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This is why it's so tough to be a small-business owner in WA

Our regional economic realities are quietly and relentlessly squeezing the lifeblood out of small businesses. How we tax businesses must change.

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Oct 8 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com
Report: Juventus planning to ‘accelerate’ Nico Gonzalez contract extension

Thursday’s reports claim that Juventus are hoping to extend Nico Gonzalez’s contract in the coming weeks following his loan spell with Atletico Madrid and recent re-integration into the Bianconeri...

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Oct 8 • 9:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Shaq shares his simple business advice for up and coming athletes

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal and renowned brand manager Leonard Armato talk to OutKick about how young athletes can avoid making critical branding mistakes.

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Oct 8 • 9:53 AM EDT • Business • foxnews.com
IL-CG-LIFE

New 24/364 Film “Dylan Findling” Captures One Family’s Refusal to Let a Rare Disease Define Their Son’s Life

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Oct 8 • 9:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • caledonianrecord.com
Scientists Can Now Watch Auroras in Broad Daylight From Space and It's As Stunning As It Sounds

SMILE can see auroras hidden by sunlight and watch entire magnetic storms develop.

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Every Yale player drafted by the Boston Celtics

Let's take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of Yale.

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Goodbye, Fire Tablet: Amazon’s New Alexa Tablet Is a Flashy Portable Entertainment Hub

The new tablets tie together the Amazon media ecosystem so you can pick up where you left off from just about anywhere.

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • cnet.com
Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad

Is Amazon a hardware company now?

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Goodbye, Fire Tablet: Amazon’s New Alexa Tablet Is a Flashy Portable Entertainment Hub

The new tablets tie together the Amazon media ecosystem so you can pick up where you left off from just about anywhere.

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Oct 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cnet.com
Amazon overhauls aging devices lineup with higher priced Alexa tablet, dumping the budget Fire

The company said the Alexa tablet's improved speed and performance, artificial intelligence features and upgraded design warrant a higher price tag.

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Oct 8 • 8:59 AM EDT • Technology • cnbc.com
Wesley completes recovery, set to start vs Como

Roma is preparing for the restart of the season with some good news for Gian Piero Gasperini. Wesley has overcome the muscle problem he suffered during the international break and will be available fo...

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Oct 8 • 8:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
XCF Global stockholders approve proposed business combination with DevvStream and Southern Energy Renewables

XCF Global Inc. on Oct. 6 announced that XCF stockholders have approved the proposals necessary to complete the previously announced business combination involving XCF, DevvStream Corp. and Southern Energy Renewables Inc.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • biomassmagazine.com
Review: Hellraiser: Revival (PS5) - Faithful Adaptation Let Down by Severe Gameplay Woes

You opened the box, we answered

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
Flu season's unexpected twist: It started in Western states

The unusually early start to the season has prompted local health officials to urge people to get their flu shots as soon as possible.

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Oct 8 • 7:56 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor

It was only a matter of time. Google now lets you create simple games with AI text prompts. The Unity engine will also include text prompts and co-op creation.

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Oct 8 • 7:33 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Taylorville Memorial Hospital’s Community Health Survey Open

Taylorville Memorial Hospital is collecting responses for its triennial Community Health Survey and encourages community members to participate. Those living in Christian County and Nokomis are welcome to complete the questionnaire. It’s available through the end of October and in both paper and online formats. […]

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Oct 8 • 7:30 AM EDT • Health • taylorvilledailynews.com
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Juventus’ tactical switch could give needed tactical flexibility up front

Luciano Spalletti’s tweak to his front line presents a lot more possibilities.

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Oct 8 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
FEATURE | Mezian Mesloub – Lens’ star in the making

RC Lens are no strangers to departures. And this summer was no exception, as they let Mamadou Sangaré, Adrien Thomasson, Malang Sarr, Wesley Saïd, and Allan Saint-Maximin leave their Coupe de France...

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Oct 8 • 7:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
This Week in Sports Trivia: Oct. 8, 2026

How closely were you following the sports news this week? Find out and test your knowledge by taking The Athletic's weekly quiz.

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Oct 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Voluntary Business Update on Prosus Food Delivery

AMSTERDAM, October 08, 2026--Prosus N.V. (Prosus) (Euronext Amsterdam: PRX; JSE: PRX) today announces a letter to shareholders outlining a Food Delivery Update for Prosus. The financial information on which this update is based has not yet been reviewed nor reported on by Prosus’s independent auditor.

