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Author Sara Nović talks 2026 Seattle Reads book ‘True Biz’

We spoke with Sara Nović about why she’s excited to connect with Seattle readers, the origin story behind her book, “True Biz,” and more.

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Sep 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
George W. Bush’s new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

The release will coincide with an exhibition at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

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Sep 16 • 12:40 PM EDT • Politics • courant.com
Suwanee Fest returns this weekend with storybook theme

A longtime Suwanee tradition is getting a storybook twist this fall as the city prepares for the return of Suwanee Fest on Sept. 19 and 20 at Town Center Park.

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Sep 16 • 12:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • gwinnettdailypost.com
South Africa's President Booked off From Public Engagements Over Ill Health

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - South African ⁠President ⁠Cyril Ramaphosa has been ⁠booked off from public engagements due to ill health on the advice of his medical team, his ‌office said on Wednesday. • ‌Ramaphosa, 73, returned to South Africa on Monday ⁠after ⁠attending the BRICS leaders'

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Sep 16 • 12:07 PM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Marwan Kabalan, Qatar’s Foreign Policy: Geography, Politics and Strategy since 1971.

Qatar has undergone a period of deep introspection over the past few months. On July 12, 2026, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani—the visionary former leader who helped transform modern Qatar into a regional and global powerhouse during his 18-year reign—passed away at the age of 74. Sheikh Hamad’s death came just six weeks after that of his lifelong friend […]

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Sep 16 • 12:05 PM EDT • Politics • arabcenterdc.org
Kaiser Permanente leads the nation in top-rated health plans

/PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente continues to provide some of the highest-rated health care in the nation. In the 2026 National Committee for Quality...

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Sep 16 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Here's Why a New Apple Watch Charging Puck Was Just Released

The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 have hardware changes that allow for faster charging, but you will need to use the new version of the Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger included in the box in order to achieve this boost. If you need extra ones for your own charging stands or travel or so forth, Apple released the new version of the charger on its online store last week, with U.S. pricing set at $29.

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Sep 16 • 11:53 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Amazon increases wages, offers new Whole Foods discounts

Amazon boosts minimum wage to $20 for core workers, introduces 20% Whole Foods discount, enhancing staff benefits and grocery affordability.

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Sep 16 • 11:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
New Liverpool ENT office to boost appointment access and cut waits at St. Joseph's Health

St. Joseph's Health cut the ribbon on its new Ear, Nose & Throat office at the Liverpool North Medical Center on Wednesday.

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Sep 16 • 11:23 AM EDT • Health • cnycentral.com
Outcome of suit against Department of Labor could boost skimpy employer health plans

The Trump administration has been sharply focused on expanding access to alternative coverage.

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Sep 16 • 11:17 AM EDT • Health • miamiherald.com
Crooked Letter Sports: A Magnolia Bowl for the Ages

CBS National College Football Writer John Talty joins the podcast to talk about this week’s LSU - Ole Miss game and his latest book, in which he profiles LSU

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Sep 16 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • mississippitoday.org
Meta is changing Instagram and Facebook to protect teens’ mental health. Are the new measures backed up by science?

Meta has been forced to roll out new measures, but many can be easily circumvented.

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Sep 16 • 10:44 AM EDT • Health • theconversation.com
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Downtown Boone restaurant says new traffic pattern cut business nearly 28%

BOONE — The owners of fizz Ed, a restaurant at the corner of Howard and Depot streets in downtown Boone, said a permanent shift in traffic patterns on Howard Street

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Sep 16 • 10:35 AM EDT • Business • wataugademocrat.com
'You feel it' - Szoboszlai on stunner against Spurs

Liverpool midfielder Dominic Szoboszlai says "everything was perfect" for his stunning strike in Tuesday's Carabao Cup win over Tottenham. Szoboszlai scored the third in stoppage time in the 3-1 win by smashing a bouncing ball into the top right corner from around 35 yards out. It was a morale-boosting win for Andoni Iraola's side, who were blunt in Saturday's 0-0 home draw with Fulham.

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Sep 16 • 10:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Witney Carson calls out “Dancing With the Stars ”judges for partner Guillermo Rodriguez’s low scores: ‘Lame’

The crowd booed Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli during Tuesday’s live show.

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Sep 16 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Like to drink outdoors? Where Sacramento will put new ‘entertainment zones’

Sacramento doubles entertainment zones, allowing public drinking at events in areas like K Street, Oak Park Triangle and the Arena to boost local business sales.

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Sep 16 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • sacbee.com
Xbox's Fable reboot was allowed a 10-year development because the RPG series is "vital to the DNA of the platform", developer Playground Games says

Fable survived its long development cycle because people inside Xbox think highly of the franchise.

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Sep 16 • 9:57 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Fresh Googlebook leak offers an early glimpse at Acer, ASUS, and Lenovo models

Leaked renders reveal upcoming Googlebooks from Acer, ASUS, and Lenovo featuring slim builds, a bunch of ports, and a retro Glowbar accent.

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Sep 16 • 9:44 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' trailer teases a treat for book fans

Haymitch Abernathy's story comes to life in the latest "Hunger Games" film.

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Sep 16 • 9:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
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Federal charges in Texas are part of broader Trump focus on noncitizen voting

Seven people in Texas who are not U.S. citizens have been charged with illegally voting in federal elections or falsely claiming citizenship.

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Sep 16 • 9:33 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Grizzlies Select Potential Star Wing In Latest 2027 Mock Draft

Memphis is projected to land BYU wing Bruce Branch III with the No. 8 pick, giving Cameron Boozer another high-upside piece to grow with.

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Sep 16 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Psynergy Health Listed in the CMS ACCESS Participant Directory on Medicare.gov at Launch

/PRNewswire/ -- Psynergy Health, the AI-native clinical services arm of Andor Health, is listed in the CMS ACCESS Participant Directory that the Centers for...

