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BT, Verizon to Form International Joint Venture

The London-listed telecommunications operator said the 50:50 joint venture would serve more than 3,000 customers in around 180 countries.

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Jun 29 • 3:07 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Queerying neuroscience: How legislation and institutions reframe LGBTQIA+ researchers’ careers

In honor of Pride Month, The Transmitter spoke with three researchers who surveyed hundreds of LGBTQIA+ neuroscientists to better understand how institutional support, harassment and policy intersect to shape their professional trajectories.

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Jun 29 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • thetransmitter.org
Jesse Eisenberg opens up about turning down Aaron Sorkin's offer to return for 'Social Network' sequel

Jesse Eisenberg says passing on Aaron Sorkin's offer for him to return as Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Network' sequel felt like 'letting down America.'

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Jun 28 • 10:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Multiple sclerosis affects social life and work beyond physical health

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can have a substantial impact on many aspects of life beyond physical health, with 51% of people reporting that the disease affects their social life and 48% reporting that it affects their work, according to new research presented at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress 2026.

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Jun 28 • 10:36 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
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Brandon Aiyuk Development Provides Clarity on Social Media Updates
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Jun 28 • 9:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Efzimfotase alfa demonstrated improvements in bone health in treatment-naïve pediatric patients with hypophosphatasia achieving median difference of 1.67 vs placebo in RGI-C Score at week 25 in MULBERRY Phase III trial

Positive results from the MULBERRY Phase III trial showed that efzimfotase alfa (ALXN1850), an investigational enzyme replacement therapy, demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in bone health in children (2 to

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Jun 28 • 3:45 PM EDT • Health • astrazeneca-us.com
Hornets reportedly trading Miles Bridges to Suns for Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neale, 1st-round pick

Charlotte continues its offseason overhaul after nearly making the NBA playoffs this past season.

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Jun 28 • 2:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Belt Entertainment & Volleys to close doors

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Belt Entertainment & Volleys owner Michael White confirmed rumors of the business's closure Sunday in a social media post. The business's final day is

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Jun 28 • 12:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • newspressnow.com
BELT Entertainment & Volleys announces closure

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- Belt Entertainment & Volleys announced on social media that they are closing.

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Jun 28 • 9:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • kq2.com
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health "upon a foundation of lies"
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Jun 28 • 9:32 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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The Smartglasses Deluge Begins
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Jun 28 • 9:15 AM EDT • Technology • wsj.com
What to Do in Houston If You're Here for Business (2026)

Make the most of your work trip with these restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and downtime destinations.

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Jun 28 • 8:21 AM EDT • Business • wired.com
Democrats Wrestle With Race, Populism and Ideology in Clashes With Lawmakers of Color

WASHINGTON (AP) — After democratic socialist Claire Valdez defeated an establishment-backed candidate in New York's congressional primary last week, her elated supporters quickly turned their attention to a new target. “You're next!” they chanted when an image of House Democratic leader Hakeem ...

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Jun 28 • 8:13 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
Peer Support May Be the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis

Peer support is the sleeping giant that may help us overcome the social and mental health crises we currently face.

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Jun 28 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • psychologytoday.com
Progressives look to Colorado as next test of a rising movement

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and lawyer, is challenging 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette for a solidly blue seat in Denver, where she and her allies hope voters are ready for change.

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Jun 28 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn’t true

President Donald Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the speech he gave the day prior to kick off the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech because they loved hearing about a truly successful America.”

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Jun 28 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
The Presidential Prayer Team

Each day, we invite you to join us in prayer for our national leaders. As mandated by 1 Timothy 2:1-2, we encourage prayer for those in positions of authority.

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Jun 28 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • presidentialprayerteam.org
Airlines Are Installing New Luxury Seats, but No One Is Allowed to Sit in Them

Lie-flat seats in private pods face long waits for safety certifications, delaying debuts for carriers’ high-end offerings.

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Jun 28 • 5:30 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Flathead Business Watercooler

Happenings related to business in the Flathead Valley

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Jun 28 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • dailyinterlake.com
Design and Early Implementation Outcomes of a Mobile Health-Enabled Social Support Intervention for Adults Living With HIV and Type 2 Diabetes in Uganda

Background: Adults living with HIV and type 2 diabetes experience complex treatment demands that affect medication-taking, clinic attendance, privacy, social support, and engagement with care. M...

