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Lesley Netter-Snowden named executive vice president and chief business officer

Kennesaw State University President Kathy S. Schwaig has appointed Lesley Netter-Snowden as executive vice president and chief business officer (EVP/CBO) effective immediately, following a national search.

Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • kennesaw.edu

Science must move from materialism to mystery

Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that modern science has become trapped in a framework that mistakes matter for the whole of reality. In this wide-ranging interview, Gómez-Marín challenges the foundations of materialism, defends the scientific study of near-death experiences, and calls for a new type of science grounded in mystery and a renewed sense of the sacred. He suggests that abandoning materialism could open the door to a deeper understanding of consciousness, death, and the purpose of human existence. Simon Custer: You are both a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist, and you have also been fiercely critical of materialist theories of mind and consciousness. What do you think the ultimate nature of reality is?Àlex Gómez-Marín: I don't know what the ultimate nature of reality is, but what I try to first assess is whether the stories that they [mainstream science] have told us about it are right, or maybe whether there are other alternatives. That's why I've been a fierce critic of materialism. As a scientist, I realized that they had sold us this idea that to be a good scientist you also had to subscribe to many other -isms, like materialism, reductionism, and even secularism. And so first I think one needs to unmount these -isms, and then, as is happening today in consciousness studies, we have a huge landscape where there isn't only one game in town, the idea that matter is the only thing that really exists. But because we are studying the hard problem of consciousness, it may be the case that other views of reality, like idealism, or even dualism, or other theories like dual aspect monism... these are philosophical ideas that now, I think, have room in science to be taken seriously. How does something like materialism relate to dualism or idealism? What is materialism in the first place?Well, materialism is the philosophical position that matter is the only really ‘real’ thing in the universe. And I think that worked kind of well because science started 400 years ago and Galileo made that split, I call it the foundational wound. It was a great business move.He said, let's start doing science on that portion of reality that lends itself more easily to mathematization and measurement. So, for some reason, the solidity of this table or the movement of planets lend themselves very well to this foundational idea of science. But as time went on, 400 years later, we realized that we had forgotten the other side, which is what really matters.What really matters is pain, is love, is feelings, sensation, consciousness, which is very hard to define, but very intimate. We all know what it is. It's that thing that disappears when we go into deep sleep and comes back in the morning. SUGGESTED VIEWING On the edges of knowledge With Michael Shermer, Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor It's what it is like to be, as Nagel said. It's the feeling of being alive. So, materialism is good to study certain things, but then when it ossifies into this ideology and then is dressed like science, now it's preventing us from understanding these key questions that are really that everybody wants to know.Why are we here? Why do we feel reality? Where do we go when we die? And so we need other ways. We need pluralism. I'm only asking for having more options on the table and taking them seriously. Why does materialism fail to explain consciousness? For example, if you were to lobotomize me, I would not be a functional human being. What do you say to someone who might think that materialism adequately explains the mind?Well, here we could speak about different things. We could talk about physics or about neuroscience. I happen to have training with both.For instance, for neuroscientists, 99% of them, I'm not included in that portion, believe that the brain can only be a productive organ. It's an organ that somehow, somewhere, consciousness emerges. It's like a lamp. And then something happens, magic happens, and then consciousness emerges.That's the position you need to be if you're a materialist because if the only really ‘real’ thing is matter, then you need to say, just give us some more time and money and we'll figure out how mind emerges or is produced from matter. There are many philosophically sophisticated ways of criticizing this.Now there's another option, which is the brain as a permissive organ. This was said by William James more than 100 years ago.Now then the brain wouldn't be like this machine, like for instance, a heat engine whose smoke is consciousness, which is what we would have in the first big model, the productive model. But in the permissive model, the brain would be a kind of a filter. And so the brain would still have a very important role in consciousness, but it wouldn't be a productive role.It would be permissive, much like a filter or much like a prism which would receive light. And - I'm speaking metaphorically - it would receive the light of the mind and then it could reflect it and refract it.Now, with these two big options on the table, I think we can make progress into what I call the edges of consciousness, which are all these experiences, weird experiences that many people have, but we don't talk about enough, like near-death experiences, precognitive dreams, synchronicities. These experiences are very important for humans and they have a place in the permissive hypothesis and they are literally impossible in the productive hypothesis. So that's yet one more reason to explore alternatives to materialism. There may be anecdotal evidence for near-death experiences, but is there robust evidence that would be accepted by the majority of scientists who subscribe to the scientific method?Sure. And the plural of anecdotes, someone said, is data.And there's a lot of data. Actually, this year is the 50th anniversary, half a century, since Dr. Raymond Moody realized that we have two ears and one mouth and started listening to what his patients had to say about their experiences while they were clinically dead.The heart had stopped, breathing had stopped in these patients. These patients would come back and tell him these amazing stories that some people may say are hallucinations, but for the patients were hyper-real, like seeing light at the end of the tunnels, seeing deceased family members waiting for them, feeling bliss.