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Lingokids Interactive Entertainment Report Reveals How Gen Alpha is Redefining Screentime

/PRNewswire/ -- Lingokids, the No. 1 online entertainment platform for young children, released the Kids Interactive Entertainment Report today, a detailed...

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May 27 • 8:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
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Ebola, chemical plants and health, hantavirus, common colds, heat and more

As they say, bugs have ears. Public health has had a relentless May. Chemical plant (near) explosions, Ebola, hantavirus, and that's before you even get to the usual suspects: common colds, heat, and ticks. Here’s an attempt to keep you up to speed and, more importantly, what it means for you and your community. But first, an announcement: World Cup The World Cup starts in 15 days (not like anyone is counting down), and we are hanging TVs in the Health Security Operations Center. It’s going to be a gorgeous, chaotic celebration of basically every culture on earth. And it’s going to take a team effort—from communities to individuals, from public health to health care—to keep people healthy. That’s where you come in. If you’re going to the games or live within 30 miles of a stadium, we would love to hear from you. Sign up for a weekly survey here. Thanks to the more than 1,280 people who have already signed up…you will be hearing from us soon!! Global disease “weather report” Hantavirus: Two more cases The global count of cruise ship passengers with hantavirus has now increased to 13 cases (11 confirmed), with three deaths. The two new cases are overseas and among people who were already quarantining: A crew member in the Netherlands. A Spanish national passenger who was quarantining at home tested positive through daily monitoring. They are now in a biocontainment unit. In the U.S., everyone remains negative. There may be more cases, given that the incubation period of hantavirus (the time from exposure to infection) is 45 days. But this week, we will reach a major milestone: the median incubation window is 18 days, and that will pass on May 29. What this means for you: Your risk from this cruise ship outbreak remains essentially nil at this point. Ebola rages on in Central Africa Big thanks to Dr. Craig Spencer, a humanitarian physician who has treated and survived Ebola, for jumping in to provide the YLE community with an update. Craig, take it from here… The combined confirmed and suspected Ebola cases in DRC are now more than 1,000. All signs are pointing to a very long and catastrophic outbreak in Central Africa: This is a vast undercount. We know this because the test positivity rate is hovering around 50%, only 20% of contacts are being traced (and in some areas, no contacts at all), and more cases keep popping up with no known connection. This all points to widespread and undetected community transmission. This is in only a week of detection. Compared to previous outbreaks, the growth is very fast, as the huge West Africa outbreak in 2016 was first detected at 49 cases and rose to 208 cases a month later. It took four months for that outbreak to reach the size of the current one in the DR Congo. The cases are spread out across 16 health zones. There are now multiple epicenters, making containment very difficult. Next door in Uganda, the case count is seven. While this number is low compared to DRC, a concerning development is that two health care workers recently tested positive with uncertain exposure histories. If they weren’t treating known Ebola cases, this means it’s spreading undetected in Uganda as well. On the ground, backlash, including the burning of health centers, has emerged, a pattern seen in nearly every outbreak and rooted in deep community distrust. It often stems from outside actors working in communities without fully understanding or addressing local priorities. Affected populations may recognize the severity of Ebola while still holding other concerns as more pressing, such as where their loved ones are buried. Community trust is essential to an effective response, but difficult to build during an active emergency. It is best established long before a crisis begins. U.S. priorities are made clear, and may backfire. The U.S. Administration has shown that its first priority is keeping Ebola out, with helping end the outbreak in the DRC a secondary concern. That's meant travel restrictions broader than anything we've imposed before — covering travelers from across the region, and reportedly some green card holders and permanent residents as well. For example, just these past two days, news broke that high-risk American travelers will be subject to a mandatory quarantine in Kenya before they are allowed to return. If an American is infected, the U.S. government plans to send them to a hospital it is standing up from scratch in Kenya. (Currently, Americans who were in the area are allowed to return but are diverted to three airports—Houston, Atlanta, and DC—for further screening.) Past administrations have used travel notices and stepped-up screening; this goes much further. At first blush, these strict precautions may sound prudent. But this approach could backfire in three ways: Restrictions this blunt give people every reason to hide where they’ve been and whom they’ve been near — making the people we most need to find harder to track, not easier. They also breed a false sense that this is someone else’s problem. But diseases are humbling. They find the small cracks in even the most impenetrable-seeming defenses. Lives lost. There is no treatment for this Ebola strain, which means survival depends heavily on the quality of the health system. We have that system in the States, but we are choosing not to use it for infected Americans. This is unbelievable and infuriating. (See a deeper dive from me here.) The only real way to lower the risk to Americans — and everyone else — is to end the outbreak in the DRC and across the region. What this means for you: If you have travel plans to this region, it’s time to cancel them. This is a high-risk situation in Central Africa, and CDC released a Level 4 Travel Advisory. There is also great uncertainty if and when the Administration will let you back in. To the general public in the U.S., your risk remains very, very low right now. U.S. disease “weather report” Ticks: past peak season? Good news, especially for people in the Northeast and Midwest: tick numbers continue to decline. Though we are at the peak of the season, this unusually early year is trending favorably. Heat-related illnesses in the North Heat risk is certainly not blanketing the entire country yet, but this week it will be moderate in the Midwest and the Southeast. What this means for you: Be sure to check the CDC HeatRisk tool. A red day isn’t the best day for that soccer game for a kid with asthma, and a stretch of orange days is a great time to check on your elderly neighbor. Common colds surging As far as respiratory viruses go, the only thing really going around right now is the common cold. It is higher this year than last year, but should peak very soon before returning this fall. Spotlight: Chemical plants Over the weekend, YLE California covered the serious situation that unfolded around a chemical plant in Orange County, California. Thankfully, the worst-case scenario (a chemical explosion) was mitigated, but only through luck. The health implications in a densely populated area could have been catastrophic. As the situation was winding down, another chemical explosion struck Washington State. This one was fatal. Health officials say the risk to surrounding residents from chemicals in the air and ground remains low, though the community deserves far greater clarity. Clean air and clean water consistently rank as Americans’ top public health concerns — yet when chemical disasters strike, communities are too often met with reassurances rather than transparency and accountability. Residents near the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, for example, are still waiting to understand the long-term impact on their health, with few clear answers. What this means for you: Many are wondering if facilities processing potentially dangerous materials are in their neighborhoods. This interactive map allows you to enter your ZIP code and see all facilities monitored by the EPA, including any violations. Good news Ebola vaccines and treatment for the Bundibugyo species are in development. Two vaccine platforms are being explored, at least one of which may be deployable in as little as 2 months. One vaccine is being developed by Oxford, and the other uses the same biotechnology as the FDA-approved Zaire species of Ebola. (It may provide cross-protection, but it’s unclear at this point.) On the treatment side, two promising monoclonal antibody cocktails are likely to be deployed, though doses are limited and logistical hurdles remain significant challenges. Anni over at The Biotech Tea had a great explainer about the Ebola vaccine gap, if you want to read more. [ The Biotech Tea The Ebola vaccine gap, reading vessel damage, & the Makary exit 🗝️ Paid subscribers get the Biotech Term of the Week at $30/year (~$2.50/month). I try to keep it intentionally accessible, but if cost is ever a barrier, send me a message. A few people asked about expensing your subscription, so I put together a short email template… Read more 6 days ago · 10 likes · Annicka Evans, PhD ](https://www.thebiotechtea.com/p/the-ebola-vaccine-gap-reading-vessel?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has been officially renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), following more than a decade of debate and input from roughly 22,000 clinicians, researchers, and patients worldwide. This is good because the old name was medically misleading, leading to patients without visible cysts being dismissed or overlooked entirely. The WHO estimates that 70% of people with the condition remain undiagnosed. A more accurate name should improve recognition, reduce stigma, and ultimately help the millions of people living with this condition get diagnosed and treated sooner. Poll Loading... Bottom line Public health situations are everywhere right now. Staying healthy takes public health professionals and systems working tirelessly behind the scenes and each of us showing up for our neighbors and communities. Love, YLE Big thanks to Ed Nirenberg for staying on top of the Ebola vaccines, Hannah Totte for all the figures, Dr. Craig Spencer for the Ebola insight, and Dr. Matt Willis for covering the chemical situation in CA. Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) comprises a team of experts, ranging from physicians to immunologists to epidemiologists to nutritionists, working together with one goal: to “Translate” ever-evolving public health science so that people are well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions. YLE suite of newsletters reaches over 475,000 people across more than 132 countries. This newsletter is free to everyone, thanks to the generous support of fellow YLE community members. To support the effort, subscribe or upgrade below: Subscribe

