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Tailored Just for You: Health & Wellness Trends for 2026
As we round out 2025 and rapidly approach 2026, we are watching these five trends in the health and wellness industry, which we expect will continue to drive consumer demand and raise notable legal considerations. We plan to dive deeper into these issues throughout the year, offering insights for investors, brands and retailers in this…
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California’s Aggressive State Antitrust Enforcement Efforts Continue to Grow
Heightened Antitrust Enforcement Focus – California, with the fourth largest economy in the world, continues to ramp up antitrust enforcement through recent cases, a new law establishing higher criminal and civil penalties, a new algorithmic pricing law and related public statements. Companies doing business in California should take note of this trend and consider updating…
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President Trump Issues Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”
On December 11, 2025, US President Donald Trump issued the Executive Order Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (the “EO”), which seeks to advance “a minimally burdensome national policy framework” for artificial intelligence (“AI”). The EO adds to other recent executive actions by the second Trump Administration, including the January 2025 revocation of…
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The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent.
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A Vintage Kabul Cinema Finally Falls to Taliban Bulldozers
Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall.
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Zelensky Open to Pulling Back Troops in Eastern Ukraine to Reach Peace Deal With Russia
The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.
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Here’s What Is in the 20-Point Peace Plan for Ukraine
The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But Russia has indicated little willingness to end the war.
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China Is Shifting Its Nuclear Forces to Swifter Footing, Pentagon Says
The country’s production of nuclear warheads has slowed, but its missiles may be poised to strike back fast in case of an attack, an annual assessment found.
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Ecstasy and Agony: Mona Fastvold on “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Examining the life and beliefs of Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement and among the few female religious leaders of the 18th century, Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” lays bare the agony and ecstasy that informed Lee’s radical expressions of faith, making for what the director describes as a “speculative retelling” of…
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How Come They Don’t Fly Away?: James Ransone (1979-2025)
I first remember seeing James Ransone on my screen when I was eleven, while watching Larry Clark’s “Ken Park” on a tiny television screen with some of my childhood friends. We were all too young to be watching the film, but we were also too young to have gone through what many of us had.…
