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​The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer’s disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced Sunday that the FDA had granted approval to its Elecsys Phospho-Tau blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the fourth such…  

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​ “Gradually, then suddenly.” — The Sun Also Rises Lots of people are worried about rising long-term interest rates. Short-term interest rates are controlled by the central bank. But the Fed doesn’t usually intervene in the market for longer-term bonds, so when these interest rates move around, it means the market is telling us something. So a lot of people were worried when the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds jumped by 6 basis points (0.06%) the other day. Why were people scared? Well, remember that when interest rates go up, it means bond prices went down. Which means that…

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​Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that holding elections amid Russia’s war with Ukraine would “destroy” the country. “I believe that ​if we want to destroy the country, then we can move towards elections ​during this kind of war,” Zelensky told reporters. The president said elections “in general pose major risks,” noting that holding an…  

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​Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker “kind of weird.” “To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he’s a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there’s a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible…  

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Watch: How Hannah Berner Really Feels About Being Fired From ‘Summer House’ Hannah Berner has found a way to smile through the pain—well, at least on the inside. After the comedian said she had a bad reaction to botox injections—which she receives to treat temporomandibular joint disorder (commonly referred to as TMJ)—she has found the bright side of the accident that made “smiling felt like weightlifting.” “I’m so happy that it was making people laugh because I was disturbed,” Berner told the New York Times in an interview published Aug. 16. “I was upset. I had jobs on the line.”…

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​Nearly all Senate Armed Services Committee minority members on Monday called on the panel’s head to hold a hearing with Pentagon leadership to discuss the impact extended deployments in support of the Iran war are having on U.S. service members. The letter — led by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and signed by 11 other senators…  

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