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Jul 30 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com

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

The US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know

The US has unveiled what officials claim is the most radical overhaul of the public R&D system in a generation, which if implemented could have significant implications for transatlantic research collaboration. Science: A New Golden Age derides universities as “legacy institutions” and instead wants to prioritise funding on technological challenges, new research labs and funding that follows individual scientists, rather than being linked to their institutions. “Too much of our research enterprise has come to serve itself rather than the scientists within it,” writes Michael Kratsios, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the only named author of the report. “Federal funding agencies should support a broader range of performers.” But some critics argue that the strategy is a smokescreen, using genuine problems in academia as an excuse to further weaken US universities, which US vice-president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy..”Even as it talks of a “golden age” for science, the White House has proposed halving the 2027 budget of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and has put forward double-digit cuts for other funding bodies, such as the National Institutes for Health. It asked for similarly steep savings in 2026, but Congress stopped them going through. Science: A New Golden Age says success will be measured by the extent to which scientists are “free” to pursue the most “vital questions,,” painting academia as currently hidebound by bureaucracy, sluggishness and consensual conservatism. And yet the Trump administration is simultaneously planning new rules that will hand political appointees unprecedented powers to screen and cancel grants. The report has pretentions to be the successor to Science: The Endless Frontier, the seminal 1945 document in which presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush set out the case for post-war government funding of basic research, helping to spur the creation of funders such as the NSF. Even the title page font is the same. But it remains unclear if the latest report will leave anything like as lasting a legacy.Here, Science|Business explains some of the biggest proposed changes in Science: A New Golden Age, and how Europeans think it might change the landscape of their biggest science partner.Universities under fireA key target of the report are US universities, which it repeatedly suggests are outmoded as research institutions. It criticises the NSF for channelling resources “overwhelmingly to a single type of performer, the university-based, principal investigator-led research group..” Universities “extract” money from researchers’ grants to support “growing administrative bloat,” alongside legitimate uses. The Trump administration has been trying to cut the overhead costs in federal research grants that flow to universities. Instead, new institutions are being built. In May, the NSF announced it would spend $1.5 billion on two new so-called X-Labs, focused on scientific instrumentation and quantum systems. The idea is that they fill a niche in the landscape, tackling problems that are too big for a university lab, but too early stage for private start-up funding. Parallel with Europe?This shift to new research organisations parallels moves in Europe to set up new innovation agencies, such as Germany’s Sprind, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency, and the EU’s European Innovation Council. The Dutch and French governments are looking to set up their own entities too. There’s now an emerging consensus, evident in a number of new strategies, that public R&D needs to be shaken up, Charles McIvor, an economist at the OECD, has written in response to Kratsios’s plans. “What stands out for me across these strategies [in the US, Germany, South Korea and Japan] is that governments are realising that the old ways of delivering STI [science, technology and innovation] programming no longer works,” he said in a LinkedIn post. Metascience wins?The document is, at least on the face of it, also a big win for some policy thinkers in the US who want far more experimentation with new forms of research grant and institution.It name-checks a litany of new public R&D ideas, from focused research organisations and advance market commitments to “golden tickets,” which allow grant reviewers the power to hand applicants money without requiring the consensus of other review panellists.Related articlesEuropean researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationFocused research organisations: what are they, and how do you set them up? NIH turmoil risks reciprocal EU-US access to health research funding In addition, every federal research funding agency should set up a metascience unit, the strategy says, “with authority to run controlled experiments on review and funding mechanisms.” The UK has already set one up, the strategy points out. This mirrors recommendations to the European Commission. In 2024, a report led by former Portuguese science minister Manuel Heitor also advised the EU to set up an “experimental unit” to test out new methods of funding research. So far, however, Brussels hasn’t put forward any plans to do so. Bypass universitiesBut there’s a worry that the Trump administration is using the metascience movement to justify an overhaul of public R&D that punishes universities, which it sees as centres of political resistance. Last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it hired and admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create “viewpoint diversity” across campus. It’s also attempted to strip academics of funding for working on politically forbidden areas, like LGBTIQ people’s health.The new strategy appears to be a “move to bypass the power of universities full stop and allow funders and political bureaucracies to handpick the projects and people who will execute them,” said Jean-Claude Burgelman, a former senior official in the Commission’s research directorate, on LinkedIn.The EU’s science counsellor in Washington, Florent Bernard, wrote that the plans risk diverting public research funding so that it “solely serves private interests.” “Who, if not independent universities, will do research that demonstrates the impact of tobacco on lung cancer or the role of human activities in our current climate crisis?” he wrote.Should we take it seriously?“I would view the overall document as a bad faith argument,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science, and a former OSTP official. “I don’t see the project itself as something that can be isolated from the broader attack on the system.” He thinks the argument that academia has become dysfunctional and in need of radical reform is being deployed as part of a “PR argument” to legitimate moves against US scientists. The strategy presents ideas like metascience units as new, whereas there were moves to set them up at the NSF during the previous administration of Joe Biden, Donovan said. The other caveat here is that the OSTP has limited power to carry out any of these recommendations. While Kratsios has issued a memo to research agencies telling them to implement the recommendations in the report, he doesn’t have direct budgetary control. “As a former OSTPer myself, this does not seem like a document that is realistic,” said Donovan.

Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net

Seven lessons from women entrepreneurs on starting and running a business

Seven women entrepreneurs from the Western Balkans stepped into the dynamic environment of GITEX AI Europe to network, explore partnerships, showcase their businesses and attract investment at one of Europe's largest technology and AI events. We joined them at GITEX AI Europe to hear the practical lessons they learned while building their business and how participating in Capital Quest help shape their entrepreneurial journey.

Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • eca.unwomen.org

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

Red Sox beat the A's 4-2 on Monasterio's 2-run homer in the 10th

Andrew Monasterio hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox held on to beat the Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday night.

Jul 30 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

SwitchBot makes a better fan

Runs for days off its rechargeable battery.

Jul 30 • 6:30 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Cumberland business replaces resident's stolen bake stand

CUMBERLAND – A woman whose roadside bake stand was stolen from her home on Abbott Run Valley Road says that her faith in humanity was restored last week when a

Jul 30 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • valleybreeze.com

'Every reason to believe next season will be a struggle'

Eddie Howe has lost key players Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon already this summer while Arsenal are trying to sign their captain Bruno Guimaraes. There is obviously a level of frustration from Howe at the direction the club are going in their summer recruitment, though the coach was aware of the necessity for the club to sell players this summer. Earlier this year, Howe had decided to remain at St James' Park regardless of the inevitably about selling players.

Jul 30 • 4:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The White Sox had no business winning this game. They won anyway, 6-5

Chicago overcame a four-run first-inning deficit before Edgar Quero ended a 12-inning marathon with the club’s eighth walk-off victory of the season

Jul 30 • 12:18 AM EDT • Business • southsidesox.com

Salt Lake Acting Company blends comedy with politics in recent premiere

The Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) premiered “The Gaslight Zone“, which brings humor to recent political topics. Every year, SLAC puts on a summer show that presents situations based on recent political events in a humorous, lighthearted and educational manner. This season’s show, “The Gaslight Zone,” runs through August 16 and blends local drag culture...

Jul 29 • 10:14 PM EDT • Politics • dailyutahchronicle.com

GUARDIANS AT REDS: Singer vs. Cantillo, discussion

Please score multiple runs

Jul 29 • 6:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Braves chat & discussion Chris Sale vs Christian Scott

Atlanta Braves vs New York Mets series finale. Once again, the Braves are in a position where they’re trying to avoid a sweep. Can they do it and score the runs they need with Chris Sale on the mound? First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. E.T. Lineups Preview

Jul 29 • 6:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Plane Jane reads Law Roach after ‘Project Runway’ exit: ‘Bus driver wig!’

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ alum Plane Jane reads Law Roach after her ‘Project Runway’ elimination, during which the ‘Drag Race’ judge dragged Plane’s look that she originally wore to the season 16 premiere.

Jul 29 • 6:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

Jul 29 • 5:07 PM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com

Spotify Just Launched a New Running Mode, and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It

Spotify has a new running mode designed to coach you through a structured workout. Here's how it works.

