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Georgia lawmakers give businesses a boost in court battles

A year after overhauling court rules to help companies avoid massive jury verdicts, Georgia legislators have made legal battles easier, shorter and cheaper for businesses.

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Jun 30 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • ajc.com
Opinion | Protect the workers who protect our health

Massachusetts lawmakers should pass bipartisan workplace violence reforms before the legislative session ends.

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Jun 30 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
Radiology providers must pay $7M, modify policies after breast cancer miss

Radiologist Henry C. Lusane, MD, with Acumen Medical Imaging, interpreted the scans, reporting the mass as benign, a mistake later leading to a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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Jun 30 • 2:39 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Kristaps Porzingis remains with Warriors on two-year deal

The Golden State Warriors have reached an agreement to retain former NBA champion Kristaps Porzingis.

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Jun 30 • 2:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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KC council wants to crack down on unlicensed businesses that lead to violence

A city law change is being considered weeks after a shooting at an unregistered nightclub.

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Jun 29 • 7:23 PM EDT • Business • kansascity.com
Kristaps Porzingis reportedly reaches 2-year, $40 million extension to return to Warriors

Kristaps Porzingis was only dealt to Golden State ahead of the deadline last season.

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Jun 29 • 6:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kristaps Porzingis will return to Golden State

Kristaps Porzingis will return to Golden State

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Jun 29 • 6:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kristen Hogan joins Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic to practice nephrology

The Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic is excited to welcome Kristen Hogan, an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse practitioner in nephrology.

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Jun 29 • 3:45 PM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org
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This Simple Nightly Ritual Improves Nail Health

A dermatologist explains the benefits of nail oiling, as well as which types work best and how often you should apply them.

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Jun 29 • 3:30 PM EDT • Health • vogue.com
New and updated geographic boundaries in ArcGIS Business Analyst (June 2026)

With the June 2026 data release, there are new U.S. geographic boundaries in ArcGIS Business Analyst, including neighborhoods, ZCTAs, and CSAs.

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Jun 29 • 2:47 PM EDT • Business • esri.com
Minneapolis City Council member Aisha Chughtai taking mental health leave for a month
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Jun 29 • 12:51 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Essentia Health-Cloquet Clinic welcomes Jaycee Hewitt to practice family medicine

Jaycee Hewitt, an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse practitioner in family medicine, is thrilled to join the Essentia Health-Cloquet Clinic.

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Jun 29 • 11:55 AM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org
Business Monday: Aerial Arts Hawaiʻi helps build strength, confidence for aerialists at every skill level

While circus artists don’t always fit the mold, Aerial Arts Hawaiʻi has become a safe space for youth and adults who are ready to take on a challenge.

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Jun 29 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • bigislandnow.com
A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami

Scientists have finally confirmed the origin of the mysterious Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea. New evidence shows that an asteroid about 160 meters wide struck the seabed roughly 43 to 46 million years ago. The impact triggered a tsunami more than 100 meters high and left behind a crater that geologists debated for years.

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Jun 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
How Jude Bellingham SAVED England against Panama

England are through to the World Cup knockout rounds following a 2-0 win over Panama. But after another sluggish start, which looked for a while like it could be a repeat of the Ghana game, Jude Bellingham both scored and assisted to get England through. Adam Clery looks at how, without Declan Rice in the side, Bellingham played every single midfield role to drag Thomas Tuchel's side to a vital win.

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Jun 29 • 5:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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House committee advances radiology-backed legislation to curb prior authorization

The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act seeks to streamline the “often cumbersome and time-consuming” task of approving requests for medical imaging in Medicare Advantage.

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Jun 29 • 2:23 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Queerying neuroscience: How legislation and institutions reframe LGBTQIA+ researchers’ careers

In honor of Pride Month, The Transmitter spoke with three researchers who surveyed hundreds of LGBTQIA+ neuroscientists to better understand how institutional support, harassment and policy intersect to shape their professional trajectories.

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Jun 29 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • thetransmitter.org
Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nature Human Behaviour - Mental health concerns among early-career researchers are increasingly gaining attention. This preregistered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis quantifies...

