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Bottoms, Jackson offer competing visions on data centers, Medicaid expansion at business luncheon

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson took the stage at an Athens event center to pitch their policies to a crowd of over 1,000 members of the state’s business community.

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Aug 5 • 5:10 PM EDT • Business • georgiarecorder.com
Trump files emergency motion to block BBC from getting financial details about business empire

President Trump’s attorney filed a Wednesday emergency motion seeking to block the BBC from obtaining financial records linked to his trust. The British broadcaster received approval from a judge …

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Aug 5 • 4:57 PM EDT • Business • thehill.com
Team's AI agent to speed Alzheimer's treatment

Vanderbilt researchers have received a grant to build an AI tool within the health record system to get patients with Alzheimer's disease to treatment faster.

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Aug 5 • 2:20 PM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org
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Penn State Smeal College of Business sets new fundraising record for fiscal year 2026

The Smeal College of Business set a new fundraising record by raising $45 million in fiscal year 2026 to support scholarships, faculty research, programs and facilities.

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Aug 5 • 2:18 PM EDT • Business • psu.edu
Good vibes, cool air and a great cause

For great entertainment and a nice way to beat the summer heat, consider a live outdoor concert in Big Bear Lake. Music in the Mountains concert series is the largest

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Aug 5 • 1:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • recordgazette.net
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Former Pokémon Exec Accused of Hiding Video Cameras in Office Bathroom to Record Women and Girls

The Pokémon Company's former director of engineering at its Bellevue, Washington headquarters is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit, after the discovery of a hidden camera concealed in one of the building's bathrooms.

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Aug 5 • 10:14 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Atlanta’s entertainment scene gives rise to lawyer John Rose

Atlanta-based entertainment attorney John Rose helps recording artists land deals, film studios relocate productions and creatives understand their value.

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Aug 5 • 10:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • uatl.com
🗞️ Julián Álvarez, Madrid academy, Rodri... Wednesday's covers are packed

The sports press this August 5 is reaching fever pitch, with the transfer market at the center of attention. From the Blaugrana board’s lightning-fast negotiations in the capital to transfer records...

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Aug 5 • 2:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Usman Nurmagomedov to UFC Can’t Happen Just Yet

The UFC might want to sign free-agent lightweight Usman Nurmagomedov, but it can’t happen just yet due to the PFL holding his signing rights.With a 22-0, 1 NC record, it’s easy to see why UFC president Dana White wants to bring Nurmagomedov to the world’s leading MMA promotion.However, before the UFC can even speak to […] The post Usman Nurmagomedov to UFC Can’t Happen Just Yet appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 4 • 10:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A colossal magma system has been hiding beneath Tuscany

A massive magma reservoir has been detected deep beneath Tuscany, despite showing no obvious signs at the surface. Scientists mapped the roughly 6,000-cubic-kilometer body using natural ground vibrations recorded by dozens of seismic sensors. It poses no immediate danger, but the discovery reveals how enormous volcanic systems can remain hidden and could transform the search for geothermal energy and critical minerals.

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Aug 4 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Ariana Grande sets record straight after announcing break from spotlight

PR expert says Ariana Grande's strategic absence after her "Eternal Sunshine Tour" could build anticipation and make her return an event.

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Aug 4 • 4:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
SpaceX quarterly revenue surges in debut results on strong growth in its Starlink business

SpaceX reported on Tuesday a 92% rise in revenue for the April-June quarter, in its first earnings since going public, buoyed by strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI businesses. The company's stock has declined 8% since its record-breaking initial public offering in ‌June that valued the company at about $1.75 trillion. The stock could face additional pressure from the expiry of SpaceX's post-IPO lock-up period starting on Thursday, which may unleash ​a wave of insider and early-investor shares on the market.

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Aug 4 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Small business accelerator program launched in Frederick

M&T Bank has launched a free, 10-week program that will offer helpful resources and tools for business owners in the Frederick area.

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Aug 4 • 2:21 PM EDT • Business • thedailyrecord.com
Fans Upset Over Some New Vinyl Records Missing Content And Final Mixes

Artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Raye are catching flak from collectors and fans for selling incomplete records

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Aug 4 • 2:15 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Devin Bush Makes Noise at Chicago Bears Practice

One of the biggest standouts based on what I’ve seen from those covering Chicago Bears training camp today, August 4th, is Devin Bush. It’s been discussed in a previous Athlon Sports article that Bush was essentially brought in to replace Tremaine Edmunds in Chicago. Following the season that Bush had with the Cleveland Browns, where he recorded 125 tackles and three interceptions, expectations are high.