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Sep 16 • 9:30 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Anixa Biosciences Appoints UPenn's Dr. Carmen Guerra to Cancer Business Advisory Board

/PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. ("Anixa" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer,...

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Sep 16 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Former bookkeeper for Bristol business pleads guilty to wire fraud and mail fraud: DOJ

A former bookkeeper for a Bristol, Virginia-based business pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal wire fraud and mail fraud charges after prosecutors said she stole

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Sep 16 • 9:12 AM EDT • Business • wcyb.com
George W. Bush's new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March that features portraits of political prisoners and dissidents.

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Sep 16 • 9:03 AM EDT • Politics • wral.com
George W. Bush's new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March.

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
George W. Bush's new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March | KNSS Radio

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
George W. Bush's new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March.

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
Health Foundation of South Florida Invests $225,000 to Establish Overtown Youth Center as a Community Health Access Hub

/PRNewswire/ -- The Health Foundation of South Florida today announced a $225,000 investment over three years to support the Overtown Youth Center (OYC) as it...

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Survey: 54% of Small- to Mid-Sized Businesses Report Double-Digit Health Plan Premium Increases for 2027

/PRNewswire/ -- eHealth (Nasdaq: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, today published new original research showing that over half of...

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Seoul National University of Science and Technology Researchers Develop a Reliable AI System for SSD Failure Prediction

/PRNewswire/ -- Solid-state drives (SSDs), which store data in computers and servers, are critical to data center reliability. SSD failures can cause service...

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Sep 16 • 8:41 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Trump taking notes from India? US$5,000 cash pitch draws ‘freebie’ comparisons

Indian politicians and commentators accuse the US president of mimicking South Asia’s election playbook to woo voters ahead of the midterms.

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Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • scmp.com
Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

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Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • gavi.org
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Names LG Electronics USA Official TV and Display Partner for Brand-New Capital One Arena

/PRNewswire/ -- Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) today announced a new long-term partnership naming LG Electronics USA the Official TV, Commercial...

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Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
EU membership bid gives boost to Moldova’s fledgling R&D landscape

Moldova’s push to join the EU is having the spillover effect of helping to improve the country’s R&D landscape, which in recent years has suffered from fragmentation, decreasing personnel and a lack of research infrastructure.The country became an EU candidate country in 2022, alongside Ukraine, and officially began accession negotiations in 2024. With a pro-EU government, Moldova has been actively carrying out reforms to align with EU standards. This has helped accelerate the development of R&D, said Igor Chiosa, acting head of the Research and Innovation Policy Directorate at Moldova’s Ministry of Education and Research. “Our R&D landscape is moving up, and we are more and more involved in the European Research Area,” he said. “The support we receive from the EU is very important, not only financially, but also because of incentives, consultation and capacity building.”The R&D landscape in the former Soviet republic is still relatively underdeveloped, despite attempts at improvement going back to a 2004 law on science and innovation and later reforms in 2017 and 2018. But the system remains in a “precarious situation” and “in the process of contraction,” according to an assessment carried out by the government for the current National Programme for Research and Innovation, which runs from 2024 to 2027. The analysis highlights in particular the declining number of researchers and PhDs, which has been continuously falling, as well as limited research funding. This is around 10 times lower than the EU average and “insufficient to maintain a level of research activity that supports higher education and meets the needs of the economy.” The mechanisms for allocating research funds are also described as inefficient, as well as the general fragmentation of the landscape, with research and innovation activities being carried out in 67 different places. The lack of strategic vision for research infrastructure is also noted. The strategy sets out to address these issues and is being fuelled by reforms linked to EU accession. Moldova now has a regulation on open science and gender equality. There is also a new support mechanism for technology transfer offices and a business-academia roadmap. In 2025, the country also became the first Eastern Partnership country to approve a Smart Specialisation strategy, which will coordinate its R&D efforts to focus on strengths, within a European context. “We’ve done a lot in terms of normative acts,” Chiosa said. Horizon Europe successMoldova is also seeing more success in the EU’s flagship R&D programme, Horizon Europe. The country has now won nearly €15 million in funding, already double the amount won under the previous programme, Horizon 2020, and more than the €10 million target set by the government. Chiosa said the priority has shifted now to winning more research-centred projects, rather than those related to support and capacity. Moldova is also targeting further involvement in large European projects. Last year, it joined the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking giving Moldovans access to Europe's supercomputing network. The country is also a member of Danubius-RI, a European research infrastructure focused on river and sea research. Despite these efforts, Moldova’s research capacity is still shackled by its limited R&D budget, which equates to 0.23% of its GDP. This is around half of what its neighbour Romania spends, which is the lowest in the EU. According to Chiosa, the research budget is increasing year-on-year, jumping by €6.34 million between 2024 and 2025. But this doesn’t show up when looking at it as a proportion of GDP. “Of course, it’s difficult,” he said. “That is why we are putting more emphasis on collaboration between business and academia, as well as participation in Horizon Europe, to try to diversify our sources of funding.”A World Bank loan of €30 million, plus a grant of €7.8 million, was agreed in 2025 to support the modernisation of Moldova’s universities. As part of this, a call was launched this year to provide universities grants of up to €900,000 to develop their research infrastructure. Moldova is also collaborating closely with Romania, with which it shares a common language, funding 100 joint projects in 2023 and 2024. This support has been instrumental. “They are helping with sharing their expertise, inviting us into consortia, and lots more,” Chiosa said. Looking forward, Moldova is eagerly anticipating joining the EU. “We are looking closely at what the EU is doing and will shape our future national programme in research innovation accordingly.”EU accession “blocked at a technical level”Moldova is aiming to join the EU by 2028, but despite its swift and eager efforts to meet the accession criteria, there remain obstacles outside of the country’s control. For a country to join the EU, it must have certain legislation in place and meet specific standards in various areas. This is categorised into six thematic clusters containing 33 chapters. Moldova and the EU have so far opened two of the clusters, numbers one and six. The first covers fundamental laws, such as the judiciary, security and financial legislation. The sixth covers external relations. The remaining four clusters are still unopened. This includes the third cluster, on competitiveness and growth, which contains the chapter on science and research.Related articlesQ&A: Albania’s ambition to become a ‘moderate innovator’Data corner: Horizon success rates are droppingThe European Commission has confirmed that these clusters are ready to be opened, with an official saying that the Commission is encouraging EU governments, who have the final say, to move forward on the matter. However, both clusters two and three remain blocked by the EU Council’s working party on enlargement and countries negotiating accession to the EU, a different official, representing the Council, confirmed.This working party is set to meet several times in the coming weeks, with a Council meeting scheduled for mid-October in which enlargement, and Moldova’s bid, will be discussed. But there is no certainty that these talks will lead to progress. According to the Council source, it is “completely impossible to foresee if and when the file will be unblocked,” citing the sensitivity of the matter. Moldova’s situation is particularly complicated. One factor is that it borders Ukraine and is increasingly embroiled in Russia’s war, with drone incursions occurring more often on its territory. Another is Transnistria, a Russian-backed breakaway state that lies within the territory of Moldova. It is unclear how the EU would be able to accept Moldova into the bloc while this situation remains unchanged. While there is no direct reason to delay opening cluster three with Moldova, as it covers matters unrelated to security, it could be that the EU is reluctant to speed through accession negotiations without first resolving broader, geopolitical issues.Chiosa is confident that, if and when the chapter on science and research is opened, Moldova will be able to finalise it quickly. It doesn’t require any legislative changes and is only a matter of proving certain standards, which Chiosa believes Moldova is well prepared to do. “We hope that chapter 25 on science and research will be one of the first chapters opened and closed,” he said.

