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Medicaid termination letters leave South Florida behavioral health patients and therapists in limbo
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Jun 3 • 8:15 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Dallas Stars Select Plano Site for New $1B Arena and Entertainment District

The NHL team, which brought home the Stanley Cup to Dallas in its 1999 championship season, aims to leave American Airlines Arena behind for a new arena and entertainment district at Plano's Shops of Willow Bend site. A key Plano City Council vote on the arena project is slated for June 8.

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‘SNL’s’ Marcello Hernández to host 2026 ESPYs as show leaves L.A.

Marcello Hernández will host the 2026 ESPY Awards, which are are leaving L.A. for New York after more than 25 years.

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Biden crashes Jill’s book tour with awkward ‘love’ question that leaves viewers cringing

Jill Biden's book tour stop with Whoopi Goldberg was interrupted by Joe Biden, sparking viral social media reactions about the awkward exchange.

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Reps. Mejia, Cleaver Demand Trump Administration Automatically Refund Illegal Tariffs Collected from U.S. Small Businesses and Provide Refunds to American Consumers

Reps. Mejia, Cleaver Demand Trump Administration Automatically Refund Illegal Tariffs Collected from U.S. Small Businesses and Provide Refunds to American Consumers Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) and Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) led dozens of lawmakers in demanding the Trump administration make consumers eligible for tariff refunds and implement an automatic refund[...]

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The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

