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Working Families bet on 2026 as the right time for a third US party after a wave of wins

The progressive party is now active in 18 states and much of its expansion happened in the past five years

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Dec 29, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Business Beat: Flanders gets city of Longview incentive - Longview News-Journal

The Longview City Council recently added to the incentives Flanders will receive as part of a planned investment at its Harrison Road facility in the city. Flanders is based in […]

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Dec 29, 2025 • 6:45 AM EST • Business • news-journal.com
Tom Jenkins’s best sport photographs of 2025

The Guardian sport photographer selects his favourite images he has taken this year and recalls the stories behind them

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Dec 29, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Sports • theguardian.com
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Silver and other precious metals hit new peaks before falling back; oil price rises after Trump-Zelenskyy meeting

Rally in precious metals triggered by US interest rate cut hopes, hedging against geopolitical uncertainty

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Dec 29, 2025 • 2:47 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? – from The Audio Long Read

Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixedBy Daniel Trilling. Read by Simon Darwen

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Dec 29, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Iron Forums Builds Community for Christian Leaders in Business

Iron Forums connects Christian leaders in business through faith-based fellowship, accountability, and peer support, creating space for leadership rooted in purpose.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:20 PM EST • Business • spokesman-recorder.com
Brigitte Bardot’s image complicated by her support of the far right

Film star turned animal rights activist was outspoken on immigration and future of France

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Dec 28, 2025 • 1:14 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look skyward, where a new lunar contest mirrors humanity’s struggle to live within planetary limits

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Dec 28, 2025 • 12:30 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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‘Rise in deaths’ predicted as amber cold health alerts issued in northern England

UKHSA warns vulnerable and elderly people may be at risk with temperatures to drop severely overnight

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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:00 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com
AI is coming for young people’s office jobs. That’s good news for the construction industry

More young people are following the money and going into trades like construction where AI can’t easily replace them

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Dec 28, 2025 • 10:00 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
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I'm a senior partner at BCG. I fuel my days playing basketball in the morning and eating cookies.

Amanda Luther, a BCG senior partner and managing director based in Austin, shares her routines for making it through the day.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:11 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Kansas City lawmaker seeks to expand agriculture-based science education in statewide program

After the state's education department oversaw a pilot program teaching science through agriculture, lawmakers saw an opportunity for more.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • kcur.org
Kosovo goes to the polls in snap election in bid to end political crisis

PM Albin Kurti’s Self-Determination party may struggle to win majority after rival parties refused alliance

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Dec 28, 2025 • 4:15 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Soak it up: everything science taught us about health and wellness in 2025

Do hot baths improve endurance? Will creatine bolster your brain power? Does pickle juice prevent cramp? Here’s what we learned about living well this year

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Dec 28, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Science • theguardian.com
Soak it up: everything science taught us about health and wellness in 2025

Do hot baths improve endurance? Will creatine bolster your brain power? Does pickle juice prevent cramp? Here’s what we learned about living well this year

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Dec 28, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com
87,000+ MongoDB Instances Vulnerable to MongoBleed Flaw Exposed Online

A high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB Server that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to siphon sensitive data from database memory.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 10:41 PM EST • Technology • cybersecuritynews.com
Made in Tarrant: Crunchy Girl Granola mixes up business

Gina Propp’s Fort Worth-based granola company sells popular, customizable blends online and through local farmers markets.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Business • fortworthreport.org
Prospects Live Predicts The 2028 Washington Nationals Roster

Breaking down Prospects Live’s prediction of the future of Nationals baseball

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Dec 27, 2025 • 5:25 PM EST • Sports • federalbaseball.com
California woman delivers healthy baby after ‘essentially unheard of’ ectopic pregnancy

Suze Lopez found out she was pregnant only days before giving birth, due to fetus hiding behind 22lb ovarian cyst

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Dec 27, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com
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Beloved Middle Tennessee businesses that closed in 2025

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — From new restaurants opening to old favorites closing their doors after years of service, the dining scene in Middle Tennessee was busy in 2025. As some businesses saw lines wrapped around buildings for their much-anticipated openings, such as California-based burger chain In-N-Out, several beloved staples said goodbye for good. Here’s a […]

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Dec 27, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Business • yahoo.com
Ten Developments That Defined the Cardinals’ 2025 Rebuild

