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Texas A&M student alleges mold exposure in dorm caused health crisis

A Texas A&M student says mold in her dorm left her seriously ill weeks into the semester. Her lawsuit was later dismissed by a judge.

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Neighborhood, Small Business Groups File Lawsuit Over San Francisco Rezoning Plan

Plaintiffs are looking to pause implementation of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s "Family Zoning Plan" while seeking stronger protections for renters, small businesses and infrastructure.

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Jan 9 • 4:46 PM EST • Business • kqed.org
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Paul Pate pitches stricter laws to crack down on fraudulent businesses

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate wants to make it easier to crack down on fraudulent businesses when the 2026 legislative session begins.

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Jan 9 • 3:00 PM EST • Business • desmoinesregister.com
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School Sports Case Reaches the Supreme Court at a Fraught Time for Trans Rights

The justices will consider state laws that bar transgender girls from participating in female sports.

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Jan 9 • 12:32 PM EST • Sports • edweek.org
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Three Supreme Court Cases That Could Reshape Politics in 2026

The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on laws like the Voting Rights Act and limits on coordinated party expenditures.

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Jan 9 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • campaignsandelections.com
They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer.

A new lawsuit alleges that an insurer’s ghost network hindered New York City employees from accessing the mental health care they sought — and harmed the reputation of psychiatrists wrongly listed as being in-network.

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Jan 9 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • propublica.org
Fatal flaws for NFL's playoff teams range from Bills' leaky run defense to major QB questions

No team is perfect, but some teams have bigger flaws than others

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Jan 8 • 8:08 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
Scientists are closing in on the Universe’s biggest mystery

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly. Scientists are developing detectors so sensitive they can spot particle interactions that might occur once in years or even decades. These experiments aim to uncover what shapes galaxies and fuels cosmic expansion. Cracking this mystery could transform our understanding of the laws of nature.

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Jan 8 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Lawson Crouse with a Goal vs. Ottawa Senators
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Jan 7 • 9:48 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases

The settlements are among the first tied to lawsuits accusing AI companies of harming users.

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Jan 7 • 8:32 PM EST • Technology • techcrunch.com
Jail suicide lawsuit against Eyerly Ball can continue, Iowa court rules

Family of Jordan Panye, who died by suicide at the Madison County Jail, sued mental health provider Eyerly Ball for negligence, wrongful death.

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Jan 7 • 7:11 PM EST • Health • desmoinesregister.com
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Google, chatbot maker Character to settle suit alleging bot pushed teen to suicide

Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself

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Jan 7 • 6:41 PM EST • Technology • abcnews.go.com
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Beyond the Law Firm: How JDs Build Careers in Global Business and Boardrooms A Conversation with Joe Hurd - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

Learn more about this UC Law SF Event.

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Jan 7 • 6:39 PM EST • Business • uclawsf.edu
Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicides

Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits alleging the artificial intelligence chatbot maker contributed to mental health crises and suicides among young people, including a case brought by Florida mother Megan Garcia.

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Jan 7 • 6:15 PM EST • Health • cnn.com
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The problem with the Fox broadcast

Analyzing the flaws of modern baseball broadcasts and making baseball more cinematic

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Jan 7 • 4:03 PM EST • Sports • truebluela.com
Veeam Patches Critical RCE Vulnerability with CVSS 9.0 in Backup & Replication

Veeam patched four Backup & Replication flaws, including CVE-2025-59470 (CVSS 9.0) enabling RCE; update to version 13.0.1.1071.

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Jan 7 • 5:41 AM EST • Technology • thehackernews.com
$10M lawsuit filed against Houston business owner accused of making deepfake sexual content of influencer

A Houston business owner, already facing criminal charges after being accused of impersonating a Houston internet influencer and creating fake nude images of her, is now facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

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Jan 6 • 7:49 PM EST • Business • click2houston.com
New York state's mental health services for children to get makeover following lawsuit settlement
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Jan 6 • 7:01 PM EST • Health • cbsnews.com
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Health AI Atlas: State Laws & Compliance | Ropes & Gray LLP

Explore interactive maps tracking state AI laws that regulate development and deployment by providers, payers, and health tech. See what applies to your organization.

