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Core Growth Group Releases Plumbing Business Growth Strategies Guide for 2026

Core Growth Group is addressing 2026 growth pressures in the plumbing sector with new guidance on scaling beyond revenue gains, as workforce dem...

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Sep 9 • 8:46 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Smart elephants can look before they leap

In humans, inhibitory control is important for problem solving. It may be for elephants, too.

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Sep 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Republican lawmakers criticize Ford business ties to China

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress on Wednesday ​joined criticism ‌of Ford Motor over its business ties to Chinese firms ‌after ​Transportation ⁠Secretary Sean Duffy ⁠sharply criticized the No. 2 U.S. automaker. Republican Senator R...

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Sep 9 • 12:57 PM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
La Porte County Business Expo Brings Local Business Together September 17

Michigan City, IN – Businesses and community members from throughout La Porte County are invited to connect, discover local products and services, and build new contacts at the La Porte County Business Expo on Thursday, September 17, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Purdue Northwest – Westville campus. The collaborative event is hosted by the Michigan City Chamber, Westville Area Chamber, and La Porte Economic Advancement Partnership (LEAP) and will showcase businesses from across La Porte County and beyond. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the people behind local businesses, learn about the products and services available and make

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Sep 9 • 1:25 AM EDT • Business • wimsradio.com
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SK hynix Charts Its Business and Technology Direction at the 2026 Future Forum—”Now Is the Golden Time to Leap Forward”

▲ SK hynix Vice President Jaewuk Ju, head of the Smart Manufacturing Technology/AX Advance department, delivering the first keynote presentation

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Sep 8 • 9:31 PM EDT • Business • news.skhynix.com
SK hynix Charts Its Business and Technology Direction at the 2026 Future Forum—”Now Is the Golden Time to Leap Forward”

▲ A panoramic view of the 2026 SK hynix Future Forum venue On September 8, SK hynix held the 2026 SK hynix Future Forum (Future Forum) at the SUPEX Center on its Icheon Campus under the theme, “The Golden Time

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Sep 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • news.skhynix.com
Trump administration blasts Ford business deals with Chinese firms

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday blasted Ford Motor's business ​partnerships with Chinese companies, saying ‌they pose deep national security concerns. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a ...

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Sep 8 • 3:05 PM EDT • Business • whbl.com
Trump administration blasts Ford business deals with Chinese firms

WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Trump ​administration ‌on Tuesday blasted Ford Motor's business ‌partnerships ​with ⁠Chinese companies, ⁠saying it poses deep national security ​concerns. U.S. Transportation ⁠Secretary ⁠Sean Duffy ​in a ​letter to Fo...

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Sep 8 • 3:05 PM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Technology Science Corporation and Integration Technologies Group Awarded NASA SEWP VI Contract in Category C

Technology Science Corporation and Integration Technologies Group Awarded NASA SEWP VI Contract in Category C

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Sep 8 • 10:15 AM EDT • Science • markets.financialcontent.com
Beat reporter makes very bold prediction for Panthers' 2026 season

The Athletic's bold prediction for the 2026 Panthers has the team's defense making a massive leap.

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Sep 8 • 6:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’

The president posted repeatedly on social media over the weekend, and New Mexico Democrats leaped to respond to the ones about their state.

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Sep 7 • 1:36 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Mount Vernon Teens Can Apply for $1,000 Mental-Health Project Grants

Fairfax County is offering grants of up to $1,000 for youth-planned mental-health and suicide-prevention projects. Applications are due Sept. 14.

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Sep 7 • 12:58 PM EDT • Health • thezebra.org
Hornets' Brandon Miller Predicted to Take 'Huge Leap Next Season'

Charlotte Hornets forward Brandon Miller is predicted to take a "huge leap next season."

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Sep 7 • 9:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Aurizon continues to grow Containerised Freight business

September 7, 2026 -- Aurizon, Australia’s largest rail freight company, is continuing to grow its containerised freight business delivering the ...

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Sep 7 • 4:11 AM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Indian health activists lodge concerns about food warning proposal in court

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Indian activists spearheading calls for food labelling said a government proposal to have red warnings only when two concerning nutrients are high created an "industry-friendly loophole" disregarding public...

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Sep 7 • 2:53 AM EDT • Health • wtvbam.com
‘Slumping’ South Korean corals worry divers, scientists studying climate change

By Hyeyoon Cho JEJU, South Korea, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant colour and thriving life of South Korea's soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six years ago, looking to harvest seafood for sale. "Wat...

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Sep 6 • 9:08 PM EDT • Science • wtvbam.com
‘Slumping’ South Korean corals worry divers, scientists studying climate change

By Hyeyoon Cho JEJU, South Korea, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant colour and thriving life of South Korea's soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six years ago, looking to harvest seafood for sale. "Wat...

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Sep 6 • 9:08 PM EDT • Science • 933thedrive.com
Drake Maye’s selfless approach could define Year 3 with Patriots

Drake Maye was asked about a Year 3 leap, and his answer said everything you need to know about the star quarterback.

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Sep 6 • 10:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

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Sep 6 • 4:09 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
Global Timekeepers May Swap 'Leap Second' for 'Leap Hour'

We probably wouldn't need it for a few centuries

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Sep 5 • 4:50 PM EDT • Technology • newser.com
Italy’s far-right Vannacci lashes EU in business summit address

By Valentina Za, Elvira Pollina and Francesca Landini CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Italy's rising far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European Union should halt political integration and...

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Sep 5 • 10:40 AM EDT • Business • whbl.com
Italy’s far-right Vannacci lashes EU in business summit address

By Valentina Za, Elvira Pollina and Francesca Landini CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Italy's rising far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European Union should halt political integration and...

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Sep 5 • 10:40 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Barcelona’s new captain hierarchy confirmed with one surprise addition

Barcelona have finalised their captaincy structure for the 2026/27 season, with Lamine Yamal making a major leap into the leadership group despite being only 19.According to Mundo Deportivo, Hansi Fli...

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Sep 5 • 2:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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LeaseAssured Introduces AI-Assisted Commercial Lease Platform With Solicitor Review

The new online service provides landlords and businesses in England and Wales with a guided way to create commercial lease documentation, combin...

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Sep 4 • 11:32 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Can AI answer your health questions? Before you trust AI with your...