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Aug 4 • 1:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Seahawks Reacts Survey: Predict Seattle’s NFC West record this year

Is this the year the Seahawks really assert their NFC West dominance?

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Aug 4 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
This summer isn’t breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

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Aug 4 • 12:58 PM EDT • Science • seattletimes.com
This summer isn't breaking heat records -- yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

Deadly heat waves have parked over cities and the world's oceans are the hottest ever recorded for this time of year. A strengthening El Nino is forecast to be off-the-charts, spiking global temperat...

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Aug 4 • 12:57 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

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Aug 4 • 12:57 PM EDT • Science • ksat.com
This summer isn't breaking heat records -- yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

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Aug 4 • 12:57 PM EDT • Science • news4jax.com
This summer isn't breaking heat records -- yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

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Aug 4 • 12:57 PM EDT • Science • clickorlando.com
MrBeast Sales Slow, Angel Stock Falls, MUBI and Neon Look for Hits, and Will an NBA Franchise Set a Sales Record?

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

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Aug 4 • 11:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
Galaxy Z Fold 8 destroys pre-order record set by the late Note 10, and it isn’t over yet

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 series, alongside the Flip 8, has broken 1.44 million sales during the pre-order phase, smashing...

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Aug 4 • 10:19 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

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Aug 4 • 10:07 AM EDT • Science • aip.org
Global Business Travel Spending to Hit Record $1.71 Trillion in 2026

The forecast highlights how rising transportation and travel costs are increasingly driving higher industry prices, ahead of the number of trips.

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Aug 4 • 9:39 AM EDT • Business • cpapracticeadvisor.com
Man United announce record-breaking sponsorship deal with betting firm

Manchester United have signed a lucrative sponsorship deal ahead of the new season

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Aug 4 • 6:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees' MLB trade deadline period misses the mark

In all, Yankees GM Brian Cashman swung three deals leading up to Monday's deadline, obtaining two big-league hitters in Heliot Ramos & Luis Garcia Jr.

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Aug 4 • 4:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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Aug 4 • 2:54 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Albuquerque heat wave strains health and vehicles as temperatures soar

Record-breaking heat in Albuquerque is causing health issues and vehicle problems, with emergency physicians and mechanics reporting increased cases of heat-related effects.

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Fitbit Data Can Finally Sync to Apple Health

The latest update to the Google Health app for iOS allows Google Health data to sync to Apple Health. Google's app is used to collect data from wearables like Fitbit trackers and the Pixel Watch. Sync to Apple Health. Share your data like your exercise records, sleep, vitals, steps, and more from Google Health to Apple Health. Google Health (previously the Fitbit app) collects fitness, sleep, and wellness data from a connected wearable device.

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Aug 3 • 3:59 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Tommy Sullivan and John Ziegler to Perform at LI Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame on Aug 16th

As part of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Soundtrack to Summer Series, Musician Tommy Sullivan (a member of the Brooklyn Bridge) will perform LIVE music and Comedian John Ziegler will open with comedy set at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on Aug. 16th from 3-4pm. The event is free for members or with general admission ticket purchase or $10 at the door concert ticket purchase. For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.... About Tommy Sullivan A life-long Long Islander and proud U.S. Army veteran, Tommy Sullivan enlisted in 1965 and was accepted to the United States Military Academy Band, where he created the first official rock group at West Point. Reentering civilian life in 1968, he helped create the Rhythm Method, a 7-piece Long Island band which was discovered by Johnny Maestro, then singing lead with the Del-Satins. The combined groups became the Brooklyn Bridge. As band leader and musical director, Tommy penned the group’s horn arrangements on every Bridge hit, including their gold record, Worst that could happen. Upon leaving the Bridge, Tommy co-founded Atlantic Records’ supergroup Ramatam, which was Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell’s first group following Hendrix’ death. For the second Ramatam LP Tommy wrote and orchestrated original material which featured select members of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra. Together with Johnny Maestro, Tommy co-produced Johnny’s final CD, Peace on earth. The critically acclaimed album features Tommy’s arrangements & orchestrations, plus several of his original songs. A Charter Inductee to the LI Music Hall of Fame, Tommy Sullivan continues to write, record, arrange and produce records, serve as musical director/ arranger/conductor for projects across many musical genres plus donates dozens of performances annually for numerous charity events. Tommy Sullivan’s dynamic and unique one-man show, A thousand memories, featuring his vocals and performances on four instruments, has been packing concert auditoriums, nightclubs, private parties–even vineyards-for the past several years. John Zeigler Born and raised in New York, John has performed stand-up comedy for close to 20 years and was the winner of the 2016 "Funniest Comic on the East Coast" Contest at Mohegan Sun. John's opened for such comics as Sebastian Maniscalco, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Breuer and Robert Klein. He currently headlines clubs across the country and regularly tours with legendary comedian Bobby Collins. John recently released his Dry Bar Comedy Special and Getting My Affairs in Order.

