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Jo Rae Perkins discusses Oregon politics ahead of Tuesday’s Primary

Jo Rae Perkins is the definition of a perennial candidate.

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May 17 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • koin.com
Village, Chelsea candidates call to cut red tape for small business

Six Democratic candidates for the Greenwich Village and Chelsea Assembly seat at a recent forum laid out measures to help small businesses.

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May 17 • 11:27 AM EDT • Business • amny.com
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Albany Mayor Applyrs looks ahead in budget gap update

On Saturday, the mayor said her administration has been able to find almost $6 million in savings to address a $19 million operating deficit.

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May 17 • 10:16 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
My 8-year-old calls his friends to make playdates himself

My son arranges his own playdates by phone, and watching him do it has changed how I think about independence.

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May 17 • 10:10 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
PGA Championship 2026 - Final Round LIVE! Latest updates, highlights, scores as Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler chase Alex Smalley

Follow live updates and watch the best video from the final round of the 2026 PGA Championship. Watch live on Sky Sports Golf.

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May 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Dates, times set for pair of Detroit Lions preseason games

No time or date has been set yet for the Lions' lone home exhibition game against the Washington Commanders

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May 17 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display gets typing through air gestures in latest update

Perhaps more important still, Meta is opening up the device to third-party app development. The Ray-Ban Display – Meta’s flagship smart wearable glasses –...

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May 17 • 9:33 AM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com
‘SNL’ Weekend Update Joke Swap Drops Jaws With Raunchy Punchlines

Colin Jost and Michael Che broke constantly during the highly-anticipated tradition in the Season 51 finale.

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May 17 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • themountaineer.com
‘SNL’ Weekend Update Joke Swap Drops Jaws With Raunchy Punchlines

Colin Jost and Michael Che broke constantly during the highly-anticipated tradition in the Season 51 finale.

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May 17 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • laconiadailysun.com
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A woman turned her parents' garage into her apartment to make room for her grandparents in the main house

Sofia Palacios lives rent-free in her parents' garage. It lets her grandparents have room in the main house when they visit.

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May 17 • 8:24 AM EDT • Technology • malaysia.news.yahoo.com
The hopeful update Chase Rice just shared after stepping away from music this year

Stops at Red Rocks and Stagecoach reignited something in the singer, who says performing made him miss the stage all over again.

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May 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
Denver Broncos roster review: Wide receiver Cameron Ross

Undrafted rookie free agent wide receiver Cameron Ross is a practice squad candidate for the Denver Broncos.

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May 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
PGA Championship final round leaderboard, live updates: Can Alex Smalley fend off Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy for first win?
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May 17 • 7:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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L.A. mayor candidates seek Latino vote. Bass is ahead of Raman, Pratt

Latinos make up about 37% of the L.A. electorate. Mayoral candidates are putting out ads in Spanish, rallying endorsements and canvassing Latino neighborhoods.

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May 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Voter voices from the San Gabriel Valley on California governor's race

Becerra and Hilton have emerged as the candidates to beat. But dozens of interviews across the San Gabriel Valley, a prime campaign battleground, find many voters still undecided. And discouraged.

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May 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Pols & Politics: Mike Minogue rule? State lawmaker seeks to ban self-funded campaigns

As budget week kicks off on Beacon Hill, state Sen. Rebecca Rausch has filed a budget amendment that would strike out a provision allowing political candidates to self-fund their campaigns.

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May 17 • 4:25 AM EDT • Politics • bostonherald.com
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The new political era of insurgent candidates is roiling the Pennsylvania primary

A decade after Donald Trump upended the Republican Party by attacking the GOP establishment in his first presidential campaign, the political outsiders...

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May 17 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • post-gazette.com
A Look At Brookfield Business Partners (BBU) Valuation After Softer First Quarter 2026 Results

Brookfield Business Partners (BBU) is in focus after Brookfield Business Corporation reported first quarter 2026 results, showing sales of US$6,436 million and net income of US$40 million, both lower than in the same period a year earlier. See our latest analysis for Brookfield Business Partners. The recent 1-day share price decline of 2.09% to US$31.46 and a 30-day share price return down 9.21%, alongside a year to date share price return down 12.20%, contrasts with a 1-year total...

