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Trump is taking credit for sharply declining drug prices. The reality is more complex

New federal data that shows U.S. prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago, the steepest year-over-year drop since 1963.

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Aug 18 • 2:52 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org
Camera-Equipped AirPods Shown In Action in macOS Beta

These cameras won't be for taking photos, though.

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Aug 18 • 2:39 PM EDT • Technology • petapixel.com
Governors' races are being increasingly buffeted by the toxic politics of data centers

More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers, as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths

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Aug 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • abcnews.com
Governors' races are being increasingly buffeted by the toxic politics of data centers

More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers, as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths.

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Aug 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • clickorlando.com
Governors’ races are being increasingly buffeted by the toxic politics of data centers

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths t…

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Aug 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • wpri.com
Inside the Golf Cart Business

This week on Entrepreneurial Shades of Gray, we’re taking a look inside the golf cart industry.

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Aug 18 • 11:41 AM EDT • Business • fox10tv.com
Undrafted rookie Jacob Rizy taking increased Patriots role in stride

Rizy took over for the injured Ben Brown in the preseason opener.

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Aug 18 • 7:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Backlash in Michigan complicates Democrats’ road to retaking the Senate

The party’s chances may depend on Abdul El-Sayed, who beat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s preferred candidate and has criticized his support for Israel.

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Aug 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Taking out a Russian soldier costs about $3,000, Ukraine says

Ukrainian data from over 230,000 reports a week shows it costs about $1,487 to strike infrastructure and just over $3,000 to hit a soldier, Kyiv says.

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Aug 18 • 12:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Health records in GOP race for Oklahoma governor could help sway voters, experts say

Gentner Drummond’s push to pressure his opponent into taking a drug test taps into voter concerns over candidates’ health and could tip the outcome of the contentious runoff election for Oklahoma’s Republican nominee for governor, some political observers said.

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Aug 17 • 4:24 AM EDT • Health • kgou.org
Husker Volleyball gets set for season in Red-White scrimmage

Nebraska volleyball held its annual Red-White scrimmage on Sunday afternoon at Pinnacle Bank Arena, taking the floor for the team's first contest of the season. This year, the Huskers have

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Aug 16 • 2:55 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
LeBron James reunites with 2016 Cavaliers teammates for surprising new project

LeBron James is taking his talents from the hardwood to the golf course, launching a new YouTube venture with an unforgettable 2016 Cavaliers reunion in Scotland.

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Aug 16 • 10:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What Happens to Your Bone Health When You Take Vitamin D With Calcium?

Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, so taking them together can optimize their benefits.

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Aug 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • verywellhealth.com
Waymo is taking a bite out of rideshare. Driver impact is hard to see.

Waymo's share of gross bookings in SF, LA, and Phoenix are in the high teens, data showed. Experts say the impact on drivers is still murky.

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Aug 16 • 3:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Panthers' Premier Free Agent Additions Shine in Preseason Loss

The Carolina Panthers took the field on Saturday for the second time this preseason. The Panthers had a nice showing in the Hall of Fame Game, taking down the Arizona Cardinals. Saturday's matchup against the Bills, however, was not as positive for the Panthers.

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Aug 15 • 10:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Post-game live reaction: Seahawks vs Cowboys Preseason Game 1

The Seattle Seahawks marched down the field with Drew Lock at the helm, aided by two big penalties on the Dallas Cowboys, before punching it in for a 7-0 to kick off the game. After taking more than seven minutes off the clock, wide receiver Montorie Foster Jr. scored the first touchdown of the preseason […]

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Aug 15 • 10:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees’ Aaron Judge begins baseball activities as return draws closer

Aaron Judge is making progress toward his highly anticipated Yankees return, taking another key step in his recovery from a broken right rib as New York awaits its superstar’s comeback.

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Aug 15 • 7:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Opinion | Republicans Are Trying to Hide These Health Care Cuts

Republicans are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable.

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Aug 15 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Dear Annie: I love my mom, but taking care of her is becoming a drain on my own health

Advice from Annie Lane.

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Aug 15 • 4:17 AM EDT • Health • adn.com
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‘Business critical’: why even Andy Burnham is taking his social media game seriously

The Guardian’s deputy editor of social platforms on why high-profile people and brands are deploying the power of TikTok to woo new followers

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Aug 15 • 4:01 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
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‘Game of Thrones’ star Rory McCann steps in for the late Ray Stevenson in ‘Ahsoka’ season 2 first look

Three years after ‘Ahsoka’ star Ray Stevenson’s death, Disney has unveiled the first look at Rory McCann taking over the role of Baylan Skoll.

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Aug 15 • 12:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
New York Yankees Announce Roster Decision with Recently Signed Player

The New York Yankees are currently taking on the Toronto Blue Jays in an AL East showdown with AL Wild Card implications. Before the Blue Jays series, the Yankees organization announced a handful of roster decisions, and one of them had to do with recently signed player Mitch Garver. More MLB on Heavy: New York […] The post New York Yankees Announce Roster Decision with Recently Signed Player appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 14 • 11:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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U.S. District Judge denies hemp business' plea for pause on new regulations

United States Western District of Virginia Judge Robert Ballou Friday ruled against a cohort of Virginia hemp businesses, denying their motions for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to prevent new hemp restrictions from taking place.

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Aug 14 • 8:15 PM EDT • Business • insidenova.com
Bergenfield Theater Set to Become Restaurant, Entertainment Spot

A restaurant and entertainment concept is taking shape at 58-60 South Washington Ave. in Bergenfield. Diners will eat on the first floor. The second floor is where the action happens….

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Aug 14 • 5:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdhafm.com
Josh Turek talks costs, corruption at Iowa State Fair Political Soapbox

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Josh Turek kicked off the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox talking about taking on high costs and corruption.

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Aug 14 • 3:36 PM EDT • Politics • desmoinesregister.com
Taking the stairs may do this for your health, researchers say

New research published Aug. 13 says regular stair climbing can do this for your health.

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Aug 14 • 3:27 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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Raiders’ Fernando Mendoza shares ‘adversity’ insight following preseason debut

Rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza isn't taking his budding professional career for granted after making his preseason debut on Thursday.

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Aug 14 • 1:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Get informed, Get Protected: Catch Up on HPV Vaccination

by Lucia Gutierrez, VDH Summer Intern Academy Becoming a young adult brings new routines and responsibilities, from managing school and work commitments to taking a more active role in your […]

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Aug 14 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • vdh.virginia.gov
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Taking the stairs could protect your heart and help you live longer

Simply choosing the stairs could have surprisingly big benefits for your heart and longevity. A large analysis involving more than 480,000 people found that regular stair climbers were 39% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 24% less likely to die from any cause than people who rarely took the stairs. They also had lower risks of heart attack, stroke, and heart failure.

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Aug 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Eagles teammates taking notice of Darius Cooper's impressive training camp

Darius Cooper is having a fantastic second training camp and his Eagles teammates are taking notice.

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Aug 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Championship 2026-27 season preview: Club-by-club guide to new campaign

BBC Sport correspondents take a closer look at the 24 teams taking part in the 2026-27 Championship season.

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Aug 14 • 5:06 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
‘We’re seeing lots of people who feel dizzy’: how heatwaves are taking a toll on people’s health and the NHS

Doctors and nurses describe rise in fall injuries and other heat-related problems on top of stifling working conditions

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Aug 14 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
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Steelers Make Aaron Rodgers Decision Before Packers Preseason Opener

Pittsburgh's quarterback plans are taking shape ahead of Mike McCarthy's first game as head coach. The post Steelers Make Aaron Rodgers Decision Before Packers Preseason Opener appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 13 • 9:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers For Crucial Series vs Yankees

The Toronto Blue Jays are gearing up for a crucial three-game series with the New York Yankees this weekend. After taking a massive series against the Boston Red Sox, Toronto will be looking to keep up the winning ways against another American League East rival. The Blue Jays have been trying to battle back from […] The post Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers For Crucial Series vs Yankees appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 13 • 6:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“Taking the Twinkle Out of Stars” presented by Kona Science Cafe at Hawaiʻi Keiki Museum

Join Staff Astronomer Preethi Krishnamoorthy and Adaptive Optics Scientist Avinash Surendran as they explain how Keck Observatory takes the twinkle out of stars at the Hawaiʻi Keiki Museum’s upcoming Kona […]

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Aug 13 • 5:45 PM EDT • Science • keckobservatory.org
Virginia hemp businesses file lawsuit over new restrictions taking effect Saturday

A major change is about to reshape Virginia’s hemp industry, with new restrictions set to take effect Saturday as several businesses try to stop the law.

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Aug 13 • 5:21 PM EDT • Business • wset.com
Another Ship Reportedly Taking USS Abraham Lincoln’s Place In Middle East After Reports Of Mental Health Crisis

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran for more than 260 days.

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Aug 13 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • forbes.com
American Board of Radiology taking cautious approach to AI

Rather than moving quickly to adopt new tools, the Tucson, Arizona-based doc-certification organization is studying developments, engaging experts and establishing guardrails before introducing any change.

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Aug 13 • 7:48 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
This Week in Sports Trivia: August 13, 2026

How closely were you following the sports news this week? Find out and test your knowledge by taking The Athletic's weekly quiz.

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Aug 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Tylenol precedent threatens to tighten science vetting in Camp Lejeune toxic water trials

In a national lawsuit, parents claimed taking acetaminophen during pregnancy caused their children to develop autism or ADHD. A higher appeals court recently issued a major ruling on how strictly trial judges must vet medical experts and scientific data before a jury is allowed to hear it. Now, federal lawyers have formally flagged that case for the Camp Lejeune judges, hoping to tighten restrictions on what science is allowed at trial.

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Aug 13 • 6:41 AM EDT • Science • wunc.org
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Tucson police have big role in city's business community

Tucson Police Chief Monica Prieto, seen here taking questions during a meeting in April of Our America Foundation, leads an organization with an often overlooked role in the city's business

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Aug 12 • 6:19 PM EDT • Business • tucson.com
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave at month's end

Leavitt, 28, just recently returned to the White House after taking a brief leave for the birth of her second child in May

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Aug 12 • 4:55 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave at month's end

Leavitt, 28, just recently returned to the White House after taking a brief leave for the birth of her second child in May

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Aug 12 • 4:55 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Hot days ahead in WNC: Health official urges caution as outdoor crews take precautions

As temperatures are expected to climb in the coming days, outdoor workers across western North Carolina are taking extra precautions.

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Aug 12 • 4:23 PM EDT • Health • wlos.com
Pac-12 announces free streaming for fall Olympic sports

While many conferences keep lesser-watched Olympic sports behind a paywall, the Pac-12 is taking a different approach. The conference announced that fall Olympic sports, including women’s soccer, men’s soccer, and volleyball, will stream for free on the Pac-12 YouTube channel. These broadcasts should be fairly high quality. The conference says that the broadcasts will be…

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Aug 12 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RFK Jr. Is Taking On the Fuzziest Category in Food Science

The Health and Human Services secretary has railed against ultra-processed foods. Now he wants to define what they actually are.

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Aug 12 • 1:27 PM EDT • Science • theatlantic.com
RFK Jr. Is Taking On the Fuzziest Category in Food Science

The Health and Human Services secretary has railed against ultra-processed foods. Now he wants to define what they actually are.

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Aug 12 • 1:27 PM EDT • Health • theatlantic.com
Google's Pixel Tag Is An AirTag For Android Phones

Google is taking on Apple's AirTag with its own trackable accessory.

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Aug 12 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Altuve leaves game at the Giants after taking a pitch to his left foot

The Astros called it a bruised foot for Altuve, who manager Joe Espada said was sore.

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Aug 12 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
2026 St. Jude Championship Preview, Full Field And Odds

Taking a look and previewing the field, purse, picks, and predictions for the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the St. Jude Championship.

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Aug 12 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Science of “Ramping Up”: Why Aaron Glenn Playing Starters is a Calculated Risk Worth Taking

For years, the conventional wisdom in NFL training camps was simple: wrap the starters in bubble wrap, hold them out of preseason games, save them for Week 1. And every September, like clockwork, the league watches soft-tissue injuries pile up anyway – hamstrings, calves, Achilles, all the non contact stuff that has nothing to do […]

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Aug 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sports.yahoo.com
Police looking for individuals accused of taking mail from Clay Township business

Police in Lancaster County are asking the public to help identify individuals who were seen on video reportedly removing items from the mailbox of a business in

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Aug 11 • 3:43 PM EDT • Business • local21news.com
Kēōkea Hoʻolauleʻa features daylong entertainment, food and fun, Aug. 29

Musicians Nāmaka Cosma and Sean Parks are among the headliners at the Kēōkea Hoʻolauleʻa, taking place Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026 in Upcountry Maui.