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Aug 3 • 3:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • iloveny.com
Flag football continues ‘remarkable’ growth, leading California high school sports’ increase in participation

Girls sports keyed another record-setting year for high school athletics, while football participation saw a significant drop on the boys side

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Aug 3 • 2:30 PM EDT • Sports • pressdemocrat.com
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day': Sony Entertainment CEO Celebrates Success

Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO and President Ravi Ahuja celebrates the success of the record opening of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'

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Aug 3 • 12:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
Featured Image: Citizen Science and Solar Structure

Citizen scientists from the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative recorded nearly an hour of coronal behavior during the 8 April 2024 solar eclipse.

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Aug 3 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • aasnova.org
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ beats ‘Avengers: Endgame’ box office record

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has broken the “Avengers: Endgame” record for the biggest North American opening weekend. Sony Pictures says Monday that the film earned $360 million in ticket sales

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Aug 3 • 11:14 AM EDT • Entertainment • wkow.com
Health department turns to communities to address infant mortality

Mississippi recorded an infant mortality rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, the highest the state has seen in more than a decade.

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Aug 3 • 11:01 AM EDT • Health • wlox.com
Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend

IMAX is having a good run.

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Aug 3 • 10:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • theverge.com
Chevron CEO reveals why AI could transform the energy business for decades

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss the company's record earnings, its 20-year AI power deal with Microsoft, rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East and why permitting reform is critical for U.S. energy.

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Aug 3 • 10:22 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
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HHS Announces HRSA Health Centers Deliver Record-Breaking Care to More Than 32.7 Million Patients

HRSA-Funded Health Centers Served More Americans Than Ever in 2025 while Expanding Access to Primary Care, Mental Health, Dental Care, and Preventive Services.

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Aug 3 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • hhs.gov
Spider-Man's Media-Reported $927M Global Opening Powers AMC Weekend

The weekend's food-and-beverage record topped Avengers: Endgame's 2019 mark; IMAX 70mm engagements of The Odyssey extend into September.

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Aug 3 • 7:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
Commentary: AI-obsessed filmmakers are making a crucial miscalculation

Established filmmakers haven’t minced words about their opposition to AI: Guillermo del Toro said he’d “rather die” than use generative AI, while James Cameron has called AI actors “horrifying.” Industry

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Aug 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Successful AI integration should start with identifying business needs

John Loury and Amanda Orson emphasize identifying business needs and data quality as keys to successful AI integration in operations.

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Aug 3 • 4:58 AM EDT • Business • thedailyrecord.com
AMC Entertainment Shatters Weekend Revenue Records – Sets the Highest Weekend Revenue Mark in the Company’s 106-Year History

More than 10.2 million moviegoers attended AMC Theatres in the United States and ODEON Cinemas internationally from Wednesday through Sunday…...

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Aug 3 • 3:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com
For the Record August 2026

Central Virginia Amazon.com plans to build a more than 1 million-square-foot distribution center in New Kent County near Exit 211 off Interstate 64,

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Aug 2 • 11:52 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
BUSINESS A Chicago couple’s recording studio showcases underrepresented musicians

Queer couple and Friends of Friends Recording (FOF) Co-Founders DeAnna Doersch and Brok Mende met each other in Chicago when they were both youth group leaders for an Evangelical Christian organization. Each of them now agree that that meeting felt like a lifetime ago. Doersch and Mende were in college at the time and discovered a shared […]

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Aug 2 • 9:21 PM EDT • Business • windycitytimes.com
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Eye on Politics: the birth tourism bill and Talarico's social issues record
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Aug 2 • 3:59 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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8 New Audio Upgrades To Look Out For In 2026

From record players and desk speakers to wireless headphones, here are some of the newest audio upgrades you should consider adding to your collection.