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May 17 • 12:17 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Update on the political transition and security situation in Guinea-Bissau

17 May 2026

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May 16 • 11:59 PM EDT • Politics • amaniafrica-et.org
Politics Unplugged (Full Episode) May 17, 2026

This week on Politics Unplugged, John Trobough, candidate for Congress in District 1, makes his case for the job and shares his view of the war in Iran. Then, Consultants Marcus Dell’Artino and Stacy Pearson discuss Kari Lake’s nomination for ambassador to Jamaica and the state budget negotiations.

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May 16 • 11:36 PM EDT • Politics • azfamily.com
Satwik-Chirag vs Cardano-Marthin in Thailand Open final; Kolkata derby in ISL: Indian Sports LIVE, May 17

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on May 17, 2026.

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May 16 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Satwik-Chirag vs Cardano-Marthin in Thailand Open final; Kolkata derby in ISL: Indian Sports LIVE, May 17

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on May 17, 2026.

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May 16 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • africa.espn.com
Louisiana election live updates: Sen. Bill Cassidy faces primary against Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow and more

Follow live updates and breaking news coverage of the Louisiana primary election as Sen. Bill Cassidy faces Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow.

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May 16 • 8:30 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. Chart of the Week BYD Eyes 20 Dealership Locations After Canada Greenlights Chinese EV Imports ‘Sledgehammer’ Carbon Price Deal Boosts Emissions by 230Mt, Aims for Fall 2027 Pipeline Approval ‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn Electricity Strategy Aims for Doubling by 2050, Allows ‘Flexibility’ for Gas Power Plants Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah Diluted Carbon Price Misses ‘Reality of the World We’re In’, Could Impede Diversified Trade: Climate Institute $200B in Clean Energy Investment Will Need On-Time Delivery, Reliable Policies, Trade Association Says ‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands What a Supercharged El Niño Could Mean for Canada Canada’s future is electric, and here’s how a power grid superhighway would get us there (Toronto Star) The Perilous Waters of Hecate Strait (Globe and Mail) Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East (The Guardian) Farmers confront rising cost of fertilizer and fuel as spring seeding under way (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Clarkson forecasts 24% decline in offshore oil, gas capital expenditures (Oil & Gas Journal) Pipe Dreams: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa (Oil Change International) Developing countries must hold the pen to script the fossil fuel transition (Climate Home News) Iran war threatens the dream of a post-oil economy in the Gulf (Washington Post) U.S. Oil, Gas Work Force Hits Lowest Level Since 2022 (Rigzone) Why Polestar Is Doubling Down on Net Zero as Rivals Pull Back on EVs (Bloomberg) Why this Michigan utility plans to sell its hydro dams for $13 (E&E News/Politico) Levees can no longer save New Orleans (Vox)

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Guardians lineup, live score updates tonight vs. Reds

The Cleveland Guardians host the Cincinnati Reds on May 16. Follow along for live updates throughout the game tonight.

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May 16 • 3:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Emory physicist takes science out of the lab and onto the playground

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May 16 • 2:59 PM EDT • Science • kwwl.com
ActBlue C.E.O. Agrees to Testify Before Congress About Foreign Donor Vetting

The Democratic fund-raising group, which backs candidates up and down the ballot, has been the subject of scrutiny by Republicans.

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May 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Preakness Stakes 2026 live updates: Horses, post time, odds, payouts and more from second leg of Triple Crown
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May 16 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mets' Juan Soto Shares Injury Update After Yankees Game

New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto had some injury news to share after a loss to the New York Yankees.

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May 16 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The buzz on oil prices hitting Redding auto-lube shops. Dunkin' time

This in the Buzz. The surge in oil prices are impacting local oil change businesses. An update on Dunkin's opening day and a job fair is planned.

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May 16 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • redding.com
Trump criticizes Sen. Cassidy while pushing challenger in Louisiana GOP primary

If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff June 27

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May 16 • 9:43 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump criticizes Sen. Cassidy while pushing challenger in Louisiana GOP primary

If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff June 27

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Trump criticizes Sen. Cassidy while pushing challenger in Louisiana GOP primary

If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff June 27

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Subnautica 2 Xbox players could eventually test new features early like Steam players

Unknown Worlds would love for Xbox players to test Subnautica 2 updates before they launch

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May 16 • 9:36 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Top Stories: iPhone 18 Pro Rumors, iOS 26.5 Released, and More

WWDC is less than a month away, so the focus of the Apple world is turning toward what we might see in the next major operating system updates, but we're also looking ahead to the busy hardware update season in the fall. This week also saw a significant change to Apple's education pricing program in some countries, while a new commemorative U.S.