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Aug 11 • 2:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • mauinow.com
Reimagining Science Education in West Africa with Sankofa Lab

David Tettey Tawiah ’27 is taking what he learned at Colby and the MDI Bio Lab to inspire a new generation of West African scientists

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Aug 11 • 12:01 PM EDT • Science • news.colby.edu
Lucas Museum announces new restaurant inspired by Skywalker Ranch

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Tuesday announced its flagship restaurant, Skywalker Grill. Nestled at the top of the museum with sweeping city views, the classic American eatery is now taking reservations.

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Aug 11 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Christal Jordan has the latest in entertainment headlines

Music artist Jelly Roll says he's taking a step back from music amid his divorce. And fans seem to think Usher had a look-alike perform for him.

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Aug 11 • 11:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
Jenna Ortega Won't Stop Taking Risks, No Matter How Big Wednesday Gets

At twenty-three, Ortega already has a resume a mile long. A sci-fi gamble could vault her to another level entirely.

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Aug 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • esquire.com
Lallemand Bio-Ingredients to spotlight science-driven ingredients at Vitafoods Asia 2026

Lallemand Bio-Ingredients, Health Ingredients, a global leader in fermented functional ingredients for human health and nutrition, will showcase its latest science-backed ingredients at Vitafoods Asia 2026, taking place September 2-4, 2026, in Bangkok, Thailand

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Aug 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
College Football Coach Rankings 2026: 11-25

From legends who've become institutions to up-and-coming superstars with the world there for the taking, these are the 15 coaches who are among the very best, but slightly below the current elite.All of them have won big things, but each is missing something. Can he win the really big games? ...

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Aug 11 • 1:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Todd Blanche is sworn in as attorney general after bruising confirmation fight

Blanche is officially taking command of a Justice Department he has been leading in an acting capacity since Pam Bondi's firing in April

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Aug 10 • 4:50 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Mamdani's Business Council Is Taking Shape With 5 Big Names. Some CEOs Reportedly Said No

Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya and AlleyCorp founder Kevin Ryan have joined three finance veterans on the list of reported invitees.

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Aug 10 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • inc.com
3 things to avoid in middle age could mean 13 more years without dementia, study finds

NYU Langone Health research reveals how avoiding high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking in midlife could add nearly 13 dementia-free years.

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Aug 10 • 3:43 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Chrissy Metz Reveals She’s Taking a GLP-1 Drug: EXCLUSIVE

The actor discussed the mental and physical changes she’s noticed since partnering with Ro.

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Aug 10 • 8:14 AM EDT • Health • today.com
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A new housing politics is taking shape on the left

Can democratic socialist Nithya Raman make Los Angeles build?

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Aug 10 • 7:15 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com
Taking a look at Lane Johnson's Hall of Fame chances

Will the all-time Eagle make it to Canton?

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Aug 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Mercedes-AMG’s Secret Electric SUV Is Taking Shape

The new Mercedes-AMG electric SUV teaser shows GT-inspired styling and confirms a flagship EV positioned alongside AMG’s dedicated performance models.

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Aug 10 • 3:02 AM EDT • Technology • motor1.com
Korea’s market volatility becomes TV entertainment

Amid the highs and lows of South Korea’s stock market, a new television trend is taking shape — entertainment programs built around the emotional rollercoaster

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Aug 10 • 12:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreaherald.com
Taking a Look at Don Nelson's Legacy with Boston Celtics

The former Celtics guard died at the age of 86 this weekend.

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Aug 10 • 12:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cubs' Seiya Suzuki: Taking seat Sunday

Cubs' Seiya Suzuki: Taking seat Sunday

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Aug 9 • 11:54 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Greensburg’s Ian Kintigh claims 2 International Sport Kickboxing Association world titles

Ian Kintigh has gone from feeling pain from the slightest touch to kicking through boards. After finishing second in the world two consecutive years, Kintigh broke through in 2026, taking home two International Sport Kickboxing Association world championship titles in July at Disney’s Coronado Springs in Orlando. More than 9,000

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Aug 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • triblive.com
Chicago's DiJonai Carrington ejected for hard foul on Sophie Cunningham

Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington is ejected from her side's defeat by Indiana Fever for committing a hard foul, before taking to social media to post "white privilege".

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Aug 9 • 5:58 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
The influencers taking on far-right leader Nigel Farage
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Aug 8 • 2:05 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
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The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note.

The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Iran conflict benefits Moscow and Beijing, some analysts say.

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Aug 8 • 12:59 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
iPhone 17 Prices Could Rise as Soon as Monday, Rumor Claims

Apple could raise iPhone 17 prices as soon as Monday, August 10, according to a new rumor, well before the wider round of increases expected with next month's iPhone 18 Pro launch. Weibo leaker "Fixed Focus Digital" said in a post yesterday that rumors are circulating about an iPhone 17 price change taking effect on August 10.

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Aug 8 • 5:54 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Patriots roster projection 1.0: Heading into the preseason

Taking stock of where the New England Patriots’ roster stands through two weeks of training camp practices.

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Aug 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • 985thesportshub.com
Senate passes Russia sanctions bill named in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham

The Senate on Friday passed a major Russia sanctions bill, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who played a key role in the painstaking negotiations over the legislation that lasted over a year.

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Aug 7 • 1:23 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Ryan Murphy addresses Ariana Grande’s ‘American Horror Story’ exit

Ryan Murphy is addressing Ariana Grande’s ‘American Horror Story’ exit days after the musician announced she would be ‘taking a step back’ from public life after her Eternal Sunshine Tour wraps.

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Aug 7 • 11:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The midterms are taking shape. So are the problems

After a major primary day this week in Michigan and other states, the battle for the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms has largely taken shape.

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Aug 7 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
PwC cancels Disney World trip for US summer interns

The Big Four firm PwC has cut a 20-year tradition of taking summer interns to "The Happiest Place on Earth."

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Aug 7 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Wiener built an AI chatbot to mock Chan’s politics. Pelosi says it’s ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’

The race between state Sen. Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to succeed Pelosi in Congress is taking a turn for the personal.

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Aug 6 • 10:24 PM EDT • Politics • sfstandard.com
Lakes Region businesses say Canadian tourists gradually returning to New Hampshire

New Hampshire businesses say they are seeing some modest improvements after taking a hit from a lack of Canadian tourists last summer.

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Aug 6 • 5:48 PM EDT • Business • wmur.com
Trump again tries to curb birthright citizenship and ‘birth tourism’ through executive action

President Donald Trump is taking another swing at so-called birth tourism and birthright citizenship, citing a “very unfortunate decision” in the Supreme Court this year.