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Aug 2 • 12:02 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Xgimi MemoMind One Review: You Don’t Want Smart Glasses That Record Everything You Say

I tested Xgimi's MemoMind One, and I don't think I ever want to venture down that path again.

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Aug 2 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy?

As more big companies invest in glasses that record audio and video and pack AI on board, privacy concerns are only getting louder.

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Aug 2 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Gasser, bullpen shut down Angels in 3-1 victory

Brewers move back into baseball's best record thanks to dominant pitching and timely hitting

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Aug 2 • 12:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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AMC Entertainment (AMC) Is Up 24.2% After S&P Credit Upgrade On Improved Operations And Lower Debt - Has The Bull Case Changed?

In the second quarter of 2026, AMC Entertainment Holdings reported revenue of US$1,596.7 million versus US$1,397.9 million a year earlier, while net loss widened to US$11.4 million and basic loss per share from continuing operations was US$0.02. Alongside these results, S&P Global Ratings upgraded AMC’s credit rating to B- from CCC+, citing improved operating performance, lower debt, record quarterly sales and adjusted EBITDA, and better free cash flow despite ongoing losses and shareholder...

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‘It’s unacceptable’: Cleveland Browns owner says fans ‘deserve better’

The Cleveland Browns have not performed well the past two seasons, and team owner Jimmy Haslam knows it. However, despite the recent struggles, it sounds like Haslam is optimistic about this season. During a recent interview, Haslam acknowledged the team’s frustrating record the past two years, but he made it clear that he thinks the…

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Cowboys’ George Pickens Eyeing Record-Breaking WR Contracts

Cowboys star George Pickens is on a one-year franchise tag contract. He's been paying attention to the big money other WRs are getting. The post Cowboys’ George Pickens Eyeing Record-Breaking WR Contracts appeared first on HEAVY.

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Did You Know Gaming Disputes Metacritic’s Top Rated Entry

While researching for a retrospective, the historical YouTuber account came across inconsistencies with the record-breaking Zelda tally

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Transgender Olympic athlete settles Sophie Cunningham debate with science

The Indiana Fever are on a five-game winning streak following Friday night’s 112-98 win over the Portland Fire, which saw superstar guard Caitlin Clark record her fourth career triple-double. However, even with the Fever surging and rising in the WNBA standings, the discourse surrounding the team has continued to be dominated by reserve guard Sophie…

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In deal for reliable arm Dean Kremer, Twins, Orioles both get what they need: MLB Trade Grades

Dean Kremer has had an awful season, but a long track record says he should bounce back to being reliably average.

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Science Inquiry Comes Alive for Jacket Middle Schoolers

Snails, sidewalks and Double Stuff Oreos... At Partnership Middle School, instructors are finding innovative ways to help students connect the classroom to what they see in the real world every day. By integrating hands-on experiences and scientific investigations into weekly lessons, 6th and 7th grade science teachers push their classes to explore the curriculum standards through the lens of critical thinking, communication with their peers, experimentation, and scientific inquiry. Last week, two different approaches for two different grade levels saw Jacket teachers ignite the same spark for learning. On Tuesday, 6th graders in Lydia Jones' science class took their lessons outside as they explored the school grounds to identify living and non-living things. Despite the warm temperatures, they engaged in discovering unexpected objects on the campus and connecting that to what they learned in class about the criteria for what qualifies a thing as "living". Ms. Jones tasked students with walking the grounds and listing as many living and non-living things they could find in just a few minutes. Students spotted a fire hydrant, construction vehicles, grass, trees, soccer equipment, rocks, sidewalks, and even a snail hidden in the plants. After they finished the exploration, students returned to the regular classroom to discuss their results and whether their objects were classified correctly. On Thursday, 7th graders in Omini Parks' science class participated in their first lab of the semester as they explored and identified the physical properties of a favorite snack -- Oreos. Ms. Parks identified the class objective before the lab activity began by writing the academic standard on the dry erase board in a declarative statement: "I can collect and evaluate qualitative data to describe substances using physical properties." Students watched a video about how Oreo sandwich cookies are made, and then engaged in a question and answer discussion to give observations on the manufacturing process, review various types of physical properties and their scientific terminology, and talk generally about how the lab inquiry would work. The Q&A ended with a predictable question from students... "Will we be able to eat the Oreos?" The hands-on lab exercise required the 7th grade scientists to observe and record the differences between regular Oreos and the Double Stuff variety based on their physical properties. They followed the instructions in their lab brief to chart a comparison between the two types of cookies by observing properties with their magnifying lenses, measuring the height and diameter of both, and weighing the cookies with and without their filling. The activity let students put their lessons about physical properties into practice with real objects while also practicing vocabulary and writing skills to record their observations and using math skills from the last school year like taking measurements and calculating averages. Of course, they ended the lab by charting the taste of the cookies as well! These types of activities allow students to see the science standards they are learning come to life in the real world and engage with the content in new ways. Beyond that, they serve as a foundation for encouraging and growing scientific inquiry. Later in the school year, students will use the scientific method they are learning to complete science projects that require real research and the ability to explain and answer questions about their process and results. At the school-level competitive Science Fair last year, 41 Partnership students earned a place in the 2026 regional Science Fair held at MSU. From there, 14 advanced to the State Science Fair conducted at Northeast Mississippi Community College in April.

