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North Georgia flooding: Businesses face long road to recovery

Business owners along the Georgia-Tennessee border are digging through mud and ruined inventory after severe flooding along the swollen Toccoa River devastated the twin towns.

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Nov 5 • 6:19 PM EST • Business • fox5atlanta.com
Bodycam video shows emergency response to Perez Hilton’s mental health crisis in Miami-Dade

Newly released body camera footage from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Thursday shows emergency crews responding to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton’s South Florida home after he experienced a mental health crisis and repeatedly harmed himself during a TikTok livestream.

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Nov 5 • 6:08 PM EST • Health • local10.com
Prisma Health partners with HRTHUDL for CPR education and increasing access to AEDs

Prisma Health partners with HRTHUDL for CPR education and increasing access to AEDs

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Nov 5 • 6:08 PM EST • Health • foxcarolina.com
After taking control of Congress, Democrats vow major probes into Trump's 'tentacles of corruption'

Corruption topped the list of concerns for voters who ousted Republicans and handed Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections. Now, the newly empowered Democratic Party is putting the issue front and center as its leaders chart their course for investigations and policymaking.

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Nov 5 • 6:00 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Blue Jays distance themselves from OF Anthony Santander's anti-Islam Instagram posts

The posts have since been removed from Santander's Instagram story.

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Nov 5 • 5:58 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Elon Musk gambled $445 million to boost Republicans in the midterms. It came up short

Nobody may have suffered bigger losses Tuesday than President Donald Trump. But few others had more on the line than Musk, who gambled big and came up holding the midterm’s worst return on investment.

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Nov 5 • 5:44 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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South Park Middle School science teacher wins Bubblr national award

Kimberly Loeper honored at Oshkosh school; company also awards $10,000 for school resources

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Nov 5 • 5:40 PM EST • Science • wbay.com
Health Corner: Lung Cancer Awareness Month with Dr. Bobby Tullos

When it comes to lung cancer, early detection can truly mean the difference between life and death.

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Nov 5 • 5:33 PM EST • Health • wlox.com
Meet the Authors: 'Mississippi Politics' by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash

A book co-authored by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash features political history in the state of Mississippi from 2006 to the mid-2020s.

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Nov 5 • 5:30 PM EST • Politics • wlox.com
Kentucky football has never seen anything like Will Stein — and he thinks this is just the beginning
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Nov 5 • 5:25 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL Injury Report, Week 9: Latest news, updates on Mike Evans, Garrett Wilson, more players for fantasy football
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Nov 5 • 5:24 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bronny James assigned to G League's Coachella Valley Lakers after playing limited minutes early in third NBA season
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Nov 5 • 5:10 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WATCH: First lady Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials. Trump met with Putin's envoy

President Donald Trump said he met with Vladimir Putin’s envoy at the White House on Thursday but did not meet with Ukrainian officials who were also visiting.

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Nov 5 • 5:04 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Trump signs proclamation he says will prevent future changes to Oval Office and Cabinet Room

Since returning to the White House, Trump has overseen numerous design changes to various rooms, including the Oval Office, where he has filled the wall space with portraits, a copy of the Declaration of Independence and numerous golden accents.

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Nov 5 • 4:48 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Christian McCaffrey headlines 9 in-season trades this decade that were big hits, with 9 others that were busts
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Nov 5 • 4:40 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Key federal panel expected to approve Trump's arch amid court challenge

The approval would clear a hurdle on the road to breaking ground on the project, and the administration has said it could launch construction within a day of the vote. But the proposed 250-foot tall gilded arch still faced legal challenges.

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Nov 5 • 4:34 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Why is morning light crucial to health? Your time change questions, answered.

Answering readers’ questions about why sleep experts oppose permanent daylight saving time.

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Nov 5 • 4:30 PM EST • Health • washingtonpost.com
Ravens place Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley on IR with thumb, turf toe injuries
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Nov 5 • 4:16 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Experts question tactics, lack of mental health response in Columbia Pike police shooting

Overly aggressive tactics combined with an apparent lack of mental health responders may, according to policing experts, have contributed to a standoff on Columbia Pike escalating into a fatal officer-involved shooting. In interviews with ARLnow, two public safety experts questioned a series of decisions leading up to officers’ final confrontation with 33-year-old Shawn Valn, who

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Nov 5 • 3:45 PM EST • Health • arlnow.com
Weill Institute alumni share lessons for careers in science

The alumni panel “Journey Through Science” connected a day of interdisciplinary research presentations, discussions, and a poster session with the question: What comes next?

