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

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

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

After Hobbes vs Rousseau: Politics must move beyond human nature

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

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

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Jul 30 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 30 • 6:05 AM EDT • Science • news-press.com

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Jul 30 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 30 • 1:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 29 • 10:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

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Jul 29 • 10:22 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free as Congo continues to struggle with the outbreak

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Jul 29 • 8:42 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org

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Jul 29 • 7:25 PM EDT • Business • wbtv.com

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

Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

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Jul 29 • 4:26 PM EDT • Business • theverge.com

Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

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Jul 29 • 4:26 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4.6 billion in second quarter

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Jul 29 • 4:18 PM EDT • Technology • cnbc.com

With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue

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Jul 29 • 12:15 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Fox Sports Continues to Expand Horse Racing Coverage to Del Mar in New Multi-Year Deal

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Jul 29 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • dmtc.com

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Jul 29 • 11:44 AM EDT • Health • insidernj.com

Google Pixel’s Tensor grows as global smartphone shipments continue to fall

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Jul 29 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

California’s hostage crisis shows political violence is at a breaking point

Ideological violence in the United States continues to evolve in ways that make ordinary Americans increasingly vulnerable.

Jul 29 • 9:30 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com

Leland Stein and David Malan continue Regent Theatre’s legacy of entertainment

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Jul 29 • 7:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • yourarlington.com

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Jul 29 • 4:05 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

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Jul 29 • 2:31 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com

Michael Malone Keeps Important UNC Basketball Team-Bonding Tradition Alive With Outer Banks Trip

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Jul 28 • 11:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

F-M metro business closures: Chamber says growth continues despite losses

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Jul 28 • 10:42 PM EDT • Business • valleynewslive.com

Anez Cooper’s development is a test for the Jets

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Jul 28 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jul 28 • 4:30 PM EDT • Politics • columbiamissourian.com

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Jul 28 • 3:09 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

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Jul 28 • 3:03 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

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Jul 28 • 2:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • 303magazine.com

Detroit Tigers Make Major Tarik Skubal Trade Decision

With the MLB trade deadline rapidly approaching, the Detroit Tigers continue to find themselves at the center of speculation surrounding […]

Jul 28 • 2:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Shigeru Miyamoto Sums Up Everything Wrong With The Industry In One Sentence

And explains why Nintendo continues to succeed while its biggest competitors keep flailing

Jul 28 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

Cyclospora cases have increased in Douglas County, health officials say

Cyclospora cases in Douglas County continue to rise, with the Douglas County Health Department having tallied the cases at 45.

Jul 28 • 12:55 PM EDT • Health • wowt.com

Will Lazio Continue to Receive Funds From Polymarket?

While Polymarket no longer appears on the official Lazio website, an insider claims the agreement between the two parties remains in effect.Lazio & Polymarket Collaboration Turns Sour After Blacklisti...

Jul 28 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Matthew Stafford: We have a high ceiling, have to continue raising our floor

Jul 28 • 8:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Stellantis sells car-sharing business as CEO Filosa focuses on core auto-making

Stellantis has agreed to sell its Free2move car-sharing unit to German investment company Mutares , ​the automaker said on Tuesday, as CEO Antonio ‌Filosa continues efforts to sharpen the group's focus on its core vehicle production.

Jul 28 • 3:19 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

‘Our downtown needs us’: Monticello business leaders ask community to support local businesses

Local business leaders are asking the community to support downtown Monticello businesses as many continue to struggle with rising costs and less foot traffic.

Jul 27 • 10:59 PM EDT • Business • wctv.tv

National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows promising trends for youth mental health and drug use

A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction shows continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people

Jul 27 • 10:15 PM EDT • Health • kcra.com

Why losing weight may not be enough to prevent type 2 diabetes

A healthy lifestyle can prevent type 2 diabetes for many people, but new research suggests that weight loss alone may not be enough for one particularly vulnerable group. Even after losing about 8% of their body weight and keeping it off for years, people in a high-risk category known as cluster 5 continued to experience rising blood sugar, weakening insulin production, and a strong risk of developing diabetes.

