New York Times | Democrats rush to regroup in the Southern battlegrounds (Bernard Fraga quoted) 

USA Today | A legacy of lowering barriers to small business ownership (Sandy Jap quoted) 

LiveNOW Fox 📺 | Is it the flu or is it COVID? (Annette Esper interviewed) 

National Desk 📺 | US retailers raised interest rates ahead of Fed cuts; new data reveals (Usha Rackliffe quoted) 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Doesn’t it feel like the holiday shopping season started kind of early? (Douglas Bowman quoted) 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Tuberculosis cases in Georgia dropped in 2023, bucking the national trend (Kenneth Castro quoted) 

WAGA-TV 📺 | Laken Riley, Jose Ibarra murder trial could be used as blueprint for future cases (John Acevedo quoted) 

Los Angeles Times | Bird flu virus detected in California raw milk (Emory research featured) 

Science News | Refurbished heart pacemakers work like new (Miguel Leal quoted) 

OncLive 📺 | Dr Gershon on deep responses with Mirdametinib in NF1-PN (Timothy Gershon featured) 

Daily Pennsylvanian | Penn researchers receive grant to develop AI systems supporting personalized medical treatments (Ravi Parikh cited)

Inside Higher Ed | Red states back Trump’s plan to abolish Education Department 

Higher Ed Dive | Fall 2024 enrollment trends in 3 charts 

Hechinger Report | College Uncovered: What comes next on campus?

CNN | In US first, child tests positive for bird flu 

Washington Post | Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates 

CNN | They’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods