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News Wrap: 9 Drug Companies Cut Drug Prices for Medicaid

News Wrap: 9 Drug Companies Cut Drug Prices for Medicaid

🔥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: news wrap 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: In our news cover on Friday, nine pharmaceutical companies agreed to lower prices on many of the drugs they sell to Medicaid and sell directly to consumers through the site TrumpRx, Russian President Putin says he remains committed to achieving goals in Ukraine if Kiev does not agree to their demands for peace, and Australia announces a gun buyback plan after the Bondi Beach mass shooting. Jeff Bennett: And in other headlines of the day: Nine drug companies agreed…
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Top films of 2025 in the UK: No. 1 – Battle by Battle | culture

Top films of 2025 in the UK: No. 1 – Battle by Battle | culture

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Film,Paul Thomas Anderson,Leonardo DiCaprio,Sean Penn,Benicio del Toro,Jonny Greenwood,Thomas Pynchon ✅ Key idea: pThomas Anderson's countercultural drama Battle After Battle, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, is a formal mystery that confounded, intrigued, and bewildered, and ends the year without a final consensus on its precise meaning. One rare dissenter is screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Schrader, who laconically commented online: “The filmmaking is A+, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't muster an ounce of sympathy for Leo DiCaprio or Sean Penn. I kept waiting for…
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Index continues its acquisition spree with the Graphite deal

Index continues its acquisition spree with the Graphite deal

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Startups,Accel,neo,a16z,Mergers and Acquisitions,cursor,Anysphere,In Brief,ai coding assistant 💡 Key idea: AI coding assistant Cursor announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to review code and debug. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, Axios reported that Cursor paid "significantly more" than Graphite's recent valuation of $290 million, which was set when the five-year-old company raised a $52 million Series B earlier this year. The connection makes strategic sense. The output of AI-generated code is often buggy, forcing engineers to spend a lot of time on…
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Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs Zambian rapper Samba The Great – and AI

Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs Zambian rapper Samba The Great – and AI

🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: It's usually a good match when these two teams meet, but, this time, I think both sets of fans are unsure about their team's performance.At Tottenham, poor Thomas Frank is having a tough time.He was so angry after their defeat at Nottingham Forest that he said he felt like there was a tornado inside him. I can understand why he was so angry, because Tottenham were very weak and did very little in that match.If you look at their position in the table, 11th place,…
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Wayne Rooney and Sam Allardyce in management, unsung heroes and pioneers

Wayne Rooney and Sam Allardyce in management, unsung heroes and pioneers

✨ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: What both Allardyce and Rooney agree on is that for a team to succeed, there must be unity and collective buy-in from both players and staff.It is those on the football field who get the recognition, but Allardyce and Rooney were keen to ensure those working behind the scenes were recognized for the work they did too.“When I was captain of the England national team, at the end of one year, I sent the whole England coaching staff to Las Vegas and paid them all to…
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PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract

PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will not renew its contract with PBS News Hour West, ending a reporting hub that covered the western U.S. and updated the nightly news produced on the East Coast for West Coast viewers.  Located on the Downtown Phoenix campus, the bureau offered internship opportunities for journalism students at the University. The bureau was created to help the national News Hour program, which is broadcast by WETA, "work more closely with PBS stations and other media partners on…
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The Justice Department began releasing the Epstein files, with many of them heavily redacted

The Justice Department began releasing the Epstein files, with many of them heavily redacted

🚀 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Jeff Bennett: Welcome to the News Hour.Late this afternoon, the Department of Justice began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court files and more, many of which have been heavily redacted.Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, joins us now.So, Liz, you and our team have been reading these documents. What stands out so far? Liz Landers: Well, there are thousands of documents released today. That's…
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The 50 Best TV Shows of 2025: No. 3 – Celebrity Traitors | culture

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2025: No. 3 – Celebrity Traitors | culture

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Television,Reality TV,Celebrity,Television & radio,Claudia Winkleman ✅ Key idea: FOr the narrative twists, the unforced comedy, or the high-profile cast, The Celebrity Traitors has tucked most televised dramas into a cocked hat, or fashionable cape. We've all been swept up in it, from teens to retirees, judges and retail workers, and even non-fans of game shows. The show became the national conversation in a way television critics no longer thought possible. It was lightning in a bottle. Which would be a great way to kill someone.Why was television…
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Ex-Splunk execs Resolve AI startup raises $1B Series A

Ex-Splunk execs Resolve AI startup raises $1B Series A

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Venture,Exclusive,lightspeed,SRE 📌 Key idea: Resolve AI, a startup developing Autonomous Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has raised a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to three people familiar with the deal. The sources said that the main valuation of the new round is $1 billion. However, the company's actual mixed rating was lower due to its multi-tranche structure. In this setup, investors bought some shares worth $1 billion, but got the rest — likely a larger percentage of the round — at…
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Caroline Dubois: The Briton retains the world title with a dominant display against Camila Banat

Caroline Dubois: The Briton retains the world title with a dominant display against Camila Banat

🚀 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Dubois fought back early in the night in front of a lightly packed Casilla Center — home of the 20,000-seat Miami Heat.She walked to the ring singing along to Whitney Houston's "I'm Every Woman" and started confidently, moving in and out of range and hitting the piñata repeatedly.She landed a straight left from the champion southpaw's stance cleanly and regularly in the third round as the gap in class became increasingly apparent.“Beautiful, Caroline, keep going,” his stablemate and former cruiserweight world champion Chris Pillam-Smith shouted from…
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