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The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 The Trump regime is trying to usher in a “Golden Age in Science” where scientific research is run like a Trump family business, artificial intelligence is all that matters, profit is everything, and expertise is for chumps. Or at least that’s the vision emerging from a new 123-page “Report to the President” from Michael Kratsios, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In a normal administration, you could probably skip over learning about a science policy document — but this is no normal administration, and this is no normal science policy document. Instead, it’s Trump’s attempt to end the actual golden age of science that was kicked off in 1945 with the publication of '“The Endless Frontier” by Vannevar Bush. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) [ Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Liz Dye · Jul 29 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harmeet-dhillon-portland) Bush, at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s request, laid out a vision of federal support for science that centered on funding universities to do basic research, saying that as long as those institutions were “vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere.” Kratsios’s report is supposed to be the successor to Bush’s, and even apes the format, but this isn’t really a document about science policy. It’s one about ending science research as we know it in favor of shoveling cash at big tech companies. While it might be temping to wave this away as an aspirational policy document, Trump has already begun to shift billions in research funds to AI projects and has taken a hatchet to science funding across the board. He’s teed up the shift Kratsios proposes here, and since neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem inclined to stop him from doing whatever he wants with taxpayer money, it isn’t doomering or hyperbole to say we are staring down the barrel of a world where the only “science” the government intends to support is for-profit tech and defense advancements. Science for dummies Part of how you can tell this isn’t a document about science is that you are immediately faced with an absolute wall of business-speak of the worst sort. Did you know we must “tightly couple our science and technology enterprises to ensure that groundbreaking ideas invented in the United States are rapidly prototyped, tested, manufactured, and scaled domestically”? You do now! That tone isn’t surprising, because Kratsios has no background in science or research. He has a bachelor’s in political science and spent most of his career working for Peter Thiel at Thiel Capital. After a stint in the first Trump administration as Chief Technology Officer, where he also did not do any science, Kratsios was tasked in 2020 with overseeing the Pentagon’s research budget for a brief time, a position that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “carries a great deal of power in terms of dictating investment allocations.” He spent the Biden years at Scale AI as “head of strategy,” which you will also note is neither a science nor a research job. But Scale AI has contracts with the Department of Defense and, as the Washington Post wrote in 2023, “has been aggressively pitching itself as the company that will help the US military in its existential battle with China.” And now you have the necessary background for our new golden age, which is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI. A note from Aaron: Working with brilliant contributors like Lisa takes resources. If you aren’t already a paid subscriber, please become one to support our work. 👇 Subscribe In a genuinely galling move, Katsios spends a lot of time slamming universities because of “administrative burdens on researchers” and the “well-documented inefficiencies” in academia, the message being that those damn universities waste the time of amazing researchers with paperwork. Except it’s the administration that is attempting to impose inefficient, unnecessary burdens on those researchers with a proposed Office of Management and Budget rule that would require senior political appointees to approve every science grant and ensure it aligns with Trump’s personal priorities. Researchers would also have to seek prior government approval to attend conferences or publicize their research. And political appointees could terminate any grant at any time if they feel like it. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) [ The murder of expertise ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) Lisa Needham · Jun 11 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/omb-rule-science-funding) But when it comes to AI, we’re going to “restore permissionless innovation.” The report proposes to give lucky ducky innovators a pile of cash up front for grants lasting five years or longer, saying “awards should be fully-funded in year one, with all resources earmarked upfront, to minimize administrative burdens and reduce pressure for researchers to generate intermediate results to secure continued funding.” Yeah, wouldn’t want to have to make the Very Special Tech Bros show results or get money parceled out year by year like the plebes at universities. The report also proposes that we should have “fast grants” with “simplified applications requiring just a few pages of writing” because that is definitely how science works, just writing a bit off the dome and getting some cash. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) [ Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Paul Waldman · July 29, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-action-plan-altman-llms) Oh, and we should have prizes and challenges, where multiple teams compete. The proposed prizes include incentives like “advance procurement commitments,” which means the federal government agrees to buy whatever is being developed. There’s also “regulatory fast-tracking,” making sure all those great AI thingies don’t have to wait too long to be unleashed on a market. These aren’t incentives to do science. These are incentives to develop things with tax dollars that you can then sell to the government for more tax dollars. In the suggestion that might be the most unhinged, the most very opposite of how both government and research work, our new age will include “golden tickets.” That’s where an individual reviewer in an agency — yes, just one person — can “recommend unconventional proposals that may not pass consensus-driven review panels” because somehow this