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May 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
The Science of Reading is non-negotiable in Ohio. Why do some religious schools get a pass?

Ohio's Science of Reading mandate was sold as an all-or-nothing overhaul. A new Senate carve-out for eight private classical academies is blowing a hole in that promise.

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May 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • cleveland.com
Politics and pensions don’t mix: Retirees prevail in the Sooner State

Public pensions must be managed in the best financial interests of retirees — not steered by political mandates.

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May 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
PGA Championship third round leaderboard, live updates: Can Scottie Scheffler catch Alex Smalley, Maverick McNealy?

The PGA Championship is still wide open.

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May 16 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Colorado Politics Calendar May 18-24

CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber, […]

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May 16 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Satwik-Chirag in Thailand Open semifinal; ISL double-header: Indian Sports LIVE, May 16

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on May 16, 2026.

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May 15 • 10:30 PM EDT • Sports • africa.espn.com
Is Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) Priced Attractive After Sharp Share Price Declines?

Wondering whether Tencent Music Entertainment Group's current share price really reflects its underlying value, or if the market is mispricing the stock right now. The stock closed at US$8.47, after falling 8.3% over the past week, 14.3% over the past month, 52.6% year to date, and 47.7% over the past year, while the 3 year return stands at 13.6% and the 5 year return shows a decline of 41.3%. Recent coverage has focused on Tencent Music Entertainment Group's position in the online...

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May 15 • 9:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic “ape-to-human” progression and paints human evolution as a crowded, branching tree with multiple species coexisting. Scientists dated the fossils using volcanic ash deposits and are now investigating what these ancient relatives ate and whether they competed for resources.

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May 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
LIVE SCORE UPDATES & ANALYSIS: Arkansas baseball at Kentucky Game 2

Follow along as the Razorbacks play the Wildcats in the second game of a series at Kentucky Proud Park.

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May 15 • 7:55 PM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com
Concerns raised over proposed Allegheny County-wide parental leave policy

A proposed 18-week mandated parental leave policy in Allegheny County is under a public comment period, with business leaders raising concerns about its economic impact.

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May 15 • 7:51 PM EDT • Business • wtae.com
Fuquay-Varina park plan faces pushback as demand grows for youth sports

Fuquay-Varina leaders are proposing the construction of four athletic fields at Hilltop Needmore Town Park to accommodate an increase in youth sports participation and prevent hundreds of children from being turned away.

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May 15 • 7:41 PM EDT • Sports • wral.com
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Google Health Premium vs. Basic Features Comparison

The launch of Google Health, its new app, and the Fitbit Air is around the corner. In fact, for many of you, the new Google Health app should start showing up on your phones as an update as early...

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Fuquay-Varina's youth sports are at a 'breaking point': Building new fields is fueling debate

Fuquay-Varina leaders are proposing the construction of four athletic fields at Hilltop Needmore Town Park to accommodate an increase in youth sports participation and prevent hundreds of children from being turned away.

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Democratic primary candidates for comptroller to debate on NY1 stage on May 21

Democrat Thomas DiNapoli has held the position for nearly two decades; he now faces challenges from Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle.

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May 15 • 6:08 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Player Availability Report: #ATXvSKC

Player Availability Report is SportingKC.com’s look at the latest status updates around the team ahead of upcoming matches and is presented by Saint Luke’s. All details listed are from the league’s official Player Status Report that is submitted the day prior to the match. Sporting Kansas City is back on

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Boonville searching for new hotel to accommodate traffic from sports venues

The town hasn’t added a new hotel in 20 years, and said it is yet to find a brand willing to build in Boonville instead of nearby competing markets.

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May 15 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • komu.com
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Citius Oncology, Inc. Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

/PRNewswire/ -- Citius Oncology, Inc. ("Citius Oncology" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CTOR), the oncology-focused subsidiary of Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc....

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Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

/PRNewswire/ -- Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Citius Pharma" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CTXR), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and...

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National Media Continues to Disrespect Wisconsin in Updated Offseason Rankings

CBS Sports isn't high on the Badgers for 2026.

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May 15 • 4:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CMS Updates Medicaid Child Health Guidance

This compilation of guidance serves as a technical assistance tool for state EPSDT staff.

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May 15 • 3:58 PM EDT • Health • essentialhospitals.org
Updates to UNO Nebraska Medicine Health Center Office Visit Coverage

Starting July 1, 2026, the student health fee will include five covered office visits at the Nebraska Medicine UNO Health Center per academic year. After five visits, standard office visit charges will apply.