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Oct 8 • 6:50 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Is the new best stadium in America in Evanston, Illinois? MoneyCall

The latest free weekly sports business newsletter from The Athletic, also featuring Tebowmania at 20 and an exciting internship opportunity.

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Oct 8 • 6:05 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Russia’s public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case

Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person as global concerns swirled about suspected pneumonic plague.

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Oct 8 • 6:01 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
At 81, he’s the most-cited nutrition expert. Here’s what he eats in a day.

Walter Willett’s research has changed the way Americans eat, revealing how diet and other lifestyle choices can shape your risk of chronic illnesses.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
In Peterborough, a civics quiz: Is Jonah Wheeler proving his independence? Or ignoring his voters?

In Peterborough, there’s something of a political schism playing out over two-term state Rep. Jonah Wheeler, a Democrat who has angered some in town with his votes.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nhpr.org
What happened in Juventus' last victory against Cagliari?

The Men's First Team are back in Serie A action this weekend with a Matchday 6 trip to face Cagliari in Sardinia.Luciano Spalletti's side come into the match having won the previous Serie A match agai...

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Oct 8 • 4:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Math Singularity Is Here, and Science May Be Next

OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Oct 8 • 4:22 AM EDT • Science • douglevin.substack.com
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Vonn surprisingly named to US alpine skiing World Cup squad

The United States ski federation has surprisingly named Lindsey Vonn for their main team for this season's alpine skiing World Cup. Vonn is among 17 athletes nominated to the US squad on Wednesday evening.

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Oct 8 • 3:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Letter: People over politics

This is regarding Mary Schamehorn’s As I See It column published in the September 29 issue of The World.

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • theworldlink.com
Rubio refuses to comment on Guilfoyle allegations

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before taking up her post.

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Oct 8 • 2:27 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Dodgers, Brewers meet again in second straight NLCS

If the Dodgers are going get back to the World Series to finish off their third consecutive championship, they’ll have to travel the same path as in 2025 to complete their trek through the National League. The Dodgers will play the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS beginning Sunday night, October 11 at American Family Field […]

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Oct 8 • 1:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nebraska soccer prepares for Maryland and Rutgers

After a gauntlet of ranked matches, Nebraska will travel eastward to face Maryland and Rutgers. The Terrapins and Scarlet Knights will pose a challenge to the Huskers this weekend.

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Oct 8 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
Suns HC Jordan Ott provides update on Miles Bridges

CHICAGO — The Phoenix Suns may have dodged a bullet with Miles Bridges after he left Wednesday’s matchup against the Chicago Bulls due to injury. Oct 7, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Phoenix Suns forward Miles Bridges (22) warms up prior to a preseason game against the Chicago Bulls at United Center.

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Oct 8 • 12:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for Oct. 8, 2026, puzzle No. 745

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Oct 8 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Postgame: Avalanche Let One Slip Away Late in Winnipeg

What felt like Avalanche domination through the first period on Wednesday ended in heartbreak at the hands of the Winnipeg […]

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Oct 7 • 11:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TikTok accused by NY of running secret safety tests on teens

New York Attorney General Letitia James has added new allegations to a child safety lawsuit against TikTok Inc., accusing the platform of running secret experiments on teen users. The new

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Oct 7 • 10:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Green Bay Packers add linebacker ahead of Week 5 game vs. Chicago Bears

The Green Bay Packers have been looking to find a way to get some additional depth at the linebacker position this season. With the defense running a 3-4 scheme, having an excellent linebacking core is critical for success. However, they saw Edgerrin Cooper suffer a torn Achilles, depleting their depth significantly. The front office was [...]

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Oct 7 • 9:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Trump says he won't let Iran strike L.A. or San Diego: 'Not going to let that happen'

Trump told a Texas rally that the U.S. would not allow Iran to strike Los Angeles or San Diego, two days after his remarks on the subject stirred outrage among California leaders.

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Oct 7 • 9:30 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Scientists report world’s first working nuclear clocks

In two papers in Nature, scientists from Europe and China have now reported the world’s first working nuclear clocks. While teams from Beijing and Shanghai embedded thorium-229 nuclei in calcium fluoride crystals and fired an ultraviolet laser at them, the effort from Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany realised a similar nuclear clock and used it to look for dark matter.

