Singapore’s 240,000 millionaires spur spending on luxury brands
By Bloomberg Published July 7, 2025 Luxury spending is defying a global slump in wealthy…
Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill
Updated: July 8, 2025 Note: KFF now has a clean summary of the health care provisions in the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law as well as a separate implementation timeline highlighting key dates in the law.This side-by-side comparison tool compares the health care provisions in the House-passed and Senate-passed 2025 budget reconciliation law to each…
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived
Mostaque had answers for all of this, but investors lost confidence anyway. Four months after the article came out, VCs from both Coatue and Lightspeed left the board of directors, signaling they no longer had faith in the business. By the end of the year, the company’s head of research, chief operating officer, general counsel,…
Scientists make ‘superfood’ that could save honeybees
Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Scientists have developed a honeybee “superfood” that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood. Honeybees are a vital part of food…
Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health
Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, January 20, 2025 Purpose: Initial rescissions of Executive Orders and Actions issued by President Biden. Among these orders are several that addressed LGBTQ+ equity including “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” (Executive Order 13988) and “Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay,…
Adaptive Cloud Risk Assessment with the Agentic AI Agent Vikram
In fast-moving cloud environments like AWS, security teams face an uncomfortable truth: not every EC2 instance is being scanned, existing tools don’t work across a diverse environment that includes long-lived and ephemeral assets, and visibility is never complete. Qualys research found that over 30% of virtual machines have high or critical vulnerabilities, and with blind…
How Will the 2025 Reconciliation Law Affect the Uninsured Rate in Each State?
President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025 a budget reconciliation package (formerly called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that will make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, relative to its estimates of insurance coverage prior to the law being enacted,…
Royal Papworth Hospital pays out after bacteria-linked deaths
Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire Family handouts Anne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospital A hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply. Three patients died and…
I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers
Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3…
Children in NI treated different to those in the rest of the UK
Julie McCullough BBC News NI BBC Danny, 13, who was diagnosed with myopia when he was seven, is not able to use his NHS voucher towards treatment for the condition Children with short-sightedness are being stopped from using NHS vouchers to help pay for new treatment unlike in other parts of the UK, Northern Ireland…
Oswestry gym with wellbeing focus welcomes lottery boost
Meg Elliott BBC Shropshire Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Kevin Braddock said the question for many was how to start A gym set up with a focus on the wellbeing of body and mind has been awarded a £14,000 lottery grant to develop its work. The Soma Space in Oswestry was established…