Can AI answer your health questions? Before you trust AI with your health, make sure you know the pros and cons. #Sashaonyourside #consumernews #ConsumerAlert #AI #HealthTips nbc6news

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Sep 4 • 11:38 AM EDT • Health • facebook.com
Berkshire CEO Abel sees opportunity for energy business from AI

NEW YORK, Sep 2 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Greg Abel said on Wednesday he sees significant opportunities ​for the conglomerate's energy business ‌from the buildout of AI data centers, after Berkshire made Google parent Alphabet its ...

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Sep 2 • 7:29 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google is kicking off a multi-year partnership with Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, across Gemini and Google Health.

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Sep 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • blog.google
Did the Evolution of Language Take a Huge Leap Around the Fireplace?

A new theory links storytelling, firelight and the rise of spoken language.

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Sep 1 • 7:03 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Authority Acquisition Launches AI-Mediated Discovery System for Business Coaches

Authority Acquisition releases a multi-channel content marketing system to help experts and business coaches build a consistent presence across ...

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Aug 31 • 8:30 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Alexandria Car and Business Tax Bills Due Oct. 5

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Alexandria has mailed its 2026 personal property tax bills to registered vehicle owners and businesses, with both due Monday, Oct. 5. The

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Aug 30 • 3:24 PM EDT • Business • thezebra.org
Prediction markets take a swing at hedging for US small businesses

By Suzanne McGee Aug 28 (Reuters) - Mark Murrell, founder of Get Maine Lobster of Portland, Maine, has an irritating business problem that he has been struggling to solve: offering discounts is costly and, well, "it feels so boring." For International ...

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Aug 28 • 6:16 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Italy business and consumer confidence rise in August

ROME, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Italian business and consumer confidence rose in August, data showed on Friday, in a ​positive sign for the prospects of ‌the euro zone's third largest economy. • National statistics institute ISTAT's consumer confidence index ...

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Aug 28 • 5:16 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ finally looks like the future

A first look at "GTA VI" gameplay finally looked like a leap in technology, visuals and storytelling.

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Aug 27 • 6:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com
Nvidia in talks to acquire Hugging Face in $13 billion deal, Business Insider reports

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Nvidia has been ​in ‌serious talks to acquire AI ‌platform ​Hugging ⁠Face in ⁠a deal that would value ​the company ⁠at ⁠more than $13 ​billion, Business ​Insider reported on ‌Wednesday, citing a person ⁠familiar with the matter. Reut...

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Aug 26 • 8:45 PM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
NSF Invests $290 Million In Eight University-Led Quantum Leap Institutes

NSF will invest more than $290 million to fund eight university-based research institutes in its Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, created by the agency in 2020.

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Aug 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Interventional radiologists see largest year-over-year pay gain among physicians: Doximity

IR specialists saw their average annual compensation leap 10.8%, up to $634,658 in 2025, according to the online professional network for doctors.

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Aug 26 • 3:26 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
German business sentiment rises more than expected in August, Ifo survey finds

BERLIN, Aug 25 (Reuters) - German business ​morale ‌grew more than expected ‌in ​August, ⁠a survey ⁠showed on Tuesday. The Ifo institute said ​its business ⁠climate ⁠index ​rose to ​88.8 in August ‌from a slightly upwardly ⁠revised 86.7 in July. Analys...

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Aug 25 • 4:07 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Stuck Weather? Scientists Reveal Shocking Reason Behind Weather Blocking Events - Futura-Sciences

How Climate Science Turned a Corner Over the last quarter-century, the world of climate science has made leaps and bounds. Tools like advanced weather stations, the boom in aviation, and especially earth-watching satellites have totally changed how we understand what’s happening in the sky. Since the early 2000s, countries like...

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Aug 24 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Xpeng says its robotics business raised over $900 million in first funding round

BEIJING, Aug 24 (Reuters) - China's Xpeng ​said on ‌Monday its robotics business raised over $900 ‌million ​in ⁠its first ⁠funding round, led by IDG and ​Gaorong Ventures and ⁠with ⁠Tencent and ​Alibaba as ​strategic investors. Xpeng's robotics ‌busine...

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Aug 24 • 5:40 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
LEAP Children’s Museum holding summer science workshop

News release Science, discovery and hands-on fun are coming to Valencia Town Center this weekend as LEAP Santa Clarita Children’s Museum hosts its Summer Science Workshop on Saturday and Sunday […]

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Aug 21 • 8:04 PM EDT • Science • signalscv.com
Ben Johnson explains how Bears can unlock Rome Odunze

The Chicago Bears have every reason for a high level of belief that Rome Odunze is getting ready to take a leap forward in the 2026 season

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Aug 21 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Euro zone business activity growth hits highest since November, PMI shows

By Indradip Ghosh Aug 21 (Reuters) - Euro zone business activity has grown at its fastest pace this year in August, buoyed by stronger new orders — particularly in manufacturing — and a return to export growth, according to a survey which also showed ​...

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Aug 21 • 4:03 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
German business activity grows in August, PMI shows

BERLIN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - German business activity expanded modestly in August as an upturn in manufacturing offset a faster decline in services activity, a preliminary ​business survey showed on Friday. The S&P Global Flash ‌Composite PMI Index for G...

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Aug 21 • 3:33 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy – Why This Is Far More Than A Plague Tale 3

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy sees this beloved franchise take a huge leap forward. Ahead of launch next week, the team at Asobo took the time to share their insights on building a very different kind of journey.

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Aug 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
James Gibson and Cutter Leftwich Named to 247 Sports 30Under30 List

Kentucky football assistant coaches James Gibson and Cutter Leftwich were named to the 2026 edition of the 247 Sports’ 30Under30 List, recognizing the fastest-rising personnel and assistant coaches in college football. The list is in its 10th year and is compiled by a bevy of contacts across the industry.

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Aug 19 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • ukathletics.com
Alexandria Declares Spooky Mad Science Expo Day

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Get ready for a celebration where science gets spooky, curiosity takes center stage, and learning becomes an adventure. The City of

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Aug 18 • 3:21 PM EDT • Science • thezebra.org
Giving kids a science-y summer at LEAP Santa Clarita Children's Museum
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Aug 16 • 10:03 AM EDT • Science • cbsnews.com
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PxlPerfect Designs Urges Home Service Businesses to Export Local Services Ads Data Before Google's Migration

Google began migrating Local Services Ads into Google Ads as a pay-per-lead Performance Max campaign type in August 2026. Historical performance...

