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Türkiye: Health Sector Dashboard - National - July 2026

Infographic in English on Türkiye about Health; published on 24 Aug 2026 by UNHCR

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Aug 24 • 5:04 AM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
Why companies still use annual performance reviews that don't work

You hate annual reviews. Your boss hates annual reviews. HR experts hate annual reviews. It's time to finally kill off annual reviews.

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Aug 24 • 4:14 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
What Is Chuwi, The Laptop Brand Challenging Apple?

The Chuwi brand views itself as a challenger to Apple in low-end laptops, but concerns about its processors and new competitors could affect its market.

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Aug 23 • 8:17 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
When Farm Animals Get Sick, Human Health Is Often Next

New editorial reviews 10 studies on zoonotic pathogens, AMR, and vaccine advances, underscoring One Health surveillance needs for biosecurity professionals.

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Aug 23 • 3:09 PM EDT • Health • globalbiodefense.com
15K views · 249 reactions | President Donald Trump has faced scrutiny...

President Donald Trump has faced scrutiny for bruising on his hands, swelling in his ankles and apparent drowsiness, among other questions about his health. Some doctors say they’re worried about...

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Aug 23 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • facebook.com
UK orders reviews of franchising sector after Vodafone allegations

Two studies will be used to shape government policy amid claims about a former franchisee who took his own life

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Aug 23 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
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WATCH: Politics Today for the week of Aug. 23, 2026

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — On Aug. 23, during the Politics Today episode on KAMR Local 4 News, Jack Kessler reviews several recent political developments and topics of interest in the Amarillo a…

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Aug 22 • 5:02 PM EDT • Politics • myhighplains.com
Column | Lewis: Science first, politics second

As you can probably tell from these columns, I love a good debate. More importantly, I think it is important to listen to other perspectives. Through those interactions, my views evolve. After writing about housing...

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Aug 22 • 12:44 PM EDT • Science • vaildaily.com
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Column | Lewis: Science first, politics second

As you can probably tell from these columns, I love a good debate. More importantly, I think it is important to listen to other perspectives. Through those interactions, my views evolve. After writing about housing...

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Aug 22 • 12:44 PM EDT • Politics • vaildaily.com
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She’s a Trump acolyte. He’s a ‘gringo Sandinista.’ Meet the Harps.

Trump aide Natalie Harp is estranged from her brother, Preston, who has used social media and recent interviews to criticize her and highlight his own left-wing politics.

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Aug 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Lionel Martellini (EDHEC Quantum Institute): Why business leaders need quantum awareness, not quantum washing

Yuval Boger interviews Lionel Martellini, finance professor at the EDHEC and founding director of the EDHEC Quantum Institute.

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Aug 22 • 3:30 AM EDT • Business • thequantuminsider.com
How Angine de Poitrine, KEXP BBQ performer, went viral this year

The masked art rockers went from obscurity to indie stardom when their must-see KEXP performance hit 18 million views.

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Aug 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
What do BBC Sport's player ratings mean?

For some of the biggest football matches we cover, BBC Sport's football reporters will be giving their views on how each player performed.

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Aug 21 • 11:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sources: Investigators probing Trump foes seek interviews on Mar-a-Lago search

The requests were for voluntary interviews and not made through subpoenas the sources said

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Aug 21 • 11:26 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Obama strategist turns on rising Dem star over viral Trump attack: 'Gratuitous and unnecessary'

Obama White House strategist David Axelrod called Jon Ossoff's mention of Natalie Harp "gratuitous and unnecessary," despite the clip's 6 million views.

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Aug 20 • 3:26 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
The Big Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Interview — Infinity Ward on the Beta, Matchmaking, and Much More

IGN interviews Infinity Ward on all things Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 ahead of the beta.

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Aug 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Net Health Launches Chart Audit in Optima Unity, Extending Native AI From Documentation to Compliance Review

Net Health, an AI-native specialty platform serving clinicians across the care continuum, today announced Chart Audit, a new capability embedded in its Optima Unity EMR. Chart Audit reviews completed rehab therapy documentation against configurable compliance criteria before a clinician approves and signs the note.

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Aug 20 • 11:16 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
New study raises concerns over use of weight-loss drugs in elite sport

Researchers surveyed 114 sports medicine physicians from 38 countries, covering 93 different sports, to explore their views on athletes' use of GLP-1 drugs. Twelve percent said they were aware of athletes ...

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Aug 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • medicalxpress.com
Research: Entertainment subscription providers worst-rated for payment experience

Entertainment subscription providers have been ranked the UK’s worst for payment experience, with customers rating them an average score of just 1.27 stars out of five. The findings come from Access PaySuite’s Payment Experience Report 2026, which analysed payment-related customer reviews on Trustpilot across 16 sectors to identify those that have benefited the most from […]

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Aug 20 • 4:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • advanced-television.com
Opening half-hour of TNT Sports’ Premier League broadcasts to be shown on YouTube

The Early Kick Off show will be on before the Hull-Manchester United game on Saturday, with the match previews available free-to-air for the first time

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Aug 20 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
Review reveals how nicotine damages blood vessels and heart health

A review published today in Nature Reviews Cardiology provides the most detailed picture yet of how nicotine damages the cardiovascular system – tracing the biological chain of events from the moment nicotine binds to receptors in blood vessel walls through to the atherosclerotic plaque rupture that triggers heart attacks and strokes.