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May 15 • 3:43 PM EDT • Health • unomaha.edu
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Hayden Panettiere reflects on dating 30-year-old Milo Ventimiglia when she was 18, predicts her daughter will do the same

Hayden Panettiere is preparing for her 11-year-old daughter to date an older man after the actress dated her 30-year-old 'Heroes' costar Milo Ventimiglia when she was just 18.

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The Analogue 3D is finally getting save states

A new firmware update for Analogue’s 4K N64 clone will let you save your progress at any point during a game.

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May 15 • 2:43 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Congressman Cohen Announces Plan for His Political Future

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, who has represented Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District for more than 19 years, held a press conference at his office in Washington this morning to announced that he will not be a candidate for any of the newly drawn Congressional seats carved out of the 9th. His majority-Black district was gerrymandered into three Republican-leaning districts by the state General Assembly last week.He made the following statement:

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Microsoft Stock (NASDAQ:MSFT) Jumps as Microsoft Plans to Roll Back Faulty Drivers

Tech giant Microsoft ($MSFT) has recently come under fire for releasing software updates that actually do more harm than good. But Microsoft may also have a plan to...

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The Steyer campaign pays influencers. Their posts don't always make that clear

Tom Steyer's campaign appears to have relied on paid influencers more than any candidate for governor, according to the most recent campaign finance filings.

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Brian Christine Is a Penile Implant Expert Giving Updates on Hanavirus

Dr. Brian Christine, a prominent figure in the American hantavirus response, is a surgical urologist with little background in public health.

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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces ROG NUC 16

ROG NUC 16: ASUS unveils a compact gaming PC for gamers and creators. Features Intel Core Ultra, NVIDIA RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, AI-enhanced graphics, QuietFlow cooling, and versatile dual-orientation design. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for the latest tech updates!

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Colin McEnroe (opinion): Peppa Pig invites mudslinging to CT politics

Peppa Pig contributes to Erin Stewart's downfall as a GOP gubernatorial candidate, allowing rival Ryan Fazio to hog the spotlight.

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Colin McEnroe (opinion): Peppa Pig invites mudslinging to CT politics

Peppa Pig contributes to Erin Stewart's downfall as a GOP gubernatorial candidate, allowing rival Ryan Fazio to hog the spotlight.

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Bridge Michigan News Quiz, May 15:  Politics-free trivia

No candidates. No polls. Just 10 answers about the week that was in Michigan.

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Q&A: Changing the basic conditions under which rural care is delivered

Dr. Hamad Husainy says America's rural providers are doing heroic work with outdated systems, fractured communication and too little support. Meaningful transformation is possible, he says, but will require more than new technology.

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Amazon shares major update on search for the next James Bond
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Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn

Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue.

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Sony Surprise Drops New Feature via May 2026 Beta Update

Sony has just added a new feature to the PS5 via a beta update for May 2026. A new social/community widget is being tested.

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Fitbit 4.69 rolls out with redesign of focus stats and logging

Google has rolled out version 4.69 of Fitbit for Android as the last update before the Google Health rebrand...

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Proposed VHC Health facility needs more public input, County Board candidates say

The three Democratic candidates for County Board are all in favor of extensive community input on a proposal for a new behavioral health facility in Glencarlyn. "You need to listen -- it needs to be community-first," challenger Julie Farnam said at a debate hosted by the Arlington County Civic Federation on Tuesday. Farnam and James DeVita

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Wahls, Turek spar on reproductive healthcare records at Senate primary debate

Candidates Josh Turek and Zach Wahls sparred Thursday during the second U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate on issues like reproductive healthcare and how to best achieve their policy goals if elected.

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Rocket Science Health validates targeted olfactory-cleft deposition in non-human primates ahead of the 4th Nasal Formulation & Delivery Summit

As the pace of modern drug discovery accelerates, the industry is increasingly recognizing that a breakthrough molecule is only as effective as its ability to reach the target site.

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Microsoft to automatically roll back faulty Windows drivers

Microsoft is introducing a new Windows Update capability that will allow it to remotely roll back problematic Windows drivers delivered through Windows Update.

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PGA Championship leaderboard, Round 2 updates: Scottie Scheffler at the top as Rory McIlroy struggles early at Aronimink

Scottie Scheffler is at the top of the leaderboard after 18 holes at Aronimink.