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Aug 6 • 5:46 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
You vs you: The other side of when you almost decide not to go

Discover how taking action and increasing your luck surface area can transform your farm business and open doors to new opportunities.

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Aug 6 • 3:23 PM EDT • Business • beefmagazine.com
Google reveals who is hosting Pixel 11 launch event and other guests

With Made by Google 2026 taking place in less than a week, the company today revealed who is hosting: Trevor Noah.

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Aug 6 • 1:31 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Trying to make sense of the Penguins Ville Koivunen contract

The Pittsburgh Penguins are taking a gamble, but how much of a gamble is it?

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Aug 6 • 12:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
OL Greg Van Roten visits the Patriots

The Patriots are taking a look at a veteran offensive lineman on Thursday.

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Aug 6 • 11:15 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com
Computer science enrollment is plunging, but AI is taking over the rest of the college campus as it reshapes how students learn and work

Universities like Colby College are increasingly integrating AI into disciplines not related to computer science.

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Aug 6 • 9:40 AM EDT • Science • fortune.com
Versant In Flux As It Diversifies Business, Strategy Taking Shape In Q2

Versant saw revenue and profit dip as it retools its assets base in a transitional quarter that included the divestiture of SportsEngine and the acquisition Full Swing.

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Aug 6 • 8:04 AM EDT • Business • deadline.com
This Week in Sports Trivia: August 6, 2026

How closely were you following the sports news this week? Find out and test your knowledge by taking The Athletic's weekly quiz.

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Aug 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Interventional radiologists, other docs release new tool kit for limiting radiation exposure

Nine medical societies taking part in the ALARA (As Low and as Light as Reasonably Achievable) Coalition collaborated to create the new suite of resources.

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Aug 6 • 3:54 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Best of - Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

Best Night Club and Best Place to Shake Your BootyThe BasementLots of night clubs are cool. But walking into The Basement and taking a seat with a swanky cocktail or mocktail, surrounded by polished wood and good lighting, makes you feel a little cooler, too. Which might contribute to one’s confidence at booty shaking. The […]

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Aug 6 • 3:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • northcoastjournal.com
PHOTO: Taking care of business on the farm

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Aug 5 • 11:45 PM EDT • Business • thedailynewsonline.com
‘Science of Speed’ roars into the Kamin Science Center

Want to zip around a track on a high-end electric kart or hop on an immersive racing simulator? Then you will definitely want to make your way to the Kamin Science Center on Pittsburgh’s North Shore and check out its new Science of Speed permanent exhibit. Taking up what had been the Science Center’s SportsWorks […]

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Aug 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • observer-reporter.com
Viewpoint: Europe needs a new scientific contract

The White House's new science strategy should be required reading in the Berlaymont and every European capital.Not because Europe should copy it. Parts of it should concern Europeans deeply. But because it asks the question Europe has so far avoided while steadily losing ground in the global race for technological leadership.Europe already possesses many of the world's finest universities, scientists and research-intensive companies. It produces world-leading research in fields ranging from quantum technologies and biotechnology to climate science. Yet time and again Europe generates the scientific breakthroughs while others build the companies, industries and strategic advantages around them, particularly in digital technologies. Increasingly, we find ourselves regulating technologies whose underlying capabilities were developed elsewhere.This is not primarily a scientific failure. It is an institutional one.The settlement that shaped modern science policy emerged after the Second World War. In Science, the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush argued that governments should invest in fundamental research while protecting scientists from political direction. Public investment was justified precisely because no government, university or company could predict where the next transformative discovery would emerge.That scientific contract served liberal democracies extraordinarily well. It underpinned decades of advances in medicine, computing, energy and communications, but the world for which it was designed no longer exists.Artificial intelligence is transforming not only technology but the production of knowledge itself. Advanced chips, computing power, data and scientific instruments have become strategic assets. Scientific knowledge now diffuses globally almost instantly. Competitive advantage increasingly lies not in making discoveries first, but in possessing the infrastructure, capital, engineering capability and institutions required to translate those ideas into products, industries and strategic advantage.The old boundaries between science, industrial policy, national security and geopolitics have largely disappeared. Dual-use technologies now underpin both economic power and military deterrence.The US has recognised this shift. In July, the White House published Science: A New Golden Age, a comprehensive attempt to rethink the relationship between science and national power. The report builds on Bush's legacy, but departs from his framework in important ways. Science is no longer treated simply as the source of future discoveries. It is presented as the foundation of economic resilience, technological leadership and national security. AI, advanced infrastructure and the capacity to build become as important as discovery itself.Yet the report also reveals a striking paradox. The same administration calling for “a new golden age” of US science has simultaneously proposed deep cuts to the federal research enterprise while expanding political influence over the allocation of public research funding. Europe should therefore distinguish between the report's diagnosis and its prescription. The diagnosis, that science has become a strategic asset, is compelling. But the prescription is self-defeating. Long-term technological leadership depends on strong universities, academic freedom and the institutional autonomy that makes scientific discovery possible. This distinction matters. Bush's achievement was never simply to make science serve national strength. It was to establish a division of labour in which governments invested in research without attempting to direct discovery itself. Scientific breakthroughs emerge precisely because researchers retain the freedom to pursue questions whose value cannot yet be demonstrated and whose conclusions cannot be anticipated.Neither China, nor the USAs science becomes more strategically important, the temptation to politicise it inevitably grows. But scientific freedom is not an obstacle to technological leadership, it is an essential precondition.China represents the opposite model. For decades it has integrated science, manufacturing, infrastructure and industrial policy into a single national strategy. Its ability to mobilise resources around critical technologies is formidable. But it does so within an authoritarian system where scientific priorities are increasingly inseparable from political power.Europe should imitate neither model. It should learn from the strategic ambition of the US without importing its growing politicisation of science. And it should learn from China's capacity to build without adopting its concentration of power.Instead, Europe needs a scientific contract of its own. Bush's scientific contract protected the freedom to discover because the defining challenge of the 20th century was producing new knowledge. Europe's next scientific contract must preserve that freedom while ensuring that scientific discoveries can be converted into technological, industrial and strategic capability. Because in a transactional world, Europe's freedom to shape its own future depends on its capacity to build it.Related articlesThe US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to knowEuropean researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationNIH turmoil risks reciprocal EU-US access to health research fundingThis does not mean subordinating free science to competitiveness or industrial policy. On the contrary. Scientific autonomy remains the first principle of Europe's next scientific contract. Governments should not direct scientific discovery. Their responsibility is to ensure that Europe's scientific, industrial, financial and regulatory institutions work together rather than in isolation.Meeting that responsibility requires far more than research funding. European researchers need access to world-class computing infrastructure, advanced laboratories, shared datasets and scientific facilities. Innovative companies need patient capital, testing environments and a genuine single market in which they can scale without facing 27 different regulatory regimes. Public procurement must evolve from purchasing existing technologies to creating markets for new ones. Regulators must become partners in experimentation rather than guardians of yesterday's rules.A connecting architectureEurope does not need to invent the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) model from scratch. Britain's Aria, Germany's Sprind and Wellcome Leap already show that Europe can build institutions capable of taking high-risk, mission-oriented bets while preserving democratic accountability. The challenge now is not to create more isolated initiatives, but to connect them to Europe's broader scientific, industrial and financial system so that breakthrough discoveries can scale.Above all, Europe must stop treating research, innovation, industrial policy, finance and security as separate policy domains. The challenge is no longer to create excellent institutions in each of these fields, but to make them work as one European innovation system. Europe's strength will increasingly depend not on excellence within institutions, but on excellence across them.Europe's ambition should be neither to imitate the US nor to emulate China. It should demonstrate that scientific freedom, democratic legitimacy and technological capability are not competing objectives, but mutually reinforcing strengths. In an age of geopolitical rivalry, Europe's greatest advantage may ultimately be its ability to attract the world's best talent by combining scientific freedom, democratic openness and technological ambition.Bush's scientific contract helped define the 20th century because it protected the freedom to discover. Europe's challenge is not to abandon that achievement but to extend it. The defining task of Europe's next scientific contract is to preserve the freedom to discover while building Europe's capacity to translate scientific discovery into technological power.Kaare Nielsen is founder of Pomus, a Danish think tank on science and innovation.