___I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain.___And so he and others started taking them seriously and writing their accounts down. And then you can do a science based on that material of experience that people have. Now, on the more objective side, more recently people have started to measure what's going on in the brain when people are clinically dead and brought back. This has opened a proper field of study, which is near-death studies.Evidence is a difficult word, because sometimes people think that when you say evidence, this is just the final proof. Evidence is like in a jury. You bring testimony, you bring pieces of data that point in one direction or another.I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain. When brains are broken or shut off, there can still be mind going on. And that's revolutionary.That would entail that when we die, it's not game over, which, by the way, is the thesis of materialism. If consciousness survives, materialism dies. It's game over for materialism if something of us continues after we die. Do you think that there is mental continuity after death?Well, I think so, and I believe so, and I could also say I may have experienced it myself, because four years ago I had a near-death experience. I was in the hospital, I lost a lot of blood, and I saw those beings at the end of the tunnel, three beings, and there was yellow light. I was in a well, I was looking upwards, and I hadn't read about NDEs by then, but when I came back from this experience, I decided I would try to integrate this also in my professional life. Not just my personal life, of course, but my professional life as a physicist and as a neuroscientist. So I may have had the experience of glimpses of what an afterlife would be, and I'm not ashamed to say it in this way, and then one can do science of it, and then one can do philosophy of it.One can think about what -isms we were discussing, what views on reality would allow those experiences to be really ‘real,’ as opposed to, well, poor guy, the brain was kind of broken, it must have been a hallucination. Do you have a view about whether individuality or “the ego” persists after death, or whether we sort of merge into some sort of cosmic consciousness instead?I don't know, but my view would be along those lines you're suggesting. I think we could speak about a kind of universal mind, and then the problem is not how we emerge from matter, but how we fragment from a more holistic consciousness into these individual eddies and then when we die, this kind of dissipates.But I'm not sure. For instance, idealism would promote that view, but then what would survive of us after these eddies just vanish and become again the big Consciousness, I'm not sure what that would be. I don't know for sure, but I would tell you I believe something of us survives.And there are other lines of research, not just near-death experience, that can address this really hard question of survival. For instance, there are children who remember previous lives. This was studied by Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia for more than 50 years.___Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.___It's amazing research. He went all over the world, especially in the East, and collected all these case studies, all these stories. In plural, these were data of kids, very young age, who would describe up to 40 items that then he could go and verify.There was no internet. There was really no way the kid could know. Why would the kid say that when I was living in this other body and I was a woman and that's how my house would look like or that's how I would die, right? Again, there is evidence, not proof, but there's evidence not only that something weird and interesting is happening as we cross the threshold, but also when we come back to this life.Scientists should not be afraid of studying this, but they are because there's stigma. There's usually stigma upon the enigma, and this is so unfortunate. And one of the reasons is because of the ideology of materialism, because those things cannot be possible. What is wrong with the politics of science such that they have generated this stigma?So many things. Science is a human activity to begin with.So it falls prey to all our passions and ego and greed. That's one thing. Science is a job for the good and for the bad.You need to get a salary. You need to get grants. Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.And then, we didn't have time to unpack this, but science for many years become entangled, as I was suggesting before, to other -isms, materialism, secularism. So anything that smells like the afterlife, people may think has to do with God, and then they freak out.Anything that suggests that there's something about the mind that may not need a physical material substrate to exist, it smells like non-materialism. So, all these -isms are ideologically blocking that kind of research, and then there are all these sociopolitical constraints as to what should be studied and what shouldn't be studied.I call it the backstage of science. Sometimes we scientists or science communicators seem to speak as if the data is the only thing that matters. We say, well, data and theory.But then there's a third leg of this stool, which is all the politics that goes behind the scenes. And we often don't speak about this, and it's quite vicious and petty, and it's very real. Why is materialism so attractive to most scientists?Well, an easy answer is because we've grown up with it.It's what the educational system promotes, and that's what you hear when you go to university. So it's like growing in a culture. It feels like the air in which you breathe.So it's very hard to begin with to detect, well, maybe there's another alternative. Maybe there are other ways of doing science, other