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Jun 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • cureus.com
Your health insurer shouldn’t decide your treatment plan. That’s what your doctor (and possibly AI) should be doing.

With a digital health record, clinicians and AI-driven diagnostic tools would be able to see your full health history — and then make better decisions.

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Jun 27 • 12:41 PM EDT • Health • marketwatch.com
Is the Democratic party headed for a civil war over socialism?
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Jun 27 • 12:18 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
The democratic socialists are already fighting for 2028
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Jun 27 • 12:17 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Amazon Prime Day Is Over, but Our Editors Found 131+ Best Deals Still Live

We don’t know how long these discounts will last, so if something catches your eye, add to cart and checkout ASAP.

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Jun 27 • 11:05 AM EDT • Technology • nbcnews.com
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I moved to Canada and couldn't find a job; I started my art business

When I moved to Canada, I couldn't land a job for months. I started drawing illustrations and posted them on social media. People wanted to buy them.

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Jun 27 • 9:27 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Week in Politics: Trump and bipartisan housing bill, John Bolton; Democratic socialists

President Trump canceled a signing for major housing legislation, former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled guilty to mishandling classified documents, and Democratic Socialists made gains.

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Jun 27 • 7:40 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Gen Z traders launched a trading platform to fight bad 'finfluencer' advice

Ivan Patriki and Carson Hein founded QuantMap to counter the bad info they say is all over social media and to give traders better tools to succeed.

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Jun 27 • 5:30 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
A day in the life of Nicky Hilton between London and New York

Nicky Hilton, socialite and cofounder of custom jewelry brand theo grace, splits her time between London and NYC. Here's a day in her life.

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Jun 27 • 5:05 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Our Editors Found 401+ Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Worth Shopping Before the Sale Ends

You have less than 24 hours left to shop deals across categories, and some of them are so good that they’re already selling out.

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Jun 27 • 12:00 AM EDT • Technology • nbcnews.com
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Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino

The Politics Unplugged panel breaks down a possible Arizona special session tied to ESA vouchers, union protections and ballot measures. The discussion centers on whether lawmakers could unwind late-night legislation that angered teachers, police and firefighters. They also examine Gov. Katie Hobbs’ political leverage and why both parties may have reasons to cut a deal. Later, the podcast turns to Trump tax cuts, Democratic Socialists, the White House reflecting pool controversy and the World Cup.

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Jun 26 • 10:15 PM EDT • Politics • azfamily.com
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Muslera blunders, sets unwanted Cup record, and socials pounce

In Guadalajara, Mexico, Spain is leading Uruguay 1-0 this Friday (26), in the third round of the group stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.La Celeste’s partial defeat, in fact, is securing Cape Verde��...

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Jun 26 • 9:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump ramps up attacks on Democrats as ‘godless Communists’ ahead of November’s midterms

President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

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Jun 26 • 6:35 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Politics Unusual: Co-chairs of NYC-DSA, Rep. Malliotakis

In this episode of Politics Unusual, FOX 5 NY's political reporter Morgan McKay sits down with the co-chairs of New York City's Democratic Socialists of America to discuss their success on primary night. Also, a conversation with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis about the rise of democratic socialism and the direction the Democratic Party could take in the coming years.

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Jun 26 • 6:28 PM EDT • Politics • fox5ny.com
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House Republican reacts to changing politics under Trump

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson spoke to NBC News' Garrett Haake about his recent loss in the primary to become the governor of South Dakota, and how he feels about the current political environment under President Trump.

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Jun 26 • 6:02 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Communism is greatest threat to the U.S., Trump says

The president equated the democratic socialists who won primaries in New York this week with communism and the decline of nations

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Jun 26 • 5:14 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
His Fortune’s From the Trash Business. His Basquiats Are Priceless.

In the last few years, waste-management billionaire Patrick Dovigi has become one of the biggest art collectors on the scene. But he’s still under the radar—maybe the shots fired on his home have something to do with that.

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Jun 26 • 4:44 PM EDT • Business • vanityfair.com
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Registration open for 2026 Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference | Health and Human Services North Dakota

Registration is now open for the sixth annual Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference, scheduled for Sept. 14-17 at the Bismarck Event Center and online through a livestream option.The main conference will take place Sept. 15-17, with optional pre- and post-conference sessions offered Sept. 14 and Sept. 17.More than 1,400 in-person attendees and hundreds of virtual participants are expected to take part in keynote presentations, breakout sessions and networking opportunities focused on behavioral health, child welfare, suicide prevention and youth development.