With 22 competing theories and no consensus in sight, the science of consciousness is lost. In this exclusive IAI interview, Berkeley psychedelics researcher and bestselling author of a new book on consciousness Michael Pollan insists that even though consciousness lies beyond traditional forms of scientific investigation, we should resist becoming dualists who see it as something radically different from ordinary stuff in the world. Instead, he makes the case for reimagining science itself: it must stop reaching for objective descriptions of physical reality, and instead embrace subjectivity as the indispensable core of all inquiry. Alasdair Craig: How did your experiences with psychedelics get you interested in consciousness?Michael Pollan: One of the things that happens on psychedelics is that they foreground consciousness. What formerly seemed perfectly transparent and ever present—and yet, non-existent, as water is to fish—suddenly you see it. The metaphor I use in the book is that psychedelics sponge the windscreen. Suddenly you realize: wow, there’s a windscreen, there is this phenomenon that’s mediating my relationship to reality. This is not an unusual realization on psychedelics. I think a lot of people are called to think about consciousness after psychedelic experiences. So that was the proximate inspiration for A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (2026).And then there was a more specific way in which psychedelics influence the book. That was a particular experience I had on psilocybin. I had the sensation that the plants in my garden were conscious and returning my gaze, with their own point of view and agency, and I got curious as to how to evaluate an insight like that. I mean, what’s the truth quotient of insights you have on psychedelics? And I was reading William James—who, of course, wrote beautifully about mystical experience—and he said, we can’t judge the metaphysics here, but we should pay attention to two criteria: (1) How useful is it to think this is true? He was a pragmatist, of course. And (2) can we subject it to other ways of knowing to validate it? Because maybe we should treat these insights as hypotheses. And that’s kind of how I approach psychedelics, as a great generator of hypotheses, but they need to be tested against other ways of knowing. And so that led me down this long path exploring the science of plant intelligence and plant sentience.AC: I love your phrase, “smudging the windowpane of conscious experience.” So do you now start to think, actually, even when I’m not on psychedelics, I’m just seeing a screen all the time, which is not reality, but rather is my conscious experience, behind which reality is hidden?MP: Well, you know, not when I’m brushing my teeth and making breakfast! But yes, in meditation, certainly. I mean, one of the things you realize is that my experience happens to be this way now, but it could be another way. And many things can affect it. My morning coffee changes the screen in various ways, sharpens certain things.___The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness.___There’s this wonderful metaphor in Aldous Huxley’s book, The Doors of Perception, where he thinks we channel consciousness, and that what the brain does is edit it, and there’s a reducing valve. And psychedelics open the reducing valve wider. I don’t know that I’m ready to buy into the idea that consciousness exists outside brains, but I do love that metaphor because there are times when you are more conscious than others. I know I’ve switched from window pane to valve, but you know, a camera aperture can open wider or narrower. And I do have a sense of that. I have a sense of when I’m being less conscious, and when I’m being more conscious, by which I mean, you know, more present, taking in more sensory information. So when you start thinking about consciousness as a matter of degree, that changes things also.I think when we scroll on social media, obviously, we’re conscious. But minimally so, because we don’t have to generate our own thoughts. We’re basically taking these little hits from other people and thinking their thoughts.The process of writing this book made me kind of relativize everyday consciousness as just one type, which is exactly what William James said. Normal consciousness is one type, separated by the flimsiest of screens from the other types.AC: If we stick with the metaphor of the smudge on the window that you get when you take psychedelics, it seems like we’re saying that consciousness has become like an object that you’re looking at, right? You’re looking at the smudge and that just is consciousness. But sometimes we’ll talk about consciousness as a state that you’re in, rather than an object you can perceive. You’re either conscious or you’re not conscious. So it’s difficult to really know what sort of thing we’re talking about when we talk about consciousness, right?MP: Yeah. When you say that consciousness is an object, what’s the subject? Consciousness also? The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness. So we’re in a closed loop and when we get a perspective on consciousness, we’re not achieving any distance from it. That’s one of the problems with studying consciousness. Science is predicated on an objective, God’s eye view of things, and you never get that. There’s no such thing. SUGGESTED VIEWING The brain filters consciousness With Àlex Gómez-Marín But, yeah, there is this sense, I think, that consciousness is something you can approach. Certainly, when you’re writing and trying to recreate a conscious experience, it’s a fiction, but you’re standing back from it, and looking at it. But there’s no real subject-object distinction.AC: That’s so interesting, because when philosophers start talking about consciousness, they often talk about what they call “qualia”, which is their word for the felt experience of, say, the color red. And I think that way of speaking often makes us think of the qualia as an object, which you can see out there: the redness of red. But, as you say, we also want to collapse the subject-object distinction when we talk about consciousness. So there’s something strange going on here…MP: Oh, yeah, there are many strange things going on! *AC: Let’s talk about the varieties of consciousness. Apart from perceptions, there are, pains, emotions, thoughts, and so on. What is it that holds all this diversity together so that they all count as instances of consciousness? What is it that they all have in common?MP: Yeah, that’s a really good question. I mean, there is sensory information, right? Which we perceive coming from the world outside ourselves. And then there’s internal information, which is what’s called interoception. And this is very important too. This is where feelings come from—what are sometimes called homeostatic feelings—that are intended to get the brain to keep us in these narrow ranges of temperature and glucose and so on. That’s a very important part of consciousness. And according to some researchers, who I think are probably right, this is where consciousness begins, with these very primal feelings, like hunger and thirst and warmth and itch, and things like that. And then there’s this third thing, which is our thinking about thinking.And what holds all this together is, I think, the sense of self. Consciousness generates a self: it is probably an organizing principle. All this stuff is happening to the self. It’s a construct, I think, but it is very useful. It can connect all these different streams of consciousness to a single being or a place, metaphorically speaking.* AC: The first half of your book is about the science of consciousness. Is consciousness just another thing, like black holes or the origin of life, which we don’t yet understand, but which we should have every hope that science will one day get to the bottom of, or is there something special about consciousness that makes this unlikely?MP: It depends how you define science. As we define science now, it’s going be very difficult. Science since Galileo has had a set of rules or assumptions, which is that the proper remit of science is to deal with the objective, quantifiable, third-person world. And the physical sciences have done amazing work under that set of limitations. Galileo—for tactical reasons, not for philosophical reasons—said science should not deal with the soul, which at the time was what consciousness was considered to be. So what is subjective, what is qualitative, what is first person, we’re going to leave to the church, he said. And this was a good agreement, and it probably kept many scientists from getting burned at the stake. But it leaves science in an awkward spot, now that it wants to venture into that territory of qualities, of first-person experience. And I don’t think it has the proper tools. I think it will have to add to its toolkit in some way, and find a way to bring in phenomenology, or lived experience and introspection, which science is usually dismissive of.The challenge—we alluded to it earlier—is that the only tool you have to study consciousness with is consciousness. And what I mean by that is, the whole scientific enterprise is a manifestation of consciousness. As much as scientists like to flatter themselves with this idea that they attain a godlike perspective on what they study, when it comes to consciousness, there’s no such thing. And it’s fine for all the things you can step outside of and study from that perspective. But two areas it won’t work are consciousness and cosmology.___It could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.