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Jun 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Efzimfotase alfa demonstrated improvements in bone health in treatment-naïve pediatric patients with hypophosphatasia achieving median difference of 1.67 vs placebo in RGI-C Score at week 25 in MULBERRY Phase III trial

Positive results from the MULBERRY Phase III trial showed that efzimfotase alfa (ALXN1850), an investigational enzyme replacement therapy, demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in bone health in children (2 to

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Jun 28 • 3:45 PM EDT • Health • astrazeneca-us.com
Entertainment Firms Face AI Copyright Uncertainty

Editorial analysis: For AI and ML practitioners, unclear copyright rules raise the legal risk and compliance cost of using generative models in production content pipelines. According to The Economic Times, Indian entertainment firms are investing heavily in AI for content creation, but current copyright law, which is tied to human creativity, may not clearly protect AI-assisted or AI-generated works. The Economic Times reports lawyers warn that, without specific legislation or case law, such works face risks of duplication and misuse, complicating licensing, attribution, and monetization for studios and creators. The article highlights that creators and rights holders in India currently have limited legal recourse under existing statutes, per The Economic Times.

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Jun 28 • 2:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • letsdatascience.com
Yan Diomande chooses PSG as next destination if he leaves RB Leipzig

Diomande registered 12 goals and nine assists for Leipzig, who he only joined last summer from Spanish side Leganes.

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Jun 28 • 2:38 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Office Politics Has A Playbook. Here Is What Psychologists Know.

Office politics is a blood sport and the most talented people keep losing. Psychologists say three traits separate the winners from everyone else.

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Jun 28 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • forbes.com
Science confirms this viral ‘secret’ praise parenting technique is certifiably genius

A mom's viral technique of praising her daughter within earshot has over a million likes, and psychologists say it really works.

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Jun 28 • 12:07 PM EDT • Science • ca.style.yahoo.com
Florence community rallies for local business owner diagnosed with brain tumor, here’s how you can help

The Florence community held a fundraising event for a local business owner who was diagnosed with a brain tumor for the second time.

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Jun 27 • 11:42 PM EDT • Business • wlbt.com
TherapyGo Announces Milestone as AI-Powered Mental Health Platform Expands Access to Licensed Psychologists

BOCA RATON, Fla., June 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United Innovation Solutions LLC today announced a major growth milestone for TherapyGo, its ...

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Jun 27 • 3:06 PM EDT • Health • markets.businessinsider.com
UNC Health Talk: Why do I still get pimples?

Are you asking why you get acne well past puberty? Dermatologist Margaret Coates has the do's and dont's for treating adult acne.

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Jun 27 • 12:56 PM EDT • Health • wral.com
Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (June 18-25)

There were five restaurants and food establishments ordered closed by Orange County inspectors from June 18 to June 25.

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Jun 27 • 11:37 AM EDT • Health • ocregister.com
Don't break the tech tools small businesses use to compete

Forcing companies to split up their integrated services would increase costs and headaches for businesses like mine, writes Andrea Ramker.

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Jun 27 • 11:21 AM EDT • Business • desmoinesregister.com
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Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it's a bad idea

For the summer itchiness of bug bites and poison ivy, dermatologists recommend hydrocortisone cream, calamine lotion or oatmeal baths.

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Jun 27 • 10:31 AM EDT • Health • nbcdfw.com
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New vitamin B12 therapy shows promise against deadly brain cancer

Researchers have identified a vitamin B12–based compound that can cross the blood-brain barrier and home in on glioblastoma tumors. In animal studies, the compound accumulated preferentially in tumor tissue and delivered sustained nitric oxide directly to cancer cells. It also worked synergistically with existing glioblastoma treatments, significantly enhancing their tumor-fighting effects.

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Jun 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
The #1 Snack for Better Gut Health, Recommended by a Gastroenterologist

Looking to improve your gut health? Read on to discover the best gastroenterologist-recommended plant-based snack to add to your day.

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Jun 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • eatingwell.com
Week in Politics: Trump and bipartisan housing bill, John Bolton; Democratic socialists

President Trump canceled a signing for major housing legislation, former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled guilty to mishandling classified documents, and Democratic Socialists made gains.

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Jun 27 • 7:40 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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A lack of funding, a glut of stigma: How Ohio LGBTQ+ health outcomes are impacted

Being able to access healthcare in general is a struggle for LGBTQ+ individuals, and with legislation in Ohio and elsewhere that banned gender-affirming care for minors, for example, a need for healthcare can often clash with the hesitation to seek help.

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Jun 27 • 7:10 AM EDT • Health • thebuckeyeflame.com
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Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roundup shows science and law use the same word — causation — while asking different questions, writes epidemiologist.

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Jun 27 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • statnews.com
3 foods that seem healthy but may be bad for your heart: cardiologist

A cardiologist said popular "healthy" foods can actually be bad for your heart, since they're highly processed and full of additives like sugar and fat.