environments in which one could do science. That's one reason.And other reasons maybe are more profound, and I'm not qualified to explain them, but I could say, looking at this 400-year history of science, since it started around 1623 with Galileo's book The Assayer, that science went and coupled with all what's going on in the West.And so the fall of religion, you could say, and science presented us this new alternative that then could be coupled very well with other -isms, and this idea of growth, and then science losing its good twin brother, which was philosophy. There's a whole natural history of science starting as philosophy, kind of emancipating or breaking out from philosophy, and then marrying technology, and then marrying other social systems.From that point of view, materialism is a very convenient idea to propose. There were attempts, like the German idealists tried to do a more romantic science. But no, the idea prevailed, like Francis Bacon said: You should pursue nature through all her corners, he said, and make her spill her secrets.Our attitude towards nature in the science that dominates is very much reflecting how we treat nature in our society, in our culture, like a resource to extract secrets by force and then dominate it. How is materialism related to the notions of growth and progress? What's wrong with having a productive citizenry?This is another very interesting and very difficult question to answer.But there's this recent book coming out by Paul Kingsnorth. In it, he explains this idea of the machine and this idea of progress. And this, again, this conflation of more is better, of we need to go forward always, and convincing us that the way to do that is to continually extract more from nature. But because we don't have the religious context anymore, because God is dead, then what do we have? We have what we can do as humans with our own gadgets.It's kind of the story of the Promethean fire. We will just build anything to make ourselves God.A good example today is transhumanism. Transhumanism is this pseudo-religion dressed in technoscientific language whose goal is very religious. They promise immortality, they promise redemption, they promise transformation of the entire natural world, but it's done by human means through technology. Are you suggesting that we can't have ethics without religion?Well, we should have ethics with or without religion. That's another pruning that has happened in science. We say, forget about aesthetics, although some physicists still think that beautiful means probably true, and forget about politics. We pretend there's no backstage of science, and even let's forget about ethics.___Science needs to be in the service of mankind.___Scientists, when they become more like engineers, they're just thinking how to make things work so that they can go to the moon, go to Mars, make machines that think, but they don't think whether that's a good idea.And also consider metaphysics. Many scientists for a long time pretended, and maybe that comes from the stream of positivisms, that really one doesn't need metaphysics at all, except that materialism is always the metaphysics running the system.You see, it's not just ethics. It's the pruning of all of these, you could say, five main legs of philosophy that just makes a kind of unconscious science, a science that doesn't really know what it's doing. It's doing it very well locally, but it just doesn't know what it's doing globally. Do you think science has to have an ultimate vision and purpose behind it for it to be effective or for it to be meaningful and transformative?Yes, a way I would say that is that science needs to be in the service of mankind. And it hasn't been that. And we can see it through, you know, when we discovered the secrets of the atom, and all of a sudden, the Manhattan Project, and then we create nuclear weapons.And now we're trying to crack how machines may think, and now we're creating this mess, right? So science needs to be in service of mankind, not in service of a few ideas that maybe want to make more money or just dominate upon nature. What about planes, trains, automobiles, and modern medicine? Hasn't science served mankind by helping us develop those technologies?Yes and no. I see where you're going, and it's fair.I came here by plane, and it's a blessing. When I almost died, the surgeons did their job, and they saved my life. But these two forced choices between Luddites and Silicon Valley types, I think, of course, it's a false dichotomy.Progress, in a way, it's good, but we often don't speak about the dark side of the moon. We say the great things that progress has brought, and we don't speak about the disasters, the side effects that it has come with, and the same when we promise new technologies. We tend to think that any technology is great, that email is going to save us so much time because we don't need to write letters and send them anymore.Is that true? I spend so many hours a week writing emails. Let's just say there are great things about it and bad things about it. People like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, for example, argue that we've made moral progress over time because of the Enlightenment. Do you think that's totally wrong-headed?I think he's emphasizing a side of the moon, and he does that very well, and you can find tons of plots where there's a slope going up and say it's great. But I think he should also tell the not-so-friendly story.But if your ideology is just to resist and continue to explain that the Enlightenment is the best thing ever and reason is the best thing ever… this feels to me like you're worshipping these abstractions.I'm very critical of it and also of these, again, science communicators and scientists that say, Oh, science says, in the name of science, experts say. It's like, come on, let's be careful because we can shoot ourselves in the foot by putting forth to the people an image of science that we know is not really true. Recently there's been a resurgence of spirituality and of people who say that they're spiritual but not religious, especially in the United States. If materialism is going away, what is going to fill that gap? Are we going to return to traditional religion? Do you see that being connected with the rise of the political right?I'm not