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Aug 19 • 11:19 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
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The Worldfolio: How Sun-Star Stationery Is Driving Global Growth Through Entertainment, Innovation and Japanese Design

Sun-Star Stationery is expanding globally by combining Japanese craftsmanship, functional innovation and entertainment. Through idea stationery, character collaborations and direct consumer engagement, the company creates products that solve everyday problems while delivering emotional value, with growing opportunities across Asia, North America and Europe.

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Aug 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • theworldfolio.com
WATCH: Trump previews new White House helipad
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Aug 19 • 4:14 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Wednesday, August 19th: BestReviews, Humane Society of Eastern Carolina, Entertainment Report, Be Our Guest: Encino

Eastern Lifestyle

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Aug 19 • 3:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • wnct.com
2026 Pokémon World Champions Preview: Pokémon TCG Power Rankings

Spoiler alert: Dragapult ex stays on top. But other decks aren’t far behind if our panel has anything to say about it.

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Aug 19 • 12:08 PM EDT • Technology • pokemon.com
Debris Management in Gaza - Standard Operating Procedure: Health and Safety in Debris Removal and Recycling — Interim Guidance (August 2026)

Manual and Guideline in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Climate Change and Environment and Recovery and Reconstruction; published on 19 Aug 2026 by UNDP and UNEP

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Aug 19 • 4:52 AM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
Health Sector 2026 Severity Prioritization Detailed Analysis Allocations

in English on Syrian Arab Republic; published on 19 Aug 2026 by Health Cluster

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Aug 19 • 3:06 AM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
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What Florida Has Taught Our Reporter About National Politics

Voters may select an “R” or a “D” next to a candidate’s name, but their political views are often more nuanced than a binary choice represents.

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Aug 18 • 2:04 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Tales From the Beat: Episode 144 - Jane Owen on Entertainment and Celebrity PR

Jane Owen, CEO of boutique entertainment/celebrity PR firm, Jane Owen PR, gives her unfiltered views of how PR works in that segment, challenges, dealing with egos, AI deep fakes, changing media lands...

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Aug 18 • 1:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
On World Humanitarian Day, INEW warns that aid and health workers are being killed by explosive weapons in populated areas

News and Press Release in English on World and 4 other countries about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 18 Aug 2026 by INEW

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Aug 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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Aug 17 • 2:09 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost

Watching one frame of a video will count as a view.

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Aug 17 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Reviews Hail New Action-RPG as 2026’s Best Soulslike

The sequel is far from a shell of the original

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Aug 17 • 10:14 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Roundup: The First Reviews Have Arrived For Mortal Shell 2

A significant improvement over the original?

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Aug 17 • 9:30 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
'Electric up top and suspect at the back'

Hearts fans, we asked for your views after Sunday's 6-2 win over Inverness CT in the Premier Sports Cup. The entertainment value is 10 out of 10 but our defensive errors will cost us against good teams. Can't quite believe that we have such good wingers in Josh McPake, Calvin Miller (both of whom really should be getting Scotland call-ups from Pocognoli) and Sabah Kerjota.

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Aug 17 • 8:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Insurer reviews get an automation boost

The federal government's effort to modernize prior authorization is beginning to show up in the software doctors use.

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Aug 17 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Some Democrats trying to reclaim the issue of faith from the Republican Party

In some of the most critical races this election cycle, several Democrats are sharing how their faith has shaped their views and politics.

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Aug 17 • 5:11 AM EDT • Politics • abcnews.com
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Northwestern football position previews

A look at the continuity in the returning squad and questions that remain.

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Aug 16 • 8:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bills' new grass field draws mixed reviews

The Bills have dumped artificial turf for grass in their new stadium.

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Aug 16 • 8:12 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Velocity Micro Raptor Z55i (2026) Review: A Low-Key Little Gaming Leviathan

Don’t let Velocity Micro's sensible, workstation-style chassis fool you—the Raptor Z55i delivers raw muscle for serious gamers in understated style, and at a surprisingly aggressive price for the parts. It shines brightest when everything is pushed to the max.

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Aug 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
Catamount Football - Preseason Scrimmage No. 2 - Post-practice Interviews
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Aug 16 • 12:05 AM EDT • Sports • catamountsports.com
12K views · 78 reactions | I told my lawyer dad that I was getting a...

I told my lawyer dad that I was getting a science PhD, and he called me a “huge failure” who will never make real money. How do I make my parents proud? Carolyn Hax, Advice Columnist weighs in.

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Aug 15 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • facebook.com
Google suspends real estate business’s profile. Attempts to fix account are met with silence

A Google Business Profile helps customers find a location, read reviews and make contact. But Marlena Bhatia said her profile suddenly disappeared in April.