___With cosmology, too, you have to study the universe from inside the universe. It’s not that cosmologists haven’t made progress. We know a lot about the age of the universe and expansion and things like that. But we can’t penetrate what happened before the Big Bang. We just don’t have the tools because we can’t stand outside.The fact that there are 22 full-scale theories of consciousness tells you all you need to know: we’re kind of lost. And I was surprised to find that we are more lost than I thought we were when I started this. I thought that there’d be leading theories, or that we had experiments that we could conduct that would nail some of this down. And the fact is, we don’t.So, I don’t know if science can solve it. But, of course, we can change the rules of science. A really influential book for me was a book called The Blind Spot, by two physicists, Marcello Gleiser and Adam Frank, and a philosopher, Evan Thompson. It’s a reminder that science is a social practice. It’s organized in a certain way and it can be organized in a different way. But it has this huge blind spot at the center of it, which is its failure to recognize that it is a form of consciousness itself, and it doesn’t have a good way of taking account of lived experience.AC: On the one hand, I think you want to resist traditional dualism, which would say that consciousness is something magical, something supernatural, right? But on the other hand, you’re accepting that there is this division in reality between the stuff that you can investigate objectively and measure, and so on—the stuff that science has been good at finding out about—and consciousness, which, for some reason, you can’t objectively measure. Some would take this to suggest that the dualism is actually right. Is there a way of reconciling these two strands of your thinking?MP: To call it magical is full of value judgement. I mean, you could just say immaterial. The interesting thing is, I think, that intuitively we’re all dualists. And I don’t know whether that’s because we’re children of Descartes and other cultures are less dualist than we are. Or it may be because that’s how consciousness feels. It feels different than the body. It feels separate from the body. But I don’t think we should trust that intuition.AC: So let’s think about ways that science might be changed to get at consciousness. I suppose the starting point would be the way that you begin the second half of your book. You have this nice line from William James, where he says, “We now begin our study of the mind from within.” Could you give us some sense of the ways of studying the mind from within? What does this involve?MP: I don’t know what that science looks like. But one of the points I’m making is that it depends on the humanities. I found that I learned as much, if not more, about consciousness, from reading novels and poetry. There is a sense of the fullness and complexity of consciousness that you don’t get in any scientific account. I interviewed this stream-of-consciousness writer and I approached her as an expert on consciousness, and she is. So I think that dialogue is really important.I’m reading Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription. Just read the first page of this novel: it’s a man falling asleep on a train, going to conduct an interview, and there is the experience of being in the train, facing backwards, there’s the view outside, but there’s a reflection of himself through which he’s seeing outside. There’s the memory of dropping his kids off at school. All this is going on in one moment of consciousness. Scientists aren’t going anywhere near that. But I think it’s useful for them to think about. That’s where we’re trying to go: like, how does such a layered experience happen? You know, it also makes you wonder, could a computer ever do this? And it gives you some doubt.*AC: Before we get to computers, perhaps we could talk briefly about plants. How did you come to feel that they are sentient?MP: Well, it was a psychedelic experience, and it’s not unusual on psychedelics. In fact, there’ve been studies about how people become animists during psychedelic experience. Their belief in animism arises after a single psychedelic experience.You know, most scientists would say this is all a myth. But we have only 400 years of the age of enlightenment and science. Before that, we were animists, and if you go around the world, most indigenous cultures are still animists, and children are animists, by and large, until they go to school. So it could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.As I said, I wanted to test this idea, and see whether there was conventional scientific evidence for it. And there’s fascinating work going on in a field that calls itself—in a rather cheeky way—plant neurobiology. These are people who fully realize there are no neurons in plants, but they’re trolling conventional botanists! And they’re doing experiments that are demonstrating that plants can learn and remember, which is kind of amazing: how do you store a memory without neurons? They’re finding plants that can solve problems, that can hear and see. In fact, they have 20 senses to our five or six. For example, a bean plant looking for something to twine, and given a pole within eight inches or so of it, knows where that pole is and will aim its spiraling reach at that pole. What is that about? Is it bouncing signals off of it?One of the spookiest things is the fact that the same anesthetics that put us out put plants out. You might think that plants are already out, but they’re not. They’re just slow. If you take a plant with a fast behavior, like a Venus flytrap, and give it an anesthetic, it will stop reacting. So you have to ask yourself, what is lost when the plant is anaesthetized? Some state of alertness, of awareness, of its environment, of reactivity. I’m not prepared to call that consciousness, but maybe it’s sentience—which is a simpler form of consciousness, and involves the ability to sense what’s going on in your environment and assess what’s good and bad for you and act appropriately. That may be a universal quality of life.AC: Let’s turn from plants to AI. You point out that LLMs are trained on the internet rather than direct interactions with reality. You put this really nicely when you say the internet is not the world so much as a shadow cast by the world. So LLMs are living in this kind of shadow world, or in Plato’s cave, as you put it. What’s the significance of this for AI consciousness and moral consideration? And, to recall the beginning of our conversation, if we’re stuck behind a veil or screen of consciousness, are we also stuck in a kind of shadow world?MP: I don’t think they’re the same shadow worlds because our world includes nature and other people. And even if it’s mediated in some ways... There is a reality out there, and we are in relation to it, through consciousness. There’s friction with it. What’s missing from the LLMs is that friction with the real world. There’s more to the world than human representation, which is what they’re dealing with. And that means that so far, AI is a cultural technology for combining thoughts we’ve already had. SUGGESTED VIEWING Cracking the code for thought With Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Max Tegmark, Güneş Taylor Genuine creativity is more than collage. A lot of what AI does now is tantamount to collage, putting this with that and you know, that’s part of art, certainly. But there are also genuinely new ideas that come into the world that don’t come in through manipulating the representations we already have. So it remains to be seen whether AIs can be truly creative in that more radical sense.But my arguments against AI becoming conscious have to do with the fact that the idea of AI consciousness is based on this faulty metaphor that the brain is a computer. There are dimensions in which the brain is like a computer—it certainly does its share of computation. But computers have this sharp distinction between hardware and software, and brains don’t. In a brain, hardware and software are identical. Every memory is a physical change to the brain. Brains are not interchangeable in the way computers are. So this idea that you could take the consciousness out and somehow run it on another substrate, a silicon substrate, seems foolhardy.Anyway, it’s a more extended argument, and I may be wrong. And when we move to computers that aren’t based on silicon—neuromorphic computers and things like that—all bets may be off.AC: Regarding your point about LLMs being stuck in the world of our representations—the internet or whatever—and not being able to interact with reality, are these representations, the world of the internet, themselves part of reality? We’ve created the internet, but it’s still a real thing that exists. And so while the LLMs may be trapped within that part of reality, they’re nevertheless within reality and interacting with it and so on. So it’s not obvious that there’s a barrier there to them becoming conscious and being creative.MP: Yeah, I mean, if our consciousness is built out of human culture, which is what we’re talking about with all those representations. But I tend to think consciousness comes a bit more out of nature and friction with the natural world, but...AC: So there’s a fundamental divide between the natural world and human artefacts?MP: And we lose track of that, and especially people in this computer world. You know, the people who are creating these AI systems, my guess is they’ve been into video games since the age of three, and they didn’t go outside a lot. And their own contact with nature is somewhat limited. I could be wrong, it’d be a very interesting thing to ask, all the wizards of AI, whether they like to go fishing and hiking and do things like that. Or were they on computers from a very early age? I interviewed Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who came to believe that LaMDA, the Google LLM out at the time, was conscious and deserved personhood. It was very clear that he didn’t see a distinction between this bubble in which he lived and the real world. And I think we’ve all been distanced from the natural world, and this is taking us even further away. But it’s still there, you know, and we still have bodies, and we’re still mortal, and we don’t live in a simulation.AC: I think that’s a great place to finish. Michael Pollan, thank you very much!