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May 27 • 7:43 AM EDT • Health • yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
How Donald Trump is insulating himself from future investigations

The deal that President Donald Trump reached with his own administration to set-up an “anti-weaponization fund” for his allies is the latest example of how his second stint in the White House has focused on undermining checks on presidential power and insulating himself from future investigations.

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May 27 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
New teen mental health first aid training focuses on peer support

A new teen mental health first aid protocol is rolling out ahead of next school year, and a statewide organization is looking to extend that training to school communities across New York state.

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May 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • wxxinews.org
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Couple sues radiologist claiming he overlooked signs of both cancer and a spinal injury

Jeffrey Robinson first visited the emergency department at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, in March 2023 complaining of back and stomach pain.

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May 27 • 2:30 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Why Tennessee's Danny White wants collective bargaining more than 24-team playoff

Tennessee AD Danny White believes a collective bargaining agreement could solve problems in college sports. And he's got other ideas for the playoff.

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May 26 • 9:45 PM EDT • Sports • knoxnews.com
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ThedaCare's new simulation lab offers cutting-edge training space for its healthcare team

ThedaCare is preparing to welcome its first cohort of residents to train in a new, state-of-the-art educational facility.

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May 26 • 9:39 PM EDT • Health • fox11online.com
Google Health Premium joins AI Pro as weekly email redesigned

Besides the new mobile app fully rolling out today, Google Health is joining the Google AI Pro subscription.

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May 26 • 9:04 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Sports reporter Gabrielle Lucivero joining ESPN as part of WNBA coverage

Longtime Connecticut sports anchor and reporter Gabrielle Lucivero doesn’t have to go very far for her next gig. After nearly nine years at NBC Connecticut, Lucivero announced that she was leaving the station, but would be heading to Bristol, where she’ll cover WNBA and other sports for ESPN. “11 years and 11 days since I…

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May 26 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself

Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are treated. By combining vitamin K with components related to vitamin A, the researchers developed compounds that were about three times more effective at turning neural stem cells into neurons than natural vitamin K alone.

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May 26 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Albuquerque Police launch business de-escalation program

Local business owners question whether safety training shifts law enforcement’s responsibility onto them during violent encounters

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May 26 • 7:26 PM EDT • Business • koat.com
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Inside the program shaping Ascension’s next generation of leaders

For 30 years, Leadership Ascension has worked to develop the next generation of civic and business leaders in one of Louisiana’s fastest-growing parishes, pairing leadership training with hands-on community impact projects. The Ascension Chamber-affiliated program, which runs from January through November, accepts a class of roughly 30 to 36 participants each year representing businesses of […]

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May 26 • 6:35 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
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'Concept cafes' blur line between ordinary establishments, adult entertainment

So-called concept cafes — themed cafes where employees serve customers while wearing revealing outfits — are gaining popularity across Korea, raising concerns that a new form of quasi-sexual entertainment is expanding without proper regulation.

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May 26 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
Global sports award for business born in a Galashiels garage

Richie Gray's contact training equipment business shares an award winner's stage with global names.

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May 26 • 5:42 PM EDT • Business • bbc.com
With issues abound, is collective bargaining a viable solution for college sports? 'I never thought I'd say it, but I'm there on employment'
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May 26 • 5:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner stands by ad accusing Red Sox private equity owners of ruining the team

The ad was pulled by New England Sports Network, which is owned predominantly by Fenway Sports Group, a conglomerate that also owns the Red Sox and Liverpool of the Premier League.

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May 26 • 5:29 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Butte survival training business sold to Australian company
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May 26 • 5:20 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Meet the 2026–2027 Dhablania and Kim Family Global Medicine and Health Fellows

Seven students and trainees have been awarded 2026–2027 Dhablania and Kim Family Global Medicine and Health Fellowships through the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Thanks to generous support from the Dhablania and Kim Family, this year’s cohort will pursue research and clinical projects in India, Cambodia, South Korea, Peru and Uganda, engaging in cross-cultural learning while gaining firsthand experience with global health issues.