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Jun 27 • 5:36 AM EDT • Health • businessinsider.com
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States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

Legislators across the U.S. are trying to lower prescription costs by reining in big companies that handle drug coverage for health insurers.

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Jun 27 • 12:10 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

Legislators across the U.S. are trying to lower prescription costs by reining in big companies that handle drug coverage for health insurers.

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Jun 27 • 12:06 AM EDT • Health • click2houston.com
Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino

The Politics Unplugged panel breaks down a possible Arizona special session tied to ESA vouchers, union protections and ballot measures. The discussion centers on whether lawmakers could unwind late-night legislation that angered teachers, police and firefighters. They also examine Gov. Katie Hobbs’ political leverage and why both parties may have reasons to cut a deal. Later, the podcast turns to Trump tax cuts, Democratic Socialists, the White House reflecting pool controversy and the World Cup.

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Jun 26 • 10:15 PM EDT • Politics • azfamily.com
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Trump news at a glance: president tests out a new ‘red scare’ ahead of midterms

Republican strategists believe rise of Mamdani could present opportunity to tag Democrats with most extreme views of the left – key US politics stories from Friday 26 June

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Jun 26 • 9:00 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Is the US trying to sway Taiwan’s KMT by receiving its legislative speaker?
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Jun 26 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • scmp.com
Registration open for 2026 Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference | Health and Human Services North Dakota

Registration is now open for the sixth annual Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference, scheduled for Sept. 14-17 at the Bismarck Event Center and online through a livestream option.The main conference will take place Sept. 15-17, with optional pre- and post-conference sessions offered Sept. 14 and Sept. 17.More than 1,400 in-person attendees and hundreds of virtual participants are expected to take part in keynote presentations, breakout sessions and networking opportunities focused on behavioral health, child welfare, suicide prevention and youth development.

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Jun 26 • 4:35 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov
Healey’s $305M economic development bill boosts defense, startups

This week, the Legislature's economic development committee released its own version of the bill, which includes money for defense and AI industries.

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Jun 26 • 12:25 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
Green Party returns inadmissible donation from Zack Polanski

Under UK electoral law parties can only accept money from people on the UK electoral register.

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Jun 26 • 11:40 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Medical Debt Bills Advance, House Hears Behavioral Health Testimony

Several healthcare-related bills advanced in the Michigan Legislature during the week of June 22, including legislation addressing medical debt collections and behavioral health screenings.

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Jun 26 • 10:37 AM EDT • Health • mha.org
Chairman Guthrie, Health Vice Chair Harshbarger, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks Lead Site Visit to Iowa Hospitals to Highlight Benefits of the Rural Health Transformation Program

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.

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Jun 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • energycommerce.house.gov
Elroy Air to Become Publicly Traded Company via Business Combination with Inflection Point-led SPAC

Elroy Air, Inc., a leading U.S.-based technology developer of autonomous heavy-cargo drones for defense, rapid response and commercial logistics, and Columbu...

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Jun 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • businesswire.com
Strategy Of Employing AI Mental Health Chatbots As School Psych Counselors For Teens

Teens increasingly have mental health issues, schools are trying to keep up. School psychologists are costly. LLMs can be an amplifier as a tool. An AI Insider scoop.

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Jun 26 • 3:15 AM EDT • Health • forbes.com
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County Invites Youth, Camps To Register For ‘Mind Your Business’ July 7 - Town-Crier Newspaper

Palm Beach County’s Mind Your Business Youth Entrepreneurship Forum returns on July 7, offering a full day of hands-on learning and innovation for young people across the county. Now in its seventh year, the forum is designed to inspire the next generation of creators, problem-solvers and emerging business leaders. Open to youth ages 10 to […]

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Jun 26 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • gotowncrier.com
Vice President JD Vance talks faith and politics in Orange County

Vance largely talked about his grandmother’s influence at the sold-out event, which came on the heels of his new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”

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Jun 25 • 8:04 PM EDT • Politics • ocregister.com
Health Watch: Scientists say animal therapy helps critically ill patients, prompting new legislation
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Making Our Own Luck

We are cross-posting a piece that former NIH official Kris Willis wrote for Macroscience. Kris is now the President and Founder of the Woodley Park Institute, for which I’m a board member. Picking winners or hedging bets? Federal science agencies have long wrestled with the question of how to ensure their billions of dollars of grants and contracts result in maximum benefits for Americans. On the surface, it might seem that a goal-oriented, interventionist style of management would be the best policy: prioritize our most pressing problems and distribute funding accordingly.This top-down strategy creates a unique hazard, though: bad choices can send resources in the wrong direction, resulting in slow progress that impedes the delivery of tangible benefits to citizens. Moreover, if decision makers pursue an applied advance when the underlying scientific principles remain poorly understood, they risk costly failures and a loss of support for the research enterprise at large. Examples include Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer, undertaken on the premise that a cure could be achieved in less than a decade, the drive to build an operational commercial fusion plant by the mid-1990s, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which failed to produce the effective treatments and prevention strategies promised by 2025. The contrasting laissez-faire approach is to hedge your bets. If the path to an advance is impossible to predict, then the wisest choice might be to distribute funding to as widely as possible. The main risk of this strategy is that spreading funding thinly may limit the resources available to the most promising research, resulting in the same negative outcomes as the interventionist approach: limited support for the most promising topics, slow progress, and delayed returns. In reality, at science agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, program managers navigate between these two extremes, setting some funds aside to target high-priority areas and using the rest to cover the widest possible range of meritorious proposals. This middle path seems like the most rational way to proceed, but it still requires making choices. How much should be set aside for high priority topics? What should those topics be? How should we define merit? Expert opinion can provide a helpful guide, but leading experts can have remarkably different opinions about what matters and what should be prioritized. Moreover, experts and administrators alike can be risk averse, giving an edge to high-profile, well-established concepts. What’s really needed is a data-driven framework to help guide decision-making, one that doesn’t simply repackage prestige or incumbency. Recognizing breakthroughs years in advance Many breakthroughs fail to attract funding or recognition at the earliest stages of development. Katalin Karikó, for example, spent years struggling to win grants for work on mRNA that would eventually win her and Drew Weissman a Nobel Prize. Similar stories can be told about Jim Allison’s groundbreaking studies leading to the development of cancer immunotherapy, Stan Pruisner’s demonstration that prions can self-replicate without DNA, or Robin Warren and Barry Marshall’s proof that Helicobacter pylori, not stress, causes ulcers. Yet at some point, the scientific community recognizes and responds to transformative breakthroughs like these. How does that change happen? And what if science funders could identify the areas that are on the cusp of a breakthrough? Those questions led my collaborators and me to study how scientists responded to past breakthroughs. Based on patterns in that data, we developed a means of predicting future breakthroughs, using biomedicine as a proof of concept. It’s worth taking a moment to describe how our approach works. Briefly, our prediction process begins by grouping the 18 million or so peer-reviewed papers in PubMed, the authoritative database of biomedical research, into roughly 50,000 unique topics. A small subset of these topics are so widely acclaimed as breakthroughs that they have been recognized with a major prize like a Nobel or a Lasker Award. We theorized that studying the development of these outliers over time, especially before they gained acclaim, was the key to identifying future instances of them. After defining topics, we chose 21 representative breakthroughs and asked what they looked like before they won prestigious prizes. To answer that question, we re-ran our topic-mapping algorithm repeatedly, winding back the clock one year each time, stringing together the years to follow the progress of each field as it grew and advanced. We found that in each case, the years leading up to a discovery followed a pattern: a burst of papers on a new, rapidly evolving topic, many of which quickly became influential. These characteristics—the percent of papers that are new, the percentage of papers that are brought in from other topics, and the influence of each individual paper—can all be measured separately for any given topic. Together, they act as a predictive signal that is detectable an average of five years before a transformative discovery is made, and up to thirty years before the discovery receives a major prize. Scanning the current research landscape for topics that display this signal allows us to predict what work will likely produce a future breakthrough. Each year we analyzed includes four or five signals, a number that appears to have remained constant across a twenty year time frame. In their classic work on the sociology of science, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar established that the desire to participate in a major discovery is an important motivator for scientists as they consider whether they should take up (or abandon) a research problem. Although further work is needed, the simplest explanation for our results is that this behavior is widespread enough to detect at scale. A foundational advance, or something like it, draws the attention of scientists and causes them to change the direction of their research. They vote with their feet, staking their own reputation and careers by publishing on and citing the new idea. That upswell of interest is the foundation of our breakthrough signal. What kind of research does our model identify as a breakthrough? After building a model based on the patterns in our 21 preselected breakthroughs, we tested it by identifying all early signals of discovery from 1994 through 1997. Of the 18 signals we found in that time period, 17 can be traced forward in time to a breakthrough. Examples include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (see the image above), the directed evolution of proteins and enzymes (Chemistry Nobel, 2018), and sequencing the human genome (National Medal of Science, 2008). The discovery of the role of leptin signaling in obesity is a particularly interesting case study. Around 1950, scientists noticed the existence of a type of lab mouse that suffered from a unique inherited form of obesity. When given the freedom to choose their own diet, these mice ate more than normal and preferred food that was high in fat. Researchers had few clues as to why the animals overate; early experiments pointed to the existence of a soluble ob factor found circulating in the bloodstream that regulated appetite, but its identity was unknown. In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues identified and sequenced the ob gene, noting that the protein it encoded appeared to fit the profile of a circulating factor. A year later, a trio of high-profile publications demonstrated that ob was a hormone that regulated body weight and fat deposition by