We are in the baseball dead zone between Christmas and New Year’s, so it’s as good a time as any to reflect on the last calendar year. We are now more than one year into the rebuild, regardless of how the Cardinals front office and ownership have changed the branding. There have been some notable […]

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Dec 27, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • vivaelbirdos.com
‘Bad for business’: Cricket Australia facing £5m loss after two-day Test at MCG

England’s two-day win in the Boxing Day Test is set to deliver a huge financial hit to Australian cricket that could reach a reported £5m

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Dec 27, 2025 • 5:59 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
From Marty Supreme to The Traitors: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Timothée Chalamet sexes up table tennis in Josh Safdie’s Oscar contender, and the unstoppable reality format returns

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Dec 27, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Entertainment • theguardian.com
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2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince | Martin Rowson, Ella Baron, Nicola Jennings and Ben Jennings

Our cartoonists look back at a year of covering tragedy, farce and everything in between – and having to draw far too many Donald Trumps

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Dec 27, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Prisma moves to restrict child visitors in light of rising flu rates in SC

Greenville-based Prisma Health, which serves much of the Midlands and Upstate SC, is cutting child visitors as flu infections rise in South Carolina.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Health • postandcourier.com
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Six Brilliant Brain Science And Psychology Books From The Year

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 5:22 PM EST • Science • forbes.com
Ospreys soar to bonus-point win against Scarlets

Ospreys celebrate the west Wales bragging rights as they overcome Scarlets 26-19 in an attritional United Rugby Championship basement battle in Llanelli.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 2:49 PM EST • Sports • bbc.com
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of global justice

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Dec 26, 2025 • 12:30 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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I tried setting up my first-ever NAS, and this budget UGREEN model did everything I needed with my old HDDs — now I'm falling down a home media server rabbit hole

The UGREEN NASync DH2300 is a best-selling NAS with a low price tag, but can its Arm-based Rockchip processor be strong enough for a self-made Netflix replacement?

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Dec 26, 2025 • 12:00 PM EST • Technology • windowscentral.com
The 20 best college towns across the US, ranked

WalletHub ranked over 400 cities based on affordability, social scene, and academic opportunity. These are the top 20 best college towns in the US.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 9:22 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Mets Morning News for December 26, 2025

Your Friday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 8:30 AM EST • Sports • amazinavenue.com
‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes

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Dec 26, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
Deceiving US experts; proving Einstein wrong: 2025 China science breakthroughs

From the detonation of a hydrogen-based explosive to ending a century-old debate, here are some of the major science developments of the year.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Science • scmp.com
Israeli scientists say tiny organisms can revamp their own RNA to survive extreme heat

Using a novel method, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers map 16 types of simultaneous changes in dozens of samples; findings can lead to improved RNA-based medical technologies

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Dec 26, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • timesofisrael.com
Samsung Exynos 2600 Xclipse 960 GPU said to use AMD RDNA4-derived architecture

Report claims Exynos 2600 uses MGFX4 RDNA4-derived graphics Samsung's Exynos 2600 is the first Exynos chip said to use an AMD RDNA4-based GPU

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Dec 26, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Technology • videocardz.com
2025 IN REVIEW: A big year for business in Yamhill County

Craving Hawaiian food? Or maybe a glass of wine? Newberg saw a few regional staples join the restaurant scene, while wine companies merged over the spring and summer to expand […]

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Dec 26, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • newberggraphic.com
Nigeria provided US with intelligence for strikes on Islamist militants, says foreign minister

Strikes against group accused by Donald Trump of attacking Christian communities took place on Christmas Day in country’s north-west

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Dec 26, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Nationwide Children's school-based programs keeping kids in classroom

Unaddressed health conditions fuel chronic absenteeism, impacting one in four Ohio students. School-based health centers are helping to change that.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 5:12 AM EST • Health • dispatch.com
The Dominik Diamond alternative game of the year awards 2025

There was no shortage of fun and video games in the Diamond household in the last 12 months. Which ones did we play so much our thumbs hurt? And which one saved my soul? Let the ceremony begin …

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Dec 26, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Technology • theguardian.com
A Christmas message

Jonathan Freedland and the Politics Weekly America team are taking a break this week, but will be back with a new episode in the new year

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Dec 26, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Outdated furniture fire safety rules putting people at risk, MP warns