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Oct 7 • 9:30 PM EDT • Science • thehindu.com
Arkansas Children’s Northwest completes major expansion

Arkansas Children’s Northwest in Springdale completed an $82.7 million expansion, adding 15 inpatient beds and 50,000 square feet of new space, and renovating 23,000 square feet. On Wednesday (Oct. 7),...

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Oct 7 • 9:12 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
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Every York College player drafted by the Golden State Warriors

Let's take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Warriors out of York College.

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Oct 7 • 9:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ryan Smith launches survey in search for 'strong local vibe' at SLC entertainment district

With two-thirds of the Delta Center's renovation now complete, the owner of the Utah Jazz and Mammoth is now shifting his attention to a planned district east of it.

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Oct 7 • 8:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • ksl.com
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Kelly’s Breast Cancer Story

Her breast cancer diagnosis came without symptoms after a routine mammogram. But throughout treatment, Kelly Titus remained strong for her family, refusing to let cancer call the shots.

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Oct 7 • 8:10 PM EDT • Health • geisinger.org
GLP-1s: the science behind today’s weight-loss drugs

The medicines reshaping obesity treatment grew out of research into how the body handles a meal. Long before weekly weight-loss injections became familiar, scientists were studying signals that travel from the intestine to the pancreas, helping it release insulin when nutrients arrive.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • thepharmaletter.com
Young Bridgeport scientists learn by doing

BRIDGEPORT – Bridgeport Middle School’s eighth graders at John Martin’s Engineering and Science Technology class are learning the ropes as young scientists and engineers. They have completed their latest project, a wave machine where pendulums swing in a precisely calculated pattern. His classroom and lab is in the Bridge, the new multipurpose facility which opened […]

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • timesleaderonline.com
Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone

Google today said it is making its SynthID Detector available to everyone for identifying content created using AI. SynthID Detector first rolled out to members of the media last year, and it is now available worldwide in English. SynthID Detector is a website that lets users upload a photo, video, or audio file to determine whether it has a SynthID watermark that identifies it as AI-generated.

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Oct 7 • 7:42 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
USA TODAY Sports Plays of the Week: Vote for best Week 7 highlight

Landon Cook, Grant Van Raaphorst, Sara Barlett, and Mason Heinz headline USA TODAY Sports Plays of the Week. Vote now for the top highlight.

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Oct 7 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A public health-minded senator asks: What comes after Trump and Kennedy?

Sen. Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

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Oct 7 • 7:09 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Attorney general candidates set to clash on Spectrum News

Attorney General Letitia James will face off against her Republican opponent, Saritha Komatireddy, on Thursday night.

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Pre Order Minecraft for Nintendo Switch 2

Minecraft for Nintendo Switch™ 2 launches October 27, and pre-orders are available now for the Standard Edition, Deluxe Collection, Ultimate Collection, and physical retail version. All editions include the Super Mario™ Mash-Up Pack with Vibrant Visuals, while the Deluxe and Ultimate Collections pile on even more goodies, including popular add-ons, exclusive Character Creator items, and Minecoins. Already own Minecraft digitally on Nintendo Switch™? A limited-time digital upgrade path lets eligible players pre-order the digital Standard Edition for free in most territories, or upgrade to Deluxe or Ultimate at a discount. So sound the trumpets, gather the puppies, blocks, and treats, and get ready for Minecraft on Nintendo Switch™ 2!

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Don’t let politics influence school closings, Pinellas civic group says

A Black student advocacy group criticized the school board for walking back a proposal to shutter Sexton Elementary

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How athletic identity shapes students on, off the field

Michigan coaches help student athletes build identities beyond sports, as most face career endings after college.

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Ted Lasso Just Let Its Final Brain Cell Slip Away

With the end of another season comes serious questions about its future.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #226

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board governance, the politics surrounding it, and education policy. In today’s edition, you’ll find: On the issues: The debate over Career and Technical Education (CTE) In this section, we curate reporting, analysis, and commentary on the issues school board members […]

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Lansing’s crown boxing athletes train hard to learn the sweet science

The popular facility hosts a wide range of boxers, from young beginners to adults looking to improve. All find a space to learn and grow.

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Shriners Children's to host free sports injury prevention forum Wednesday in Sacramento

Student-athletes, coaches, athletic trainers and families are invited to learn more about preventing sports injuries and what recovery looks like during a free community forum hosted by Shriners Children's Northern California.

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Leipzig Rule Out Nagelsmann Return Despite Demichelis Pressure

Internal unrest grows as Martín Demichelis faces a season-defining gauntlet, but the Red Bulls are dismissing rumors of a sentimental reunion with their former Champions League mastermind.

