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Get an Expert Guide to What’s Driving D.C.
In our newly relaunched Politics newsletter, Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta illuminates the people and powers shaping the nation’s capital
How violent videos on social media affect mental health
Dr. Varsha Radhakrishnan of Tufts Medical Center discusses how watching violent and distressing videos on social media can have harmful health effects.
Trump endorses Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin's open race for governor
Trump announced the endorsement in a social media post on Tuesday night, saying Tiffany “has always been at my side.”
Give Your Problems (and Passwords) to Moltbot, Then Watch It Go
A viral new virtual assistant formerly known as Clawdbot is complex and brings security risks—but some early adopters say it feels like the future.
Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You
Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.
How your health is being commodified by social media
From heath tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware of what's going on, says Deborah Cohen
Social Sciences in the News: Political Science Professor Omar Wasow
Political Science Professor Omar Wasow authored an op-ed in The New York Times titled "We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State." I study the political consequences of protest and state violence.
Beyond testosterone: The real crisis in men’s health
Increasing testosterone in men ignores deeply rooted cultural and social factors at the center of this health emergency.
The Unsettling Experience of Reporting on Trump’s Health
Chatting with Intelligencer’s Ben Terris about presidential hand bruises and White House sycophancy.
Recognize Data Privacy Day by protecting your small business from cybercriminals
Your small business likely has had many milestones. Hiring your first employee. Opening your doors for the first time. Making your first sale. But some milestones you’d probably rather avoid — like experiencing your first cyberattack. Think you’re too small to target? Think again. Cybercriminals target companies big and small, so this Data Privacy Day keep your business’s data (and your customers’ data) safe by reviewing the FTC’s updated resources at ftc.gov/cybersecurity.
On Data Privacy Day (and every day): Protect your small business
Cybercriminals target companies big and small. Today is Data Privacy Day — a great opportunity to take a look at how you keep your business and customer data protected. Get started with the FTC’s updated resources at ftc.gov/cybersecurity.
A Go-Kart Track Is Just the Start at This Arizona Home Built Like a Sports-and-Entertainment Complex
Over-the-top amenities at the $20 million listing include a batting cage, a basketball court, a shooting range, a day spa, a dance studio and a gaming lounge
The Two Big Decisions Facing Democrats Ahead of a Shutdown
Plus, senators work on a last-minute budget deal on immigration enforcement, and Tom Homan presented his list of demands to Minnesota leaders.
Dispatch available now for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems
Shop now on Nintendo.com or Nintendo eShop. Manage a group of ex-supervillains who are given one last shot at redemption!
5 things to know for Jan. 28: Minnesota ICE crackdown, Political violence, Severe weather, Social media trial, Epstein files
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Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
In 1953, Kuwait established the world’s first sovereign wealth fund to invest the country’s oil revenues and generate returns that would reduce its reliance on a single resource. Since then, over 100 separate funds have been created to preserve national wealth and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability. Today, they manage over $10 trillion in global assets. In this discussion with GJIA, political economist Kathryn Lavelle explains the increasingly novel dynamics that surround fund behavior and what the world can come to expect from their growing presence in international financial markets. GJIA: When it comes to the roles sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in global markets and politics, what would you say makes them unique? Kathryn Lavelle: Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) operate on behalf of governments as investors. That in itself is a strange relationship. Within them, a core contest takes place between the state’s interests (or sovereign) part of the dynamic, and the money interests (or wealth) part of it, and these two aspects are frequently in contradiction, serving fundamentally different goals. SWFs are also quite fascinating because when you talk to the people who manage these funds, they have an interest in convincing you that the decisions are made almost exclusively on a financial basis—they really will go to great lengths to differentiate their government owners and those who make the management decisions. At the same time, these people ultimately answer to someone in power. Therefore, for most SWFs, it remains deeply unclear who is actually making the investment decisions and for what purposes. Of course, it is not always clear how other vehicles, such as hedge funds and private equity make the decisions they do, but I think what a lot of people find particularly disconcerting about SWFs is that they seem to act on behalf of people who have a different identity from their own. People who could be trying to manipulate politics and markets in a way that would have a long-term effect on their own populations. Regular investors come and go at will, and they only share an interest in profit as far as most of us understand. However, SWFs have that extra “sovereign” part right behind them that obscures their true interest. GJIA: These funds can be found in countries all across the globe, in both authoritarian states and democracies. Would you say SWFs differ in their goals and structures between regime-type? KL: It is not necessarily regime type that makes the goals and structures of SWFs different. It has to do with their economies. Let’s look at a country like China. There’s going to be