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Self-funding and special interests: How money shapes California’s political campaigns

The 2026 governor’s race has been marked by major financial backing, either from candidates themselves or a variety of special interests.

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May 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • capradio.org
Class of 2026 Public Health Master’s Candidate Receives National Research Award and Reflects on Conference Experience - University of New Haven

Jamesha Barrett ’26 MPH received a national public health research award at the 2026 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) conference, where she presented research on addressing food insecurity among international graduate students.

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PAVmed Provides Business Update and Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

/PRNewswire/ -- PAVmed Inc. (NASDAQ: PAVM) ("PAVmed" or the "Company"), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company, operating in the medical...

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California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns passes key hurdle, paving way for full assembly vote

A Stop Killing Games-backed California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns has passed an appropriations committee vote.

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The rise of the progressive billionaire candidate

Why some on the left are feeling warmly toward Tom Steyer and other very wealthy contenders.

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Galaxy S24 series gets stable One UI 8.5 update in the US

Samsung has released the stable One UI 8.5 update for the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra in the USA.

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Crimson Desert Gets Yet Another Major Patch, Adds Blinding Flash Finisher for Unarmed Combat So You Can Live Out Your Batman Fantasies

Crimson Desert update 1.07.00 is out now. Check out the patch notes.

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Windows 11 KB5089549 can now be downloaded for USB installs using official Microsoft tool

Microsoft has made an update related to the Media Creation Tool, its official utility for downloading and installing Windows via ISOs.

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Datavault AI Provides Q1 2026 Business Update Highlighting Tokenization Adoption and Infrastructure Progress

More than $800 million in tokenization contracts signed; generating nearly $100 million in fees expected to be recognized in 2026 First Quarter…...