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Aug 14 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • wsbtv.com
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Tri Ta, Paula Swift, and the superficial state of California politics

That Tri Ta and Paula Swift hold superficial positions on housing policy was unsurprising given how the rest of their interviews went.

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Aug 14 • 1:30 PM EDT • Politics • ocregister.com
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Week Ends Aboard Station With Robotics, Spacewalk Reviews, and Science

Expedition 75 ended the week studying Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers and reviewing procedures for a spacewalk to support the removal and replacement of a space-to-ground antenna on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Science remained on Friday’s schedule as the International Space Station residents studied space exercise techniques, explored aerodynamic drag forces, and more.

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Aug 14 • 12:34 PM EDT • Science • nasa.gov
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McLaren's new supercar looks nothing like its other models - and it's got a manual

"Tactile, analogue and deeply mechanical": V8 tribute to Bruce McLaren enters production in 2028

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Aug 14 • 8:03 AM EDT • Technology • autocar.co.uk
McLaren's New Supercar Brings Back The Manual After 34 Years

The McL 6GT is just a concept, but it previews a manual production car for 2028.

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Aug 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • motor1.com
“The End of Oak Street” first reviews: Anne Hathaway’s “Jurassic Park” riff hailed as ‘dumb fun done well’

While some critics flamed the sci-fi flick’s obvious Spielberg homage, others heralded it as “what the big studios should be doing right now.”

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Aug 13 • 11:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
How people decide who’s deserving in politics

It turns out we're more likely to support policies that benefit people we assume share our political views.

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Aug 13 • 10:19 AM EDT • Politics • goodauthority.org
How to Ease Polarization Using Science

New research suggests that a surprisingly simple intervention—reminding people of their shared values—can nudge them toward less extreme views.

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Aug 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • psychologytoday.com
The drug lenacapavir is a mighty weapon against HIV. Its rollout gets mixed reviews

It's a twice-a-year injection that is remarkably effective in preventing an HIV infection. Distribution is starting. But questions are being raised about getting it to the areas that need it most.

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Aug 13 • 7:18 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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George Pickens Reviews Cowboys Camp With Ideal Mentality
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Aug 12 • 8:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘The Traitors: New Blood’ first ever all-civilian cast revealed (exclusive)

‘The Traitors: New Blood’ first ever all-civilian cast is revealed with photos, bios, and interviews with the 22 new Faithfuls and Traitors.

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Aug 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Hunter Biden’s viral interviews fuel speculation about possible political future

Hunter Biden has returned to the public eye with a string of high-profile and viral interviews, fueling renewed speculation about a political future.

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Aug 11 • 3:09 PM EDT • Politics • katu.com
Santa Cruz County business filings: Week of Aug. 11

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

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Aug 11 • 2:20 PM EDT • Business • lookout.co
Lucas Museum announces new restaurant inspired by Skywalker Ranch

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Tuesday announced its flagship restaurant, Skywalker Grill. Nestled at the top of the museum with sweeping city views, the classic American eatery is now taking reservations.

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Aug 11 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized

Now that Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, the outcome of this crucial race will depend mainly on two things: Whether Republicans succeed in demonizing El-Sayed because he’s brown and a Muslim, and whether they succeed in demonizing him as a left-wing radical. I will defer for the now the question of whether bigotry will be effective this year, although I will address it another day. What I want to address instead is El-Sayed’s signature issue — healthcare. Yes, El-Sayed advocates Medicare for All, a position the usual suspects denounce as “socialism.” I will get to the politics of his stance soon. Today, however, I want to talk about the substance. We should be clear that El-Sayed doesn’t even call himself a socialist. On the contrary, he explicitly disavows the label, saying “I’m a capitalist who just knows about capitalism”. In fact, as I explained in a previous post, the policies that El-Sayed advocates qualify him as a social democrat, not a socialist. Still, El-Sayed advocates a system under which the government would pay almost all medical expenses. Isn’t that socialism? Well, if that is the criterion then much of U.S. healthcare is already socialist. In fact, the government’s role is so large that U.S. healthcare is better described as partially privatized socialism than as anything resembling a free market. Let’s start with the raw numbers on health insurance, which pays the bulk of Americans’ medical expenses. Americans receive health insurance either from private companies or from public programs, overwhelmingly Medicare and Medicaid. Here’s what the breakdown of coverage and spending between private and public looked like in 2024: While a majority of Americans with health insurance get it from private companies, well over 100 million of us are covered by government programs instead. And these government programs pay more total dollars for medical bills than the private insurers do. Why do government programs that cover a minority of the population account for a majority of health insurers’ outlays? Mainly because Medicare covers seniors, and we’re expensive. Also, while Medicaid covers many younger Americans, disabled and elderly beneficiaries account for most of its spending. Even by the raw numbers, then, U.S. health insurance looks as much public as private. But that understates the government’s role: Private health insurance in the U.S. is both highly regulated and heavily subsidized. This is obviously true for the insurance coverage purchased by tens of millions of Americans through the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act. But employment-based health insurance, which covers 161 million Americans, is far more of a government creation than most people realize. For employment-based insurance exists largely because of huge implicit government subsidies that come with major strings attached. Here’s how that works. If your employer pays you $10,000, that’s taxable income. But if your employer pays $10,000 toward a company health insurance plan that meets certain criteria, it isn’t taxable. That’s a huge effective subsidy, running at more than $300 billion a year. Take that subsidy into account, along with the more than $100 billion per year spent subsidizing policies purchased under the ACA, as well as the outlays on Medicare and Medicaid, and net effect is that the government pays for more than two-thirds of Americans’ health insurance. Granted, there are strings attached. Roughly speaking, employment-based health plans can’t discriminate based on medical history — that is, they can’t deny coverage to employees with pre-existing conditions — and they also can’t offer the plans only to highly compensated employees — a health plan that is only for the C-suite is considered taxable income. So given the restrictions of the federal tax code, employer-based health insurance is a lot like Obamacare, which also prohibits discrimination based on medical history and provides subsidies to make insurance affordable to lower-paid workers. The fact is that virtually all of private healthcare insurance is already well under some form of government control through regulation and tax subsidies. How should we think about this system? First of all, is Medicare socialist? Don’t tell anyone, but the way Medicare operates — it covers every senior’s medical expenses, whatever they turn out to be, while being funded by taxes that depend on one’s income — could be summarized by the old Marxist slogan “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” And back in 1961, when Ronald Reagan was the face of a last-ditch effort by the American Medical Association to block the creation of Medicare, he denounced Medicare as “socialized medicine” and warned that it would destroy our freedom. In reality, American freedom survived until Jan. 20, 2025, while Medicare is immensely popular, with an 82 percent favorable rating in the most recent KFF survey. Medicaid, government health insurance for lower-income Americans, comes in at 73 percent. This is in sharp contrast to public views about private insurers, who are widely disliked if not hated and accused of denying essential care. Furthermore, if Medicare is socialism, then the whole U.S. health insurance system, with the government paying most of the bills and placing conditions on private insurers, is almost equally socialist. If you insist on calling any program the government pays for and regulates socialist, then U.S. healthcare would best be described as a partially privatized form of socialism. And one must ask, what is the point of the part that is privatized? Do private insurers add anything positive? Or are they simply parasites, skimming off money that could have been paying for care? The case for viewing insurers as parasites is strong. Many Medicare benefits are now delivered via Medicare Advantage, that is, plans paid for by the government but run through insurance companies. MedPAC, an independent advisory commission, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage plans were overpaid by $84 billion, thanks to practices such as “upcoding,” in which patients’ health problems are overstated to get larger sums from Medicare. Assessing the waste from employer-based insurance is harder, but most evidence suggests that private insurers have substantially higher administrative costs than Medicare does. Furthermore, the complexity of private insurance, with multiple payers all trying to deny care when they can, is a huge burden both on providers — doctors, nurses, and hospitals — and on patients. What do private insurers offer to compensate for these costs? One must go through intellectual contortions to avoid the conclusion that they are, in fact, parasites. Which brings me back to El-Sayed. In supporting Medicare for All, he’s basically calling for an end to the partial, parasitic privatization of a healthcare system that is already hugely dependent on public funding. When one looks at it that way, it’s not at all a radical proposal. Admittedly, the political lift requires overcoming the opposition to higher taxes to pay for Medicare for All. Political realism rather than economics was the reason I and many other progressives supported Obamacare, with all its complexities, rather than demanding an immediate move to Medicare for All. But the political calculus may very well have shifted since the 2000s, as Americans are fed up with a system of unaffordable premiums, rampant claim denials, and byzantine claim administration. Moreover, funding healthcare insurance through taxation would allow for a much more progressive distribution of the cost. That is, compared to the present system, middle-income households would pay less as high-income households would pay more. And the U.S. would stop wasting large sums on pointless administrative costs. So let’s be clear: El-Sayed’s healthcare platform is perfectly reasonable on the merits of cost, fairness and health efficacy. And with private insurers never more hated, while millions of Americans are losing their health insurance, 2026 may be its time. MUSICAL CODA

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Aug 11 • 6:33 AM EDT • Health • paulkrugman.substack.com
Google's AI Overviews are causing chaos for small businesses

Google AI Overviews are becoming customers' first impression of small businesses. Inaccurate summaries are damaging their reputations.

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Aug 11 • 4:22 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Can AOC moderate her views enough to appeal beyond the Democratic base?
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Aug 10 • 11:03 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Bills to address seating sightline concerns on a case-by-case basis

One of the larger concerns were seats with obstructed views, with several photos emerging on social media.