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Brene Brown Explains Why Social Media Hurts Our Mental Health

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, author Brené Brown explains one common misconception about social media that always leaves us wanting more.

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The U.S. is still a member of the WHO. That’s a good thing.

The World Health Organization has deftly handled attempts by countries to leave.

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Jun 3 • 6:45 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Brighton sporting director Jason Ayto leaves club after nine months

Ayto only joined the south-coast club in September having previously spent more than a decade at Arsenal.

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Jun 3 • 6:40 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Another year, another Va. retail cannabis market veto leaves businesses, the public with few options

By Yiqing Wang and Toby Cox/WHRO Throughout her bid for governor, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she would support a bill to set up a legal, adult-use cannabis market — which is why her veto on May 19 c...

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Another year, another Va. retail cannabis market veto leaves businesses, the public with few options

Governor Abigail Spanberger’s veto shocked advocates for an adult-use market.

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Jun 3 • 5:26 AM EDT • Business • virginiamercury.com
Mixed federal messages on drug checking leave North Carolina harm reduction programs in limbo

Public health workers say new restrictions on drug-checking supplies come as street drugs become more contaminated and unpredictable.

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Jun 3 • 4:44 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
Westchester high school science teacher accused of trying to sexually assault child in Connecticut

High school science teacher in Mt. Pleasant put on leave after arrest in Connecticut.

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Jun 3 • 2:43 AM EDT • Science • westchester.news12.com
Paid parental leave bill in Allegheny County praised by parents as business owners raise concerns
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Jun 2 • 11:22 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Mavs, Stars departures brings mixed reactions from Downtown Dallas business owners

With the Mavs and Stars announcing their intentions to leave the American Airlines Center, local business owners now face a future without two sports teams driving business downtown.

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Jun 2 • 7:29 PM EDT • Business • fox4news.com
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Dallas Stars choose Plano for new arena, entertainment district

The Dallas Stars plan to build a new arena and entertainment district in Plano, a move that comes one day after their co-tenant at the American Airlines Center announced plans to leave downtown.

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Jun 2 • 6:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox4news.com
Longtime Tandem staffer leaves to tend to coffee cart business

Kenny Peterson will devote himself full time to Side by Side Coffee.