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Angel Reese Sets New Atlanta Dream Record for Offensive Rebounds

Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese made franchise history during Friday’s win over the Seattle Storm.

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Huge blankets of seaweed are smothering coastlines from the Caribbean to Mexico

Some 27 million metric tons of self-sustaining sargassum have been recorded in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in July, according to a report released Friday by the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab.

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Blumenthal's bill, mental health grants, Electric Boat: CT politics news

Plus: A survey suggests support for schools sharing services, a summit addresses threats, and Connecticut Innovators reports a record year.

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Blumenthal's bill, mental health grants, Electric Boat: CT politics news

Plus: A survey suggests support for schools sharing services, a summit addresses threats, and Connecticut Innovators reports a record year.

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Fast-growing Ebola outbreak in DRC surges to second-largest on record

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has quickly grown into the second-largest on record, with cases taking just weeks to reach levels that had taken years in previous outbreaks.

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Does public health *need* MAHA?

Last week, our friend Dr. Craig Spencer sparked an ongoing volatile discussion with his Atlantic article “Public Health Needs MAHA.” Some have come out in strong dissent, others are cheering, and others are simply lamenting that we find ourselves in such a divided world to begin with. We will dare to dip our toes in these controversial waters, too. Does public health need MAHA? We think in some ways yes, and in other ways, no. MAHA leaders versus the everyday MAHA supporter The vitriol in this debate mostly comes from one collapsed distinction: the leadership of MAHA is not necessarily the same as the people who support it. Say “MAHA” and most people picture RFK Jr. Fair enough, as he coined the term and holds most of the power. And, yes, some MAHA followers treat Kennedy as something close to a saint. But talk to the grassroots, and it’s not a monolith. They’re Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. People who distrust vaccines and vaccine supporters. It’s a wide, eclectic coalition. The data backs this too: 4 in 10 Americans support the movement—that’s a lot of people! But according to polls, vaccines and medical choice (the issues most tied to Kennedy personally) are cited by only 4% as their reason for supporting the movement. For many, the motivations are much broader. Many MAHA supporters are signing up for the idea that “something needs to change” with health in this country. They’re asking good-faith questions about corporate influence on our health systems, health care costs, nutrition, chemicals, and clean air and water. These are all questions that plenty of public health professionals recognize as legitimate and also care about very deeply. Blurring the lines between the leadership and grassroots does real damage in two important ways: It hands the 4 in 10 exactly the narrative already fed—that the health ecosystem doesn’t listen, doesn’t care, and paints every critic with the same brush. It gives the actual bad actor more power. RFK Jr. has done irreparable damage and can’t be trusted. What the MAHA movement gets right A healthy population is something the public health field was literally built on, and many of these topics are things we have dedicated our lives to. Yet the MAHA movement has captivated nearly half the country in a way the public health establishment has failed to achieve. So that means MAHA is doing something right. Some of it may be timing (after a Covid-19 pandemic and deep frustration and mistrust with institutions). The movement also does three other things really well: 1. It gives a new, louder voice to system failures. While MAHA is not a monolith, one theme stays consistent across their stories: the system failed them. For some, it was the system that flooded their communities with opioids and then walked away. For others, it was the system that let their business collapse during Covid with no safety net in sight. For others still, it was the system that failed to help them manage a complex chronic illness, bouncing them from physician to physician without any real answers. And in many ways, our health ecosystems are failing Americans. Why are medical bills so incomprehensible? Why do some kids get a healthy school lunch and others don’t? Why do an epidemiologist and a MD/PhD student have to start newsletters in the middle of the biggest public health emergency in a century, just so people can get straight information? Because the systems failed. This deep-seated frustration driving many Americans to search for solutions elsewhere needs to be recognized. 2. MAHA has brilliant comms central to their efforts. MAHA figured out something most health institutions still have not: the information landscape changed. It’s participatory now, not top-down; influence runs through many nodes in a community, not one institution; and storytelling and telling audiences “what you really think” moves people more than data dumps do. MAHA goes where audiences are listening, using podcasts, social media, and memes in ways most health institutions would scoff at—but it works. 