Jul 29 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • lifehacker.com

Steelers camp observations: Day 1 features defensive wins and a roller-coaster debut for Drew Allar

Aaron Rodgers quickly showed the familiarity and comfort he has with running a Mike McCarthy offense as the Steelers took the field at Saint Vincent College...

Jul 29 • 3:37 PM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com

3 takeaways from Mamdani's city-run grocery stores

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised city-run grocery stores. This week, he announced kitchen staples will have a 30% discount over private retailers.

Jul 29 • 2:22 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Business journalism studies took her to the White House | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The story by UNC Hussman alumni Brennan Doherty ’19 and video by John Roberts ’16 (M.A.) was originally published on unc.edu. This story is part of a four-part series on Carolina alumni working in Washington, D.C. Soon after her 2015 graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill, Megan Cassella was an intern for the Reuters news agency, eagerly awaiting and prepping for a special assignment. “Every now and then they needed an intern to run over to the White House last minute,” Cassella said. “You have to send your information the night before, so I started proactively sending my information to the White House every single night to be able to go the next day if they ever needed an intern.” Since then, she’s made many return trips to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in a career that’s included roles at Reuters, Politico, Barron’s and now CNBC, where she works as an on-air Washington correspondent. A longtime newswriter, Cassella made the move to TV in 2024, appearing on broadcasts multiple times daily to report on the biggest political and business stories. But the keys to doing a good job — knowing how to research, asking insightful questions, building relationships and explaining complex topics to a broad audience — remain the same. Did you know: Outside of the state of North Carolina, the Washington region is home to the largest concentration of Tar Heel alumni in the country. Cassella’s time as a Tar Heel was crucial in sharpening those skills, both in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and through roles at student-run publications like The Daily Tar Heel. She excelled in Carolina’s business journalism program with former professor Chris Roush, which led to an internship at The Charlotte Observer and helped Cassella find her journalistic niche. A data journalism course with Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg taught her how to find stories in numbers, and former professor Paul O’Connor’s reporting class took Cassella to the North Carolina Capitol weekly, where she gained invaluable experience interviewing politicians. “Those hands-on experiences that Carolina gave me really kept my interest and have really benefited me since I’ve been up here in D.C.,” said Cassella. “I have UNC to thank for the fact that I even went into business journalism in the first place.” Megan Cassella ’15 “You’ve got to thrive on adrenaline in this job. You’ve got to do well with last-minute changes, with running by the seat of your pants.” Megan Cassella ’15 ‘There’s nothing else like it’ In recent months, Cassella has reported live from the G7 Summit in Geneva, covered the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran war and followed changes to trade policy, including tariffs. “Anything in this realm that influences Wall Street, I’ll be covering,” Cassella said. Her working hours are long and variable. After waking up, Cassella immediately checks her phone to see what news broke overnight. By 8:15 a.m., she usually learns which newscasts she’ll be on, and then she heads to the newsroom, White House or wherever her assignment is. “We want you in the 9 a.m. show and the 11, and then the 3 o’clock show wants you, too,” Cassella said, referring to a hypothetical day. If Cassella gets an exclusive or major news breaks, she might be told, “We want that on TV right now.” Within five minutes, she’d be expected to get to the camera, figure out what to say and deliver the news to a live audience. “It’s exciting. It’s nerve-wracking,” Cassella said. “But there’s nothing else like it.” A well-rounded education Cassella grew up in Maryland, the youngest of four kids. Her oldest brother, Brian Cassella ’05, attended Carolina, became a photojournalist and recently won a Pulitzer Prize. She remembers visiting campus as a young child and loving it. “I just always wanted to go,” she said, and that desire grew when she, like her brother, gravitated toward journalism. But it wasn’t just the journalism school that drew Cassella to Carolina. “It was also the whole liberal arts curriculum,” she said. “Even though I always wanted to be a journalist, I got to college, and I sort of felt I had to think about other things. I had to explore my options and see if that’s what I really wanted.” Did you know: In April UNC-Chapel Hill opened its Carolina in the Capital office in Washington. She combined her journalism schooling with a global studies major and a history minor. That broad range of academic experiences in Chapel Hill molded her, preparing Cassella for a career that’s taken her to the highest levels of political journalism and inside the Oval Office. “When you sit back and remember you’re actually sitting inside the White House and asking questions of the president, it’s a cool feeling,” Cassella said. “No matter who is in office, no matter what administration or party, it’s a privilege to be there.” Megan Cassella on… Being a Tar Heel in Washington: I run into Tar Heels all the time. My husband’s a Tar Heel. We actually met here in Washington, not at Carolina, even though we were the same class. Probably most of our friends are still Tar Heels. Even up here in D.C., we all get together for games and March Madness. And through work, there’s Tar Heels all over the place. It’s often used as a connection. Favorite Franklin Street spot: When we go back, our first stop is always IP3. That’s more my husband’s doing than mine. In college, I was a huge Spanky’s fan. Felt like it was a classic spot. May it rest in peace. Advice to journalism students: Reps, reps, reps! Nothing beats the experience you’ll gain by simply starting to do the work — asking the questions, reporting and writing the stories, doing the TV hits. When you can, go places in person. Talk to more people than you think you’ll need. Read as much as you can, from different sources and on different topics. If you’re not sure how to start your story, that usually means you need more reporting. When you’re not sure, ask.