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May 26 • 2:21 PM EDT • Health • keck.usc.edu
Knicks-Rangers Split: Explaining MSG Sports' $13.5B Breakup

MSG Sports is considering a split of the Rangers and Knicks, who are worth a combined $13.5 billion, per Sportico. Here is a breakdown of the deal.

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May 26 • 2:11 PM EDT • Sports • sportico.com
Women-owned groups expand mental health training in schools with $50,000 grant
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May 26 • 1:12 PM EDT • Health • komonews.com
Opinion | Funding cuts are draining scientific research

At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.

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May 26 • 12:35 PM EDT • Science • bostonglobe.com
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Chef D & Sous Chef Ron from Prestige Eatery & Entertainment make lobster & shrimp linguine

Prestige offers fine dining and live entertainment.

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May 26 • 9:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox2detroit.com
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Here are our PS Plus monthly games for June, with an Xbox title headlining

Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus games for June.

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May 26 • 8:56 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Building Toward the Games: Army Team Sports Competitors Train in San Antonio Ahead of 2026 Warrior Games

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chelsey Scott, left, participates in wheelchair basketball training during Army Team Sports Camp in San Antonio, May 2026. The camp helps Team Army competitors strengthen teamwork, resilience and adaptive sports skills ahead of the 2026 Warrior Games. (U.S. Army photo by Corey Wallace)

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May 26 • 8:49 AM EDT • Sports • dvidshub.net
Politics & Power: How thousands of departures from the DOJ are reshaping justice

A rapid, high‑profile exodus of experienced DOJ attorneys has drained legal expertise, shifted enforcement priorities, strained remaining staff, and prompted growing concern from judges, former officials and legal observers about the department’s capacity and credibility.

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May 26 • 8:29 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
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Scientists create global treasure map pointing to hidden rare earth deposits

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that contain them are most likely to form. By combining thousands of rock samples with seismic images of Earth’s deep interior, the team discovered that these metal-rich rocks tend to appear along the ancient, thick roots of continents. These unusual rocks, once seen as geological oddities, are now incredibly important because they hold many of the materials used in smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines.

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May 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Wasserman Schultz’s FL-20 run ‘undermining Black political power,’ DNC members say

Almost all of Florida’s elected DNC members said she made a “politically convenient” decision “undermining Black political power.”

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May 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • miamiherald.com
Italy business lobby urges investment, energy reform to revive growth

The head of Italy's largest business lobby on Tuesday urged sweeping reforms to revive the country's near-stagnant economy, warning that high energy costs and ​weak investment were undermining growth.

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May 26 • 6:40 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Dozens of Philly nightlife spots want to party until 4am during World Cup

Philly is joining other host cities in pushing back last-call in order to capitalize on the inrush of tourists poised to visit for the global tourney.

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May 26 • 6:20 AM EDT • Business • axios.com
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Drug-testing bill gains momentum

A bill to prohibit medically unnecessary and nonconsensual drug testing of pregnant and postpartum women and newborns is gaining momentum in the state Legislature.

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May 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • politico.com
4 new pizzerias up the ante for neighborhood joints

Pittsburgh's pizza boom has entered a new phase. It’s marked by a continued upgrade in defining what modern-day neighborhood pizza joints ought to...

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May 26 • 4:00 AM EDT • Technology • post-gazette.com
Soaring healthcare costs put California school districts and teachers at odds

California school districts are struggling to balance rising healthcare costs with declining enrollment and federal aid, leading to labor battles between teachers and districts over healthcare premiums.

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May 26 • 3:05 AM EDT • Health • edsource.org
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NASA just gave SpaceX more crew missions because Boeing can’t certify

NASA has filed a procurement notice announcing its intent to add six post-certification missions to SpaceX’s existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract. The agency said it would order up to three of those missions immediately upon adding them to the contract, with the remaining three available as needed through the end of the International Space […]

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May 26 • 1:01 AM EDT • Technology • teslarati.com
Teladoc Health Faces Flat Sales And Weaker Revenue Per User Trends

Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC) is reporting flat sales over consecutive years, despite continued investment in its virtual care platform. Average revenue per user has been declining, pointing to weaker consumer monetization and softer engagement levels. Management has focused on broadening services, but this has not translated into stronger top line growth or higher earnings quality. The outlook for the next twelve months remains subdued, highlighting ongoing challenges for the...

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May 26 • 12:29 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Early preview of the Ravens’ most competitive positional battles

The Baltimore Ravens made plenty of notable additions to their roster through free agency and the draft this offseason. While the potential still exists for them to make more signings this summer, their full crop of players is largely set as OTAs continue and training camp is on the horizon. As usual, there will be […]

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May 25 • 8:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Advancing high-threat pathogen preparedness in WHO South-East Asia Region: 2025 in review

