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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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The question that changed my life: seven writers on the conundrum that
transformed everything

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choosing between a relationship and a baby to imagining a life without
sex, how a simple question revolutionised seven lives

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Rubio Will Likely Confront Tensions With Trump's Policy in Latin
America
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In addition, Mr. Trump has talked about annexing Greenland, an
autonomous territory in the Arctic Ocean that is controlled by
Denmark, a NATO ally. Leaders in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe have
denounced Mr. Trump’s remarks, while officials in Greenland have
said that they are open to discussions with the Trump administration,
but not about territorial control. Mr. Rubio could be involved in
those talks, which might center on military basing and access to
natural resources.

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Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in
Tanzania
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A suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Tanzania has
killed eight people and poses a high risk to the country and its
neighbours, global health leaders have said.






















 










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Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel
Washington shut out
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Conclave, Edward Berger's papal thriller about a conflicted cardinal
overseeing the election of the new pope, heads into next month's Bafta
awards with the most nominations.

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Southern Methodist University Wants to Sever Ties to Its Church. Can
the Church Stop It?
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The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a battle
over whether Southern Methodist University can separate from the
United Methodist Church.







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Pope Francis reveals box of documents on church's 'dark dealings'
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"He gave me a large white box," Francis writes. "Documents relating to
the most difficult and painful situations. Cases of abuse, corruption,
dark dealings, wrongdoings." "Everything is in here," Francis recalls
being told; "now it's your turn" to deal with it.

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North Korean troops become cannon fodder for Russia - WSJ (No paywall)
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North Korea's deployment of soldiers to the battlefield in Ukraine has
been an operational disaster. Their troops have performed poorly in
combat, failed to integrate with the Russian military, and suffered
significant casualties. The debacle calls attention to a larger trend:
the critical weaknesses of the axis of autocracies consisting of
Russia, North Korea, China and Iran.















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Biden may remove Cuba from terror list to secure political prisoners
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Days before President Biden's term ends, his administration said it
would remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism as
part of a deal worked out with help from the Catholic Church to free
political prisoners on the island.

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Justin Trudeau is leaving a job no one seems to want, except Mark
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OTTAWA-Since Justin Trudeau said he would resign as prime minister,
one Canadian politician after another has looked at running to lead
the Liberal Party into new elections that polls show it will lose
badly and said: Not me."







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Will PBM reform save pharmacies from closing? - STAT (No paywall)
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Mattingly is an associate professor and vice chair of research in the
Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah College of
Pharmacy. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of
Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a
Way
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Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By
constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can
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How to Go From Average to Exceptional at Work: Steal This CEO's
Hot-Shot Rule
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I am going to take a flyer and guess that if you are a regular Inc.com
reader, you're probably the type of person who is interested in
improving yourself and your performance at work. Helping ambitious
folks level up their lives is pretty much our bread and butter here.

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What's next for nuclear power
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MIT Technology Review's What's Next series looks across industries,
trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You
can read the rest of them here.














 









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Gaza cease-fire negotiators push to close deal - WSJ (No paywall)
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Israeli and Arab officials have said all significant issues have been
agreed on and that the deal was at a final stage, leaving the two
sides closer than they have been in months to an agreement that would
at least pause the fighting in Gaza and free some of the hostages held
there.

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Chinas central bank injects near-record amount of liquidity into
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The move is aimed at offsetting the impact of the expiration of
medium-term lending facility loans, plus tax payments due and
increased cash demand before the Lunar New Year holiday, the PBOC said
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Even Harvard M.B.A.s are struggling to land jobs - WSJ (No paywall)
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Landing a professional job in the U.S. has become so tough that even
Harvard Business School says its M.B.A.s cant solely rely on the
universitys name to open doors anymore.

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Is obesity a disease? - The Economist (No paywall)
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For years there has been a push to recognise obesity as a disease in
its own right, and therefore something that needs to be treated in and
of itself, rather than just as a risk factor for other things, such as
diabetes, heart disease, strokes and some cancers. And there is indeed
much evidence that being obese can result in exceptionally poor
health. But many who are obese are not unwell in the slightest. This
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What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok - The New
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In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled Why I Never Joined Facebook.
Social media had grown so ubiquitous that I felt obligated to justify
my abstention; I pointed out that I didnt need it because it didnt
solve any actual problems in my life. The post prompted an energetic
discussion in the comments section, leading to a series of follow-up
essays in which I tried to rebut the arguments for platforms such as
Facebook and Twitter. Fear of missing out... is not a valid argument
for trashing what you already have, I observed in one earnest passage.
In 2016, I consolidated my ideas into a book chapter called Quit
Social Media, and, when I adapted them into a TEDx talk and a Times
op-ed, both went viral.