Jul 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

BETMGM Q2 2026 BUSINESS UPDATE

Q2 continued delivery of profitable growth with ongoing focused strategic execution JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM LLC ("BetMGM"), a leading sports betting and iGaming...

Jul 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • investors.mgmresorts.com

Health officials warn of heat-related illnesses as heat wave continues across Iowa

The Polk County Health Department says folks need to take a break if they start seeing signs of dizziness, nausea and heavy sweating.

Jul 27 • 7:29 PM EDT • Health • kcci.com

Federal survey shows promising trends for youth mental health and drug use

A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction shows continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people.

Jul 27 • 5:11 PM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com

Federal survey shows promising trends for youth mental health and drug use

A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction shows continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people

Jul 27 • 5:10 PM EDT • Health • abcnews.com

Federal survey shows promising trends for youth mental health and drug use

A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction shows continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people

Jul 27 • 5:10 PM EDT • Health • abcnews.com

Minneapolis starts Black Business Week with focus on investment, entrepreneurship

The kickoff comes as small businesses across the Twin Cities continue to navigate economic uncertainty. Some business owners have reported challenges tied to the recent increase in federal immigration enforcement activity, including fewer customers, staffing concerns and financial strain.

Jul 27 • 3:25 PM EDT • Business • mprnews.org

Ohio County reports six cases as West Virginia cyclosporiasis outbreak hits 226 statewide

Health officials in Ohio County are urging residents to take extra precautions as an outbreak of cyclosporiasis continues to grow across West Virginia.The Wheel

Jul 27 • 1:31 PM EDT • Health • wtov9.com

Mitch McConnell ‘Not Yet Medically Cleared’ For Senate Return, New Statement Says

His physician said “his bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility.”

Jul 27 • 12:19 PM EDT • Health • forbes.com

Mitch McConnell provides health update, new photo as rehab continues

Sen. Mitch McConnell will miss the Fancy Farm political picnic, as he is \

Jul 27 • 12:08 PM EDT • Health • courier-journal.com

Dana White decries UFC broadcast production again: ‘Brutal’

UFC CEO Dana White continues to publicly criticize the production quality of his promotion’s broadcasts. Earlier this month, following UFC 329, White took aim at his producers after another high-profile incident of misidentifying a celebrity attending the event. While showing an image of Shakur Stevenson, a boxer who was recently signed to the boxing promotion…

Jul 27 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dallas continues to rebuff trade feelers for Kyrie Irving

Dallas continues to rebuff trade feelers for Kyrie Irving

Jul 27 • 5:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Pennsylvania budget boosts mental health funding. Will it be enough?

Pennsylvania increased funding in the 2026-27 budget for key mental health programs while communities continue to face service gaps.

Jul 27 • 4:55 AM EDT • Health • goerie.com

Congo Ebola death toll tops 1,400 as vaccine trials start

DR Congo's Ebola outbreak has continued to grow, with confirmed infections reaching 3,200 and a fatality rate of nearly one in two. Scientists are racing to test the first vaccines against the rare Bundibugyo strain.

Jul 27 • 2:11 AM EDT • Health • dw.com

Phoenix Suns’ Starting Lineup Continues To Be Underrated

Despite landing Miles Bridges and boasting Devin Booker’s elite playmaking, critics rank Phoenix’s revamped starting five in the league's bottom third, fueling intense debate over their true potential.

Jul 26 • 11:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Everything you need to know from UNC sports this summer

While most students were away for the summer, UNC athletics continued to deliver highlight-reel plays and national headlines. Here's what you need to catch up on going into the fall semester.

Jul 26 • 10:34 PM EDT • Sports • dailytarheel.com

Cardinals training camp notes: Carson Beck struggles continue

Third-round rookie quarterback Carson Beck has struggled in the first few days of Arizona Cardinals training camp as he pushes for playing time.

Jul 26 • 10:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ebola infections in DR Congo surge to 3,200, with 1,405 deaths

Cases have surged by 1,000 in just 10 days as outbreak continues to spread across five provinces.