will “surface valuable ideas too divisive for committees and attract higher quality reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent scientific judgment.” Yes, that’s saying that a random person in an agency should be able to shovel money at some idea even if it can’t pass a review panel, and that the opportunity to do so will attract better employees because apparently all the best minds in science are chomping at the bit to be allowed to unilaterally fund AI research based on their personal vibes. But that isn’t at all how actual science works, and actual scientists aren’t unhappy about review panels. They work collaboratively, not siloed in some secret race to create the next AI chatbot. A 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined whether peer review panels succeed in helping agencies predict which research ideas will best advance science. Peer review was better at finding “diamond in the rough” applicants than a single government program official. How about that. Trump always wants a taste It’s painfully clear that what Katsios is trying to do here is turn the whole of government science research and funding into the sort of “move fast and break things” paradigm that is the hallmark of big tech. That method works to line the pockets of tech executives, but it isn’t science. There’s a reason the government funds different kinds of research than private tech companies do. What Katsios either fails to understand or deliberately ignores is that the federal government is the main funder of basic research precisely because it can take a long time for it to bear fruit and is not intended to be profitable as such. “Basic” here does not mean rudimentary or simple, but rather research that is designed to advance scientific knowledge instead of achieving a specific outcome or product. Big tech companies don’t widely fund that sort of research, because it doesn’t make them money. Industry dollars account for only about 20 percent of basic research funding, while the government contributes around 60 percent. Big tech companies and startups do, however, rely on and benefit from that basic research. A 2019 study found that 35 percent of all patents obtained by venture-backed startups from 1976 to 2016 cited federally supported research. Basic research funded by the NIH contributed to every single drug the FDA approved from 2010 to 2016. [ ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) [ The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Noah Berlatsky · Jul 27 [ Read full story ](https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal) Unlike inventing the next ChatGPT, actual science is slow and iterative. Government funding of research that, on its face, would not appear to lead to any big new invention is actually what underpins those big new inventions. If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide, and we wouldn’t have Ozempic. If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic across computer servers. The report assiduously ignores that a symbiotic, profitable relationship between the federal government, universities, and private companies already exists. Each federal research dollar generates about $1.50 to $3.00 in long-term economic benefits. The $36 billion the government awarded in NIH research funding in fiscal year 2025 generated $94 billion in new economic activity. Trump’s proposed new golden age is intended to strip those billions from universities, resulting in the dismantling of departments and the shuttering of labs. But Katsios has a plan for that: Universities should just become trade schools to churn out no-show STEM degrees! “Require universities and community colleges to embed practical technical training and externships into STEM curricula. Let hands-on experience and industry credentials count toward degrees.” It’s quite the feat to, on the one hand, strip schools of funding for scientific research while simultaneously demanding to control what is taught and, oh, also, colleges need to give degrees to employees at big tech companies just for being employees at big tech companies. The new golden age would also exacerbate the brain drain Trump’s policies have already caused. Nature found that in the first quarter of 2025, US scientists submitted 32 percent more job applications abroad than in 2024. A March 2025 poll by Nature of roughly 1,600 scientists found that over 1,200 said they were considering leaving the country. Europe is investing $565 million to make it a “magnet for researchers” and provide funding for scientists who relocate. The new golden age is also about embedding Trump’s xenophobia into the fabric of American science. The report complains of an “over-reliance on foreign students” that “creates a security challenge our institutions are ill-equipped to address” and that a “reliance on foreign talent sidelines American students.” This is, to put it mildly, nonsense. International students pay far higher tuition and often receive no financial aid. Their tuition dollars are what make it possible for American students to get financial aid. In the 2023-2024 school year alone, international students contributed $43.8 billion to the US economy and supported over 378,000 jobs. Those 1.1 million international students accounted for only six percent of the total number of students in higher education that year, but were such an economic engine that for every three international students, one job was created or supported. It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities and their leading role in scientific research is that there is no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving millions and billions to Silicon Valley types who, in turn, give him millions in cash. There’s no way for his children to invest in universities that the government then gives no-bid contracts to, fattening the family’s bottom line, which is pretty much the Trump sons’ current venture capital practice. Trump and Katsios’s view of science is narrow, cramped, and wrong. We’re not in a crisis, we’re not a failed state. We’ve been a science superpower for decades, and the only thing that threatens that is Donald Trump. Tech bros are already living high off the hog in this administration. They don’t need any more of our tax dollars. Hopefully this new golden age never comes to pass. Thanks for reading Public Notice. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share We’ll be back with more tomorrow. If you appreciate today’s PN, please do your part to keep us free by signing up for a paid subscription. 🚀 Subscribe to PN 🚀 Thanks for reading, and for your support.

