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People leaving Massachusetts pose new challenge for Healey, Paley, and the state

Like a true venture capitalist, state economic development secretary Eric Paley sees opportunity in the latest Census data. Even though it looks kind of gloomy.

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Jan 31 • 6:00 AM EST • Business • bostonglobe.com
Google’s Project Genie Experiment Causes Video Game Stocks to Suddenly Crash as Investors Believe Games Will Be Made Solely with AI

The public release of Google's Project Genie experiment, capable of creating virtual worlds from a prompt, caused video game stocks to crash.

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Jan 31 • 4:30 AM EST • Technology • wccftech.com
Protesters to demand resignation of Hungarian politician for anti-Roma remark

Thousands set to gather in Budapest after János Lázár’s remarks captured on video

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Jan 31 • 3:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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A John Curtis junior stepped up as the leading scorer in a rematch against Jesuit

John Curtis showed once again that it has several players capable of taking on a lead role.

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Jan 31 • 12:27 AM EST • Sports • nola.com
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WMG’s Paul Robinson Accepts Entertainment Law Initiative Award: ‘Absolutely Thrilled’

WMG general counsel Paul Robinson received the Recording Academy’s 2026 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Service Award. Here's a recap of the event.

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Jan 30 • 8:45 PM EST • Entertainment • billboard.com
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Venezuela plans amnesty law for political prisoners and closure of notorious prison

Venezuela’s acting president has announced a proposed amnesty law that could lead to the release of hundreds of political prisoners, as well as the closure of a notorious detention center, in her latest concessions since the US capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

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Jan 30 • 8:01 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Senate passes government funding deal despite GOP backlash

President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.

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Jan 30 • 7:48 PM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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I’ve covered Melania Trump for more than a decade. Here’s what I learned from her new documentary

“Melania” the documentary is a big, beautiful coffee table book of a film, filled with glossy images, high fashion and a captivating soundtrack.

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Jan 30 • 7:42 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Liquid Meta and STREAMSIX Enter into Business Combination Agreement

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 30, 2026) - Liquid Meta Capital Holdings Ltd. (Cboe CA: LIQD) (FSE: N5F) (OTC Pink: LIQQF) ("Liquid Meta") and STREAMSIX Inc., a private entertainment technology company, based in Toronto, Canada, are pleased to announce that, further to the press release issued on June 24, 2025, they have entered into a business combination agreement dated January 12, 2026, with an effective date of January 1, 2026 (the "Definitive Agreement") which outlines the terms

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Jan 30 • 7:11 PM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
2026 Cincinnati Bengals salary cap space projection revealed

This is good news for a team that has to do a lot of work in free agency.

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Jan 30 • 7:08 PM EST • Sports • cincyjungle.com
Browns poach another Ravens assistant to join Todd Monken's staff

Todd Monken's staff is coming together with the Browns as he fills the OC position.

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Jan 30 • 6:57 PM EST • Sports • brownswire.usatoday.com
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Beyond your insurance card: How Covered California is changing health care

A quality overhaul is improving chronic care--and sending grocery aid and college savings to families who need it most.

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Jan 30 • 6:27 PM EST • Health • sacbee.com
Owner of Wichita accounting business charged with 50 counts in federal court

She is accused of using client money for personal expenses, including more than $11,000 to the Plastic Surgery Center, court documents say.

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Jan 30 • 4:51 PM EST • Business • kansas.com
Some Republicans Lament the Spending Deal Trump Has Blessed

Hard-right Republicans have criticized an agreement they see as capitulating to Democrats on their party’s strongest issue: immigration.