Jul 26 • 9:59 PM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

Can Cowboys' 'Drama-Free' Offseason Continue In Training Camp?

Jul 26 • 7:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Which Falcons Linebacker Room Addition Will Step Up in 2026?

The Atlanta Falcons had an eventful offseason, marked by staff changes, new additions, and the departure of several impact players from the last few seasons. As training camp continues, Atlanta has a multitude of questions to answer surrounding many positions, including quarterback, linebacker, and offensive tackle. Although the biggest question on Falcons fans' minds is who will start at QB, the linebacker position is anything but set in stone.

Jul 26 • 6:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Delaware’s $2 billion corporate franchise is good business for all Delawareans

Civics 101 Special Series: The Corporate Capital In so many ways, there’s no better place to be than Delaware. That’s certainly true for about 2.2 million businesses who continue to call our state home, even as other states work to claim Delaware’s title as the nation’s corporate capital. After decades of dominance as the preferred […]

Jul 26 • 3:45 PM EDT • Business • spotlightdelaware.org

Sony promoting vinyl player enrages critics opposing end of physical PS5 game discs

Sony plans to reduce PS5 disc production in 2028, but still manufactures vinyl record players. A social media post about a turntable irked gamers already upset over the decision. They claim that, like with music, demand for the physical game format will continue for the foreseeable future.

Jul 26 • 3:36 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

SCC, Appalachian Ink Health Science Agreement

By Kaylie Simmons Southeastern Community College Southeastern Community College students pursuing careers in healthcare now have a new pathway to earn a bachelor’s degree through a transfer agreement with Appalachian State University. A memorandum of understanding between Appalachian State and participating North Carolina community colleges creates a streamlined transfer option for eligible SCC graduates to continue their education…

Jul 26 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • columbuscountynews.com

Astros Even the Series Behind a Dominant Hunter Brown Outing

The winning streak continues for Houston. The Astros beat the White Sox 4-1 Saturday night to take the series lead.

Jul 26 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘The Odyssey’ earns $87M in its second weekend, Christopher Nolan’s best second weekend yet

“The Odyssey” continues to captivate audiences in its second weekend, raking in $87 million in North American theaters. This marks a modest 30% drop from its opening weekend, making it

Jul 26 • 12:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com

‘The Odyssey’ earns $87M in its second weekend, Christopher Nolan’s best second weekend yet

“The Odyssey” continues to captivate audiences in its second weekend, raking in $87 million in North American theaters.

Jul 26 • 12:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • ksat.com

Man arrested in connection to tractor theft and business burglary

The Office of the Sheriff for Rockbridge County and Lexington City has arrested a man and anticipates additional charges as the investigation continues.

Jul 26 • 12:18 PM EDT • Business • wdbj7.com

Kendry Rojas Continues To Impress In Short Notice Start

Rojas tossed four scoreless innings in a spot start on Saturday, a day in which he did not expect to start.

Jul 26 • 11:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

California leaders split over war in Iran

California lawmakers and leaders are divided over the war in Iran, now in its fifth month, as debates over funding and presidential authority continue in Washington D.C.

Jul 26 • 11:25 AM EDT • Politics • kcra.com

It's Your Business | Beck's announces inventory sale, still hopes to rebuild

A furniture and upholstery business that suffered significant damage during the June 11 tornado is offering up its surviving inventory at a discount as it continues to figure out next

Jul 26 • 5:15 AM EDT • Business • news-gazette.com

Hernández Nearing Dodgers Return From Triple-A

Kiké Hernández continues making progress in his rehab assignment and could rejoin the Los Angeles Dodgers next week.

Jul 25 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Outdoor sports continue as extreme heat hits KC; how athletes are preparing

The big story in late July, of course is the extreme heat. However, the heat didn't stop tennis players from competing in a regional tournament. KSHB 41's Braden Bates shares how they prepared.