Jul 30 • 8:12 AM EDT • Science • publicnotice.co

Michigan’s Platform for Advanced Nuclear Energy

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Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • michiganbusiness.org

The US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know

The US has unveiled what officials claim is the most radical overhaul of the public R&D system in a generation, which if implemented could have significant implications for transatlantic research collaboration. Science: A New Golden Age derides universities as “legacy institutions” and instead wants to prioritise funding on technological challenges, new research labs and funding that follows individual scientists, rather than being linked to their institutions. “Too much of our research enterprise has come to serve itself rather than the scientists within it,” writes Michael Kratsios, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the only named author of the report. “Federal funding agencies should support a broader range of performers.” But some critics argue that the strategy is a smokescreen, using genuine problems in academia as an excuse to further weaken US universities, which US vice-president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy..”Even as it talks of a “golden age” for science, the White House has proposed halving the 2027 budget of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and has put forward double-digit cuts for other funding bodies, such as the National Institutes for Health. It asked for similarly steep savings in 2026, but Congress stopped them going through. Science: A New Golden Age says success will be measured by the extent to which scientists are “free” to pursue the most “vital questions,,” painting academia as currently hidebound by bureaucracy, sluggishness and consensual conservatism. And yet the Trump administration is simultaneously planning new rules that will hand political appointees unprecedented powers to screen and cancel grants. The report has pretentions to be the successor to Science: The Endless Frontier, the seminal 1945 document in which presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush set out the case for post-war government funding of basic research, helping to spur the creation of funders such as the NSF. Even the title page font is the same. But it remains unclear if the latest report will leave anything like as lasting a legacy.Here, Science|Business explains some of the biggest proposed changes in Science: A New Golden Age, and how Europeans think it might change the landscape of their biggest science partner.Universities under fireA key target of the report are US universities, which it repeatedly suggests are outmoded as research institutions. It criticises the NSF for channelling resources “overwhelmingly to a single type of performer, the university-based, principal investigator-led research group..” Universities “extract” money from researchers’ grants to support “growing administrative bloat,” alongside legitimate uses. The Trump administration has been trying to cut the overhead costs in federal research grants that flow to universities. Instead, new institutions are being built. In May, the NSF announced it would spend $1.5 billion on two new so-called X-Labs, focused on scientific instrumentation and quantum systems. The idea is that they fill a niche in the landscape, tackling problems that are too big for a university lab, but too early stage for private start-up funding. Parallel with Europe?This shift to new research organisations parallels moves in Europe to set up new innovation agencies, such as Germany’s Sprind, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency, and the EU’s European Innovation Council. The Dutch and French governments are looking to set up their own entities too. There’s now an emerging consensus, evident in a number of new strategies, that public R&D needs to be shaken up, Charles McIvor, an economist at the OECD, has written in response to Kratsios’s plans. “What stands out for me across these strategies [in the US, Germany, South Korea and Japan] is that governments are realising that the old ways of delivering STI [science, technology and innovation] programming no longer works,” he said in a LinkedIn post. Metascience wins?The document is, at least on the face of it, also a big win for some policy thinkers in the US who want far more experimentation with new forms of research grant and institution.It name-checks a litany of new public R&D ideas, from focused research organisations and advance market commitments to “golden tickets,” which allow grant reviewers the power to hand applicants money without requiring the consensus of other review panellists.Related articlesEuropean researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationFocused research organisations: what are they, and how do you set them up? NIH turmoil risks reciprocal EU-US access to health research funding In addition, every federal research funding agency should set up a metascience unit, the strategy says, “with authority to run controlled experiments on review and funding mechanisms.” The UK has already set one up, the strategy points out. This mirrors recommendations to the European Commission. In 2024, a report led by former Portuguese science minister Manuel Heitor also advised the EU to set up an “experimental unit” to test out new methods of funding research. So far, however, Brussels hasn’t put forward any plans to do so. Bypass universitiesBut there’s a worry that the Trump administration is using the metascience movement to justify an overhaul of public R&D that punishes universities, which it sees as centres of political resistance. Last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it hired and admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create “viewpoint diversity” across campus. It’s also attempted to strip academics of funding for working on politically forbidden areas, like LGBTIQ people’s health.The new strategy appears to be a “move to bypass the power of universities full stop and allow funders and political bureaucracies to handpick the projects and people who will execute them,” said Jean-Claude Burgelman, a former senior official in the Commission’s research directorate, on LinkedIn.The EU’s science counsellor in Washington, Florent Bernard, wrote that the plans risk diverting public research funding so that it “solely serves private interests.” “Who, if not independent universities, will do research that demonstrates the impact of tobacco on lung cancer or the role of human activities in our current climate crisis?” he wrote.Should we take it seriously?“I would view the overall document as a bad faith argument,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science, and a former OSTP official. “I don’t see the project itself as something that can be isolated from the broader attack on the system.” He thinks the argument that academia has become dysfunctional and in need of radical reform is being deployed as part of a “PR argument” to legitimate moves against US scientists. The strategy presents ideas like metascience units as new, whereas there were moves to set them up at the NSF during the previous administration of Joe Biden, Donovan said. The other caveat here is that the OSTP has limited power to carry out any of these recommendations. While Kratsios has issued a memo to research agencies telling them to implement the recommendations in the report, he doesn’t have direct budgetary control. “As a former OSTPer myself, this does not seem like a document that is realistic,” said Donovan.

Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net

After Hobbes vs Rousseau: Politics must move beyond human nature

Since the great debate between Hobbes and Rousseau, our political theory has been organised around a single question: is human nature essentially good or essentially corrupt? Graham Harman, the philosopher behind object-oriented ontology, argues that this is simply the wrong question to be asking. The real forces governing our collective fate - climate change, artificial intelligence, geography, and pandemics - are non-human; therefore, questions about human nature are not the central ones. Instead, Harman proposes a politics reorganised around our relationship to non-human objects and environments, in which quasi-government institutions incentivise and deter actions with the aim of extending the survival of the human race. “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” This has become one of the most popular phrases among twenty-first-century intellectuals. Often misattributed to Fredric Jameson, it has been warmly embraced by such influential authors as Slavoj Žižek and the tragically departed Mark Fisher, and has fueled the notion that the major problem with the political Left is that it simply needs to become more speculative and creative. Naturally, this is never a bad idea in any human pursuit. But what if the political distinction between Left, Right, and Center itself results from a failure of imagination? SUGGESTED READING Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil? By Robin Douglass This particular division has been with us only since the summer of 1789. During the simmering prelude to the French Revolution, it referred originally to the physical position in the National Assembly of radical figures on one side and loyal monarchists on the other. These positions are linked with two entirely different camps of modern political theory. On the Left we find a series of authors ranging from the moderate (Locke) to the supercharged (Rousseau) to the truly radical (Marx), all of them contending that exploitation of the many by the few justifies revolutionary overthrow of the existing order. On the Right they are countered by the likes of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Schmitt, a group of thinkers convinced that corrupt human nature can be tamed only by force. In the words of the Nazi supporter Schmitt: “One could test all theories of nature and state and political ideas according to their anthropology and classify these as to whether they consciously or unconsciously presuppose [humans] to be by nature evil or by nature good.” This is the division we continue to face today, even in the daily retail politics of Western democracies.___Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims.___The most refreshing feature of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s 2021 book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity was their awareness that the forced choice between Rousseau and Hobbes (as they put it) is no longer sufficient. Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims. Far from being stationed “beyond good and evil,” we seem to be fully entangled with both. We are not naturally good or evil, Graeber and Wengrow contend, but naturally experimental and imaginative. They rest their case on the archaeological record, which seems to bear witness to numerous episodes of seasonally shifting governments and festivals, which vacillate in the same society (even in the same year) between the egalitarian and the dictatorial. Such praise of political experiment makes a good fit with the generally anarchist position defended by these authors. Yet it is also what I find most disappointing in their position. Although they are right that the forced choice between Hobbes and Rousseau falls short of what our new situation requires, the authors simply replace it with praise for the human being as a political tinkerer and performer. In other words, they give us just another theory of human nature, one that would not have been out of place in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. What other options might we have?___The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature… We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them___One fresh approach would be to treat politics within a broader framework than human nature, given that the polis does not exist in a vacuum filled exclusively with people. When Bruno Latour went to observe the baboons of Kenya with the San Diego anthropologist Shirley Strum, they jointly concluded that these primates were more socially interdependent than our own species. Each baboon is so reliant on the dynamics of the group that they find themselves locked into constant surveillance of their potentially dangerous peers. The group structure turns out to be inherently volatile. Humans, by contrast, are able to stabilize their societies to a large degree through the mediation of inanimate objects. Although one’s position in society may seem to fluctuate over time, considerable stability is produced through such items as apartment keys, wedding rings, and identification cards, all of them serving to secure us a place distinct from that of our fellows. The Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris has written at length about the crucial role of documents in establishing social relations, making him a hero among notaries in his country. Proper names and license plates cement our position amidst other humans, as do symbolic achievements such as graduation from a top university or distinguished wartime service with its various medals and ribbons. None of this is found among baboons, despite their closeness to us on the evolutionary tree: after all, we did share a common ancestor just 25 to 30 million years ago. SUGGESTED VIEWING The goodness paradox With Richard Wrangham The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature, whether understood in the manner of the Left or of the Right. We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them. But initially, it is true, we face non-human things primarily in the form of constraints. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to form a human civilization underwater, deep underground, atop Mount Everest, or in outer space. Human dependence on the non-social background takes on subtler form in discussions of political geography, especially unloved on the more idealistic Left. Consider the luckless position of Poland during World War II, sandwiched between Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other. By contrast, note the good fortune of the United States in not having a military peer positioned on any land border. Anglo-American geopolitics, since the writings of the American naval commander Alfred Thayer Mahan and the British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder, has been wedded to the notion that one or more liberal offshore naval powers should prevent any authoritarian “heartland” regime from gaining effective control of Eurasia. That remains the case whether the opponent is the impatient Napoleon, the swashbuckling German Kaiser, the villainous Hitler, the murderous Stalin, or the industrial juggernaut Chinese. In their current Foreign Affairs article “Heartland vs. Rimland,” Michael Beckley and Hal Brands analyze the current and coming state of the world on the basis of these same rather durable principles. In recent years a similar outlook has been embraced, in inverted form, by the Putin-loving Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, an icon of the Rightist intellectual underworld. For Dugin, the Anglo-Saxons are an evil force bent on destroying the spiritually superior people of the land: much like Athens in its failed war with Sparta, or Carthage in its eventual collapse against Rome. But the shared notion on both sides is that any strategy that fails to take geography into account is likely to end up as a defeated form of excessive optimism.___When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole.___More striking for us today than geography is the non-human object called climate, which threatens rimland and heartland equally. Even if we contend that humans are one hundred percent responsible for triggering the climate crisis, it remains non-human in the sense of being an independent force beyond our effective control. In a major work published just before his death in 2002, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, the American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould noted the tendency of evolutionary theorists to focus too closely on the fate of individuals in view of their successful or failed adaptation to circumstances. With climate change, however, we confront a force that goes well beyond the scope of any individual life. Whereas Richard Dawkins extended evolutionary questions downward from individuals to the sub-individual gene, Gould pushed it upward, speaking of entire species or clades as impacted by environmental change. The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago is only the most famous example of this sort. In the wake of that catastrophe, large animals needing abundant supplies of food were at a fatal disadvantage by contrast with the smaller birds and mammals of the planet. When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole. The effect is to shift our attention away from individual beings towards the survival of the group.In the United States in particular, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked considerable backlash among those who asserted a nearly absolute degree of individual freedom. In California I encountered those who demanded that their businesses be allowed to reopen, that it was enough to cover their mouths but not their noses, or that they should have the right to enter any public area despite refusing vaccination. Yet public health is probably the clearest argument against libertarianism, which often merely asserts the autonomy of individuals against any claims of the commons. In normal times the individual is worth defending; under conditions that threaten the survival of part or all of our species, compulsion may be our only resort, as with perfectly reasonable blackouts and rations in wartime. To rebuild human society under the constraints of climate change will be one of the great challenges of the century to come, as will our improvised grappling with artificial intelligence. Such phenomena pose existential risks for humanity, and leave far less room for tolerance of individual brattiness. Cases are mounting of devastating wildfires caused by arson. Recently it was reported that there is even a website where one can bet on the location of coming wildfires, raising the specter of deliberate blazes set to collect on wagers. The death penalty has steadily lost support in a world where many stress the infinite value of human life. But if we focus instead on entire ecosystems, those who purposely burn the forests may begin to look worse than serial murderers.___The politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere.___So far I have spoken of force, authority, and punishment: measures sure to have greater appeal to those who identify with what we know as the Right. But other implications of the post-anthropocentric world are likely to have different backers. If non-human objects are seen as structuring political space, it stands to reason that they can no longer be introduced solely by the pace of technical breakthrough. Fields ranging from cybernetics to energy will demand increased politicization once they are reconceived not just as products of individual human investment, but as renovations of collective political geography. This need not involve world government, with its inherent risk of tyranny, but may involve quasi-governmental enforcers of prestige along the lines of a less corrupt FIFA or International Olympic Committee, punishing deviant states not with violence but with less tangible incentives.Politics will never lose its historic links with conflict and faction. But rather than factions aligned by differing theories of human nature, the politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere. This will prove just as incommensurable with the modern Left/Right spectrum as a globe is with a two-dimensional map.

Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • iai.tv

Risant Health’s first CEO to step down

Dr. Jaewon Ryu said he was stepping down to spend more time with his family. Risant is bringing out Dale Maxwell, a retired hospital executive, to serve as interim leader while it searches for a replacement.

Jul 30 • 6:05 AM EDT • Health • healthcaredive.com

How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race

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Jul 30 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Jefferson House apartments in Beaumont begin cleanup after public health nuisance ruling

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Jul 29 • 11:28 PM EDT • Health • kfdm.com

Ancelotti shares thoughts on Brazil’s World Cup disappointment

He is fully committed to Brazil for the next cycle

Jul 29 • 11:26 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Oprah Winfrey is ending her girls’ school in South Africa after 20 years

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Jul 29 • 7:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Health officials say cuts to nursing aid for disabled children being reversed

An executive councilor is calling for an immediate investigation into the health and well-being of severely disabled children covered by Medicaid who might have seen their nursing care cut in recent months.

Jul 29 • 6:33 PM EDT • Health • wmur.com

Henkel Recognized as a 2026 World's Top Disability Inclusive Business

/PRNewswire/ -- Henkel, a leading manufacturer of well-known consumer and industrial brands such as Dial® soap, Schwarzkopf® hair care, all® laundry detergent,...

Jul 29 • 3:43 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

Principal Financial Group named World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business

Des Moines-based Principal Financial Group has been recognized as a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business, based on its performance on the Disability Index, which the company describes as the leading global benchmark for disability inclusion in business. The recognition reflects Principal’s commitment to accessibility, inclusion, and creating opportunities for employees to succeed, and highlights how […]

Jul 29 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • corridorbusiness.com

Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare

Health-ISAC is warning healthcare and medical technology organizations of an observed increase in successful attacks by ShinyHunters, which are using social engineering to compromise single sign-on accounts and steal data from cloud services.

Jul 29 • 1:54 PM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com

A journey to Snohomish for the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire

Knights on horseback, whip-based comedians and disappointing food options at the village of Merriwick.

Jul 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

American, Asian confederations blindsided by FIFA’s World Cup plan

Americas governing body 'deeply concerned' by lack of due process in FIFA private investment plan, AFC 'disappointed'.

Jul 29 • 7:41 AM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com

Audit finds lack of oversight hampering housing assistance for disabled veterans

The program is designed to help communities assist low-income veterans with disabilities in repairing their homes or making them more accessible.

Jul 28 • 8:35 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Visa Third-Quarter Revenue Climbs, Citing Resilient Consumer, Business Spending

The payments company said profit came in at $5.63 billion amid resilient consumer and business spending.

Jul 28 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com

Visa posted 14% revenue growth as consumer and business spending held up

The payments company reported net revenue of $11.6 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $3.32 for the quarter ended June 30

Jul 28 • 4:23 PM EDT • Business • qz.com

Another Pixel 11 leak all but confirms Google's disappointing battery choice

Pixel 11 could get a slight upgrade, while the Pro and XL models may have batteries with lower capacity than their previous models.

Jul 28 • 2:05 PM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com

Isabella Bellezza Receives the 2026 Merze Tate Award for “Exporting Homeland Security: Network Politics and the Globalization of Border Control” -

The Merze Tate Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics. Citation from the Award Committee: Isabella Bellezza’s dissertation, [...]

Jul 28 • 2:00 PM EDT • Politics • politicalsciencenow.com

Abound Health celebrates ADA Anniversary with inclusive bowling event in Murphy, N.C

Abound Health celebrated the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with an inclusive bowling event that brought clients, support staff, and co

Jul 28 • 1:05 PM EDT • Health • newschannel9.com

Visa time limits on foreign Ph.D. students and postdocs will harm U.S. science, experts warn

A Trump administration plan to limit visas for graduate student and postdocs to four years is fueling concerns that the U.S. could lose out on foreign scientists

Jul 28 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • statnews.com

Evan Rachel Wood is ‘sad’ about being left out of ‘Practical Magic’ sequel: ‘They’re not following the book’

Evan Rachel Wood opens up about her disappointment in not being asked to reprise her role as an Owens daughter for the upcoming sequel to ‘Practical Magic.’

Jul 28 • 11:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Secretary Rollins expands rural small business opportunities

New Cooperative Interstate Shipment program for meat processors with the addition of Georgia.

Jul 28 • 9:49 AM EDT • Business • beefmagazine.com

Miffy Expands into Location-Based Entertainment Across Asia

Mercis and WildBrain CPLG partner to bring Miffy and Friends to theme parks, family entertainment centers and resorts across China, South Korea and beyond.