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Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Names LG Electronics USA Official TV and Display Partner for Brand-New Capital One Arena

/PRNewswire/ -- Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) today announced a new long-term partnership naming LG Electronics USA the Official TV, Commercial...

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Grindr leans into IRL marketing to boost social reach

Grindr is leaning into experiential marketing to boost reach on social and calm nervy advertisers.

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Truth and Politics in the Age of Post-Truth

Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid subscriber, or make a donation, to support our work. Subscribe This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. The term post-truth is by now so ubiquitous in describing the state of politics in the Western world and even beyond that the most pressing issue of the day appears to be about making democracy work in the era of post-truth rather than questioning the normalisation of the term itself in the first place. The critical turning point appeared to have occurred in 2016 when the term was chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘The Word of the Year.’ On its website, the Dictionary notes the transformation of post-truth from ‘being a peripheral term to being a mainstay in political commentary and connects ‘the spike in frequency’ directly with the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald J. Trump in the United States – both occurring in 2016. Paired with the noun ‘politics,’ post-truth is defined as an adjective ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’ The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term to a 1992 essay in The Nation by the playwright Steve Tesich as he reflected on the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal and the 1990–91 Gulf War: We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams. All the dictators up to now have had to work hard at suppressing the truth. We, by our actions, are saying that this is no longer necessary, that we have acquired a spiritual mechanism that can denude truth of any significance. In a very fundamental way we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world (Tesich 1992, 13; emphasis added). He then continued, The Gulf War is over but the war at home goes on. The gulf between rich and destitute widens – between those of us who live in a modern post-industrial nation and those of us who live in the Third World countries of our inner cities. The present administration’s response to this internal crisis has shifted from benign to malignant neglect. The current levels of misery and decomposition of our cities and the economic gulags of our ghettos are acceptable. Since there is only so much hope to go around, there is a freeze on hope. The have-nots have now been reclassified as never-will-haves (Tesich 1992, 13). In the context of Tesich’s essay, truth includes both facts, as in what happens, and ‘moral absolutes,’ as in the ‘self-evident truths mentioned in our Constitution’ (Tesich 1992, 14). Together, these two notions of truth entail the obligation to both act and react. The two passages cited above show that even in the early post-Cold War years, Tesich was already deeply concerned that the American people are neither prepared to act on truth nor react to truth that is disconcerting, or what he calls ‘bad news’ (Tesich 1992, 12). Accordingly, Tesich’s insight as captured by the term post-truth is not that truth is irrelevant to what we know, but rather it is irrelevant to how we act. In contrast, ‘post-truth politics,’ as defined by Oxford as a term that pitches ‘objective facts’ against ‘emotion and personal belief’ such that the latter appears to have overtaken the former in shaping ‘public opinion’ and thereby, democratic politics. When Tesich’s post-truth politics and its current usage are juxtaposed, the two are in fact not identical in terms of what truth is and how it relates to politics. Against such consideration, this chapter provides a critical survey of selected historical events and theoretical considerations for the purpose of gaining a more nuanced understanding of the relation between truth and politics. Truth and Language One notable impact of post-truth politics is that language is being overtly deployed as a political weapon not only by politicians and those in power, but among the general population. It seems that once facts are irrelevant to the validity of what is being said, language becomes the platform for an all-out political contest in which what is said is no more than an act of will expressed as an assertion of power and/or an exercise in defiance. As early as in the writings of Thucydides (460–400 BCE), the vulnerability of logos – which is the human capacity for rational discourse in tumultuous times – was already noted. Thucydides belonged to a school of Greek thought which maintained that language is conventional and that the association between name and things is a result of ‘human use and habit’ rather than ‘nature or divine dispensation’ (Connor 1984, 99). The conventional nature of language means that it is incapable of providing its users with any independent criteria for judgement. In Thucydides’ study of the Peloponnesian War (431–405 BCE), the subversion of logos as seen in the manipulation of language was introduced through his account of the civil war in Corcyra (Thucydides 1972, 236-245). The war first broke out in 427 BCE between the pro-Athenian democratic faction and the pro-Spartan oligarchic faction before it spread to the rest of the Greek world. There was a general breakdown of law and order, resulting in extreme violence and death. Language underwent changes that were reflective of the events of the time. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) translated Thucydides’ description of the situation as follows: The received value of names imposed for signification of things, was changed into arbitrary. For inconsiderate boldness, was counted true-hearted manliness: provident deliberation, a handsome fear: modesty, the cloak of cowardice: to be wise in everything, to be lazy in everything... he that had been so provident as not to need to do the one or the other, was said to be a dissolver of society, and one that stood in fear of his adversary. In brief, he that could outstrip another in the doing of an evil act, or that could persuade another thereto that never meant it, was commended (Hobbes 1839–1845, 8: 348; Thucydides 1972, 242-243). What concerned Thucydides most was that the meanings of words are no more than linguistic conventions that require logos to support them. The Corcyrean civil war was a reminder that such capacity cannot be assumed. This is why history understood as an authentic account of what happens matters. Guided by logos, the historian’s task is ‘the search after truth’, which is established through ‘the absence of the fabulous,’ including ‘the rejection of myth and unverifiable stories’ (de Jonge 2017, 2). Thus, history plays an important role in facilitating the stability of language – without which distinctions and judgements cannot be rendered communicable. Just like Thucydides, Hobbes was a nominalist who subscribed to the view that there is no inherent meaning to words. Hobbes’ state of nature, where there is no common authority, is precisely one in which distinctions cannot be made. As Hobbes put it, there is ‘no Mine and Thine distinct’ nor is there distinction between ‘the notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice’ (1968, 