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Jan 6 • 11:07 AM EST • Health • ropesgray.com
Medical groups' challenge to Kennedy-backed vaccine policies can proceed, US judge rules

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that several major medical organizations can move forward with their lawsuit challenging policies adopted under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy that they say will lower vaccination rates.

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Jan 6 • 9:58 AM EST • Health • reuters.com
Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Star Wars Outlaws, Resident Evil Village, and More

Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass: Star Wars Outlaws, Resident Evil Village, and more!

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Jan 6 • 9:00 AM EST • Technology • news.xbox.com
Weavers sue former Uncle Nearest CFO alleging fraud

The founders of Uncle Nearest Tennessee Whiskey have filed a civil lawsuit against the company’s former CFO Michael Senzaki.

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Jan 6 • 7:25 AM EST • Business • thespiritsbusiness.com
Game Pass Adds All These Games In January 2026

The first month of the year brings lots more games to Game Pass.

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Jan 6 • 1:50 AM EST • Technology • gamespot.com
Mike Tyson accuses ex-cannabis business partners of racketeering in $50M lawsuit

Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has filed a $50 million racketeering lawsuit accusing former partners at a Chicago marijuana branding company of defrauding him through kickback schemes, unauthorized bonuses and lavish personal spending.

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Jan 5 • 4:46 PM EST • Business • chicagobusiness.com
San Francisco Centre mall moves to evict remaining businesses, including Executive Order Bar & Grill

The mortgage trust that owns San Francisco Centre and Emporium filed eviction lawsuits against three remaining tenants, including Executive Order Bar & Grill.

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Jan 5 • 3:03 PM EST • Business • bizjournals.com
Lawsons family business in Tavistock to close after 34 years

Lawsons, which opened in 1992 in Tavistock, will shut its doors at the end of February.

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Jan 5 • 9:48 AM EST • Business • bbc.com
NC state retirees challenged health plan benefit changes 13 years ago. They’re still fighting.

North Carolina government retirees continue with 2012 class-action lawsuit challenging state health plan changes

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Jan 5 • 4:22 AM EST • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
❝After a year of disruption, global health needs leaders with backbone

Funding shocks, political U-turns and weakened institutions have laid bare the flaws in a global health architecture long overdue for reform – and the need for courageous leadership to stop it from unravelling, writes Priti Patnaik, global health journalist and founder of the Geneva Health Files.

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Jan 4 • 11:03 PM EST • Health • genevasolutions.news
❝After a year of disruption, global health needs leaders with backbone

Funding shocks, political U-turns and weakened institutions have laid bare the flaws in a global health architecture long overdue for reform – and the need for courageous leadership to stop it from unravelling, writes Priti Patnaik, global health journalist and founder of the Geneva Health Files.

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Jan 4 • 11:03 PM EST • Health • genevasolutions.news
Discovering the laws behind complex networked systems

Nature Computational Science - A recent study shows that neural symbolic regression offers a route to automated discovery of governing equations for network dynamics across high-dimensional complex...

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Jan 4 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • nature.com
NY touts new mandates for health insurers. Here's what they must cover

New York laws that took effect Jan. 1 require health insurers to cover breast cancer screening, EpiPens and scalp cooling for chemotherapy patients.

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Jan 4 • 3:00 AM EST • Health • lohud.com
Baptist Health System sues United Healthcare over payments for ER care

The two sides were unable to resolve the fight over claims payments through mediation, prompting the lawsuit.

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Jan 2 • 2:38 PM EST • Health • expressnews.com
Forget Gas Fees, Compliance Is Crypto’s New Cost of Doing Business

The cryptocurrency industry is turning over a new leaf in the New Year. And this new leaf comes with new laws. As of Jan. 1, 2026, Americans should have

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Jan 2 • 11:25 AM EST • Business • pymnts.com
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Pebble brings its round-faced smartwatch back from the dead

Pebble has revived the Round while fixing all of its flaws.

