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Anne's College professor selected to Digital Science Communication Fellowship

Florida State University Margaret A. Sitton Endowed Professor Michael Ormsbee has been selected for the 2026 Digital Science Communication Fellowship, a

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Jan 29 • 12:02 PM EST • Science • news.fsu.edu
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SkyLake Adventures teams with Butler Institute for Sports and Entertainment

Under the partnership, Butler University students will receive real-life experience in hospitality and entertainment, and real-life experiences and practical skills in marketing, social media and communications.

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As quirky Switch 2 life sim Tomodachi Life gets a release date, Nintendo makes good on decade-old same-sex relationship promise

Nintendo has confirmed same-sex relationships in its Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream reveal, alongside an April release date.

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Jan 29 • 11:46 AM EST • Technology • eurogamer.net
The Next Era of Sports and Entertainment Technology: Info-Tech Research Group Partners With SEAT to Advance Innovation and Digital Excellence Across Industry

Info-Tech Research Group, a global leader in IT research and advisory, has announced a new partnership with SEAT, the Sports & Entertainment Alliance in Technology, to empower technology, marketing, and operations executives across the global sports and entertainment industry. The collaboration will bring Info-Tech's expertise to SEAT's influential community of North American entertainment venues, sports teams, and league leaders who are driving innovation in fan engagement, digital experience,

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Jan 29 • 11:06 AM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
House Republicans propose stricter voting requirements as Trump administration eyes the midterms

House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws

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Jan 29 • 11:02 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Columnist says ‘socialism can't succeed anywhere’ amid Venezuela’s political turmoil

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

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Jan 29 • 10:56 AM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
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Elora Cordier’s passion for unified sports shines on and off the court

Elora Cordier's dedication to unified sports shines as she wins the Falcon Award for basketball. Her passion and efforts have made a difference.

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Jan 29 • 9:34 AM EST • Sports • concordmonitor.com
New Hampshire, Vermont health care providers alerted about Legionnaires' disease cases

The alert comes as the Vermont Health Department investigates a deadly outbreak in Windsor.

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Jan 29 • 9:03 AM EST • Health • wmur.com
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Cairn review – obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights

A punishing, beautiful survival game that turns mountaineering into an intimate test of endurance, fixation and emotional resolve – you’ll be in tears by the end

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Jan 29 • 9:00 AM EST • Technology • theguardian.com
Top 100 transfer portal players for 2026: Destinations and impact projections

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

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Jan 29 • 8:37 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
Detroit's Mary Sheffield joins panel of new mayors in DC: How to watch

Detroit's first woman mayor will be on a panel at the US Conference of Mayors' winter meeting in Washington. Here's how to watch.

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Jan 29 • 8:30 AM EST • Politics • freep.com
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Escape from Washington? Senators look to start new chapters as governors

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

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

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

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Jan 29 • 7:40 AM EST • Politics • click2houston.com
Campaign over, Wu has to take on the messy work of running City Hall

Right on schedule, the adrenaline jolt of the campaign trail has been replaced by the much more challenging day-to-day grunt work of running city government.

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Jan 29 • 7:15 AM EST • Politics • bostonglobe.com
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Democratic Sen. Klobuchar says she's running for Minnesota governor after Gov. Walz dropped out

Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she’s running for governor of Minnesota

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Jan 29 • 7:04 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Joan Esmie MS ’26 Named PAEA Student Health Policy Fellow

Reflecting Ithaca College’s Commitment to Community-Minded Leadership

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • ithaca.edu
Rice Business launches new graduate healthcare certificate program to advance leadership in dynamic industry

Rice’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business today announced the launch of its Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management program, a 10-month, credit-bearing professional credential designed for current and aspiring leaders seeking deep expertise in the business of healthcare. Situated at the crossroads of Houston’s renowned Texas Medical Center and global healthcare innovation, the program blends rigorous business fundamentals with healthcare-specific strategy, operations and management.

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • news.rice.edu
CU Athletics Announces Partnership with Sports Business Ventures to Launch 1:1 Sports Executive Mentorship Program - University of Colorado Athletics

The Scripps Student-Athlete Leadership and Career Development program is excited to announce a new partnership with Sports Business Ventures (SBV) to launch ...

