SCROLL NEWS / DISCOVERY

Search headlines

Find the stories shaping the conversation.

Search mode
Refine results
Active filters Keyword All time

Results for " rp " 13,118 found 🔀 AI-powered Shuffle

The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does

World of Warcraft is being given the Dungeons & Dragons treatment in a massive new book. But D&D: WoW works quite differently to the MMO.

eurogamer.net logo
Oct 5 • 12:25 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Angels To Face Decision On Ill-Fitting First Baseman

Nolan Schanuel’s elite contact skills contrast sharply with a glaring lack of power, forcing the Halos to weigh his high-floor production against more traditional middle-of-the-order threats.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 12:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft – Everything You Need to Know

Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft was announced way back in July, as the first Universes Beyond release for the storied tabletop RPG. And just like the MMO it's based on, D&D: World of Warcraft is absolutely massive.

ign.com logo
Oct 5 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Mary McNamara: As David Ellison names his new empire Skydance, the message is clear: He owns Hollywood

LOS ANGELES — What a surprise. David Ellison has decided to name the Frankenstudio media company created by the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery simply Skydance. And

thederrick.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Behind the Seams | Wildwood

Go behind the scenes at LAIKA Studios for an up-close look at the extraordinary costumes of ‘Wildwood,’ the studio’s most intricately designed stop-motion film yet. Nearly 20 years after ‘Coraline,’ LAIKA’s artists and designers reveal how every tiny stitch, button and layer of fabric is handcrafted and engineered to help bring its puppets to life, combining costume design, fabrication and animation at an astonishing scale.

instyle.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • instyle.com
Caring for students a priority at Health Center

A primary purpose of the Campbell University Health Center is caring for students, serving as an important resource in regard… More on this post

news.campbell.edu logo
Oct 5 • 11:26 AM EDT • Health • news.campbell.edu
Small Businesses Skip the Cross-Border Plumbing Big Companies Can’t Escape

Conventional wisdom says large corporations should dominate cross-border payments. They have global banks, treasury teams, negotiated FX rates,

pymnts.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:26 AM EDT • Business • pymnts.com
Deep dive
😐 Neutral (10%)
ahah
65%
wow
35%
Spurs employ three-guard lineup during Silver & Black Scrimmage

De'Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper played together in what coach Mitch Johnson called "on-the-job training."

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Florida earns 'F' grade from CBS Sports after Missouri beatdown

Unsurprisingly, Florida football earned a failing grade from CBS Sports for its performance against the Missouri Tigers on the road in Week 5.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Misericordia University to Host Healthcare Symposium with Presenting Sponsor Geisinger

Misericordia University’s College of Health Sciences and Education, with Geisinger as Presenting Sponsor, will host the 2026 Healthcare Symposium, “Connected Care: Aligning Education, Innovation & Community Health,” on Friday, Oct. 23, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lemmond Theater on the University’s Dallas campus.

misericordia.edu logo
Oct 5 • 11:10 AM EDT • Health • misericordia.edu
Lawrence brothers take on missing ’90s stars in graphic novel, ‘The Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency’

Joey Lawrence and his brothers, Matthew and Andrew, take on missing ’90s stars and nostalgia prisons in the new graphic novel, ‘The Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency.’

ew.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Can we harness the brain's deep-cleaning system to prevent Alzheimer's?

The glymphatic system is the brain's recently discovered network for flushing out toxins. Now, we're uncovering surprising ways to boost it to protect brain health

newscientist.com logo
Oct 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • newscientist.com
DHS buys three detention centers in California for $950 million

The GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison corporation, announced Monday that it had sold the detention facilities, including the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, totaling 2,644 Beds.

latimes.com logo
Oct 5 • 10:48 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
DAI Closes HCA Hospice, Home Health Transaction

Deaconess Associations Incorporated (DAI) has closed its acquisition of 31 home health and hospice agencies from HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA).

hospicenews.com logo
Oct 5 • 10:30 AM EDT • Health • hospicenews.com
Weaner Pig Breakeven at $22.46, Up $12.25 From Last Week

When you consider that today’s purchased weaner would be sold in March 2027 using April 2027 futures, the weaner breakeven was $22.46, up $12.25 for the week, and $0.57 below the average cash price for the week of $23.03.

porkbusiness.com logo
Oct 5 • 10:22 AM EDT • Business • porkbusiness.com
Seedy K’s Pigskin Palaver: House of Cards & Much Mo’

Ah yes, October; the pigskin campaign is morphing more fully developed. And, fully enveloping. This week, there’s a football game on every single night. Not just the more traditional Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Because Draft Kings and Fan Duel and The World Wide Leader need content, we get Southern Miss and Troy on Tuesday, […]

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 10:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nobody remembers your EBITDA at your funeral

David Mammano highlights the importance of balancing profit with purpose in business to build companies that employees, customers, and communities value.

rbj.net logo
Oct 5 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • rbj.net
Science Corp. Announces Long-Term (36 Months) Results of PRIMA BCI Clinical Trial Showing Durable Vision Restoration in Blind Patients Suffering from Geographic Atrophy

Science Corporation, the neural engineering and brain-computer interface (BCI) company, today announced long-term (36 months) followup data from its pivotal ...

businesswire.com logo
Oct 5 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • businesswire.com
More than a prescription: Removing barriers so patients can get back to living

See how integrated specialty pharmacy support helped one patient overcome treatment barriers and get back to the moments that matter most.

optum.com logo
Oct 5 • 9:58 AM EDT • Health • optum.com
Lexology Index Recognizes Five Hecker Fink Partners in 2026 Business Crime Defence Guide

Hecker Fink Partners Shawn Crowley, Jenna Dabbs, Mike Ferrara, Sean Hecker, and Amy Jeffress have been recognized in the Lexology Index guide for Business Crime Defence. The 2026 guide honors leading lawyers worldwide who “stand out among peers for their exceptional work representing companies, corporate officers, and individuals in criminal litigation arising from their business activities.”

heckerfink.com logo
Oct 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • heckerfink.com
Tech billionaires are spending millions to reshape California’s Legislature

Tech billionaires funding PACs have enjoyed recent growth in personal and corporate wealth and are spending it to handpick the Legislature.

calmatters.org logo
Oct 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
Galaxy S27 Ultra colors leak, and Samsung could be breaking up with purple

Leaked Galaxy S27 Ultra colors suggest Samsung is retiring Deep Purple for another, surprising shade of color.

androidauthority.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:53 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs Reigned

Frankly, it’s surprising the dinosaurs didn’t get dizzy.