3. They are very good at organizing. A MAHA meeting feels like a rally: energy, speakers, music, and most importantly, an action for everyone. Someone’s writing the next policy brief, someone’s seeding a narrative, someone knows the next legislative deadline, someone’s sending the text messages for a campaign. None of this is new (ask the civil rights movement), but MAHA knows it works and has capitalized on it. What MAHA gets wrong This list could be much longer, and this newsletter has spent a lot of time covering it, but here are a few things: Poor use of scientific evidence. This is the fundamental problem with many MAHA policies: the hype outpaces the science, and experts are often villainized for pointing this out. MAHA leadership has traded real solutions for cheap wins. For example, instead of taking on the powerful food industry and passing real reforms, it has celebrated french fries made of beef tallow and taken out artificial dyes from still very sugary children’s cereal. These changes won’t move the needle on America’s diet. MAHA leadership has tried to dismantle vaccine access in the U.S. While many MAHA supporters emphasize other issues, the effort to change vaccine policy has become MAHA’s signature effort. This is not surprising given RFK Jr.’s extensive track record campaigning against vaccines. It has rallied behind the wrong leader. RFK Jr. has a decades-long track record of villifying doctors, scientists, and public health workers, well before he became HHS secretary. He is known for his decades-long work sowing distrust in vaccines as well as life-saving treatments like antiretroviral therapy for HIV. This is not a serious person who can move the needle on health in the U.S, and he has already done serious damage. Public health needs more than defense Defending the evidence is absolutely necessary so health in the U.S. doesn’t move further backward. The public health establishment is very good at defense. The problem is this defense often sounds like defending the status quo, which has failed many people. Public health needs to offer an alternative to RFK Jr.’s MAHA—one that is rooted in evidence, truly listens to and addresses people’s frustrations, and has innovative solutions and the courage to change the systems. How do we get there? Find common ground. Do you know what most people care most about? The abysmal cost of healthcare. Start there. Fight for the human loudly. Too often, communications and engagement center on science with a capital S, funding mechanisms, or the CDC/FDA/NIH. Not the person. So the public doesn’t see themselves in it. Instead, they see people fighting for the very powerful systems that they feel negatively impact their health and well-being. Let the public feel and hear that you see their frustrations, you get it, and you’re fighting for them within the system. Recognize when pro-science messages are alienating people. Facts absolutely matter, but angrily venting only alienates people further. Our friend Elisabeth Marnik recently wrote a New York Times article about her experience growing up unvaccinated and how listening and empathetic conversation are the only ways to reach people that really work (a position backed by communication science). Her comments section was full of hateful comments from pro-vaccine individuals attacking her for daring to suggest we approach vaccine-hesitant individuals with empathy. It is possible to both stand firm behind scientific evidence and empathize with people who don’t trust it. Lean into politics smartly. Often, public health has shied away from politics: Don’t touch it, lest you get burned. But this fails to recognize that the third rail is what fuels the train: who is elected determines our budgets, our priorities, and our authority. Being political means being very savvy in strategy on both sides of the aisle, knowing your audience, and recognizing that political capital is as scarce as financial resources and needs to be allocated accordingly. Bottom line So does public health need MAHA? That’s not really the right question. Public health has a responsibility not to dismiss 40% of the country who feel heard by this movement and are frustrated that the system has failed them. And it has a responsibility to stick to the evidence and recognize MAHA leadership for what it is: a danger to our nation’s health. Both can, and should, be done. Love, YLE and KP A big thanks to Craig Spencer, who had the courage to put his neck out there to start a much-needed discussion at such a critical moment—one that is determining the identity of an entire field. Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD is completing an emergency medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. In her free time, she writes the newsletters You Can Know Things debunking health myths and rumors and The Public Health Roundup. Views expressed belong to KP, not her employer. Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) comprises a team of experts, ranging from physicians to immunologists to epidemiologists to nutritionists, working together with one goal: to “translate” ever-evolving public health science so that people are well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions. The YLE suite of newsletters reaches over 475,000 people across more than 132 countries. 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Hope Florida Foundation hires political firm linked to pro-Moody Super PAC