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Jan 2 • 10:00 AM EST • Technology • engadget.com
‘It’s our turn’: gun-safety advocates are riding a ‘seismic’ wave to US legislatures

A once-toxic topic is helping survivors and relatives of victims get elected to enact the laws they helped draft

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Jan 2 • 8:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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How new protest laws are impacting political demonstrations

More than a dozen states have passed laws regulating protests in recent years, raising concerns among free-speech advocates.

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Jan 2 • 7:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
After Watergate, the Presidency Was Tamed. Trump Is Unleashing It.

In the 1970s, Congress passed a raft of laws to hold the White House accountable. President Trump has decided they don’t apply to him.

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Jan 2 • 5:01 AM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
After Watergate, the Presidency Was Tamed. Trump Is Unleashing It.

In the 1970s, Congress passed a raft of laws to hold the White House accountable. President Trump has decided they don’t apply to him.

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Jan 2 • 5:01 AM EST • Politics • nytimes.com
Get up to speed on what you missed in NC politics over the holidays

We’ve got updates on property tax reform, lawsuits against the Trump administration, new challengers in Republican primaries and more.

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Jan 2 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • newsobserver.com
Online sports betting in Chicago to continue as lawsuit challenging city tax proceeds
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Jan 1 • 6:18 PM EST • Sports • cbsnews.com
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New NC laws in 2026: School phone ban, 2 genders only, health care reforms

North Carolina is kicking off 2026 with new laws going into place. Some were highly contested in the state legislature while others found broad support.

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Jan 1 • 1:42 PM EST • Health • wral.com
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Political changes, new laws coming in 2026 to Ohio

Several laws are taking effect next year in the Buckeye State.

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Jan 1 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Dozens of new Louisiana laws go into effect at the start of 2026. Here's the list.

At least 21 laws begin on New Year’s Day, including many that change insurance rules and make changes to the tax code.

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Jan 1 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • nola.com
ESPN analyst says this is the Rams' top 'concerning weakness'

The Los Angeles Rams don't have too many flaws, but this one might hurt them in the postseason.

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Dec 31, 2025 • 4:38 PM EST • Sports • theramswire.usatoday.com
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Trump administration retreats in Newsom lawsuit over National Guard deployment

In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally withdrew their request to keep California National Guard under federal control while the appeal proceeds.

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Dec 31, 2025 • 12:39 PM EST • Politics • latimes.com
New health laws to take effect Jan. 1 in Maryland

New laws taking effect Jan. 1, 2026, are aimed at improving health care in Maryland.

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Dec 31, 2025 • 8:10 AM EST • Health • wbaltv.com
Online sports betting in Chicago could go dark Jan. 1 as legal battle looms

Major betting companies have filed a lawsuit, warning a new tax and licensing requirement could force them to shut down apps in Chicago.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 8:16 PM EST • Sports • nbcchicago.com
Sportsbooks file lawsuit seeking to block Chicago's new sports betting tax
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Dec 30, 2025 • 2:59 PM EST • Sports • cbsnews.com
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Lawsuits, laws, protests: How these Oregonians impacted state politics in 2025

The following Oregonians played an outsized role in the year’s biggest political headlines.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 1:17 PM EST • Politics • oregonlive.com
From Glastonbury to (No Longer) Prince Andrew: The Entertainment Scandals That Rocked Britain in 2025

Kevin Spacey’s legal woes, J.K. Rowling’s latest firestorm, Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit and another bad year for the BBC capped off a tumultuous year for the U.K. entertainment sector.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 1:05 PM EST • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
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Ren Fest drama tops Houston's hottest entertainment headlines of 2025

Editor's note: This year was a busy one for CultureMap's Entertainment section. A lawsuit brought changes to the Texas Renaissance Festival, country star Post Malone left a life-changing tip, and one of Houston's most respected pitmasters came up a little short on the national stage. Houston’s entertainment news proves the diversity of our city.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 12:00 PM EST • Entertainment • houston.culturemap.com
From lawsuits to new laws, these Oregonians made biggest impacts on state politics in 2025