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Jun 2 • 4:41 PM EDT • Business • pressherald.com
Aston Villa and Brighton enquire about Roma’s Matias Soule

Serie A side Roma have to make key sales before the end of June and Matias Soule is one of the candidates who can leave the club. The attacking midfielder didn’t quite make an impact in the second ...

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Reading the CBA leaves: The salary floor

The devil is in the details

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Dodgers Could Lose Shutdown Brusdar Graterol For Rest of Season

Brusdar Graterol’s sudden back surgery following a rehab setback leaves a massive void in the Los Angeles Dodgers' depleted bullpen.

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Wales' Cain leaves Leicester after WSL relegation

Wales forward Hannah Cain is leaving Leicester City following the club's relegation from the WSL but Wales goalkeeper Olivia Clarke will stay.

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Packers Have Underwhelming Position Battle This Summer

The Green Bay Packers have a position battle in the secondary that doesn't seem to leave the coaching staff with good options.

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Jun 1 • 9:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Who are the 9 horses entered for Saturday's Belmont Stakes?

Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will leave from the outside post nine in Saturday's Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

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Holly Rowe reveals Texas softball player’s wild ladybug-eating superstition

Few people swear by superstitions more than athletes. We’ve heard countless stories about players who wear the same socks after wins or won’t leave the practice court until they’ve hit a certain shot. Every so often, however, you learn about a superstition that genuinely surprises and, for some, might gross you out. On Monday, ESPN’s…

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Ken Welch says Charlie Crist’s property tax pitch would leave St. Pete with ‘impossible choices’

'Deeper property tax cuts would leave local governments with impossible choices that ultimately hurt families and communities.'

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Paid Family Leave Is Coming – A Small Business Owner’s Guide

Small businesses look to offer competitive benefits, like paid family leave, to workers to attract and retain top talent. The growing list of state paid family and medical leave mandates often exclude very small businesses (less than 30 employees), leaving them to navigate how to offer the benefit. These decisions involve examining financial and administrative … Continued

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Devin Galetta leaves Department of Financial Services to lead Luke Murphy's CD 2 campaign

Galetta served as Deputy CFO under Blaise Ingoglia since July and held jobs in state government for 21 years.

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How Did Humans Learn Which Plants Are Safe To Eat? Food Scientists Explain

You might know to steer clear of green potatoes and rhubarb leaves. That’s because they produce toxins that can make humans sick.

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Marquinhos will be allowed to leave PSG

As was the case at the end of last season, Marquinhos (32) will be allowed to leave Paris Saint-Germain this summer, as per a report from L’Équipe.There was a feeling of a mission being completed ...

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Jun 1 • 5:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Inter put off by Roma’s asking price for Kone

Manu Koné could leave the capital during the next transfer window. Roma needs to make capital gains by June 30th, and the French midfielder is one of the likely candidates to leave no later than that...

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Aurelian Tchouameni: Real Madrid’s stance comes to light

Manchester United’s hunt for Casemiro’s ideal replacement is not going according to plan.Manuel Ugarte has been a major disappointment and is set to leave, which leaves INEOS with a massive hole t...

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Jun 1 • 1:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tekken 8 game director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco after 20 years

Tekken 8 chief producer and game director Kohei Ikeda has left Bandai Namco after 20 years, he announced.

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Jun 1 • 12:55 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
A Surprising Veteran Has Become the Angels’ Top Trade Candidate

The veteran slugger most likely to leave Anaheim via trade before the Aug. 3 deadline is not the one everyone's talking about.

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May 31 • 9:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump health readout leaves key blanks unfilled

The medical report didn't put to rest questions about bruising on Trump's hands, swollen ankles and his alertness.

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May 31 • 5:05 PM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Elly De La Cruz leaves Reds win over Braves early with hamstring injury
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May 31 • 4:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Blue Jays outfielder Jesús Sánchez leaves game Sunday after getting hit by a ball thrown by fan
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May 31 • 2:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Konate expresses sadness over Liverpool goodbye

France defender Ibrahima Konate says he will leave Liverpool with "lifelong memories" after experiencing "highs and lows" during his time at Anfield.

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May 31 • 12:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Official | Ibrahima Konaté to leave Liverpool as a free agent

Liverpool FC have confirmed that France international centre-back Ibrahima Konaté (27) will leave the Reds upon the expiry of the five-year contract he signed back in 2021. Konaté joined Liverpool f...

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May 31 • 12:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Community Health launches Executive Physical program

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May 31 • 10:02 AM EDT • Health • insideindianabusiness.com
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NFL Rule Change Could Force Detroit Lions to Leave Some Players Behind

The NFL's new roster cutdown deadline could force the Detroit Lions to make critical decisions faster than ever before.

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May 31 • 9:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
FULL SHOW: Inside INdiana Business 5/31/26

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Chinese scientists leave posts after whistle-blower raises alarm over their work

The trio faced heightened scrutiny after a former doctoral student and blogger known as Student Geng raised questions about their work.

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Liverpool seriously considering re-signing academy graduate for €80m

Ibrahima Konate is set to leave Liverpool when his contract expires. Despite talks stretching back to November 2023 no accord could be found between the French defender and the outgoing Premier League...

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May 31 • 3:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No more expensive roaming: the data trick business travelers swear by - Futura-Sciences

Stay connected across borders—without the roaming bill shock If you’re a frequent flyer for work, your data needs are probably sky-high. Between video meetings, sending files on the go, and keeping your cloud tools synced, staying online isn’t just convenient—it’s essential. Traditional mobile plans and public Wi-Fi networks often leave...

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Rafa Jodar’s ball girl shove incident leaves tennis fans divided

Rafael Jodar’s biggest French Open win turned into a messy social-media trial after a clip appeared to show a ball girl stumbling near him. The Spanish teenager had just beaten Alex Michelsen in five sets at Roland Garros, a serious breakthrough on a major stage.

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Goalkeeper Startup to leave Manchester City

Manchester City goalkeeper Katie Startup will leave the club when her current contract expires next month.WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official media update from The Cityzens just a ...