a fortune teller, so I don't know what's going to happen. But, yeah, we could say we're in this post-materialist age and even post-secular age. One cannot come back to the past, but maybe just to contact with the roots is a good idea.What do I mean by that? I think we need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method. We need to do so in a culture where we realize humans cannot thrive in a vacuum where there's this idea that the sacred has to be removed.Now, how do we do that without bringing in back all the vices of religion? I don't know. I'm from a Catholic country.Here we are in England, so there are differences and interreligious dialogue has always been a challenge. But I think maybe a way of putting it is: after all these conflicts and branchings I was quickly alluding to, science from philosophy and then also from religion, now there's a time of reconciliation perhaps and maybe debates in the proper sense, like exchange of ideas in service of learning and getting into something higher than both poles. We need science to talk to religious people and it's interesting when people say they're spiritual and not religious.I think this is just a way of saying, no, I don't want to go back, I want to go forward. But at the end of the day, religions have offered us practices and grounding that we now desperately need. Everybody can and should just meditate or pray or do whatever they want, but we're in a crisis and it's time for reconciliation. What do you say to critics that say you are merely projecting our need for meaning onto a fundamentally indifferent universe?Yeah, I know that the typical science communicator says something like this. But we're not projecting. Human beings feed on meaning.It's the other way around. If you're a materialist, because the only thing that there is is matter, all that comes next, free will, consciousness, meaning, this is a kind of illusion that we need to explain.They're just craving for meaning, but there isn't really for them. I would also like to remind my materialist friends that for decades, if not centuries, they've said in the name of science, we know that this and this and this doesn't really exist. I think now they sense they're forced to say, well, actually, we don't know. We've been saying, for instance, that there's nothing after you die, and now probably they need to admit that they don't know the answer.___We need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method.___So it's a moment to open up possibilities and also to gently but fiercely critique these claims that I think harm society. If you say in the name of science, get on with it, when your father dies, you'll never see him again. Well, what the F do you know about it? You haven't studied the literature, you haven't had any of those experiences, and basically what you're doing is you're just doing marketing on ideology. This needs to stop. Do you think that it's scarier for some people to entertain the thought that there might be life after death, compared to a materialist worldview where you just die, given that there might be consequences for unsavory behaviour?Well, death and dying is scary. It's maybe the ultimate ending. It's a limit on life, and when we're in this conquest mode, we don't like limits.And it also has, there's a shockwave backwards, so I think if you change your notion of what death is or may be, you live differently. It also has consequences, as you're saying, for the future because this is not our only goal here and we come back in whatever form. And again, different religions would say different things. I the East, they are more happy with the idea of reincarnation, and here in the West, there are other preferences. But in any case, it changes how we live, and that's really what matters.It's not about just projecting or imagining what we'll be after, but how we live now and also how we treat those who are dying. So it goes from the individual to the families, to the hospitals.Now in the near-death research I do, this has ramifications at all these levels, all the way to society.But our society is thanatophobic. It has a phobia of death. We don't want to hear about death, and this is another thing we need to put on the table and be willing to talk about it. Do you think that we might get closer to answering ultimate questions like why is there anything at all if we jettison materialism?That’s an excellent question, Simon. Two things: we should stop treating reality, I believe, as a great sudoku, as an enigma, as something that with intelligence, money, and time that we will crack and instead treat reality more like a mystery. And what you do for in front of a mystery is not to be the clever guy in a class and say “I’ll solve you” but more like “I will bow and you will transform me.”I know this sounds a bit like a scientist speaking like a mystic. But I think this reorientation is needed. In the end, we won’t crack the big questions, but they will transform us. If we free ourselves from this prison of materialism, the way we will explore these questions will be freer, more creative, and in service of mankind. Do you think exploring mystery is the reason why we are here?I think we are here because, and this pseudo-theological argument I’m making off the cuff, But the One, the Absolute, if there is such a thing, had everything except limitation. We are that absolute experiencing that contingency. It’s like an act of divine proprioception. It’s a wonderful adventure, it’s just incredible to be alive. Perhaps we have forgotten why we are here and the whole point is to experience the flesh.Let me end by saying this. I criticize materialism harshly. I bang on this dead horse, because I think it’s dead. But matter is a great mystery. So maybe my invitation is as follows: hey materialist friends, come here, let’s work on materialism 2.0! Consciousness is a mystery, but matter is also a mystery. The fact that we can have an intersubjective experience consensus, the fact that we can apply mathematics, that we can measure things... the physical world we take for granted, but it is a great mystery too.Maybe that’s related to your last question: why are we here? Why did spirit decide to incarnate? Being in the flesh may be a great thing if spirit decided to do so.Àlex Gómez-Marín, thank you very much.My pleasure.