Jul 28 • 8:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • licenseglobal.com

Maine doctor of Iranian descent sues after being denied reentry into the US

Behnoosh Dashti, MD, lives and works as a family medicine physician in the state of Maine. She crossed into Canada, where she is a citizen, only to renew a visa stamp necessary for her driver’s license.

Jul 28 • 8:02 AM EDT • Health • healthexec.com

Brightstar Lottery Named a World's Top Disability Inclusive Business by the 2026 Disability Index®

/PRNewswire/ -- Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE: BRSL) ("Brightstar") announced today that it has been recognized as a World's Top Disability Inclusive Business...

Jul 28 • 6:45 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

Connor McDavid Expresses Disappointment Over Darnell Nurse's Trade to Sharks

The Oilers captain reflected on Darnell Nurse's exit from Edmonton while looking ahead to the 2026-27 season.

Jul 28 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Hiltzik: Trump replaces science with stupidity

Partisan political filters and the search for "DEI" have resulted in billions of dollars in canceled scientific research grants

Jul 28 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • latimes.com

3 years ago an Israeli hospital modeled extreme disaster response. Here are 4 takeaways for US healthcare.

Hospital leaders who want to be ready should a mass casualty incident arise nearby would do well to look for insights—and inspiration—from Samson Assuta Ashdod Medical Center.

Jul 27 • 10:52 PM EDT • Health • healthexec.com

As Communities Unite Against Europe’s Wildfires, Politicians Trade Blows

Spain’s center-left accused conservatives of underfunding the disaster response, while critics of France’s government decried delays.

Jul 27 • 3:36 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Has AI reached the singularity? Experts disagree with Sam Altman

Sam Altman says we're in the singularity. Most of the AI academics and authors Business Insider spoke to say the bar has not been met.

Jul 27 • 2:17 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Senate Introduces Bill To Shield Insurers Covering Cannabis Businesses

Two Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would provide a safe harbor for insurance companies that cover legal cannabis businesses.

Jul 27 • 2:05 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com

Huge PS5 sale lets you stock up on physical discs before they disappear forever

The sale includes a ton of PS5 first-party bangers

Jul 27 • 12:50 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

Savannah Guthrie speaks out on 'agony' of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance

Savannah Guthrie has released an emotional new video statement as authorities in Arizona continue to search for her 84-year-old mother.

Jul 27 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

NYC Health + Hospitals Named on 2026 List of World’s Top Disability Inclusive Businesses

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that it has been recognized as a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business based on its performance on the

Jul 27 • 10:14 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org

Crafting a local identity: Why North Bay small businesses and local causes are turning to breweries for canned collaborations

Restaurants, markets and hyper-local causes continue teaming up with artisanal breweries for business growth and community connection.

Jul 27 • 9:14 AM EDT • Business • pressdemocrat.com

Fifth Third Receives 'World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business’ Recognition

CINCINNATI, July 27, 2026--Fifth Third (NYSE: FITB) has been named a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business by The Disability Index®, recognizing the Bank’s ongoing commitment to creating opportunities for individuals with disabilities through inclusive workplace practices, accessible banking solutions and community partnerships.

Jul 27 • 8:39 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Acxiom Recognized as a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business

CONWAY, Ark., July 27, 2026--Acxiom®, the connected data and technology foundation for the world’s leading brands, today announced that it has been recognized as a World’s Top Disability Inclusive Business based on its performance on the Disability Index®, the leading global benchmark for disability inclusion in business. Acxiom was recognized in the Advanced category, which reflects strong leadership and the successful integration of disability inclusion practices throughout the organization. P

Jul 27 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Recognized as a World's Top Disability Inclusive Business

/PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is proud to announce that it has been recognized as a "World's Top Disability Inclusive Business"...

Jul 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

You think U.S. politics have never been worse? It has, says this Utah professor and podcaster.

Rabic partisanship and fake news are not new ideas in America, a Utah Valley University professor argues. He explains why in his new book.

Jul 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • sltrib.com

Former Portland Trail Blazers Star Arrested in Arizona

Former Portland Trail Blazers shooting guard Isaiah "J.R." Rider was arrested in Arizona over the weekend. The post Former Portland Trail Blazers Star Arrested in Arizona appeared first on HEAVY.

Jul 27 • 12:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fighting alleged automated AI robot health insurance claim denials

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — In a perfect world — and surely in the real world, even if reasonable people can disagree to what extent — the point of health insurance companies is clea…

Jul 26 • 11:13 PM EDT • Health • abc27.com

Relocating CT scanners closer to ED cuts turnaround times with potential to save lives

Every minute saved improves patients’ odds of disability-free survival, experts involved in the analysis noted.

Jul 26 • 7:33 PM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com

Health care bills are opaque. Congress is trying to change that, again.

Bipartisan lawmakers are advancing bills that would require hospitals and insurers to disclose their prices.

Jul 26 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • politico.com

Lions Free Agent Addition Receives Fantasy Sleeper Status

Isaiah Pacheco was a major disappointment for the Kansas City Chiefs last year. However, he is expected to bounce back and have a strong season in 2026 with the Detroit Lions. The loss of David Montgomery should propel Pacheco into flex territory in fantasy football, according to Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report.“Pacheco will get a […] The post Lions Free Agent Addition Receives Fantasy Sleeper Status appeared first on HEAVY.