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Science|Business summer reads of 2026

As most people in the European research and innovation policy bubble are going on a well-deserved summer break, we have come up with a list of our favourite books, podcasts and essays from the past year that ask deeper questions about science, technology and politics.BooksPasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, by Donald StokesIf you haven’t read Pasteur’s Quadrant yet, now is the time. In the EU and elsewhere, we’re living through a period of dwindling faith that curiosity-driven research automatically leads to economic growth and technological progress. Pasteur’s Quadrant, published in 1997 by the Princeton academic Donald Stokes, is the most influential critique of the standard “linear model” of R&D: the idea that new discoveries made in ivory-tower labs get neatly passed on for commercialisation by start-ups. In reality, Stokes argues, practical applications often inspire more theorical lines of inquiry. Of course, we have long known that things are more complex than the linear model, but even today, it’s still often assumed in Brussels discourse. The book is a useful corrective, and is being used now to argue for new types of scientific institutions. David MatthewsThe Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism, by Jacob Hale Russel and Dennis PattersonAre society’s problems solvable by technical expertise alone? “If only the benighted would listen,” say Jacob Hale Russel and Dennis Patterson, two professors at Rutgers Law School who got frustrated with how scientists and politicians handled public health communication during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the book, they argue that clichéd mantras about scientific evidence and expertise perpetrated by academics, journalists and politicians have harmed public trust in the very institutions they were trying to defend. Paradoxically, slogans such as “we believe in science,” “follow the science” and “defer to the experts” can fuel mistrust in science, experts and democratic institutions. The authors criticise “condescension” and “technocratic paternalism” in the public discourse and make the case for a more nuanced approach to scientific and expert policy advice that rests on humility, doubt, scepticism and open dialogue. “Most complex social questions in fact revolve around values, not the recitation of unambiguous facts,” they say. Florin ZubascuBreakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan WangIn this book, Dan Wang compares the structural differences between the US and Chinese industrial policies, but raises a very timely question for innovation policy wonks: how can advanced manufacturing know-how contribute to technology-intensive economic growth? Wang says technology has three components: the tools, the blueprints and patents, and the process knowledge. The third component represents the “proficiency gained from practical experience, which isn’t easily communicated and requires years of implementation.” According to Wang, rather than seeing tools and blueprints as the ultimate ends of technological progress, policymakers should see them as milestones in the training of better scientists and manufacturers. Over the past decades, China has amassed “process knowledge” because capital flowed to complex fabrication facilities, while investors in the West have parked their money in capital-light businesses such as digital platforms or chip companies that focus on design. As it turns out, thanks to its oversized focus on manufacturing, China has gained remarkable advantages in the global technology race. Florin ZubascuBaltic: The Future of Europe, by Oliver MoodyWhat can Europe learn from the nine countries surrounding the Baltic Sea? Alongside the familiar stories about Estonia's digital transformation, the book examines how the region has used technology, resilience, education, governance and long-term thinking to respond to geopolitical, economic and security challenges. Innovation policy wonks might find fresh perspectives on how innovation can strengthen defence, societal resilience and Europe's capacity to adapt in an uncertain world. Whether or not you agree with all of Oliver Moody's conclusions, the book is a useful guide to a region that is increasingly shaping European debates on security, competitiveness and technology. Goda NaujokaityteThe Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf This book chronicles the wild and adventurous life of natural science pioneer Alexander von Humboldt who at some point in the 19th century seems to have been just about the most famous person in the world. Through scientific expeditions to the Andes Mountains and to the depths of Siberia, von Humboldt contributed a host of discoveries and concepts. During his life he met and formed relationships with historical figures as different as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles Darwin. He is also claimed to be the person in the world with most things named after him, a list that includes an ocean current, a penguin and a region of the Moon. Still venerated in Germany, with numerous scientific institutions named after him, von Humboldt has slipped out of public consciousness in most of the rest of the world. For anyone not familiar with him, this book does a good job of describing his fascinating life. Ole EllekrogCareless People, by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsYou may have heard this referred to as the book Meta doesn’t want you to read. The 2025 memoir from Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy at Meta, then just called Facebook, includes explosive claims about everything from a toxic workplace culture to how the company worked with advertisers to target vulnerable teens, and the lengths it was prepared to go to in order to break into China. It’s a fascinating insight into how and why the tech company gradually shifted its approach to policy, whether in the US, Europe or Asia. Meta has denied the allegations in the book, and last year won an emergency ruling to prevent Wynn-Williams from promoting it. In response, the author is now suing her former employer. If that doesn’t make you want to read it. Martin GreenacrePodcastsThe Europeans: Europe’s anti-ElonThis podcast is a great choice for a light-hearted dose of European policy and culture news. Most of it has little to do with research, innovation and technology, but this particular podcast features an interview with Mastadon’s founder Eugen Rochko. He talks about his experience running an open-source, federated, European-made social media platform, and leaving it all behind. The conversation, which starts 14 minutes in, gently encourages us to reflect on what kind of technology we, as Europeans, want to make. Goda NaujokaityteSolarpunk and how we escape dystopiaNew technologies are very often taken from science fiction. Alberto Santos-Dumont, inventor the airship, was inspired as a child by the adventure stories of Jules Verne. OpenAI’s attempt to build a personal assistant with the voice of Scarlett Johansson was lifted from the 2013 film Her, completely ignoring the movie’s cautionary message. So if we want better tech, we need to imagine it first. Unfortunately, the state of current sci-fi is relentlessly dystopian, giving inventors precious few ideas or hope. However, a new genre, Solarpunk, which envisages a technologically advanced but ecologically harmonious future, is now taking off. The actual tech the genre imagines, such as permaculture, renewable energy or community repair workshops, while nice, isn’t all that inspiring or ambitious. But it’s a first step towards rescuing sci-fi from its pessimistic Blade Runner rut. David MatthewsEveryday AbundanceLaunched in June, Everyday Abundance is a podcast that tells the stories of the inventions we now take so for granted that we barely given them a second thought. For example, the washing machine, which liberated women from a lifetime “bent over washtubs and washboards.” Or modern dentistry, which ended the reality that “tooth pain was simply part of human life.” Historians of technology, Virginia Postrel and Charles C Mann are very much on the optimistic end of the spectrum when it comes to the capacity of invention to improve human life. Here, they set out their case: if it wasn’t for progress, you might be hunched over a washtub with toothache rather than reading these words. David Matthews‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdownSince his return to the White House, Donald Trump has been on a mission to undermine science. He slashed jobs at federal agencies, terminated grants in some research areas, took unprecedented control over university affairs and, within hours of his inauguration, suspended the US Agency for International Development. While its initial focus was to administer health and food aid around the world, it had since expanded to conservation projects. The result? Some of these projects were stopped abruptly. In this Mongabay podcast, environmental reporter Michelle Nijhuis tells the story of the EcoGuard conservation programme in Liberia, whose local patrols had helped protect rainforests, monitor endangered wildlife and track illegal threats. From one day to the next, these were left without salaries. Luckily, she notes, the initiative was able to get emergency funding from international NGOs, but its future remains “incredibly uncertain.” Juliette PortalaEssaysThe Mars Delusion, by Henry WismayerWhy is humankind so fixated on establishing a colony on Mars? asks London-based writer Henry Wismayer. From space evangelists promoting Martian settlement as an insurance policy, to billionaire Jeff Bezos, who said humans should settle on Mars “because it’s cool,” the mission is not running short of advocates. However, in this essay, Wismayer reminds us that some critics expect any future Mars pioneer to end up “irradiated, sick, mad and dead.” Scientists have already looked into the possible effects of prolonged exposure to Martian gravity, and it’s not pretty: muscle shrinking, bones weakening, changes to the central nervous system and other biological modifications to make us all reconsider the journey. “Some researchers have forecast that the future settler, after generations of evolutionary conditioning, will look less like an Übermensch and more like ET,” Wismayer writes. Juliette Portala