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Jan 30 • 4:25 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Another government shutdown looms -- what you need to know : The NPR Politics Podcast

After immigration officials killed two people in Minneapolis this month, congressional Democrats demanded funding for immigration action be separated from other government funding. That's leading to a potential, partial, government shutdown. We unpack the latest from Capitol Hill.Then, why did the FBI raid Fulton County, Ga.'s election center this week, and what does it have to do with President Trump's continued false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen?And, we bid a fond farewell to one of our podcast stalwarts.This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Sam Gringlas, immigration policy correspondent Ximena Bustillo, political reporter Stephen Fowler, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and political correspondent Sarah McCammon.This podcast was produced and edited by Casey Morell & Bria Suggs.Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.

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Jan 30 • 4:16 PM EST • Politics • npr.org
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Scientists discover molecule in space that hints at origin of life

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

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Jan 30 • 12:39 PM EST • Science • cnn.com
Videogame stocks slide on Google's AI model that turns prompts into playable worlds

Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google rolled out its artificial intelligence model capable of creating ​interactive digital worlds with simple prompts.

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Jan 30 • 12:37 PM EST • Technology • reuters.com
Schumer says both parties ‘working to get it done’ as Senate GOP works to resolve funding holdup ahead of midnight deadline

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said as he entered the US Capitol on Friday that Democrats are pushing ahead on a funding deal to avert a prolonged government shutdown.

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Jan 30 • 12:28 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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CHANCELL-ING: UC Davis AI Research is Transforming Health Care

Imagine this scenario: Doctors know a small number of patients will face life-threatening complications after an illness, but they need to scan millions of records to identify the patients in need of intervention. It’s a task that would consume weeks and keep practitioners from other care needs.

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Jan 30 • 12:00 PM EST • Health • ucdavis.edu
Tech CFOs face a new challenge: Selling unprecedented capex as ‘disciplined’

Meta and Microsoft CFOs frame AI spending as disciplined, demand-driven.

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Jan 30 • 9:00 AM EST • Business • fortune.com
Government shutdown looms as Senate deal stalls amid heated political rhetoric

Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin reports on Capitol Hill efforts to avoid another government shutdown amid tense debates over new DHS funding. Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen reacts on ‘Fox & Friends.’

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Jan 30 • 7:56 AM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
NASA is funded. Now what?

With the upheaval of 2025 behind us, here's what we're looking for in space policy this year.

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Jan 30 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • planetary.org
Event Recap: Fourth Annual Health Solutions Summit | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2026-01-30-Despite a recent ice storm, over 200 people turned out for hot chocolate and health policy on January 28, 2026‘s for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Fourth Annual Health Solutions

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Jan 30 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • crfb.org
Atrium Health parent boosts pay for workers in Charlotte and the Carolinas

More than 165,000 Advocate Health workers to receive a bump in pay for minimum wage, as company expands health and retirement perks.

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Jan 30 • 6:00 AM EST • Health • charlotteobserver.com
Pens Points: Winning ways continue

Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… Forwards Anthony Mantha and Egor Chinakhov scored in a 31-second span in what was a dominant second period, as the Pittsburgh Penguins breezed by the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory. [Recap] As seen during the game, the Penguins officially recalled […]

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Jan 30 • 6:00 AM EST • Sports • pensburgh.com
Apple buys secretive Israeli AI company Q.ai for $1.6 billion in biggest acquisition of its history

With the move, Apple aims to improve its access to AI technology, which has suffered recent setbacks, especially after several delays in deploying Apple Intelligence's full announced capabilities.

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Jan 30 • 2:55 AM EST • Technology • jpost.com
Friday’s Everton News: Blues prep for Brighton, Luis Henrique linked

Recapping all the Everton news from yesterday

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Jan 30 • 2:00 AM EST • Sports • royalbluemersey.sbnation.com
Capitals’ Logan Thompson suffers injury 2 weeks before Olympics

Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson is dealing with a day-to-day upper-body injury ahead of the Winter Olympics.

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Jan 30 • 12:03 AM EST • Sports • clutchpoints.com
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Jan 30 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • politico.com
Napoli vs Fiorentina: Preview

The Partenopei are struggling right now but still more than capable of squashing the Viola like a bug.