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • cubuffs.com
CU Athletics Announces Partnership with Sports Business Ventures to Launch 1:1 Sports Executive Mentorship Program - University of Colorado Athletics

The Scripps Student-Athlete Leadership and Career Development program is excited to announce a new partnership with Sports Business Ventures (SBV) to launch ...

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • cubuffs.com
Where Eagles' pending free agents rank on NFL-wide lists

The Eagles have some big-name free agents this year. Here’s a look at where they rank among the entire NFL.

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Jan 29 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Friends talk politics for the first time: Alondra and Bailey take One Small Step

Alondra Rivas-Jimenez, 20, and Bailey Newcomb, 21, met in the spring of 2024 while interning at an advertising agency and built a friendship. The two sat down to talk politics for the first time in their friendship.

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Jan 29 • 6:31 AM EST • Politics • cfpublic.org
The Memo: Minneapolis trauma shifts the politics of immigration

Public outrage over the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis is scrambling the politics of immigration. The Trump administration’s initial reaction to the Pretti killing, in partic…

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Jan 29 • 6:00 AM EST • Politics • thehill.com
Trump’s Goon Squads Will Kill Again

Trump's shift in Minneapolis is neither a solution nor our salvation.

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Jan 29 • 5:40 AM EST • Politics • slate.com
The cost of health care, not food or rent, is now Americans’ top worry

As politicians prepare their pitches for the midterm elections, a survey finds that about 1 in 3 Americans are “very worried” about health care costs.

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Jan 29 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • washingtonpost.com
Full-length Replay: Big East Men's: DePaul at Georgetown

From Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

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Jan 29 • 3:17 AM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
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Science at risk: Massachusetts must lead the fight for facts

Rejecting evidence threatens lives and innovation. Massachusetts must defend the scientific method.

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Jan 29 • 3:00 AM EST • Science • bostonglobe.com
Turmoil at homeless program is a sign of harsh fiscal times

It is shameful that our nation is unable to support health care for all of its citizens in a meaningful way.

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Jan 29 • 2:20 AM EST • Health • bostonglobe.com
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China, U.K. vow to build long-term strategic partnership in bid to reset strained ties

U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he hopes to build "more sophisticated" ties with China as the two nations look to revive the bilateral relationships.

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Jan 29 • 1:05 AM EST • Business • cnbc.com
Washington State earns 70-58 victory over Seattle U

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) Rihards Vavers had 24 points in Washington State's 70-58 win over Seattle U on Wednesday night.

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Jan 29 • 12:40 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
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Xi-Starmer meeting: Chinese leader tells PM he hopes both countries can ‘rise above differences’

At Beijing talks, British prime minister Keir Starmer tells Xi he wants a ‘more sophisticated’ relationship with China

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Jan 29 • 12:31 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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At World’s Busiest Port, China’s Unbalanced Economy Comes Into View

The shipping traffic and factories never stop in China’s port city of Ningbo, but the local housing market has crashed and nearby restaurants sit empty.

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Jan 29 • 12:00 AM EST • Business • nytimes.com
Laura Coates assesses the new video showing Alex Pretti clashing with agents days before his death
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Jan 28 • 11:47 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Nationals ink another pitcher, designate one for assignment
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Jan 28 • 10:50 PM EST • Sports • roundtable.io
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8 Santa Monica Businesses Win Green Certification Awards

8 Santa Monica businesses received Green Business Certification on January 16th at the YMCA, recognizing their sustainable practices and environmental leadership.

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Jan 28 • 9:14 PM EST • Business • smdp.com
WSOC-TV & KFF Health News Win Prestigious duPont-Columbia Award

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

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Jan 28 • 9:00 PM EST • Health • wsoctv.com
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How Trump decided to shift his strategy in Minnesota: From the Politics Desk

Plus, tensions between the U.S. and Iran are ratcheting up again.

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Jan 28 • 6:51 PM EST • Politics • nbcnews.com
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VA reorganization aims to shift health care workforce to hubs with growing veteran population

Congress directed the VA to make similar changes under the first Trump administration, but blocked it from implementing them under the Biden administration.