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Scientists got mouse eyes to perform photosynthesis ‪—‬ and no, they didn't turn green

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

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If Google nails the Googlebook, I'm gonna ditch my Windows laptop

I'm ready to leave Windows for Googlebook for these reasons

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Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Healthcare and Housing

The methodically planned strategy is intended to pressure noncitizens, including many with legal status, to leave the United States.

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Lead prosecutor leaves DOJ's case accusing James Comey of threatening Trump by posting "86 47" in seashells

The federal prosecutor who signed an indictment accusing former FBI Director James Comey of threatening President Trump by posting an image of seashells arranged as "86 47" is no longer on the case.

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Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says

But details remained scant after officials said last week that, with “extraordinary” exceptions, people seeking permanent residency must first leave the country.

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After China Orders a Times Reporter to Leave the Country, the U.S. Reciprocates

The Trump administration ejected a Chinese journalist amid fresh concerns about Beijing’s growing pressure on foreign correspondents.

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Ashley Gantt launches campaign to succeed Shevrin Jones in SD 34

The two-term lawmaker will leave her HD 109 seat at the end of this legislative term.

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Frederica Wilson will not seek re-election in CD 24

The Miami-Dade Democrat will leave Congress at the end of her ninth term.

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The two problems created by Ibrahima Konate’s surprise Liverpool exit

Konate had said he had been close to a new contract with the club, but his departure leaves a hole alongside Virgil van Dijk

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Could Paul Pogba leave Monaco this summer?

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May 29 • 4:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Sky Sports: Liverpool star set to leave this summer after contract U-turn

Konate Exit Looms as Liverpool Face a Summer of UncertaintyLiverpool supporters have spent much of the past few weeks looking ahead, eager to see how the club responds after a frustrating 2025/26 camp...

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Chris Evert says Jannik Sinner 'shouldn't have been allowed' to leave court during French Open controversy

Chris Evert draws the line on star treatment in tennis, saying Sinner's French Open medical timeout violated clear rules on cramping timeouts.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s healthcare business gets new leader; Scott McFarlane leaves helm of Avalara

Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services, is leaving his post as Dr. Roy Schoenberg steps into the role. Scott McFarlane, who co-founded Avalara 22 years ago, is stepping down as CEO.

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Things you need when traveling alone, from a frequent solo traveler

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Polish scientists and students rally in campaign for 3% funding target

Polish scientists and students have been flooding social media with calls on the government to raise research and development spending as part of 3% for Science, 100% for Poland, a campaign born earlier this month out of frustration with chronic underfunding in the academic sector. On May 27, thousands took the slogan on to the streets.The EU has been trying to convince member states to raise their R&D expenditures to 3% of GDP for more than two decades, but the idea has never gained traction in capitals. Finance ministers were too busy plugging budget holes created in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, then the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and now the war in Iran.Critics say that countries missed or ignored the target because it is voluntary, but also because research communities have rarely raised their voice to put pressure on national governments. The European Commission hopes to make the target legally binding in the upcoming European Research Area Act, an EU-wide regulation that should be announced by the end of the year. Academia in Poland has been faced with a funding crisis for years, often leaving its members with no other choice but to work abroad in order to access better resources, or leave the sector altogether in the hope of earning a decent living. The risk, in the long-term, is that brain drain stifles local innovation capacity and technological competitiveness.In just a few weeks, the movement rallied nationwide support, including from major academic bodies and trade unions such as the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland and the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its public petition collected more than 23,000 signatures. On May 27, it formed the first large protest for science in Poland, gathering thousands of people in front of the parliament building in Warsaw.Ilona Uryga-Bugajska, representative of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Poland Chapter, was there. “The protest was peaceful, with no incidents reported, and the entire event took place in a respectful and calm atmosphere,” she said. Banners she saw in the crowd carried slogans such as “A little longer and I’ll be teaching in a supermarket,” “National culture, starvation salary,” “Stop the destruction of science,” “Passion will not pay the rent,” “Without action, don’t expect a better future,” and “Pull science out of the hole.” She also observed a strong presence of young researchers, who are on the frontline of Poland’s academic crisis.“Academics are usually people who prefer discussion, analysis, dialogue and compromise. We are not a group that protests easily,” said Katarzyna Marzec, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College and AGH University of Krakow, who also took part. “But many of us feel that we have been pushed against the wall.”Aleksandra Rutkowska, translational neuroscientist and research group leader at the Medical University of Gdańsk, agreed. “Frustration in the scientific community is very high,” she said. “Science is often used politically as a symbol of innovation and modernity, but the everyday reality inside many institutions is much more difficult. There is a large gap between the public narrative and the actual condition of the sector.”Maria Wiktoria Górna, head of the structural biology group at the University of Warsaw and one of the organisers of the movement, told Science|Business that the campaign would continue without proven results. This might involve another strike in the autumn, she said. “Empty promises are not enough by now.”Campaign demandsAccording to Uryga-Bugajska, the organisers officially presented their demands and concerns to representatives of the government present at the event. These included Marek Gzik, deputy minister of science and higher education, and Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, secretary of state of that same ministry.The headline demand, for the government to increase national spending on R&D to 3% of GDP by 2030, should be within Poland’s economic capacity, Rutkowska said. “The real question is whether there is genuine long-term political commitment to treating science as a strategic priority rather than a slogan.”In 2024, R&D expenditure in Poland stood at 1.41% of GDP, which is slightly above the average for central and eastern Europe, with countries such as Czechia recording 1.82%, Hungary 1.31% and Romania 0.46%. However, it falls noticeably short of the EU average of 2.24%, which just a handful of countries exceed, including Germany, Belgium and Sweden.Campaigners are also asking for fair wages for scientific staff, including PhD stipends and junior academic salaries, which are widely considered uncompetitive. Starting doctoral scholarships amount to some €843 gross per month, when the statutory minimum wage stands at €1,135. By pushing early-career researchers out of Poland, growing precarity has caused a generational gap in the academic workforce, with just 25% of lecturers aged under 40. In this context, the movement fears that scientific careers could soon be accessible to a privileged minority only.Grzegorz Spólnik is a case in point. After 15 years working in mass spectrometry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, he decided to leave partly “to earn enough money to live a normal life,” he said. “At that time, my earnings were similar to those of people working in grocery shops, and the work-life balance is something that does not exist in science, or is very hard to achieve.”Now a senior field service engineer for Polish laboratory equipment supplier Bioanalytic, he would consider going back to research, “but never in the public sector, maybe some start-up or a big private company with ambitious R&D.”The campaigners want to see more support for basic research and have called for €236 million to be added to the budget of the National Science Centre (NCN) in 2027 so that the average grant application success rate does not fall below 25%.“At the protest, there was a banner I particularly liked: ‘NCN is not a lottery.’ Unfortunately, for many researchers, it increasingly feels exactly like one,” Marzec said. “Personally, I am one of the lucky ones. I work at two of the strongest institutions in the country, where the research standards are very high. I know that in many other institutions, the situation is much worse and obtaining funding for research at an early-career stage is becoming nearly impossible.”Rutkowska also considers herself fortunate. After studying abroad and holding a postdoctoral position, she returned to Poland, where her pay was supported through an NCN-funded project linked to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. “This also made me very aware that good research conditions in Poland often depend on external competitive funding rather than on stable support from the system itself,” she said.Long-term strategyBeyond the lack of funds for both salaries and grants, scientists believe that the issue is structural. “The biggest problem at the moment is the complete lack of a clear long-term strategy for the development of science and research from the current government,” Marzec said. “Everything ends with declarations and promises that are never truly followed by concrete actions or structural reforms.”Rutkowska agreed, citing a lack of infrastructure, continuity and long-term institutional support.“Running a research group in Poland often means functioning as an entire institution at once,” she said. “I am a principal investigator, a mentor, a recruiter, a project administrator and, when needed, still someone who returns to the lab bench to help with experiments,” she went on. “This creates a large hidden workload that takes time and energy away from actual science. At times, it feels as though scientists are no longer expecting extra help; we simply hope the system will stop creating additional obstacles that make research unnecessarily difficult.”Related articlesStrategic thinking: Germany funds joint research with Poland and FrancePoland to transfer €30M of regional funds to boost Horizon Europe participationPoland is funding fewer basic research grants as high inflation hitsIn short, “academics are expected to teach, publish papers, apply for grants and conduct high-quality research, while funding and salaries remain very limited,” said Uryga-Bugajska, who returned to her home country after 13 years in the UK.According to Marzec, another issue is the way that research institutions are evaluated. Previously, this took place every four years, with a clear differentiation between stronger and weaker institutions. “The current government, perhaps to avoid political backlash, effectively concluded that everyone is doing well, so in practice no meaningful evaluation took place,” she said.But in her view, “some form of serious assessment is necessary” to ensure the excellence and international competitiveness of Polish institutions, and to determine how to best use public resources and where institutional structures need reform. “Some institutions may need to rethink hiring practices in order to attract ambitious young researchers who are capable of obtaining competitive grants and building internationally visible research groups.” Rutkowska has already had to adapt. “When hiring PhD students, I often have to combine different funding sources creatively to make positions attractive enough for talented people to stay in science,” she said. “Many young researchers do not see a stable future in academia in Poland, and that is deeply worrying.”