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Mamdani wants to let New Yorkers sue over unfair business practices, but some biz groups aren’t sold

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is proposing to give workers, consumers, tenants and small businesses a new right to sue companies over unfair and abusive business

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Dietitian highlights dairy's role in student-athlete health

The role of dairy in a well-balanced diet. Emily Lyday, a registered dietitian with St. Vincent Sports Performance, says proper student nutrition helps support healthy brain and bone development. “Often times dairy comes in as a side, as an addition to their meal, just to help support it a little bit more to get some […]

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Glen Powell Says He Doesn't Talk Politics: 'My Calling Is Elsewhere'

The actor told Esquire that engaging in political conversations was "not presently possible" and that Paramount "let go of an entire marketing department a month before ['The Running Man'] came out in the middle of a merger."

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Free ‘STEAM the Block Party' aims to get DC youth involved in science, tech, arts

Drones, robotics, AI and more: The Steam the Block Party in Southeast D.C. on Friday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. aims to spark a love of science. Members of the Swaliga Foundation talk with News4’s Molette Green. Performers include UCB.

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Anthony Rizzo supports young athletes, cheers on White Sox and prepares for Chicago Marathon

Former Cubs star Anthony Rizzo spent Wednesday inspiring young athletes in Chicago, sharing lessons from sports while supporting a youth clinic before heading to a White Sox playoff game.

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Raiders named 'most pleasant surprise' of early 2026 season

The Athletic gave out some early season superlatives and the Raiders made the list as the most pleasant surprise.

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Oct 7 • 1:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nonprofit provides free sports gear to youth athletes

A Baltimore nonprofit is helping children across the region by providing them with free sports and playground equipment.

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Political LTE: Mia Feroleto supports Tom Charlton - The Vermont Journal & The Shopper

My name is Mia Feroleto, and I am supporting the reelection of Tom Charlton. Here are my thoughts.

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Acme demolition complete as group looks toward site’s future

The Sheridan County Conservation District and Acme Working Group is wrapping up the clean-up phase of the former Acme Power Plant reclamation site following a summer full of demolition.

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Editorial: Bend small business program challenged by being new

Bend’s new grant program for small businesses is a challenge for the city because it is new and because the city has to be careful when it is giving away […]

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Homeschool Science Day in Grove Hill hosted Oct. 15

The Grove Hill Public Library is appealing to the creativity of homeschoolers with Homeschool Science Day on Oct. 15 from 1-2:30 p.m. Students are encouraged to use any number of items from around the house to build a medieval creation, including paper towel rolls, paper plates, rubber bands, string and foil. Some of the library’s

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The Low Block, week 7: Going for broke

Let’s all try to keep a level head after this one.

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Anta Sports officially becomes largest Puma shareholder

The Chinese sports giant finalized its acquisition of a roughly 29% stake in the athletics brand for about $1.7 billion.

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Oct 7 • 11:23 AM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com
'Completely unexpected': Astronomers spy never-before-seen 'phoenix planet' rising from the ashes of a dead star

Astronomers have spotted a rare "second-generation" exoplanet closely orbiting the nearby white dwarf HS 0209+0832. An unusual mixture of heavy elements inside this zombie star suggests that "this system has given birth to a new world using the foundations of the old one."

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All 50 States Should Legalize The 'Booming Business' Of Marijuana, Brittney Griner Says

Brittney Griner, the professional basketball player who was previously incarcerated in Russia over possession of marijuana, says it’s time for cannabis to be legalized across the U.S., citing its role as a safer alternative to painkillers that athletes are commonly prescribed. “At this point, I feel like all 50 states…just might as well” legalize marijuana, […]

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Eagles sign OL James Brockermeyer to practice squad

Philadelphia signed rookie center James Brockermeyer to its practice squad, adding depth to an injury-depleted offensive line

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MLB playoff bracket: Games today, full playoff schedule

MLB's division series round is almost complete, with anywhere from zero to four teams able to advance with wins today. Print out your playoff bracket.

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Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media

Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

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Jupiter lighthouse gears up for events through late 2027

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum is preparing to shine even brighter, with a packed lineup of special events closing out 2026 and a full calendar of new experiences already

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Don’t Let the Flu Sideline Your Season. It’s Time for your Flu Shot!