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Aug 15 • 1:43 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
How Nevada made big strides to keep kids with behavioral health issues out of institutions

Four years ago, the federal government found the state was sending too many kids out of state for treatment. That number has been cut by more than half.

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Aug 12 • 10:00 PM EDT • Health • thenevadaindependent.com
Is Second-Year Leap Coming For Seahawks' Rashid Shaheed?

Set to become more of a receiver in 2026, is Shaheed about to take his game to a new level in Seattle?

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Aug 12 • 7:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Here’s what’s new with Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Pixel Buds 2a.

Google is launching a new color and upgraded features for Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Pixel Buds 2a as part of Made by Google.

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Aug 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • blog.google
US small-business sentiment rises to 11-month high in July, labor shortages a worry

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. small-business sentiment increased to an 11-month high in July amid a surge in the share of owners reporting plans to boost hiring, suggesting that last month's slump in nonfarm payrolls was ​probably temporary. The ...

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Aug 11 • 6:03 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Why Elephants Will Never Jump: Scientists Reveal the Jaw-Dropping Truth - Futura-Sciences

The Science of Not Jumping It’s an old, thoroughly observed fact: elephants don’t jump. They won’t leap across a ditch, won’t hurdle an obstacle, and never have all four feet off the ground at once. What’s really surprising is that science hasn’t taken a deep dive into this question until...

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Aug 10 • 7:00 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
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Robot24.com Launches Global Robotics News Platform With Original Reporting, Business News and Correspondents on Every Continent

Robot24.com has launched as a new global robotics news platform dedicated to covering the companies, machines, people and technologies shaping t...

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Aug 10 • 12:39 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
India’s Zee Entertainment quarterly profit falls on weak advertising, higher costs

Aug 10 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises ​reported ‌a 46.9% fall in first-quarter profit on ‌Monday, ​hurt ⁠by weak advertising ⁠revenue and higher costs related to ​its return to ⁠sports broadcasting. The ⁠company posted ​a consolidate...

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Aug 10 • 7:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • 1049thewolf.com
Improv Launches Dedicated Sports and Entertainment Venues Practice for UKG Workforce Management

Improvizations, LLC (Improv), an Austin-based HCM and WFM advisory and implementation firm, has launched a dedicated Sports and Entertainment Ve...

Trump says Congress wants to regulate AI industry ‘out of business’

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Congress wants to regulate the AI industry "out of business," according to a ​Punchbowl News interview published on Friday. Trump's remarks underscore ‌a widening...

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Aug 7 • 10:20 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
Flyers Make Major Announcement on Second Year NHL Winger

The Philadelphia Flyers took a huge leap forward in 2025/26 in their first season under Head Coach Rick Tocchet, and after a series win in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, they’re hoping to take another step in 2026/27 with this young, ascending core.As evidenced by their moves this off-season, the team are still seeking that young […] The post Flyers Make Major Announcement on Second Year NHL Winger appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 6 • 9:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rondo, Webb Among the 2026 Class of the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame

Rondo, Webb Among the 2026 Class of the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame

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Aug 6 • 3:35 PM EDT • Sports • ukathletics.com
A ‘Jumping Gene’ Was Caught Leaping Between Species—and It Could Rewrite the Rules of Evolution

Genes are known to move within an organism, but between organisms—that’s another story.