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Aug 10 • 8:51 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Saber's newest game trailer takes a shot at Gearbox's CEO, if you look closely

The first hint that something might be up with the recent debut trailer for Saber Interactive’s Rideshare Stimulator is an unusual choice of words—aside from that second one in the game’s title. “Don’t take your passengers too seriously,” the trailer’s narrator says, as he describes this upcoming game. It a car game about the gig work of driving eccentric people to their destinations, a riff on Crazy Taxi. And then, he says: “When I think I’ve met the randiest of passengers, someone even stranger gets in.” “Randiest”? That suggests “randy,” which usually means having strong sexual desire. Yet none of the oddball backseat occupants featured in the trailer seem particularly lustful. One is an old man who considers his grandson a failure, another shares the theory that birds might control traffic lights, another says he’s banned from an aquarium. A little later, there’s a license plate, shown 63 seconds into the trailer, on the front of an SUV: USB DRV It’s a Texas plate. The symbol between those letters is a cog wheel. If you know, you know. That’s a reference to Texas-based Borderlands game development studio Gearbox Software (their logo features a cog wheel). More specifically, it’s a reference to Gearbox’s CEO Randy Pitchford, who in 2018 found himself explaining the nature of video he’d saved on a USB drive that was found at a Medieval Times restaurant before being returned to the studio: “It was ‘barely legal’ porn. This girl’s handle was ‘Only 18.’” The “girl” in the video had committed a solo sex act that Pitchford, an avid practitioner of magic, found remarkable. “I realized, this is not a sex worker…This is a fucking magician.” Back then, the USB drive was central to competing lawsuits against Gearbox by the studio’s former lawyer and by Gearbox against him. A settlement in late 2019 “exonerated” Pitchford, per the Hollywood Reporter. The USB story has resurfaced at times, now in a trailer from a company that not long ago was corporate brethren with Gearbox. Saber vs. Gearbox The head of Saber told Game File that the reference is payback. “The dig is because Randy took shots at Embracer in Borderlands 4,” Saber CEO Matt Karch told me when I asked him about the license plate. “Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living.” Having interviewed Karch during a cross-country flight in late 2024, I can confirm that Karch was unimpressed with Pitchford during their time both working in the Embracer group. I’d approached him not out of surprise that there was animosity but that it was manifesting publicly now. Gearbox was founded in 1999, worked on a port of Halo early on, and developed hit series such as the loot-based sci-fi shooter Borderlands before it was purchased by The Embracer Group in early 2021 for $363 million (with a possible earn-out of over $1 billion, if certain targets were hit by 2027). Saber was founded in 2001, worked on a remaster of Halo early on, had a big hit with zombie shooter World War Z and was purchased by Embracer in early 2020 for $150 million, with a potential earn-out of up to $375 million. For a few years, the Embracer group was a voracious acquirer of game studios. Then, as investment dried up, it choked. In March 2024, Embracer sold Saber to an investment company controlled by Saber CEO Matt Karch, and it sold Gearbox in an all-stock deal to long-time Borderlands publisher Take Two Interactive. Other studios were shut down. Hundreds of developers were laid off. Gearbox didn’t say much about their Embracer experience, nothing too direct, at least. In the summer 2024, Pitchford told reporter and occasional Game File contributor Nicole Carpenter that Borderlands 4’s story was in some way thematically connected to Gearbox’s experience at Embracer: “There’s this cultural and emotional shift in me, personally, and at the studio. What does it mean to trade some autonomy for organization?” When Borderlands 4 came out, there was something stranger: the matter of “Embracer’s Bluff,” a location in the game featuring an AI-powered toilet and a large trash dump, according to a detailed Kotaku account of the place. Gearbox never commented on it; Take Two never got back to me about it when I asked them last year. By contrast, since Saber exited Embracer, Karch has been one of Embracer’s biggest defenders, casting their management as well-meaning and supportive despite the layoffs and studio closures that resulted from their excessive expansion. Like others, Saber’s Karch saw Embracer’s as a shot. With Rideshare Stimulator’s trailer, he’s returned fire. “It’s amazing to me how fast people forget those who went above and beyond for them,” Karch told Game File. A rep for Gearbox did not comment by press time. Game File is a reader-supported publication. Your backing makes my reporting—including any coverage of trailer-based beefs—possible. Good news! I’m currently running Game File’s first big sale of 2026. You can get a one-year subscription for 23% off. Click here to take advantage of the limited-time offer. And thank you for your support! Item 2: In brief… 🚫 Wal-Mart has laid off the staff of Restart, a games media outlet launched in 2024, Aftermath reports. 🟥 A GTA VI preview is on the way, at last, via an “extended look” that will premiere, unusually, on Netflix at 3pm ET on August 27, then officially go live elsewhere six hours later. Last week, Game File noted that Take Two label Rockstar Games is overdue for showing off GTA VI, based on the timing of the initial hands-off previews of GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2. During a call with investors, Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said pre-orders for GTA VI were “unprecedented and astonishing,” but added the company can’t predict how many of those pre-orders represent bonus sales vs. sales that otherwise would have been made at launch. During the same call, Zelnick was noticeably bullish on the future of playing games over streaming cloud connections (predicting wider adoption in three or so years). He sounded unbothered by Sony’s plans to stop making discs for new games (he said the business is 90% digital already and predicted that there could still be limited edition physical editions of games “in the same way there’s still vinyl in the recorded music business.”) 👀 Take Two wrote off $43 million in their spring quarter after deciding “not to proceed with further development of an unannounced title in its pipeline from a third-party developer.” 🤔 Some rare age-demographics from a big publisher: Capcom recently told investors that “users in their 20s account for approximately half of the users of both Pragamata and Resident Evil Requiem.” Item 3: The week ahead Tuesday, August 11 Game releases: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (Switch 2; already out for PC, PS5, Xbox) continues the Bethesda strategy of putting Elder Scrolls games on everything; Royalty Free-For-All is a Smash Bros.-style fighting game featuring public domain characters such as Mother Goose brawling with Oliver Twist in a stage based on the original Little Shop of Horrors movie. Wednesday, August 12 Game release: Pro Jank Footy (PC, console) is an arcade-style Australian Rules Football game with increasingly ridiculous rules, the more you play (I enjoyed the Steam demo) Thursday, August 13 Game release: Super Mario Sunshine (Switch 2, originally released in 2002 on the GameCube) is released for Switch 2’s Nintendo Switch Online service. This game is the black sheep of 3D Mario games. It’s the successor to the breakthrough Super Mario 64 and the rare Mario game built around a single (vacation resort) theme. Mario’s got a water-spraying backpack, a Yoshi pal and a lot of blue coins to collect.