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Canada floats defence purchases and critical minerals alliance to
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Energy minister calls trade tensions a distraction from Chinas rising
economic and military power

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Conor McGregor Accused Of Sexual Assault In New Lawsuit - Forbes (No
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A woman who previously accused Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting
her at an NBA game in 2023 has filed a lawsuit against the former
mixed martial arts fighter, who was found liable for sexual assault in
a separate case late last year.

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End of the line for BMI? Experts propose new obesity definition
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Findings detailed in a report published in The Lancet Diabetes &
Endocrinology suggest combines BMI with other metrics like waist
circumference for a more precise reading of health issues related to
body fat.

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Big Oil and Big Ag are teaming up to turn cow poop into energy and
profits. The math doesnt add up.
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Kate Middleton's Cancer Remission Explained
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After announcing in March 2024 that she had been diagnosed with
cancer, Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, has again spoken out about
her illnessthis time, with good news. It is a relief now to be in
remission and I remain focused on recovery, Middleton announced on X
on Jan. 14.

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After a Week of 'Congestion Pricing,' NYC Sees Results
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FDA announces ban on red dye No. 3. Here's what to expect -- and why
some families already avoid the food coloring.
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Parents say that red dye No. 3 causes behavioral issues in their kids
so they avoid foods with the questionable ingredient.

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Startup necromancy: Dead Google Apps domains can be compromised by new
owners
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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25
years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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Google brings real-time information from The Associated Press to
Gemini
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In 2023, The Associated Press was among the first news publishers to
forge a partnership with an AI firm, signing a two-year deal with
OpenAI that gave the company access to select news content dating back
to 1985. Since then, many other publishers have followed suit with
their own agreements. In fact, just earlier today, Axios announced a
three-year deal with OpenAI that will see the AI startup fund four new
local newsrooms. Last year, OpenAI partnered with People publisher
Dotdash Meredith, a deal that has since been reported to be worth at
least $16 million annually.

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Nvidia's 3 Trillion Rally Is On Edge Wall Street Is Unfazed
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Synthesia, an artificial intelligence startup that lets businesses
produce lifelike video avatars, has raised $180 million in a funding
round making it one of Britain’s largest AI companies.

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Budget 2025: Easier loans for seniors, and ease of doing business for
startups, needed to boost senior housing and co-working space segments
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More options to finance a home, lower taxes and statutory payments -
these are among a few measures that the senior living segment of the
real estate industry is hoping for in this year's Union Budget.

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FDA Moves Forward With Last-Minute Push to Cut Nicotine Levels in
Cigarettes
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Whether the nicotine reduction plan would survive the incoming
administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump is unclear. Mr.
Trump has traditionally been industry friendly and opposed to heavily
regulating businesses. In addition, he has had the support of tobacco
companies, including Reynolds American, which contributed at least $8
million to Mr. Trump’s main super PAC during the presidential
campaign. Reynolds has already expressed its opposition to the
proposed requirement.

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Russia plotted terror attacks on airlines around the world, Poland's
Tusk says
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Polish PM makes bombshell accusation against Moscow.

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How VPNs might allow Americans to continue using TikTok
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Now, the U.S. is poised to ban one of the most popular apps in the
country â with 115 million users, it was the second most downloaded
app of 2024 across both iOS and Android, according to an estimate
provided to CNBC from Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm.

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Online Therapy Boom Has Mainly Benefited Privileged Groups, Studies
Find
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The number of Americans receiving psychotherapy increased by 30
percent during the pandemic, as virtual sessions replaced in-person
appointments -- but new research dampens the hope that technology will
make mental health care more available to the neediest populations.

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Core inflation rate slows to 3.2 in December less than expected
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The Fed uses the Commerce Department's personal consumption
expenditures price index as its primary forecasting measure for
inflation. However, the CPI and PPI measures figure into that
calculation.

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Firm developing a fully reusable rocket raises a quarter of a billion
dollars
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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25
years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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North Korea stole 659 million in crypto assets last year the US says
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The US, Japan and South Korea issue a joint advisory warning the
cryptocurrency industry about North Korean threat actors' ongoing
cybercrime campaigns.