Effective preparedness for high-threat pathogens demands more than technical tools — it requires a coherent strategy, sustained country engagement, and the institutional infrastructure to translate evidence into action. In 2025, the Pandemic and Epidemic Management (PEM) Unit advanced all three, working across the full spectrum of high threat pathogen (HTP) preparedness: from methodology development and evidence generation to country-level technical support, emergency response, and regional workforce strengthening.At the core of the PEM unit's work is building the regional evidence and policy architecture needed to prioritize and respond to HTPs systematically. A major milestone was the development of the HTP Prioritization Methodology — a structured, multi-criteria approach to ranking pathogens by epidemic potential, severity, and national context — and its national pilot in Bangladesh, where SARS-CoV-2, Nipah, dengue, and cholera emerged as the highest-priority threats, informing the PEM unit's contribution to 2026–27 biennium prioritization and workplan development (Access link here).Underpinning this work, the PEM unit advanced the peer-reviewed evidence base for HTP preparedness in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR), with three publications in international journals in 2025: Development of a zoonotic influenza distribution assessment and ranking system (ZIDAR): Technical application in Nepal to support cross-sectoral risk-based surveillance in One Health; Implications for influenza A virus surveillance in Southeast Asian Region countries: a scoping review of approaches for the surveillance of swine influenza viruses at human-swine interfaces in BMJ Public Health; and Operationalizing multisector partnerships: a Theory of Action and Reflection tool for zoonotic influenzas in Health Policy and Planning. Together, these contributions move the Region’s HTP preparedness agenda from practice to science — generating the transferable methodological foundations that will inform evidence-based capacity strengthening in Member States.Country-level engagement in 2025 reflected the breadth of contexts in which HTP preparedness must function. Technical support was provided for Mpox and cholera events across the Region, including coordination of cholera and acute watery diarrhea prevention and control in Myanmar in the wake of the March 2025 earthquake. In Myanmar, the PEM unit contributed technical leadership to the earthquake emergency response — one of the most complex humanitarian emergencies in the SEAR — as Health Operations and Technical Support lead within the Incident Management Support Team. This included strengthening emergency response planning, supporting operational and after-action reviews, and providing monitoring and evaluation support for both acute and protracted crisis response. The breadth of HTP support provided to emergency operations across the SEAR was documented in the PEM unit’s contribution to the regional report for the Health Security Interface Technical Advisory Group.In Sri Lanka, technical collaboration with the WHO Country Office and the Ministry of Health laid the groundwork for the National Steering Committee's 2026 annual meeting, development of Standard Operating Procedures for specialized emergency response, and a national training programme — all structured around evidence-based risk assessment for specialized hazards including HTPs.Across the SEAR, the unit contributed to strengthening the workforce architecture that underpins HTP response. Technical inputs shaped the WHO South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Workforce Strategy 2025–2030, and the PEM unit supported conceptual development of the health emergency workforce framework for the Pandemic Fund Round 3 proposal.Alongside this, the unit's sustained engagement on the meningitis agenda culminated in the launch of the Regional Implementation Framework to Defeat Meningitis in South-East Asia by 2030 at the Seventy-eighth Session of the Regional Committee, ensuring the Region's priorities were reflected in the Global Technical Task Force and expanding the unit's HTP engagement beyond outbreak-prone zoonotic pathogens (Regional Implementation Framework to Defeat Meningitis in South-East Asia by 2030).Taken together, 2025 demonstrated that meaningful HTP preparedness is built incrementally — through methodology, engagement, and the steady accumulation of institutional capacity across Member States.Bangladesh piloted the HTP Prioritization Methodology and identified the highest-priority pathogens in the country context (Photo credit: WHO Country Office, Bangladesh).

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May 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int
Gas prices rise 50% since February, straining Florida drivers and businesses

Plans for the summer family road trip may be stalled if something isn't done about fuel prices.

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May 25 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • wesh.com
Pope Leo XIV isn't joining Anthropic, but the memes are funny

A Vatican appearance by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah prompted jokes that Pope Leo had joined the AI startup. Here's what happened.

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May 25 • 3:46 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sprinkle list: Tampa Bay lands big bucks for Sheriff’s training facility, African American cultural center

Mental health, affordable housing and advanced metering also landed supplemental funds.

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May 25 • 3:25 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Injury-hit Davies gets Canada camp call before World Cup

Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies is called up to co-hosts Canada's final training camp before their World Cup squad is selected, despite injury concerns.

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May 25 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson defends 'horrific' character death: 'Consequences are real'

'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson is explaining why he killed off [SPOILER] in such a 'horrific and anxiety-inducing' way.

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May 25 • 12:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Analysis: No surprise as Shinnie departs a hero

Graeme Shinnie's departure will come as no surprise to Aberdeen fans, with his influence on the pitch waning in a turbulent season. That, and the celebrations which followed that long-awaited Scottish Cup win will be the defining image of him at Pittodrie.

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May 25 • 11:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Inter Dangling a Few Players in Front of EPL Sides

Inter won’t have a particularly lavish summer budget per se, but they are poised to significantly foot it through some sales, especially pertaining to excess players.According to Fabrizio Romano (vi...

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May 25 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
All of the best Apple Memorial Day deals 9to5Mac

The clock is now ticking with less than 24 hours remaining in the Amazon 2026 Memorial Day sale alongside sale events...

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May 25 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
APD launches citywide de-escalation training for local businesses

Free sessions aim to help employees safely handle tense situations and improve workplace safety