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Jan 29 • 8:48 PM EST • Sports • violanation.com
Stephanie Grace: Washington Mardi Gras attempts to bypass politics. It only somewhat succeeds.

If there’s a key word to the annual Washington Mardi Gras, it’s camaraderie. Yet as columnist Stephanie Grace reports from the nation’s capital, politics are never far from the surface.

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Jan 29 • 7:00 PM EST • Politics • nola.com
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The Madison businesses closing Friday for anti-ICE ‘national shutdown’

Rallies are also scheduled at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Capitol during a nationwide protest to federal immigration enforcement.

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Jan 29 • 6:00 PM EST • Business • captimes.com
Several Bellingham businesses will close Jan. 30 for nationwide ICE protest

“It’s time to speak up in the best way to make our government listen: the money in their pockets.”

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Jan 29 • 5:13 PM EST • Business • bellinghamherald.com
ICE Will Play a Big Factor in the Maine Senate Race

Seems like Republican senator Susan Collins is trying to take credit for the agency’s removal from the state. Governor Janet Mills, who’s challenging for her seat, had a rebuttal.

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Jan 29 • 2:50 PM EST • Politics • esquire.com
Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360 Capital

Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360 Capital

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Jan 29 • 1:47 PM EST • Entertainment • deadline.com
Honeywell's business and stock are looking good — Cramer has this advice for investors

Honeywell shares jumped on Thursday after the industrial conglomerate capped off 2025 with a strong fourth quarter and moved up its aerospace spinoff.

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Jan 29 • 1:13 PM EST • Business • cnbc.com
Best of gameday entertainment from 2025

Take a look back at the best shots of gameday entertainment from the 2025 season at Allegiant Stadium.

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Jan 29 • 1:03 PM EST • Entertainment • raiders.com
Jackson Health CEO to step down. Who will be the new leader?

Carlos Migoya has led Jackson for nearly 15-years and is credited with saving the hospital system from financial ruin.

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Jan 29 • 1:02 PM EST • Health • miamiherald.com
Monkey Business: Using Genetics to Understanding Decision-Making in Monkeys

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group, she has returned to study how seasonal flooding affects the behavior, diet and population genetics of two species of monkey: monk sakis (Pithecia monachus) and large-headed capuchins (Sapajus apella macrocephalus).

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Jan 29 • 12:00 PM EST • Business • biology.ucdavis.edu
AI helps expand medical response capacity for treating Bay Area's homeless

The Future Communities Institute and its partners in the San Francisco Bay plan to use artificial intelligence to act as a force multiplier for street medical teams that help to improve patient outcomes and social referrals for the region's homeless.

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Jan 29 • 11:01 AM EST • Health • healthcareitnews.com
Columnist says ‘socialism can't succeed anywhere’ amid Venezuela’s political turmoil

Washington Post opinion columnist Carine Hajjar joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss Venezuela’s economic unraveling and its political future after U.S. forces captured Nicolas Maduro.

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Jan 29 • 10:56 AM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
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Exclusive: UK’s Schroders discussed private capital tie-ups in growth push, sources say

Schroders has held ​high-level talks about potential tie-ups to speed up the growth of its private capital business, three people ‌familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the 222-year-old British asset manager seeks to gain scale.

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Jan 29 • 9:04 AM EST • Business • reuters.com
After assault on Ilhan Omar, Trump responds with another blame-the-victim conspiracy theory

President Donald Trump did it after the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. He did it after the 2022 attack on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He did it after the murder last month of filmmaker and Democratic activist Rob Reiner. And he did it again on Tuesday after an attack on another Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

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Jan 29 • 8:42 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Top 100 transfer portal players for 2026: Destinations and impact projections

There's a ton of talent on the move, and it has the potential to shift the balance of power across the college football landscape

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Jan 29 • 8:37 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
California’s health care workforce crisis is a policy choice

“California should redouble our own state investments in health care workforce pathways and financial support for students.”