Jul 29 • 10:39 AM EDT • Business • hussman.unc.edu

MLB Expert Picks & Baseball Predictions July 29

MLB expert picks and moneyline, run line, and Over/Under predictions for July 29, featuring the Dodgers, Yankees, and Rays.

Jul 29 • 9:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Jul 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com

What is a p‑value? Expert explains the most misunderstood number in science

If you've ever tried to read a scientific paper, you've almost certainly run into a p-value. And if you found it confusing, you're in good company: Plenty of working scientists misunderstand it too.

Jul 29 • 8:20 AM EDT • Science • phys.org

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are working on a Nintendo Switch 2 version, but note the "big technical challenge" of getting it up and running

Sandfall Interactive knows there is demand for a Switch 2 version of the breakout RPG, and the studio is working on it.

Jul 29 • 8:01 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Could this Utah suburb become a hub for youth sports? A pitch for a massive indoor athletic complex is on the table.

It can be a struggle for Utah's youth sports teams to find space for practices and games. One suburb is weighing a proposal that could alleviate the crunch.

Jul 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sltrib.com

A's in 4-3 win over Red Sox

Brian Serven hit his first major league home run in almost four years and rookie Gage Jump pitched six scoreless innings as the Athletics cooled off the Boston Red Sox with a 4-3 victory.

Jul 29 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

We’re running out of ways to get oil out of the Middle East

Saudi Arabia had found a workaround for the Strait of Hormuz. Then the Houthis showed up.

Jul 29 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com

Vote for the Pensacola area's best running back

Voting is now open for the top high school running back in the Pensacola area. Polls close at 11 a.m. CT on August 4.

Jul 29 • 5:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Battle to replace late House Dem goes to overtime after daughter failed to clinch seat

Marcye Scott and Everton Blair advance to an Aug. 25 runoff election in Georgia's 13th congressional district to fill the late David Scott's seat.

Jul 29 • 3:38 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

New microwave frying method could make french fries much healthier

A new cooking method could make French fries crispier in less time while significantly limiting how much oil they absorb. Researchers propose combining microwave heating, which keeps oil out, with conventional frying, which provides the crunch consumers expect.

Jul 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

GOP governor survives challenge from Bitcoin evangelist in gubernatorial runoff

South Dakota's first gubernatorial primary runoff pitted incumbent Larry Rhoden against outsider Toby Doeden after neither cleared the 35% threshold to win outright.

Jul 28 • 5:39 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Elise Woodward named Washington football’s new radio voice

Twenty-three years after she started patrolling the Washington football sideline in a headset and rain gear, Elise Woodward has finally been promoted indoors. Washington Athletics and Learfield’s Huskies Sports Properties announced Monday that Woodward will ascend to the program’s radio play-by-play chair, ending her run as its longest-tenured sideline reporter. She’ll make her debut in…

Jul 28 • 5:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Anez Cooper’s development is a test for the Jets

Through the summer, we will be counting down the Jets roster player by player. We continue the series by discussing Anez Cooper. Name: Anez Cooper Number: 72 Year With Jets: 1st Projected Role: Developmental guard His 2025: Cooper started at right guard in all 16 games for the national runner up Miami Hurricanes and earned Second Team All-ACC honors. The […]

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

Newsom affair as mayor resurfaces amid presidential run rumors

Rippey detailed her ongoing struggle with alcoholism and sobriety.