The Hope Florida Foundation moved its records into the same Alabama building that houses the super PAC backing Senator Ashley Moody’s campaign.

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BP to sell North Sea business; AI companies lead record surge on Korea’s stock market

Live, rolling coverage as British oil company looks for buyer amid political dispute over future drilling licences

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New Business Licenses: 7.31.26

A real estate stager, a record studio and an estate liquidator are some of Chesterfield's businesses this week. (BizSense Pro required)

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Denton City Council member Jordan Villarreal resigning to focus on 'personal health'

Denton City Council Member Jordan Villarreal says he is resigning so he can focus on taking care of his personal health. He was elected in May.

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Collins, Ossoff trade attacks over health care and controversy on Georgia campaign trail

Collins held a news conference outside Monroe County Hospital in Forsyth, where he highlighted his health care agenda and criticized Ossoff’s record in the Senate.

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Yankees' Jazz Chisholm exits with apparent leg injury: Latest updates

While the Yankees dropped another late game against the White Sox, Jazz Chisholm exited with a leg injury.

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Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France. Researchers at World Weather Attribution found human-caused climate change made Spain's record fire 20 times more likely and doubled the chances of extreme fire conditions in Fr...

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AHA heart failure registry making a major impact after 20 years

The registry has collected more than 1.6 million patient records from more than 800 hospitals. "We can do even better," one cardiologist said. "We have to treat heart failure with everything we've got."

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A.14 Atmosphere Several Corrections

The Earth Science Division recently released A.14 Atmosphere, soliciting proposals for data analysis and modeling of NASA supported airborne campaign data.

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Business Briefs: July 31, 2026

Greenfield Savings Bank welcomes new first vice president, commercial loan officer GREENFIELD — Greenfield Savings Bank recently announced that Douglas Gilbert has joined the bank as first vice president, commercial loan officer. Gilbert brings more than 30 years of banking experience and a strong background in accounting and commercial lending. “We’re excited to welcome Doug […]

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200,000 Veterans Have Enrolled in VA Health Care in 2026 — a New Record. Here's Who's Eligible

VA crossed the threshold in early July, faster than any prior year. Here's who can enroll and how.

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AppMagic: Pokémon Go generates $48.5m during 10th anniversary celebrations

Weekly in-app purchase revenue reaches record high from July 6 to July 12

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Record absence of world’s oldest head of state reignites health speculation

Cameroon’s president has not made statement or been seen since leaving for ‘brief private stay’ at Swiss hotel on 7 June

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Robinhood shares edge lower after record quarter for prediction markets business

Predictions markets is now the fintech's second largest trading business.

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Robinhood shares edge higher after record quarter for prediction markets business

Predictions markets is now the fintech's second largest trading business.

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Valkyries' late-game mistakes lead to brutal loss to Mercury

Golden State Valkyries have the third-best record in the WNBA despite their July 29 loss to the Phoenix Mercury.

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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.

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Samsung Electronics posted a record profit on AI chip demand — but its mobile business swung to a loss

The South Korean tech giant's memory chip division hit all-time highs on AI server demand, while elevated component costs pushed its mobile unit into the red

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Christian Gonzalez holding off on signing a record Patriots offer

Christian Gonzalez may have an offer from the New England Patriots that would make him the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL. But he's holding off on accepting it for now.

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Jul 30 • 7:01 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
RISE to Feature Terri Carmichael Jackson, Jessica Caggiano on WNBA

During RISE Women’s Sports last fall, WNBPA Executive Director Terri Carmichael Jackson outlined a vision for a transformational future for the WNBA. A future where player compensation, investment and working conditions finally reflected the league’s explosive growth. Nearly a year later, with a landmark new collective bargaining agreement, record-setting media rights and continued expansion reshaping …

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Jul 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
German top two divisions record attendance record of 21.4 million

Germany's Bundesliga and second division sold a record 21,404,258 tickets in the past season for an average of 34,974, the league said on Thursday. The Bundesliga said that top flight ticket sales rose by 9.