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Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene: In some Harry Potter version of 21st-century London, a group of deathless UK Treasury officials gathered from across the last century huddle over warm pints and glasses of Chardonnay. Around the table there are officials from the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1970s, 2022 and today. Inevitably, in May 2026, the subject of conversation is the disintegration of the current Labour government. Despite its huge majority in parliament, it has been reduced to tatters by catastrophic local election result. These exposed the fact that rather than having a government with a clear popular majority, the UK is like most other modern societies divided into 5 segments each of which commands between 26 and 16 percent of the vote. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the leadership at Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street - where the Prime Minister and the Chancellor (Treasury Secretary) work - seem paralyzed. They are caught between mounting discontent over unfairness and the cost of living, and tough fiscal strictures that push them into making unpopular spending decisions. In the London pub, the Treasury officials from across the ages, can barely hide their satisfaction at the latest display of democratic politics caught in the vice-grip of financial logic. “Remember the mur d’argent and the banker’s ramp?” “Just like yesterday!” There are smirks around the table. Then the representative of 2026 pipes up: “One thing you have to say about the current lot (referring to the latest hapless Labour government), you don’t have to teach them about the bond market!” There is a murmur of ascent from the Treasury Mandarins. The trauma of the fiscal crisis of September-October 2022 sits deep. Back then, in the final stages of Tory decay, a ‘mini budget’ that challenged fiscal orthodoxy led to a brief but fierce panic in one of the oldest government bond markets in the world (aka gilt market). Now all you have to do is to mention the “bond market” to hush debate. [ Paul Mason@paulmasonnews In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/ 3:57 PM · May 12, 2026 · 466K Views 224 Replies · 674 Reposts · 3.93K Likes ](https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082?s=20) “And the funny thing is”, the young man in the huddle continues, “they don’t even want to talk about … ”. There is a sudden hush. Significant looks are exchanged around the table. About? One of the senior figures puts down his glass with a decisive “clink”. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has entered their thoughts. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a grubby pub in Bloomsbury, two conspirators from the camp of Critical Macrofinance huddle over cans of low-alcohol IPA. They look at each other and blurt out loud: “The Bank!” “Everyone in the bloody Labour party is talking about the bond market. But why aren’t they even mentioning … the Bank of England!?” “Why is no one talking about Voldemort?” In Paul Mason’s blogpost, after much chest-thumping about basic fiscal logic, the basic point about the Bank of England is buried in the fine print at #3 in his list of suggestions as to what a radical Labour government might actually be able to do! [ Conflict & Democracy Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! It may seem unfair to focus on Labour MP Paula Barker for her off-the-cuff assertion that the bond market would have to “fall in line” with Andy Burnham, should he replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. But Burnham himself told the New Statesman that Labour had to “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets… Read more 2 days ago · 100 likes · 3 comments · Paul Mason ](https://htsf.substack.com/p/down-with-the-bond-market-down-with?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Back in Bloomsbury they shake their heads and ask: “Didn’t we learn anything from the Eurozone crisis?” Meanwhile, as if summoned to the conversation by some higher force, the “pink pages” announce: “The days of ultra-cheap government borrowing have come to an end” and Martin “Whizzard” Wolf publishes the graph of the season Look at the UK in 2026, perilously positioned on the upper edge of the pack. No wonder no one in London needs any lessons about the “bond market”. But, look again. Imagine how they feel in Rome. What is London’s nightmare in 2026? The nightmare is that you end up like Italy in the early 2010s during the Eurozone crisis. Once comfortably situated in the middle of the pack, watching with horror as your ten-year yields explode to 7 percent and “spreads” become a national nightmare. One of the largest economies in Europe, a founding member of the euro, stigmatized. But the message of the Italian experience is ambiguous. After all, the stigma didn’t last. In 2026, Italy borrows at rates lower not only than the UK but the US. The US, which, as everyone knows, enjoys the “exorbitant privilege” of being the issuer of reserve, safe asets. What kind of magic is this? How did Italy, in the space of fifteen years, go from being good, to bad and back again? Which brings us back to our dissident friends in their Bloombury boozer and their memories of the Eurozone crisis. Italy never was Britain - with its ongoing fiscal deficits. Without interest payments, on primary balance, from 2000 to 2020 Italy ran a tight fiscal ship. Even in 2008 it barely went into deficit and when it was being put on the rack in the early 20210s its primary surplus matched that of austere Germany. So, what happened? How did it end up stigmatized? Of course Italian politics didn’t help. Berlusconi was at the helm and he had legal issues. But amongst friends in the Bloomsbury pub, Berlusconi is a sideshow, the name we whisper to each other is “Trichet”. From 2004 to 2011 the ECB was headed by Jean-Claude Trichet, ex of the French Treasury, more German than the Germans. After 2009 as the news of the Greek fiscal disaster broke, the European bond markets wento into panic mode and Trichet began a brutal game of cat and mouse. Between 2009 and 2011, Trichet intervened in the bond market to help, only when he thought he had compliance with austerity. When he thought they were uncooperative, he withdrew. In the summer of 2011, he even made direct suggestions to his Italian counterparts in Rome, as to how Italy should be governed. It was this cat and mouse game that drove the bond markets crazy and exposed Italy to a violent squeeze. When Mario Draghi took over the ECB at the end of 2011 and declared “whatever it takes”, the pressure on Italy, gradually eased. It is that starring role that has made Draghi into the towering figure in European politics that he remains today. So now you see why voices in London hush when it comes to the Bank of England. “The bond market” isn’t an irresistible objective force like the weather or an avalanche. It can appear like that. But that depends on the way it is being handled, or not handled by the central bank. Which is why the silence about the Bank of England in London right now is so significant. If you think this all sounds a bit fishy, coming from a left-liberal Keynesian like myself, well, let me introduce you to Robin Brooks, who, to put it mildly, plays on a different quidditch team to me. Here, from the position of a fiscal hawk is Robin’s celebratory account of the Bank of England’s role since 2022; In October 2022, at the height of the bond market blow-up in the UK, something incredible happened. Governor Andrew Bailey told British pension funds the Bank of England would end its support program for the country’s fragile gilt market, drawing a line under how much help the central bank was willing to give to exposed pension funds and - implicitly - the government. By the end of that week, Kwasi Kwarteng - the finance minister - had resigned. Prime Minister Liz Truss would soon follow. This episode is so incredible because it contrasts with what happened in the Euro zone earlier that year. Bond