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Tina Knowles reveals the one thing that irritates her after being in the entertainment industry for 3 decades

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Will ‘The Odyssey’ ‘Flop’? Christopher Nolan’s Box Office History Says No

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There is a loud online movement pushing back against Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, downvoting its trailers and spamming social media comments in threads about the film. It’s based on a wide range of alleged “issues” from the casting of a transgender actor, the race of Helen of Troy, the modern dialogue, even the look of the film’s armor. Now, many in that group believe that all that anger and a supposed upcoming boycott will turn The Odyssey into a flop.

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1 Thing You Need More Than Trust In A Relationship, By A Psychologist

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Young couple in love.

Trust tells you what to expect from a partner, but it says almost nothing about how you’ll read them in the moment, and that gap is where relationships are actually won or lost.

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Trust, in a relationship, can be understood as a standing conclusion, an accumulated judgment, formed over time, about whether one’s partner is honest, faithful and reliable. Once formed, it tends to be stable and slow to change. But most of what happens in a relationship day to day is not covered by that conclusion at all.

A partner arrives late, answers a question curtly, or forgets something that mattered. None of this touches the underlying question of trustworthiness, and yet each of these moments has to be interpreted somehow, and how it gets interpreted has consequences that accumulate over years.

One person, faced with a partner’s short reply, assumes fatigue or distraction. Another, with comparable grounds for trust, assumes irritation or withdrawal. The difference is not a difference in how much they trust each other. It is a difference in the lens through which ordinary, unremarkable behavior gets read.

Much of what couples experience as conflict is, on closer inspection, a disagreement about which interpretation of an ambiguous event is the correct one, and that disagreement is rarely settled by appeals to trust.

Why Relationships Need Positive Sentiment Override

The psychologist John Gottman, whose research has focused for decades on how couples interact, gave this interpretive lens a name: positive sentiment override. The term describes a general, accumulated reservoir of goodwill strong enough that ambiguous or even mildly negative behavior tends to be read charitably by default.

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Its counterpart, negative sentiment override, describes the reverse condition, in which even well-intentioned or neutral behavior is read as further evidence of disregard. This is a pattern researchers have built clinical assessment tools around, one of which was tested on real couples-counseling clients in a 2021 study published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.

Under positive sentiment override, a canceled plan is absorbed as an unfortunate scheduling conflict. Under negative sentiment override, the same canceled plan is absorbed as confirmation of a long-standing pattern. Two relationships with comparable levels of stated trust can therefore feel entirely different to live inside, because the operative variable is not the trust itself but the interpretive climate surrounding it.

It is worth being careful here, because this idea is easy to overextend. A generous interpretive lens is appropriate for behavior that is genuinely ambiguous, such as an unreturned message, a distracted greeting, or a plan that falls through for reasons unstated.

A 2023 study published in Family Relations found that how partners explain exactly this kind of ambiguous behavior tracks closely with how satisfied they are in the relationship. It is not intended, and should not function, as a way of explaining away a real and repeated pattern of dishonesty, disrespect or harm.

Researchers who study this dynamic are explicit that a strong reservoir of goodwill carries its own risk: it can, in some circumstances, dull a person’s ability to register behavior that genuinely warrants concern rather than reassurance. The healthy version of this lens extends generosity to what is unclear. It does not extend generosity to what has already been made clear.

How To Apply This Habit To Your Relationship

What makes this framework useful is that the reservoir it describes is not a fixed trait, something a person either has or lacks. It is built, gradually, through the accumulated ratio of positive to negative exchanges a couple experiences over time. A steady accumulation of small moments of warmth, humor and attentiveness tends to produce a lens that defaults toward generosity.

A steady accumulation of neglect, contempt or dismissiveness tends to produce a lens that defaults toward suspicion, often well before any actual betrayal has occurred. A 2022 study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, following couples over time, found that negative exchanges track shifts in relationship satisfaction more reliably than positive ones do.

This reframes what a secure relationship is actually built from. It was never simply the accumulated proof that a partner will not lie or will not leave. It is, more specifically, the accumulated permission to interpret that partner generously. A permission that has to be earned and re-earned in the ordinary texture of daily interaction, and that does far more to determine how a relationship feels than any verdict about trustworthiness ever could on its own.

Wonder whether your own relationship’s reservoir of goodwill is running low? See how much quiet resentment might already be shaping the way you read your partner with this science-backed test: Micro-Resentments Test %!s()

Healthy Returns: Employers aren't expanding coverage of GLP-1 obesity drugs — many are finding ways around it

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A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions.