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Reusable rocket startup Stoke raised another massive round: 260M |
TechCrunch
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The space startup has an ambitious goal to build the first fully
reusable rocket, meaning both the booster and second stage. Last
month, it shared video of a successful test of its first-stage rocket
engine. The cash will help it build its new facilities at Florida’s
historic Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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AI researcher Francois Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI |
TechCrunch
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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and co-founder, last
year founded Safe Superintelligence, an AI lab that has raised over $1
billion in capital from investors including Sequoia and Andreessen
Horowitz. Elsewhere, longtime Google AI researcher and Stanford
academic Fei-Fei Li is heading World Labs, a company developing AI
systems that can generate video game-like 3D simulations.

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Colossal Biosciences raises 200M at 10.2B valuation to bring back
woolly mammoths | TechCrunch
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Lamm said all three of its revenue streams — the tech, government
collaboration, and biodiversity credits — could bring in billions of
dollars in annual recurring revenue, and they show the “short-term,
the mid-term, the long-term economic” potential of the company.

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Fast-growing South African venture FARO raises 6M to source refurbish
and sell surplus clothing | TechCrunch
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JP Zammitt, president of Bloomberg, led this investment. VC firms like
Presight Capital and Garage Ventures and individual investors
including Mato Perić (MPGI), Leonard Stiegeler (Pulse), Oliver Merkel
(Flink), Vikram Chopra (Cars24), Tushar Ahluwalia (Razor Group),
Sudeep Ramnani (885 Capital), Kresten Buch (88mph) and Daniel Funk,
the managing director of Thiel Capital, participated.

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Rockfish is helping enterprises leverage synthetic data | TechCrunch
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“It’s not like you take random data for the internet and generate
synthetic data,” Girish said. “There is no guarantee that it’ll
do well. But if you put all of this together for enterprises, it
actually is very relevant and realistic. So that’s the key to this,
and then being able to do that on a constant basis is what we find to
be useful.”

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Trumps return leaves Europe on its own - WSJ (No paywall)
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During his first term, Donald Trump insisted that the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization's European members pay more for their own defense.
While 23 NATO nations are now in compliance with the target of
spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense, they remain far
short of what it would take to defend themselves without America's
security guarantee.

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Make America ageless: Trumps health picks take longevity movement
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The incoming president's picks for the country's top health jobs have
ties to the longevity field and in some cases have been customers
themselves. Scientists and entrepreneurs say they hope the new
administration will make it easier to develop antiaging treatments and
boost research funding.

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Eli Lilly is considering offering more Zepbound doses in vials at
lower cost
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When asked how open the Trump team is to finalizing the proposal,
Ricks said that it remains to be seen, but “I think the
conversations are encouraging for a couple of reasons.” He noted
that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the
Department of Health and Human Services, shares the same goal as Lilly
of “making America healthy again.”

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The Great Social Media Migration
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RedNote is surging in popularity worldwide in the same week that
TikTok could potentially go offline in the US.

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How the Ivy League Broke America
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It is a very Ivy League thing to try to take credit for breaking
America. I share David Brooks's criticisms of a system that ranks and
sorts based on test results. But standardized testing had taken hold
in the United States long before James Conant's presidency at Harvard.

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How the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal United Teams Biden and Trump
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At the White House, Mr. Biden told reporters that his administration
had worked tirelessly for months to convince the two sides to halt the
fighting. He called it “one of the toughest negotiations I’ve ever
experienced” and gave credit to “an extraordinary team of American
diplomats who have worked nonstop for months to get this done.”

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Zuckerberg Will Host a Party for Trump's Inauguration
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Inauguration festivities have been such a hot ticket in corporate
America that some companies and executives have donated to support Mr.
Trump’s inaugural committee even without a guarantee that they can
get seats.

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'Social media should be built on protocols not platforms' says
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko
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Rebecca Bellan covers transportation for TechCrunch. She’s
interested in all things micromobility, EVs, AVs, smart cities, AI,
sustainability and more. Previously, she covered social media for
Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The
Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.Rebecca
studied journalism and history at Boston University. She has invested
in Ethereum.

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Trump's latest labor pick is good news for the gig economy
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Sonderling stepped down from the EEOC in August after his term expired
the month prior. During his time at the commission, he advocated for
more guidance on the use of artificial intelligence and voted against
new guidance on advising employers that misgendering workers may
considered harassment.

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JPMorgan Chase Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs Report Big Profits
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Still, bankers traditionally cloak themselves as a risk-averse bunch,
and given the questions about the future for interest rates, deal
making and the geopolitical world, their optimism about what’s ahead
is noteworthy.

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