Jul 25 • 9:46 PM EDT • Sports • kshb.com

Warren Spector’s Thick As Thieves Ends Support After Two Months

After significant layoffs at the studio, the leaner Thief successor is hoping to continue with peer-to-peer servers

Jul 25 • 5:02 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

Arsenal Mulling Move For Real Madrid, Brazil Star Vinícius Júnior

Arsenal have emerged as shock contenders to land Real Madrid superstar Vinicius Junior as his contract stand-off at the Santiago Bernabeu continues.

Jul 25 • 4:24 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

US measles cases reach 35-year high, for second record-breaking year in a row

Measles has continued its historic resurgence in the United States this year, with a second record-breaking year in a row.

Jul 25 • 3:08 PM EDT • Health • abc7chicago.com

John Lynch Breaks Silence On Brandon Aiyuk's Future With 49ers

As Brandon Aiyuk continues to demand a trade to the Washington Commanders, he remains on the "left squad" list for the 49ers and can't be traded until he finally reports.

Jul 25 • 2:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Cyclospora outbreaks start with human contamination. Nobody has ever been able to figure out how

As cases of explosive diarrhea continue to rise across the US this summer, health officials are grappling with a longstanding question about the tiny parasite that’s behind all this torment: Just how the heck is poop getting into our food?

Jul 25 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com

WCG Dynasty Fantasy Football: Assessing Adam Hess’ Roster

We continue to look at the WCG Dynasty Fantasy Football League rosters and break them down. Today is the roster of Adam Hess.

Jul 25 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

3 in 5 overestimate how much gas prices have risen: Survey

As ongoing fighting in the Middle East continues to influence prices at the pump, a new survey signals many Americans overestimate gas price increases. The Politico poll, released on Friday, found …

Jul 25 • 11:22 AM EDT • Business • thehill.com

Report – Milan Superstar Trains in Brazil Amid Uncertain Future

Milan winger Rafael Leao continues his pre-season preparations away from Italy amid growing speculation surrounding his future. According to Pianeta Milan, the Portuguese star is currently ‘enjoying...

Jul 25 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mets Continue To Keep All Paths Open As Deadline Approaches

Jul 25 • 7:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Jim Cramer Discussed A Surprise For International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) CEO

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) is another stock that Jim Cramer has continued to stick by, even though the shares have struggled. For more than a year, the CNBC TV host has repeatedly praised the firm for its software business and its quantum computing business. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM)’s shares are down by 26% […]

Jul 25 • 3:54 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

At Correspondents’ Dinner, a Rambling Trump Hurls Insults

President Trump gave the keynote speech as relations between his administration and the press continue to deteriorate.

Jul 25 • 12:25 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

At Correspondents’ Dinner, a Rambling Trump Hurls Insults

President Trump gave the keynote speech as relations between his administration and the press continue to deteriorate.

Jul 25 • 12:25 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

MINNEAPOLIMEDIA PRESENTS | This Weekend in the Twin Cities: Entertainment Guide: July 25 to July 26, 2026 Edition

Golf history, global culture, sports, theater, comedy, art, markets and family events continue under an Extreme Heat Warning.

Jul 25 • 12:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news

State Street business not worried as protests continue

After Thursday night’s vigil, protestors moved to John Nolen Drive, snaking through downtown to end up on State Street.

Jul 24 • 7:44 PM EDT • Business • wmtv15news.com

God of War Laufey SDCC Panel Live Report

IGN’s live reporting of San Diego Comic-Con 2026 continues, this time from the front row of the God of War Laufey panel.

Jul 24 • 6:48 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Milford Pioneer Days continues this weekend with four new events

Annual celebration features parade, live entertainment and free family activities

Jul 24 • 6:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • ktiv.com

Understanding the ERC Pleading Standard: Federal Claims Court Deferral in I Health and Life Insurance Services

I Health and Life Insurance Services v. United States, No. 25-1315T, United States Court of Federal Claims, July 23, 2026 For tax professionals advising clients on the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), the litigation landscape continues to evolve, establishing rigorous pleading and evidentiary stan

Jul 24 • 4:50 PM EDT • Health • currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com