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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Recruitment of a College Football Star

Miami wasn’t excited about any quarterback in the transfer portal. Then Carson Beck entered.

The New York Times - 1d

Women's college basketball Star Power Index: LSU's Aneesah Morrow asserts dominance against Tennessee

Morrow's monster night only adds to her impressive season

CBS Sports - 1d

Falling Child Vaccinations

U.S. vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases are falling.

The New York Times - 1d

FirstFT: Dollar hits 2-year high as interest rate assumptions change

Also in today’s newsletter, China’s trade surplus reached a new record and the reinvention of El Salvador

Financial Times - 1d

Behind Miami's multi-million-dollar push for QB Carson Beck, who lands a top-tier NIL package to transfer

Beck's deal is less than his believed initial asking price but still among the highest-paid players in college football

CBS Sports - 3d

NHL Star Power Index: Connor Bedard records career-high streak, Mikko Rantanen continues to score at high rate

Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson is also providing offensive support

CBS Sports - 4d

Dollar dominance means tariffs are not the only game in town

America’s grip on global financial services could provide Trump with another source of leverage

Financial Times - 4d

Why investors are still buying gold despite a strong dollar and rising Treasury yields

Gold prices settled Thursday at their highest level in four weeks, defying their usual inverse relationship with strength in the U.S. dollar and gains in Treasury yields, as fiscal worries prompt ...

MarketWatch - 4d

Treasury yields fall in shortened trading session

U.S. Treasury yields fell during a shortened trading session as the bonds market will close early in honor of the late former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

CNBC - 5d

Venezuela's Maduro could be the next dictator to fall

Assad’s defeat points to Maduro’s growing weakness and isolation.

The Hill - 5d

As Art Sales Fall, Christie’s and Sotheby’s Pivot to Luxury

With both supply and demand for big-ticket art in a slump, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are making major bets on selling handbags, classic cars and niche experiences.

The New York Times - 5d

U.S. companies will need to increase their hedges against a stronger dollar in 2025, says Bank of America

A surging buck can crimp multinational’s profits

MarketWatch - 5d

Italian town bans residents from falling ill

Yahoo News - 5d

Asia's central banks face a formidable challenge: An ascendant U.S. dollar

A surge in the dollar has sent Asian currencies reeling, stoking worries over imported inflation and prompting some central banks to intervene in the currency market.

CNBC - 6d

A million-dollar kombucha deal spurred Quinn Ewers to Ohio State early, but staying long never made sense

The Buckeyes were caught off guard by Ewers' decision to reclassify and join them a year early

CBS Sports - 6d

Meloni’s European moment risks falling flat

Italy’s most successful premiers on the EU stage tend to be technocrats not professional politicians

Financial Times - 6d

Why investors should watch the dollar as markets make sense of Trump’s tariff plans

It had seemed like nothing could stop the U.S. dollar from marching higher. Then a headline about President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff plans landed in traders’ newsfeeds, and suddenly all bets ...

MarketWatch - 6d

UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

Posters from Islamic finance start-up Wahed Invest likely to cause ‘serious offence’, rules ASA

Financial Times - Jan. 8

A Timeline of Justin Trudeau’s Rise and Fall

The Canadian prime minister, who said on Monday he would step down, has spent a quarter-century in the political spotlight.

The New York Times - Jan. 7

Services index shows big jump in prices for December as companies fear tariffs

The ISM services survey's prices index jumped to 64.4%, an increase of 6.2 points or more than 10%.

CNBC - Jan. 7

Nvidia chief calls robots ‘multitrillion-dollar’ opportunity

Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote

Financial Times - Jan. 7

Women's college basketball Star Power Index: Hannah Hidalgo helps Notre Dame outlast North Carolina

Hidalgo and Audi Crooks are both dominating in their second collegiate seasons

CBS Sports - Jan. 6

Report of easing tariff plan, which Trump denies, sends dollar lower

Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are weighing more targeted tariffs than was proposed by the campaign, according to a report.

MarketWatch - Jan. 6

Dollar drops on reports Trump will scale back tariff plans

Shares in European carmakers rally on hopes new US administration targets only critical imports

Financial Times - Jan. 6

China rushes to reassure investors as equities and renminbi fall

CSI 300 down 4.2% this year and currency slides to 15-month low as Donald Trump’s return weighs on markets

Financial Times - Jan. 6

‘A not so subtle misogyny’: Sargent portraits of ‘dollar princesses’ come to London

Portraits of wealthy American heiresses who married into British society will be shown at Kenwood in London. Margaret “Daisy” Leiter was just 19 when in 1898 she was painted by the most celebrated ...

The Guardian - Jan. 6

Assad’s fall is an opportunity for a US win over China

Trump may believe that Syria is “not our fight,” but the competition with China is very much ours and will undoubtedly be a focus of his administration.

The Hill - Jan. 5

The Trump sentencing: Curtain to fall on Merchan's Hamlet on the Hudson

After years and millions spent in the various Trump cases, Trump will likely receive an unconditional discharge and sent along his way . . . to the White House.

The Hill - Jan. 4

Man dies in Lake District ridge fall

Members of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team thank fell walkers who went to help.

BBC News - Jan. 4

Louisiana boy rewarded after giving away his only dollar

Nine-year-old Kelvin Ellis Jr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had only $1 to his name, but chose to give it away to a man he mistook as homeless. That single act of generosity sparked a friendship he ...

CBS News - Jan. 3

NHL Star Power Index: Artturi Lehkonen scoring at will, Jack Eichel displaying incredible playmaking skills

Plus, Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard is continuing to excel

CBS Sports - Jan. 3

UK mortgage approvals fall in November

Unexpected decline interrupts recovery in housing market activity

Financial Times - Jan. 3

NFL hot seat index: which coaching jobs will open on Black Monday?

There are already three openings – the Jets, the Saints and the Bears – and Black Monday will probably see at least four new vacancies. Whose seats are the toastiest?

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 3

NFL hot seat index: which coaching jobs will open on Black Monday?

There are already three openings – the Jets, the Saints and the Bears – and Black Monday will probably see at least four new vacancies. Whose seats are the toastiest?. The NFL’s coaching carousel ...

The Guardian - Jan. 3