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Jan 28 • 6:46 PM EST • Health • federalnewsnetwork.com
Alexander Volkanovski shuts down Jean Silva title talk

Not yet, “Lord.” Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Brazilian fan-favorite Jean Silva scored the biggest win of his career at UFC 324 last weekend (Sat., Jan. 24, 2026), outworking the ultra-durable Arnold Allen to a unanimous decision victory inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The win immediately launched Silva into the division’s elite and title […]

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Jan 28 • 5:49 PM EST • Sports • mmamania.com
Get an Expert Guide to What’s Driving D.C.

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

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Jan 28 • 5:35 PM EST • Politics • wsj.com
$10 million gift to fuel transdisciplinary data science

Tom and Cathie Woteki, an alumni couple who made profound contributions to the fields of public health and applications of enterprise computing in their careers, have made a $10 million estate gift commitment to endow multiple faculty positions or fellowships, as well as create graduate fellowships, in the College of Science and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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Jan 28 • 4:58 PM EST • Science • news.vt.edu
Betly expands online casino offering through new partnership with Inspired Entertainment

Delaware North’s Betly iCasino in West Virginia today announced a new partnership with Inspired Entertainment, a leading provider of innovative online casino content.

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Jan 28 • 4:20 PM EST • Entertainment • media.delawarenorth.com
Brown & Root shifts engineering hub to Metairie

Brown & Root Industrial Services has relocated its engineering and construction operations from Baton Rouge to Three Lakeway Place in Metairie, marking a strategic investment in the Greater Ne… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

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Jan 28 • 4:10 PM EST • Business • businessreport.com
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Tampa Bay Business and Wealth under new ownership, and the transaction is made-for-TV drama

Bridgette Bello’s departure from the magazine turns out to be more than what it seemed.

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Jan 28 • 3:57 PM EST • Politics • floridapolitics.com
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Internal review contradicts Trump administration on Alex Pretti shooting : The NPR Politics Podcast

An initial internal review into federal immigration officers’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last weekend contradicts the description of the incident by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. We discuss President Trump’s shifting messages on immigration policy and how his administration’s efforts to restrict legal immigration pathways are changing the political environment. This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, immigration policy correspondent Ximena Bustillo, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.This podcast was produced by Bria Suggs and Lexie Schapitl, and edited by Rachel Baye.Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.

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Jan 28 • 3:34 PM EST • Politics • npr.org
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Arlington-based REV Entertainment buys two independent professional baseball teams

Arlington-based REV Entertainment, the official sports and entertainment partner of the Texas Rangers, today announced it has purchased two independent...

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Jan 28 • 2:15 PM EST • Entertainment • dallasnews.com
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Amazon layoffs: Leaked memos explain job cuts amid startup shift

Amazon announced 16,000 corporate layoffs on Wednesday. Executives say it aims to transform into the 'world's largest startup' with a cultural reset.

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Jan 28 • 1:28 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Accelerating Science: A Blueprint for a Renewed National Quantum Initiative

Sustained U.S. leadership in quantum information science is critical to ensuring that breakthroughs in computing, sensing, networking and materials translate into secure technologies and industries, a skilled domestic workforce and long-term strategic advantage. To secure this future, Congress must act and reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative (NQI).

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Live Nation Entertainment, DF Entertainment, and Dale Play Live Enter Into Long-Term Partnership With Club Atlético River Plate at Mâs Monumental Stadium

Live Nation Entertainment today announced a long-term partnership with Club Atlético River Plate, alongside DF Entertainment, Argentina’s leading international live entertainment company; and Dale Play Live, Argentina’s leading Latin live entertainment company, to further elevate Mâs Monumental Stadium as one of the world’s premier destinations for global touring artists and…

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Jan 28 • 1:00 PM EST • Entertainment • newsroom.livenation.com
How Oprah Winfrey has turned her weight-loss journey into a business

Oprah Winfrey's newest book, "Enough," is about her relationship with weight-loss drugs. Since the '90s, she has been combining her health with business.