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May 25 • 7:41 AM EDT • Business • koat.com
Semiconductor decoupling. Powell's politics. Industrializing Ogaden. Free trade and the Magna Carta.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Feliks Topolski, 1907-1989 8th Army’s Front, Italy 1944 Semiconductor decoupling Source: FT One thing that Jerome Powell deeply understood is that chairing the Fed under current conditions is a deeply political job. “Powell has successes and mistakes to his name. But he stands out as having thought more carefully about the Fed’s democratic legitimacy than any chair since Paul Volcker,” said Paul Tucker, a former deputy governor at the Bank of England, referring to the Fed chair who successfully fought the great inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. … While Powell was at the Treasury in the early 1990s, he watched Alan Greenspan build relationships within the government. That convinced Powell he needed to follow the former Fed chair’s lead and spend more time in Congress than his predecessors Yellen and Bernanke. “The accountability for the Fed runs through Congress,” said Claudia Sahm, a former Fed official who is now chief economist at New Century Advisors. “That’s not just about having people on speed dial — it’s answering questions, explaining policy and getting feedback.” Source: FT Ethiopia’s PM Abiy and Nigerian business tycoon, with Chinese engineering, are driving industrialization in Ogaden/Somali region of Ethiopia. - Michael Masri’s reporting for Africa Report if fascinating. Ethiopia has launched a cluster of large industrial schemes in the Somali region, laying foundation stones for a urea plant and an oil refinery in Gode while opening the first two phases of the Ogaden LNG project. Abiy Ahmed framed the push as part of a broader strategy to link energy, agriculture and industry. “These projects embody more than industrial growth,” he said. “They represent our shared responsibility to harness opportunities, strengthen co-operation and promote peace.” The Gode urea plant, backed by Dangote Group and Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH), is designed for 3m tonnes a year. Dangote owns 60%, while EIH holds 40%. Officials say Dangote’s equity totals about $2.5bn, while the state provides land and implementation oversight. Gas from the Calub fields will be piped 108km to the site. Construction is slated for 40 months, with operations targeted for 2028. Ethiopia imports most of its fertiliser, spending more than $1.2bn a year for 1.5m–2m tonnes. Usage was roughly 1.7m tonnes in 2023, almost half of it urea, and demand for 2024–25 is put above 2.4m tonnes. If delivered on time, the Gode plant could cover domestic needs and allow exports to neighbours. Brook Taye, chief executive of EIH, called the venture “a significant milestone in the journey toward industrial self-sufficiency”. Dangote told the groundbreaking crowd that the complex would be integrated with gas supply and a polypropylene unit to support local inputs. He pointed to Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with a capacity of more than 5,000MW, and noted his group’s cement operations and expansion plans. The Gode refinery is being developed by Golden Concord Group of China. It is designed to process 3.5m tonnes a year of crude and condensate from the Hilala field, with associated storage. Backers say it will ease foreign-exchange pressure from fuel imports and anchor further industrial activity, including a proposed steel smelting site in Dire Dawa. GCL’s chair, Zhu Gongshan, cast the project as “a key step in Ethiopia’s path to energy sovereignty”, underscoring the Beijing–Addis ties. Financing details are still being finalised, but the refinery is central to the government’s energy-security narrative. Source: The Africa Report Dangote’s Ethiopian vision: Dangote began with cement. His crown jewel, Dangote Cement, dominates Nigeria’s market and has 10 operations in other nations in Africa. The formula has been consistent: identify sectors with chronic shortages – cement, fertiliser, sugar – commit massive local investments, and scale up to serve regional demand. Ethiopia was a natural extension of that model. In 2015, Dangote launched the Mugher Cement Plant outside Addis Ababa at a cost of $600m, with an annual capacity of 2.5 million tonnes. The investment gave him a firm foothold in one of Africa’s fastest-growing construction markets. But success came with risks. In May 2018, violent unrest led to the killing of Dangote’s country manager and temporary shutdowns at Mugher. While other investors might have retreated, Dangote doubled down. Today, he is preparing to spend $400m to expand Mugher’s capacity to 5 million tonnes, alongside a new grinding unit near Addis Ababa. Cement is just one market Dangote is targeting. Ethiopia’s enormous state-controlled sugar industry, long plagued by inefficiency and debt, has struggled for years to reform. Its Omo Kuraz Sugar Development Project, touted as one of the continent’s largest initiatives, continues to face delays and mismanagement. … The most ambitious venture of all is the planned fertiliser production complex in Gode, Somali region. Publicised on 28 August 2025, the Dangote Group and Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) deal plans one of the world’s largest single-site urea manufacturing plants. The project costs an estimated $2.5bn and has an estimated capacity of 3 million metric tonnes annually, a rate that would not only render Ethiopia independent, but even a net exporter of fertiliser. EIH, the state wealth fund of Ethiopia, will hold 40%, while 60% is held by Dangote Group. … For Dangote, Ethiopia is a trifecta: Cement demand is projected to grow by 10% annually, its sugar consumption is growing with rapid urbanisation, and fertiliser demand is all but insatiable, given that farming supports the livelihood of 70% of Ethiopians. Source: The Africa Report The stakes for Abiy are high: For Addis Ababa, the $4bn fertiliser project in Ethiopia’s Somali region is no longer simply a manufacturing investment. It is increasingly being framed as a strategic state project tied to food sovereignty, import substitution and the government’s broader attempt to build economic resilience under mounting fiscal pressure. “Becoming self-sufficient in food is our main agenda,” Abiy says during the visit. “Land is needed; we have it. Water is needed; we have it. Human resources are needed; we have it.” The scale is enormous even by African industrial standards. Once operational, the plant is expected to produce three million metric tonnes of urea annually, potentially making it one of the continent’s largest fertiliser complexes. Ethiopian officials say the project now includes a 110km gas pipeline, a 120MW power plant, a polypropylene packaging facility and a two-million-tonne NPK blending plant. For a government grappling with chronic foreign exchange shortages, ballooning import bills and pressure on agricultural productivity, the numbers matter politically as much as they do economically. The decision to anchor the project in Gode is deliberate. Long viewed as peripheral to Ethiopia’s industrial economy, the Somali region is now being repositioned by the federal government as a future irrigation and agro-industrial corridor. Officials argue that the area’s vast land reserves and access to water could eventually support large-scale commercial farming capable of reshaping Ethiopia’s food economy. The government is simultaneously building housing infrastructure for about 5,000 residents near the plant, while officials project broader industrial expansion along the corridor. Abiy goes further, comparing the long-term revenue potential of the Gode development zone with Ethiopia’s flagship state enterprise. “The investments we are making in this Gode area, combined, will generate high revenue for Ethiopia, at par with Ethiopian Airlines,” he says. Source: The Africa Report Feliks Topolski 1907-1982 Topolski’s Chronicle, ‘Nazi Revival’, Vol. 8, Is. 1-2, 1960 HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. Photo by Jakub Dziubak on Unsplash If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $50. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Grim vision of drone warfare by Sylvie Kaufmann For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe The state of the art in Colbert-studies. Jean-Baptiste Colbert was Louis XIV chief minister from 1661 to 1683 and traditionally seen as an architect of absolutism and mercantilism. Alexander Hamilton later cited him as an inspiration in 1782. Now his legacy is disputed. Daniel Dessert, the chief critic, sees Colbert as the orchestrator not so much of an absolutist state as of an elite cabal. Would be great to have a good English-language review of this important debate. 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Summer investment pays off for Black Cats

Sunderland spent £161m on 15 new players after gaining promotion to the Premier League. The season before, the three promoted sides - Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich - spent a combined £276.5m but returned to the Championship with the lowest combined points total of relegated sides in Premier League history. Essentially, spending big is no guarantee of survival.

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Science Trains the Mind. It Must Also Train the Person

Technical excellence does not automatically lead to professionalism. Trainees must learn human skills like communication and accountability to achieve scientific success.

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Chicago Bears know Caleb Williams’ next step in quarterback growth

The NFL offseason will soon transition into mandatory minicamps, with training camps set to follow in July. Teams have stayed busy throughout free agency and the NFL Draft, while OTAs have allowed clubs like the Chicago Bears to evaluate the…

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One of horror's most iconic characters is finally coming to Dead by Daylight just in time for its tenth anniversary

Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees is finally joining the ranks of Dead by Daylight.

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Analysis: Bedlam at Stadium of Light

In truth, the party had been ongoing hours before kick-off but it was bedlam by the end of the match, as fans held heads in hands in disbelief at their remarkable achievement. It is only four years since the Black Cats were in League One, with Luke O'Nien and Trai Hume having been with them throughout the journey and combining here for the first goal. Having only gone up via the Championship play-offs, it is little surprise many predicted Sunderland would struggle.