Jul 28 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • sfgate.com

What to know about South Dakota's midterm primary runoff

South Dakota Republicans will decide in a primary runoff Tuesday whether to nominate Gov. Larry Rhoden for a full term or to instead tap businessman Toby Doeden to represent the party on the ballot in November.

Jul 28 • 4:34 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Seahawks waive former Georgia running back

The Seattle Seahawks have waived former Georgia Bulldogs running back and CFP hero Kenny McIntosh amid his attempt to comeback from a torn ACL

Jul 28 • 4:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ozlo's Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose's sleep earbud legacy

Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.

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

I Hate Adobe

Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.

Jul 28 • 2:50 PM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site

Xbox announces Gamescom 2026 plans

Xbox has announced its plans for Gamescom 2026, which will run from August 26 to 30 at Koelenmesse in Cologne, Germany, including first-party and third-party titles playable at its booth, and live …

Jul 28 • 2:39 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

Eagles Invest Big on Jalen Carter With Record-Setting Extension

It turns out the Philadelphia Eagles were willing to make Jalen Carter the NFL's highest-paid defensive tackle after all. The Eagles locked in Carter to a four-year, $152 million contract with $106 million in guaranteed money, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Carter's contract could be worth up to $40 million annually and will run through 2031.

Jul 28 • 1:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

This South Dakota race shows how wealthy candidates are changing American politics

The incumbent governor faces an unexpected challenge from a self-funded outsider.

Jul 28 • 12:45 PM EDT • Politics • ms.now

GRETA Comes Online for a New Era of Nuclear Science

After a successful commissioning run, GRETA is ready to give researchers an unprecedented look into the hearts of atoms.

Jul 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov

WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app

Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps, the web app will support the calling features such as screen-sharing and reactions.

Jul 28 • 10:53 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

South Carolina Republicans line up to run in special primary to replace late Sen. Lindsey Graham

WASHINGTON (AP) — The field of Republican candidates vying to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots is nearly set, with at least 10 hopefuls filing their paperwork and launching into a two-week sprint toward the Aug. 11 special GOP primary. WATCH LIVE: Sen. Lindsey Graham remembered in funeral service at Washington National Cathedral It's been a jumbled and frenetic period during what would have otherwise been Graham's expected glide path toward a

Jul 28 • 10:52 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

MLB Expert Picks & Baseball Predictions July 28

MLB expert picks and moneyline, run line, and Over/Under predictions for July 28, featuring the Reds, Red Sox, and Mets.

Jul 28 • 10:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Small Business: Planning for the Future, Your Way

Voice of Business Blog Guest post from Greater Rochester Chamber member Bank of America As entrepreneurs and small businesses here in Rochester prepare for Q3 and Q4, many are navigating uncertainty. These small businesses – from new ventures to established family-run enterprises – are essential to Rochester’s success. According to a 2025 U.S. Small Business Administration report, Rochester…

Jul 28 • 10:32 AM EDT • Business • greaterrochesterchamber.com

Best Back to School Accessory Deals on Anker, Sony, Samsung and More This Week

There's a big accessory sale happening on Amazon this week, with the year's best prices on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products, and much more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

Jul 28 • 10:21 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

CBS Sports' top 10 players at every offensive position: Josh Allen top quarterback, tight race at running back

CBS Sports' NFL experts rank the top quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, tackles and interior offensive linemen

Jul 28 • 10:17 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Cowboys Defender Subtly Threw Former Coach Under the Bus

Last year was a nightmare for the Dallas Cowboys and their defense, which never got going under defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.The unit was one of the NFL‘s worst, finishing last in points allowed per game and passing yards per game. Their total and run defense stats were no better, proving to be the thing holding […] The post Cowboys Defender Subtly Threw Former Coach Under the Bus appeared first on HEAVY.

Jul 28 • 9:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet

Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in […]

Jul 28 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • news.crunchbase.com

Granola launches an Apple Watch app

Granola debutes an Apple Watch app for in-person notetaking

Jul 28 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Will Andrew Painter pitch in the majors again this year?

