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After a three-year IPO drought in digital health, Hinge Health and Omada Health finally nudged open the door to the IPO market. But don’t expect a flood of new healthcare IPOs this year.Investors and bankers told Business Insider that they don’t anticipate many other digital health startups to brave the public markets until at least 2026.Physical therapy company Hinge Health and chronic care provider Omada Health both went public in the first half of the year. Both companies’ shares surged on their IPO dates, signaling to the long line of private healthcare companies desperate for exits that public investors could…

PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé has accused Paris Saint-Germain of moral harassment in a legal filing, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday.The Real Madrid star is at odds with his former club, arguing PSG owes him 55 million euros ($61 million) in unpaid wages.Mbappé is also unhappy with the way he was treated by the Ligue 1 club when the France captain was sidelined before the 2023-24 season, following his decision not to extend his club contract.The prosecutor’s office said Mbappé is “denouncing the ‘lofting’ he claimed to have been subjected to at Paris Saint-Germain.” The word lofting is…

By almost any material standard, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has it all — or at least everything money can buy. As the third-richest man in the world, he owns multimillion-dollar homes in Beverly Hills, Washington state, New York City, DC, and on Indian Creek Island in Florida; he sails the world in a $500 million superyacht, and can go to space on his very own rocket ship.So the A-list guests celebrating Bezos’ marriage to Lauren Sánchez may understandably be at a loss when it comes to what to buy the newlyweds. Surely they already have multiple KitchenAids and china sets,…

Julia Landon is moving out of Jersey City this summer, and she’s enlisting her friends to schlep boxes. Instead of texting or calling them to beg for help, she’s inviting them on Partiful. The 27-year-old made three events on the popular event planning app: one for packing (“Pizza, Packing and Party — oh my!”), one for loading the truck (marked with a cartoon of a vintage U-Haul truck that reads “U help me haul” in the company’s logo), and a final going away party at a bar (“One Last Time,” which, because no Gen Z party is complete without one,…

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials in Myanmar’s major cities destroyed about $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs Thursday.The destroyed drugs included opium, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine and the stimulant known as ice, or crystal meth, Yangon Police Brig. Gen. Sein Lwin said in a speech at a drug-burning ceremony.The drug burnings came nearly a month after U.N. experts warned of unprecedented levels of methamphetamine production and trafficking from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet.The production of opium and heroin historically flourished there, largely because of the lawlessness in border areas where…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors allowing religious chaplains to provide support services for public school students, a new poll finds.The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows the complexity of Americans’ attitudes toward religious expression in schools, which varies depending on the kind of expression and sometimes crosses partisan lines.The findings also highlight tension points in the country’s long-standing debate over the role of religion in public schools, which continues to drive legislation and legal action. Recent examples include a lawsuit…

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An explosion and the stampede that followed killed at least 29 schoolchildren and injured more than 250 at a high school in Central African Republic’s capital city, authorities said Thursday.The explosion occurred Wednesday at the Barthelemy Boganda High School in Bangui when power was being restored to an electrical transformer within the school premises after it malfunctioned, according to the country’s Ministry of National Education.Most of the victims – including 16 girls – died at the scene after the explosion resulted in a stampede while others were confirmed dead at the hospital, the Ministry…

PARIS (AP) — Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon failed in her bid Thursday to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes.Kipyegon, the Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist from Kenya, ran in 4 minutes, 06.42 seconds — the fastest mile in history by a woman — at Stade Charléty in Paris.Her time was better than her world record of 4:07.64 but won’t be recognized by the international federation because the Nike-sponsored event dubbed ” Breaking4: Faith Kipyegon vs. the 4-Minute Mile ” was unofficial. She was supported by pacemakers and equipped with Nike’s latest innovations, from her…

Freshmen dominated the first round of the NBA draft. That squeezed out some veteran college big men.St. Joseph’s junior Rasheer Fleming, Stanford senior Maxime Raynaud, and fifth-year seniors in Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner and Auburn’s Johni Broome are among those waiting to hear their name called entering the second round.Bigs made up eight of the 30 first-round picks, with 18 freshmen and six international prospects taking up most of the slots. Here’s a look at top prospects available when the two-day format resumes with Minnesota on the clock Thursday night:Rasheer Fleming, St. Joseph’sThe 6-foot-8, 232-pound junior is coming off a productive…

CHICAGO (AP) — Youth sports are a big part of Karli Casamento’s life. Her son, Jax, 15, golfs and plays on three baseball teams. Her youngest son, Colt, 7, plays baseball and basketball.The costs, especially for Jax, add up in a hurry. That’s why Casamento, 48, and her husband, Michael, 46, are watching closely for the ramifications of tariffs on their rising youth sports budget.“All of their equipment I’m sure comes from China,” said Karli Casamento, a second-grade teacher in suburban Philadelphia. “As they get bigger, they need new equipment. So that is definitely a concern.”For families like the Casamentos…