of February 2026

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Sep 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • ourpublicservice.org
Scientists find a bone-building switch that could fight osteoporosis

An experimental compound called AP503 significantly strengthened bones in mice by activating GPR133, a receptor that boosts bone formation while slowing bone loss. Because the same treatment has also been linked to stronger muscles, researchers see intriguing potential for combating age-related decline and osteoporosis.

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Sep 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
OMMA director pushes back on marijuana business complaints

Oklahoma's OMMA is pushing back on claims of slow licensing approvals and strict enforcement in the state's medical marijuana industry.

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Sep 9 • 7:33 AM EDT • Business • kjrh.com
East Side businesses say roadwork has slowed recovery after Metro Surge

As a two-year road construction project in St. Paul’s East Side enters its final stretch, immigrant-owned businesses say the impact is slowing their ability to recover from Operation Metro Surge.

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Sep 9 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • sahanjournal.com
Seagulls must learn from slow start

It's been a busy start to the 2026-27 campaign for Brighton and Fabian Hurzeler must now begin to prepare for a packed schedule of domestic and European football. Although the Seagulls will wait until October for their Conference League league phase to start, Hurzeler's side has endured a flurry of mixed results in their opening five games of the season. After a bruising 4-3 loss at Stamford Bridge to transfer-foes Chelsea, Brighton were lucky to escape with a 1-1 draw at home to Leeds.

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Sep 9 • 2:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
50 countries and counting, she now finds value in slow travel

Social media made travel feel like a competition. Seeing country counts in people's bios made Macie Strum start keeping score.

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Sep 9 • 12:03 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Altour's Boult: Rising Travel Costs a 'Permanent Phenomenon'

Travel costs will continue rising into 2027, though more slowly than earlier this year, according to the annual GBTA-Altour forecast. Altour chief commercial officer Michael Boult spoke with BTN's Michael B. Baker about the findings, why travel buyers should expect little relief from higher prices in the near term, and why policy might not be the answer.

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Sep 9 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • businesstravelnews.com
House rebukes Navy for refusing to investigate pilot brain injury

Several career pilots have raised concerns that repeated exposures may cause brain injuries that slowly accrue and lead to debilitating mental health problems.

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Sep 8 • 6:56 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Why Are So Many Parked Cars Catching On Fire?

When I was about nine years old, I was riding in the back of my family’s old ’68 Volkswagen Beetle when the car started to lose power and slow down. My mom, who was driving at the time, began to pull over to the side of the road, and at that moment I looked behind […]

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Sep 8 • 4:52 PM EDT • Science • theautopian.com
Drug developed for lung disease may slow biological aging in surprising ‘bonus’

Rentosertib, an AI-discovered drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, made patients appear three to four years biologically younger in a clinical trial.

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Sep 8 • 2:32 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Best TV shows of fall 2026: ‘Slow Horses,’ ‘Monster,’ ‘VisionQuest,’ more

From a reimagining of a Stephen King classic to the return of a critically acclaimed crime drama, here are 16 shows to be excited about this fall.

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Sep 8 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Monday Morning Minnesota: The “Slowly Drifting Away” Edition

So close, and yet so far.

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In 2018, scientists seeded clouds over China's Muz Taw Glacier to make snow; the brighter surface was followed by 14% to 17% less ice loss in a preliminary experiment

Researchers in China have tried to make artificial snow over China’s Muz Taw Glacier to slow its melting. The experiment conducted in 2018 involved seeding clouds with silver iodide, which helped trigger snowfall over the glacier.

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Wisconsin workers see higher wages, fewer jobs, increased disparities

The median wage for Wisconsin workers is $26.17 according to a “State of Working Wisconsin” report. Job growth is slowing as racial disparities trend up.

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Scientists Discover the 7 Stages a Meteoroid Goes Through Before Hitting Earth

An analysis of 75 meteorite falls identified seven distinct processes that occur as space rocks melt, break apart, and slow down before reaching the ground. A space rock entering Earth’s atmosphere does far more than simply “burn up.” By examining 75 meteorite falls recorded in videos and photographs, researchers identified seven distinct stages that shape

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New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Scientists recently described a new species of a tiny brown frog found in the Amazonian floodplain forests of Ecuador and northwestern Brazil. It looks nearly identical to related species but its slow, widely spaced out call sets it apart, researchers note in a study. “I’ve had to get into arguments because people said the frog […]

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California’s political hopefuls remain silent on state’s job losses, unemployment

Dan Walters Commentary: The aspirants for those positions are making all sorts of promises to win voters’ approval. But few, if any, have mentioned a slow-motion menace affecting a fundamental

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A young Tallahassee scientist's Alzheimer's research wins national acclaim

Lily Ma, senior at Tallahassee's Chiles High School, probed the possibility of using stem cells as a vehicle to slow or even halt the degenerative process.

