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AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.

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Nov 3 • 10:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' prison release date moved up following transfer

Weeks after Sean "Diddy" Combs was hospitalized for a head injury suffered while serving time in federal prison, his release date has moved up. The disgraced music and alcohol mogul

Nov 3 • 9:57 PM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Hochul beats Blakeman to win another term as NY governor

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul beat Republican Bruce Blakeman Tuesday to win reelection for a second full term as governor as New York Democrats turned out in droves in

Nov 3 • 9:57 PM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Abortion rights amendment passes in Virginia

2026 ELECTION COVERAGE: Watch Live | Poll Closing Times | All Live Results | Live Updates | Live Fact Check Voters have approved a ballot measure that creates a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” in the Virginia Constitution. The amendment passed Tuesday ensures abortions can occur during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. It allows government regulations during the third trimester while still ensuring that abortions can be carried out to protect the life and

Nov 3 • 9:56 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org

WATCH: Democrat Chris Pappas speaks after winning New Hampshire Senate seat

Pappas, a four-term House member, said his U.S. Senate victory is proof that Washington needs a "new generation at the table to fix things."

Nov 3 • 9:52 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org

Michigan passes limits on utility money in politics, setting up likely court fight

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan voters approved Proposal 2 Tuesday, a citizen-led measure its backers say will get “money out of politics,” setting up a likely court fight in the coming months. Th…

Nov 3 • 9:50 PM EST • Politics • wlns.com

Yankees’ perfect trade offer for Brewers’ Trevor Megill

The New York Yankees should pursue Trevor Megill with an offer that supports the Milwaukee Brewers’ championship defense. New York needs late-inning pitching , but Milwaukee needs a reason to surrender its proven closer. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Monday that the Brewers would at least listen to offers for Megill. This package is a proposal, with […] The post Yankees’ perfect trade offer for Brewers’ Trevor Megill appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Nov 3 • 9:49 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Michigan voters pass 'Money out of Politics' proposal, reports say

Michigan voters approved a ballot initiative banning utility companies and other state contractors from making political donations.

Nov 3 • 9:45 PM EST • Politics • freep.com

Former Steelers QB Russell Wilson interviews for head coach job

Former Steelers QB Russell Wilson interviews for college head coach job.

Nov 3 • 9:39 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Sports media world reacts to polarizing first College Football Playoff ranking

It’s Election Day, but it’s also College Football Playoff ranking reveal day, and strong reactions to the ranking would have you believe those are the results determining the future of democracy. On Tuesday night, Rece Davis hosted ESPN’s College Football Playoff rankings show alongside Booger McFarland, Greg McElroy, and Joey Galloway. As the show wore…

Nov 3 • 9:30 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Economist Warns Health Insurance Costs Are Quietly Eating Into Wage Growth — Workers Could Be Getting Bigger Raises If Premiums Weren’t Soaring

Economist Guy Berger, director of economic research at the Burning Glass Institute, said employer health insurance contributions jumped 6.4% in the third quarter, matching the fastest pace in two decades, adding that "employees are paying a bigger share of premiums."...

Nov 3 • 9:30 PM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Democrat Roy Cooper will flip North Carolina Senate seat

Nov 3 • 9:24 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com

Democrat Jamie Ager flips U.S. House seat in North Carolina

Democrat Jamie Ager flips U.S. House seat in North Carolina.

Nov 3 • 9:23 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org

BREAKING: CVS to Split Into Two Companies

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Nov 3 • 9:23 PM EST • Business • golocalprov.com

Hochul elected to second full term as New York governor

Hochul became New York’s first female governor in August 2021.

Nov 3 • 9:04 PM EST • Politics • ny1.com

‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan

Intensifying drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Sudan are disrupting electricity, water and fuel supplies, putting lives at risk and hampering the delivery of humanitarian aid, the UN’s top official in the country has warned.