iflscience.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:18 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Kingdom Hearts I-III for Switch 2 should've been a slam dunk, but some games need more work

The inconsistent port quality and issues hold some of these KH games back on Switch 2. Square Enix should've done more.

rpgsite.net logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • rpgsite.net
Two More Games Revealed For Xbox Game Pass In 2026, Including A Surprise Shadow Drop

It's coming home

purexbox.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
Phillies news: Bryce Harper, Bryson Stott, Kyle Schwarber

I’d like to see Munetaka Murakami hit another home run tonight

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Integral Ad Science to Provide Brand Safety and Suitability Measurement in ChatGPT Ads

NEW YORK, October 05, 2026--As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes digital advertising, marketers face a critical new challenge: ensuring brand safety and suitability within dynamic, generative AI-native environments. Without independent verification, advertising in conversational channels risks creating a blind spot for enterprise brands seeking reliable media quality standards.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
The 2026 Lookout List: Health and Wellness

Are you feeling centered? This is a place where we value having aligned chakras, purposeful movement, a good gym to frequent and a good dispensary to drop into (for those that partake). For our Health and Wellness category of the Lookout List, we asked you for the best spots to drop into for yoga, mindful moments, health food and more.

lookouteugene-springfield.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • lookouteugene-springfield.com
After success in Ascension with steel plant, Iberville Parish proposes its own industrial zone

Proposed industrial area would abut the RiverPlex MegaPark in Ascension, which has drawn billions in investment and pollution concerns

nola.com logo
Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
WISeSat.Space Completes Business Combination and Begins Nasdaq Trading

WISeSat.Space has completed its business combination with Columbus Acquisition Corp. and started trading on Nasdaq as SAIQ.

thequantuminsider.com logo
Oct 5 • 6:56 AM EDT • Business • thequantuminsider.com
Jobs in health care. Jobs for women. The US labour market is segmenting. Chernobyl’s radiation and Lenin’s love of literature.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Elmer Bischoff, Two Figures at the Seashore, 1957 The only really dynamic job-creator in the US economy is health care: The largest crunch has come in Federal government, which has shed 2.7 m jobs. Source: tchouvkov on Twitter Tech is struggling. [ Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈@JosephPolitano The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms 12:42 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 15.2K Views 15 Replies · 47 Reposts · 390 Likes ](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2106001807847940232?s=20) The new jobs are all for women. [ Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women. 1:09 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 33K Views 70 Replies · 146 Reposts · 644 Likes ](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/2106008723533533601?s=20) Meanwhile, real wages are being eaten up by modest over-target inflation. [ Heather Long@byHeatherLong The financial pain is real: Wage growth fell to 3% (y/y) in September. That's the lowest in 5 years. Wage growth: 3% Inflation: ~3.4% Inflation has eaten up all wage gains for the average worker since April. Many people are having to make hard choices about what to buy and what … 1:24 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 37K Views 24 Replies · 275 Reposts · 533 Likes ](https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/2106012367712620728?s=20) HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Elmer Bischoff, Bathers, 1960 Americans are disillusioned with higher ed. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Where the Chernobyl radiation went. h/t Simon Kuestenmacher aka simongerman600 How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution - Tariq Ali This, then, was the intellectual atmosphere in which Lenin came of age. His father, a highly cultured conservative, was the chief inspector of schools in his region and much respected as an educationalist. At home, Shakespeare, Goethe and Pushkin, among others, were read aloud on Sunday afternoons. It was impossible for the Ulyanov family – “Lenin” was a pseudonym adopted to outwit the tsarist secret police – to escape high culture. At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times. Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.” Source: The Guardian Elmer Bischoff, The River, 1953 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

adamtooze.substack.com logo
Oct 5 • 6:47 AM EDT • Health • adamtooze.substack.com
Yale School of Medicine On the Science of Childhood Anxiety, Say, Anxiety Disorders Are the Most Common Mental Health Challenges In Youth