regulating appetite. One of these was co-authored by Friedman, who christened it leptin from the ancient Greek word for thin. Using our model, the data from 1996 make it clear this advance would become a breakthrough. Scientists had flocked to study the biology of the new hormone, generating the flurry of new papers and citations required to produce a signal. One of these demonstrated that serum leptin concentrations reflected the amount of adipose tissue in the human body, providing clinical validation of the earlier mouse studies. Before the identification of leptin, scientists were unable to point to a specific molecule that controlled appetite and adiposity, so that it was impossible to rule out non-physiological causes of obesity; its characterization fundamentally changed our concept of weight gain. In 2010, Friedman and fellow pioneer Douglas Coleman were awarded a Lasker for the discovery. Our work also identifies breakthroughs in clinical practice and behavioral and social sciences, even though these areas are less likely to draw the attention of major prize committees. One example that falls into this category is the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a leading cause of death among Americans over the age of 65. Relative to the previous standard of care, it reduces in-hospital mortality by almost four-fold. In 2017, Timothy Chuter received the American College of Surgeons’ prestigious Jacobsen Innovation award for his multiple refinements to the technique. Another under-recognized breakthrough identified by our model is the development of standardized survey instruments to assess the quality of life for HIV+ patients. The antiretroviral cocktails introduced in the mid-1990s reduced AIDS mortality, but treatment came with serious side effects. The new evaluations showed that patients whose disease progressed had worse physical functioning than Americans with other chronic diseases, while those who were asymptomatic maintained a health-related quality of life on par with the overall US population. This evidence made it possible for patients and activists to argue that even in the absence of a total cure, and in spite of the side effects, alleviation of symptoms was a worthwhile priority for clinicians. My colleagues and I have failed to identify any significant recognition for the physicians and health policy experts who pioneered this advance, although in 2016, researchers called for the World Health Organization to set targets for good health-related quality of life as part of its framework to end the AIDS pandemic. From forecasting to funding How should science funders use our predictions? Any serious discussion of what we should do with this new capability needs to begin with an understanding of its limitations. We can’t (and shouldn’t) invest all of our resources in the small number of topics predicted to produce breakthroughs. Innovative new fields are born from existing ones; they rarely arise de novo. If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg. There are also multiple goals of funding beyond basic scientific discovery, including translating discoveries into clinical practice, developing new technologies, supporting economic development, and training new scientists. The investments needed to accomplish these goals are likely different from those required to support emerging breakthroughs. Finally, we must be aware that we may not capture every instance of a breakthrough. The concept is fuzzy, and not every significant discovery is recognized with a major award. Further, breakthroughs are rare, meaning that our dataset is, by necessity, small. This makes formal estimates of accuracy challenging. Although our overall success rate appears to be high, any one signal may turn out to be a false positive. We found one apparent example: the development of the third generation COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, which were much celebrated in the early 2000s as effective but non-addictive pain relievers, meets all the algorithmic criteria of a breakthrough. Five years after it received FDA approval, researchers demonstrated that Vioxx was associated with serious cardiovascular complications, and the manufacturer voluntarily pulled the drug from the market. Celebrex remains available, although like other NSAIDs, it carries an FDA warning for increased cardiovascular risk. Decision makers who were overly focused on the breakthrough potential of this research might have wasted substantial resources nurturing an area that ultimately proved to be a failure—but so would those who relied on expert opinion at the time. That said, the potential benefits of funding the next mRNA vaccine or cancer immunotherapy years earlier than we might have are large. When we can’t assume the outcome of an action, it’s worth conducting an experiment. Can targeted support for areas that are poised to produce a breakthrough increase the return on scientific investment without cannibalizing future advances? With the necessary administrative infrastructure in place, conducting this experiment would be straightforward. First, identify all the breakthrough signals between 2018 and 2023, select half at random, and commit to a decade of investment. For biomedicine, a six year window should yield about 30 topics with the potential to produce a breakthrough. Providing strong support to half of these might be accomplished for $300 million a year. That’s roughly half of the recent annual budget of the NIH Common Fund or around 20% of the fiscal year 2025 budget for ARPA-H. After five years, then again at ten, compare to see which group — the one that was actively managed, or the control — produced more breakthroughs, and on what timescale. Although we used biomedicine as an example, the same experiment could just as well be run for physics, materials science, or any other discipline. Any attempt to undertake such an experiment should keep three points top of mind. First, we can predict the topic of future breakthroughs, but the people and vision for how to move the work forward are still important. In practice, this means success requires active program managers with the expertise to develop the science and the authority to do so, including by recruiting investigators. Second, we would be wise to learn from the failures of past attempts to fund transformative research. High among these are funding modestly repackaged work, confusing the genuinely novel with the merely unfamiliar, and relying too much on incumbent investigators. All of these risks can be mitigated by thoroughly and intelligently integrating high quality data into portfolio management. Finally, we need to have patience. Even with strong funding support, producing a breakthrough takes time. If supporting breakthroughs is the best way to nurture the birth of new fields, we also need to accurately describe and properly manage the other two stages, so that we invest wisely throughout the productive lifetime of ideas and divest once they reach the point of diminishing returns. We would benefit from more study of all of these phases, especially the transition from one to another. More research could answer questions like: When does a breakthrough become an established field? How do the availability of funding, the size and characteristics of the available workforce, and the accumulation of evidence that disagrees with prevailing models affect a field’s decline? Exactly how do old ideas give birth to new ones, and can we speed up the process? The more we understand about the dynamics of scientific progress, the better we can maximize the odds that our curiosity leads to results. I’d call that finding a way to make our own luck.