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Nov 5 • 3:04 PM EST • Science • news.cornell.edu
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services releases measles exposure alert in Osage

The exposure occurred at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center.

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Nov 5 • 3:03 PM EST • Health • kttc.com
LeBron James' lawyers send cease and desist to AI sports-betting app that used his name and likeness
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Nov 5 • 2:44 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Lucky Strike Entertainment stock hits new low after quarterly loss worse than analyst expectations, dividend suspended

Lucky Strike Entertainment stock on Thursday hit a new low since it went public in 2021 after its quarterly loss missed analyst expectations and the company said it wouldn’t pay a dividend this

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Nov 5 • 2:00 PM EST • Entertainment • 11thframe.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • ksla.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • wdbj7.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • kttc.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • kltv.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • wsmv.com
Re-elected official's health scare before elections

Alan Jackson has a health scare before the elections.

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Nov 5 • 1:48 PM EST • Health • wowt.com
2027 NFL Draft: Top 50 big board 2.0 delivers big changes at quarterback
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Nov 5 • 1:20 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Week 9 Fantasy Football Toolkit: Start/sit advice, rankings, sleepers, more
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Nov 5 • 1:18 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WTA apologizes after hot mic caught Jessica Pegula calling Mirra Andreeva a 'diva' during practice session

Jessica Pegula was not aware her conversation was being recorded, per The Athletic.

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Nov 5 • 1:17 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lansing Sports Commission holds sports tourism summit to boost local economy

Lansing leaders met Thursday to discuss how sports events can boost the regional economy.

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Nov 5 • 12:39 PM EST • Sports • 1011now.com
Lansing Sports Commission holds sports tourism summit to boost local economy

Lansing leaders met Thursday to discuss how sports events can boost the regional economy.

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Nov 5 • 12:39 PM EST • Sports • kptv.com
Alaskans are waiting for more votes in Senate and governor's races. Both could go to ranked tabulations

Alaskans settled in Wednesday to await more results from key races on the general election ballot, including a bitterly fought U.S. Senate campaign and an open seat for governor.

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Nov 5 • 12:11 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
WTA Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ for Jessica Pegula’s Hot-Mic Comments

Jessica Pegula called Mira Andreeva a “diva” during a livestreamed practice.

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Nov 5 • 12:03 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NBA Rookie Rankings: Cameron Boozer, Yaxel Lendeborg lead early list of first-year phenoms
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Nov 5 • 11:56 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NBA Rookie Rankings: Cameron Boozer, Yaxel Lendeborg lead list of first-year phenoms
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Nov 5 • 11:56 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
K-Movie Entertainment to launch sales at AFM on ‘Secret Of My Father’

Casting also announced on the third feature from award winning Korean director Jéro Yun.

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Nov 5 • 11:54 AM EST • Entertainment • screendaily.com
Trump stands by Hegseth after election losses, but other Republicans want him out

The U.S. defense secretary is facing intense political backlash over the costly and unpopular war with Iran, which the president acknowledged was partly to blame for the drubbing that the GOP took in ...

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Nov 5 • 11:48 AM EST • Politics • yahoo.com
PSG Global Solutions names Sheffel as VP of business development in Totowa office

PSG Globa said on Nov. 3 that Kara Sheffel has joined the company as VP of business development and will lead its staffing vertical.

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Nov 5 • 11:42 AM EST • Business • roi-nj.com
Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene were GTA characters before they were actually GTA characters

Bad Bunny, Robyn, model Alex Consani and more celebrities will DJ in-game radio stations.

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Nov 5 • 11:42 AM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
The election brought a wave of historic firsts. Here are some groundbreaking winners

While some of these candidates have avoided focusing on the inherent historic value of their race, gender, religion or sexual orientation, some voters' rights advocates are celebrating how the electorate has expanded.

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Nov 5 • 11:39 AM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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Reaching Across the Aisle to Lower Health Care Costs

Following a panel organized by Penn LDI and Penn Washington, two health policy experts share how both aisles of Congress can reduce health care costs.

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Nov 5 • 11:26 AM EST • Health • ldi.upenn.edu
Howard's Business Report: Post-election stock market

The soaring post-election stock market carried Hawaii stocks aloft. Howard Dicus takes a look.