Credit: Matt Bradbury October 5, 2026 - By Isabella Backman - Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health challenges in youth. Left untreated, they can disrupt the lives of both children and their families. The good news is that with intervention, most children will overcome these conditions. Across Yale School of Medicine, scientists are working to understand anxiety at every level, from common anxious behaviors to molecular biomarkers in the brain. They are using their findings to develop and disseminate new evidence-based treatments for childhood anxiety. Today, the go-to treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This is a form of psychotherapy that teaches children skills for confronting anxious thoughts and helps them practice managing situations that cause anxiety. While it is the gold-standard treatment backed by considerable scientific evidence, up to 50% of children will not see sufficient benefit from CBT alone. Wendy Silverman, PhD, Alfred A. Messer Professor in the Child Study Center, co-directs the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program alongside Eli Lebowitz, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center. One of their main interests is learning how to improve outcomes beyond CBT. “We’re developing cutting-edge, research-based knowledge that can reduce the suffering that anxiety causes children and their families,” says Silverman. Changing parent behavior YSM experts are investigating how to improve CBT outcomes for children by involving the parents. Silverman’s research has uncovered two main components of parent intervention that improve childhood anxiety: not enabling children to completely avoid the things that make them anxious and taking steps to enhance their autonomy. Parents may unintentionally reinforce their child’s anxiety by allowing them to avoid what makes them anxious. They also may unintentionally limit the children’s sense of autonomy by being overly intrusive. “One of the things that we take pride in is that we’ve focused on trying to understand what parents need to do, and to test our ideas and see if changing the parents’ behaviors is enhancing the effects of CBT,” Silverman says. “Our findings thus far suggest that they do." As much as CBT can be helpful, it can also be challenging to get one’s child to do the necessary steps for CBT to work. This is one important reason why Lebowitz created a novel intervention program for parents named Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Existing intervention programs often teach parents to act as therapists for their child, such as training them on how to practice breathing exercises. “It makes sense, but this doesn’t work very well in practice,” says Lebowitz. “And part of the reason, I think, is that it’s not easy to get your kid to do things, especially if they’re not excited about doing it.” SPACE is unique because it focuses entirely on parent involvement and changing parental behavior—children are not involved in the sessions. For example, parents learn how to use supportive messages that convey confidence that their child can tolerate and manage distress. “It might sound like a parent saying to a child, ‘I get that this is really hard for you, but I know that you can handle it,’” Lebowitz says. The program also works with parents to identify the ways in which they are accommodating anxious behaviors. “We’ll pick one thing that parents are doing that is an accommodation and help them make a detailed plan for how they’re going to change that,” Lebowitz explains. Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Much of the existing research on SPACE has focused on parents of children under age 14. Ongoing studies are now exploring its use with parents of older teens. “Both anxiety and accommodation can interfere with normative developmental shifts during the teen years, including increased autonomy and individuation from parents,” says Rebecca Etkin, PhD, associate research scientist in the Child Study Center. “In this sense, SPACE may be particularly well-suited for anxious teens and their parents. We want to see whether it is effective during this distinct developmental window.” Unfortunately, many families in need of CBT face barriers, including limited availability of services and geographic constraints. One way to improve access is digital interventions. Silverman and her team are developing an evidence-based digitized intervention program for parents that they can access directly from their computer or smart phone. “The work we’re doing will be one of the very few parent interventions that is digitized and importantly tested for effectiveness,” she says. Creating interventions for anxiety-related challenges Silverman and Lebowitz recently received a generous gift to develop and test other interventions that help parents reduce other child anxiety-related behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as restrictive eating and unexplained somatic symptoms. One of these projects in particular focuses on understanding the risks of social media and its potential benefits, including offering a sense of connection. “A lot of research has focused on the idea that social media is harmful and the less of it the better,” says Lebowitz. “But we actually see is that this is not quite right—there are negatives, but there are also positives. So, we’re trying to get a little bit more nuanced of a picture.” The team is working with teens with social anxiety and their parents over an extended period to better understand their social media habits and how their anxiety levels affect engagement with different platforms. The teens will answer questions sent to an app on their phones about mood and social media usage in an effort to capture emotional responses as they unfold. “We hope to develop interventions that can help make the best of social media while protecting against the more problematic effects,” Lebowitz says. The brain’s role in anxiety Researchers are also testing therapies to address anxiety at the neurological and molecular levels. In collaboration with Dylan Gee, PhD, professor of psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, Lebowitz and Silverman are using brain imaging to identify changes in a child’s brain before and after parents enroll in SPACE. In one study, children viewed anxiety-inducing images while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); the researchers conducted scans with and without the children’s parents nearby. Before SPACE, children’s brains were better able to activate the regulatory circuitry needed to turn off an anxious response when their parents were nearby. But after SPACE, children could activate this circuitry even without the parent around. “As parents work on gradually reducing some of their accommodations, you can see a child get better at regulating their own fear system in the brain,” Lebowitz says. “It’s remarkable.” Research into the molecular underpinnings of anxiety can also inform new childhood anxiety treatments. In a recent study, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Flora Vaccarino, MD, Harris Professor in the Child Study Center, discovered that a protein known as fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could be protective from the toxic effects of stress. FGF2 levels in children and their parents were linked to the children’s risk of developing anxiety and depression, the study showed. The findings could help explain why some children who are exposed to early life trauma such as poverty or abuse are more prone to developing mental health disorders. And FGF2 could be a target for treatment. “This is very novel because it starts to give a clue to what is the molecular chain that connects those lived experiences to the actual psychological outcomes,” Lebowitz says. New ways to study and treat childhood anxiety Michael Crowley, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center, collaborates with Silverman and Lebowitz to study the role that attention plays in development and maintenance of childhood anxiety. There is a large body of research that shows that anxious children, like anxious adults, are prone to focus on threatening stimuli such as angry faces compared with neutral faces. This has led to innovative interventions that involve attention retraining. The idea is that if experts train children to look away from threatening stimuli, it may reduce their anxiety—especially children with social anxiety who are most prone to attend to threats. The researchers have just completed a clinical trial for attention retraining with 10- to 14-year-olds with social anxiety disorders and are currently analyzing the findings. Besides this innovative attention retraining research, as Crowly notes, “I like to design tasks that are engaging to kids,” Crowley says. “My goal is to assess something without the kids knowing what we are assessing.” With this goal in mind, Crowley has created a virtual game, named Boom, to study threat processing in children with anxiety disorders. The game is similar to that of hot potato—the child and three digital players take turns virtually passing a ball to each other’s gloves. At some point, the ball turns into a bomb, and as the bomb lands in each player’s glove, the outline of the glove turns yellow. The goal is to avoid having the bomb go off in your glove. What isn’t obvious is that the game is designed to measure different types of threatening stimuli, both ambiguous and direct. In the game, the direct threat occurs as the bomb is traveling towards your glove. The ambiguous threat is the yellow outlined glove as it is unknown where the bomb will travel next. While children play the game, Crowley’s team measures their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). The researchers have discovered that in kids with anxiety, the brain reacts more strongly to ambiguous threats than it does in their peers, but less strongly to direct threats. They believe that the initial abnormally large brain response to not knowing where the bomb is going impairs the brain's ability to properly respond when the threat is actually traveling the child’s way. “The brains of children with anxiety are unable to differentiate between threats you need to do something about and those that are not your problem.” Michael Crowley, PhD, develops innovative games for studying anxiety in children and adolescents.Credit: Matt Bradbury Based on these insights, Crowley hopes to study whether interventions like attention training could restore appropriate threat processing. Crowley’s team is also working on a test called the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task, which evaluates risk-taking and avoidance behaviors. It features a digital balloon that is full of air and about to burst. Kids have six seconds to let air out of the balloon. The more air they let out, the less risk they face that the balloon will pop. But at the same time, the balloon becomes less valuable as it deflates. “The more air you keep in the balloon, the more points you get,” Crowley explains. So far, the researchers have found that when the balloons pop unexpectedly, teens with social anxiety show distinct brain responses. Studying these responses can help psychologists understand the underlying pathways driving the various manifestations of anxiety. The genetics of anxiety When Thomas Fernandez, MD, associate professor in the Child Study Center and of psychiatry, was still in training, there was a lot of excitement about understanding the genetics associated with autism spectrum disorder. Since then, scientists have identified around 250 genes associated with autism. The genetic contribution to anxiety disorders, on the other hand, has historically received less attention. Anxiety is less heritable than autism, but the genetic contribution for anxiety disorders that emerge in childhood may be higher than for anxiety disorders overall. While scientists estimate the heritability of anxiety disorders in general to be around 30% to 50%, some studies suggest higher heritability for certain childhood-onset anxiety presentations. “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism,” Fernandez says. “So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism. So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” Thomas Fernandez, MD Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry Now, Fernandez and Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Child Study Center, are studying children and their parents to identify genetic changes that are present in the child but not the parents, known as “de novo mutations.” “All of us have some de novo mutations—maybe about 50 to 100 sprinkled throughout the genome,” Olfson says. “But when they occur within the coding regions of genes, they can be really disruptive.” Previous research shows that people with autism have higher rates of damaging de novo mutations than the general population. In 2022, Olfson, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Fernandez published a study on 68 children and their families that found that children with anxiety had similarly high levels of these mutations. Studying de novo mutations can help point the researchers to where they should be looking for genes associated with anxiety. “The end game is using the genes to steer us toward the right part of biology that we can then target to come up with better treatments,” Fernandez says. Building on those findings, the team is now studying more families to better understand how these de novo mutations, along with other genetic and environmental factors, shape pediatric anxiety disorders. They recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to enroll 750 new families over the next five years. Olfson is the principal investigator, with co-investigators Lebowitz, Fernandez, Silverman, and Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD, department chair and professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. Neurodevelopment, Risk Genes, and Mental Health Conditions - The Olfson Lab Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, is interested in how different anxiety disorders differ genomically. “We are studying social phobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, working to understand why people differ in their risk to these specific anxiety disorders and evaluating various risk factors,” he says. Gelernter was recently involved in one of the largest studies to date of the genomics underlying anxiety disorder. The study included around 122,000 people with anxiety disorders and around 730,000 without. It found that some genetic differences associated with anxiety were linked to signaling that helps reduce overactivity in the nervous system. Many anxiety medications available today work by targeting this process. “It’s nice when the biology that you get out of a large genome-wide study ratifies things that we already know because that can help increase confidence in further findings from the study,” Gelernter says. Uncovering the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is interested in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which anxiety is a major symptom. In the late 1980s, Krystal’s team discovered that the drug yohimbine activated symptoms in patients with PTSD. “This was the first time we could link a specific biological mechanism to the symptoms of PTSD,” Krystal says. At the time, he adds, this finding was highly controversial. “A lot of people felt that PTSD was a purely psychological syndrome that didn’t have an underlying biology.” Since then, Krystal has dived deep into understanding the neurobiology of PTSD to learn how to better treat it. His team is evaluating the use of ketamine and psychedelics. These would be among the first treatments to be developed specifically for PTSD. They may also be applicable for other disorders including anxiety disorders, Krystal adds. An important gap in PTSD treatment is the absence of biological tests that inform how to best help patients manage their PTSD symptoms. A doctor doesn’t diagnose cancer based on how they feel. Rather, they use tests of the biology of the cancer to determine the best course of treatment. “And we can’t do that in any psychiatric disorder other than Alzheimer’s disease,” Krystal says. “But now we are building a foundation for this approach to the treatment of anxiety disorders for the first time.” Source: Yale School of Medicine