Dec 1, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • iai.tv

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Prime minister to give speech after report that some ministers are unhappy over handling of the budget

Dec 1, 2025 • 4:28 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com

Trump-backed candidate leads Honduras presidential vote, early trends show

Nasry Asfura holds a narrow lead over his rival Salvador Nasralla, with about 40 percent of the votes counted.

Dec 1, 2025 • 4:25 AM EST • Politics • aljazeera.com

Hidden code reveals Samsung phones are in for a major wireless charging upgrade

Code in One UI 8.5 reveals "Super fast wireless charging," potentially boosting speeds up to 25W for the Samsung Galaxy S26 series.

Dec 1, 2025 • 4:24 AM EST • Technology • androidauthority.com

NC pitches $1 billion plan to overhaul rural health system

State’s proposal for federal funding would create regional hubs, bolster workforce and revive food-as-medicine programs.

Dec 1, 2025 • 4:15 AM EST • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org

'Wicked' has Fall River connection. From Spindle City to Emerald City

'Wicked: For Good' is defying gravity at the box office. But did you know 'The Wizard of Oz' has a Fall River connection? Here's how.

Dec 1, 2025 • 4:02 AM EST • Entertainment • heraldnews.com

Score huge savings on Apple gear with these Cyber Monday 2025 deals

We're still tracking Black Friday deals on Macs, MacBooks, AirPods, iPads, iPhones, Apple Watches so you can get all-time low prices for Cyber Monday. Grab them before they're gone!