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Darline Graham’s Riding With Trump—But Political Views Beyond That Still Unclear As Primary Looms

Trump endorsed Darline Graham to replace her brother for a full term.

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Ruf-powered, Porsche 959-inspired supercar brings 819bhp

Son of 1980s tuning hero reveals road-focused take on 911-based supercar, having built 40 desert racers

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Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

Key Takeaways The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combined more than 263,000 telescope exposures to make the largest 2D map of the universe in visible and near-infrared light. Astronomers can pair the Legacy Surveys map with their own observations to explore our universe and search for rare phenomena. The 2D map serves as the foundation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey to measure the universe in 3D and investigate dark energy. Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the map or combine it with their own observations to better understand our universe. Researchers can search for rare phenomena like gravitational lenses, observe fleeting events like supernovae, and investigate two of physics’ biggest mysteries: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for most of the mass in our universe, and dark energy, the force driving our universe’s accelerating expansion. The new map builds on earlier versions from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys that have already proved invaluable. To date, more than 1,800 science papers that reference the Legacy Surveys data have been published. “It’s part of the fabric of astronomy research now,” said David Schlegel, a co-lead of the Legacy Surveys and scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “When you’re working with astronomical objects today, you often start by pulling up the Legacy Imaging Viewer to see what you’re looking at.” Covering roughly 75% of the sky in visible and near-infrared light, the updated map provides a deep view of the extragalactic universe not blocked by the dust and stars of our own Milky Way. Researchers expect it will remain the most comprehensive 2D map of our universe for years to come. More than 160 scientists contributed to data collection for the project, and a team of 20 produced the final dataset released today. It was built by combining 263,407 telescope exposures from three ground-based sky surveys: the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) at NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) at NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory, and the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. That was supplemented by years of data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite mission and additional public data. “For our team, these data are fundamental to our investigation of the expansion history of the universe and the formation of our galaxy,” said Arjun Dey, co-lead of the Legacy Surveys and an astronomer at NSF NOIRLab. “But the skies belong to everyone, and this survey gives everyone the chance to explore the sky and marvel at its wonders.” Here be galaxies The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys were originally conducted to prepare for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. The Legacy Surveys’ 2D map is essentially a deep photograph of the sky; it records where galaxies and stars appear and how bright they appear. This crucial step enables DESI to select objects and measure their light in different wavelengths to determine their distances, building the largest high-resolution 3D map ever made. Scientists study the way galaxies have clustered at different ages of the universe to track dark energy over time. In April 2026, DESI completed its original five-year survey ahead of schedule and with vastly more objects than expected. The early results have shown surprising hints that dark energy’s impact may be weakening over time — a paradigm shift that could potentially shape the predicted fate of our universe. DESI expects to publish improved results using their first five years of data in 2027 and is continuing observations into 2028. DESI was so efficient at observing galaxies, the Legacy Surveys map needed to expand. Early on, “it became clear we might run out of galaxies to look at and run out of sky, and we better start doing something about that,” said Schlegel, who also works on DESI. The new Legacy Surveys map has been used to select DESI targets since June 2026 and will guide the telescope’s operations over the coming years. Computing the cosmos Merging hundreds of thousands of images taken on 2,285 nights, each with unique atmospheric and telescope conditions, was a massive computational effort. It took about a year to develop the computer code and eight weeks to process all the images at the Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab. Beyond supporting DESI, the Legacy Surveys will be a foundational reference for the next generation of telescopes. As new observatories like the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (jointly funded by NSF and DOE’s Office of Science) and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope come online, researchers can compare their observations with one of the deepest and most comprehensive views of the sky ever assembled. The Legacy Surveys data will also help scientists train artificial intelligence tools to analyze petabytes of astronomical data and accelerate new discoveries. It will be among the datasets used in an astrophysics pilot project within the American Science Cloud, part of the DOE’s Genesis Mission. The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics; the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science user facility; the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences; and the partner institutions. DESI is supported by the DOE Office of Science and NERSC. Additional support for DESI is provided by the NSF; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI) of Mexico; the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain; and by the DESI member institutions. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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Aug 10 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov
UNCW Business School Students Travel to Prague for Real-Life Consulting Experience by David Glew