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How to watch Euphoria tonight on Sling with HBO Max

Only two episodes remaining! Euphoria comes to its highly-anticipated end soon. Stream tonight's new episode on Sling with HBO Max.

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Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn't Been Used In Decades

Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers.

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What Families Are Really Spending to Keep Kids in Sports

Family spending on youth sports has surged as year-round leagues, training and travel become increasingly common.

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Here are the remaining sub-$25k cars as cheap models vanish

There are only a handful of low-cost cars available on the US market. Business Insider compiled the 10 cheapest starting prices in America.

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Spencer Pratt isn't running on MAGA. He's running on frustration.

Pratt is gaining ground because he hasn't presented himself as a traditional establishment Republican. Instead, he's targeting a very specific voter.

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Steelers restructure TE Pat Freiermuth’s contract

Pittsburgh frees up some cap space ahead of training camp.

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Scientists discover hidden driver of aging — Simple supplement reversed brain decline

A newly identified brain protein may play a major role in how the body ages. Researchers discovered that declining levels of Menin in the hypothalamus triggered inflammation, memory problems, bone loss, and other aging-related changes in mice. Restoring Menin reversed several of these effects, while a simple amino acid supplement called D-serine boosted cognition. The discovery opens a surprising new path for fighting age-related decline.

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BYU’s final uncommitted portal departure has found a new home

Since BYU's first round NCAA tournament loss to Texas, eight Cougars players with remaining eligibility have entered the transfer portal. Only Rob Wright has withdrawn from the portal to stay at BYU, with each of the other seven players now having found new homes. The latest former Cougar to land elsewhere is guard Tyler Mrus, who announced his commitment to the Citadel Saturday via social media.

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Up for US top-10 awards: Lancaster doughnut shop, buffets, balloon rides, shopping center

Several Lancaster County businesses, from a doughnut shop to a hot-air balloon company to a shopping-and-dining "village" that's a tourist favorite, will be on the national radar as they compete

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Destiny fans petition for Destiny 3, with heartfelt messages

A petition for Destiny 3 has garnered over 48,000 signatures in a very short time, with many explaining why the game means so much to them. "The desire

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Wegovy linked to rare “eye stroke” that can cause sudden blindness

A new analysis is raising concerns about Wegovy, the blockbuster weight-loss drug, after researchers found it may carry the highest risk of a rare “eye stroke” that can cause sudden vision loss. The study, based on millions of FDA side-effect reports, found the risk signal was nearly five times stronger for Wegovy than for Ozempic, despite both containing semaglutide.