Nov 3 • 9:02 PM EST • Politics • news.un.org

Women Entrepreneurs Rock 12 Celebrates Revolutionary Thinking and Bold Moves

Women Entrepreneurs Rock 12 Celebrates Revolutionary Thinking, Bold Moves, and the Power of Women Supporting Women New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Brookdale Community College marks 12 years of inspiring entrepreneurs, strengthening businesses, and

Nov 3 • 9:01 PM EST • Business • brookdalecc.edu

Diamondbacks key free agents receive contract projections

The Diamondbacks' rotation and bullpen could look a lot different next season with several key players hitting the open market.

Nov 3 • 9:00 PM EST • Sports • arizonasports.com

Chinese scientists discover thickening ground ice in parts of warming Tibet

Research counters expectations but the region remains extremely vulnerable to climate change, study warns.

Nov 3 • 9:00 PM EST • Science • scmp.com

Jülich Hosts EVE Language Model for Earth Observation and Earth Science

Nov. 3, 2026 — The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has started a new collaboration with Pi School, an international centre of excellence for AI headquartered in Rome that brings together innovators, thinkers and entrepreneurs. As a result, JSC’s Helmholtz Blablador infrastructure now hosts the EVE-Instruct model, a large language model (LLM) for Earth observation (EO) and […]

Nov 3 • 8:59 PM EST • Science • hpcwire.com

WATCH: Rep. Mike Collins speaks after loss in Georgia Senate race

Jon Ossoff's victory over Republican Mike Collins is a notable turnabout from last year, when Republicans were optimistic about the state, given that Trump carried it narrowly in the 2024 presidential race.

Nov 3 • 8:53 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org

Political science professor sees signs of increased competition in Indiana races

By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen November 3, 2026 As election results began to come in Tuesday night, Laura Merrifield Wilson, a professor of political science at Indiana University Indianapolis, said some of Indiana's traditionally Republican districts were showing signs of increased competition, potentially reflecting a broader shift in Democratic momentum. One of the biggest

Nov 3 • 8:53 PM EST • Science • indianacitizen.org

Political science professor sees signs of increased competition in Indiana races

By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen November 3, 2026 As election results began to come in Tuesday night, Laura Merrifield Wilson, a professor of political science at Indiana University Indianapolis, said some of Indiana's traditionally Republican districts were showing signs of increased competition, potentially reflecting a broader shift in Democratic momentum. One of the biggest

Nov 3 • 8:53 PM EST • Politics • indianacitizen.org

OPINION

Like all forms of art, film has a special power to bring societal and political change to a society. Filmmaking is a craft that has always been rich in politics and societal influence, so it is impossible to fully understand the craft without understanding its inherently political nature.

Nov 3 • 8:48 PM EST • Politics • theplainsman.com

Counseling and Psychological Services supports UTA students’ mental health

Here are events that will occur on campus through the end of the semester.

Nov 3 • 8:45 PM EST • Health • theshorthorn.com

Democrat Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire Senate race, CNN projects

Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire’s open Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, making history as the first out gay man to be elected to the chamber.

Nov 3 • 8:44 PM EST • Politics • wkow.com

Small fire found behind store sign in central Lincoln, LFR says

A fire at a business on O Street in central Lincoln has drawn an emergency response Tuesday evening.

Nov 3 • 8:43 PM EST • Business • 1011now.com

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro will win reelection in Pennsylvania

Nov 3 • 8:41 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com

WATCH LIVE: Sen. Jon Ossoff speaks after winning reelection in Georgia

Nov 3 • 8:41 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org

Agri science key climate change tool, say experts

Agricultural science and technology is expected to play a greater role in international cooperation as countries face mounting pressures from climate change, resource constraints and disruptions to food supply chains, experts said on Monday at a global forum in Hainan province.

Nov 3 • 8:26 PM EST • Science • global.chinadaily.com.cn

CVS Health to split into two publicly traded companies by 2028, FT reports

Investing.com-- CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) is planning to split its retail pharmacy business from its insurance operations, potentially unwinding one of the U.S. healthcare industry's largest vertical integration deals, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Nov 3 • 8:24 PM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Jeffries won’t say how he’ll approach Trump relationship if Democrats win control of House

Nov 3 • 8:18 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff will win reelection

Nov 3 • 8:17 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com

Florida Democrat defies gerrymandering in bad sign for GOP

Rep. Jared Moskowitz won a district that was redrawn to favor Republicans.