188; emphasis in original). This is clearly an unsustainable condition for everyone. Behind Hobbes’ famous words that life in the state of nature is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ is his uncompromising argument for the ‘Leviathan’, which is described by the late American political theorist, Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015), as the ‘sovereign definer’ (Hobbes 1968, 186; Wolin 2004, 238–243). Accordingly, the social contract is importantly a ‘linguistic contract’ that binds all parties to ‘general names agreed upon’ (Peters 1979, 125; Hobbes 1968, 111). Through Thucydides and Hobbes, we can identify a line of thinking that sees politics as a contestation over the use of language, which is based on shared conventions and norms. Thus understood, politics is not a collective quest for the true nature of our being or an epistemological exercise in pursuit of true knowledge. Rather, politics is about humans living with one another by finding a shared language to communicate with one another on matters that affect them all. Truth is in that sense contingent on what is being said as opposed to setting the standard for it. In other words, truth is the embodiment of shareability among us. While truth as such ensures the viability of a political entity, truth by no means represents a normative standard to adjudicate among contesting actors in what they say, let alone in what they do. During Thucydides’ times, ancient China was also experiencing a tumultuous time as the ruling Zhou dynasty deteriorated into the period of the Warring States (481–221 BCE). This was when the rulers of Zhou no longer presided over the territories brought under its control through conquest. Instead of professing allegiance to the Zhou royalty, the lords of these territories became kings themselves to rule over their own land. The period was one marked by endless military campaigns as each of the seven major states aimed to conquer the rest (Lewis 1999). Yet, the period was also known for its intellectual vibrancy as different thinkers challenged the restoring of order among these warring states – including offering ideas and advice to rulers on good governance. Among these thinkers was Confucius (551–479 BCE). His thought, which came to be known as Confucianism, went on to become the state ideology of China from the Han dynasty (206 BCE–222 CE) until the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 when China became a republic. The founding text of Confucianism was the Analects, which is a collection of dialogues between Confucius and his students as recorded by them. One key concept Confucius advanced is the ‘rectification of names’. Though the term only appears in one exchange in the Analects, it is considered a major aspect of Confucius’ thought. Generations of Confucian scholars from past and present, including Western academics, have debated over its interpretation (Makeham 2003). The passage in question reads as follows: Zi Lu said: ‘The monarch of the state of Wei wants you to govern the country, what is the first thing you plan on doing?’ Confucius said: ‘First it is necessary to rectify the names.’Zi Lu said: ‘Is that really what has to be done? You are being too pedantic, aren’t you now? How will you rectify these names?’Confucius said: ‘Zhong You, you are too unrefined. A gentleman, faced with a matter that he does not understand, takes a skeptical attitude. If names are not correct, one cannot speak smoothly and reasonably, and if one cannot speak smoothly and reasonably, affairs cannot be managed successfully. If affairs cannot be managed successfully, rites and music will not be conducted. If rites and music are not conducted, punishments will not be suitable. And if punishments are not suitable, the common people will not know what to do. So, when the gentleman uses names, it is necessary to be able to speak so that people understand. If one can say it, one can definitely do it. A gentleman should not be careless with words’ (Analects 13:3 in Cao 2016, 148). This translation is offered by the contemporary philosopher Cao Feng. As Cao notes, the passage is what started the whole debate over ‘exactly what kind of names did Confucius... wish to rectify’ (Cao 2016, 148). Of the three major groups of interpretation examined by Cao, beginning with classical Confucian scholarship, one is arguably the most influential and certainly most pertinent to the issue of language and politics. This is the interpretation that was first associated with the Neo-Confucian master, Zhu Xi (1130–1200), who argued that the ‘rectification of names is simply the rectification of politics’ (Cao 2016, 149). Within this interpretive framework, rectification has the dual functions of correction and prescription by ensuring that predetermined hierarchical roles are strictly adhered to through following ‘the system of rites and propriety’ (Cao 2016, 151). In addition, the rectification of names entails ‘using names to rectify actuality’ (Cao 2016, 151). Yet Cao rejects this whole body of interpretive works by arguing that these were ideas developed later. Instead, Cao suggests the following: The original meaning of Confucius’ rectification of names may, then, be quite simple. Confucius did not mean to establish a concrete, normative system of “names”; rather, Confucius was simply the first person in history to realize or remark upon the importance of language in politics. As a politician, he noticed and foresaw the impact that the indeterminacy, ambiguity, and arbitrariness of names would have on politics. Confucius recognized the political consequences of language’s not accurately expressing meaning or not being accurately received by people. He realized the great role that names, as a means of distinguishing right and wrong and establishing norms, could play in society and politics (Cao 2016, 168). Scholarly debates aside, Cao’s view has the advantage of identifying an interpretation of this controversial exchange in the Analects that enables its readers to extrapolate from it the observation that the meaning of words depends as much on their users as on their interpreters; neither of which can be predetermined. Accordingly, a good ruler is someone who can speak without ambiguity to his subjects and make good his words through actions. Stated differently, Cao’s view on what concerned Confucius then, who was living through times of protracted political upheaval, is that language is an indispensable political tool for those in power and can be deployed by both good and bad rulers alike. To sum up, this historical survey shows that politics as a war of words is by no means a distinctive marker of contemporary politics nor the Western world. Be it ancient or current, east or west, language is subject to manipulation to serve political purposes and when there is an outright war of words that defies existing norms, it is indicative of a political situation in which people no longer share a language and truth becomes irrelevant. Accordingly, political order entails stability in language use. Truth and Politics As previously noted, current use of the term post-truth as an adjective to the term ‘politics’ suggests that once there was a time when politics aligned with truth. Indeed, if we start with Plato’s Republic as the key founding text of Western political thought, we see that the ideal polis (city-state of ancient Greece) is where truth and politics converge, and justice is achieved. Written around 380 BCE when Athens was still coping with its defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, the Republic is a defence of the rule of the ‘philosopher king’, defined as someone who is ‘guided by the truth’ and is ‘always and in every way’ in pursuit of the truth (Plato 1974, 490a). For Plato, truth converges with virtues and hence, letting the philosopher take charge of politics is to let the wisest and the most virtuous lead the less wise and the less virtuous even if it requires compulsion (Plato 1974, 499b). In Plato’s words, ‘…until the philosophers attain power in a city there will be no respite from evil for either city or citizens…’ (Plato 1974, 501e). The uncompromising rule of philosopher-kings is made palatable by the claim that we are all ‘earth- born brothers’ with random mixtures of gold, silver, bronze and iron, but only the gold can rule (Plato 1974, 414–415). Understandably, academic debates over the interpretation of Plato’s Republic revolve around the question of whether truth as attained in philosophy can be realised in politics as action and whether such a connection is even desirable. Without getting into the details of these scholarly exchanges, I suggest that they all share the concern that truth acquired through the rigorous process of philosophical reasoning is not without problem when applied to the real world of living humans. This is because not all humans are philosophers – and indeed, in Plato’s view, not everyone is capable of becoming a philosopher given the protracted and arduous training that one needs to endure to become one. Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a highly influential political philosopher of the twentieth century, notes that ‘Plato was the first to introduce the division between those who know and do not act and those who act and do not know’ and that such a separation has remained ‘at the root of all theories of domination’ (Arendt 1958, 223, 225). What Arendt points out in this remark is not the gap between theory and practice, but rather that Plato provides the normative ground for those who know the truth to tell those who do not know what to do. Arendt herself took on the challenge of understanding the relationship between truth and politics through her analysis of Nazism and Stalinism. Arendt’s insight, which was controversial when The Origins of Totalitarianism was published in 1951, was to identify Nazism and Stalinism as representative of a new form of political rule – totalitarianism – making it distinct from ‘other forms of political oppression... such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship’ (Arendt 1973, 460). Arendt defines totalitarianism as a self- contained system of ideas driven by their ‘logic’ and marked by a mode of reasoning called ‘ideological thinking.’ Ideological thinking as such is a distinctive form of political reasoning defined by three characteristics. First, ideological thinking claims to provide a ‘total explanation’ of all historical happenings, encompassing the past, the present, and the future. Second, while ideological thinking is an attempt to account for ‘factual reality’ in its totality, this mode of thinking is paradoxically divorced from reality and experience. This is because experience, being rooted in specificity, is clearly limited in its claim to totality. It follows that as its third characteristic, ideological thinking aims to emancipate thought from the limitation imposed by experience through a ‘specific method of demonstration.’ The method involves arranging facts into an ‘absolutely logical procedure’ that starts from an ‘axiomatically accepted premise’. It is, in short, a ‘process of deduction from a premise’ – which is the only possible movement in the realm of logic that leads to one definitive conclusion. This is how the ‘logicality of ideological thinking’ provides the basis for total explanation and the ‘principle of action’ for totalitarian movement (Arendt 1973, 468–474). Stated differently, totalitarianism is a form of uncompromising idealism that exists in one’s head irrespective of shared reality as experienced. It is the perverse form of what Arendt later refers to as ‘rational truth’, which is the product of the ‘speculative mind’ that belongs to philosophy, mathematics and the sciences. The ‘speculative mind’ is the mind working on its way to generate axioms and theories by relying on the cognitive capacity of the human brain (Arendt 1977, 231). The presence of others has no bearing whatsoever on rational truth. In contrast, ‘factual truth’ is what happens when humans are ‘living and acting together’ (Arendt 1977, 231). Factual truth is therefore particular and temporal by definition. But more importantly, factual truth is ‘political by nature’ because it can only be validated in the context of the human community (Arendt 1977, 238). In other words, factual truth is about humans in their plurality rather than in their singularity. For factual truth to be sustainable, we need what Arendt calls ‘common sense’ – understood as ‘community sense’ (Arendt 1982, 72). There is also another distinction about truth that Arendt makes which is pertinent to understanding how totalitarianism works. The issue is whether the so-called totalitarian ideology is simply an unnecessarily cumbersome way of saying that it is an all-round and polished lie. Here, Arendt calls totalitarian ideology the ‘modern lie’ – in contrast to the ‘traditional lie’. The latter is restricted by two conditions: that it is a lie about the ‘particulars’ and that it deceives only the ‘enemy’ – which means that the liar is not engaged in self- deception. The modern lie, however, involves a ‘complete rearrangement of the whole factual texture’. It also intends to deceive everyone alike, to the extent that those who initiate the lie eventually ‘fall victims to their own falsehood’ (Arendt 1977, 249–254). This distinction between the traditional and modern lie is important. It indicates that not only is totalitarianism a lie, but the lie is in fact too big to fit into the standard meaning of the word. To tell a lie from truth, we need a common standard. In the case of a traditional lie, the common standard is precisely ‘the fabric of factuality’. As such, a lie always appears as a ‘tear’ to that fabric. Yet, modern lies require making a surrogate reality with a completely different context for facts to fit ‘without seam, crack, or fissure, exactly as the facts fitted into their original context’. Arendt notes that as long as those who concoct the surrogate reality are prepared to engage in self- deception to ‘create a semblance of truthfulness’, there is nothing to prevent ‘these new stories, images, and non-facts from becoming an adequate substitute for reality and factuality’ (Arendt 1977, 253–254). Totalitarianism therefore requires a person to stand outside of the system itself in order to make sense of it. Arendt points out that it is futile for us to argue with (for example) a Nazi or a Stalinist on race or class. To confront totalitarianism requires more than just a confrontation with specific facts. It is a more fundamental confrontation between reality as experienced and its total rejection. This means that Nazism and Stalinism are more than radical ways of conducting racial conflict or class struggle. Rather: Totalitarian politics – far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist – use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their propaganda value– the value of struggle, for instance, or the interest conflicts between Jews and their neighbours – have all but disappeared (Arendt 1973, xv). Accordingly: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (that is, the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (that is, the standards of thought) no longer exist (Arendt 1973, 474). Who then is the ‘ideal subject’ of totalitarianism? Although