He’s on a bit of a run in Triple-A

Jul 28 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was reportedly being turned into a 2.5D brawler by CD Projekt Red and Shantae studio WayForward, but its fate is uncertain

The spin-off was in development between 2025 and 2026, before layoffs hit the retro-inspired developer famous for its beat 'em ups and platformers.

Jul 28 • 8:06 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

‘I’ve Never Lost’: Rahm Emanuel Makes His Case

The former Chicago mayor discusses Israel, Democrats and whether he’ll run in 2028.

Jul 28 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com

Notre Dame football running back preview for the 2026 season

Notre Dame RB Kedren Young is nearly a full year removed from his ACL tear, which makes him a candidate for short-yardage and goal-line assignments.

Jul 28 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Data centers have become a political issue. Here's where the Ohio governor candidates stand.

The frontrunners for Ohio governor both want to regulate data centers but have different plans for how to address growing concerns.

Jul 28 • 3:55 AM EDT • Politics • ohiocapitaljournal.com

Gen Z say selling their secondhand stuff online is teaching them more about business than college—and 85% of hiring managers agree

Exclusive: Hiring managers say running a Depop account impresses them more than an internship or a retail job.

Jul 28 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com

UFC star Conor McGregor announces his final fight for 2027

Conor McGregor's latest comeback barely lasted a minute, but he already has a date circled for one more run.

Jul 28 • 2:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Democratic Socialists of America is a 'flesh-eating virus,' political strategist says

Political and legal strategist Katie Zacharia discusses the Democratic Socialists of America's platform and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposal for city-run grocery stores on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

Jul 27 • 11:26 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

MVP Matthew Stafford says star-studded Rams have "a high ceiling" for climb toward a Super Bowl run

Matthew Stafford is back at work in his 18th NFL training camp and his first since winning his first league MVP award

Jul 27 • 10:59 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on

Jul 27 • 4:19 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Court: Mental health evaluation requested for man accused of Bent Creek runner attack

In court Monday the state requested to conduct its own mental health evaluation of a man who earlier this year was accused of attacking a runner.

Jul 27 • 3:57 PM EDT • Health • wlos.com

Iran War Enters 6th Month and a Period of Greater Uncertainty

Here is a rundown of the major events of the war, as both sides consider their next moves.

Jul 27 • 3:53 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Microsoft launches its first cyber model and a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

Jul 27 • 2:32 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Why Derrick Henry’s supporting cast matters more in 2026

Baltimore must strengthen Derrick Henry’s supporting cast to preserve the veteran running back’s explosiveness throughout 2026.

Jul 27 • 1:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The cost of running the White House

It costs millions of dollars to run the president's official residence and workplace. Here's a breakdown.

Jul 27 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Xbox Outage Locks Players out of Games and Accounts for Over 12 Hours

Following a similar story relating to PlayStation Account server errors just a few days prior, on the launch of the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta, Xbox has seemingly run into issues during the advanced access launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved. The resulting Xbox outage has resulted in gamers...

Jul 27 • 12:58 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

Fable PS5 Has Run 'Uncomfortably Beyond Budget', Sources Claim

God of War Laufey invades RPG's "dedicated moment"

Jul 27 • 12:30 PM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com

Stretchable antenna keeps wearable health sensors in tune with human health

Wearable health monitors are designed to move with the body. But for many devices, movement creates a problem: The more a person bends, stretches, reaches or runs, the harder it can be for the device ...

Jul 27 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

‘Both approaches ultimately run into the same obstacle’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

Jul 27 • 11:42 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com

Oregon Ducks' 2026 Position Preview: Running Backs

Sophomore sensations Jordon Davison and Dierre Hill headline a lethal backfield as Dan Lanning’s squad looks to dominate the ground game following a consensus top-ten preseason ranking.

Jul 27 • 10:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Illinois has a looming electricity crunch to address: Forum

Politicians and power providers are scrambling to come up with ways to add more sources of electricity quickly.

Jul 27 • 9:47 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Jon Bon Jovi brings out surprise guest Bruce Springsteen for final show at MSG

Jon Bon Jovi brought out Bruce Springsteen for the final night of his band’s MSG concert run, uniting New Jersey music icons.