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Jan 29 • 8:00 AM EST • Health • sacbee.com
Mia Bonta pleads for ‘pandemic-level’ response to Feds’ gutting of Medi-Cal

Up to two million of the state’s lowest-income people may lose health insurance due to federal changes. Bonta wants to lead the charge to stop that.

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Jan 29 • 8:00 AM EST • Health • sacbee.com
Escape from Washington? Senators look to start new chapters as governors

U.S. senators are increasingly looking to leave Washington for leadership roles in their home states

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Jan 29 • 7:41 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Escape from Washington? Senators look to start new chapters as governors

U.S. senators are increasingly looking to leave Washington for leadership roles in their home states.

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Jan 29 • 7:40 AM EST • Politics • click2houston.com
SEC.gov | 45th Annual Small Business Forum

The SEC will host its annual Small Business Forum to discuss capital formation for small businesses.

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • sec.gov
The Jeff Boals Show Returns Tonight at The Gem Sports Bar

ATHENS, Ohio — The Jeff Boals Show returns this Thursday, January 29, on the Ohio Sports Network from Learfield, presented by Holzer Health System. This week, the live broadcast will take place from 6pm-7pm at The Gem Sports Bar. The event is open to the public and free to attend. Join the "Voice of Bobcat Basketball," Jason Toy, and the seventh year head coach of the Ohio Bobcats, Jeff Boals, for a weekly recap and a look ahead at upcoming matchups. This week's special guests include sophomore forward Ayden Evans (Radcliff, Ky.) and freshman forward Jordan Fisher (Pickerington, Ohio)

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Jan 29 • 6:28 AM EST • Sports • ohiobobcats.com
N-able Ushers in New Era of Business Resilience Fueled by AI

BURLINGTON, Mass., January 29, 2026--N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), a global software company delivering an end-to-end cyber resilience platform, today announced enhanced AI capabilities across its platform to help organizations operate securely, efficiently, and resiliently as AI reshapes both cyberthreats and IT complexity.

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Jan 29 • 6:00 AM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Google Chrome Gets Gemini Side Panel and Agentic Browsing Features

AI-powered browsing features have become a battleground among browser makers in recent months. OpenAI launched its Atlas browser in October, while Microsoft Edge and Opera have also introduced AI assistants and automated browsing capabilities. And now Google is upping the ante. The company has announced a slew of new AI features fro Chrome, including a persistent sidebar for the Gemini chatbot and "auto browse" capabilities that can perform web tasks on your behalf.

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Jan 29 • 5:44 AM EST • Technology • macrumors.com
Cairn and Peak Capture the Thrill of Climbing Mountains

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs and lows.

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Jan 29 • 5:01 AM EST • Technology • nytimes.com
Donald Trump promised to make the US the world’s crypto capital. His businesses are seizing on it.

The president's business empire — once known for its hotels and golf courses — has aggressively expanded into the world of cryptocurrencies during his first year back in the White House.

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Jan 29 • 5:00 AM EST • Business • politico.com
Captain 'essential' Fernandes - FPL team of the week

With a juicy run of fixtures coming up and his team in top attacking form, Bruno Fernandes is an easy captain choice this week, writes Thomas Woods.

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Jan 29 • 4:47 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com
Full-length Replay: Big East Men's: DePaul at Georgetown

From Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

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Jan 29 • 3:17 AM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
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Premier Radiology Services acquires rival teleradiology group NRad

Backed by private equity investors at Grovecourt Capital Partners, the Florida firm is buying National Radiology Solutions for an undisclosed sum.

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Jan 29 • 2:12 AM EST • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Senate committee reviews Gov. Beshear’s budget proposal

The proposal dedicates $500 million of the budget reserve trust fund to affordable housing, rural hospital assistance and food assistance.