goldrushcam.com logo
Oct 5 • 6:44 AM EDT • Science • goldrushcam.com
Democratic socialists scored big primary wins. But that’s not the whole story.

DSA-backed candidates, sharp critics of Israel, made historic gains. But a closer look makes clear they’re not taking over the Democratic Party – so far.

jta.org logo
Oct 5 • 6:22 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org
Business Starts for Oct. 5, 2026

In June, 1,412 new businesses filed InCorporation paperwork with the Massachusetts Secretary of the State in order to do business in the state.

wbjournal.com logo
Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • wbjournal.com
Study finds a whole grain sweet spot for heart health

You know that whole grains are good for your heart. New research identifies how much it takes to notice improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure and more.

washingtonpost.com logo
Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Free-To-Play RPG 'The New Denpa Men' Is Ending Service Later This Year

Denparessing

nintendolife.com logo
Oct 5 • 5:30 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Buy Rating Reaffirmed Might Change The Case For Investing In Astrana Health Stock

Astrana Health recently reported quarterly results showing solid revenue growth and higher net profit for the period ending June 30, with a reaffirmed Buy rating from Freedom Capital Markets serving as supporting commentary on the business performance. The combination of rising quarterly profitability and revenue momentum suggests Astrana Health is executing on its healthcare model, with analyst confidence reflecting how that operating progress is being interpreted by the market. This...

simplywall.st logo
Oct 5 • 5:12 AM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
Digital Science Appoints Charlesworth as Strategic Sales Partner of Altmetric and Dimensions in China's Scholarly Publishing Sector

London, United Kingdom--(Newsfile Corp. - October 5, 2026) - Digital Science has appointed Charlesworth as its strategic sales partner of Altmetric and Dimensions in China's scholarly publishing sector. This collaboration aims to support the growing demand for research data and information across this rapidly developing market.China's local publishing industry has grown significantly in scale and maturity, with journal publishers actively strengthening their international position, investing in.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Grindr Buys Telehealth Firm in $250M Deal

Grindr Inc. is acquiring telehealth platform PurposeMed Inc. in a $250 million deal, Grindr announced on Wednesday. This is Grindr’s first major

labusinessjournal.com logo
Oct 5 • 3:45 AM EDT • Business • labusinessjournal.com
Liverpool give Florian Wirtz a €200m Michael Olise warning

Signed in summer 2025 for a fee that could reach £116m the Germany international has yet to hit the heights at Anfield which he reached at Bayer Leverkusen.The 23-year-old’s toils have now continue...

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 3:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TempraMed Announces VIVI Cap Smart Connectivity with Apple Health and Google Fit, Providing Better Health Outcomes and Data Tracking

VIVI Cap Smart transforms injectable medication protection into a connected health-data layer, enabling patients, caregivers and digital-health platforms to capture medication-use, temperature and adherence signals.Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 5, 2026) - TempraMed Technologies Ltd. (CSE: VIVI) (OTCQB: TMPTF) (FSE: 9DY) ("TempraMed" or the "Company"), a medical technology company transforming the storage, protection and management of temperature-sensitive medications, is pleased to

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 3:05 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Key to Medicare home health reform is determining program's objective: report

Three possible reforms to Medicare home health are cost-sharing, home health eligibility requirements and optional cash payments, according to a September report from Brookings, a nonpartisan think tank. Which track to choose depends on what the overriding purpose of the program is, the four economist authors say.

mcknightshomecare.com logo
Oct 5 • 1:38 AM EDT • Health • mcknightshomecare.com
The Surprising AI-Driven Tailwinds For BPO Growth

The market is understandably focused on the headwinds that artificial intelligence creates for the services industry.

forbes.com logo
Oct 5 • 1:30 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
OPKO Health (OPK) Sharpens Its Focus, Is It Still A Bargain?