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Jun 26 • 4:35 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov
Trump warns ‘godless communists’ will turn cities into slums as Dems fail to fight socialist surge

Trump calls Democratic socialist primary winners "godless communists" at Faith & Freedom Coalition, warning of threats to America's founding principles.

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Jun 26 • 4:14 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Mel Brooks Is Turning 100! His 1 Tip for Longevity, a Healthy Life

The comedy legend and father of satire celebrates his big 100th birthday on June 28.

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Jun 26 • 4:09 PM EDT • Health • today.com
How one lawyer built a $1.3 million firm on social media

An entrepreneur shifts from a traditional law firm to an AI-based legal service, gaining $650K funding and achieving $372K in revenue post-launch.

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Jun 26 • 3:47 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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General Atlantic Serves Up Djokovic Hire in Sports Push

The private-equity firm has already invested in a number of sports assets.

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Jun 26 • 2:41 PM EDT • Sports • wsj.com
Trump threatens 100% tax on European imports if countries impose tax on digital services

“Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a post on social media.

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Jun 26 • 1:30 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025.

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Jun 26 • 1:17 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Why the Amex Business Gold is my go-to card for business expenses

The Amex Business Gold makes earning rewards simple with automatic bonus categories, flexible Membership Rewards points and statement credits that help offset its annual fee.

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Jun 26 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • thepointsguy.com
MAI-Code-1-Flash for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise

MAI-Code-1-Flash, Microsoft AI’s in-house coding model, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, building on its recent expansion across Copilot surfaces. Purpose-built for coding and optimized…

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Jun 26 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • github.blog
Sheriff’s office releases body-cam video after viral arrest at Augusta business

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has issued a statement after a video has been circulating social media of a woman’s arrest.

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Jun 26 • 11:41 AM EDT • Business • wrdw.com
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After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.

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Jun 26 • 11:26 AM EDT • Technology • quantamagazine.org
Bridget and Mike Chiodo on Strong Bond, Health Struggles, Family

Influencer Bridget Bahl and her husband Dr. Mike Chiodo join TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to celebrate Bridget becoming cancer free, open up about their steadfast bond and share an update on their dream of starting a family.

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Jun 26 • 10:44 AM EDT • Health • today.com
How to Keep Your Skin Healthy and Hydrated in Summer Months

From sunburns to heat rashes, board-certified Dr. Angela Lamb joins TODAY with solutions for common summer skin problems.

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Jun 26 • 9:31 AM EDT • Health • today.com
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Why Pollinators Matter for Human Health | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

New research shows that wild insect pollinators play a critical role in nutrition and livelihoods.

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Jun 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • publichealth.jhu.edu
Democrats’ real plan to control Congress again

New York’s socialist insurgents are getting the headlines. But in swing House districts, the establishment has been getting its way.

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Jun 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com
Sweden: European Social Rights Committee calls for an end to Sweden’s two-tier healthcare system

Amnesty International welcomes a landmark decision by the European Committee of Social Rights finding that Sweden breached the right to health without discrimination.

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Jun 26 • 4:56 AM EDT • Health • amnesty.org
Rep. Moulton downplays panic over Dem socialists: “lot of things we’re united on”
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Jun 26 • 12:02 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
California’s Billionaire Tax Kicks Off a Democratic Civil War

The divisive proposal heads to the ballot after attempts to reach a compromise deal failed.

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Jun 25 • 9:08 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
This Is Probably Your Last Chance to Buy a Cheap MacBook for a While

Apple has dramatically jacked up the price of MacBooks, making the current Prime Day pricing that much more enticing.

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Jun 25 • 8:07 PM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Baxter Health Heart and Vascular Clinic Welcomes Brandi Watson, APRN

Baxter Health is proud to welcome Brandi Watson, APRN, to the Baxter Health Heart and Vascular Clinic. Watson joined the team on May 15 and is currently accepting new patients. Watson brings more than 25 years of experience caring for some of the most critically ill patients. Much of her career has been spent in intensive care settings, where she learned to make fast, high-stakes decisions for patients whose lives depended on getting the right care at the right moment. That kind of experience, which is gained through years at the bedside, is exactly what heart and vascular patients need from a provider.