a debate about exactly how to characterize the regime, but it is a country with many different kinds of sovereign wealth funds, and a particularly opaque state connection to each. At one time, some of the state-owned Chinese oil companies created specialized investment vehicles listed outside Chinese markets that excluded parts of the firms that were more associated with human rights violations. At the same time, the China Investment Corporation (CIC)—China’s largest SWF—draws a lot of concern, not necessarily because of its investment activities, but because of the dynamics of global politics. So, I wouldn’t really tie differences to regime types themselves in a wholesale way, but rather to how such funds are perceived and how they are structured. Saudi Arabia’s SWF is getting all kinds of attention for its involvement in Hollywood, and this takes me right back to when I was a student in the 1980s, when people were concerned about Japanese investment entities buying assets in Hollywood. They aren’t quite the same in financial terms, but it’s the same kind of concern about foreign investment that drives people to be suspicious, and the whole idea that “foreigners are influencing Hollywood.” This holds true across industries, and it reflects where politics are in places like the United States right now. One metric we can try to look at is transparency, where all the funds will tell you, “we are transparent.” The problem you’ll keep running into with this approach is how you value things. When trying to do comparative studies of equity markets, you’ll find that every country doesn’t use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles like we do in the United States. A fund may appear opaque politically and not want people to show what they’re invested in or what their intent with that investment is, but they could also just not be able to report it because of the way it was purchased, or the kinds of shares they purchased. There are some assets out there that really are difficult to put a monetary value on. GJIA: To what extent do domestic politics shape SWF behavior in both the investing “home” country and the recipient “host” country? KL: This depends on the type of fund present and also on the extent to which voters’ political views are able to influence the fund. For example, in a democratic home state like Norway, the SWF doesn’t invest in nuclear weapons or tobacco because of social concerns, but there is a continuing debate over whether it should invest in oil, even though that’s where most of the money comes from. The degree to which Norway will continue to make those investments, and whether they contradict the government’s overall climate goals, is an open question in Norwegian politics. Because of the way the fund’s governance is structured, it may not be easy to resolve. On the other hand, some people consider pension funds, like the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) in Ohio, to be quasi-SWF. They have a very strict separation between the people who make up the management division and the fund owners. No teacher or professor would want to invest in things that may harm the future of their students. At the same time, a fund manager might see an opportunity in a diversified multinational corporation that offers a good return, despite it deriving part of its revenue from e-cigarettes. These contests are very apparent. Domestic politics can work in host countries too. A good example is Singapore’s SWF, Temasek, investing in Thailand’s telecommunications sector. If you study political economy, you already know that countries everywhere are uncomfortable with foreign ownership of their telecom sectors because a foreign entity could monitor or manipulate our communications with each other. In the case of Temasek, there was significant pushback from Thai citizens surrounding the deal, which went on to influence national political sentiment toward Singapore as a whole, underscoring the risks some SWFs may face with their investment choices. In this case, fund behavior led to the dissolution of the entire Thai government in 2006 and a subsequent coup d’état. GJIA: To address some of this unease, the Santiago Principles were established in 2009 to ostensibly promote trust and transparency. From your perspective, have these mechanisms actually changed fund behavior? KL: In international relations theory, we always like to have a clear set of norms and best practices—the orientation we want the proverbial ship to be going in. In that regard, the Santiago Principles at least got the discussion going about which direction SWFs should take at a time when people were very skittish about the growing size of these funds. Nobody wanted them to be out there and potentially destabilizing economies, so talks about disclosure, conditions for withdrawal, and the independence of managers were helpful when initiated. The biggest stumbling block was that there wasn’t exactly a good way to measure compliance with the Principles, let alone how to hold funds to them. If you read the Principles, they’re overall quite vague. In general, a fund doesn’t want to reveal how and why they make certain investment decisions because that information is proprietary—a fund makes money off of how and why it makes decisions—so how do you reconcile that with loosely-defined ideas of openness? Some decisions might have a political purpose. The bottom line is that trying to figure out and assign a score to compliance is not easy, and it is therefore the reason why the Santiago Principles never really got off the ground to the point where they could truly direct fund behavior. GJIA: Many emerging markets are looking to build their own SWFs from mineral and oil revenues. Historically, have funds shaped development trajectories in these countries? KL: I think the big story in international emerging markets investment is that the investment is increasingly no longer unidirectional. In the past multinational corporations of primarily Western background were the main form of foreign direct investment in a country. That has changed dramatically, to the point where you have companies from so-called “developing countries” taking over companies in the