OPKO Health (OPK) has been drawing attention after recent trading moves around its US$1.56 share price, with investors weighing its mixed return profile over the past year against longer term performance trends. For context, OPKO Health’s recent pullback, with a 7 day share price return of down 4.29% and a 30 day share price return of down 4.88% from US$1.56, comes after a stronger 90 day share price return of 4.70% and year to date share price return of 22.83%. The 1 year total shareholder...

simplywall.st logo
Oct 5 • 1:21 AM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
Deep dive
😐 Neutral (20%)
wow
46%
love
29%
ahah
25%
A week of politics, preaching and personalities

Students at UW-Whitewater know what they’ll see as they walk across campus. A couple oversized squirrels in the grass, students shuffling from classes and, if you’re lucky, a few spaced out tables handing out fun prizes. But for students, the week of Sept. 28 looked a little different. As the 2026 Wisconsin governor’s race continues...

royalpurplenews.com logo
Oct 5 • 1:04 AM EDT • Politics • royalpurplenews.com
😐 Neutral (0%)
Golden Knights hang on to continue dominance over Canucks

VANCOUVER—It should be no surprise that the Vegas Golden Knights have displayed dominance over some of their Pacific Division foes, due to how long they have remained at the top.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 1:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
😐 Neutral (18%)
[World Class] Sookmyung bets Hallyu’s next stage is academia, not just entertainment

Behind each university’s global ambitions are choices about what to preserve, what to develop and where to go next. In “World Class,” The Korea Herald interview

koreaherald.com logo
Oct 5 • 12:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • koreaherald.com
MedX Health Appoints Monaderm as a Representative for SkinSecure™ Across Europe for Beauty and Aesthetics Research

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, October 05, 2026--MedX Health Corp. (TSXV: MDX), a data-driven skin health analytics company, today announced the appointment of Monaderm, the Monaco-based skin measurement specialist, as a key European sales agent for SkinSecure™, expanding the commercial reach of its non-invasive, objective biological skin measurement technology, which maps collagen, melanin and hemoglobin non-invasively in living skin in a single 30-second capture, across the European cosmetics and skin

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 5 • 12:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Euro slides as French fiscal worries grip markets

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The euro weakened sharply on Monday to a 17-month low as fiscal worries in France amid a steep bond market rout stoked

lufkindailynews.com logo
Oct 4 • 11:50 PM EDT • Business • lufkindailynews.com
The New Denpa Men to end service on December 6

Free-to-play RPG The New Denpa Men will end service on December 6 at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET / December 7 at 11:00 JST, developer Genius Sonority announced.

gematsu.com logo
Oct 4 • 11:38 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Preview: Phoenix Suns Open Preseason Play vs. Detroit Pistons

Jordan Ott debuts a revamped, ball-dominant starting five against the Eastern Conference’s top seed while testing how new floor spacers fill the void left by departing sharpshooters.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 10:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A roadmap for the next UN Secretary-General

The next UN Secretary-General will take over the most prominent position in multilateral governance at a time when multilateralism is arguably at its nadir. Adapting to today’s multipolar reality will require instilling a renewed sense of purpose and dema

eco-business.com logo
Oct 4 • 10:00 PM EDT • Business • eco-business.com
Scientists Find a Surprising Link Between Cats And Happiness Across 93 Countries

A purr-fect pet friend?

sciencealert.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:53 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Zakaria: California’s private sector ‘massively overperforms’ while ‘government underperforms’
cnn.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:52 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Taylor Farms and Mexico’s Health Ministry Now Make the Same Cyclospora Argument. The Produce Industry’s Own Association, FDA and CDC Rejected It in September. Here Is a Specific Request to Eight People Before the Industry Meets in Orlando.

I spent four hours Sunday morning taking the deposition of an expert retained by the defense in the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak of November 2024 – the one

marlerblog.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:07 PM EDT • Health • marlerblog.com
Caterpillar is a Great Business. But is CAT Stock a Great Buy?

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) is having a strong year. Construction and mining demand remain solid, infrastructure spending is creating more opportunities, and the rapid buildout of data centers is opening another market for the company’s power equipment. The latest numbers make that clear. Sales and revenues reached a record $20.5 billion in the latest quarter, up […]

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:04 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Chiefs-Raiders: Mike Caliendo starts over Kingsley Suamataia

Kansas City had a surprising change in the offensive starting lineup in Las Vegas.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ethan Hawke names surprising thriller co-starring ex Uma Thurman as his breakout: ‘Changed my life’

If you ask Ethan Hawke, it wasn’t ‘Dead Poets Society’ or ‘Reality Bites’ that gave him his big break — it was this under-seen, experimental thriller from a master of indie cinema that made him a star.

ew.com logo
Oct 4 • 4:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Three Rivers Corporation promotes Jamie Crockett

Three Rivers Corporation has promoted Jamie Crockett to chief operating officer, placing him in charge of construction and specialty trade operations.

ourmidland.com logo
Oct 4 • 3:54 PM EDT • Business • ourmidland.com
Scientists Uncover a “Pain Switch” That Could Help Ease Arthritis Pain

For years, scientists thought they understood the job of a protein called TRPM2. It sits on the endings of sensory nerves and detects mild, non-painful warmth. That seemed to settle the question of wh...

yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 3:29 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Maala: The ESG engine quietly rewiring Israeli corporate culture

Maala’s influence is quiet, but structural. It is shaping expectations in boardrooms, guiding investor scrutiny, and setting the standards by which corporate leadership is increasingly judged

jpost.com logo
Oct 4 • 2:38 PM EDT • Business • jpost.com
😐 Neutral (0%)
wow
67%
ahah
33%
Josh Allen Sets Bills Record Against the Patriots

The dual-threat quarterback surpassed Hall of Fame legends Andre Reed and Thurman Thomas, etching his name atop the franchise leaderboard with a historic first-half touchdown plunge.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 2:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dark Sheik Walked Out On GCW Over Drake Wuertz - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

At GCW Homecoming in August, Drake Wuertz made a surprise appearance, helping Joseph Sawyer win the GCW Title.

fightful.com logo
Oct 4 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • fightful.com
Amazon Launches Early Prime Day Discounts on AirPods, iPad, MacBook Air, and More

Earlier this week, we began tracking early Prime Day deals on Apple-related accessories, and today Amazon has introduced major early deals on Apple products as well. This includes AirPods, iPads, MacBooks, and more, all available at some of the lowest prices of the year so far. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

macrumors.com logo
Oct 4 • 12:15 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
‘In the Grey’: An engaging guilty pleasure

Droll British humor fuels this improbable crime thriller

davisenterprise.com logo
Oct 4 • 11:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • davisenterprise.com
Ripple Plans a Credit Business Backed With XRP. Does Lending Finally Give the Token a Use That Moves the Price?