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Jan 28 • 12:25 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Dispatch is censored on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch

Although there was initially speculation about Dispatch being censored on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch, it’s now confirmed that this is indeed the case. In the PC and PS5 versions, the game featured a “Visual Censorship” setting. This is gone on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch, so you’re always getting the censored experience. All scenes are in tact, but there...

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Jan 28 • 12:14 PM EST • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
As the Trump administration targets NCAR, scientists rally to defend the ‘mothership’ of atmospheric research

A letter published by the National Science Foundation asks for ideas to dismantle the research hub. Scientists are responding en masse.

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Jan 28 • 11:45 AM EST • Science • cpr.org
PE-backed CT masonry business acquires New England manufacturer

US Masonry and Building Products said it purchased York Flashings LLC, which manufactures products designed to seal joints and channel moisture out of building walls to help prevent water damage.

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Jan 28 • 11:41 AM EST • Business • hartfordbusiness.com
Leadership turmoil returns to Hispanic Silicon Valley business group

For the second time in seven years, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley has found itself embroiled in a leadership dispute that has led to the sudden ouster and replacement of multiple board members.

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Jan 28 • 11:30 AM EST • Business • sanjosespotlight.com
New Doc by Former Colleagues Explores Asian Americans' Growing Political Leadership

Two Asian American professors with ties to York College have collaborated on a timely and engaging new documentary examining the growing political influence of Asian Americans.

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Jan 28 • 11:08 AM EST • Politics • york.cuny.edu
Minnesota Wild Announces Partnership with Priority Commerce Sports

Wild selects Priority to streamline ticket payments and drive new revenue

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Jan 28 • 11:00 AM EST • Sports • nhl.com
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🧪 Science with Sarah: Graham Cracker Plate Tectonics 🌋

Hello parents, teachers and students! Explore our shifting Earth on a mantle of frosting

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Jan 28 • 10:55 AM EST • Science • ksat.com
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Former utility commissioner Tim Echols reflects on Georgia's new power politics

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Georgia Public Service Commission has entered a new era. After nearly two […]

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Jan 28 • 10:38 AM EST • Politics • wabe.org
Washington Capitals and Monumental Sports & Entertainment Pride Auction Raises $30,485

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

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Jan 28 • 10:28 AM EST • Entertainment • nhl.com
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Is Wyoming hoops stuck in purgatory within modern college basketball?

Every season for a reasonably successful mid-major university begins in a similar fashion. They schedule a few in-state cupcakes as the season and home openers before, if they are lucky enough, participating in an ever-declining MTE tournament during the week of Thanksgiving. Throw in a dash of high-major money labeled as “buy games” to help […]

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Trump endorses Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin's open race for governor

President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s open race for governor

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Jan 28 • 9:48 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Business Success

Ohio Wesleyan Celebrates Innovation at Second Annual U.S. Entrepreneurship Competition

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Jan 28 • 9:38 AM EST • Business • owu.edu
Patriots LT Will Campbell trending up ahead of Super Bowl

The Patriots’ left tackle had his best game of the postseason in the AFC Championship Game.

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Jan 28 • 9:10 AM EST • Sports • patspulpit.com
Snap is spinning off its AR glasses into a separate business

Snap’s augmented reality glasses business will now be its own entity, with the company establishing Specs Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

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Jan 28 • 9:00 AM EST • Business • engadget.com
China’s latest war game uses hospital and science ships for espionage

It is self-evident that Beijing is not promoting peace, health or scientific research.

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Jan 28 • 8:30 AM EST • Science • thehill.com
This week in Santa Cruz County business: Scotts Valley solar cell company goes dark; passing the torch at Alta Organic Coffee

In her weekly look at Santa Cruz County business, Jessica M. Pasko reports on the demise of Ambient Photonics, notes a generational shift at a local coffee roaster and delivers names, numbers and events to know.

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Jan 28 • 7:00 AM EST • Business • lookout.co
Why it’s so hard to uncover the truth about a president’s health

Bruises on Trump’s hands and other apparent ailments have invited speculation. But secrecy, politics, and the vagaries of aging make drawing conclusions difficult.

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Vikings, other NFL teams not surprised Commanders hired Daronte Jones

Other NFL executives raved about new Commanders DC Daronte Jones.

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Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

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

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