United States. Therefore, the landscape of international investment has changed, and I think SWFs are certainly a possibility to be the next step in the game. Historically, you didn’t need an entire financial vehicle to reinvest commodity revenues in your country, but as emerging markets get more financially sophisticated, their capacity to operate such funds has increased. SWFs would allow treasuries to move from relying on holding foreign exchange assets like cash or government bonds to having broader financial markets and targeted growth areas, while easing pressure on welfare expenditures. GJIA: With their increasing financial weight, do you see the presence of SWFs being a factor in the political choices leaders will have to make with regard to domestic and foreign policy? KL: It will depend on just how big the funds get. One of the reasons people are already apprehensive is because of their scale, and if certain SWFs in certain countries achieve a large-enough size, the presence will absolutely be cause for concern. The other factor political leaders will have to consider are their objectives. It’s not always clear how to define a SWF, or even where its activity is concentrated, but it is certainly a worry from the perspective of national security of opaque external investment. More than that, I think one of the most interesting questions going forward is whether the United States, the home to the world’s largest financial markets, will develop its own fund, for which the Trump administration announced a plan. There have also been several proposals in Congress. Were it to come into being, it would have tremendous weight. At the same time, one of the hallmarks of U.S. capitalism is a lack of government ownership of shares, so it would not be clear how such a fund would be received in domestic politics, or which direction it would take. Given how politically fragmented the country is, a Democratic administration would likely be concerned about different sectors of the economy, such as healthcare, and want investment there, rather than a Republican administration, which might prefer defense industries. No investment vehicle could thrive under conditions of such instability. Moreover, it remains unclear where the money to fund a theoretical U.S. SWF would come from. It would be a fundamentally different entity depending on whether it is financed with debt, economic surplus, commodities, or the sale of state companies, as in the case of Singapore. If it is debt, or government borrowing of some form, then the fund would have to outperform whatever the cost of that debt is, which is not an easy thing to do. I think our political leaders have enough on their plate. Our system has worked well keeping political and investment functions generally separate. We have seen different forms of business rise and fall, and even the perception of different countries, all of which funds are tied to. Unless a major SWF either starts—like in the case of the United States—or collapses—an issue that concerns the Saudis, I don’t see any political tsunamis on the horizon. . . . Kathryn Lavelle is the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the exchange between domestic and international and political institutions with a particular emphasis on political economy and multilateralism. Dr. Lavelle’s first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets, explored the political circumstances that surround large issues of stock in the developing world. After being granted tenure at Case Western, she was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and named the William A. Steiger fellow, a designation given to the most promising political scientist in her class of fellows. While in Washington during 2006-2007, she worked on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services on issues related to domestic and international monetary policy. Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University; an M.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia; and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Georgetown University. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted by Sid Mehrotra. Image Credit: Jason Leung, Unsplash Content Licenses, via Unsplash
The Gen Z gender divide in politics
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Investing in high performance sports
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Datavault AI Announces Agreement with Sports Illustrated in Connection with The Development of a Proprietary, Sports-Focused Digital Asset Exchange Platform
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The Tennessee Titans are hiring Brian Daboll as offensive coordinator, and here's how fans reacted on social media.
‘Out of Bounds: The Sports Betting Boom’ Review: Gambling on Every Game
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Health Insurers Weigh on the Dow, While S&P 500 Sets Fresh Record
A selloff in UnitedHealth and peers erased $99 billion in market value.
Being a White House VIP Thrusts Tim Cook into the Political Fray
The furor over Minneapolis has tested the Apple CEO’s strategy for navigating Washington.
A hacker posted a Marine vet’s health info online and bragged about it
A man pleaded guilty to accessing the VA’s healthcare platform and posting stolen health records on social media.
VCU Health comments on viral videos with an alleged employee encouraging the poisoning of ICE agents
VCU Health has placed an employee on administrative leave after a video went viral on social media showing a woman encouraging people to poison federal immigration agents.
A Business Case For Looking Beyond The Usual Suspects Of Content Creators
Social Setting founder Christina Westley delivers under-the-radar content creators with quantifiable ROI to CMOs tired of overpaying for reach that doesn’t convert.
Social media's mental health reckoning
Meta and YouTube face a landmark trial in Los Angeles over claims their platforms deliberately addict and harm young people.
Health Insurers in Shock After Medicare Holds Line on 2027 Payments
Big companies lose nearly $90 billion in market capitalization after Medicare proposed a relatively flat rate increase for next year.