A roundup of Oregonians who played an outsized role in protests, policies and major tax cut and spending packages making headlines this year.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Trump says he'd still like to fire Jerome Powell

Trump also said he would be launching a "gross incompetence lawsuit" against the Fed chair.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 12:02 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
2026 California Laws: Health, Shopping and Renting

KBAK CBS 29 and KBFX Fox58 are the news leaders for Bakersfield, California and serves surrounding communities including Oildale, Lamont, Shafter, Wasco, Buttonwillow, Maricopa, Tehachapi, Arvin, California City, Delano, McFarland, Ridgecrest and Taft.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 9:30 PM EST • Health • bakersfieldnow.com
Nursing home giant dodges millions in settlements for patient deaths

Genesis HealthCare used bankruptcy to avoid paying families after settling lawsuits over neglect, including cases with maggot-infested wounds and sexual assault.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 6:21 PM EST • Health • abqjournal.com
California Politics 360 Full Episode | New laws taking effect in 2026

On California Politics 360, we dive deep into a handful of new laws impacting Californians.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:27 AM EST • Politics • kcra.com
New York to Introduce Mental Health Warning Labels for Social Media

New York has become the fourth state to require social platforms to carry the same type of health warning labels we know from tobacco products, following Colorado, Minnesota, and California passing similar laws in recent years.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 10:52 AM EST • Health • pcmag.com
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas’ abortion laws

A growing body of research indicates that Texas' abortion bans — which are among the country’s most restrictive — have negatively affected the health and...

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Dec 26, 2025 • 11:00 AM EST • Health • dallasnews.com
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Chemtrails Aren’t Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?

The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • rollingstone.com
These were the most explosive moments so far in California’s war with Trump

Targeting California — through lawsuits, policies to undermine state laws and insults hurled at its leaders — has become a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Politics • sfchronicle.com
Energy And Entertainment Mergers Now Take Center Stage

On December 7, 2025, Constellation Energy settled a lawsuit previously filed against it by the United States Department of Justice and the State of Texas. The settlement has had the effect of...

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Dec 25, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Entertainment • jdsupra.com
For Anchorage home baker, city’s loosened cottage food laws ease burden on business

In November, the Anchorage Assembly voted to exempt small businesses that sell some homemade foods from a licensing requirement. Many say it will open up new opportunities.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 2:26 PM EST • Business • adn.com
19 states sue to block Kennedy's plan to curb trans care

The lawsuit says Kennedy exceeded his legal authority.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 2:18 PM EST • Health • axios.com
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Pediatrics group sues U.S. agency for cutting funds for children's health programs

Earlier this month, the federal government 'abruptly terminated' grants to the group, the lawsuit says.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 5:51 PM EST • Health • latimes.com
Wisconsin sues Trump over rules restricting gender-affirming care

The lawsuit comes less than a week after RFK Jr. proposed new rules barring health care providers from gender-affirming care treatment.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 12:52 PM EST • Health • jsonline.com
Democratic-led states sue HHS over proposal targeting hospitals that offer transgender care to minors

Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy seeking to bar transgender care for minors at federally-funded hospitals.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 11:35 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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2025 Unfiltered: Moments that marked Colorado’s decidedly off-kilter political year

From the flurry of executive orders that ushered in President Donald Trump’s second term to a blizzard of lawsuits filed by the state’s Democratic officials, the state’s political year was marked by near-constant conflict between the GOP-controlled federal government and the Democrats who run Colorado. The year saw the Trump administration step up immigration enforcement […]

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Dec 24, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
The best moments of the sports year (in GIFs), plus a landmark NIL lawsuit

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! We are in full holiday mode today. Inside: 🎁 GIF gifts, Part 1 ⚖️ Huge NIL lawsuit 🫘 Beans ⛳ Hickory clubs are delightful We’ve done a form of Gifmas the last two years in Pulse territory, so I decided to ask all of our newsletter writers to join the fun this year. The prompt was simple: What is the best gif gift your sport has given you in 2025? We’re starting today because some people open the majority of gifts on...