This article was contributed by Kestrel Smoot, International Programs Coordinator for UNCW’s Cameron School of Business. During the most recent spring semester, 33 upper-level finance and marketing students from the UNCW’s Cameron School of Business traveled to Prague, Czechia, to participate in an intensive international consulting project. Unlike traditional study-abroad programs, the Prague consultancy project focuses on real client engagement. Each year’s project is entirely new, designed through collaboration between faculty and industry partners to identify a current business challenge that students will address. This year, students worked with MAMS-Champi, a Czech non-alcoholic beverage company that is seeking to expand into other global markets. Throughout the first half of the semester, students attend class at UNCW and prepare for their time abroad by conducting preliminary research, developing analytical frameworks, and organizing themselves into specialized teams responsible for tasks such as marketing strategy, industry analysis, consumer segmentation, and competitive evaluation. The course emphasizes independence and teamwork, requiring students to take ownership of their work, manage deadlines, and collaborate across functional groups. Additionally, faculty serve as advisors, allowing students to navigate the complexities of the project much as they would in a professional consulting environment. Once in Prague, students met with company leadership, toured facilities, and refined their recommendations based on real-time feedback. The in-person component is widely regarded as the most transformative aspect of the program because students must synthesize weeks of work into a cohesive presentation and deliver it to the client, demonstrating professionalism, strategic thinking, and adaptability. Beyond the consulting work, students participated in cultural and educational activities that broadened their understanding of global business environments. They explored Prague’s historic districts, learned about Czech culture, and engaged with local professionals. These experiences helped students understand how economic, regulatory, and social factors shape market opportunities. The Prague consultancy project stands as a defining example of the Cameron School of Business’s commitment to experiential learning, consistently strengthening students’ confidence, enhancing their resumes, and serving as a focal point in job interviews. Employers recognize the value of the hands-on experience and transferable skills students gain, underscoring the program’s role in preparing industry-ready graduates for today’s fast-moving business landscape.

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Aug 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • wilmingtonbiz.com
The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live

A total solar eclipse will plunge parts of Europe into darkness on August 12, 2026, with Spain offering some of the best views. ESA will livestream the spectacle from the Javalambre Observatory, combining telescope feeds, drone footage, and expert commentary. At 20:31 CEST, the observatory will experience 1 minute and 21 seconds of totality, revealing the Sun’s normally hidden outer atmosphere.

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Aug 10 • 6:59 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Is Goodwin's time up at United?

United fans, we asked for your views after Sunday's Scottish Premiership defeat to Hearts. Gary: I listened to Jim Goodwin's post-match assessment, he's either lying or delusional because he says he saw and what actually took place on that Tynecastle pitch are worlds apart. Dave: Jim Goodwin said the people who weren't at the match may have thought that Hearts gave us a good hiding, well I was there and can confirm that they did give us a good hiding.

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Starz Entertainment (STRZ) Stock Sees Fair Value Lift After Q1 Analyst Revisions

Price targets for Starz Entertainment have been refreshed, with Fair Value moving from US$28.50 to about US$32.33, which marks a higher central valuation estimate in current models. These updates sit alongside Street commentary that weighs the separation from Lionsgate, Q1 model changes, and the new content approach, as analysts balance upside from execution against risks and the recent share price move. Read on to see how to track these shifting views and follow the evolving narrative around...

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Preventing a Health Service Continuity Crisis in Syria - Donor Briefing Note - Evidence period: 2025 and 2026 Impact of Underfunding of Health Sector Syria June 2026

Other in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Health and Humanitarian Financing; published on 16 Jul 2026 by Health Cluster and WHO

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Aug 10 • 3:45 AM EDT • Health • reliefweb.int
WATCH: Politics Today for the week of Aug. 9, 2026

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — On Aug. 9, the episode of Politics Today on KAMR Local 4 News, Jack Kessler reviews multiple recent political developments and topics of interest in the Amarillo area.…

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Aug 9 • 6:40 PM EDT • Politics • myhighplains.com
Round Up: The Reviews For Pokémon Pokopia: Bubbly Basin Are In

Including first impressions of the new DLC

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Aug 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Lubbock business news includes restaurant closure, hotel sale

Business Reporter Alana Edgin reviews recent Lubbock area businesses news and hints at upcoming articles in the Around the Hub column.

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Brand-New 12-Player Co-Op Open World Game With 92 Rating is Now on PS5

PlayStation 5 gamers have a new 12-player co-op open world game to play that has gotten rave reviews from critics.