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Aug 6 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.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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Aug 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
MrBeast Sales Slow, Angel Stock Falls, MUBI and Neon Look for Hits, and Will an NBA Franchise Set a Sales Record?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) You probably remember egg prices spiking a few years ago. This led to a lot of debate between the pro-market/pro-competition/antitrust/Neo-Brandesian crowd and the center/center-right/center-left/abundance/libertarian crowd over the cause, whether it was the avian flu outbreak or whether industry consolidation led to price fixing, using avian flu as a convenient cover. Basel Musharbash wrote a whole investigation at BIG looking at it. Well, two years later, we have our answer: it was price fixing. The Justice Department found proof, via emails, of price fixing. Indeed, just the threat of an investigation brought prices down two years ago: I bring this up because at least half a dozen of my favorite political writers and pundits, who were skeptical about price fixing at the time, haven’t written any mea culpas on this issue. It’s really dispiriting and makes it much, much harder to trust their work on other issues. If you take a hard stand on an issue, then you get it wrong, you need to explain how and why you got it wrong. Or update your priors. This is how epistemological bubbles are formed! All of which is to say, it’s time for another installment of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. Last issue, I mostly focused on the “wrong” side of the equation, so today’s is a bit more balanced, but with one big mea culpa (though I still stand by my original concerns). Let’s dive right in! Subscribe CORRECTION: UFC Didn’t Release Subscriber Data (But Seems to Have Bragged About It Internally) In my analysis of the viewership of UFC Freedom 250, I wrote... “Paramount has also released datecdotes bragging about their subscriber numbers. Earlier this year, they claimed that the first UFC fight on Paramount+ brought in 1 million subscribers.” Well, that datecdote did not come from a PR rep, but from great reporting from James Faris at Business Insider. The actual quote was this: “Paramount’s flagship streaming service generated about a million new subscribers on the day of its first-ever UFC event, Paramount product chief Dane Glasgow told employees in a town hall on Tuesday morning, three staffers who attended the meeting told Business Insider.“ This wasn’t the biggest goof in the world; even Faris emphasized to me that this is more a “clarification” than a correction. Still, it sounds like, internally, the folks at Paramount were very happy about this result—and I’m guessing they were happy with this news getting out—even though the gains didn’t last through the quarter, dropping to 700K adds. RIGHT: MrBeast’s Struggles Continue... I’m very skeptical about MrBeast’s burgeoning media “empire” and, in particular, its $5 billion valuation, as I wrote earlier this year and last year. Sure enough, according to Business Insider, regarding its “booming” consumer products division_:_ “US sales volume grew 13% year-over-year in 2025, following a 33% leap the previous year, according to a presentation deck dated May 2026....A February 2025 investor deck viewed by Business Insider showed Feastables’ net revenue more than doubled in 2024 from 2023, to $215 million, and was forecast to grow 74% in 2025, to $375 million.” [Emphasis mine.] If you told investors that you projected 74% growth but delivered 13%,1 that’s not ideal. But it’s not just MrBeast. Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime had sales drop in half for their energy drinks. It’s one thing to build a successful entertainment company and an entirely different thing to succeed in the heavily-consolidated-but-also-very-competitive consumer packaged goods space! CPGs are dominated by a few firms with very wide moats compared to YouTube, which has few barriers to entry. These businesses require different skill sets and have completely different business environments. WRONG: Does the NBA Have an $8 Billion Bidder? Almost as soon as I published my article about the NBA’s finances, casting skepticism on NBA expansion, I saw this Front Office Sports headline: One group “claims to have already raised $8 billion” for the Vegas expansion team. I mean, wow. That’s just $2 billion less than what the Los Angeles Lakers were valued at when they were sold just last year. And they’re arguably the most popular team in the NBA. (Side note: the new owner is now under an investigation for fraud in how he went about financing the Lakers and the Dodgers purchases.) So much for the “dried up” language I used in that article. (This is why I usually stick to my “Entertainment Nuance Guy” tone in articles...) I went off old information—from April, when I read/heard about the NBA downplaying expansion efforts—instead of doing a quick double-check for new news. That said...if you read the article, the market for Seattle is “slow”, with just one reported bidder. So I wasn’t entirely off. This goof has annoyed me since I first published it, mainly because it undercut that article’s real point, which I stand by: NBA franchises are really overvalued right now. Now, I get why NBA teams are overvalued. When it comes to owning sports teams, it’s basically never wrong to assume that some rich person somewhere will care more about owning a team (or just being part of a group since they’re so expensive) than the actual financials. There are only so many teams to own, and opportunities to buy in preferred markets don’t come along very often. This explains why the teams sell for such high multiples (usually above a 10 to 12.5 revenue multiple, which is very high). You only need one person to overpay! Beyond the ultra-wealthy luxury good explanation, I worry NBA teams are becoming speculative assets. More and more private equity investors are buying into NBA teams. But the value, in owning a team, comes from selling it later, not any meaningful relationship to revenue or profit growth. In other words, the newer NBA owners are increasingly expecting someone later to buy their inflated asset. That’s not sound economics; that’s the “greater fool” theory at work.2 At some point, actually making money has to matter. Especially since revenue growth is now below the growth of the stock market. (And this matters because the NBA doesn’t have easy