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By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is adjusting his messaging strategy to win over voters who are worried about the cost of living with plans to emphasize new tax breaks and show progress on fighting inflation.

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The messaging is centered around affordability, and the push comes after inflation emerged as a major vulnerability for Trump and Republicans in Tuesday’s elections, in which voters overwhelmingly said the economy was their biggest concern. read more

By BARBARA ORTUTAY

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, then in their children’s. But during that time, they also funded underprivileged schools, immigration reform and efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.

Now, the billionaire couple is shifting the bulk of their philanthropic resources to Biohub, the pair’s science organization, and focusing on using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The idea is to develop virtual, AI-based cell models to understand how they work in the human body, study inflammation and use AI to “harness the immune system” for disease detection, prevention and treatment.

“I feel like the science work that we’ve done, the Biohub model in particular, has been the most impactful thing that we have done. So we want to really double down on that. Biohub is going to be the main focus of our philanthropy going forward,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday evening at an event at the Biohub Imaging Institute in Redwood City, California. Three other Biohub institutes — in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, focus on addressing different scientific challenges. read more

By BERNARD CONDON

NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s richest man was just handed a chance to become history’s first trillionaire.

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Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade. The vote followed weeks of debate over his management record at the electric car maker and whether anyone deserved such unprecedented pay, drawing heated commentary from small investors to giant pension funds and even the pope.

In the end, more than 75% of voters approved the plan as shareholders gathered in Austin, Texas, for their annual meeting. read more

NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton is recalling nearly 878,000 of its exercise bikes across the U.S. and Canada because the products’ seat posts can break during use, posing fall hazards.

According to notices published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada on Thursday, the recall covers certain “Peloton Original Series Bike+” units carrying model number PL02. Peloton has received three reports of seat posts breaking on these bikes in the U.S., two of which resulted in fall injuries. There’s been no additional incidents in Canada to date.

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Epcot: Festival’s Disney on Broadway singers unveiled

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Performers are set for the 2026 Disney on Broadway concert series, a musical aspect of the annual Epcot International Festival of the Arts, and there are six newbies in the mix, including Susan Egan, the original Belle on Broadway’s “Beauty and the Beast,” plus there’s a double dip of actors who have personified Genie on stage in “Aladdin.”

The 12 singers appear in pairs in a daily schedule that begins Jan. 16. Then four of them reunite for special appearances on the final two days of the festival.

The lineup, subject to change, is:

• Jan. 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26 and 27: Isabelle McCalla and Adam Jacobs (both from “Aladdin”)

• Jan. 17, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28 and 29: Sierra Boggess (“The Little Mermaid”) and Michael James Scott (“Aladdin” Genie No. 1 of the series)

• Jan. 30, Feb. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9 and 10: Anastacia McCleskey and Josh Strickland (both from “Tarzan”)

• Jan. 31, Feb. 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 and 12: Mandy Gonzalez (“Aida”) and Kissy Simmons (“The Lion King”) read more