markets in Spain and Italy were under pressure amid high inflation and rising interest rates. In the middle of this, Mario Draghi - Italy’s Prime Minister - resigned, compounding pressure on bond markets of high-debt countries on the Euro periphery. Unlike the Bank of England, the ECB caved. It bought Italian and Spanish government bonds in an effort to cap yields and introduced a new tool that signaled to markets it might do such caps more frequently going forward. Faced with pressure on bond markets, the ECB capitulated to political pressure from high-debt countries like Italy and Spain. The Bank of England stood its ground and toppled the Truss government. This kind of thing has long-lasting consequences. It means markets price a higher probability of yield caps in the Euro zone, which keeps Italian and Spanish yields artificially low, while markets feel free to push up UK yields without fear of central bank intervention. As I flagged in yesterday’s post, this means you really can’t compare UK yields to those of other high-debt countries. The UK looks worse, but only because its central bank isn’t interfering with markets. There’s more to this than just that 2022 episode. The Bank of England has also been much more aggressive in its quantitative tightening (QT) than other central banks. If one motivation for quantitative easing (QE) is to lower bond yields - especially longer-dated ones - then it stands to reason QT pushes yields up. The left chart above shows a four-quarter moving average of UK government debt issuance (black line) in percent of GDP and which sectors absorb this issuance, including the Bank of England (blue bars). The right chart above compares the Bank of England’s accumulation or run-off of government bonds (blue line) with that of other central banks, where this blue line is the same as the blue bars in the left chart. The Bank of England was quicker and more aggressive than other central banks in downsizing its bond holdings, so UK yields will have risen more than elsewhere also for this reason, not just because of Governor Andrew Bailey’s remarks in October 2022. Back in October 2025, after a conversation in New York with friends in British politics, my sense of dysphoria was such that I raised the issue of the Bank of England openly in the FT Since 2008, the UK has slid into a deep economic and political predicament. Growth has stagnated to a degree far worse even than in the 1970s. The Tory leadership’s wager on the Brexit referendum spectacularly backfired, leaving the UK isolated from Europe and at the mercy of its special relationship with the US, many of whose political class regard the UK as a basket case. After years of austerity, the Labour party lurched to the left and then back to the centre. The Tory party has been eclipsed by the populist nationalism of Reform. Any British government should be worrying first and foremost about how to restart growth. Instead, Keir Starmer is beset by shades of the gilt market panic triggered by the Liz Truss government in 2022. The debt level is higher than in recent years, but there is no cause for panic. UK debt is at far from critical levels and of long duration. Whether you want to “take back control” or launch progressive economic policy, a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank. Since 1997, the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow. But independence is what you make of it. And in the wake of the gilt market crisis of September 2022, relations between the Bank of England and the UK government need a reset. In normal times, there is no doubt that an inflation-targeting independent central bank can serve a country well. But since 2008, the UK and other advanced economies have not had the luxury of such simple problems. To their credit, central bankers around the world have not stood on orthodoxy. After 2008, the US Federal Reserve rescued the global banking system and, through quantitative easing, it stabilised the Treasury market in the face of huge deficits. In Europe, things were trickier. Both the Bank of England under Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet’s European Central Bank played cat and mouse with national governments. This was a high stakes wager that between 2010 and 2012 escalated bond market tension and triggered a disastrous turn to austerity. Shaken by the impact of those shocks, their successors, Mark Carney and Mario Draghi adopted a more protective stance (assuming you were not the government of Greece). Recall that Draghi’s legendary slogan, “Whatever it takes”, was uttered to face down the City of London’s bond vigilantes. In 2015, Draghi launched QE — financial repression by another name. In 2016, Carney used the authority of the Bank of England to stabilise markets following the vote for Brexit, an exemplary demonstration of how central banks can underpin democratic choice, even when those choices are wrong headed. All these were independent central bankers steeped in the best practice of the 1990s, who recognised that historic crises demanded radical action. It was the price surge of 2021-2023 that poisoned the atmosphere. Though the shock came mainly from the supply side, central banks ended up in the dock. Nowhere more so than in the UK. The Bank of England reacted with aggressive normalisation. Faced with a cost of living crisis, the governor called for workers to accept real wage cuts. In early 2022, as gas prices were at record levels and Russia’s army was poised to invade Ukraine, the Bank adopted a stringent programme of quantitative tightening, elevating interest rates. When the Truss government got itself in trouble, the Bank took almost a week to come to the rescue. Rather than enacting a charade of normality, it is time to recognise that in 2025 the UK faces a period of historic transition. To meet this challenge, what is needed is a new concordat with the Bank. This should not ignore inflationary pressures or the long-run trajectory of debt, but should affirm the priority of reviving investment-led growth. One could follow Donald Trump in demanding interest rate cuts. The Bank could shadow the ECB in its commitment to capping Eurozone yields. But the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022. The Bank’s slowing of QT last month was a concession. An immediate and complete end would send the right signal. Such a concordat will not by itself restore sanity to politics, solve the housing problem or rebuild the NHS. But it would help to lift the fear of bond market crisis, which is paralysing the effort by democratic politicians to answer the fundamental questions facing the nation. Now, that call for a new concordat between government and Bank of Englands seems more urgent than ever. The problem is that in October 2025, Starmer still had some authority. Today the government is in tatters. And when you are the “under the harrow” - to echo a phrase of Montagu Norman’s from the 1920s - it is the worst possible time to consider institutional change. To make general arguments at a time of crisis can only seem like special pleading rather than a general argument for long-term change. The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic institutional reform that Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated first past the post electoral system and its replacement by a moderated form of proportional representation. And thirdly - whilst we are saying the quiet parts out loud - Britain needs to reopen the question of EU membership. What the local election results of 2026 show is that this remains a key issue. And what they also show is that there is a clear majority that would favor a return. Until these basic features of Britain’s political economy are addressed the country will carry on its politics as though in a haunted house, governed by governments that lack actual majorities, conjuring up false constraints whilst ignoring the real ones. This one is for DG and MI. I love writing the newsletter. If you enjoy it too and fancy buying me a coffee once a month, you know what to do. Click below! Subscribe