there is a revival of interest in Arendt’s observation on truth and politics since the onset of post- truth politics, not enough has been said about her reply to the question (Hyvönen 2018; Klinkler 2018; Lee 2019; Zerilli 2020). Yet if we take a look at Arendt’s portrait of this ideal subject, her view is even more pertinent to our current challenge. As a self-contained system of ideas that is detached from experience, totalitarian thinking offers consistency in ways that reality cannot. Arendt notes that this kind of consistency is especially appealing to those who have lost a sense of bearing in the world (Arendt 1973, 353). They constitute what she calls the ‘masses’. The ‘mass man’ is thus a highly isolated and atomised individual, who is ‘obsessed by a desire to escape from reality’ (Arendt 1973, 318, 352). In his ‘essential homelessness’ the mass man can ‘no longer bear its accidental, incomprehensible aspects’ (Arendt 1973, 352). This longing for escape from reality is a ‘verdict against the world’ in which one is ‘forced to live’ but ‘cannot exist’ (Arendt 1973, 352). Such a situation is ripe for the ‘revolt of the masses’ against ‘common sense,’ which is ‘the result of their atomisation, of their loss of social status’ and with it, the ‘whole sector of communal relationships in whose framework common sense makes sense’ (Arendt 1973, 352). In short, the masses are people who are considered to be ‘superfluous or can be spared … [who] cannot be integrated into any organisation based on common interest’ (Arendt 1973, 311). Whether one agrees with Arendt’s analysis of the social conditions in the interwar years that led to the formation of the ‘masses’, her portrait of the ‘mass man’ is a powerful account of what can happen to an individual who has become disposable to the society that they used to belong to. Hand in hand with this phenomenon is indeed the collapse of ‘common sense’ that leaves the dislodged individual scrambling for reconnection. By offering the masses a substitute reality validated by the ‘logic of an idea’ rather than by experience, totalitarianism makes it possible for them to live in a world where there is no condition of plurality. Between ‘facing the anarchic growth and total arbitrariness of decay’ and ‘bowing down before the most rigid, fantastically fictitious consistency of an ideology’, the masses will likely ‘choose the latter’ (Arendt 1973, 352). A world created by ideology, then, is more attractive to the masses not because ‘they are stupid and wicked, but because in the general disaster this escape grants them a minimum of self- respect’ by conjuring up ‘a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself’ (Arendt 1973, 353). Moreover, it is precisely this ability to guarantee consistency that makes it possible for the leaders of totalitarian movements to demand ‘total, unrestricted, unconditional and unalterable loyalty of the individual member’ (Arendt 1973, 323). While this chapter is not a study of the social factors that led to specific contemporary developments such as the result of the Brexit referendum or the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Arendt’s ‘mass man’ seem to have found their counterparts among the supporters of Brexit and Trumpism. Studies of voters’ profiles in both events point to a disproportionate share of supporters from white male lower income backgrounds without university educations. These are individuals who have either already lost their jobs to globalisation or who are at high risk of losing their job with very little capacity to be retrained for the twenty-first century market economy of advanced industrialised states (BBC 2016; Pew Research Center 2018). In short, these displaced workers are part of the tapestry forming the modern equivalent of Arendt’s ‘mass man’ – ready to be the recruits of totalitarianism. Conclusion If we step back to take a more comprehensive approach to the relationship between truth and politics, both historically and theoretically, it is not so obvious that 2016 is a defining moment. From ancient China and ancient Greece to our so-called post-truth age, the indeterminacy of language appears to be a persistent political challenge. Language is always open to manipulation by its users to serve power. Nonetheless, the tendency these days is to single out the ubiquity of social media and the proliferation of Internet platforms as the incubator for the countless cyberwars of words that in turn fuel the real world of politics. In this context, language is no longer the conveyor of objective facts and accurate information, but rather the medium for expressing subjective opinions and feelings, as captured by the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of the term ‘post-truth politics’. In contrast, the historical approach used in this chapter shows that it is in fact too easy to point the figure at the Internet and digital communication for the political challenge that we face today. What is being suggested here is that with or without the Internet, language, be it used to convey facts or emotions, is simply a tool for communication that humans have invented. While language per se cannot adjudicate what is true or not true, what is right or wrong, it embodies such capacity when language is a shared norm. That shared norm cannot be sustained without some semblance of cohesion in any given community. Any war of words, irrespective of its platform, is indicative of the breakdown of such cohesiveness. Returning to the original context in which the term post-truth politics was first used by Steve Tesich helps to identify the important distinction between truth as the standard for knowledge and truth as the standard for action. The two do not necessarily coincide. Placed in the context of the history of political thought, this distinction is in fact at the heart of Plato’s Republic. Yet when the philosopher as the quintessential bearer of truth becomes king, the polis that he rules over is far from the ideal of a just state that it purports to be. Instead, it is one that is held together by lies and coercion. What Arendt reveals through her study of Nazism and Stalinism is that it is dangerous for the kind of truth that philosophy generates – ‘rational truth’ – to become the guide to politics. Politics guided by rational truth can only be uncompromising and follows a logic of its own that cannot afford the ambiguity and indeterminacy of reality as lived experiences of humans. A world of post-truth politics can be an opportunity for a new kind of politics if it is indeed about dismantling the idea that truth is the ideal that politics should strive for. But as it stands, the post-truth politics of today is more about invoking a past that never exists to judge the presence as a crisis in naming when the real crisis is about rebuilding a shared space that has room for all – be they of the left, right or centre; cosmopolitan or parochial; civic-minded or self-centred; liberal-minded or bigoted. Politics is and always will be about striving for that space, without which no human can thrive. References Arendt, Hannah. 1958. The Human Condition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Arendt, Hannah. 1973. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Rev. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Arendt, Hannah. 1977. “Truth and Politics.” In Between Past and Future, 227–264. New York: Penguin Books. Arendt, Hannah. 1982. Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, edited by Ronald Beiner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 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UAMS offers on-demand healthcare at XNA