levers to pull to drastically lower their costs—half of their revenue has to go to players and then you actually have to run a team, including coaching, training, travel, media expenses, and more—or raise revenues aside from one-off expansions in America and overseas.) I just don’t see how investors make their money back buying NBA teams, except for selling at a higher price later on down the line. But if revenue/profit growth continues to slow, at some point, someone will be left holding the bag. RIGHT: Baseball and Basketball are about equally popular. Related to the above, I wanted to cite two quick pieces of evidence for one of my other theories: that the NBA and MLB are about as popular as each other, but the NBA gets much, much better media coverage. One YouGov survey has that fans prefer basketball to baseball by 52% to 48%, which I’m guessing is within the margin of error for that poll. That’s virtually even, meaning they’re about the same popularity. Over on NBC, a recent Red Sox-Yankees game averaged 4 million viewers, higher than Sunday Night Basketball’s average of 3.4 million on the same network. A Yankees-Dodgers game averaged 3.9 million two weeks ago. Not every game averages this much, but it shows you that baseball isn’t far off from basketball, depending on the matchup. Altogether, the NBA is just slightly more popular than baseball, but NBC is paying MLB a fraction of what they pay the NBA, a point I’ve made before. RIGHT: Angel, MUBI and Neon Updates... I’ve long been skeptical about many of Hollywood’s buzziest startups/smaller indie studios. It’s not that they don’t make great movies—films like Anora and Everything Everywhere All at Once are amazing—or that they’re not (rightfully) pushing the majors to make better films, but...they get a ton of hype, and that hype often doesn’t live up to the reality or difficulty in scaling up. Starting with MUBI, well, The Wall Street Journal wrote a feature on MUBI’s struggles last April, best summarized by the subheader “After Sequoia valued Mubi at $1 billion, a left-wing revolt sent the indie film company into a tailspin”. MUBI lost $7.3 million on $200 million in revenue in Q4 2025, but reportedly hit a record 1.7 million subscribers at the end of Q1. As for Neon, Department M purchased a “significant stake” in the company earlier this year. How much is that “stake” worth? According to Deadline, “No financial figures for the Neon-Department M deal were disclosed.” So...that’s not great! If it was a big valuation, we’d hear about. Also, I found this curious: “Both Neon and Department M already have separate partnerships with Qatar. The Qatar Film Committee has a slate deal in place with the former, and a biopic production pact with the latter.” Color me skeptical about much Middle Eastern investment dollars. See: LIV Golf. Finally, as for Angel (formerly Angel Studios), their stock very, very slightly popped last month after Young Washington ($20 million budget) which made $45 million in the US, but their stock is still way down from its opening. Smaller Updates RIGHT: The WGA should focus on antitrust concerns! I’ve been on this for years. Post-WGA/AMTPT deal in 2023, I wrote an article for the Ankler calling on the WGA to focus and organize against industry consolidation. Sure enough, the WGA filed a lawsuit against the Paramount-WBD merger, and people are organizing around this issue now. I wish this energy had coalesced earlier (specifically to lobby Washington much earlier), but better late than never! WRONG: Actually, the chip shortage might be due to market manipulation. In my last “Long Reads for the Long Summer” article, I shared an article about how LLMs are causing memory chip prices to spike, which will make all electronics more expensive. Well, turns out, three RAM manufacturers control 90% of the market, and now a private lawsuit accuses them of price-fixing. So yeah. WRONG/UPDATE: The Odyssey will hold! Two weeks ago, I wrote, “As of this moment, we haven’t had a super-blockbuster, though The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday could all cross the $500 million mark. (At this point, The Odyssey would need a very strong hold to get there.)” Well, it’s safe to say it’s going to have that hold! It only dropped 30% in weekend two and IMAX screenings are sold out all month. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is also off to a great start. RIGHT: People are rushing to get shows out yearly. I’ve long been bullish on yearly, weekly-released shows, and Leslie Goldberg at The Ankler wrote about how many people in town are now listening. WRONG: Mark Carney reverses Canada’s stance on homegrown production. After writing about Canada installing domestic production quotas, Canada has backed off. WRONG: I don’t trust Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s online “views”. When I originally wrote about the latest Spider-Man film’s record-breaking trailer, I thought this was just YouTube views, but after watching this Corridor Crew video and doing more research, well, it’s all social views of the trailer globally. Really? That stat includes TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts views. Basically, I don’t trust it anymore. (This film will probably set record, but I trust the pre-sales data more.) RIGHT: Celebrity Production companies are still struggling. I’ve written about this for years, but the company that I didn’t track was Kevin Hart’s HartBeat, which was valued at $650 million but is struggling now and might just end soon, especially after Kevin Hart pulled his endorsement deals. And Bad Robot is moving to NYC. CORRECTION: SpongeBob is a “second run” title. In my 2025 recap article, I had _SpongeBob SquarePants_labelled as a “library” title, when it is still a “second run” show, with new episodes still coming out on Nickelodeon. CORRECTION: In my last “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong” update, I offered a correction from Doug Creutz and misspelled TD Cowen. Thanks, Grammarly! 1 Though he could have increased prices to make up for the gap, he couldn’t have increased them that much. 2 There’s a theory, which I think that Daryl Morey created and Bill Simmons popularized, that, to be successful building your team, you only need a handful of bad GMs in the league to take advantage of. To be clear, Daryl Morey’s theory was also for signing bad contracts, that you could always get out of bad contracts. Basically, there’s always someone who will make a bad trade. It’s not the same exact thing, but similar enough to the Greater Fool Theory that I really like it.