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Jan 28 • 9:11 PM EST • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
WSOC-TV & KFF Health News Win Prestigious duPont-Columbia Award

The SSA's practice left millions of Americans, including some in the Carolinas, facing unexpected financial hardship and prompted sweeping policy changes in the nation’s capital.

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Jan 28 • 9:00 PM EST • Health • wsoctv.com
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Senators probe experts during Capitol Hill investigation into Palisades fire

The state and local response to the Palisades fire last year was back under a microscope

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Jan 28 • 7:50 PM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Convicted sex offender tried to rape a woman in a business, police said. They're searching for other victims

Convicted sex offender arrested for attempted rape inside DTLA business, captured in Skid Row

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Jan 28 • 7:24 PM EST • Business • latimes.com
New York lawmakers join in calling for ICE’s removal from Minnesota

Dozens of New York state senators and assemblymembers released a joint statement Wednesday at the State Capitol.

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Jan 28 • 6:01 PM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Get an Expert Guide to What’s Driving D.C.

In our newly relaunched Politics newsletter, Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta illuminates the people and powers shaping the nation’s capital

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Jan 28 • 5:35 PM EST • Politics • wsj.com
Tesla

Telsa’s revenue and profits tumbled in the fourth quarter, capping off the most difficult year for the electric automaker since it became profitable six years ago.

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Jan 28 • 4:11 PM EST • Business • cnn.com
Sacramento Bee adds political reporting firepower at California Capitol

Ben Paviour will join The Bee next month as California Political Power Reporter, delivering exclusive storytelling on Statehouse politics.

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Jan 28 • 1:53 PM EST • Politics • sacbee.com
Owners of Twin Peaks restaurant file for bankruptcy

Officials with TWNP said in a news release that they will use the filings to strengthen their capital structure through reducing their debt to keep the corporation successful for years to come.

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Jan 28 • 11:03 AM EST • Business • spectrumlocalnews.com
Washington Capitals and Monumental Sports & Entertainment Pride Auction Raises $30,485

Proceeds benefit the Wanda Alston Foundation, with a portion of funds allocated for MSE Foundation

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Jan 28 • 10:28 AM EST • Entertainment • nhl.com
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Twenty One Capital: Wen Business, Ser?

Twenty One Capital came public via SPAC merger but has since plummeted by nearly 30% since deal closure. Click here to find out why XXI stock is a Hold.

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Jan 28 • 7:58 AM EST • Business • seekingalpha.com
Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