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest Regional Campus said Tuesday (Sept. 15) that it has installed a telehealth booth at Northwest Arkansas National Airport, giving XNA travelers, staff,...

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Sep 15 • 5:55 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Ed Sheeran: Choice to boot Macklemore from tour 'not mine'

Ed Sheeran speaks out about his tour promoter's decision to drop Macklemore from the remaining dates of his Loop tour.

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Sep 15 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Josh Allen earns Russell Wilson MVP endorsement after torching Texans

Week 1 of the NFL season is officially in the books, and Josh Allen is already receiving MVP endorsements . Super Bowl champion quarterback and new CBS NFL analyst Russell Wilson appeared on the Set Hut podcast and shared where he thinks Allen will land in MVP voting. After significant buzz around Josh Allen’s viability as an MVP, he finally won […] The post Josh Allen earns Russell Wilson MVP endorsement after torching Texans appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Sep 15 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Congressional Black Caucus launches effort to boost voting among Black, rural and young voters in midterms

Organizers say they hope to boost turnout and influence closely divided House districts by focusing on voters' best interests.

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Sep 15 • 5:05 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Mark your calendars: A Googlebook 'celebration' is happening next month

Google is reportedly sending out invites for an event where it will debut "the first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence"

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Sep 15 • 5:04 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
ACCESS update: CMS boosts coverage for heart failure technologies

The ACCESS model is designed help more patients get treated and managed with advanced technologies. In addition to heart failure, improved coverage has been announced for Medicare beneficiaries battling COPD, substance use disorders and nicotine dependence.

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Sep 15 • 4:49 PM EDT • Business • cardiovascularbusiness.com
RUTGERS AND RWJBARNABAS HEALTH TO LAUNCH INNOVATION HUB, POWERED BY AMAZON WEB SERVICES

/PRNewswire/ -- Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health today announced the launch of the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub, powered by Amazon Web...

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Sep 15 • 4:45 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
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‘Live Laugh Love’ Untangles the Politics of White Christian Women

In a new book, ‘Jesus and John Wayne’ author Kristin Kobes Du Mez looks behind the shiplap.

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Sep 15 • 4:22 PM EDT • Politics • sojo.net
Author Emily St. John Mandel discusses new book ‘Exit Party’

Ahead of an event with Seattle Arts & Lectures, the Times sat down with the author to discuss American fragility, post-apocalyptic romance and her ongoing career.

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Sep 15 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Ocean Science Consulting Release Second Edition of Marine Mammal Observer Handbook

Ocean Science Consulting Ltd. (OSC) has announced the official launch of OSC Publishing House, a dedicated publishing division established…

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Sep 15 • 3:56 PM EDT • Science • marinetechnologynews.com
Rockies Notebook: Eight Players Bound for Arizona Fall League

Pitcher Hunter Mann, catcher Jack O'Dowd among Colorado Rockies minor leaguers that will take part in fall baseball in the Valley of the Sun.

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Sep 15 • 3:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RevelAi Health's MSK ACCESS Listed in Medicare's ACCESS Directory

/PRNewswire/ -- MSK ACCESS, powered by RevelAi Health, is now listed in the CMS ACCESS Participant Directory on Medicare.gov. Medicare beneficiaries can learn...

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Sep 15 • 3:06 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Washington State Book Awards 2026 winners announced

Winners of the awards, which celebrate works by Washington state authors published in 2025, were announced Tuesday.

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Sep 15 • 3:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
When worldbuilding impulses merge with real world politics

“Reactionary Worldbuilding,” a book co-edited by comparative literature scholar Anindita Banerjee, explores how speculative fiction and worldbuilding have influenced extremist ideologies and political movements.

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Sep 15 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • news.cornell.edu
Sneaker Politics x Timberland Premium 6-Inch Waterproof Boot Rodeo

Timberland's iconic Premium 6-Inch Waterproof Boot is getting two limited-edition releases with cowboy boot-inspired details from Sneaker Politics.