Jul 27 • 9:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Snapchat now lets you share what you're listening to in real time

Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time.

Jul 27 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in South Dakota’s state primary runoff

South Dakota Republicans will decide in a primary runoff Tuesday whether to nominate Gov. Larry Rhoden for a full term or to instead tap businessman Toby Doeden to represent the party on the ballot in November.

Jul 27 • 8:32 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Alukunyang Named Track Runner of the Year at HBCU Sports Awards

CROSS ROADS, Texas – North Carolina Central standout Aaron Alukunyang was named the 2026 Men's Track and Field Runner of the Year at the third annual HBCU Sports Awards, which were streamed online Saturday afternoon.

Jul 27 • 8:31 AM EDT • Sports • nccueaglepride.com

Kendall Qualls' running mate, picked for business acumen, owes workers money

Brian Nicholson told his workers earlier this month at an Albertville manufacturer that he was doing everything in his power — and even seeking divine intervention — to strike one of five “Hail Mary” deals so he could pay them what they’re owed. “I’m praying on my knees every night before I go to bed […]

Jul 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • minnesotareformer.com

Will Justin Herbert Increase His Rushing Attempts?

Justin Herbert showed last season that his mobility is an underrated part of his game. With Mike McDaniel now running the offense, could the Chargers lean on Herbert’s legs even more? A slight increase in rushing attempts might make the offense even more dangerous in 2026.

Jul 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

He Sold His HVAC Business and Trucks in One Year. Two Years Later, Medicare Billed Him Like a Millionaire.

An HVAC contractor sold his business, paid his taxes, and booked a trip to Portugal. Two years later, Medicare sent him a premium notice sized for someone still running a seven-figure operation, and the clock to fight it was already running.

Jul 27 • 7:02 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

'My aim will always be to battle hard'

New forward Daizen Maeda promises he "will always run and give everything that I have" for Ipswich after arriving on a three-year contract from Celtic. The 28-year-old Japan international said his aim "will always be to battle hard, score goals, and provide assists for my team" and shared his excitement to "learn more about the club and meet the supporters". Maeda scored 79 goals in 212 appearances for Celtic, where he won five league titles, three Scottish Cups and two Scottish League Cups.

Jul 27 • 6:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot

On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

Jul 27 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Stokes's Durham next in line for shellshocked Glamorgan

Glamorgan could run into former England captain Ben Stokes in prime form for Durham as they aim to recover from a thrashing at Middlesex.

Jul 27 • 5:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Opinion | Costco or Whole Foods? Grocery Stores are Symbols of Identity

Our grocery stores mirror the mess of America.

Jul 27 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Black voters may decide the nation’s biggest Democratic primary. Many are clearly against the more progressive option

Abdul El-Sayed is seeking to deliver the Democratic Party’s progressive insurgency its biggest win yet in the Michigan Senate primary. But he is running into resistance among Black voters, many of whom say the establishment he eschews has delivered for them in important ways.

Jul 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

VOTE Junior girls breakout star cross country runner

Which rising junior will be the biggest breakout star girl of the Shore Conference fall cross country season? Poll presented by Alliance Orthopedics.

Jul 27 • 4:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scripts history, creates world record at just 15

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest Player of the Series winner. He achieved this milestone after India's T20I series victory over Zimbabwe. Sooryavanshi was the leading run-scorer with 151 runs across three innings. He scored a match-winning 81 runs in the final T20I match. This award followed a challenging series for the young cricketer in England.

Jul 27 • 4:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Iran war's global effects: In Nigeria, a business owner struggles to keep the generator running

Jul 27 • 3:01 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

Gossip: Fulham frontrunners for Real Madrid's Mastantuono

Fulham are the leading option for 18-year-old Argentina midfielder Franco Mastantuono if Real Madrid send him on loan this season. (AS - in Spanish)

Jul 27 • 2:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ukraine's new top general has an X doppelganger fooling thousands

The account on X, @Drapatyi_M, has posted 22 times in the last five days, mimicking the run-of-the-mill updates one would expect from an official.

Jul 27 • 1:23 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com