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • baxterhealth.org
Behavioral Healthcare Close to Home: SRMC Services Available in Sandoval County

Sandoval County spans more than 3,000 square miles with a population of 160,000 residents. As one of New Mexico’s fastest growing counties, it’s crucial the people who live there have access to high quality healthcare, including behavioral health...

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • hscnews.unm.edu
UCLA comparative literature department to offer health humanities minor in fall

UCLA will offer a minor in health humanities starting this fall. The minor, housed under the comparative literature department, is an interdisciplinary program that examines how health and medicine are shaped by literature, culture, history and social experience, according to the department’s website.

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • dailybruin.com
Discovery Education Earns Five 2026 CODiE Award Nominations Spanning Math, Science, Digital Citizenship, and Immersive Learning

Discovery Education Earns Five 2026 CODiE Award Nominations Spanning Math, Science, Digital Citizenship, and Immersive Learning

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Jun 25 • 7:32 PM EDT • Science • discoveryeducation.com
Monkey Business: Wild rhesus macaque spotted at Mount Dora hotel

A wild rhesus macaque was spotted at the historic Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, Florida, spending about 45 minutes roaming the property and attracting attention from guests and staff. The hotel and local businesses responded with humorous, monkey-themed social media content, engaging the community. Wildlife officials cautioned the public not to approach or feed wild monkeys due to potential health risks and encouraged reporting sightings to authorities. The monkey has not returned to the hotel but has been seen elsewhere in downtown Mount Dora.

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Jun 25 • 6:12 PM EDT • Business • clickorlando.com
Democratic socialists’ battleground test: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Pete Buttigieg is back on the campaign trail. And digging into Michael Whatley’s bio in the North Carolina Senate race.

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Jun 25 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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WATCH: Kellyanne Conway insists socialist primary victories don't reflect American values nationwide

Kellyanne Conway says Democratic primary wins reflect only a handful of specific districts and do not signal a broader political shift nationwide.

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Jun 25 • 4:49 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Making Our Own Luck