Dec 1, 2025 • 3:33 AM EST • Technology • macworld.com

NASA, Schmidt Sciences give $7M boost to arXiv

Cornell Tech just landed more than $7 million from NASA and Schmidt Sciences to give arXiv — the massive open-access research hub — a serious upgrade. The money will help arXiv modernize its infrastructure, finish moving to the cloud, and build smarter tools to help researchers find preprints more easily. “I am profoundly grateful for… MoreNASA, Schmidt Sciences give $7M boost to arXiv

Dec 1, 2025 • 3:33 AM EST • Science • fingerlakes1.com

I just found the 21 best Cyber Monday laptop and computer deals to upgrade your setup

Don’t buy just any computer this Cyber Monday. Our expert picked out the laptop and computer deals that are actually worth shopping based on his extensive hands-on experience.

Dec 1, 2025 • 3:31 AM EST • Technology • cnn.com

Crystal Palace 1-2 Man Utd

We asked for your thoughts after Sunday's Premier League game between Crystal Palace and Manchester United. Here are some of your comments: Palace fans Theo: We've not got the squad depth to cope with Europe and the Premier League. You could see the defenders were tired and losing concentration, and so it's no surprise both goals we conceded came in the second half.

Dec 1, 2025 • 3:18 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com

UK economic growth forecast to slow next year as unemployment rises

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Dec 1, 2025 • 2:11 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com

Memphis plays San Antonio on 3-game win streak

Memphis Grizzlies (9-12, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (13-6, fifth in the Western Conference) San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Memphis will try to extend its three-game win streak with a victory over San Antonio. The Spurs are 5-0 against division opponents.

Dec 1, 2025 • 2:02 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Using technology to elevate patient care and physician well-being

Northwell Health’s Deborah Mensch, MD, shares how health care technologies can transform patient care, ease physician burden and drive innovation.

Dec 1, 2025 • 2:00 AM EST • Health • ama-assn.org

There’s a new political party in Arizona

There’s a new political party in Arizona, recycled from the bones of a failed attempt to field a legitimate third-party presidential candidate in 2024.

Dec 1, 2025 • 2:00 AM EST • Politics • kjzz.org

Coastal Carolina fires Tim Beck after three seasons

Beck was dismissed by Coastal after a 20-18 record through three years, despite bowl eligibility each season.

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:52 AM EST • Sports • underdogdynasty.com

GOP-led committees plans probe into boat strike killings

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:34 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com

Missouri sports betting is now live: Find the best sports betting apps and promos

Missouri sports betting is now live, and the top Missouri sportsbooks are offering Missouri sports betting promos

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:12 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com

‘Zootopia 2’ Roars To Record-Setting Opening At Box Office

The sequel from the Walt Disney Company had the highest international opening ever for an animated movie.

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:09 AM EST • Entertainment • huffpost.com

Auburn hires South Florida head coach Alex Golesh

Golesh leaves South Florida near the end of his third season, producing a 23-15 record and 2 bowl wins.

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:08 AM EST • Sports • underdogdynasty.com

BetMGM Missouri bonus code CBSSPORTS now live: Get up to $1,500 in bonus bets if you don't win your first bet

Here's how Missouri bettors can use the latest MGM promo code CBSSPORTS after the December 1 launch of Missouri sports betting to get up to $1,500 in bonus bets

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:01 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com

Missouri launches sports betting as recent scandals shine a spotlight on the growing industry

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:01 AM EST • Sports • 10tv.com

UK refrains from hitting high street on Black Friday as fears grow over economy

Data comes as KPMG highlights soft consumer spending as one factor likely to hold back growth in 2026

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Business • theguardian.com

How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com

BetMGM Missouri Bonus Code FOXSPORTS: Get $1,500 in Bonus Bets

Sports betting is officially here in Missouri— take advantage of this incredible $1,500 in Bonus Bets offer from BetMGM.

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Sports • foxsports.com

St. Louis County’s health director wants to preserve 3 clinics amid budget crunch

St. Louis County Health Department Director Kanika Cunningham spoke about the budgetary future of her department and the state of the county animal shelter on the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air.