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Jul 30 • 6:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
FTSE 100 to fall from record high after Fed holds interest rates and Iran attacks; Rolls-Royce expects higher profits

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as global stock markets drop after US central bank keeps interest rates steady

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Jul 30 • 2:46 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
5 bold predictions for the 2026 BYU football season

Expectations for the Cougars haven’t been this high in years — but that’s what a 23-4 record since the start of 2024 will do for your program. Perhaps Kalani Sitake’s crew finally gets over the hump this fall to earn a College Football Playoff bid, or maybe BYU will suffer a similar regression to that of Big 12 foes Baylor or Colorado last season. A year ago, I took a stab at guessing what the Cougars would accomplish in 2025, offering five bold predictions which you can read here.

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Jul 29 • 10:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Samsung Stock Jumps Over 6% In Seoul as AI Memory Business Delivers Record Profit: 'Supply Constraints' Expected to Continue

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.‘s (OTC:SSNLF) shares rose on Thursday after the chipmaker posted a record second-quarter operating profit as surging artificial intelligence memory demand boosted its semiconductor business, though higher component costs weighed on earnings in its mobile division. Operating Profit Beat Estimates Operating profit climbed to a record 89.5 trillion KRW ($61.93 billion) for the second-quarter, beating the 88.13 trillion KRW ($60.98 billion) analysts’ forecast compiled by

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Jul 29 • 10:22 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Robinhood CFO details surging prediction market business as firm posts record revenue in Q2

Robinhood beat analyst expectations on several fronts though crypto revenue fell significantly.

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Jul 29 • 7:05 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com
BTS say they will not submit music for 2027 Grammys

Wednesday’s announcement came just over a month after the Recording Academy announced five new Grammy categories, which include best Asian pop music performance. Some fans viewed the new category as a racialized barrier for Asian performers.

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Jul 29 • 4:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Antarctica just experienced minus 119 F, Earth's coldest temperature since 2012

Too hot? Head to the Concordia research station in Antarctica, where "astronauts of ice" just experienced near-record-breaking cold.

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Jul 29 • 2:54 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Why President Trump’s approval fell to a record low in CNN’s latest poll
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Jul 29 • 1:31 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Gary Thomasson

Gary Thomasson spent only half a season with the Yankees, but his career included a World Series ring, a record-setting contract in Japan, and an unexpected place in the art world.

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Jul 29 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
DAZN replacing Gotham Sports as YES Network, MSG streaming home

DAZN will replace Gotham Sports as the streaming home for YES and MSG Networks beginning this fall.

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Jul 29 • 10:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Samsung scores record pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8

The new foldable device lineup seems to be much more successful than the previous one. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and...

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Jul 29 • 10:21 AM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com
CBS Sports highlights the Vikings first-round pick track record

Here's how CBS Sports has the Minnesota Vikings first-round pick record.

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Jul 29 • 9:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ultrafast X-rays capture chemistry unfolding atom by atom

Ultrafast X-rays revealed how a molecule converts absorbed light into motion in just trillionths of a second. Individual atoms recorded different stages of the process, opening a powerful new window into light-driven chemistry.

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Jul 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
MLB’s Upside-Down Playoff Picture Undercuts Owners’ CBA Messaging

The Tampa Bay Rays are providing an inconvenient counterweight to MLB owners’ framing of modern baseball. Owners have long held up the financial disparities in the sport, and their subsequent impact on competitive balance, as a reason to overhaul its cost structure and implement a salary cap. Yet the low-spending Rays have the best record …

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Jul 29 • 7:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SAPD officers suspended after man in mental health crisis brought gun into hospital, records show

Two San Antonio police officers were handed a month-long suspension after records show they failed to search a man experiencing a mental health crisis who was carrying a stolen gun, according to records reviewed by KSAT Investigates.

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Jul 29 • 7:18 AM EDT • Health • ksat.com
Real Madrid Posts $1.39 Billion Revenue, Record High For Sports Entity

Real Madrid has set a new benchmark in sports finance, reporting a record $1.39 billion in operating revenue for 2025/26, a new high for a sporting entity.

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Jul 29 • 4:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com