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Dec 24, 2025 • 6:13 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
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Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against New York's 'Green Light Law'

The law allows the DMV to issue standard driver’s licenses to individuals without Social Security numbers and "regardless of their citizenship or lawful status in the United States."

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Dec 23, 2025 • 5:19 PM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Federal cuts and a race to replace McConnell. Here’s a look at top state politics stories in 2025

Kentucky Public Radio has covered a tumultuous year of federal cuts and shifts, the lawsuits challenging them, state governance and another hefty legislative session. Rediscover our top politics stories of 2025.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Politics • lpm.org
A year of vetoes, lawsuits and loss in Arizona politics

From Charlie Kirk's killing to shutdown fights, 2025 set the stage for a wild Arizona midterm.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 8:20 AM EST • Politics • axios.com
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The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug

Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • iai.tv
Idaho Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit over Medicaid mental health contract

The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit from a bidder for an Idaho Medicaid contract to run mental health services.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:11 AM EST • Health • idahocapitalsun.com
Key Wisconsin motor sports events for the 2026 racing season

With IndyCar, IMSA, Outlaws and High Limit, ASA, dirt late models and specials, Wisconsin racing has plenty to offer in 2026. Still no NASCAR though.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:08 AM EST • Sports • jsonline.com
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Suburban business cited for big oily asphalt spill in Chicago canal

Trump’s EPA offloaded cleanup to Gov. JB Pritzker’s environmental agency, which accused Apex Oil of violating state laws.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 3:36 PM EST • Business • chicago.suntimes.com
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New Virginia laws will enhance health screenings, limit kids' social media screen time
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Dec 21, 2025 • 10:31 PM EST • Health • 13newsnow.com
While we eat crabs and lobsters at Christmas, science issues a warning that could change a tradition that dates back decades

Crab nerve signals fire off in pain tests, reigniting the debate on pain and putting laws banning “boiling them alive” in the spotlight.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 7:16 PM EST • Science • ecoticias.com
This AI finds simple rules where humans see only chaos

A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how systems evolve over time and reduces thousands of variables into compact equations that still capture real behavior. The method works across physics, engineering, climate science, and biology. Researchers say it could help scientists understand systems where traditional equations are missing or too complicated to write down.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Opinion | How to Reduce Surging Health Care Costs

Readers suggest ways to bring medical costs under control for average Americans. Also: Australia sets an example for the U.S. on gun laws.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Health • nytimes.com
Supreme Court revives free speech lawsuit from immigration judges in loss for Trump

The Supreme Court on Friday sided against the Trump administration, keeping alive a federal lawsuit from immigration judges who are attempting to challenge a policy that limits their ability to speak publicly.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 1:24 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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New UEFI Flaw Enables Early-Boot DMA Attacks on ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI Motherboards

UEFI firmware flaws in certain ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI motherboards allow early-boot DMA attacks before OS security loads.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 3:25 AM EST • Technology • thehackernews.com
How to watch British politics in 2026 like a pro

Mark your diaries — POLITICO has all the dates in a year of make-or-break elections, a closer U.K.-EU relationship and laws on migration control that Keir Starmer hopes will save his premiership. I…

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Dec 18, 2025 • 10:01 PM EST • Politics • politico.eu
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HR giant SHRM faces a new discrimination lawsuit

The plaintiff alleges SHRM, the nation's largest HR trade group, wrongly revoked a job offer over a service dog.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 1:48 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Sony and Tencent settle lawsuit over "slavish clone" of Horizon: Zero Dawn

The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed but the case has been dismissed with prejudice

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Dec 18, 2025 • 8:31 AM EST • Technology • gamesindustry.biz
McGraw was ‘Raised on K-State’ - Kansas State University Athletics

They train together, father and son, running hills in northeast Kansas, even now — especially now — as Lawson McGraw finishes his senior year at Blue Valley ...