Dec 1, 2025 • 1:00 AM EST • Health • stlpr.org

Google share text messages: Shocking Update Leaves Workers Worried

Google share text messages update raises privacy concerns as employees worry about employer access to private texts.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:23 AM EST • Technology • meyka.com

Alicia Keys says a realization about her 'own triggers' shaped the way she parents

Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz, have a blended family of five kids, three of whom are from his previous relationships.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:17 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

Mental health warning issued for weight-loss drugs including Ozempic in Australia

TGA also issues separate warning around Mounjaro and potential reduced effectiveness of contraception

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:13 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com

Indiana lawmakers in state House to convene session with redistricting top of mind

Indiana lawmakers in the state House of Representatives are gathering Monday with the possibility of advancing redistricting legislation, increasing pressure on their Senate colleagues to get on board with redrawing the state’s congressional map

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:08 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Ukrainians say their cheap interceptor drones are catching Russia's new turbojet Shaheds

Russia's turbojet Geran-3s are much faster than the usual Shaheds, but Ukrainians that their cheap interceptors took several down for the first time.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:02 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

2025–26 winter sports: Teams are ready to prove themselves as state contenders

Lynden girls, Lummi Nation boys basketball teams defend state titles

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:01 AM EST • Sports • cascadiadaily.com

Elon Musk says AI will end America's debt crisis within 3 years

Elon Musk says AI and robotics will solve the US debt crisis within three years by driving productivity beyond inflation.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:01 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

For These Businesses, U.S. Tariffs Are a Price Worth Paying

Some British business owners are determined to keep their access to American consumers, but they are facing trade-offs.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:01 AM EST • Business • nytimes.com

Tsodilo Resources Continues Its Collaboration with Botswana International University of Science and Technology

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 1, 2025) - Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSXV: TSD) (OTCQB: TSDRF) (FSE: TZO) ("Tsodilo" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on its wholly owned Xaudum Iron Project (XIF) and announce that the Company is continuing its research collaboration with the Department of Chemical, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST).The BIUST Pig Iron Production ProjectIn 2024, Dr....

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:01 AM EST • Science • finance.yahoo.com

Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency

Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com

‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career

The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. She has never found out who made the malicious deepfake, but knew immediately she had to try to stop this happening to other women

Dec 1, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com

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Dec 1, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Sports • wfaa.com

How Michigan universities' lobbying changed amid threats to higher education

Michigan's top universities are changing tactics and tapping alumni to push back against the rising skepticism about higher education's mission.

Nov 30, 2025 • 11:03 PM EST • Politics • detroitnews.com

Five questions for Pete Van Baalen, director of business operations, Sweetwater

Business executive Pete Van Baalen discusses some of the lessons he's learned both inside and outside of Sweetwater Sound.

Nov 30, 2025 • 11:00 PM EST • Business • journalgazette.net

Women & Infants caregivers allege health, safety and staffing issues

PROVIDENCE – Unionized caregivers at Women & Infants Hospital earlier this month gathered to demand that parent company Care New England Health System address concerns around patient safety, staff training and infrastructure. Service Employees International Union 1199 New England, the union representing the employees, said in a statement that despite Care New England reporting a $40 million profit for 2024, “caregivers continue to raise major concerns” about staffing among labor and delivery, […]

Nov 30, 2025 • 10:30 PM EST • Health • pbn.com

Super Bowl LX Pregame Entertainment Lineup Revealed

/PRNewswire/ -- The NFL announced the pregame entertainment for Super Bowl LX, which will take place at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026,...

Nov 30, 2025 • 10:14 PM EST • Entertainment • prnewswire.com

Super Bowl LX Pregame Entertainment Lineup Revealed

The NFL announced the pregame entertainment for Super Bowl LX, which will take place at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, and air live on NBC, Telemundo and Peacock. The star-studded lineup features multi-award winning, Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Charlie Puth, 11x Grammy-winning artist Brandi Carlile and Grammy-winning R&B breakout artist Coco Jones.

Nov 30, 2025 • 10:14 PM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Lane Kiffin, Thanksgiving and CFB conference champs: A busy weekend at the sportsbooks

How sportsbooks are evaluating Ole Miss and the College Football Playoff race, plus more on NFL underdogs winning big on Thanksgiving.