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Barcelona forward’s adaptation progressing slower than his fellow summer arrival

FC Barcelona summer signing Anthony Gordon has made an excellent start to life at the club.Signed for €70 million plus add-ons from Newcastle United, the England forward has hit the ground running i...

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‘Collectively it’s been terrible’: Gonzales businesses report major losses amid construction

Construction along LA-30 in Gonzales has slowed traffic to a business district, and owners say the impact on sales has been significant.

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Giants release their longest-tenured player, wide receiver Darius Slayton

The New York Giants released wide receiver Darius Slayton on Monday, moving on from the organization’s longest-tenured player in a transaction roughly a week before the season opener. Slayton was a fifth-round pick in 2019. Coming off core muscle surgery that slowed him during training camp, the 29-year-old had been relegated to second- and third-string duties during training camp.

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Utah measles cases are down, but health officials are still concerned

Warm weather helped slow Utah's outbreak, which had become the epicenter of outbreaks in the U.S. But the Utah State Epidemiologist still takes issue with even a single case in the state.

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Scientists covered 200 square metres of a Swiss glacier with sheep’s wool; early tests found it protected the ice about as well as plastic sheets, but only 0.02% of Swiss glacier ice is covered

A natural wool covering placed over 200 square metres of high-altitude Alpine ice has proved as effective at slowing summer melting as conventional synthetic tarpaulins, offering a possible biodegradable alternative to plastic sheets. Initial results from the "Keep It Wool" trial on the Tsanfleuron Glacier in western Switzerland show that prototype wool blankets protected snow and ice from heat about as well as plastic geotextiles.

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Falcons Fans Should Temper Expectations for Young Rookie Wide Receiver

The Atlanta Falcons may bring this rookie along slowly.

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Google Messages slowly rolling out fix for bug that randomly sends old texts to other people

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Active concussion recovery leads back to volleyball court

After concussions slowed her down for two seasons, student athlete Stella Winterfeld found the care she needed and is feeling stellar again.

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Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging

Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.

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Scientists say love follows hidden mathematical rules

Could math help explain why some relationships survive life’s inevitable stresses while others slowly fall apart? Researchers have spent decades developing mathematical models that treat romantic feelings as changing systems, revealing patterns in attraction, emotional reactions, conflict, and recovery.

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A slow start could sink the Buccaneers

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The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. It may actually cheer you up: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) [ Reading won’t save liberalism ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) Maibritt Henkel · Sep 1 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) It used to be bad to downplay climate change (if we mean denying its reality). Today, it’s actually good to downplay climate change (if we mean keeping the issue out of political fights so we can make real progress). This counterintuitive view is called “climate hushing,” and contributor Alex Trembath argued that it’s the key to enacting good policy going forward. 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Columnist Matthew Yglesias explains: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) [ When "economic liberty" means central planning ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) Matthew Yglesias · Aug 31 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) 🌟Abundance Wins of the Week🌟 Shout out to my home state of California, whose legislature passed two housing bills this week. One requires a housing density minimum in transit-oriented areas of the state’s most transit-rich cities (Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Long Beach). Another bill closes two common loopholes used by third parties to delay housing projects, including an opportunity to challenge maps of a given lot created by the developer after a project has been approved. Shout out to our big-state rival, Texas, where pro-housing SB 785 took effect this week. The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. 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[ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??

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Winners from Memphis’ 22-point victory over Arkansas State

Memphis picked up its second win of the season Saturday night against Arkansas State. After a slow start to the game, the Tigers got the run-game going and recorded a 42-24 win over the Red Wolves.

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OpenAI's chief scientist calls for AI slowdown over rogue agent risks

OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, warned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could evade oversight, hack systems, and blackmail humans.

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Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of miles away in the tropical ocean altered atmospheric circulation and funneled moisture toward the continent, triggering exceptionally heavy snowfall.

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Kokua Line: Why can’t new business register with state?

Question: Can you check what is going on with the slow approval times at the State of Hawaii DCCA Business Registration Office? Historically, if you paid the expedited review fee, your registration documents for a new entity would be approved within a week or sooner. Now, even paying the expedited review fee, I have been patiently waiting for months. My filing to form a new business submitted in June still has not been approved. Without the state’s approval, I cannot open a bank account, sign a lease, hire employees, or start my business. This has resulted in damages due to the delays. My emails to the DCCA have not been responded to. I heard that there is an issue with a new vendor of their supposed updated system, but forming a new business or other business registration tasks seem to have come to a standstill. I heard that they are working on May submissions now. I cannot believe that this unacceptable delay has not been publicized, complaints from the public more prevalent, and the elected officials not having been told by their constituents to immediately address this problem.