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CBS Sports to Air USWNT’s 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup Games

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Field Hockey is pleased to announce that CBS Sports Network will air the U.S. Women’s National Team’s matches at the upcoming 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup, taking place in Wavre, Belgium.The agreement with USA Field Hockey, C...

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The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years

Jeff Dean, who earned his computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, is leaving Google after 27 years and taking three of the company's top AI researchers with him. Their startup, Discovery Loop, aims to automate the scientific method itself, and Google is helping fund it.

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Google shakes up AI leadership. Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO.

Some of Google's top AI leaders are leaving their roles, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis taking another role at Alphabet and Jeff Dean leaving.

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Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.

There are three types of China shock discourse. Each has a distinct temporal register. China shock 1.0 was a phrase coined by US academics in the 2010s to retrospectively summarize the impact on particular US labour markets, which they identified through painstaking empirical investigation. China shock 2.0 on everyone’s lips in Europe in the mid 2020s is an alarm raised by trans-Atlantic policy thinkers warning of a coming disaster which they project onto Europe’s ailing car industry. The third type of China shock discourse - commonly known as the “China squeeze” launched most recently by Indian economists Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in the pages of Foreign Affairs - mobilizes a different, more speculative temporal register: the counterfactual realm of alternate history. The China squeeze argument asks not what has happened, or what is going to happen, but what might have been. Specifically, what options for economic development might have been open to Global South economies like India or the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, had it not been for China’s spectacular industrialization since the late 1990s and the persistent competitiveness of China’s manufacture in low-skilled segments. Chatterjee and Subramanian’s argument is that whilst China has built a powerful position in electrical machinery and other high-skill manufacturing, which is now delivering China Shock 2.0, it also continues to run a trade surplus in low-skill, labour-intensive manufacturing. This surplus is large and has remained largely unchanged in fifteen years. Indeed, in the 2010s, in trade with low-income countries, China’s surplus rapidly increased. On their reading, this squeezes low-income producers in low-skill sectors in which they “should” be able to compete. Source: “China’s Mercantilist Squeeze on Developing Countries” Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian. Peterson Institute for International Economics 26-7 May 2026 Chatterjee and Subramanian’s wording is telling: (emphasis mine) The canonical trajectory of economic development in the post-World War II period is for countries to transition from agriculture to manufacturing, first in low-skilled manufacturing and then later on to high-skill manufacturing (Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi 2013). At the global level, this implies that high-income countries (HICs) that once specialized in low-skilled activities cede manufacturing export space to poorer countries that come along to occupy that space. In 1965, advanced economies accounted for about 60 percent of global value-added exports in four key low-skilled manufacturing sectors, i.e., apparel, leather, textiles, and footwear. Over time this share declined and began to be occupied first by the East Asian tigers and, beginning in the late 1990s, by China. Today China accounts for about 50 percent of the global market. The question is whether China, with its rising prosperity, is continuing to behave like its richer counterparts and ceding export space to poorer followers or to behave unlike them and continuing to occupy space. In terms of the conceptual maneuvers it performs, of the three China shock discourses, the “China squeeze” argument is by far the most ambitious. After all, it bases its critique of China on a counterfactual imagining of the world. Like any counterfactual argument, to construct this alternative reality it must rely on a heuristic model. To make their argument Chatterjee and Subramanian mobilize two key claims. The first reference point is the actual history of rich-country industrialization, what they refer to as the “canonical path”. The idea is that countries transition from agriculture to light industry and low-skilled manufacturing and from there up the value chain. To make this useful as a standard of comparison and a means to construct a normative standard, they adjust sectoral export shares for two factors: 1. the underlying level of economic development of the exporting country, as measured by national income and 2. the degree to which the sector in question is internationalized. The idea being that for a high income country to have a high export share in low-skill sectors is anomalous and even more so if that particular product is highly internationalized and thus suitable for being “conceded” to lower-income competitors. Where should this process end? Here Chatterjee and Subramanian introduce their second benchmark. Their normative idea of a global development path is one in which, in due course, low-skill manufacturing exports are distributed in proportion to a country’s share in the global labour force. They imagine, in other words, a world of proportional, polycentric global development without much national specialization in low-skill manufacturing. A useful benchmark is that, in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, a country’s share of world exports should be broadly commensurate with its share of the world’s low-skilled labor endowment. … In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, this would be true if value added per worker and export propensities, i.e., fraction of output that is exported, are the same across countries. It is this pleasant liberal vista of orderly global development, progressing towards a general distribution of low-skilled manufacturing against which they judge reality and conclude that the low-income countries are suffering a “China squeeze”. China is not exiting low-skill sectors fast enough Allowing for its gdp level and the degree of globalization, China’s share of low-skill manufacturing exports is far higher than it “should” be. Relative to population, its low-skill share of exports is far too high. That in turn yields the conclusion that huge numbers of jobs - the authors suggest tens of millions - are being hoarded by China. For the four sectors captured in figure 4, this excess in value-added exports is $110 billion in 2022. For all low-skilled sectors overall captured in appendix figure D.1, excess value-added exports amount to $365 billion. The crowding out of LMIC exports by China is therefore substantial. Both these