Nov 30, 2025 • 10:04 PM EST • Sports • espn.com

NFL announces historic first for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile and Coco Jones are among the Super Bowl LX pregame performers that are set to hit the Levi’s Stadium field on Feb. 8.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:56 PM EST • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com

Sound Smart: 7 Observations from NFL Sunday in Week 13

Was Jerry Jones right? Are the Bears for real? What should the Panthers do with Bryce Young? Henry McKenna offers a big-picture look at Week 13.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:54 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com

WATCH: Texans-Colts Recap LIVE from Lucas Oil Stadium

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:50 PM EST • Sports • roundtable.io

Yaman Altal Medical Center Announces Expansion of Clinical Services and Advances Regional Men's Health Initiatives

Amman, Jordan--(Newsfile Corp. - November 30, 2025) - Yaman Altal Medical Center today announced a major expansion of its clinical and educational operations as part of its continued efforts to strengthen men's health services across the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa. The expansion reflects the Center's ongoing commitment to evidence-based diagnostics, public health education, and international clinical collaboration.Courtesy: Dr. Yaman AltalTo view an enhanced version of this graphic,..

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:49 PM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Broncos vs. Commanders second quarter recap

The Washington Commanders began the second quarter at the Denver Broncos 23-yard line having just converted a third and 12 to end the first quarter. They were in prime position to put points on the board. After a nice first down run, Marcus Mariota was finally pressured and tried to make a jump pass down […]

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:43 PM EST • Sports • milehighreport.com

Can fibre improve heart health naturally? Cardiologist reveals how it lowers cholesterol and protects your arteries | - The Times of India

Beyond gut health, fibre significantly bolsters your heart. Cardiologist Dr. Dmitry Yaranov reveals it lowers bad cholesterol, stabilizes blood pressu

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:30 PM EST • Health • timesofindia.indiatimes.com

No More Border Runs: Missouri Sports Betting Launches December 1

Ever since sports betting launched in Kansas in 2022, numerous Missouri residents regularly make the trip to the Kansas border to access betting platforms. Now, their routine is set to change as sports betting launches in Missouri tomorrow. Our Ryan Bunnell has the story.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:21 PM EST • Sports • fourstateshomepage.com

Schonfeld hires top Citadel exec Andrew Philipp to bolster senior ranks

Philipp spent four years at Citadel and previously held top jobs at Goldman Sachs. He is the latest C-suite addition t by Schonfeld CEO Ryan Tolkin.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:15 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

'It was just an MRI.' Trump says he will release MRI results.

President Donald Trump had previously disclosed he underwent an MRI exam on Oct. 10, but he did not say which part of his body was scanned.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:03 PM EST • Health • usatoday.com

Trump says he ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second hit on alleged drug boat

CNN and The Washington Post reported that on Sept. 2, the U.S. struck a vessel it accused of trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela a second time, killing the remaining survivors.

Nov 30, 2025 • 9:01 PM EST • Politics • newsnationnow.com

From science to fiction, stories of the uncertain and unknown

Why do we, the non-scientists, care about Dark Matter or quantum uncertainties, relativity and black holes? After all, to most laymen, the science behind the words may as well be magic

Nov 30, 2025 • 8:48 PM EST • Science • indianexpress.com

Mathieu Darche already staring down a pivotal Islanders crossroads

Game 26 of the Islanders’ season was typical, insofar as it told us little about the Islanders that we did not already know.

Nov 30, 2025 • 8:47 PM EST • Sports • nypost.com

ESPN poses intriguing Cowboys question as playoff quest remains alive

Are the Cowboys now a problem?

Nov 30, 2025 • 8:42 PM EST • Sports • sportingnews.com

Knicks beat Raptors 116-94 for their 4th straight victory

NEW YORK (AP) Josh Hart had 20 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists, Karl-Anthony Towns added 22 points and eight rebounds and the New York Knicks beat the Toronto Raptors 116-94 on Sunday for their fourth straight victory.

Nov 30, 2025 • 8:39 PM EST • Sports • cbssports.com