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Nets’ G Saraf Feels Like the ‘Game Has Slowed Down'

After a turbulent rookie year, Brooklyn's former first-round pick eyes the backup point guard role by refining his shooting and leveraging late-season momentum to outpace training camp rivals.

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He Sold His Business For $2.1 Million — His Wife Was Ready To Quit Her Job Within Days

A 45-year-old man sold the landscaping business he spent years building into a $2.1 million payout. Within a week of the sale closing, his wife started talking about leaving her job immediately, while he wants to slow down and figure...

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OOROO Auto's slow-growth plan strategic

Explore how OOROO Auto is prioritizing culture and community over rapid expansion to maintain trust and loyalty in their growing business.

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Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro, S27 Ultra certification reveals 60W charging speed

Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro and S27 Ultra have reportedly received 3C certification with 60W charging, while the Galaxy S27 and S27 Plus offer slower speeds.

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Nevada sex industry reports business increase amid economic uncertainty

While many Las Vegas industries are struggling amid an affordability crisis and slower tourism, one industry claims it’s seeing the opposite.

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Makai Lemon could be headed for sluggish start

Hamstring injury could lead to a slow start for Makai Lemon

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AI-generated ads have come to Oakland politics. Accessible solution

Slowly but surely, more campaigns are using videos and songs made with artificial intelligence. We asked local candidates and experts about the implications.

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Nursing Home Jobs Nearly Flat in August as Healthcare Hiring Slows

Job growth at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) essentially stayed unchanged in August compared to a month ago,

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Rebecca Bormann: AI regulation could slow growth for small businesses

I left with a clear reminder: AI is not just a technology conversation.

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A young Tallahassee scientist's Alzheimer's research wins national acclaim

Lily Ma probed the possibility of using stem cells as a vehicle to slow or even halt the degenerative process.

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iPhone Ultra Production Hitting Just 'a Few Hundred' a Day, Says Nikkei

Apple last month only managed to produce "a few hundred units a day" of its upcoming foldable iPhone because of the company's extremely high quality control standards, according to Nikkei Asia ($), citing supply chain sources. From today's report: "Production is ramping up slowly, with output currently at only a few hundred units a day in late August.

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Chicago sports stars witness PCA's latest heroic moment at Wrigley

CHICAGO – As more and more fans inside Wrigley Field looked to the video board beyond the left-field bleachers, the decibel level began to slowly climb. And when the camera panned to Pete Crow-Armstrong, waving to a few of his friends sitting in the first row behind the Cubs’ dugout,

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How to check if Motion Assist has rolled out to your Android 17 phone

Following the announcement on Tuesday, Google is slowly rolling out Motion Assist to phones running Android 17.

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Lack of child care still a key need for WV businesses while state slowrolls lawmakers' bill

West Virginia’s business leaders continue to beat the drum that the state is woefully short on affordable childcare spots. They say it is one of the reasons the state continues to have the nation’s worst workforce participation of a little more than 50%.

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September's first wave of Xbox Game Pass games revealed, and it brings RuneScape to console for the first time

A slow start to September for Xbox Game Pass, although it heralds the arrival of a RuneScape game on console for the first time ever. The first wave of gam

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Fountain Square business owners counting down the days until construction is over

INDIANAPOLIS — Progress is being made in a massive construction project in Fountain Square. Local business owners couldn’t be more excited to see things slowly getting back to normal. “ItR…

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US private payrolls growth slows in August, ADP says

U.S. private payrolls increased moderately in August, the ADP National Employment Report showed on ​Wednesday.

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The moderates’ plan to slow Hasan Piker has already worked

The streamer has become a general election distraction for allies.

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Dwarf Fortress Creator Calls Out One Of AI's Biggest Issues: Bosses

'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'

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Annual training manuals too slow to train Ukraine soldiers: commander

Training for Ukrainian troops on NATO soil aims to mirror the battlefield, but the commander in charge says bureaucratic manuals can't keep up.

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Owen Thiele and Jack Innanen on their slow-burn romance in 'Adults' Season 2

The actors spoke about their characters' big moment in the Season 2 finale of the comedy, the alternate ending they taped and where their relationship might go in Season 3.

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OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness

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One injection could keep osteoarthritis drugs working for weeks

Scientists have created an injectable gel that can remain inside arthritic joints for weeks, slowly releasing medication while also improving lubrication. The approach could make it easier to deliver disease-modifying drugs directly where they are needed while limiting exposure elsewhere in the body.