If Not AOC, Then Who?

What do we do if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decides not to run for president in 2028? It makes sense that many leftists are currently focused on calling on her to take the plunge. But the absence of a Plan B, or even much discussion about one, is worrisome. The US Left can’t afford to sit out the 2028 Democratic primary. Doing so in 2024 was a disaster: our abstention self-marginalized anti-billionaire politics from the national conversation and thereby gave space for Harris to pivot to the “center” (i.e. the policy preferences of corporate donors, establishment hacks, and AIPAC). Abstaining again in 2028 would be especially counterproductive since democratic socialists now have so much wind in our sails after our big electoral wins in NYC and across the country. It’s time to deepen our momentum, organization, and profile — not to retreat to the margins during America’s single most important political battle. Even more urgently, keeping Trump’s heir out of the White House may depend on whether leftists and the party’s unprecedentedly disenchanted base can force the Democrats in 2028 to take meaningful steps towards a very angry electorate and away from the corporate-consultant blob that has helped get us into this mess. If AOC (or Abdul El-Sayed) decides to run, we should enthusiastically go all in — DSA, fighting unions, progressive organizations, anybody who wants to see a better country and world. But, as far as I can tell from the outside, there’s a real chance that she doesn’t run. And we can’t just wait and see where she lands before discussing alternatives, since AOC’s decision might not come for quite a while, giving us little time to scramble at the last minute for an alternative. So we should start working now on getting a Plan B into motion, and recruiting a good candidate for the role. Here’s one idea. A Worker Candidate — Healthcare Not Warfare 2028 Run a union worker Leftists don’t need to always run experienced, well-known socialist politicians for high-profile contests. Lula, the current president of Brazil, began his political career as a metalworker militant who ran for governor of São Paulo in 1982. Especially in an era of institutional distrust, it’s possible to lean hard into making a virtue out of a working-class comrade’s distance from traditional politics. Experience abroad shows this clearly. Rachel Kéké — an immigrant hotel housekeeper — ran as the candidate of the leftist La France Insoumise for the National Assembly in 2022, defeating a former minister in the Macron government. The Belgian Workers’ Party in 2024 won its first Flemish seat in the European Parliament by running Rudi Kennes, a three-decade veteran of the Opel Antwerp auto factory. And the South Korean left in 2024 elected auto factory militant Yoon Jong-oh to the National Assembly. If a tiny French Trotskyist organization could make such a big splash in 2002 and 2007 by running a well-spoken postal worker cadre for office — the LCR’s Olivier Besancenot received about 1.5 million first-round votes — it’s not far-fetched to expect that a much larger organization like DSA, together with a broader coalition of the willing, could run this playbook to much greater effect. This is especially the case now that almost everything DSA does immediately becomes a national news story. We don’t need someone famous. We just need a charismatic, well-vetted comrade who works in a relatable working-class occupation — e.g. a nurse, or a worker in auto or construction, or at Amazon. Ideally, they have a compelling personal story or have been part of a significant strike or organizing campaign, but even those criteria don’t necessarily have to be deal-breakers. The main lesson of the Graham Platner fiasco isn’t that we should never run outsiders for office (the momentum he generated proves the exact opposite), but that they need proper vetting and roots in democratic membership organizations like DSA or a union. In any case, there are plenty of ways to signal working-class authenticity without resorting to Platner’s or Fetterman’s performative macho white dude affect. Better to have someone of any gender or race who is actually working class, with firm socialist politics, who can speak from experience about the day-to-day realities of trying to make it in America. There are surely at least a dozen such worker leaders in our movement nationwide; we just need to sit down and convince one that their personal sacrifice for the greater good (i.e. running for president) will be worth it. If we don’t have a frontrunner with a clear path to victory like AOC (or El-Sayed, were he to win Michigan), it’s better to embrace someone whose decision to run in itself tells an important story about US politics: workers have been iced out of our political system and are now fighting hard to break back in. The novelty factor, in itself, would generate press. And it would help democratic socialists signal to the American public that our movement’s defining characteristic is that we represent workers vs. bosses, not that we’re “the furthest left” force in American politics — a framework that suggests we’re extremists and that helps our opponents isolate us from non-college-educated voters by highlighting extremely minoritarian (and misguided) stances included in DSA’s platform like prison abolition. We don’t get many opportunities to speak to tens of millions of Americans; we need to use these opportunities to broaden our appeal beyond those already in our orbit. Run to polarize the 2028 primary and general election around “Medicare for All” and “End All Aid to Israel” Why should democratic socialists use our scarce time and volunteer energy to run in a race we’re unlikely to win? Running in the 2028 primary will not only recruit us scores of members (imagine having a DSA member intervening in eleven nationally televised primary debates!), but — more importantly — it has the potential to be a decisive leap forward towards an America that finally starts meeting the needs of working people instead of HMO and AIPAC billionaire donors. Polarizing litmus tests are good, actually — as long as they’re fought for around popular demands in a thoughtful and strategic way. Democratic socialists have an opportunity and responsibility to make the 2028 primary about two of the most widely and deeply felt issues of our moment: domestically, America’s unaffordable, family-breaking private healthcare system; internationally, America’s bankrolling of the genocidal Israeli government. A candidacy relentlessly demanding Medicare for All and No Aid to Israel would pose a sharp question to the American public, the Democratic Party, and other 2028 contenders: Why can’t working-class Americans afford their healthcare bills at the same time that our government is spending at least $3.8 billion yearly to fund an Israeli regime eager to keep dragging us and the world into more forever wars? Our candidate can agitate around a clear message: I’m running to give voice to all those working-class Americans who are struggling to get by. No matter what state you live in, who you voted for in 2024, or your background, it’s just plain common sense that we should make healthcare more affordable instead of spending billions to enable the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity. Every American who agrees with me when I say ‘Medicare for All — Not a Dime for Israel’ should make their voice heard through our campaign. Racking up a high number of votes for this agenda is a crucial way to show the Democratic Party and the country as a whole that we can’t keep supporting a life-destroying status quo in our healthcare system and in the Middle East. If we want to defeat Trump’s handpicked crony this coming November, we need to speak to ordinary people’s frustrations with the status quo — we can’t keep running the same tired establishment playbook and expecting a different result. For those highly engaged voters (or skeptical media pundits) who raise concerns about wasting votes, the candidate can take the time to explain why this isn’t the case: It's true I'm a long shot. But Zohran showed anything can happen — and voting for me is a pragmatic decision, not a wasted vote. In a heavily divided primary with a large number of candidates and a very discredited establishment, my campaign and the democratic socialist movement I’m part of are positioned to be the balance of power if we can get a large enough number of voters to loudly demand Healthcare Not Warfare. Since there’s a high chance no candidate will get to 50% in the 2028 primaries, the Democrats could very well be heading towards a brokered convention, where a disciplined, principled current committed to breaking from corporate donors can play an outsized role in making sure whoever ends up with the nomination raises the banner of single-payer healthcare and cutting aid to Israel. How exactly could running this sort of primary campaign be translated into actual leverage? The candidate replies: I’m aiming to win the nomination, but if I don’t achieve that goal, my delegates and I will pledge our support in the primary only for a candidate who agrees in the general election to call for ending US aid to Israel and establishing Medicare for All at home. These are both winning planks for November against the Republicans, and the only reason I can see that other candidates haven’t yet raised these is that they’re still more scared of the donor class than they are of the people. That needs to change. If Democratic leaders want young people, workers, and those sick of the status quo to show up in big numbers this November, they need to meet us halfway. In this way, whether or not we win the nomination, democratic socialists could still play a decisive role in 2028. The approach outlined here is similar to what radical left parties periodically do in parliamentary democracies like Denmark or Sweden when they find themselves as a junior partner electorally: they dictate to center-left allies what their terms would be for enabling, from the outside, the formation of a new government. Running a Healthcare Not Warfare candidate will make it significantly more likely that the 2028 Democratic candidate stands with ordinary people instead of donors on these two pivotal planks — a shift that will, in turn, make it easier to achieve the existentially important task of defeating MAGA’s heir in November. Look at how much popular traction the Uncommitted movement got with a similar strategy in 2024 with so little on-the-ground organization — surely we can go much further with a working-class candidate, a much bigger DSA, and a Democratic Party base that has turned against Israel, billionaires, and