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Bond breakout? Big effects of bad data. Immigration and thermostatic politics & dad-chat is coming for dad-books.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Anna Airy, A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918 Bond breakout - John Authers Across the developed markets, bond markets are staging a slow-motion car wreck. Looking at the drastic moves in the US, Japan, the UK and France, Barclays’ Ajay Rajadhyaksha commented: “Last week, long bonds broke. Not in one country. In all of them. Simultaneously. Four countries. Four different political systems. Four different central banks. But the same trade — “get me out of duration!”” Each country has its own contributing political problems, but the uniformity of the shift out of long-term bonds with high duration makes clear that something broader is afoot. For Rajadhyaksha, it is “simple and uncomfortable.” The developed​ world “has too much debt, too little fiscal discipline, and no political appetite for fixing either.” If there’s a trigger, it has been the Iran war and the resulting shock to oil supply. Source: Bloomberg G7 countries are now borrowing at rates that were enjoyed by EM in the early 2020s For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Trade between China and Russia has grown in recent years For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Big effects of bad data A decade ago nearly nine in ten Americans, when approached, agreed to fill out the Current Population Survey, which is administered to about 60,000 households each month and asks about, among other things, employment. Fewer than seven in ten do so now (see chart 1). For the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which tries to capture 3,700 households monthly, the response rate is down from 68% to 40%. … When the information becomes less reliable, investment decisions get more difficult to make. Some may be delayed, creating a potential drag on the economy. A new working paper by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, Erica Groshen, former head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) now at Cornell University, and Duncan Hobbs and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, hazards an estimate. Preserving trust in “the integrity and quality of official statistics”, the authors claim, generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the BLS, the agency with an annual budget of $700m that is responsible for many of these data. To arrive at their conclusion the quartet analysed an ignoble episode in the BLS’s recent history. On August 1st 2025 Donald Trump sacked Erika McEntarfer, appointed as the agency’s commissioner by his predecessor, Joe Biden. The president alleged, without evidence, that the BLS’s steep downward revision to recent jobs numbers had been “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”. In fact, it was the wanton dismissal that looked bad in the eyes of many observers. In the following seven days there was a 50% leap, relative to the week before, in the average value of the index of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), which tracks the number of articles mentioning such uncertainty that are published daily in American newspapers. This was a discernible jump even when compared to the chaos caused by Mr Trump’s trade war in April 2025 and his real one in Iran in the past two months (see chart 2). Based on Mr Bloom’s earlier study with other colleagues of the EPU’s impact on business investment, industrial production and employment, the authors estimate that the jump reduced American GDP by over $100bn (0.3%) and non-farm payrolls by 168,000 (0.1%). Source: The Economist Immigration and thermostatic politics (Sarah O’Connor in the FT) A strange thing happened a year and a half ago. No sooner had Americans elected Donald Trump as president on an explicitly anti-immigration platform than US public opinion began to swing much more favourably towards immigration. … to political scientists who study “thermostatic” politics, this development is no surprise at all. Public opinion often moves against the prevailing party, especially if they are perceived to have gone “too far” in one direction. The phenomenon was first explored in the 1990s with reference to fiscal policy, but in recent years it has been particularly evident in the realm of immigration policy. While these swings in opinion polls can make it seem as if people don’t know their own minds, they can be a useful democratic check on governments by sending bright flashing warning lights when policies stray too far from the public’s comfort zone. The problem comes when politicians misinterpret those signals. When people tell pollsters they want less immigration, or think it is bad for the country overall (or the converse), they are often expressing an opinion about how things appear to be going in that moment relative to their preferences, rather than a deep shift in their underlying views. According to Alexander Kustov, a political scientist, most Americans’ views are quite stable and moderate: they support immigration that is controlled and in the national interest, and oppose flows that are disorderly or under-enforced. In the US, he argues the Trump administration over-interpreted dissatisfaction with high immigration under Joe Biden, and implemented policies that went too far for many voters. “People don’t necessarily change their idea about their ideal immigration policy, but they can react to what the government is currently doing,” he told me. “A lot of people are not happy with what the Trump administration are doing — right now we’re not talking about border enforcement, we’re talking about people not just getting harassed, but killed.” But similarly, he added, pro-immigration advocates would be making a mistake to interpret the recent, more favourable swing towards immigration as a deep-seated ideological shift in attitudes. The recent history of UK immigration policy offers another cautionary tale. After the 2016 Brexit referendum, public concern about immigration fell. This was partly because net migration statistics declined, but also because people felt a sense of catharsis and control, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a think-tank. By 2019, the public ranked immigration as only the ninth biggest issue of concern, according to Ipsos polling. But when the Conservative government liberalised visa routes for students and care workers between 2019 and 2022, that helped net migration to surge. And so, too, did public concern. Today’s Labour government has implemented another sharply restrictive turn in immigration policy. As Kustov and researcher Caitlyn Yates argue, thermostatic public opinion should be a useful check on politicians. Instead it seems to have helped to magnify the pendulum swing in the UK. The government over-interprets and overreacts to a change in public opinion, which reacts in turn, prompting a sudden swing the other way. Source: Financial Times HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $50. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-Inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1918 Racing for a vaccine … we have been here before! The deadly Ebola outbreak in two African countries driven by a virus species with no vaccine has triggered an urgent search for a potential jab, in a test of troubled global efforts to avert threats posed by emerging diseases. A World Health Organization advisory group is due to would meet on Tuesday to recommend candidate jabs to prioritise for clinical trials, the global health body said. It will assess data including an analysis by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi), which was set up after failures in the international response to a previous Ebola crisis. The latest Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has infected hundreds of people and killed more than 80, health authorities say. Cepi’s reaction will be a crucial indicator of its progress towards its wider goal of producing vaccines for pandemic threats in just 100 days, despite steep cuts to international health funding. “If there was ever a time that we could show the world why Cepi is needed and show the world why the 100-day mission is needed, it’s now,” Nicole Lurie, the organisation’s executive director for preparedness and response, told the FT. “We’re happy to accept that responsibility, but obviously we need help from partners — particularly financial help in the long run.” DR Congo and Uganda would make the final decision on whether to press ahead with any vaccine candidates endorsed for clinical trials by the WHO experts, the global health body said. “Other ethical and community acceptability issues will be considered,” said the WHO, which declared the latest outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. “This will be important to make sure that the trial, if it happens, will be adequately communicated to the population.” Lurie said Cepi had provided information from a survey of research teams and companies working on drugs that might be effective against the Bundibugyo virus behind the outbreak. The organisation hoped soon to announce partners in the quest for a jab, she added, although she declined to give a timescale for when one might be developed. Cepi’s Nicole Laurie said global health bodies were ‘getting some live-fire drills’ with hantavirus and the latest Ebola outbreak. The hunt for a vaccine should be helped by scientific advances including the use of artificial intelligence to find drugs active against viruses, Lurie said. Existing jabs against the Zaire Ebola virus responsible for many previous outbreaks might provide a basis for tackling the Bundibugyo species, she added. “We’ll see how far and how fast we can get,” Lurie said, adding that Cepi had done preliminary work recently on a possible jab for the rat-borne hantavirus responsible for a recent fatal outbreak on a cruise ship. “Both with hantavirus and now with Ebola, [we] are getting some live-fire drills.” Source: Michael Peel in the Financial Times Dad-chat is coming for dad-books. (By Pamela Paul and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in the WSJ) They were the go-to gifts for Father’s Day: a book about some little-known chapter of World War II, the sweeping narrative of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography. These days, dad books are a dying breed. Nonfiction book sales have been in decline for the past four years, and are now the most challenged segment of the print book market. Publishers say certain types of books still fare well—including celebrity memoirs and religious titles. But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably. Sales of nonfiction print titles were down nearly 8% through May 9 this year, and sales of books about politics and current affairs were down 19%, according to book tracker Circana BookScan. Publishing has long been subject to cyclical changes, with trends in format and genre taking over bookshelves in grand sweeps. (Remember the adult coloring-book craze? Or the stratospheric rise of romantasy?) But many in publishing believe the decline in serious nonfiction is more existential. “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “This is a sea change and people should wake up and realize we’re living in a new world.” One culprit for the shift: a new media diet for fans of more serious nonfiction. … Sixty-two percent of men and 54% of women consumed a podcast in the prior month, according to a recent survey by Edison Research at SSRS, up from 46% and 39%, respectively, in 2023. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers. “The man who wants to read American history is now tuning into one of the many good podcasts about history that lends the quiet attention to a serious subject he’s looking for. It makes the idea of sitting down with a 700-page Ron Chernow book less appealing. You’ve scratched that itch.” Source: Wall Street Journal Remarkable report by Novara from the nationalist rally in London in mid May. Anna Airy, Leopard Moth and Plums, 1915 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Cleveland Browns news (5/23): Visions of training camp battles

The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Saturday Dawg Chow.

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Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers

The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm.

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OpenAI hires in preparation for AI that could train itself

OpenAI and Sam Altman aim to automate AI research. They are now hiring for a role to prepare the company for self-training AI.

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What do Spurs and West Ham need on final day?

Joining Wolves and Burnley in the Championship next season will be one of Spurs or West Ham. Tottenham in 17th do have a significant advantage going into the final day of the season. While mathematically not guaranteed, a draw for Spurs at home to Everton all but confirms their stay in the Premier League.

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Google Overview is happy to 'stop' defining words

Google's AI Overview is coming up with strange, chatbot-like responses to single-word searches instead of surfacing definitions.