A rich social environment is associated with better cognitive health outcomes for older adults, study finds
Research by an interdisciplinary team from McGill University and Université Laval provides new insights into the links between social factors and cognitive health among aging adults.
The Rise of Trimester Zero
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UPS delivers on fourth-quarter numbers, and its stock rises
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Syria advances a nationally led public health response to substance use through inter-ministerial action
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Anta Sports Set to Become Puma’s Largest Shareholder in $1.8 Billion Deal
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UC San Diego’s Mobile Health Units Deliver Care and Bring Cutting-Edge Research to Local Communities
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First Brands Winding Down Parts of Business
The bankrupt auto-parts supplier has been unable to shore up additional liquidity it needs before cash runs out in days.
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Fox Entertainment Inks 40-Title Deal With Dhar Mann, Expanding Vertical Microdramas Slate
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The Alcohol Alternative Industry Is Exploding. But Are These Products Really Safer? Experts Weigh in
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Fox Entertainment Inks 40-Title Deal With Dhar Mann, Expanding Vertical Microdramas Slate
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In downtown Wilmington, Live Oak shutting down inclusive small business center
Live Oak Bank is turning Channel off. Described by Live Oak as an inclusive small business center, Channel opened in November 2021 to serve as a free resource for small business owners, helping numerous minority-owned and other small businesses from its headquarters downtown at 106 Market St. "After careful consideration, we’ve decided to bring Channel ... to a close at the end of this month. Live Oak determined that the needs of Wilmington’s small business community have evolved. Since Channel opened, the local small business ecosystem has grown significantly, with many strong organizations now offering education, technical assistance and community programming for entrepreneurs," stated Claire Parker, managing director of corporate communications for Live Oak Bank, in an email Monday. "With those resources firmly in place, Live Oak is refocusing on what we do best – providing banking and financing solutions that help small businesses grow and thrive." Channel's demise also resulted in the elimination of two positions – those of Channel's director, Chakema Clinton-Quintana, and Atiba Johnson, the certified professional business advisor (CPBA) at Channel. On Monday, Clinton-Quintana, who was elected to the Wilmington City Council in November, said of her immediate plans after Channel: "I will continue my work serving the public while I look for other full-time opportunities." She said Channel "served over 1,000 small business owners in the greater Wilmington area, as well as some of the surrounding areas, such as Brunswick and Pender. A lot of folks had reached out to us needing those resources because they were free, and we were able to assist them in that capacity." Johnson said he will be devoting his time to the Wilmington Minority Chamber of Commerce, which is not affiliated with the Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. The minority chamber is celebrating its launch from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Wilmington Sportsman Club, 1111 Castle St., Wilmington. Johnson, the founder and executive director of the new chamber, said about 50 businesses are on board to join the Wilmington Minority Chamber of Commerce. According to a news release, the new chamber "was established to foster growth, networking, and advocacy for underrepresented business owners. By providing essential resources and community engagement, the chamber aims to build a more inclusive and prosperous local economy." Johnson said the creation of the new chamber is in response to "lapses in funding, education, advocacy for minority businesses...Some of the things that are going on now just don't reach all the way down to those businesses." For Lynne Jones, owner of LJ Design Studio LLC, the loss of Channel also means a reduction in income. She had contracted with Channel to run the center's social media and to provide some marketing for small business owners. "It's pretty disappointing to hear that it is closing...it was a place to connect with other small business owners and collaborate. It was like a family for those of us who were there. If you had issues or things that you needed to talk through concerning your business, there was always someone there that you could sit down with and talk things through, recalibrate, and they set you off on your way to make that pivot and move in a different direction," Jones said Monday. She said she worked with many Channel participants creating their websites and will miss seeing the joy on their faces when those websites were up and running. Dawn McDowell, owner of Creatively Covered Co. LLC, credits Channel with helping her business grow and regrow after her social media pages were hacked and shut down in 2023. "Channel was a great resource for small businesses, for women-owned businesses, for minority-owned businesses; they provided a lot of assistance, especially when you needed it," McDowell said. "If it wasn't for Channel, I don't know if I'd be where I am now, in my business, and regrowing my business and even finding out about some of the certifications and things that were out there for small businesses that I just didn't know about ... because there was no one really sharing that information for small businesses, for minority- and women-owned businesses in particular." Parker said shutting down Channel was not part of an overall cost-cutting plan. She stated in the email, "Live Oak’s commitment to Wilmington remains strong. We are continuing to support entrepreneurs by focusing our efforts where we deliver the greatest value – through specialized banking and financing solutions aligned with our mission to be America’s small business bank." As for Channel's downtown office, Live Oak had leased the 5,000-square-foot space above Seabird restaurant in 2021. The bank’s lease for the office is up in March, Parker said.