claims have in common that they are strong structuralisms. The first is that development paths ought to resemble each other. The second is that broadly speaking as far as low-skilled manufacturing is concerned, all countries are alike. If the world currently diverges from the distribution of trade implied by these assumptions, if China is not following the advanced economy path and has huge exports, this must be the result of “policy”, which the authors then put in question as illegitimate or unfair. Thus the naturalistic construction of a canonical path leading to a “level” distribution of low-skilled manufacturing reveals itself to be a polemical tool. From the point of view of China shock polemics, this discourse is no doubt welcome. But as an account of economic history, it must surely be regarded as nothing short of bamboozling. Development paths do not follow a regular, natural sequence. As David Fishman put it aptly, “development is not a queue”. They are always and everywhere, through and through political. Development is not so much a process, as a project. Each such project is more or less well adjusted to its context. As Gerschenkron taught uneven and combined development implies differentiation rather than simple imitation on a single parth. It may be true that Europe and the US exited relatively early from low-skill work. But clearly technology has changed. As C&S themselves point out, China no longer enjoys a low wage environment. Do they really believe that such huge differences can be accounted for either by industrial policy, which as they admit does not operate powerfully in low-skill sectors, or by exchange rate manipulation? What is overwhelmingly dominant in explaining the persistence of “low-skill” manufacturing in China are surely the network effects of complex supply chains. Indeed the label of “low-skill” may miss the point. The degree of globalization which Chatterjee and Subramanian decide to conjure away in their model of the development path - to allow for the fact that Europe and American textiles exporters did not enjoy just-in-time logistics in the 1950s - obscures the point that the networks through which Chinese factories supply the world are themselves key parts of the low-skill industrialization project. China isn’t knocking out 1970s style “cheap”. It has redefined the entire product cycle. C&S’s casual reference to “T-shirts” is telling. In today’s “fast fashion”, there is weight on both terms. Fashion and fast. China’s success in delivering on both at unprecedentedly high speed and at unprecedentedly low cost, isn’t a low-skill operation at all. If we see development trajectories not as the serial repetition of the same, but as distinctive, crafted projects that cumulate in complex agglomerations of skill, technology and labor, then this explains why the assumption that low-skilled manufacturing should follow the distribution of population flies in the face of all experience. As countless cases attest, low-wage, low-income developed economies are not by themselves the makings of a competitive production base. As Leon Liao puts it quite fairly: “International trade has never been allocated according to population. A country’s population gives it no natural claim to an equivalent share of global exports." And the remarkable fact is that Subramanian alone and with co-authors has long been making this point, not to pillory China, as is the case of the tendentious _Foreign Affair_s and Peterson pieces, but to highlight the great counterpart to China’s industrial success, namely India’s relative failure. The much-quoted Foreign Affairs piece showed low-skill export shares only for China, not for India. If you put both countries in the picture as Chaterjee and Subramanian have done on other occasions, the picture looks like this. China is far above the line, but India, almost as large in terms of population, is no less anomalous, just in the opposite direction. As far as global populations are concerned, and the imagining of tens of millions of “squeezed” jobs, it is this Sino-Indian pair that account for a huge share of the action. What this graph reveals is not China’s cheating, but India’s “greatest development failure”, at least this is the argument made Arvind Subramanian, this time in co-authorship with Devesh Kapur, in their major book, A Sixth of Humanity. Independent India’s Development Odyssey which appeared with Oxford University Press earlier this year. In this highly critical work on India’s development, China is repeatedly evoked, not to criticize but as a benchmark against which to illuminate what India’s political economy has not delivered i.e. large-scale formal employment for hundreds of millions of citizens. Kapur and Subramanian leave no doubt, if you want to understand why China, not India was the main driver of manufacturing globalization from the 1980s, don’t look to slots opening up in the division of labour thanks to the liberal mindedness of advanced economies, look to the contrasting political economy of the Maoist PRC and India’s post-independence political economy. As Kapur and Subramian note: The great divergence between China and India did not begin in 1978 with the Deng reforms—it was well underway by then. In one of the great ironies of modern history, the conditions created by Maoism turned out to be a great launching pad for industrial globalization. As the comparison of India and China in 1980 makes clear, to imagine manufacturing would be equally distributed when populations are so differently endowed in terms of educational and nutritional is fanciful. Here is the data from Kapur and Subramanian, data which I explored back at the very beginning of Chartbook. As Kapur and Subramanian insist, the striking fact is that even as India’s growth accelerated from the 1980s, structural change has not. Formal employment in India lags woefully behind. Why? As Kapur and Subramanian note, the path-dependent impact of India’s poor early start was devastating. The list of factors they mention is long and weighty: We argue for a new five-fold explanation applicable at different stages of Indian history: in the initial stages, the legacy of two key pre-1980s policies, the neglect of agriculture and the strangling of the domestic private sector, were critical. The failure of broad-based agricultural growth militated against rural industrialization, which would have been devoted to satisfying local needs that would have necessarily been labour intensive. Then, when the boom came after 1980, the thicket of regulation and broader labour protections that were legislated prematurely in a nascent democracy, underpinned by a deep ideological aversion to private capital in general and big capital specifically, became a barrier to attaining the size that would be necessary to compete globally. Similarly, the reforms after 1991, while wide-ranging, did not quite encompass non-tradeable inputs critical to manufacturing, namely, land, logistics infrastructure and power. A combination of low investment (logistics infrastructure), regulation (land) and the continued monopoly supply by state governments (power), combined with residual socialism, kept costs at 75–100 per cent above efficient supply. These factors were compounded on the supply side by the government, which dominated the formal labour market and established exorbitantly high wages at the lower end of the skill spectrum. This made