Jul 26 • 2:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Atlanta Braves’ Didier Fuentes Comments on Disappointing Performance

Atlanta Braves right-hander Didier Fuentes pitched in unfamiliar territory.

Jul 26 • 2:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Giants DC Leans Into Abdul Carter-Micah Parsons Comparisons

Dennard Wilson can see why Abdul Carter is the New York Giants' most valuable player. Wilson explained the comparisons between Carter and Micah Parsons, even though the Giants' edge "wants to be his own person." Carter had a disappointing rookie season, stat wise, with only four sacks in 17 games.

Jul 26 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Inside California Politics: Harder says ICE deeply broken, but supports ‘original agenda’

(Inside California Politics) — This week on Inside California Politics, host Nikki Laurenzo spoke with Rep. Josh Harder, D-Tracy, about an ICE facility in Stockton, the recently passed bipartisan h…

Jul 26 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • fox40.com

Arkansas’ smoking ban just turned 20. Can the state find common ground on public health again?

COMMENTARY: Last week marked the 20th anniversary of Arkansas' indoor smoking ban taking effect. The law is a testament to bipartisanship and the work of Arkansas public health leaders. It’s also a model for how Arkansas policymakers can address the state’s public health concerns today.

Jul 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • arkansasadvocate.com

Outdoor eating spaces became a fixture of D.C. dining. Now they are disappearing.

Business owners say the red tape and requirements of building permanent ‘streateries’ are burdensome and expensive.

Jul 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com

Let’s Talk to Our Neighbors To Improve Our Political Situation

Our political situation looks dire. In December 2025, Pew Research reported that “Just 17% of Americans now say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right. The current measure is one of the lowest” in nearly seven decades. In April 2026, Gallup reported that disapproval of Congress ...

Jul 26 • 5:19 AM EDT • Politics • thefulcrum.us

New Trahan Architects leader named, Louisana Blue exec promoted, new Kean Miller attorney

Take a look at some of the recent promotions and new hires announced at south Louisiana businesses.

Jul 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com

Coming Home: Save the Business Block - Palisadian-Post

In the center of town, the arches stand. They are a Rorschach test. I do not see an eyesore, not in a town where so many properties are on the long journey to becoming something beautiful, even if their current state is “waiting and fenced.” We are in the planning stages, the imagining stages. When… Keep reading

Jul 26 • 3:10 AM EDT • Business • palipost.com

Brazil denies entry to Trump officials ahead of elections

Brazil rejected visas for two planned US envoys, alleging that Washington was seeking to shape Brazil's upcoming presidential election. The development adds to a deepening political tension between Brazil and the US.

Jul 26 • 1:45 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com

Bowman 'honoured' to make return after eight-year hiatus

Goal shooter Lisa Bowman says she had "goosebumps" playing for Northern Ireland in their opening Commonwealth Games defeat against England as she made her return to the international stage after an eight-year break.

Jul 25 • 11:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Six complete Project SEARCH jobs program at Dartmouth

Six Upper Valley residents graduated from Dartmouth Health's Project SEARCH program for individuals with disabilities.

Jul 25 • 10:44 AM EDT • Health • vnews.com

Scrutiny of WNBA intensifies as disarray looms over All-Star festivities

Discussions about race, gender and sexuality overshadow Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game, as league lurches into disarray.

Jul 25 • 8:11 AM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com

Ronald Reagan center director: How to talk politics with family, friends and neighbors, without losing them

A new civility handbook offers a simple framework for disagreeing without destroying the relationships that matter most.

Jul 25 • 7:30 AM EDT • Politics • fortune.com

Picking up a hidden gem card, looking on the upside of shutdowns, a Hyatt safety tip and more (Week in Review)

After recording this week’s podcast episode, I got online to see if I could chat with a representative and product change my US Bank Altitude Go Card (which was originally a Club Carlson Visa back in the day) to a US Bank Altitude Connect Card. Unfortunately, I had a really hard time finding the ability […]

Jul 25 • 7:20 AM EDT • Technology • frequentmiler.com

Donald Trump Is Very, Very Angry About His Biggest Failure. There’s Almost Nothing He Can Do About It.

It's destined to become the signature disaster of his second term.

Jul 25 • 5:45 AM EDT • Politics • slate.com

A federal appeals court rejects Trump's bid to revive H-1B visa fee

An appeals court refused to revive Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B work visas, after a lower court ruled it a tax to be authorized by Congress.

Jul 24 • 10:08 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Measles exposure location confirmed at Gresham urgent care

Measles exposure alert in Gresham: Multnomah County says visitors to Legacy Go Health Urgent Care on NE Glisan July 23, 4 to 8 p.m., may have been exposed.

Jul 24 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • katu.com

Valladares joins bipartisan coalition aiming to protect entertainment industry jobs

News release State Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Acton, joined 38 of her legislative colleagues in sending a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, urging them to protect […]

Jul 24 • 8:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • signalscv.com

Chargers put OT Isaiah World on NFI list

Jul 24 • 7:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mahomes back in full practice, 'optimistic' for NFL opener

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been cleared to return to full practice as he recovers from tearing knee ligaments late last season.A disappointing season for the Chiefs last year was capped in December when Mahomes tore left knee ligaments, requiring surgery for the first major injury in his nine-year NFL career.

Jul 24 • 6:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘Money out of politics’ proposal cleared for Michigan ballot

A group seeking to ban political spending by regulated utilities and large state contractors submitted enough signatures to put its proposal on Michigan’s general election ballot, a bipartisan board determined Friday.