In 1953, Kuwait established the world’s first sovereign wealth fund to invest the country’s oil revenues and generate returns that would reduce its reliance on a single resource. Since then, over 100 separate funds have been created to preserve national wealth and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability. Today, they manage over $10 trillion in global assets. In this discussion with GJIA, political economist Kathryn Lavelle explains the increasingly novel dynamics that surround fund behavior and what the world can come to expect from their growing presence in international financial markets. GJIA: When it comes to the roles sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in global markets and politics, what would you say makes them unique? Kathryn Lavelle: Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) operate on behalf of governments as investors. That in itself is a strange relationship. Within them, a core contest takes place between the state’s interests (or sovereign) part of the dynamic, and the money interests (or wealth) part of it, and these two aspects are frequently in contradiction, serving fundamentally different goals. SWFs are also quite fascinating because when you talk to the people who manage these funds, they have an interest in convincing you that the decisions are made almost exclusively on a financial basis—they really will go to great lengths to differentiate their government owners and those who make the management decisions. At the same time, these people ultimately answer to someone in power. Therefore, for most SWFs, it remains deeply unclear who is actually making the investment decisions and for what purposes. Of course, it is not always clear how other vehicles, such as hedge funds and private equity make the decisions they do, but I think what a lot of people find particularly disconcerting about SWFs is that they seem to act on behalf of people who have a different identity from their own. People who could be trying to manipulate politics and markets in a way that would have a long-term effect on their own populations. Regular investors come and go at will, and they only share an interest in profit as far as most of us understand. However, SWFs have that extra “sovereign” part right behind them that obscures their true interest. GJIA: These funds can be found in countries all across the globe, in both authoritarian states and democracies. Would you say SWFs differ in their goals and structures between regime-type? KL: It is not necessarily regime type that makes the goals and structures of SWFs different. It has to do with their economies. Let’s look at a country like China. There’s going to be a debate about exactly how to characterize the regime, but it is a country with many different kinds of sovereign wealth funds, and a particularly opaque state connection to each. At one time, some of the state-owned Chinese oil companies created specialized investment vehicles listed outside Chinese markets that excluded parts of the firms that were more associated with human rights violations. At the same time, the China Investment Corporation (CIC)­—China’s largest SWF—draws a lot of concern, not necessarily because of its investment activities, but because of the dynamics of global politics. So, I wouldn’t really tie differences to regime types themselves in a wholesale way, but rather to how such funds are perceived and how they are structured. Saudi Arabia’s SWF is getting all kinds of attention for its involvement in Hollywood, and this takes me right back to when I was a student in the 1980s, when people were concerned about Japanese investment entities buying assets in Hollywood. They aren’t quite the same in financial terms, but it’s the same kind of concern about foreign investment that drives people to be suspicious, and the whole idea that “foreigners are influencing Hollywood.” This holds true across industries, and it reflects where politics are in places like the United States right now. One metric we can try to look at is transparency, where all the funds will tell you, “we are transparent.” The problem you’ll keep running into with this approach is how you value things. When trying to do comparative studies of equity markets, you’ll find that every country doesn’t use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles like we do in the United States. A fund may appear opaque politically and not want people to show what they’re invested in or what their intent with that investment is, but they could also just not be able to report it because of the way it was purchased, or the kinds of shares they purchased. There are some assets out there that really are difficult to put a monetary value on. GJIA: To what extent do domestic politics shape SWF behavior in both the investing “home” country and the recipient “host” country? KL: This depends on the type of fund present and also on the extent to which voters’ political views are able to influence the fund. For example, in a democratic home state like Norway, the SWF doesn’t invest in nuclear weapons or tobacco because of social concerns, but there is a continuing debate over whether it should invest in oil, even though that’s where most of the money comes from. The degree to which Norway will continue to make those investments, and whether they contradict the government’s overall climate goals, is an open question in Norwegian politics. Because of the way the fund’s governance is structured, it may not be easy to resolve. On the other hand, some people consider pension funds, like the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) in Ohio, to be quasi-SWF. They have a very strict separation between the people who make up the management division and the fund owners. No teacher or professor would want to invest in things that may harm the future of their students. At the same time, a fund manager might see an opportunity in a diversified multinational corporation that offers a good return, despite it deriving part of its revenue from e-cigarettes. These contests are very apparent. Domestic politics can work in host countries too. A good example is Singapore’s SWF, Temasek, investing in Thailand’s telecommunications sector. If you study political economy, you already know that countries everywhere are uncomfortable with foreign ownership of their telecom sectors because a foreign entity could monitor or manipulate our communications with each other. In the case of Temasek, there was significant pushback from Thai citizens surrounding the deal, which went on to influence national political