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Riot Claims Valorant Anti-Cheat Software Isn't Bricking PCs

'They can absolutely get f*cked. I'll be joining whatever class action comes from this,' one player wrote

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Sutter Health to build tallest tower in Emeryville with updated hospital plan

Sutter Health is putting more muscle behind its planned Emeryville hospital campus, unveiling a bigger and taller vision for the $1 billion project that could permanently alter both the city’s skyline and Sutter Health’s role in the East Bay health care economy. The Sacramento-based health system released updated plans for its Emeryville Medical Center, outlining a 17-story, 780,000-square-foot hospital at Horton and 53rd Streets in Emeryville, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The project would include 325 beds at full buildout, up from the 200 initially proposed, and would become Emeryville’s tallest building if completed as designed, surpassing the 310-foot […]

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Health Hazardous Materials Division Graduates

The County of Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LACoFD) Health Hazardous Materials Division (HHMD) graduated a class of four hazardous materials specialists from the HHMD training academy. The Department’s newest hazardous materials specialists completed ten weeks of training prior to participating in a recognition and swearing in ceremony on Thursday, May 21, 2026. HHMD Chief Mario

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Los Angeles Rams players participate in offseason workouts for Phase 2 of OTAs

Browse through photos capturing the best moments from this week's offseason workouts at the Los Angeles Rams' training facility.

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Politics Friday: Walz weighs in on the work left to do for the remainder of his term

MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst interviews Gov. Tim Walz about the 2026 session and his remaining time in office as Minnesota’s two-term governor.

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Yanic Truesdale Signs With Mainstay Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Actor Yanic Truesdale has inked with Mainstay Entertainment for management. He continues to be represented by Defining Artists.

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Hybrid AI: Combining Deterministic Analytics with LLM Reasoning

How AI architecture prevents plausible but wrong analytics

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz decides to run in CD 20, joining crowded Democratic Primary

A new congressional map dismantled her seat.

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Pineapple Kitchen Summer Entertainment Ideas

Easy entertaining ideas for the summer.

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Friday Dots: Be A Shining Star

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Containing the Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A rare virus with a high fatality rate has infected hundreds and killed at least 80 people. International and local health entities will have to work one case at a time to stop it.

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International Insider: Cannes Wraps; Dark Side Of ‘MAFS’; French Revolution

Good afternoon Insiders, the sun is shining, Cannes is ending, and we’re still reporting. Scroll down for a round-up of a busy week. And sign up here for the newsletter. Interested in hearing from som...

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Arsenal's Mikel Merino opens up on injury: 'I had two options, to cry myself to extinction or keep my head up'

The Spanish midfielder is set to return to training ahead of Arsenal's Premier League finale and next week's massive Champions League clash with PSG

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Confirmed: Pep Guardiola to leave Manchester City

Manchester City Confirm Pep Guardiola Summer ExitManchester City head coach Pep Guardiola will step down this summer, bringing one of English football’s defining managerial reigns towards a major co...

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Business owners voice concerns ahead of Al Fresco dining on Federal Hill

Business owners spoke out against Al Fresco on Federal Hill Thursday night.

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May 21 • 10:03 PM EDT • Business • turnto10.com
Adaptive sports athletes test new courts at U.S. Soccer training center in metro Atlanta
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May 21 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Organizations Around the Country Support EPA’s Science-Based Reassessment of Formaldehyde

ACC applauds EPA’s updated draft risk evaluation, joining a broader and growing chorus of support from organizations across the country

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May 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • americanchemistry.com
AI Training For Small Businesses Goes Nationwide

Free AI training from the U.S. Chamber and new tools from Anthropic are arriving just as small business formation surges and the AI adoption gap begins to close.

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May 21 • 7:56 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com
Marlene Vidal was in a mental health crisis days before allegedly killing her kids, longtime friend says

Marlene Vidal's longtime friend took KSAT step by step through what she said was Vidal's declining mental health leading up to Friday when Vidal is accused of killing her two children.

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May 21 • 6:15 PM EDT • Health • ksat.com
Lions sign Jack Campbell to 4-year extension through 2030 season after declining LB's fifth-year option
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May 21 • 2:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Raif Ali Dinçkök Student Summit: Reimagining Business Education

Student-led leadership, executive dialogue, and purpose: inside BU Questrom’s Raif Ali Dinçkök Summit Series reimagining business education.

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May 21 • 2:25 PM EDT • Business • bu.edu
Crew Conducting Advanced Health Research and More Spacewalk Preps

Four Expedition 74 astronauts had a light duty day with an array of advanced research still scheduled for Thursday. The three cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station focused on ongoing spacewalk preparations and robotics training.

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May 21 • 2:04 PM EDT • Health • nasa.gov
UK Business Activity Hits 13-Month Low Due to Middle East War

Business activity in the United Kingdom is declining amid a “perfect storm” of economic factors, said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at

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May 21 • 1:27 PM EDT • Business • pymnts.com
Americans witness the most corrupt week of Donald Trump’s political career

Over just three days, the country has confronted several presidency-defining scandals — and the week isn’t over yet.

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May 21 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • ms.now
Beloved Italian restaurant in Mass. closing after almost 100 years in business

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A longtime Italian restaurant in the western suburbs of Boston that appeared to be closing around the start of the pandemic only to remain open is now closing for real. According to a source, Carbone’s Restaurant in Hopkinton is shutting down, with a MassLive article mentioning that the Cedar Street dining spot…

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May 21 • 1:26 PM EDT • Business • nbcboston.com
'It's hard work to make nothing': Small businesses struggle with declining profits as gas, shipping prices rise

Small business profitability slid 1.3% in April from a year earlier — the weakest reading in two years, according to an analysis from the Bank of America Institute.

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May 21 • 12:59 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Packers, UW Health events kick off training camp

Packers 5K Run/Walk, presented by UW Health, 1K Kids Run, presented by CareSource, at Lambeau Field among highlights

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May 21 • 12:45 PM EDT • Health • packers.com
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Michigan business leaders launch statewide alliance to boost startup ecosystem

Nearly 100 organizations from across Michigan are joining forces to establish a statewide innovation alliance.

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May 21 • 11:12 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
South Side moves to establish funded business district for East Carson Street

The South Side is working to reestablish a funded community organization to focus on maintaining and improving its East Carson Street business district.

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May 21 • 11:01 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Jurrien Timber injury update pre-Champions League final

Mikel Arteta has revealed that whilst Mikel Merino is returning to full training, Jurrien Timber is still a little further behind in his recovery.Photo by George Wood/Getty ImagesThere was good news o...

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May 21 • 10:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists Found the Biggest Factor in How Long You’ll Live. There’s Not Much You Can Do About It.

Genetics were thought to play only a secondary role in determining lifespan—turns out, it’s quite the opposite.

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May 21 • 8:30 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com