the hacks in the party who prop them up. Objections and Responses There are quite a few objections to this proposal, many of which are very reasonable. Let me briefly address each here. Socialists shouldn’t waste their scarce time and resources on a candidate unlikely to win. This is a good rule in general, but there are important exceptions, and presidential elections are the main one. There’s no other political contest that gets anything like this level of attention and engagement in the US, so if you want to be a serious force in nationwide politics, you basically can’t afford not to have a candidate. Far from being an overall drain on our resources, running a dynamic 2028 campaign would likely result in a major net increase in members and capacity. In that spirit, the very pragmatic Milwaukee sewer socialists — who mostly ran to win at home in Wisconsin — supported Eugene Debs’s propagandistic presidential campaigns, which they correctly saw as a crucial means of recruiting to the Socialist Party. And now that the (post-1972) Democratic Party gives more weight to voters than party operatives in determining its presidential nomination, it’s become feasible to run as a socialist in primaries without risking a split in the vote against the Republicans in November. We should just support Ro Khanna, who also supports M4A and ending aid to Israel. I like Ro Khanna and would enthusiastically vote and canvass for him for president were he to get the nomination. But there’s a real chance that Khanna’s bid for office doesn’t catch on; he lacks the grassroots organizational apparatus of DSA, and, because he’s not really of the Left or labor (despite his current very good positions), he’s unlikely to generate the type of buy-in and enthusiasm that a DSA candidate would. Moreover, Khanna would be running as an individual, not as someone emerging from and building an organized movement — his campaign would not likely focus on building sustained power from below, nor would it likely polarize the 2028 primary around M4A and Israel aid. Also, and not inconsequentially, the poor electoral results for Tom Steyer and Saikat Chakrabarti this spring suggest that there’s perhaps not much of a popular appetite in the Democrats’ base to support multi-millionaire class traitors. Much better, then, to run a democratic socialist worker. If by Super Tuesday it’s clear that our campaign has captured the main left lane in the primary, Khanna should drop out and endorse us; conversely, if he’s managed to capture this lane, DSA could at that point transform its Healthcare Not Warfare campaign into an independent campaign to elect Ro Khanna focused on winning (and holding him accountable to) those two critical planks. An openness to consolidating an anti-corporate candidate by Super Tuesday is a necessary component of the strategy I’m proposing, because otherwise we risk splitting the primary votes (per DNC rules, you need at least 15% to get any delegates to convention). We should convince Shawn Fain or Sara Nelson to run for president instead. I agree it’d be great if either ran for president, but my impression is that there’s basically no chance that will happen in 2028, because both are firmly focused on their union leadership duties (and, in the case of Fain, beating back a federal witch-hunt). This plan could have DSA end up endorsing a non-socialist, non-DSAer for president. That’s against our principles. It’s a myth, and bad politics, that socialists can’t ever support candidates who aren’t members of their organization and/or who don’t call themselves socialists. Bernie, after all, was not a DSAer. And socialists abroad regularly make tactical decisions about if and when supporting a non-socialist candidate makes sense from the standpoint of promoting working-class interests, defending democracy, and building a socialist current in the process. If your “principles” prevent you and DSA from helping achieve the momentous stride forward of having a Democratic candidate in 2028 run on Medicare for All and ending aid to Israel, those “principles” are not very good. In fact, they actively undermine the causes they’re aiming to support. We shouldn’t confuse principles (working-class independence) with tactics (the best way to advance this in a given context). In my recent article in Catalyst on Milwaukee sewer socialism (I’ve uploaded the full text here), I have a section showing how similarly rigid rules about endorsements had to be eventually discarded in the old Socialist Party nationwide after WWI because they tended to lead socialists towards a sectarian abstention from broader anti-corporate electoral insurgencies beyond their party’s control. For what it’s worth, Lenin’s current under Tsarism frequently backed bourgeois candidates in the second round of elections and Lenin himself advocated that British Communists support Labour Party candidates; for his part, Kautsky in 1912 defended the German Social Democracy’s electoral pact with the Progressives in the runoffs. If our predecessors could be that tactically flexible in an era before the limits of their underlying strategic assumptions about intransigent class politics in capitalist democracies were made clear, then there’s no need to insist on being more tactically rigid today, after a century’s worth of accumulated experience. As long as you maintain your own political profile and organization while engaging in broader coalitional efforts, there’s zero inherent contradiction with the principle of political independence. More specifically: DSA and allied organizations should enthusiastically back Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed if AOC declines to run and he throws his hat in the presidential ring. (I have no idea whether he’s even considering this path, but there’ll surely be chatter about it if he wins his Senate race this November.) Though he doesn’t call himself a socialist, El-Sayed is a principled Berniecrat, a consistent fighter for Palestine, and would have a clear path to victory. Using the “s” word is far less important than whether a campaign fights for the interests of working people at home and abroad — and whether actively participating in it can grow the organized working class and the Left. And the same holds true if a less anti-corporate candidate were, under pressure, to adopt our two Healthcare Not Warfare planks. Why focus only on M4A and ending US aid to Israel? There are so many other important issues to fight for! Obviously there are many pivotal issues beyond healthcare and Israel, and our candidate — and especially our organizations involved in the campaign — should be prepared to speak on all of these. But one of the crucial lessons of the Zohran campaign is that you have to relentlessly stay on message if you want to cut through the noise. CNN and Fox News will want to talk about DSA’s views on Venezuela and abolishing the police; we need to polarize the debate on the widely and deeply felt issues that are most favorable for growing the Left, isolating our opponents, and winning urgently needed changes. One recent poll found 63% of Americans support M4A, even after respondents were told it would raise taxes and eliminate most private insurance. Another found that 74% of Democrats opposed “providing additional economic and military support to Israel.” And focusing on two demands sets the campaign up to be able to leverage its mandate to make clear demands upon other candidates (which we can’t do if we run with a laundry list of demands). Talking about a Plan B is a distraction from the more urgent work of building a groundswell of calls on AOC to run. It’s good for DSAers, fightback unionists, and progressive organizations to try to convince AOC to run. This proposal is meant as an addendum to pushes to get AOC to run and to line DSA up for that eventuality, not as a substitute for those efforts. But I’m worried that, like in 2024, we might eventually find ourselves with no time to find a viable alternative unless we start now. DSA, with its abundant deliberative processes, moves slowly. The approach you’re suggesting seems risky. If a DSA candidate runs but doesn’t receive a lot of votes, it’ll undercut our current national momentum. This is a reasonable worry. All big initiatives always carry risks, and the path I’m advocating is certainly not free of these. That said, if a Healthcare Not Warfare campaign doesn’t catch on like we envisioned, it’s a pretty simple pivot in March 2028 to explain that in the future we really need our standard-bearers like AOC, or our growing bench of national electeds, to step up in presidential primaries. Moreover, it’s worth noting that the risk of my Plan B proposal is on the whole significantly less than the risk entailed by an AOC run. We should all back her if she runs, since she’d fire up the base, provide huge openings for organizing, have a real shot at defeating a Republican (especially given MAGA’s unpopularity), be a great standard-bearer for our issues, particularly M4A and ending aid to Israel, and be less willing than mainstream candidates to capitulate to any anti-democratic machinations from Trump and co. But it’s also true that AOC could lose, which would be a devastating setback to the country and the Left. Or she could win and find herself unable to pass much, if any, of her (and our) program, a demoralizing prospect. So if we’re willing to take these risks with AOC (and we should), it follows that we should be able to take lower-level risks if she doesn’t throw her hat in the ring. What’s Your Plan B? The US Left is facing its biggest opening for growth and influence since the 1930s. Initiatives that would have been impossible a few months ago are now potentially feasible. A President AOC is now easier to imagine, but if she ultimately assesses that the risks aren’t worth the potential reward in 2028, we can’t be left flat-footed. So even if you’re not convinced by the specifics of my Plan B, I hope you can at least agree that it’d be a disaster for us not to have one — and not to start getting a Plan B into motion. Hopefully other organizers and political currents will put forward their responses and alternative ideas ASAP. The stakes are too high to just wait and see. More As always, please share this article widely. This newsletter depends on all you lovely people to get the word out. Thank you! I uploaded the full text of my Catalyst article on Milwaukee sewer socialism here (it’s updated and 3x as long as the version published earlier on this substack). If you haven’t yet, please make sure to subscribe to Catalyst here; I read every issue front to back, highly recommend. 🌹🎵 Ivan Lins (arranged by Arthur Verocai) — “General da Banda” 🌹🎵

