After Rachel Ledbetter earned her clinical psychology degree, reality hit: completing the required clinical supervision hours in a rural area with few providers was going to be nearly impossible.
The challenge: After two years of four hour round trip visits to her supervisor, she knew there had to be a better option.
The solution: Ledbetter's experience isn't unique. For her, the "better way" was building Motivo — a virtual company helping associate-level clinicians and organizations easily access clinical supervision when and where they need it.
Fox News on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its weekend slate, elevating some of its rising stars like Kayleigh McEnany and Tomi Lahren, while ending its longtime media criticism show "MediaBuzz," hosted by Howard Kurtz.
Why it matters: "MediaBuzz" was the last remaining media criticism show on cable news since CNN canceled "Reliable Sources" in 2022.
Unilever's ice cream unit spinoff is moving forward, but the founders of Ben & Jerry's are hoping to scoop out their namesake brand.
Driving the news: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who no longer control or run the Vermont-based business, are asking that Ben & Jerry's be spun out into an independent company owned by investors who share its "founding values" in areas like social justice.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wants the U.S. government to get a cut of university patent revenue, or even commercial revenue derived from those patents, he tells Axios' Mike Allen on tomorrow's premier episode of "The Axios Show."
Why it matters: This could disrupt the startup ecosystem, particularly in biotech.
Larry Ellison has surpassed Elon Musk as the world's richest person after his stock in Oracle skyrocketed.
Why it matters: The 81-year-old Oracle chairman was No. 2 as of Tuesday, having built his wealth over the course of the last five decades with the rise of his software company.
Lyft is adding autonomous robotaxis to its fleet in Atlanta starting today, part of a pilot with AV developer May Mobility.
Why it matters: It's the first of several autonomous services Lyft plans to launch as it tries to catch up to Uber, which already offers Waymo driverless taxis in Atlanta, Austin and Phoenix.
A pair of new analyses together support a mix of realism and optimism on the future of clean hydrogen amid setbacks in the U.S. and abroad.
Why it matters: The gas could help decarbonize heavy industries like steel, power, transportation and more — but faces high costs and investor reluctance.
There's rich, there's very rich, there's incomprehensibly rich, and then there's the day Oracle chairman Larry Ellison is poised to have.
The big picture: After Oracle offered a growth forecast that stunned investors, Ellison is poised to make more Wednesday than any human being likely has ever made in one day.
Jake Adler devoured science fiction when he was younger. He rocked an iPod Nano on his wrist — what he called an "early Apple Watch" — and wore Neurosity gear in his yearbook photos. Today, he helms Pilgrim, a defense biotechnology startup.
Why it matters: So much mainstream attention is paid to the pointy end of the stick: missiles, drones, bullets. Far less attention is paid to what happens when you get poked by that stick: triage, treatment, recovery.
Holiday sales are projected to rise at a slower pace than last year, signaling more cautious spending, Deloitte said Wednesday in its holiday forecast.
Why it matters: Shoppers are expected to be more deliberate with their dollars with rising costs and trade pressures.
The Trump administration said Tuesday evening it's sending out 100 cease-and-desist letters to drug companies as part of a crackdown on what it called misleading direct-to-consumer ads.
The big picture: Meanwhile, President Trump signed a memorandum directing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to enforce transparency on pharmaceutical advertising, including increasing the amount of information in the ads about risks of using the drugs.
We cover politics clinically, not ideologically. So it's not our job or mission to offer policy or political advice.
But thousands of you asked for thoughts on how college kids — or anyone, really — can truly think differently, or more calmly, about politics in charged moments.
So here are eight clinical, nonideological changes you could make today:
Robinhood is getting into social media with the launch of Robinhood Social, allowing users to post their trades, takes and commentary while following other users as well as avatars mirroring the trades of politicians and executives.
Why it matters: This could be serious competition for the meme stock Reddit crowd.