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Jun 25 • 4:48 PM EDT • Science • goodscience.substack.com
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Dunleavy vetoes some health and education increases approved by Alaska lawmakers

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy canceled funding increases for a variety of state health and education programs on Wednesday, vetoing a combined $57.8 million in general-purpose money from state budget bills passed by the Legislature.

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Jun 25 • 4:37 PM EDT • Health • alaskabeacon.com
Why cannabis businesses need to apply for DEA registration now – and why states must help

Cannabis businesses should apply for DEA registration by a Friday, June 26 deadline. And states should be helping them.

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Jun 25 • 4:29 PM EDT • Business • mjbizdaily.com
Politics | Local, California, U.S. & World Politics

ABC7 News covers local, California, U.S and world politics like no one else in the San Francisco area. KGO is your source for political races and legislation.

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Jun 25 • 4:12 PM EDT • Politics • abc7news.com
Kurt Zellers Steps Down as CEO of the MN Business Partnership

The former legislator’s tenure in this key role lasted less than three years.

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Jun 25 • 2:18 PM EDT • Business • tcbmag.com
Governor Mills Celebrates Groundbreaking for Youth Mental Health Treatment Facility in Saco

Saco, MAINE-- Governor Janet Mills today participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for Sweetser's new youth psychiatric residential treatment facility. Governor Mills and the Legislature secured more than $5 million to help build the treatment facility.

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Jun 25 • 1:18 PM EDT • Health • maine.gov
Health Subcommittee Markup of 15 Bills Addressing Illicit Drugs and Health Care Price Transparency

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.

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Jun 25 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • energycommerce.house.gov
Gov. Scott vetoed the Legislature’s latest attempt to lower health insurance costs. What’s next?

Governor Phil Scott's veto of a health insurance bill sparks debate over lowering healthcare costs in Vermont. Discover the proposed alternatives and political tensions.

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Jun 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • vnews.com
Erickson Recognized at ADDAPT Golf for Business Invitational

LIMEP and Stony Brook University’s Office for Research and Innovation took part in the ADDAPT Golf for Business Invitational and Legislative Breakfast June 15.

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Jun 25 • 9:51 AM EDT • Business • news.stonybrook.edu
UPS is losing ground to FedEx

The two logistics giants have similar strategies—and face a common threat

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Jun 25 • 8:58 AM EDT • Business • economist.com
NJ Legislators Push for End to Corporate Money in Politics

NJ Legislators Push for End to Corporate Money in Politics New Legislation Would Redefine “Corporation” Under State Law to Disallow Political Spending SUMMIT, N.J.—Assemblymembers Andrew Macurdy, Chigozie Onyema, and Maureen Rowan today announced a bill that would bring an end to corporate spending on politics in New Jersey. The bill alters the definition of “corporation”[...]