As autumn sets in, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is urging residents to get their annual flu shot now to stay healthy and active through the months ahead. “We recommend a seasonal flu shot for everyone six months of age and older,” said Dr. Alexia Harrist, State Health Officer with WDH. “These vaccines carry […]

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Formula 1: Max Verstappen says sport 'less stressful' without Christian Horner, speaks on whether he would drive for Ferrari and his new contract

Max Verstappen on F1 post Christian Horner: It is not as spicy but I quite like how things are going with everyones behaviour, lets put it like that; Verstappen says it is not my concern if Horner returns to sport; watch Singapore Grand Prix weekend live on Sky Sports F1 from Friday

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South Korea considers scaling back athlete military service exemption, sports minister says

Three footballers apologised this week for appearing to celebrate avoiding conscription after winning Asian Games gold.

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SAS helps illuminate the health impact of solar power in rural Uganda

/PRNewswire/ -- Global data and AI leader SAS helped Let There Be Light International better understand how solar electrification affects health care and daily...

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Every Wyoming player drafted by the Boston Celtics

Let's take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of Wyoming.

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Cantwell unveils AI safety framework as Congress stalls ahead of election

As AI races ahead, Sen. Maria Cantwell is pushing federal safety standards as industry leaders call for overnight and experts warn Congress is out of time.

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Oct 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Another ‘blank check’ program passes at King County

It's a rather tiny amount — just $10 million per year for three years. But it comes after a series of blunders and mismanagement in social services funding.

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Oct 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology Went to a Technique That Lets Scientists Control the Brain With Light

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.

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🏒 Y! Sports AM: Ovi and Sid

Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, who will meet on the ice tonight, have defined hockey in the 21st century.

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Google now lets you make games with AI

It’s also teaming up with Unity for a new Spark platform.

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Talarico camp says he opposes trans athletes if unsafe or unfair but accuses politicians of bullying students

James Talarico says he opposes transgender athletes in women's sports when safety is at risk, but his campaign won't say if he'd back a federal ban.

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In Critique of the 2026 St Louis Cardinals Season

Well, I don’t have a ton to chirp about, as I expected a pretty decent showing of the team. They didn’t really let me down so much as I think they could’ve done a little better. While I have been a fairly staunch Oliver Marmol supporter, at times defending him sternly, at others saying that […]

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Service 1st marks 100 years in business, extends beyond mortgage lending

- Company traces its roots to 1926 and continues to grow with new products and expansion into more vertical markets -

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Oct 7 • 7:08 AM EDT • Business • union-bulletin.com
AI doom has a precision problem

Until there is more clarity on basic questions, neither developers nor policymakers can credibly establish a quantitative AI risk assessment.

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Letters: Voting rights for those with disabilities | Reject activist judges | No politics in theater reviews

Voting has gotten easier for those with disabilities, but we must continue to ensure that those rights continue to be secured.

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Oct 7 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • orlandosentinel.com
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Bridgewater-Raritan can't let politics derail its schools

A public feud between a superintendent and board member is distracting from what matters most: Bridgewater-Raritan students and their success.

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Chelsea co-sporting director Laurence Stewart set to leave: What is his legacy at the club?

Stewart joined Chelsea following the Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital-led takeover in May 2022.

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Oct 7 • 4:45 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Bone and Joint Health Awareness

Protecting Your Bones and Joints for the Long Run Bone and Joint Health National Action Week, observed the third week in October, raises awareness about the prevention, management and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. Betty Vale, a family and orthopedic nurse practitioner at UT Health East Texas Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, shares simple steps people…

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UToledo Health’s Annual Trunk-or-Treat at New Location on Health Science Campus

The fifth annual event returns Saturday, Oct. 17, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., with a new location offering more parking and room for more families.

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UToledo Health’s Annual Trunk-or-Treat at New Location on Health Science Campus

The fifth annual event returns Saturday, Oct. 17, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., with a new location offering more parking and room for more families.

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'Carrie' reading list: Every library book Carrie picks has been banned

Let Carrie White (and everyone) read "The Handmaid's Tale".

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Oct 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Nobel Prize in chemistry set to be awarded in Stockholm

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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Cook and Holmquist, the newest inductees into Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame

Nebraska volleyball welcomes two new inductees into Husker Athletics Hall of Fame, previous head coach John Cook and former player Amber Holmquist. This pair has paved the way for Husker volleyball and women’s sports as a whole.

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Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for Oct. 7, 2026, puzzle No. 744

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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