their employment in the labour-intensive sector by the private sector less attractive. Finally, when the services sector and its exports boomed, wages soared even further via a Dutch Disease effect: one successful tradeable sector killed and cannibalized another less-skilled tradable sector, namely, manufacturing. Thus, scarcity-inducing policies of the planning era, precocious democracy and a Gandhian aversion to size; inefficient, monopolistic supply of critical non-tradable inputs; the behemoth of government; and super-successful skill-intensive services successively undermined India’s unskilled labour employment opportunities. The employment failure seems to have been over-determined. … Less quantifiable but no less important are some of the sociological factors that have undermined manufacturing and factory jobs. Take the impact of the success of the IT sector—located in urban areas with better working conditions, such as air-conditioned offices, good schools for children and attractive entertainment options. It became a more attractive place for engineering and management graduates to flock to. … Consider manufacturing and female employment. Indian society makes it difficult for women to work, reflected in India’s unusually low female labour force participation (elaborated in Chapter XIII). Indian society, in particular the routine harassment of women in public spaces, makes it even more difficult for them to travel long distances to take up work.37 Combined with onerous regulations on creating hostels and dormitories for women—which, in turn, prevents multiple shifts of operation—factories need to be located in areas with a large female labour pool. While firms can take apparel plants to female labour or bring them to the plants by building large-scale dormitories, this raises costs. If there was a case for subsidies to encourage labour-intensive manufacturing, housing subsidies to build dormitories for women workers would be a good place to start. All of this meant, that when opportunities did open up, in part thanks to adjustments in China, India was in no position to take advantage. Here is the account of the 2020s from Kapur and Subramanian. It stands in dizzying contrast to the one-sided, “China squeeze” argument delivered in the Peterson and Foreign Affairs pieces: In 2022, for example, India’s share of global exports in clothing (the canonical labour-intensive sector) was 3.1 per cent compared to 32 per cent for China. This is extremely disappointing because China started vacating export space in this sector after the Global Financial Crisis as its wages started rising; it then vacated further space in the aftermath of geopolitical developments that led investors to seek alternative investment locations. Between its peak and today, China lost about 7.5 percentage points of global export share (worth about $43 billion in 2022); over this period, India’s export share remained stagnant at 3 per cent, while that of Vietnam and Bangladesh rose by 3.5 to 4 percentage points. China’s loss did not translate into any gain for India in terms of low-skill exports and employment. Put differently, when the conditions for dynamism and prosperity were established after 1991, and even more tantalizingly when the global export opportunities opened up, it was as if India was a high-wage economy and only skilled labour could benefit from the dynamism. It had converted its physically abundant unskilled workforce into an economically expensive resource, penalizing its use. It is not my mission here to argue for or against Kapur and Subramanian’s interpretation of India’s development trajectory. The point in this context is simply that the “China squeeze” such as it is can only be understood, in relation to the heavy burden of domestic constraints that Kapur and Subramanian so unsparingly enumerate. I am concentrating here on India because it is the great counterpart to China and the unspoken reference point of the “China squeeze” discourse. But the point is more general. Can anyone with a straight face suggest that the main problems afflicting the development of South Africa or Nigeria, the great centers of mass underemployment in sub-saharan Africa, are cheap competition from China driven by Beijing’s industrial policy and an undervalued RMB? Likewise, is the main problem of the American working-class the threat of Chinese competition or the manifest crisis of social reproduction in the United States itself? The point here, as in the discourse around China shock 2.0 in Europe, is to insist that we should not normalize the world and pathologize China, without actually investigating what is going on in America’s industrial wastelands, the German car industry, or India’s lopsided labour market. One-sided pathologization should be understood for what it is, a polemical gesture. Concepts like China shock and China squeeze are, what Reinhart Koselleck, following Carl Schmitt, would have described as “asymmetrische Kampfbegriffe”, or “asymmetrical counter-concepts” or “asymmetrical combat concepts”. If the function of arguments like the “China squeeze” is to alert elites in the rest of the world of the need to rejuvenate and energize their development projects, so be it. But let us see the resulting discourses as the mobilizing interventions that they are. Interestingly, a significant slice of China’s public sphere - the so-called industrial party - have been obsessed for the last twenty years with precisely these questions of counterfactual economic history. Since the mid 2000s, a massive online discourse developed around an alternative history in which Chinese techno-patriots were asked to imagine how they would proceed if they had the possibility of traveling back in time to transport modern technology into the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) thus averting the “great divergence” of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fantasy of course, but also a goad. The point was not directed at Westerners. The alternate history is dramatically nationalist, but few n the West had even heard of it until recently. The adherents of the industrial party are not liberal moralists. They don’t project natural ladders of international development and ask why others don’t cede space. They take the Realpolitik of global economic development for granted. Their pointe was directed against fellow Chinese. The rallying cry of the alternative narrative was this: Now that we are beginning to gain steam and push forward on our national development path, now that we are breaking out of the inferior position assigned to us even in the early years following WTO accession, do not lose yourself in humanistic imaginings about better futures. In the spirit of Deng, they called on China to embrace the hard truth of development. Perhaps one might of the Industrial Party as a cultural trend born out of desire for symbolic revenge against those who had inflicted the century of humiliation. In terms of the various temporalities of the “China shock” - retrospective, prospective and counterfactual - one might think of the Industrial Policy discourse as truly speculative, conjuring up the China shock that never was. Or perhaps one might better think of it as imagining a world in which a powerful China was no shock at all, but simply a defining fact of modern history. I love putting out Chartbook. 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