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Polish scientists and students rally in campaign for better conditions

Polish scientists and students have been flooding social media with calls on the government to raise research and development spending as part of 3% for Science, 100% for Poland, a campaign born earlier this month out of frustration with chronic underfunding in the academic sector. On May 27, thousands took the slogan on to the streets.The EU has been trying to convince member states to raise their R&D expenditures to 3% of GDP for more than two decades, but the idea has never gained traction in capitals. Finance ministers were too busy plugging budget holes created in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, then the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and now the war in Iran.Critics say that countries missed or ignored the target because it is voluntary, but also because research communities have rarely raised their voice to put pressure on national governments. The European Commission hopes to make the target legally binding in the upcoming European Research Area Act, an EU-wide regulation that should be announced by the end of the year. Academia in Poland has been faced with a funding crisis for years, often leaving its members with no other choice but to work abroad in order to access better resources, or leave the sector altogether in the hope of earning a decent living. The risk, in the long-term, is that brain drain stifles local innovation capacity and technological competitiveness.In just a few weeks, the movement rallied nationwide support, including from major academic bodies and trade unions such as the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland and the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its public petition collected more than 23,000 signatures. On May 27, it formed the first large protest for science in Poland, gathering thousands of people in front of the parliament building in Warsaw.Ilona Uryga-Bugajska, representative of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Poland Chapter, was there. “The protest was peaceful, with no incidents reported, and the entire event took place in a respectful and calm atmosphere,” she said. Banners she saw in the crowd carried slogans such as “A little longer and I’ll be teaching in a supermarket,” “National culture, starvation salary,” “Stop the destruction of science,” “Passion will not pay the rent,” “Without action, don’t expect a better future,” and “Pull science out of the hole.” She also observed a strong presence of young researchers, who are on the frontline of Poland’s academic crisis.“Academics are usually people who prefer discussion, analysis, dialogue and compromise. We are not a group that protests easily,” said Katarzyna Marzec, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College and AGH University of Krakow, who also took part. “But many of us feel that we have been pushed against the wall.”Aleksandra Rutkowska, translational neuroscientist and research group leader at the Medical University of Gdańsk, agreed. “Frustration in the scientific community is very high,” she said. “Science is often used politically as a symbol of innovation and modernity, but the everyday reality inside many institutions is much more difficult. There is a large gap between the public narrative and the actual condition of the sector.”Maria Wiktoria Górna, head of the structural biology group at the University of Warsaw and one of the organisers of the movement, told Science|Business that the campaign would continue without proven results. This might involve another strike in the autumn, she said. “Empty promises are not enough by now.”Campaign demandsAccording to Uryga-Bugajska, the organisers officially presented their demands and concerns to representatives of the government present at the event. These included Marek Gzik, deputy minister of science and higher education, and Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, secretary of state of that same ministry.The headline demand, for the government to increase national spending on R&D to 3% of GDP by 2030, should be within Poland’s economic capacity, Rutkowska said. “The real question is whether there is genuine long-term political commitment to treating science as a strategic priority rather than a slogan.”In 2024, R&D expenditure in Poland stood at 1.41% of GDP, which is slightly above the average for central and eastern Europe, with countries such as Czechia recording 1.82%, Hungary 1.31% and Romania 0.46%. However, it falls noticeably short of the EU average of 2.24%, which just a handful of countries exceed, including Germany, Belgium and Sweden.Campaigners are also asking for fair wages for scientific staff, including PhD stipends and junior academic salaries, which are widely considered uncompetitive. Starting doctoral scholarships amount to some €843 gross per month, when the statutory minimum wage stands at €1,135. By pushing early-career researchers out of Poland, growing precarity has caused a generational gap in the academic workforce, with just 25% of lecturers aged under 40. In this context, the movement fears that scientific careers could soon be accessible to a privileged minority only.Grzegorz Spólnik is a case in point. After 15 years working in mass spectrometry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, he decided to leave partly “to earn enough money to live a normal life,” he said. “At that time, my earnings were similar to those of people working in grocery shops, and the work-life balance is something that does not exist in science, or is very hard to achieve.”Now a senior field service engineer for Polish laboratory equipment supplier Bioanalytic, he would consider going back to research, “but never in the public sector, maybe some start-up or a big private company with ambitious R&D.”The campaigners want to see more support for basic research and have called for €236 million to be added to the budget of the National Science Centre (NCN) in 2027 so that the average grant application success rate does not fall below 25%.“At the protest, there was a banner I particularly liked: ‘NCN is not a lottery.’ Unfortunately, for many researchers, it increasingly feels exactly like one,” Marzec said. “Personally, I am one of the lucky ones. I work at two of the strongest institutions in the country, where the research standards are very high. I know that in many other institutions, the situation is much worse and obtaining funding for research at an early-career stage is becoming nearly impossible.”Rutkowska also considers herself fortunate. After studying abroad and holding a postdoctoral position, she returned to Poland, where her pay was supported through an NCN-funded project linked to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. “This also made me very aware that good research conditions in Poland often depend on external competitive funding rather than on stable support from the system itself,” she said.Long-term strategyBeyond the lack of funds for both salaries and grants, scientists believe that the issue is structural. “The biggest problem at the moment is the complete lack of a clear long-term strategy for the development of science and research from the current government,” Marzec said. “Everything ends with declarations and promises that are never truly followed by concrete actions or structural reforms.”Rutkowska agreed, citing a lack of infrastructure, continuity and long-term institutional support.“Running a research group in Poland often means functioning as an entire institution at once,” she said. “I am a principal investigator, a mentor, a recruiter, a project administrator and, when needed, still someone who returns to the lab bench to help with experiments,” she went on. “This creates a large hidden workload that takes time and energy away from actual science. At times, it feels as though scientists are no longer expecting extra help; we simply hope the system will stop creating additional obstacles that make research unnecessarily difficult.”Related articlesStrategic thinking: Germany funds joint research with Poland and FrancePoland to transfer €30M of regional funds to boost Horizon Europe participationPoland is funding fewer basic research grants as high inflation hitsIn short, “academics are expected to teach, publish papers, apply for grants and conduct high-quality research, while funding and salaries remain very limited,” said Uryga-Bugajska, who returned to her home country after 13 years in the UK.According to Marzec, another issue is the way that research institutions are evaluated. Previously, this took place every four years, with a clear differentiation between stronger and weaker institutions. “The current government, perhaps to avoid political backlash, effectively concluded that everyone is doing well, so in practice no meaningful evaluation took place,” she said.But in her view, “some form of serious assessment is necessary” to ensure the excellence and international competitiveness of Polish institutions, and to determine how to best use public resources and where institutional structures need reform. “Some institutions may need to rethink hiring practices in order to attract ambitious young researchers who are capable of obtaining competitive grants and building internationally visible research groups.” Rutkowska has already had to adapt. “When hiring PhD students, I often have to combine different funding sources creatively to make positions attractive enough for talented people to stay in science,” she said. “Many young researchers do not see a stable future in academia in Poland, and that is deeply worrying.”

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Young submarine workers are leaving for less demanding jobs

Retention rates are highest among young, entry-level workers who leave the demanding roles for similar jobs in other industries.

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Rep. Malliotakis leaves House caucus after failed museum vote

Democrats say Republicans added “poison pills” to the bill.

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After two decades in Congress, Al Green will leave the Capitol in January. What’s next?

At 78, Green’s political career is likely to end when he leaves office in January. He said he would devote the remainder of his term to progressive causes.

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Billionaire Tom Steyer's ad spending breaks records in California governor's race

Win or lose, billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer will leave a mark in the history books in his bid to become California's next governor — he’s running the most expensive political advertising campaign in the country this year.

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May 27 • 4:24 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Millender Center’s retail businesses asked to leave

The Bedrock LLC-owned Millender Center, built in the 1980s immediately across from the RenCen, is emptying of tenants.

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May 27 • 3:01 PM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
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Elliot leaves Gateshead after relegation escape

Gateshead part company with Rob Elliot, the manager who oversaw their remarkable National League relegation escape.

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May 27 • 1:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Romans and Vikings left few genetic traces of their occupations of Britain, research suggests

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons, though, were a different story.

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May 27 • 11:44 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Gov. DeSantis acknowledges threats but says security after he leaves office is Legislature's call

No previous officeholder has gotten this benefit. Should America's Governor have set a new precedent?

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May 27 • 11:05 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
2026 Maternal Mental Health State Report Cards Released: the U.S. Receives an “F” on New Parental Support Measures | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

While the overall U.S. maternal mental health grade improved slightly from a C- to C, it received an “F” on new “parental support,” paid leave, and childcare measures.

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May 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • publichealth.gwu.edu
Charlotte plans to pick interim mayor before Vi Lyles leaves. Here’s the process

Public applications will open June 2, and a new mayor will be decided before Mayor Vi Lyles leaves office.

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May 26 • 10:08 PM EDT • Politics • charlotteobserver.com
Millender Center's businesses say they have deadline to leave

Owners of small businesses within the Millender Center say their new landlord, Bedrock, has asked them to leave later this summer.

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May 26 • 6:43 PM EDT • Business • freep.com
Leaked foldable iPhone Ultra cases leave nothing to the imagination

Accessory manufacturers might be getting specifications for the foldable iPhone Ultra from Apple already.