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Jun 25 • 8:35 AM EDT • Politics • insidernj.com
Trump to meet House speaker in attempt to break legislative gridlock

Trump suddenly scrapped the signing of a pivotal bipartisan housing bill yesterday, demanding the Senate pass his voter ID bill

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Jun 25 • 8:28 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces Closing of $200 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

LEAWOOD, Kan., June 25, 2026--AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) ("AMC" or "the Company"), announced today that it closed its previously announced registered direct offering of an aggregate of 95,250,000 shares of AMC common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $200 million (the "Offering"), before deducting agent fees and offering expenses.

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Jun 25 • 6:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Political strategist on the growing tensions between Trump and Senate Republicans

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with political strategist Alex Conant about President Trump's tense meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill.

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Jun 25 • 6:46 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Science with Stevie: Making your own rain gauge

Meteorologist Stevie Daniels shows kids how to become weather scientists with a fun summer experiment that measures rainfall from seasonal storms.

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Jun 25 • 6:40 AM EDT • Science • wmar2news.com
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We’re dermatologists. Sunscreen isn’t the problem.

Every year, a safe-sunscreen guide sparks needless concern.

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Jun 25 • 6:30 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
This Doctor Can Change the Color of Your Eyes. Should He?

Francis Ferrari, a French ophthalmologist, invented a controversial procedure that can change eye color. People from around the world are willing to take the risk.

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Jun 25 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces Closing of $200 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) (“AMC” or “the Company”), announced today that it closed…...

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Jun 25 • 2:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com
CMS projection: 90% of Americans will still have health insurance in 2034—when healthcare spending reaches $9T

Legislative changes, demographic shifts and growing demand will combine to drive national health spending to almost $9 trillion by 2034.

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Jun 24 • 10:38 PM EDT • Health • healthexec.com
Jeremiah Smith earns first 99 launch rating in EA Sports College Football

Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith makes history as the first player to earn a 99 rating at launch in EA Sports College Football.

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Jun 24 • 2:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump’s stunt on the housing bill seems like a very bad idea

President Donald Trump is a familiar legislative arsonist. He’ll often throw curveballs at the last minute that give congressional leaders fits – especially in his own party.

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Jun 24 • 2:16 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Mamdani-backed candidates swept on Tuesday. But can they win outside of NYC? His top strategist says yes
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Jun 24 • 1:25 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Pritzker expected to sign new legislation aimed at protecting reproductive health records in IL

Gov. JB Pritzker is expected to sign new legislation aimed at protecting reproductive health records in Illinois Wednesday.

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Jun 24 • 12:20 PM EDT • Health • abc7chicago.com
2026 Short Course: Putting Social Science in Motion: Concept and Method (QMMR) -

Putting Social Science in Motion: Concept and Method (QMMR) Half Day Short Course | Register here 2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition — Boston, MA 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm This short course addresses both [...]

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Jun 24 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • politicalsciencenow.com
Trump refuses to sign landmark housing bill, demanding Congress pass voter ID law

Trump demanded that Congress pass the SAVE America Act, the proof-of-citizenship voting bill, before he would consider the housing legislation.

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Jun 24 • 11:58 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Trio behind string of business burglaries caught after chase through Tucker

Police said the suspects threw cash register tills and other stolen items from the vehicle.

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Jun 24 • 11:44 AM EDT • Business • wsbtv.com
Webber sponsors long-term funding bills to support Michigan business startups

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Michael Webber on Wednesday introduced legislation to help create more Michigan jobs through long-term support for startup businesses in the state. “We created the Michigan...

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Jun 24 • 11:13 AM EDT • Business • misenategop.com
Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

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Jun 24 • 11:02 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
Trump suddenly refuses to sign landmark housing bill, citing his stalled elections legislation
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Jun 24 • 10:46 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
House gives final approval to landmark housing bill aimed at lowering costs

The legislation represents one of the most sweeping efforts in decades to increase the supply of housing and bring down prices.

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Jun 24 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
A staunch voice in support of science

Jeff Coller, a pioneering RNA biologist, has spent the past year vehemently advocating for the lifesaving promise of research in the face of federal cuts

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Jun 24 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • hub.jhu.edu
Robbie Ray Stymies A’s as Giants Take Game No. 1

A’s Offense Cools Off

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Jun 24 • 1:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Senate President J. Stuart Adams — burdened by data center fallout

After more than 20 years in the Legislature, Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his bid for reelection Tuesday, conceding defeat to Stephanie Hollist.