Jul 24 • 5:35 PM EDT • Politics • bridgemi.com

Opposing Defense Bill, Democrats Shift Their Tactics

Crossing what was once seen as a political red line, Democrats voted against the usually bipartisan measure, registering dissent about the war in Iran.

Jul 24 • 3:14 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Wisconsin joins lawsuit over new conditions for federal disaster funding

MADISON, Wis. (WXOW) — Wisconsin is joining 25 other states in suing the Trump administration over new federal funding conditions that would force states to change election laws and help

Jul 24 • 12:46 PM EDT • Politics • wxow.com

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.

Jul 24 • 8:43 AM EDT • Science • theconversation.com

New analysis: Americans with disabilities are more likely to report health harms from global warming

As we mark the ADA anniversary, new research highlights the intersection of climate and disability.

Jul 24 • 8:14 AM EDT • Health • climatecommunication.yale.edu

Nancy Armour's disastrous Caitlin Clark article exemplifies why sportswriting and sports media is failing

A USA Today columnist linked Caitlin Clark's interactions with WNBA officials to Emmett Till, presenting another example of modern sports media's political bias.

Jul 24 • 6:49 AM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com

Does this disappearing organ hold the secret of longevity?

Scientists are increasingly focused on the thymus, an immune gland that naturally becomes less active with age.

Jul 24 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

Business Roundtable: Foundational Workers, Child Care, and the U.S. Economy

The First Five Years Fund, Moms First's National Business Coalition for Child Care, and Etsy hosted a bipartisan roundtable discussion with more than a dozen business leaders from across the country.

Jul 23 • 7:46 PM EDT • Business • ffyf.org

NASA programs feel effects of workforce reductions

More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of a fifth of NASA’s civil servant workforce in the last year.

Jul 23 • 5:31 PM EDT • Technology • spacenews.com

ICYMI Cruz in USA Today: Congress must fix college sports before it's too late  - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) published an op-ed in USA Today emphasizing how the Protect College Sports Act, a bipartisan bill introduced with Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), is the best legislative solution to stabilize college athletics for future generations. In the op-ed, Chairman Cruz argues that without congressional action, college athletics could be reduced to a super league dominated by the wealthiest […]

Jul 23 • 5:10 PM EDT • Sports • commerce.senate.gov

Major changes coming to Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna

The Illinois Department of Human Services outlined plans to reduce residential units serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and to phase down mental‑health beds.

Jul 23 • 5:08 PM EDT • Health • wsiu.org

Turnover of Senate-confirmed officials in Trump’s second term outpaces all 21st century administrations

More Senate-confirmed officials have left President Donald Trump’s second administration in its first 18 months than they have during the same period in other 21st century administrations, according to a nonpartisan organization’s review of the turnover published Wednesday.

Jul 23 • 5:01 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Palisades standout wide receiver Cook makes college decision

Palisades senior wide receiver Lincoln Cook becomes school's first Big Ten football commit

Jul 23 • 3:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AMD EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory

After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 'Venice' processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 'Florence' details as well as EPYC Zen 8 'Ravenna' being in development.

Jul 23 • 3:16 PM EDT • Technology • phoronix.com

Political Faithfulness in a Polarized Age

Orienting around the kingdom of God instead of partisan idols.

Jul 23 • 1:45 PM EDT • Politics • christianitytoday.com

AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms

A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced Thursday would authorize the US government to shut down or throttle risky AI models.

Jul 23 • 1:05 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Medicare 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

Policies with Potential to Improve Health Care Affordability for Patients and Taxpayers

Jul 23 • 12:34 PM EDT • Health • bipartisanpolicy.org

Senate Health Committee delays vote on CDC nominee - Live Updates

With Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski absent for a family emergency, Erica Schwartz would have needed a Democrat’s support to advance.

Jul 23 • 12:16 PM EDT • Health • politico.com

State board to look at MI Money Out of Politics signatures

A bipartisan state elections board meets Friday to decide if the campaign to ban political committees linked to utilities and public contractors has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Jul 23 • 12:01 PM EDT • Politics • michiganpublic.org

Misdiagnoses and medical bias: The gender gap in healthcare

Women are disadvantaged in healthcare – in some cases due to different symptoms in women than in men. This is especially true for heart conditions, where women even face lower survival rates after cardiac arrest.

Jul 23 • 11:32 AM EDT • Health • dw.com

Rural Health Disadvantages in the United States

Over the last 20 years, rural Americans have been dying at a higher rate than urban residents – and the gap is growing. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture…

Jul 23 • 11:30 AM EDT • Health • farmdocdaily.illinois.edu

Isanti County Fair teems with entertainment

Hazardous air quality, 90 degree heat, plus a few other glitches plagued this year's Isanti County Fair. However, between (or despite) all of that, the 2026 running of the summertime

Jul 23 • 10:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • isanti-chisagocountystar.com

We're looking to kick on

Preston North End midfielder Ben Whiteman tells BBC Radio Lancashire they want to put behind them the disappointment of missing the play-offs last season.

Jul 23 • 9:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Isanti County Fair teems with entertainment

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Jul 23 • 9:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • isanti-chisagocountystar.com

Isanti County Fair teems with entertainment

Monica Jobert, from Lakeville, and Jessica O’Neill, from Coon Rapids, compete in the “Whiskerina” division of the Blue Ribbon Beard Bonanza held during the Isanti County Fair. Jobert to first

Jul 23 • 9:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • isanti-chisagocountystar.com