Millions of households are exposed to materials in upholstered furniture that can release dangerous fumes when they burn

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Dec 26, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
7-year-old donates her business proceeds to Angels for Animals

CANFIELD — Ellie Kaley, a 7-year-old student at West Branch Elementary School, marked her first six months in business by celebrating with a few dozen kittens at Angels For Animals. The Mahoning County-based animal adoption nonprofit is in the midst of a campaign to upgrade its facility. While Ellie didn’t walk away this week with […]

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Dec 25, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Business • vindy.com
Copper Prices Tempt Thieves: How to protect your home, business

With copper prices rising, South Dakotans may be looking in their garages and basements for unused copper to sell as scrap.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 4:12 PM EST • Business • dakotanewsnow.com
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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS To Develop A Server OS

The Arch Linux based CachyOS has been quite popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for offering leading out-of-the-box performance, especially following the shutdown of Intel's Clear Linux

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Dec 25, 2025 • 3:44 PM EST • Technology • phoronix.com
Popular painkiller offers little relief, raises serious health risks, study finds

A widely prescribed opioid painkiller showed limited effectiveness and increased risk of negative effects in a new analysis published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 3:21 PM EST • Health • ktvu.com
Breaking free from ESG: Financial investment and politics don’t mix

The quiet retreat from ESG and DEI activism is more than a shift in corporate trendlines. It’s a course correction and a return to disciplined, fiduciary-based stewardship.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 3:00 PM EST • Politics • thehill.com
My Most Anticipated Video Game Of 2026 Might Be This Simple Vibes-Based Lanesplitting Indie

"LANESPLIT" is a simple game from a one-person developer, and at my advanced age of 29 that's the kind of game I have the time and energy to play after work.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 2:25 PM EST • Technology • jalopnik.com
The Guardian view on May 2026 elections: a new political geography is coming into view across Britain

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at the impact of devolution on growing volatility of party political allegiance

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Dec 25, 2025 • 12:30 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Nosy researcher’s quest to map the world’s ‘smellscapes’

We can share images and sounds, so why not smells? Dr Kate McLean-MacKenzie hopes her new atlas will make scents

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Dec 25, 2025 • 12:00 PM EST • Science • theguardian.com
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Timothée Chalamet's character in 'Marty Supreme' is based on a real hustling ping-pong icon from the 1950s

In "Marty Supreme," Timothée Chalamet plays the charismatic ping-pong playing hustler Marty Mauser. He's based on a real person.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 10:33 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

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Dec 25, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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What Science Reveals About Money and a Happy Retirement

Whether you’re still planning or already retired, these research-based insights point the way to your best post-work life.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Science • kiplinger.com
The video games you may have missed in 2025

Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year

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Dec 25, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Technology • theguardian.com
Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it?

The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Dec 25, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
TV show based on Christmas movie 'The Holdovers' planned. Here's the latest

Filmed at Fairhaven High School and the James Arnold Mansion, Christmas film "The Holdovers" shares updates on a TV show. Could it film here again?

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Dec 25, 2025 • 4:01 AM EST • Entertainment • southcoasttoday.com
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Best Tactical RPGs
 - 20 Turn-Based Strategy Classics You Should Play

One good turn deserves 19 more

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Dec 24, 2025 • 11:00 AM EST • Technology • timeextension.com
Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again

The Florida-based judge is likely to once again play a central role in politics in the new year.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Politics • theatlantic.com
Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

Play for free Now!! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!

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Dec 24, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Technology • marvelrivals.com
This week in Santa Cruz County business: Joby ramps up for 2026, its target year for commercial service launch; looking at businesses that closed in 2025

In her weekly look at local business, Jessica M. Pasko reports on where Joby Aviation stands ahead of what's poised to be a big year for the Santa Cruz-based company, reviews closures around the county and highlights names and dates to know.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • lookout.co
BP agrees deal to sell £7.4bn stake in Castrol to US investment firm

Stonepeak will acquire 65% of lubricants business as part of wider plans for the oil company to pay down its debt

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Dec 24, 2025 • 5:34 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department

Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’

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Dec 24, 2025 • 4:28 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Cracker jokes and custard chemistry: ways to smuggle science into Christmas

Researchers share the easy ways to uncover moments of festive discovery, proving you don’t need a lab coat to experiment this Christmas

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Dec 24, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Science • theguardian.com
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The big sports quiz of the year 2025

Have you followed the football, rugby, basketball, NFL, cycling, F1, tennis, horse racing, sumo, athletics and golf?