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May 26 • 2:09 PM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
Julian Alvarez informs Atletico Madrid of desire for summer exit

For months, Atletico Madrid have been clear that Julian Alvarez will not be allowed to leave for Barcelona or any other club during the upcoming summer transfer window, but they may now need to consid...

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May 26 • 1:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Williams to leave Liverpool this summer

Defender Rhys Williams will leave Liverpool when his contract expires at the end of June. The centre-half was part of Liverpool's FA Youth Cup-winning squad in 2019 and made his debut under Jurgen Klopp the following year. As injuries struck in defence, he played in 19 matches during the 2020-21 campaign to help the Reds clinch Champions League qualification with a third-placed finish in the Premier League.

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May 26 • 4:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Barcelona sporting director in London to make another attempt to sign Premier League star

Julian Alvarez has been the hottest topic in Spanish footballing media right now, following bombshell reports of his desire to leave Atletico Madrid this summer.It is widely believed Alvarez is not ha...

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May 26 • 2:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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North Seattle businesses demand action after Aurora Avenue shooting leaves community shaken
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May 25 • 9:39 PM EDT • Business • king5.com
Area malls grapple with closures of former ‘anchors’

The shutdown this month of the Saks Fifth Avenue department store chain leaves a dozen retail landlords with hundreds of thousands of square feet to refill or repurpose, and has retail experts rethinking the traditional mall anchor store.

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May 25 • 8:29 PM EDT • Business • wtop.com
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Birmingham Fire and Rescue expands mental health support with paid leave, new wellness app

The Birmingham City Council recently approved paid mental health leave for members of the department.

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May 25 • 6:21 PM EDT • Health • wbrc.com
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How this age of extreme gerrymandering is transforming American politics

Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working to choose their voters as often as every two years.

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May 25 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Dave Hyde: Sports lessons in a 20-minute commencement speech

Ray Lewis recently offered a window into his Hall of Fame football career. He said it turned at the University of Miami when he decided who he wanted to be. “Before I leave here, I will be the greatest Hurricane to ever walk through this university,” Lewis said to North Carolina Central University graduates. “That wasn’t arrogance. That was identity.” It’s one of my favorite seasons in sports: ...

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May 25 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Trump’s possible Iran deal may be almost as divisive as his decision to wage war

The best hope for ending a poorly planned war started with scant consultation with Congress or the American people may be an unsatisfactory peace that leaves critical issues to be resolved later and deepens Washington strife.

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May 25 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Cold and rainy Memorial Day weekend leaves business struggling in Lake George

A rainy holiday weekend with temperatures in the 50's led to Lake George being mostly quiet this weekend. It was a pretty quiet lake without the influx of boats out on the water.

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May 24 • 11:23 PM EDT • Business • wnyt.com
Lionel Messi Leaves In Second Half Due To Injury, Inter Miami Rallies Past Union

Lionel Messi headed into the World Cup break a bit earlier than planned, and now it’ll be Argentina waiting to see if there’s an injury to worry about.

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May 24 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Fabregas: ‘Como historic in Champions League, like football university’

Cesc Fabregas reveals how he told Como they could make it into the Champions League and why he is in no hurry to leave. ‘It’s like going to football university every day.’The coach had already m...

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May 24 • 6:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Conte to leave Napoli a year after winning Serie A

Napoli manager Antonio Conte announces he will leave the Italian club this summer, 12 months after winning Serie A.

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May 24 • 4:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Iraola signs off after writing new Bournemouth chapter

Andoni Iraola leaves Bournemouth having taken the Cherries into Europe.

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May 24 • 3:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Analysis: Gibbs-White omission could still haunt Tuchel

Only time will tell if Thomas Tuchel's decision to leave Morgan Gibbs-White at home for the World Cup is the right one. The Nottingham Forest playmaker and the City Ground clearly think it was the wrong one after the best and most consistent season of the 26-year-old's career. Gibbs-White's 15 Premier League goals this season leaves him as the second top English scorer in the top flight, only beaten by Ollie Watkins following the Aston Villa striker's double at Manchester City on the final day.

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May 24 • 1:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Steelers' Broderick Jones Has Alarming 'Weight' Worry

A lingering neck injury and significant offseason weight loss leave the former first-round pick’s status in doubt as he fights for his future during a pivotal contract year.

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May 24 • 11:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
We left California for Texas. It wasn't worth it, so we're moving back.

Guadalupe Galindo-Nevarez and her family moved from California to Texas for a fresh start, but high heat and property taxes pushed them to leave.

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May 24 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Lazio Make Contact With Gattuso Who’s on Three-Man Shortlist

Lazio have reportedly opened a dialogue with Gennaro Gattuso, who is unattached after leaving the Italian national team.Maurizio Sarri Set to Leave LazioAfter Saturday’s final-day win over Pisa, Mau...

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May 24 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Documentary to spotlight IndyCar chief starter

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May 24 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • insideindianabusiness.com
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HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations

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May 24 • 6:28 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
LeBron James admits he misses Alex Caruso 'every single day'

The Lakers made a pretty big blunder in 2021 when they let Alex Caruso leave in free agency.

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May 24 • 1:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Budget conference: House says 'no' to Ron DeSantis security after he steps down

Should taxpayers pay for Ron DeSantis' security for a year after he leaves office?

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May 23 • 6:53 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Mind-bending scientific concepts leave this layman in science class every day

Science is found in so many places from the physical world to within the mind.

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May 22 • 10:25 PM EDT • Science • adn.com
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Trump admin now requiring green card seekers to leave US to apply, potentially impacting hundreds of thousands

The Trump administration will now require people seeking green cards to leave the United States during the application process — a sweeping change that could upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of people seeking the right to legally and permanently live and work in the US.

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May 22 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Jon Batiste and Paul McCartney give Stephen Colbert a ‘Late Show’ goodbye

Here’s a behind-the scenes look at the last “Late Show” episode: “Nobody wanted to leave the stage or the theater and here’s legendary proof.”

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May 22 • 2:19 PM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
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South Sudan: Children face malnutrition as health services collapse

South Sudan’s hunger crisis is worsening as conflict, displacement, rising food prices, and collapsing health services leave children at growing risk of severe malnutrition and disease.

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May 22 • 10:23 AM EDT • Health • care.org