Kent County health services expand with $200,000 grant to Health Net of West Michigan
Health Net received a $200,000 grant to expand healthcare and social services access in Boston Square neighborhood.
Republican drops bid for governor, citing GOP’s ‘retribution’ on Minnesota
Chris Madel said in a video posted to social media that ICE operations in his state have been an “unmitigated disaster” and that he “cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Europa Science Experience
Discover how the JRC supports EU policymaking and impacts our daily lives at the Europa Science Experience.
Trump Changes Tack in Minnesota After Rare GOP Pushback
Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota as Congressional Republicans call for an investigation into the murder of Alex Pretti.
After 5 Years, Apple Finally Upgrades the AirTag
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It Feels As If Everything Gives You Cancer Lately
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'This is a problem!' Children's entertainment performer takes Meta to court; story gains worldwide attention
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Miller, Noem Dig In on Immigration Tactics, but Political Reckoning Is Coming
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Headwinds: Ready to go against the odds?
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Health Insurance Is Now More Expensive Than the Mortgage for These Americans
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‘The Superhuman President’
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Meta, TikTok and YouTube heading to trial to defend against youth addiction, mental health harm claims
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German Business Sentiment Stalls
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Intel Panther Lake Is the Answer to Apple Silicon We’ve All Been Waiting for
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Defying CDC, Pediatricians Recommend All Kids Get Vaccinations Against 18 Diseases
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Why This Expert Believes Social-Emotional Learning Will Survive Politics and AI
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The Gen Z gender divide in politics
I fear as Gen Z becomes older, there will be less social cohesion and greater risks to democratic consensus.
Padma award 2026: 8 from Karnataka among awardees across art, science and social work | Bengaluru News - The Times of India
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Exclusive | Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Minneapolis Shooting
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Opinion | Ro and Our New Health Sherpas
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Seven People Who Changed the Course of American Entertainment
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The Man Who Almost Replaced Warren Buffett
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NFL playoff picks and predictions for AFC, NFC Championship Games
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Remembering William Foege, public health pioneer and Emory professor
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From Silence to $900m: How TikTok king from Senegal, Khaby Lame, built a global business empire
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Opinion | What Science Tells Us About Arguing With Your Father-in-Law
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Letter: Hawaii lawmaker puts politics over women
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AI-generated British schoolgirl becomes far-right social media meme
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2027 RB Sa’Nir Brooks commits to Syracuse
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OpenAI Aims to Lure Businesses From Anthropic
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WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
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Naomi Osaka withdraws from Australian Open before third-round match
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This NFL Season’s Fiercest Rivalry Is Sports Betting vs. Prediction Markets
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FACT FOCUS: As cold hits, Trump asks, where's global warming? Scientists say it's still here
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Two RWJBarnabas Health Facilities Earn Human Experience Awards from Press Ganey
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Ukraine Will Be the Business Opportunity of the Decade
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First-of-its-kind soccer entertainment venue to debut at Grandscape - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound
TOCA Social, a soccer entertainment and dining venue, will host a grand opening on Friday, March 6 to celebrate the debut of the concept at Grandscape in The Colony. The concept features “Social Boxes” where guests can play games that don’t require cleats, jerseys or experience. Similar to a golf range or batting cage, TOCA […]
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Video Trump sues Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase for alleged 'political' account closures
President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion, alleging the bank closed his accounts for "political and social motivations," according to a court filing.
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Gov. Kelly Armstrong signed legislation positioning North Dakota to launch its Rural Health Transformation Program, backed by nearly $200 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care statewide.
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In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a healthy aging expert reveals the nutrients most important for long-term health.
Democrats Ditch Bill Clinton and Contempt Crisis Looms
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149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database
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Business Activity Picks Up In Parts Of Europe and Asia
Signs of a rebound in export orders were flashing as the global economy adjusts to the increase in U.S. tariffs.
Apple Hosting LA Event for Creators on January 27-29 That Could Coincide With MacBook Pro Announcement
Apple has sent out invites to select creators for an "Apple Experience" in Los Angeles, California, scheduled for January 27 to 29. The event has sparked speculation that Apple will also announce new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Creator Petr Mara shared an image of his invite on Instagram on January 7, but it appears to have only now gained significant traction on social media platforms.