Nov 3 • 8:15 PM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com

St. John’s lands highest-rated high school recruit under Rick Pitino

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino has landed his highest-rated high school recruit since taking over at St. John’s, earning a commitment Tuesday from 2027 senior Malachi Jordan. Jordan, a 6-7

Nov 3 • 8:15 PM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Russell Wilson Emerges As Candidate For NC State Coaching Job

Nov 3 • 8:12 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Nears Earnings, Is The 11% Undervalued View Still Convincing?

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) heads into its 5 November third quarter 2026 earnings release with investor attention on concert demand, fan attendance trends, and how ticket sales translate into reported profitability. At a share price of $178.87, Live Nation Entertainment has logged a 1-month share price return of 5.98% and a year-to-date share price gain of 23.10%. The 1-year total shareholder return of 18.65% and 3-year total shareholder return of 107.67% point to momentum that has cooled...

Nov 3 • 8:09 PM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Michigan US Senate election results: Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers

See live election results in Michigan's US Senate race between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Nov 3 • 8:03 PM EST • Politics • bridgemi.com

Democrat Josh Shapiro wins reelection for governor in Pennsylvania

Democrat Josh Shapiro wins reelection for governor in Pennsylvania.

Nov 3 • 8:01 PM EST • Politics • lancasteronline.com

Race results for the 11th Congressional District race

Democrat Nancy Mannion, a registered nurse and political newcomer from Manheim Township, is challenging Smucker’s bid for a sixth term.

Nov 3 • 8:00 PM EST • Politics • lancasteronline.com

Michigan elections: Voters decide on Proposal 2 Money Out of Politics question

Voters on Tuesday were asked to consider a ballot proposal that would prohibit regulated utilities and large state contractors from contributing to Michigan politicians.

Nov 3 • 8:00 PM EST • Politics • bridgemi.com

2026 Minnesota Election Results

Minnesota Election results for the November 3, 2026, midterm elections.

Nov 3 • 7:58 PM EST • Politics • fox21online.com

2026 College Football Playoff Rankings: Week 1

AP Poll Georgia Update Georgia won their sixth straight Cocktail Party, this time in Atlanta and by a final score of 27-8 over Florida. This win, combined with Ohio State’s loss to USC, saw the Dawgs land at #2 in the first College Football Playoff ranking of the season. The first rankings also mean that […]

Nov 3 • 7:56 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Kyler Murray Gets Concerning Take Amid Vikings’ Offensive Woes

Whether the Minnesota Vikings have to make a change at QB due to Kyler Murray’s hamstring soreness that he suffered during the Week 8 loss to the Detroit Lions or due to his play, one former player believes that it could be time to make a switch at center. Murray finished 17-of-29 on his pass […] The post Kyler Murray Gets Concerning Take Amid Vikings’ Offensive Woes appeared first on HEAVY.

Nov 3 • 7:53 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Clark County Health Department levy passing in early results

A levy that would provide more than a quarter of the Clark County Health Department’s funding for the next five years is passing in early unofficial election results.

Nov 3 • 7:53 PM EST • Health • springfieldnewssun.com

Everything New in the iOS 27.3 Beta

Nov 3 • 7:51 PM EST • Technology • macrumors.com

Russell Wilson reportedly joins Philip Rivers in interviewing for NC State head coaching vacancy

NC State is not keeping a low profile in its head coaching search.

Nov 3 • 7:47 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Former Jr. Shark Becoming the Sharks' Biggest Antagonist

Nov 3 • 7:46 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Dragon’s Dogma II: Dark Arisen x Delicious in Dungeon collaboration announced

Capcom has announced a collaboration with manga series Delicious in Dungeon for Dragon’s Dogma II: Dark Arisen, which brings Official Pawns and special collaboration outfits inspired by chara…

Nov 3 • 7:45 PM EST • Technology • gematsu.com

College Football Playoff rankings: Miami leads first rankings of 2026; Notre Dame, Ohio State outside top 10

Nov 3 • 7:43 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com