We are cross-posting a piece that former NIH official Kris Willis wrote for Macroscience. Kris is now the President and Founder of the Woodley Park Institute, for which I’m a board member. Picking winners or hedging bets? Federal science agencies have long wrestled with the question of how to ensure their billions of dollars of grants and contracts result in maximum benefits for Americans. On the surface, it might seem that a goal-oriented, interventionist style of management would be the best policy: prioritize our most pressing problems and distribute funding accordingly.This top-down strategy creates a unique hazard, though: bad choices can send resources in the wrong direction, resulting in slow progress that impedes the delivery of tangible benefits to citizens. Moreover, if decision makers pursue an applied advance when the underlying scientific principles remain poorly understood, they risk costly failures and a loss of support for the research enterprise at large. Examples include Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer, undertaken on the premise that a cure could be achieved in less than a decade, the drive to build an operational commercial fusion plant by the mid-1990s, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which failed to produce the effective treatments and prevention strategies promised by 2025. The contrasting laissez-faire approach is to hedge your bets. If the path to an advance is impossible to predict, then the wisest choice might be to distribute funding to as widely as possible. The main risk of this strategy is that spreading funding thinly may limit the resources available to the most promising research, resulting in the same negative outcomes as the interventionist approach: limited support for the most promising topics, slow progress, and delayed returns. In reality, at science agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, program managers navigate between these two extremes, setting some funds aside to target high-priority areas and using the rest to cover the widest possible range of meritorious proposals. This middle path seems like the most rational way to proceed, but it still requires making choices. How much should be set aside for high priority topics? What should those topics be? How should we define merit? Expert opinion can provide a helpful guide, but leading experts can have remarkably different opinions about what matters and what should be prioritized. Moreover, experts and administrators alike can be risk averse, giving an edge to high-profile, well-established concepts. What’s really needed is a data-driven framework to help guide decision-making, one that doesn’t simply repackage prestige or incumbency. Recognizing breakthroughs years in advance Many breakthroughs fail to attract funding or recognition at the earliest stages of development. Katalin Karikó, for example, spent years struggling to win grants for work on mRNA that would eventually win her and Drew Weissman a Nobel Prize. Similar stories can be told about Jim Allison’s groundbreaking studies leading to the development of cancer immunotherapy, Stan Pruisner’s demonstration that prions can self-replicate without DNA, or Robin Warren and Barry Marshall’s proof that Helicobacter pylori, not stress, causes ulcers. Yet at some point, the scientific community recognizes and responds to transformative breakthroughs like these. How does that change happen? And what if science funders could identify the areas that are on the cusp of a breakthrough? Those questions led my collaborators and me to study how scientists responded to past breakthroughs. Based on patterns in that data, we developed a means of predicting future breakthroughs, using biomedicine as a proof of concept. It’s worth taking a moment to describe how our approach works. Briefly, our prediction process begins by grouping the 18 million or so peer-reviewed papers in PubMed, the authoritative database of biomedical research, into roughly 50,000 unique topics. A small subset of these topics are so widely acclaimed as breakthroughs that they have been recognized with a major prize like a Nobel or a Lasker Award. We theorized that studying the development of these outliers over time, especially before they gained acclaim, was the key to identifying future instances of them. After defining topics, we chose 21 representative breakthroughs and asked what they looked like before they won prestigious prizes. To answer that question, we re-ran our topic-mapping algorithm repeatedly, winding back the clock one year each time, stringing together the years to follow the progress of each field as it grew and advanced. We found that in each case, the years leading up to a discovery followed a pattern: a burst of papers on a new, rapidly evolving topic, many of which quickly became influential. These characteristics—the percent of papers that are new, the percentage of papers that are brought in from other topics, and the influence of each individual paper—can all be measured separately for any given topic. Together, they act as a predictive signal that is detectable an average of five years before a transformative discovery is made, and up to thirty years before the discovery receives a major prize. Scanning the current research landscape for topics that display this signal allows us to predict what work will likely produce a future breakthrough. Each year we analyzed includes four or five signals, a number that appears to have remained constant across a twenty year time frame. In their classic work on the sociology of science, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar established that the desire to participate in a major discovery is an important motivator for scientists as they consider whether they should take up (or abandon) a research problem. Although further work is needed, the simplest explanation for our results is that this behavior is widespread enough to detect at scale. A foundational advance, or something like it, draws the attention of scientists and causes them to change the direction of their research. They vote with their feet, staking their own reputation and careers by publishing on and citing the new idea. That upswell of interest is the foundation of our breakthrough signal. What kind of research does our model identify as a breakthrough? After building a model based on the patterns in our 21 preselected breakthroughs, we tested it by identifying all early signals of discovery from 1994 through 1997. Of the 18 signals we found in that time period, 17 can be traced forward in time to a breakthrough. Examples include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (see the image above), the directed evolution of proteins and enzymes (Chemistry Nobel, 2018), and sequencing the human genome (National Medal of Science, 2008). The discovery of the role of leptin signaling in obesity is a particularly interesting case study. Around 1950, scientists noticed the existence of a type of lab mouse that suffered from a unique inherited form of obesity. When given the freedom to choose their own diet, these mice ate more than normal and preferred food that was high in fat. Researchers had few clues as to why the animals overate; early experiments pointed to the existence of a soluble ob factor found circulating in the bloodstream that regulated appetite, but its identity was unknown. In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues identified and sequenced the ob gene, noting that the protein it encoded appeared to fit the profile of a circulating factor. A year later, a trio of high-profile publications demonstrated that ob was a hormone that regulated body weight and fat deposition by regulating appetite. One of