Ripple's new credit service locks XRP as collateral for payment loans, a model that works very differently from the pass-through payments that have left many holders waiting for a price catalyst. Whether this finally creates sustained demand hinges on details Ripple has yet to reveal.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 11:30 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Liverpool Show Transfer Interest In Sunderland Youngster Amid EFL Loan

Sunderland goalkeeping product Matty Young has reportedly become the subject of transfer interest from Premier League giants Liverpool.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 10:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Retailers are making returns harder. A carpet seller taught me why that’s a mistake

A standard business practice offsets future costs by funding a reserve for returns – but many small businesses don’t do it

theguardian.com logo
Oct 4 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Man refuses to defend his brother’s bad business decisions at their dad’s formal hearing after years of cleaning up every overpromise he made

A 38-year-old who has spent his entire career quietly fixing his older brother's overpromises just refused to walk into a formal hearing and help present those promises as bad luck. His family is not ...

yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 9:45 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy

Hey all, Jason here. Money20/20 is still two weeks away, but I’ve already started packing (not procrastinating for once!). My calendar is already filling up with various sessions I want to catch, meetings, and of course happy hours, dinners, and other side events. If you’ll be in Vegas and want to catch up, let me know by replying to this email, and we can try to find a time amidst the chaos of the Venetian. A big if not totally unexpected piece of news dropped on Friday: the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents smaller U.S. banks, filed a lawsuit against the OCC and Comptroller Jonathan Gould, arguing that the regulator’s move to grant trust bank charters to firms seeking to use them to conduct substantial non-fiduciary activities exceeds the authorities granted to the OCC by Congress. I haven’t had time to fully digest the legal filing or speak to folks in my network about it, but you can expect to see coverage and analysis on it in next week’s newsletter. Subscribe or Support by Upgrading The NerdCon agenda just dropped. It’s stacked. Partner content: Nubank built an AI-first bank. Chime built its own banking core. Figure and Valon are rebuilding the mortgage stack. At NerdCon, you’ll hear from the people behind those bets: what they chose, what they learned, and what they’re still figuring out. The agenda is live, with leaders from Nubank, Chime, OpenAI, Remitly, Mercury, Figure, Valon and more. Follow the mainstage conversations, bring the problem your team is wrestling with to a hands-on workshop, or pull up a chair at a roundtable. Pick your quests. Meet us in San Diego, November 18–20. Fintech Business Weekly readers save 20% with code FBW20. Explore the Agenda Things To Know & Other Good Reads Federal Reserve Board finalizes changes to enhance the transparency and public accountability of its stress test and reduce volatility in its stress test-related capital requirements (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship (FDIC) Modernizing Financial Regulation: Initial Observations from eSLR (Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman) The Data Version of Godzilla versus Kong: FRED Takes on AI (Fed Governor Christopher Waller) Financing the AI buildout (Brookings) Q3’26: Rules for Banks but Not for Crypto (Fintech Takes Banking) The Inevitability of Local Stablecoins (Lombard Notes) Delusions of AI Governance: The Human-in-the-Loop Comfort Blanket (Fintech Snark Tank) Stripe agrees to acquire Parafin to expand revenue opportunities for platforms and help small businesses grow (Stripe) Listen: Fighting Fraud in the Age of AI, with SEON’s Tamas Kadar (Fintech Business Weekly) How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy If there is one overarching theme across the economy and politics in the U.S. at the moment, it’s “affordability.” The term is vague enough to encompass a panoply of factors shaping Americans’ day-to-day lives: rising costs for the hallmarks of being “middle class,” including healthcare, housing, childcare, and education, inflation and rising interest rates, and a job market with the specter of AI hovering over it. At the same time, policy shifts under the Trump administration have resulted in reduced subsidies to those who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and new restrictions on qualifying for Medicaid and SNAP, the impacts of which have yet to be fully felt. These factors are contributing to declining consumer confidence and general dissatisfaction with the economy, despite continuing GDP growth and stock market records. This divergence is encapsulated in the idea of the “K-shaped” economy, in which a small proportion of Americans have seen their wealth balloon, while the majority of American households struggle to preserve the lifestyle they have. Perhaps the greatest determinant of which branch of the “K” a household is on is whether their wealth and income are primarily derived from employment vs. from assets. Nearly two decades of low interest rates and, more recently, elevated rates of inflation have benefited asset owners, while those whose income is primarily or solely derived from labor have largely seen real purchasing power stagnate or decline. This is reflected in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that labor share of U.S. GDP — the fraction of economic output that accrues to workers as compensation in exchange for their labor — dropped to just 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since the BLS began keeping records. In 1947, approximately 2/3rds of economic output accrued to workers; even as recently as 2001, labor’s share of GDP was 64.1%. Against this backdrop, we’ve seen the rise of more credit and credit-like products: cash advance apps, “no-fee” overdraft, earned wage access, and buy now pay later, which are often used as small-dollar short-term borrowing mechanisms to meet immediate consumption needs or pay other bills (eg utilities, cell phone, other debt payments). With the markers of a middle class existence and, increasingly, basic financial stability seemingly out of reach for many, it should be no surprise there’s been an increase in “financial nihilism,” something industry peers like Alex Johnson and Frank Rotman have discussed and analyzed the roots of. The explosion of gambling and gambling-adjacent products and services — often marketed under the guise of being an “investment” — is inextricably intertwined with the rise of financial nihilism. Crypto, sports betting, and, more recently, prediction markets offer an escape or even hope of sorts, like a contemporary, digital version of a scratch-off lottery ticket, while leaving the overwhelming number of people who use such products worse off. Share of Households That Are Financially “Vulnerable” Ticks Up The Financial Health Network’s 2026 Financial Health Pulse® report adds context on how American households are faring. (I linked to this report in last week’s newsletter, but wanted to take time to further unpack the data in the report this week.) The Financial Health Network publishes the report annually, providing insight into how Americans’ financial circumstances are changing over time. The 2026 report is derived from a survey fielded in April and May 2026. The report leverages survey responses to assess indicators of financial health across spending, saving, borrowing, and planning/protecting