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Jun 24 • 12:38 AM EDT • Politics • sltrib.com
Playing the Moon Game

Apollo astronauts previewed their roles as lunar field geologists in Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

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Jun 24 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Bill Ferguson wins Maryland state Senate primary after opposing Democratic redistricting plan

Incumbent Bill Ferguson defeated activist Bobby LaPin in the state legislative race in Baltimore, The Associated Press projected.

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Jun 23 • 11:50 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) Is Down 16.5% After Dilutive Debt-Reduction Equity Raise - Has The Bull Case Changed?

Earlier today, AMC Entertainment Holdings announced a registered direct follow-on equity offering of 95,250,000 common shares at about US$2.10 each, aiming to raise roughly US$200.03 million primarily to redeem 6.125% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2027 and for general corporate purposes. This latest capital raise follows AMC’s roughly US$150 million at-the-market equity offering completed in early June, underlining how ongoing balance sheet repair is coming at the cost of further dilution...

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Jun 23 • 5:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Lawmakers call for answers from Wyoming Business Council leader

After slashing the agency's budget, legislators examine the state's role in economic development.

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Jun 23 • 5:01 PM EDT • Business • wyofile.com
ESPN, Disney Jr. team up with Every Kid Sports to get preschoolers moving

Families can now register for preschool sports grants through "Disney Jr. Let's Play!," a global campaign to encourage young children to get laughing, moving and, of course, playing.

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Jun 23 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • abc7.com
NC students bring calls for school funding, mental health support to legislature

Students from across North Carolina urged lawmakers to invest more in public schools, citing concerns including mental health services

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Jun 23 • 2:59 PM EDT • Health • ncnewsline.com
Arkansas Allocates $5M for New U of A Food Science Center

A new food science research facility at the University of Arkansas is moving forward after the Arkansas Legislative Council approved a $5 m

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Jun 23 • 2:50 PM EDT • Science • armoneyandpolitics.com
Santa Cruz County business filings: Week of June 23

Businesses operating in Santa Cruz County must register with the county clerk. Lookout Santa Cruz reviews the public filings from local businesses to report on new businesses starting in the area.

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Jun 23 • 2:40 PM EDT • Business • lookout.co
AMC Entertainment Shares Slide After $200 Million Equity Raise Announcement (AMC)

Stock Drops as Investors React to New Share IssuanceAMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC) shares fell 19% on Tuesday after the cinema operator announced plans to raise $200 million through a registered direct offering of common stock. The sharp decline reflects investor concerns over dilution as the company issues a substantial number of new shares to institutional investors.

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Jun 23 • 8:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
AMC taps investors for $200M to pay off 2027 notes

AMC sold 95.25 million shares in a registered direct offering and plans to use proceeds to redeem $125.5 million of 6.125% notes due 2027.

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Jun 23 • 7:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
Free virtual event to connect thousands of teachers with University of Hawai‘i science research

Science educators around the world will get a front-row seat to groundbreaking research and innovation from the university and the company PocketLab during a free virtual unconference in July.

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Jun 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • bigislandnow.com
House, Senate health chairs Creekmore and Bryan say rural health program, spending need more transparency

Senate Public Health Chairman Hob Bryan said the lack of transparency around the governor's program to spend millions in federal rural health dollars in Mississippi is "almost the Saturday Night Live parody of secrecy." Bryan and his House counterpart, Chairman Sam Creekmore, share their frustrations over lack of input from communities, and the Legislature, in how the state spends federal rural health care money.

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Jun 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • mississippitoday.org
8 Probiotic Foods Recommended by a Nutritionist to Support Gut Health

A nutritionist and a registered dietitian share which foods help populate good bacteria in your gut.

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Jun 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • vogue.com
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces Pricing of $200 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) (“AMC” or “the Company”), announced today that it has…...

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Jun 23 • 3:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com
Hospital must pay $23M jury verdict after radiologist misses spinal cord injury on CT

Plaintiff attorneys believe this is the largest non-death-related malpractice payout in the history of Maine, with Brewer-based Northern Light Health system on the hook for the damages.

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Jun 23 • 2:33 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Arizona passes legislation requiring insurers to cover follow-up breast imaging

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on June 19 signed SB 1165 into law following its passage in the state Senate.

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Jun 23 • 2:24 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Virginia legislators advance $205 billion budget including new tax on data centers

Virginia legislators approved a two-year, $205 billion budget proposal to fund healthcare and public education, provide 4% teacher raises and a 3.5% pay bump to state employees, establish a retail weed marketplace and hedge against decreased federal dollars.

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Jun 22 • 8:51 PM EDT • Politics • insidenova.com