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Dec 18, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • kstatesports.com
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How AI Sees Science Differently Than We Do

About this episode: What if the great discoveries of science came in the “wrong” order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps much more important to our basic understanding of the universe. Chris Edwards argues that AI will

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Dec 16, 2025 • 4:26 PM EST • Science • skeptic.com
The Guardian view on Trump’s BBC lawsuit: grievance politics with a purpose

Editorial: The US president has repeatedly targeted American media in an attempt to muzzle debate and scrutiny. His attempt to export the bullying must be resisted

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Dec 16, 2025 • 2:04 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics

Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes

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Dec 16, 2025 • 8:37 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Ramanujan’s 100-year-old pi formula is still revealing the Universe

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same mathematical structures behind these formulas also describe real-world phenomena like turbulence, percolation, and even black holes. What once seemed like pure mathematics now appears deeply intertwined with the physical laws governing the universe.

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Dec 16, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts

The federal budget bill President Donald Trump signed into law in July is creating uncertainty for states trying to rein in health care spending. In California, a lawsuit by the hospital industry challenging state spending caps cites the law, which will slash Medicaid spending, as one of many financial pressures.

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Dec 16, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • kffhealthnews.org
Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trump’s ‘outrageous’ $10bn lawsuit

Ed Davey says prime minister must make it clear lawsuit is ‘unacceptable’ as US president quotes Badenoch to back ‘fake news’ claim

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Dec 16, 2025 • 3:55 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Judge expresses skepticism toward Epstein victim lawsuit against big banks alleging they facilitated sex-trafficking

The Jeffrey Epstein victims' lawsuits resembled two others, against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which settled for hundreds of millions.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 5:31 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Lawsuit: Spurs icon David Robinson accuses business partner of diverting more than $34 million

San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson filed a lawsuit last week alleging his business partner diverted tens of millions of dollars to fund a new venture without his knowledge.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 4:56 PM EST • Business • ksat.com
Blindsided: Iconic Gainesville businesses included in 49 ADA lawsuits

Owners forced to settle or spend after dozens of mirror suits.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 12:45 PM EST • Business • mainstreetdailynews.com
SIX FLAGS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION (NYSE: FUN) DEADLINE ALERT: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Reminds Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Investors of Upcoming Deadline

Six Flags Entertainment Shareholder Lawsuit Filed - Contact Bernstein Liebhard For More Information...

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Dec 15, 2025 • 1:45 AM EST • Entertainment • globenewswire.com
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Hacker hijacks Amazon accounts via Kindle ebook

An ethical hacker has warned Kindle users against downloading ebooks from third-party sites after discovering flaws that can expose credit cards

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Dec 14, 2025 • 3:50 PM EST • Technology • thetimes.com
Week in politics: Crunch time for new health insurance plans, Trump sued over White House renovations, Americans killed by ISIS

Despite being in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have been unable to pass their health care agenda. We look at why that's the case, as well as a new lawsuit against the president.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 8:34 AM EST • Politics • kuow.org
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Week in politics: Crunch time for new health insurance plans, Trump sued over White House renovations, Americans killed by ISIS

Despite being in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have been unable to pass their health care agenda. We look at why that's the case, as well as a new lawsuit against the president.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 8:01 AM EST • Health • npr.org
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Week in politics: Crunch time for new health insurance plans, Trump sued over White House renovations, Americans killed by ISIS

Despite being in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have been unable to pass their health care agenda. We look at why that's the case, as well as a new lawsuit against the president.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 8:01 AM EST • Politics • npr.org
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Apple Releases Emergency Patch For Two Zero-Day Flaws Used In Highly Targeted Attacks

Apple has issued urgent security updates to address two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in sophisticated real-world attacks targeting specific individuals, the company confirmed this week. The patches are part of a broader emergency update that spans iOS, iPadOS, macOS, wa

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Dec 14, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Technology • linkedin.com