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Dec 24, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Sports • theguardian.com
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Gold, silver and platinum hit record highs as investors look for Santa rally; BP to sell stake in Castrol for $6bn

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Dec 24, 2025 • 2:38 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
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‘A gamechanger’: 200,000 UK small businesses sign up to TikTok Shop

Big brands such as Sainsbury’s and M&S also selling directly in app through links in videos and livestreams

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Dec 24, 2025 • 2:00 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com
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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase

: Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

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Dec 23, 2025 • 10:39 PM EST • Technology • theregister.com
Pro-Palestine prisoners pause hunger strike as their health deteriorates

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib, on remand at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, had refused food for almost 50 days in protest at the ban on Palestine Action

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:03 PM EST • Health • theguardian.com
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Have a 3D Printer? You Can Make Your Own iPhone Fold Dummy

Apple is working on a foldable iPhone that's set to come out in September 2026, and rumors suggest that it will have a display that's around 5.4 inches when closed and 7.6 inches when open. Exact measurements vary based on rumors, but one 3D designer has created a mockup based on what we've heard so far. On MakerWorld, a user named Subsy has uploaded a 1:1 iPhone Fold replica (via Macworld), which can be 3D printed to give you a rough idea of the size of the upcoming foldable iPhone.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 4:31 PM EST • Technology • macrumors.com
The first iPhone Fold dummy shows a radical new design for a folding phone

Someone made a model of the rumored iPhone Fold based on leaked CAD files and it's like nothing we've seen before.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 1:46 PM EST • Technology • macworld.com
ASTP/ONC seeks relaxation of health IT certification criteria with HTI-5

The proposed rule aims to reduce burdens and costs on health IT developers. It also includes measures to promote FHIR-based interoperability, strengthen information blocking rules and simplify certification of AI models.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 12:31 PM EST • Health • healthcareitnews.com
Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025

A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AI

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Dec 23, 2025 • 12:03 PM EST • Technology • theguardian.com
Scientists create replica human womb lining and implant early-stage embryos

Studying chemical chatter as tiny balls of cells embed could shine a light on early pregnancy and glitches that lead to miscarriage

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Dec 23, 2025 • 11:00 AM EST • Science • theguardian.com
This is what the ‘most attractive woman alive’ looks like, according to science | - The Times of India

Trending News: Discover the statistical profile of the 'most attractive woman alive' based on analysis of Maxim's Hot 100 lists from 2016 to 2025, identifying key traits and trends in modern beauty standards.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 9:08 AM EST • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Orioles stories of the year: Baltimore’s 2025 power outage

A steep drop in home runs and extra-base hits sunk the O’s offense in 2025. Is there hope for a turn around in 2026?

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Dec 23, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Sports • camdenchat.com
The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug

Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.

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New batch of Epstein files released featuring more Trump mentions

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Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty video game series, dies aged 55

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Governors’ Health Priorities in 2025

Through emergency response, behavioral health investments, maternal health protections, nutrition innovations, rural health transformation, and workforce development, Governors have demonstrated that effective governance requires evidence-based policymaking, cross-agency coordination, and sustained political will. Governors confronted complex challenges with innovative solutions grounded in evidence and adapted to local contexts. As highlighted at the 2025 Health and Human Services Policy Advisors Institute, states […]

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Pearl of the Week: Behavioral health integration pays off

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Ukraine said it sneaked into a guarded Russian airbase and destroyed 2 jets worth up to $100 million combined

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Calls for penalties as outrage grows over limited release of Epstein files

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AMC Entertainment Scores Its Biggest Pre-Christmas Holiday Weekend Since 2021, as More Than 4 Million Moviegoers Visited an AMC or ODEON Cinemas Location From Thursday Through Sunday

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Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives

From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

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Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

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Top 10 business & market articles of 2025

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Indiana twins bridge political divide with kindness: ‘You have one family’

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Ministers defend ‘most ambitious animal welfare strategy in generation’ before publication

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Google may be bringing a Magic Cue-like feature to all Android devices

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Is it true that … you can sweat out a hangover?

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Gold and silver hit record highs amid rate-cut bets and Venezuela tensions

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NJ family hobby shop to close after more than 40 years in business

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