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Sep 15 • 2:14 PM EDT • Politics • wwd.com
Bobby Seale to reissue 'Seize the Time' and publish new memoir 'I, Bobby'

Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is reissuing his 1970 memoir "Seize the Time" as he approaches his 90th birthday | 830 WCCO

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Sep 15 • 2:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
A 3,700-Year-Old Virus Hiding in a Medieval Book Just Killed 500,000 Animals

Holy manuscripts preserved the genome of a plague that wiped out up to 90% of Europe’s historical sheep herds.

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Sep 15 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Congress set to discuss this once taboo topic in women's health

Congress will talk about vaginal estrogen and hot flashes at its first-ever hearing on menopause Wednesday, Sept. 16.

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Sep 15 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
First M6 benchmarks reveal how much raw power the Mac mini has

The first benchmarks for the M6 Mac mini have emerged. While Moore's Law is in fact dead, the Mac mini is still getting a massive and noticeable boost in processing performance.

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Sep 15 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • appleinsider.com
A Googlebook 'Celebration' Event Is Set For October 5

Preorders start September 21.

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Sep 15 • 1:43 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
"50X50: SCIENCE ACROSS AMERICA" GOES LIVE TODAY, UNITING THE BEST YOUTUBE CREATORS IN THE FIRST-EVER STATE-BY-STATE MEDIA INITIATIVE

/PRNewswire/ -- 50x50: Science Across America, the first-ever nationwide media initiative to spotlight a YouTube creator in every U.S. state, officially...

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Sep 15 • 1:20 PM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Zolli Candy CEO Alina Morse: Business is booming

Zolli Candy founder and CEO Alina Morse joins 'Mornings with FOX Business' to discuss Hershey's expansion into healthier options and the growing market for zero-sugar and dye-free children's sweets.

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Sep 15 • 1:17 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE® UNVEILS SHOW-STOPPING ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP ABOARD NORWEGIAN AURA™ WITH "WHITNEY: A CELEBRATION OF WHITNEY HOUSTON" TAKING CENTER STAGE

- The New Original Production, Developed with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston and Primary Wave Music, Celebrates the Unmistakable Voice, Music and Legacy of...

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Sep 15 • 12:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
Golden 1 Credit Union Expands Business Services Offerings to Support Communities and Economic Opportunity Across California

/PRNewswire/ -- Golden 1 Credit Union (Golden 1) today announced the expansion of its Business Services offerings, with business checking, savings and money...

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Sep 15 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Mercari and Pokemon Target Scalpers By Banning Listings of Sealed...

In partnership with The Pokemon Company, Japanese resale marketplace Mercari has announced a temporary ban on listings of sealed 30th Anniversary

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Sep 15 • 11:52 AM EDT • Technology • pokebeach.com
Lightbeam Health Appoints Thomas McCarrick, MD, MBI, as Chief Medical Officer

/PRNewswire/ -- Lightbeam Health Solutions, a proven AI-enabled solutions and services leader helping healthcare organizations succeed in value-based care,...

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Sep 15 • 11:07 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Viver Health has been named a 2026 Prix Galien Nominee

/PRNewswire/ -- Viver Health has been named a nominee for the 2026 Prix Galien USA Inaugural Patient First Award in Honor of Michael J. Fox for their...

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Sep 15 • 10:44 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Entertainment Industry Unites Behind U.S. Film Production Incentive

Entertainment industry groups launched the U.S. Film & TV Production Coalition to back a federal film production incentive. A new study predicts a big boost in jobs.

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Sep 15 • 10:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
Cosmos Health Adds 5.2 Million Units in New Five-Year Agreements with Target Pharma; Orderbook Surges Past 32.7 Million Units, Up 31% Since June

7 million contracted units added in under two weeks \- Cana Laboratories' orderbook has grown from over 12 million units earlier this year to more than 32.7 million today * Secured orders for 1.

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Sep 15 • 10:30 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Massage therapist accused of sexual assaults at Napa business

(KRON) — A massage therapist in Napa was arrested Sunday following two reports of sexual assaults that allegedly occurred at Herbal Health Massage on back-to-back days, police said. Liangfu Zheng, 50, of Napa, was booked into the Napa County Department of Corrections on suspicion of rape of an unconscious person, sexual battery involving an unconscious […]

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Sep 15 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • kron4.com
Bozeman photographer pitches nonprofit business plan

Bozeman’s building boom means a steady supply of empty walls rising every month. At the same time, some local photographers have plenty of talent, but no easy way to market

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Sep 15 • 9:45 AM EDT • Business • bozemandailychronicle.com
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Pager Health℠ Earns NCQA Wellness & Health Promotion Reaccreditation

/PRNewswire/ -- Pager Health, a leading healthcare navigation and wellness company, today announced it has received its sixth consecutive Wellness & Health...

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Sep 15 • 9:15 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Medallion Acquires Andros to Expand AI-Native Credentialing Across Health Plans and Provider Organizations

/PRNewswire/ -- Medallion, the only AI-assisted credentialing and enrollment platform with expert oversight, today announced it has acquired Andros, an...

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Sep 15 • 9:03 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Bogland explores beautifully strange ecosystems

An ecosystem ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Turetsky evocatively describes the beauty, danger and vitality of these ecosystems in her book, Bogland.

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Sep 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Iris Telehealth Data Reveals 60% of Parents Seek Children's Behavioral Health Information from Pediatricians

/PRNewswire/ -- Iris Telehealth, a leading provider of telepsychiatry and behavioral health solutions for health systems and community organizations, today...

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Sep 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Century Health and Eye Health America to Unlock a Decade of Real-World Data to Advance Chronic Retinal Disease Research

/PRNewswire/ -- Century Health, a pioneer in applying AI to real-world clinical data to accelerate research, and Eye Health America (EHA), a leading integrated...

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Sep 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com