and to determine a zero to 100 “FinHealth” score. Those with scores between 0 and 39 are considered “Financially Vulnerable,” consumers with scores ranging between 40 and 79 are defined as “Financially Coping,” and those with scores of 80 to 100 are “Financially Healthy.” The report found that moderate improvements in 2025 were reversed, with the share of respondents considered financially “vulnerable” rebounding to 17%. The longitudinal data reflect the impact of pandemic-era programs, like expanded unemployment, cash stimulus payments, and pauses of federal student loan payments. The positive impacts of those programs, as reflected in the Financial Health Pulse reports, had largely disappeared by 2023. While pandemic-era inflation — to be fair, in part caused by the various support and stimulus measures — had come down from as high as 9% in 2022, it has rebounded since the start of Trump’s second term, with tariffs and energy market disruptions owing to the war in Iran pushing prices back up. Specific indicators in the survey that deteriorated from 2025 to 2026 include the share of respondents spending less than their income over the past 12 months, the share paying all bills on time over the past 12 months, the share that have a manageable amount or no debt, the share that are “moderately” or “very” confident their insurance is adequate to cover them in an emergency, and the share that “somewhat” or “strongly” agree that their household plans ahead financially. Unsurprisingly, lower- and moderate-income households are more likely to struggle to pay their bills on time and have any funds leftover to save. The share of low-income households whose income exceeded their spending dropped from 35% in 2025 to 31% in 2026, while the share of upper-income households whose income exceeded expenses remained unchanged at 63%. Households with student loans or revolving credit card debt reported having “a bit more” or “far more” debt than was manageable at rates far higher than those not carrying these types of debts. The share of those with student loan debt indicating their debt load was too high to manage increased from 50% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, while the share of those with revolving credit card debt saying the same ticked up from 51% in 2025 to 54% in 2026. Households that had student loans were markedly more likely to be financially “coping” or “vulnerable” vs. those without student loans. In 2026, 27% of households with student loans were considered financially vulnerable, a jump of 6% points vs. 2025. Households without student loans saw just a 1% point increase (not statistically significant) in those considered financially vulnerable. Households’ perception of the affordability of categories of goods and services paints a stark picture, with less than one-fourth considering higher education affordable, about a third deeming childcare affordable, and less than half viewing healthcare as affordable. Fintech Business Weekly is made possible by the generous support of paying subscribers — bringing you independent analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto without fear or favor. You can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber if you aren’t already. Paying subscribers enjoy: access to the entire archive of nearly six years of newsletters extended versions of the weekly newsletter, with additional content and analysis and (for founding member tier) quarterly personal 1:1 fintech Q&A / strategy calls with me, tapping into my unparalleled knowledge of the intersection of banking and fintech and experience working in the sector, including helping to launch Goldman Sachs’ retail bank Marcus Support Fintech Business Weekly You can also support Fintech Business Weekly by sponsoring a newsletter or podcast, putting you in front of 93,000+ of the most influential decision makers in banking, fintech, and crypto. Learn more about sponsor opportunities or request a media kit by dropping me an email. Democratic Senate Report Highlights How Iran Uses Tether to Evade U.S. Sanctions Iran uses stablecoins, specifically Tether, to evade sanctions, fund regional proxies, and to purchase military drones, a report released last week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says. The report was authored by committee ranking member Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the minority staff. Crypto and stablecoin proponents will often push back on criticism that criminals make use of these assets by arguing that, on an absolute dollar basis, far more illicit funds flow through traditional banking systems and payment rails than via crypto and stablecoins. And while that is likely true, it elides the reality presented in news story after news story: whether state actors — Russia, Iran, North Korea — or criminal groups, those looking to engage in illicit transactions increasingly favor stablecoins and, specifically, Tether (USDT). The report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released last week adds context to how Iran uses Tether has a lynchpin in its shadow banking system. The report analyzed 846 wallets that have been sanctioned or targeted for seizure, finding that 84% of them transacted exclusively or primarily in Tether. The ability to create near limitless, anonymous wallets and to move funds effectively instantaneously and irreversibly have made crypto a favored financial mechanism for bad actors. Stablecoins solved key drawbacks of bitcoin, namely, the original cryptocurrency’s highly volatile value in dollars. And while Tether (the company) has the technical ability to “freeze” or destroy funds, the company is often limited and reactive in its approach to doing so, the Senate report argues. Tether, which is nominally based in crypto-friendly El Salvador, “has stated that its compliance with OFAC sanctions is ‘voluntary’ and that it follows ‘OFAC guidelines,’” the Senate report says. Owing to these favorable attributes, Tether “became a primary cryptocurrency for Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis beginning in 2023 and has expanded in scale since,” according to the report. Tether’s role in Iran’s shadow banking system, the report says, is enhanced by crypto exchanges like Bybit, Kyrrex, OKX, Gate, and Binance, and through “over the counter” exchanges and hawala networks. The consequences of these financial flows aren’t hypothetical. The Senate report links Tether as a funds transfer mechanism to Iranian proxies in the region, including Hizballah, the Houthis, and Hamas. Tether has also been used to make payments to secure components necessary to manufacture drones, the report says. The report concludes by arguing that “[s]tablecoin issuers with a significant nexus to the United States, particularly those that offer dollar-denominated stablecoins, should be subject to American sanctions law rather than being allowed to hide behind foreign jurisdictions.” Stablecoin issuers like Tether must be held accountable for repeated failures to prevent illicit finance and sanctions violations by law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and OFAC, the report argues. [Paying Subscriber Exclusive] OUSD Goes Live, Make Your Own Neobank, U.S. Sanctions Russia’s A7 Network As “Transnational Criminal Organization” OpenUSD, the stablecoin issued by the Open Standard consortium that includes Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, core providers, crypto firms, and numerous banks, went live last week. Social commerce platform Whop raised eyebrows in fintech by offering creators on its platform the ability to launch their own neobanks, which the company describes as “great businesses that are easy to run,” in just 15 minutes. And OFAC and FinCEN target Russia’s “shadow banking” A7 Network — more on these stories after the paywall.

fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com logo
Oct 4 • 8:59 AM EDT • Health • fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com
Singing With Other People May Have Surprising Health Benefits

Skip the cold plunge. Join your local choir instead!

mymodernmet.com logo
Oct 4 • 8:50 AM EDT • Health • mymodernmet.com
13 Cool New Gadgets to Keep on Your Radar

Catching you up on the past week’s most notable product releases.

gearpatrol.com logo
Oct 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gearpatrol.com
This Week in Purple: Let’s Talk About That

Colorado Rockies news and links for Sunday, October 4th, 2026

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Liverpool bid launched after Arsenal and Chelsea transfer decision

Reds facing fight to keep hold of Giovanni Leoni

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Updated Big Ten football standings after Week 5

Indiana and Ohio State are off to good starts in Big Ten play, as expected. But there are some early surprises in the Big Ten football standings

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Liverpool will offload struggling forward: Three clubs want January deal

Liverpool strengthened their attack with a couple of new forwards in the summer transfer window. Victor Munoz was onboarded after the Reds triggered the FIFA World Cup winner’s £34m Osasuna release...

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Roundup: Olde Tymer’s space gets new life, Higher Purpose Homes honored

In this week’s business roundup: The former Olde Tymer’s Cafe building gets a makeover in preparation for a new restaurant, while Durango-based Higher Purpose

durangoherald.com logo
Oct 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • durangoherald.com
Where’s Blade? Fans wonder why Marvel Studios cutbacks seem to be landing on Black heroes

Mahershala Ali has said he’s moved on from the “Blade” reboot, making it another MCU project that’s fallen by the wayside. Black fans are asking whether Black characters are being purposely neglected and sidelined.

cnn.com logo
Oct 4 • 6:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • cnn.com
AirPods Pro 3 Drop to $179 Ahead of October Prime Day

Apple's flagship AirPods Pro 3 are discounted to $179 ahead of Amazon's October Prime Day event, marking their second-lowest price to date.

consequence.net logo
Oct 4 • 6:26 AM EDT • Technology • consequence.net
In Shanghai’s ‘Science City,’ China’s ascendant biotechs make their pitch to the world

For two years, American labs and board rooms have been riven with excitement and anxiety over the vertiginous rise of Chinese biotech.

bostonglobe.com logo
Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • bostonglobe.com
Guest Commentary: Affordability without access isn’t sound health policy

Byron Donalds’ record of politicizing his health policy is harmful, writes a former healthcare CEO.

orlandosentinel.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • orlandosentinel.com
Deep dive
😐 Neutral (11%)
wow
45%
ahah
29%
love
26%
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center welcomes AmeriCorps member as Assistant Environmental Educator

PORT CLYDE — Herring Gut Coastal Science Center welcomes Kayleigh Amerman to its Port Clyde team as an AmeriCorps member serving as Assistant Environmental Educator through Goodwill Northern New England’s GoodHealth Works AmeriCorps program.

penbaypilot.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Science • penbaypilot.com
In Austin and beyond, nonprofit groups help musicians pay for health insurance

AUSTIN, Texas — Musician Zack Morgan jokes that when he lost his corporate job in 2015, it was like being pushed off a cliff. For years, he said, he’d been

nola.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • nola.com
Brockton seniors enjoy 1960s music and memories

Residents at Heights Crossing in Brockton enjoyed a 1960s themed party featuring live music and shared memories.

enterprisenews.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • enterprisenews.com
Decaf Coffee Might Have A Surprising Advantage Over Caffeinated, Study Finds

A buzz without the buzz.

sciencealert.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Why you should think about getting your flu shot right now

Flu is surging unusually early in some parts of the western United States, catching doctors by surprise.

washingtonpost.com logo
Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Liverpool keeping tabs on Barcelona midfielder Bernal

Liverpool and Atletico Madrid are keeping tabs on the situation of Barcelona midfielder Marc Bernal.The teenager is set to assess his future should his minutes not increase under Hansi Flick, having b...

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 4:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Johnson & Johnson, AOA Reveal Menopause Eye Health Gap

Global research by Johnson & Johnson and Ipsos finds vision is overlooked as a menopause symptom, revealing a gap in longevity care

healthcare-digital.com logo
Oct 4 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • healthcare-digital.com
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Egor Chinakhov Continuing to Impress

When the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Egor Chinakhov from their divisional rivals, the Columbus Blue Jackets, right before the New Year, it was a move that could’ve easily flown somewhat under the radar. Chinakhov, an underperforming former late first-round pick, was traded for Danton Heinen and draft picks. At the time, it didn’t seem like an […] The post Pittsburgh Penguins’ Egor Chinakhov Continuing to Impress appeared first on HEAVY.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 4 • 2:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Not All Magnesium Supplements Are Equal: What Science Says About Absorption

Magnesium has quietly become one of the most talked-about minerals in nutrition science, and a new narrative review published in Food Science and Biotechnology by Sanem Gultekin and Merve Tomas of Istanbul Technical University explains why the supplement aisle may be far more

bioengineer.org logo
Oct 4 • 1:06 AM EDT • Science • bioengineer.org
Trump, campaigning in Ohio, says the midterms will bring a ‘big surprise’

The president rallied Saturday for Sen. Jon Husted, who faces a tough race against Democrat Sherrod Brown, and for Vivek Ramaswamy, the state’s GOP candidate for governor.

nbcnews.com logo
Oct 3 • 10:22 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
High-Signal Publisher
Grizzlies' Versatility Could Be Their Secret Weapon in 2026-27

Memphis may not be ready to contend yet, but its size, lineup flexibility, and positionless young core could make the Grizzlies surprisingly competitive.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 3 • 9:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
☹️ Negative (-40%)
ahah
100%
A forgotten 30-year forest experiment just delivered a huge surprise

A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could support timber production, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage at the same time.

sciencedaily.com logo
Oct 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Is AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) Fairly Valued As It Reshapes Debt And Governance?

AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) just pushed through a cluster of corporate moves, including board declassification, new debt financing and an equity shelf registration tied to employee stock plans, giving investors fresh governance and capital-structure information to assess. Recent price action suggests traders are reassessing AMC Entertainment Holdings after these capital moves. The 90-day share price return of 46.56% and year-to-date share price return of 72.05% came despite a 1-year...

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 3 • 5:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
I changed one ChatGPT setting, and it stopped giving me generic advice

If you're tired of ChatGPT's safe, corporate buzzwords, changing one persistent profile setting permanently kills generic answers.

howtogeek.com logo
Oct 3 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • howtogeek.com
Liverpool given price, blockbuster £40m deal can move forward

Liverpool have been told the price. Now a blockbuster deal can move forward for one of the biggest talents in world football.Liverpool want to sign wonderkids. That's unbelievably clear to everyone wa...

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 3 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jim Cramer Likes the Nat-Gas Liquids Business and Highlights This Stock

During the episode aired on September 28, Cramer mentioned Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD), as he was highlighting the disruptions and operational bottlenecks plaguing infrastructure in the Gulf. He remarked: And I like the nat-gas liquids business, which is just crushing it in America because all the problems in the Gulf. It’s Enterprise Product Partners, […]

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 3 • 4:01 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Maryland football vs. Nebraska game thread: updates, highlights & more

Follow along with us as the Terps begin their Big Ten slate looking for a win.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 3 • 3:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ace Combat 8 Secretly Has the Best Video Game Music of the Year

Give it up for Purple Magic

polygon.com logo
Oct 3 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Health Department releases food inspection reports for week of Sept. 20

Scores for the recent Health Department food inspection ranged from 76-100.

myleaderpaper.com logo
Oct 3 • 12:30 PM EDT • Health • myleaderpaper.com
😐 Neutral (0%)