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The SEC Is Rolling Back Disclosure. Here’s What Companies And Investors Need To Know

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TOPSHOT - In this aerial view taken from a helicopter a blue van sits intact amid burned homes seen from above during the Palisades fire near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on January 9, 2025. Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles remained totally uncontained January 9, 2025, authorities said, as US National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. Swaths of the United States' second-largest city lay in ruins, with smoke blanketing the sky and an acrid smell pervading almost every building. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images)

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The need for clear climate-related financial information has never been more urgent.

From droughts to floods to wildfires, the U.S. is enduring an escalating number of deadlier and more damaging weather disasters, which have cost the country $1.5 trillion and killed thousands of Americans in just the past decade. These increasingly unpredictable weather patterns are reducing agricultural yields, disrupting global supply chains, and causing insurers to retreat from disaster-prone housing markets.

The market needs to know how investors and companies are preparing for these challenges, acting on them, and supporting the transition to a cleaner, more resilient energy economy to avoid worsening disasters.

It is one of the reasons why, in 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted the first-ever federal rule requiring public companies to report on the climate-related risks they face, including material greenhouse gas emissions and financial costs associated with extreme weather.

Investors and companies applauded the move, which they had long supported. An analysis conducted by Ceres found pension funds, asset managers, and individual investors alike were overwhelmingly in favor of a rule that would provide standardized, decision-useful data to help them price risk accurately and allocate capital wisely. Companies also supported the rule in part because, while many were already reporting on these risks, there were confusing and overlapping standards and guidelines within and outside of the U.S.

Now, at a moment when the financial and economic risks to the markets, from supply chain disruptions to lower crop yields to worker productivity, continue to grow, the SEC is rolling back the rule. This move doesn't make that demand for information and transparency go away. It just means investors and companies will be forced to rely on inconsistent, incomplete, or nonexistent disclosures.

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The Rest of the World Isn't Waiting

The good news is that the global market is moving forward. The International Sustainability Standards Board, a body established to develop a unified baseline of sustainability-related financial disclosures for capital markets, has issued global baseline standards for climate-related disclosure, and the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is already reshaping how companies report. More than 41 countries have approved or proposed climate disclosure rules. Together, these countries account for about 60 percent of the world’s gross domestic product.

Insurers, too, are expanding climate-related financial disclosures as they grapple with mounting losses from extreme weather. A Ceres analysis found that U.S. insurers have widely adopted the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework, which is the global foundation for climate-related financial reporting. Some 83% of U.S. insurers now provide disclosures across risk management, strategy, governance, and setting and tracking metrics and targets.

What Investors and Companies Can Do

  1. Companies can voluntarily disclose their climate risk information. Companies already do this because they know it is in their best interest, giving them and their investors the information they need to assess and manage the risks they are exposed to, and identify lucrative, growing opportunities in a cleaner, advanced energy economy. Just as critically, many of the largest U.S. companies operating abroad will face some disclosure requirements that, in some areas, exceed what the SEC was proposing.
  2. Investors and companies can develop and publish climate transition plans. For companies, plans can include how they are going to meet specific, measurable, and time-bound goals. These are even more necessary now for increased transparency and accountability in the market, providing insight into businesses that reduce exposure and focus on long-term value creation and competitiveness. Investor climate action plans, or ICAPs, can share those same goal-oriented commitments across four interlocking areas: investment, corporate engagement, policy advocacy, and investor disclosure.
  3. Shareholder engagement remains a powerful tool for managing portfolio risk. Investors would do well to continue filing and supporting shareholder resolutions that call for greater transparency on climate-related financial risks — a strategy that has proven effective in ensuring shareholder value and reducing litigation and other costs for companies.
  4. Monitor and engage with state-level disclosure frameworks already taking shape in California and New York. As these states move to fill potential gaps in federal standards, investors and companies operating across jurisdictions have an opportunity to help shape requirements that align with international frameworks — such as the International Sustainability Standards Board and TCFD — many are, or will soon be, required to follow.

The SEC was established to restore public confidence in financial markets by ensuring investors have the information they need to make sound decisions. Abandoning the climate disclosure rule doesn't make the risk disappear. Rescinding this rule is a step backward for markets, for companies, and for the millions of Americans whose financial future depends on their investments. %!s()