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The outrages mount

My kindly and forgiving editors understand that, from time to time, I can’t help myself from leaping atop my rickety soapbox to vent. And, like many other political commentators have already done, I could easily fill this entire missive with page after page commenting on a certain insecure and increasingly tottering orange-hued president who seems […]

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Jul 28 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east

The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired

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Jul 28 • 2:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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Incoming Apple CEO aims to build on movie and TV progress

By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES, July 27 (Reuters) - Apple's incoming CEO, hardware chief John Ternus, said he was committed to building on the company's momentum in the entertainment business when he takes the helm of ​the iPhone maker in September. The tec...

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Jul 27 • 11:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • wtvbam.com
Our expanded partnership with NBCUniversal: Redefining the modern entertainment subscription

YouTube Premium is expanding its partnership with NBCUniversal to give subscribers access to ad-supported Peacock Premium streaming.

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Jul 27 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • blog.youtube
German business sentiment rises more than expected in July, Ifo survey finds

By Maria Martinez BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) - German business morale grew more than ​expected in July ‌thanks to significantly improved expectations, a survey showed on Monday. The Ifo institute said its ‌business ​climate index rose ⁠to 86.6 from ⁠a s...

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Jul 27 • 4:08 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Colts' Josh Downs Ready to Make 'Star Leap?'

Indianapolis Colts fourth-year wide receiver Josh Downs is ready to flourish in a new role.

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Jul 26 • 7:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Harnessing Abundant Electricity From the Sun—and Other CU Boulder Science Tapped for Genesis Mission

Three CU Boulder-led projects and three collaborative projects selected through the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. Research will advance artificial intelligence for fusion energy, quantum computing, particle physics and water prediction. Awards recognize CU Boulder's leadership in applying AI to some of the nation's most complex scientific challenges.

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Jul 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • newswise.com
Nevada congressmen introduce bipartisan bill to ban sports betting on prediction markets

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) and Rep. Mark Amodei's (R-NV) bill would also ban casino-style games on sites such as Kalshi.

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Jul 22 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • thenevadaindependent.com
OpenAI Presence is about to take another leap into corporate software

OpenAI's new Presence product signals its push beyond AI models into business software and AI-powered work.

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Jul 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
The Five Biggest "What Ifs" of the Josh Allen Era

From pivotal trades to career-defining leaps, examine the sliding-door moments that transformed a struggling franchise into a powerhouse and nearly altered the course of Buffalo football history.

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Jul 21 • 10:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Hybrid Healthcare Is a Business Imperative for Employers in Nevada

The Nevada Independent is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news and opinion website founded in 2017 by veteran political journalist and commentator Jon Ralston. The site and its supporting channels are focused on ethical, unbiased and transparent journalism. In general, we aim to gather and disseminate important public information and increase civic engagement.

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Jul 20 • 9:04 PM EDT • Health • thenevadaindependent.com
Why Hybrid Healthcare Is a Business Imperative for Employers in Nevada

The Nevada Independent is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news and opinion website founded in 2017 by veteran political journalist and commentator Jon Ralston. The site and its supporting channels are focused on ethical, unbiased and transparent journalism. In general, we aim to gather and disseminate important public information and increase civic engagement.

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Jul 20 • 9:04 PM EDT • Business • thenevadaindependent.com
Margaritaville Ball Drop 2027 Gala Megawatt Entertainment

Welcome NYE 2027, view the ball drop at a tropical paradise gala at Margaritaville Times Square Hotel, a family-friendly event with VIP amenities

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Jul 20 • 7:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • joonbug.com
Intel Xeon 6 Leaps To 8000 MT/s Memory Now, But The Real Payoff Waits For 8800 MT/s MRDIMM In 2027

Intel introduces 8000 MT/s DDR5 RDIMMs for Xeon 6 CPUs, boosting memory speed by 25% and offering a 20% increase in total memory bandwidth.

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Jul 20 • 1:01 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Starting a Business Has Become a Lot Easier — Here's Why 5.7 Million Americans Took the Leap Last Year

There has been a massive uptick in people launching businesses, with AI supercharging their ability to do things faster and more cheaply.

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Jul 20 • 10:30 AM EDT • Business • entrepreneur.com
Russian anti-war politician ends run for parliament, citing legal setbacks

July 20 (Reuters) - Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian anti-war politician who had hoped to stand in parliamentary elections later this year, has ​announced he is ending his role ‌in opposition politics for now, blaming what he said were politically-motivated ...

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Jul 20 • 6:38 AM EDT • Politics • kfgo.com
Which Bucs' defender is flying under-the-radar in 2026?

The Bucs' secondary needs to take a big step up in 2026 and they can achieve that if one player makes a second-year leap.

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Jul 19 • 10:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sunday Preview – Exodites leap from the jungle

What’s coming up next week?

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Jul 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
One Returning Player Ready to Become a Star for LSU

The LSU Tigers could see one of their sophomores take a big leap in 2026.

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Jul 18 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Orlando Magic Summer League Guard Ready to Take Major Leap

After transforming his physique and sharpening his perimeter shooting, Alex Morales is embracing a defensive-first mindset to transition from G League standout to a permanent NBA roster spot.

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Jul 17 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
JPMorgan expands EMEA corporate banking business in latest push on regional rivals

By Lawrence White LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - JPMorgan has launched an expansion of its corporate banking business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as it seeks to grow income and claim market share from regional and domestic lenders, James Roddy, ...

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Jul 15 • 5:46 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
US small-business sentiment rebounds in June, inflation a major worry for many

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. small-business sentiment increased in June, but the share of owners reporting that inflation was their "single most important" problem was the highest in nearly two years, and more said they had raised average selli...

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Jul 14 • 6:08 AM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
Google Pixel 11 devices to have the first 2nm smartphone SoC, new modem

The Tensor G6 is expected to leapfrog the competition in one very specific metric and probably not much more. According to a new report from China,...

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Jul 13 • 10:30 AM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com
MyFlyYatra is expanding its business class flight travel to Australia, Africa, Japan, Europe, Dubai by introducing enhanced coverage for global destinations as part of its ongoing growth strategy.

MyFlyYatra announces expanded business class flight booking options from the United States to Australia, Africa, Japan, Europe and Dubai.Germant...

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Jul 13 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Why new BBC series Evolution is a giant leap forward for science on TV

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it

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Jul 11 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • ft.com
Nevada sees drop in health insurance marketplace enrollment as subsidies lapse

Higher premiums are causing thousands of Nevadans to drop their Affordable Care Act coverage, raising concerns about healthcare affordability.

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Jul 10 • 10:00 PM EDT • Health • thenevadaindependent.com
Gov. Whitmer announces Michigan ranked #6 in best states for doing business

LANSING – On Thursday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer celebrated Michigan’s No. 6 ranking from CNBC’s America’s Top States for Business, earning a Top 10 ranking for a fifth time under Governor Whitmer’s leadership and representing a massive leap from No. 24 at the start of her administration in 2019. “Michigan is a place where everyone can […]

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Jul 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • thealpenanews.com