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A chemical found in fish could help reinvent your sunscreen

It’s been over 25 years since the FDA approved a new ingredient for sunscreen in the United States. But a molecule called gadusol found in fish and coral reefs is a promising candidate. It absorbs U.V. rays — acting like a built-in sunscreen for fish. But there’s a big hurdle if scientists want to turn gadusol into human sunscreen: They’d need to make a lot of it. A new study out this week in the journal Trends in Biotechnology takes us a big step closer. Their solution? Using the bacteria best known for making your stomach hurt: e. Coli. Interested in more science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org.Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

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Galaxy S24 Series, Fold 6 and Flip 6 Get One UI 8.5 in the US

Samsung has started rolling out the stable One UI 8.5 update for the Galaxy S24 series, S24 FE, Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 in the United States.

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Winners and losers of the CBS California gubernatorial debate

Candidates pile on the Democratic front-runner, Xavier Becerra, including a white-paper wielding Katie Porter. But nothing happened that's likely to shake up the race as it careens toward the finish. Some inspiration would help.

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Sindhu, Lakshya, Satwik-Chirag in Thailand Open quarterfinals; ISL, IFL, Asian Weightlifting C'ships continue: Indian Sports LIVE, May 15

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on May 15, 2026.

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream 1.0.2 update out now, patch notes

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream just released its latest update on Nintendo Switch with version 1.0.2, and here are the lengthy patch notes.

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ESPN drops huge Patrick Mahomes Chiefs injury update

Mahomes is nearing a return.

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Colorado legislators pass bill to strengthen sex crime victim protections

A Colorado bill that supporters say would strengthen victim protections and mandate law enforcement training on how trauma can affect survivors of sex crimes and domestic violence is on its way to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk for signing. Senate Bill 26-095 recently passed unanimously in the Senate and was mostly unopposed in the House, where […]

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Preakness Stakes 2026 predictions, odds, horses, date: Win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, superfecta picks

Jody Demling has revealed his win, place and show picks for the Preakness Stakes 2026 on Saturday, May 16

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Business resistance forming to Allegheny County’s paid parental leave proposal

A proposal by Allegheny County health officials to mandate 18 weeks of paid parental leave would increase time off for many working mothers and fathers in the county, but some business owners and their representatives argue it would come at too great a cost. The Allegheny County Board of Health

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OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.

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May 14 • 4:58 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
NANO Nuclear Reports Q2 FY 2026 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

Management to hold webcast today at 5:00 pm Eastern

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May 14 • 4:19 PM EDT • Business • nanonuclearenergy.com
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OpenAI brings Codex control to ChatGPT for iPhone and Android

OpenAI has announced a new way to interact with its Codex system from your iPhone. An update to ChatGPT for...

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May 14 • 4:14 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Ten times worse than benzene — California updates its science on two air contaminants

California health officials have released new scientific findings about health risks from exposure to two air toxics present in California's ambient air, acrolein and ethylene oxide.

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May 14 • 4:00 PM EDT • Science • latimes.com
MediaDailyNews: TikTok Updates Ad Offerings, Entertainment, AI, Shopping, Avatars, Creator Collaboration

During its TikTok World event Wednesday, the company announced updates designed to enhance campaign visibility, in-app shopping, creator collaborations, mini games and original series, AI-powered ad creation and more.

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May 14 • 3:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • mediapost.com