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Nov 5 • 11:25 AM EST • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com
Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em: Joel Smyth offers FLEX lineup advice for Quinshon Judkins, Raiders RBs, more players in Week 9
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Nov 5 • 11:15 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fantasy Football Rankings: Hayden Winks' QB/TE/DEF/K Blueprint for Week 9
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Nov 5 • 11:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Week 9 NFL picks against the spread, predictions for every game: Bears have momentum going into Sunday night vs. Buccaneers
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Nov 5 • 10:14 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College football Week 10 viewer's guide: Get ready for the biggest and best weekend of the season
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Nov 5 • 10:05 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College football Week 10 players to watch: Can LSU's Sam Leavitt sustain his momentum after back-to-back games without a turnover?
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Nov 5 • 10:05 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mystery around 'The Batman: Part II' is growing. Scarlett Johansson has added to the suspense.

The two-time Oscar nominee said she struggled to understand her character in "The Batman: Part II."

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Nov 5 • 9:54 AM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
NFL Thursday Night Football preview: Ravens to start rookie Joe Fagnano at QB vs. Jaguars
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Nov 5 • 9:22 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Doctor talks about physical, mental health challenges vets face after service

We speak with a doctor about the important things that military veterans should know about their mental and physical health after they leave the service.

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Nov 5 • 9:15 AM EST • Health • kptv.com
Veterans Day Celebration and Health Fair happening in D'Iberville

The event is happening at the D'Iberville Community Center.

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Nov 5 • 9:10 AM EST • Health • wlox.com
Amazon is selling its newest 4K Fire TV Stick for nearly 60% off ahead of Black Friday (plus 10 more fab deals)

Also on the pre-Black Friday deals deck: a cozy fleece blanket, comfy Hoka sneakers and an under-$100 luggage set built for holiday travel.

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Nov 5 • 9:01 AM EST • Technology • shopping.yahoo.com
How Camp KEEP Turned a Love of Science into a Calling to Teach

Inspired by a transformative sixth-grade experience at Camp KEEP, Frontier High School student teacher Marissa Moseley went on to conduct important scientific research, develop drought-resistant crops, and pursue a career in education to inspire the...

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Nov 5 • 8:51 AM EST • Science • news.kern.org
NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds 24 games in November, Hogwarts Legacy gets DLSS 5

NVIDIA is adding 24 games to GeForce NOW this November, including eight arriving this week and new Xbox storefront support. Hogwarts Legacy also receives DLSS 5.

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Nov 5 • 8:45 AM EST • Technology • videocardz.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • fox10tv.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wkyt.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wbtv.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • alaskasnewssource.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wsmv.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • fox19.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wlbt.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • live5news.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • azfamily.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • kltv.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • fox5vegas.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • foxcarolina.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wctv.tv
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wtoc.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • wdbj7.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • newschannel10.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • kttc.com
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies

FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.

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Nov 5 • 7:53 AM EST • Business • kolotv.com
Children in Wausau will get a chance to show off skills at a children's business fair

'Leadership Launchpad' hosts sixth children's business fair in Wausau

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Nov 5 • 7:48 AM EST • Business • wsaw.com
A new business activity tax? Look before you leap, D.C.

Would a new business tax replace the District’s current ones or pile on top of them?

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Nov 5 • 7:39 AM EST • Business • washingtonpost.com
Empowering frontline health workers to detect outbreaks earlier

To spot health threats quickly and respond before they spread, these workers need the skills to identify risks, understand local health challenges and work together effectively. To strengthen these skills, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a series of trainings and simulation exercises in August 2026.

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Nov 5 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • who.int
Award-winning Women in Natural Sciences program spins off from Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel

The program led to a 100% high school graduation rate and more than 96% college attendance for Philadelphia students.

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Nov 5 • 6:30 AM EST • Science • whyy.org
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New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains

Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • washingtonpost.com
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains

Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • washingtonpost.com
What the midterms taught us about the future of the Democratic Party

Conversations with more than a dozen top Democrats, including several openly considering running for president in 2028, showcase a euphoric party that is slightly divided on the way forward.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Rare bipartisan idea gains ground: U.S.-Israel tie needs a break

Democrats and Republicans may be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
The U.S. spent 50 years trying to escape oil shocks. They still upend elections.

Even as the energy economy has changed radically, the politics of oil have not.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
GOP’s defense of its gerrymandering: The rout could have been even worse

Democrats dismissed Republicans’ arguments as a contorted attempt to justify an expensive and controversial remapping offensive that did not accomplish what it set out to do.

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Nov 5 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science

Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败,不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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