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Aug 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Antarctica developed a continental-scale ice sheet 34 million years ago while Earth was about 5°C warmer than today — helped by slow-moving mantle waves that had spent more than 100 million years lifting its interior high enough for permanent ice to survive.

A 2026 modelling study links East Antarctica’s high plateau to mantle processes begun during Jurassic breakup, while retaining falling carbon dioxide as the main trigger for glaciation.

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Aug 30 • 6:30 PM EDT • Science • spacedaily.com
Microsoft Is Slowly Healing Windows 11, With OneDrive Finally Allowing Users To Fully Opt Out Of The Service, Getting Rid Of The Incessant Reminder

Microsoft is making it easier to opt out of OneDrive on Windows 11 by removing persistent backup prompts and improving user control

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Aug 30 • 4:14 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Fiorentina progressing in move for Everton’s Beto, player interested

Serie A side Fiorentina remain in the hunt to sign a new striker, having likely missed out on Manchester United’s Joshua Zirkzee. A deal for Everton’s Beto is now slowly gathering momentum.Get Ita...

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Aug 30 • 3:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why

A major new analysis challenges recent claims that the universe's expansion is slowing, finding that the evidence for cosmic acceleration remains strong. The findings preserve the leading role of dark energy, while leaving scientists with the enduring mystery of what this strange cosmic force actually is.

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Aug 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
As Maine reports more cyclosporiasis cases, health officials say outbreak may be slowing

The Maine CDC is reporting 49 cases of the illness, with 15 of those linked to the national outbreak.

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Aug 28 • 5:01 PM EDT • Health • pressherald.com
Fed's Hammack tells Fox Business inflation likely to ease slowly

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack ​said Thursday the U.S. ‌central bank is unlikely to get price pressures back ​to target even by ​next year, in an interview ⁠that also saw her ​reiterate her belief a rate ​hike is needed to quell high inflation.

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Aug 27 • 1:26 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
State report shows increase in new businesses in Shelby Co, slower housing market

The Secretary of State's office and the University of Tennessee released the 2026 Second Quarter Business & Economic Indicators report.

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Aug 27 • 1:09 PM EDT • Business • commercialappeal.com
Anti-ageing pills are real, and some of us are taking them without knowing it

Eternal youth is the stuff of religion and mythology, but what if we could just have a bit more of it? What if there was a pill that could slow down the ravages of time, so that you could feel younger for longer. It sounds like snake oil, but there’s a growing body of research that’s betting on making it a reality.

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Aug 27 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
“High-Deductible Health Plans Are Not the Answer”

In a new study, LDI Fellows found that high-deductible plans reduce health care spending at first, but may not slow spending growth over time.

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Aug 27 • 11:37 AM EDT • Health • ldi.upenn.edu
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Why Giving Back Is Becoming Part of Agents’ Business Plans

Real estate pros keep investing in their communities, volunteering, fundraising and supporting local causes despite a slower housing market.

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Aug 27 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • nar.realtor
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Metro 2039 Doesn’t Mess Around, and it Might Already Be My Favorite FPS in Years

In an age where single-player first-person shooters are slowly going extinct because they only make money for their publisher once while multiplayer live-service shooters vie for our time and attention on a daily basis (and often contain lots of bullsh*t, like microtransactions and/or drawn-out gameplay loops), Metro 2039’s single-player-only craftsmanship and attention to detail after my first few hours with it have me already prepared to call it my favorite first-person shooter in a long time.

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Aug 26 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Eating less of common ingredient early in life may slash cancer risk decades later

Researchers found that early-life sugar rationing in post-war Britain correlated with lower cancer risk and slower aging roughly 50 years later.

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Aug 25 • 10:18 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Seoul National University of Science and Technology researchers develop AI framework for optimizing solid oxide electrolysis cells

As countries invest in green hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industry, transportation, and energy systems, researchers are seeking faster ways to accelerate the development of hydrogen technologies. Solid oxide electrolysis cells are among the most efficient systems for producing green hydrogen from steam, but identifying their optimal operating conditions requires thousands of computationally intensive simulations, slowing innovation and increasing development costs.

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Aug 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Sam Altman: the economy is adapting to AI slower than expected

OpenAI's CEO said he was too bullish on AI's economic takeover in 2023. Slower adoption is a "positive in many ways," he added.

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Aug 25 • 11:09 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Two-thirds of workers bypass legal channels to keep business moving

New research from Streamline AI finds that slow legal workflows are affecting revenue, deal timelines and business momentum.

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Aug 25 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • hrexecutive.com