these was co-authored by Friedman, who christened it leptin from the ancient Greek word for thin. Using our model, the data from 1996 make it clear this advance would become a breakthrough. Scientists had flocked to study the biology of the new hormone, generating the flurry of new papers and citations required to produce a signal. One of these demonstrated that serum leptin concentrations reflected the amount of adipose tissue in the human body, providing clinical validation of the earlier mouse studies. Before the identification of leptin, scientists were unable to point to a specific molecule that controlled appetite and adiposity, so that it was impossible to rule out non-physiological causes of obesity; its characterization fundamentally changed our concept of weight gain. In 2010, Friedman and fellow pioneer Douglas Coleman were awarded a Lasker for the discovery. Our work also identifies breakthroughs in clinical practice and behavioral and social sciences, even though these areas are less likely to draw the attention of major prize committees. One example that falls into this category is the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a leading cause of death among Americans over the age of 65. Relative to the previous standard of care, it reduces in-hospital mortality by almost four-fold. In 2017, Timothy Chuter received the American College of Surgeons’ prestigious Jacobsen Innovation award for his multiple refinements to the technique. Another under-recognized breakthrough identified by our model is the development of standardized survey instruments to assess the quality of life for HIV+ patients. The antiretroviral cocktails introduced in the mid-1990s reduced AIDS mortality, but treatment came with serious side effects. The new evaluations showed that patients whose disease progressed had worse physical functioning than Americans with other chronic diseases, while those who were asymptomatic maintained a health-related quality of life on par with the overall US population. This evidence made it possible for patients and activists to argue that even in the absence of a total cure, and in spite of the side effects, alleviation of symptoms was a worthwhile priority for clinicians. My colleagues and I have failed to identify any significant recognition for the physicians and health policy experts who pioneered this advance, although in 2016, researchers called for the World Health Organization to set targets for good health-related quality of life as part of its framework to end the AIDS pandemic. From forecasting to funding How should science funders use our predictions? Any serious discussion of what we should do with this new capability needs to begin with an understanding of its limitations. We can’t (and shouldn’t) invest all of our resources in the small number of topics predicted to produce breakthroughs. Innovative new fields are born from existing ones; they rarely arise de novo. If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg. There are also multiple goals of funding beyond basic scientific discovery, including translating discoveries into clinical practice, developing new technologies, supporting economic development, and training new scientists. The investments needed to accomplish these goals are likely different from those required to support emerging breakthroughs. Finally, we must be aware that we may not capture every instance of a breakthrough. The concept is fuzzy, and not every significant discovery is recognized with a major award. Further, breakthroughs are rare, meaning that our dataset is, by necessity, small. This makes formal estimates of accuracy challenging. Although our overall success rate appears to be high, any one signal may turn out to be a false positive. We found one apparent example: the development of the third generation COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, which were much celebrated in the early 2000s as effective but non-addictive pain relievers, meets all the algorithmic criteria of a breakthrough. Five years after it received FDA approval, researchers demonstrated that Vioxx was associated with serious cardiovascular complications, and the manufacturer voluntarily pulled the drug from the market. Celebrex remains available, although like other NSAIDs, it carries an FDA warning for increased cardiovascular risk. Decision makers who were overly focused on the breakthrough potential of this research might have wasted substantial resources nurturing an area that ultimately proved to be a failure—but so would those who relied on expert opinion at the time. That said, the potential benefits of funding the next mRNA vaccine or cancer immunotherapy years earlier than we might have are large. When we can’t assume the outcome of an action, it’s worth conducting an experiment. Can targeted support for areas that are poised to produce a breakthrough increase the return on scientific investment without cannibalizing future advances? With the necessary administrative infrastructure in place, conducting this experiment would be straightforward. First, identify all the breakthrough signals between 2018 and 2023, select half at random, and commit to a decade of investment. For biomedicine, a six year window should yield about 30 topics with the potential to produce a breakthrough. Providing strong support to half of these might be accomplished for $300 million a year. That’s roughly half of the recent annual budget of the NIH Common Fund or around 20% of the fiscal year 2025 budget for ARPA-H. After five years, then again at ten, compare to see which group — the one that was actively managed, or the control — produced more breakthroughs, and on what timescale. Although we used biomedicine as an example, the same experiment could just as well be run for physics, materials science, or any other discipline. Any attempt to undertake such an experiment should keep three points top of mind. First, we can predict the topic of future breakthroughs, but the people and vision for how to move the work forward are still important. In practice, this means success requires active program managers with the expertise to develop the science and the authority to do so, including by recruiting investigators. Second, we would be wise to learn from the failures of past attempts to fund transformative research. High among these are funding modestly repackaged work, confusing the genuinely novel with the merely unfamiliar, and relying too much on incumbent investigators. All of these risks can be mitigated by thoroughly and intelligently integrating high quality data into portfolio management. Finally, we need to have patience. Even with strong funding support, producing a breakthrough takes time. If supporting breakthroughs is the best way to nurture the birth of new fields, we also need to accurately describe and properly manage the other two stages, so that we invest wisely throughout the productive lifetime of ideas and divest once they reach the point of diminishing returns. We would benefit from more study of all of these phases, especially the transition from one to another. More research could answer questions like: When does a breakthrough become an established field? How do the availability of funding, the size and characteristics of the available workforce, and the accumulation of evidence that disagrees with prevailing models affect a field’s decline? Exactly how do old ideas give birth to new ones, and can we speed up the process? The more we understand about the dynamics of scientific progress, the better we can maximize the odds that our curiosity leads to results. I’d call that finding a way to make our own luck.

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