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Aug 8 • 11:31 AM EDT • Technology • gamerant.com
VIDEO: Marionville's Paden Grubbs previews upcoming season

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 2026 Fall Preview: Marionville Football

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VIDEO: West Plains Head Coach Brock Kenaga previews upcoming season

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 2026 Fall Preview: West Plains Football

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My Stepson’s Hateful Views Are Damaging My Business. What Should I Do?

I would love to bar this person from our home, but I cannot.

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Aug 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

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Aug 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
TNT sports reporter Jon Manley reviews Allenmore Golf Course in Tacoma
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'I’m very good at grass.' Why Trump goes into the weeds on one of his favorite topics

President Donald Trump loves talking about grass, even in settings where such a topic might seem out of place. Since returning to the White House early last year, the Republican has spoken about grass at least 45 times in public events or interviews.

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Aug 7 • 12:19 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Mental health workers hold harsher views toward opioid users

Mental health workers may hold the harshest views toward the very patient population they’re supposed to help: people with opioid addiction.

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Aug 7 • 9:11 AM EDT • Health • news.uga.edu
Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 review

Exactly two years after the original, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Watch Ultra2, and honestly, that's the perfect upgrade roadmap. The two years between...

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Aug 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com
Palmetto Sports Daily: Panthers kick off preseason, college football fall camps underway

The crew previews the Panthers-Cardinals matchup at the Hall of Fame Game and has college football updates from fall camp.

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Aug 6 • 6:34 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com
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Google's AI told people Flock cameras were full of gold. They weren't.

The story starts with a meme: privacy advocates joking online that Flock's surveillance cameras are secretly loaded with valuable metals, worth cracking open for scrap. AI Overviews...

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Ample Entertainment Launches New Documentary YouTube Destination

Ample Entertainment, a nonfiction studio based in New York, on Aug. 6 announced the launch of Ample Originals, a new YouTube destination for original documentaries, series, creator collaborations and companion content. The channel gives audiences an early look at its inaugural slate with exclusive previews available now, ahead of the Aug. 7 premiere of “Ample … Continue reading "Ample Entertainment Launches New Documentary YouTube Destination"

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Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook tells Anchorage business crowd she’s ‘firmly committed’ to bringing down inflation

High inflation for five years has contributed to negative views of the economy, even as it’s largely stable, Lisa Cook said.

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Aug 5 • 9:39 PM EDT • Business • adn.com
Highest resolution view of the sun yet reveals magnetic mysteries

The highest resolution views of the sun’s visible surface have revealed whirlpools that could drive solar activity.

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Aug 5 • 3:45 PM EDT • Science • cnn.com
NFL 2026 offseason power rankings countdown: Defending champion Seahawks aren't No. 1

Here's our complete list of team previews, ranked from 1-32.

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Aug 5 • 1:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
More Potential Upheaval Awaits Indiana Medicaid

New work requirements, more frequent eligibility reviews and other policy changes will reshape Medicaid for many Hoosiers beginning in 2027.

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Aug 5 • 9:47 AM EDT • Health • publichealthwatch.org
Nurses chase cyclospora, aided by interviews, fast-food receipts

More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called more than 100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced.

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Aug 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
‘We take your feedback to heart’: Game Freak is planning regular Beast of Reincarnation updates, starting next week

Reviews for the game have been mixed so far…

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Aug 5 • 5:45 AM EDT • Technology • videogameschronicle.com
Hamer and defensive upgrades - fan views on transfer business

The three we currently have at the club are not of Premier League quality, so it is important to bring in a player with proven ability, so strengthen in this position. Ian: Get Gustavo Hamer's deal done. It will be a good squad player, and then we need a left-back and a centre-forward will be essential.

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Aug 5 • 4:23 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
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Hamer and defensive upgrades - fan views on transfer business

The three we currently have at the club are not of Premier League quality, so it is important to bring in a player with proven ability, so strengthen in this position. Ian: Get Gustavo Hamer's deal done. It will be a good squad player, and then we need a left-back and a centre-forward will be essential.

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TNT sports reporter Jon Manley reviews renovated Cedar Irons Golf Club in northeast Tacoma
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Aug 4 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • thenewstribune.com
Pentagon's counter-drone force rolls out new online marketplace

Developed with Kaizen Laboratories, the new shop allows users to find systems based on price, features, performance reviews, and requirements.

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Aug 4 • 3:55 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Santa Cruz County business filings: Week of Aug. 4

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

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‘I did not steal’: Jacksonville businesses accuse influencer of taking money without delivering. He denies it

A social media influencer accused by Jacksonville-area businesses of taking money for food reviews and failing to deliver what they expected is pushing back against the allegations, saying he never stole from anyone and that some of the claims against him are false.

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MrBeast Sales Slow, Angel Stock Falls, MUBI and Neon Look for Hits, and Will an NBA Franchise Set a Sales Record?

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

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This Action Comedy Has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes Score (and Hardly Anyone's Talking About It)

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Fact-checking Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens' claims ahead of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary

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