sentiment toward Singapore as a whole, underscoring the risks some SWFs may face with their investment choices. In this case, fund behavior led to the dissolution of the entire Thai government in 2006 and a subsequent coup d’état. GJIA: To address some of this unease, the Santiago Principles were established in 2009 to ostensibly promote trust and transparency. From your perspective, have these mechanisms actually changed fund behavior? KL: In international relations theory, we always like to have a clear set of norms and best practices­—the orientation we want the proverbial ship to be going in. In that regard, the Santiago Principles at least got the discussion going about which direction SWFs should take at a time when people were very skittish about the growing size of these funds. Nobody wanted them to be out there and potentially destabilizing economies, so talks about disclosure, conditions for withdrawal, and the independence of managers were helpful when initiated. The biggest stumbling block was that there wasn’t exactly a good way to measure compliance with the Principles, let alone how to hold funds to them. If you read the Principles, they’re overall quite vague. In general, a fund doesn’t want to reveal how and why they make certain investment decisions because that information is proprietary—a fund makes money off of how and why it makes decisions—so how do you reconcile that with loosely-defined ideas of openness? Some decisions might have a political purpose. The bottom line is that trying to figure out and assign a score to compliance is not easy, and it is therefore the reason why the Santiago Principles never really got off the ground to the point where they could truly direct fund behavior. GJIA: Many emerging markets are looking to build their own SWFs from mineral and oil revenues. Historically, have funds shaped development trajectories in these countries? KL: I think the big story in international emerging markets investment is that the investment is increasingly no longer unidirectional. In the past multinational corporations of primarily Western background were the main form of foreign direct investment in a country. That has changed dramatically, to the point where you have companies from so-called “developing countries” taking over companies in the United States. Therefore, the landscape of international investment has changed, and I think SWFs are certainly a possibility to be the next step in the game. Historically, you didn’t need an entire financial vehicle to reinvest commodity revenues in your country, but as emerging markets get more financially sophisticated, their capacity to operate such funds has increased. SWFs would allow treasuries to move from relying on holding foreign exchange assets like cash or government bonds to having broader financial markets and targeted growth areas, while easing pressure on welfare expenditures. GJIA: With their increasing financial weight, do you see the presence of SWFs being a factor in the political choices leaders will have to make with regard to domestic and foreign policy? KL: It will depend on just how big the funds get. One of the reasons people are already apprehensive is because of their scale, and if certain SWFs in certain countries achieve a large-enough size, the presence will absolutely be cause for concern. The other factor political leaders will have to consider are their objectives. It’s not always clear how to define a SWF, or even where its activity is concentrated, but it is certainly a worry from the perspective of national security of opaque external investment. More than that, I think one of the most interesting questions going forward is whether the United States, the home to the world’s largest financial markets, will develop its own fund, for which the Trump administration announced a plan. There have also been several proposals in Congress. Were it to come into being, it would have tremendous weight. At the same time, one of the hallmarks of U.S. capitalism is a lack of government ownership of shares, so it would not be clear how such a fund would be received in domestic politics, or which direction it would take. Given how politically fragmented the country is, a Democratic administration would likely be concerned about different sectors of the economy, such as healthcare, and want investment there, rather than a Republican administration, which might prefer defense industries. No investment vehicle could thrive under conditions of such instability. Moreover, it remains unclear where the money to fund a theoretical U.S. SWF would come from. It would be a fundamentally different entity depending on whether it is financed with debt, economic surplus, commodities, or the sale of state companies, as in the case of Singapore. If it is debt, or government borrowing of some form, then the fund would have to outperform whatever the cost of that debt is, which is not an easy thing to do. I think our political leaders have enough on their plate. Our system has worked well keeping political and investment functions generally separate. We have seen different forms of business rise and fall, and even the perception of different countries, all of which funds are tied to. Unless a major SWF either starts—like in the case of the United States—or collapses—an issue that concerns the Saudis, I don’t see any political tsunamis on the horizon. . . . Kathryn Lavelle is the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the exchange between domestic and international and political institutions with a particular emphasis on political economy and multilateralism. Dr. Lavelle’s first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets, explored the political circumstances that surround large issues of stock in the developing world. After being granted tenure at Case Western, she was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and named the William A. Steiger fellow, a designation given to the most promising political scientist in her class of fellows. While in Washington during 2006-2007, she worked on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services on issues related to domestic and international monetary policy. Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University; an M.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia; and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Georgetown University. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted by Sid Mehrotra. Image Credit: Jason Leung, Unsplash Content Licenses, via Unsplash

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