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Wall St Week Ahead-Tariffs, Fed, tech results headline jam-packed markets week
Mint
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July 27, 2025
(Repeats SCHEDULED COLUMN originally published on July 25, no changes) Aug 1 deadline looms for US trading partners Fed policy decision Weds, US jobs report Fri Results due from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - A...
Las Vegas leaders are banking on trees for cooling. The science is complicated
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Nevada
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July 27, 2025
As extreme heat claims more lives during ruthless summers in the region, Southern Nevada is upping the ante in its tree planting efforts. But a new study suggests trees alone may not be enough to make a meaningful difference in the daytime. While...
Trump's demand for Washington NFL team name change ignores years of psychological data...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“This is a big reminder with this administration that we’re going to take some backward steps,” Macarro said. “We have our studies, we have our receipts, and we can demonstrate that this causes real harm.” More than two decades of research on...
Trump ramps up America’s market intervention to crisis-level scale
ImpACT International
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The year 2025 has marked an extraordinary shift in American economic policy under President Donald Trump, who has escalated government involvement in private markets to a scale rarely seen outside wartime or national emergencies. This analysis...
James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Hall of Justice Murals are Filled With Deep-Cut DC History
Gizmodo
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July 27, 2025
If you saw the new Superman, chances are you caught that brief glimpse of the mural in the Hall of Justice honoring the 300 years of metahuman lore James Gunn’s new DC is founded on. While there’s been speculation about which characters were...
Trump’s demand for Commanders name change ignores years of psychological data, experts say
The Virginian-Pilot
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July 27, 2025
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal if Washington’s NFL team did not restore its name to a racial slur, despite decades of psychological research showing the negative mental...
2023-24 School Year: 86% of the 965 students at Davinci School for Science and the Arts not on "college track"
El Paso Standard - Texas
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July 27, 2025
Of the 965 students at Davinci School for Science and the Arts in El Paso, 829 (86%) weren’t on track for college in the 2023-24 school year, according to El Paso Standard's analysis of STAAR scores from the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The TEA...
U.S. 250th birthday party being planned
The Register Herald - Ohio
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July 27, 2025
BROOKVILLE — A Brookville resident wants to arrange a community celebration for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that will take place on July 4, 2026. Maple Street resident Dan Appenzeller made the...
NH's Business: Fraud & scams targeting NH small & mid-size businesses on the rise
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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July 27, 2025
NH's Business: Fraud & scams targeting NH small & mid-size businesses on the rise COOL US DOWN FOR LATE WEEK. WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE’S. BUSINESS. I’M FRED KOCHER. FRAUD AND SCAMS ARE TARGETING NEW HAMPSHIRE’S SMALL AND MID-SIZED BUSINESSES, AND...
USDA's cost-cutting relocations raise service disruption concerns
KHBS - Arkansas
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July 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing for a major shakeup that involves shifting thousands of employees from the nation's capital to regional hubs spread out across the country. The reorganization plan aims to save taxpayer dollars, but...
Consumer Tech News (July 21–July 25): Big Tech Earnings, Pony AI Robotaxi, Tesla Discounts And More
Benzinga
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Wall Street ended the week on a high, with tech-driven indices hitting fresh records as strong corporate earnings, robust economic data, and breakthrough trade deals lifted investor sentiment. The U.S. finalized new trade agreements with...
How Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs could kill American innovation
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Seattle, WA (Grist) The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same to clean tech. On Wednesday, President Donlad J. Trump announced a sweeping new round of tariffs on...
Chinese battery plant helps facilitate Europe's green transition
Xinhua News Agency
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* The factory's early stages required hundreds of engineers and technicians from China to stabilize operations and train local staff. Now, with a largely European workforce in place, collaboration has become part of the plant's daily rhythm. *...
Blood, memory, and untold stories: Global journalists explore China's WWII sacrifices
Xinhua News Agency
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A drone photo taken on July 8, 2025 shows a monument to the Hundred-Regiment Campaign in Yangquan, north China's Shanxi Province. The Hundred-Regiment Campaign took place in northern China from August 1940 to January 1941 during the Chinese...
David vs. Goliath: Oregon’s news bill fight
The Register Guard - Oregon
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SB 686 would require Google and Meta to pay news outlets for content. Oregon newsrooms, often competitors, are uniting to support the bill. The bill mirrors successful efforts in other countries and U.S. states. 90% of funds collected would go...
FDA Probes Death of Brazilian Boy Linked to Sarepta’s Elevidys
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News -New York
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July 27, 2025
The FDA is investigating the death last month of an eight-year-old boy in Brazil who had received Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys® (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl)—though the company and its overseas partner quickly countered that his death was...
Lake Nighthorse’s promise
The Colorado Sun
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July 27, 2025
Happy Colorado Sunday, friends! Thanks for stopping in for our weekly conversation about the ideas, issues, people and places that help define Colorado. Some of those conversations last longer than others, including the one tackled by Shannon...
‘Sexile’ in the United States: Hundreds of transgender Americans seek refuge from Trump in Canada
El País
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July 27, 2025
“In the first 24 hours after Trump’s re-election, we received 1,177 requests for assistance from the United States. Fifty-one percent of these requests were from trans people: 35% from trans women, 16% from trans men,” says Timothy Chan,...
Nevada’s data center boom is a power, water conundrum
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Nevada
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July 27, 2025
Nevadans could one day be stuck with higher energy bills, an overwhelmed power grid and an even drier desert because of data centers that store cloud data and power search engines. Often untold drawbacks of the West’s data center boom are outlined...
The U.S. birthrate has dropped to its lowest level ever: Why should we care?
Deseret News - Utah
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July 27, 2025
The U.S. fertility rate has now hit an all time low of 1.6 children per woman, as of new data released this week. This follows a pattern of birthrates declining to below replacement levels in both the developed and developing world. The United...