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Just a few minutes of intense exercise daily can reduce disease risk. Yes, really.

Vigorous activity may reduce your risk of multiple diseases, according to a recent study.

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Apr 20 • 11:25 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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Kendra Scott eyes expansion with first business chief

Adrienne Gernand, a veteran of Gap Inc., will be responsible for expanding the brand’s assortment and global reach.

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Apr 20 • 7:30 AM EDT • Business • retaildive.com
Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

In just two days after release, Capcom's latest game - Pragmata - has surpassed 1m units sold.

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Apr 20 • 6:03 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Can the Outdoors Solve a $5 Trillion Healthcare Problem? This New Alliance Says Yes.

The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable will host the National Executive Forum on Health and Outdoor Recreation May 6-7 in Washington D.C.

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Apr 19 • 11:00 PM EDT • Health • outsideonline.com
Cannabis is neither harmless nor a cure-all

Cannabis, rural flight access, Catholicism and more, in readers' eyes.

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Apr 19 • 4:13 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Game #22: A’s vs. White Sox Game Thread

It’s fun to see a walk off but let’s not forget that the A’s were not only outmatched on Friday by the score of 9-2, but they also began their first trips to the plate yesterday down 5-0. Yes, they clawed back into it but this is the Chicago White Sox we’re talking about. That […]

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Apr 19 • 3:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
North Texas political shuffle: Dallas GOP chair resigns, AG candidates clash, and Fort Worth eyes $8
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Apr 19 • 8:42 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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🚨 BREAKING: Everton and Liverpool name lineups for Merseyside derby

Liverpool and Everton will meet in the first-ever Merseyside derby at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday. David Moyes' Everton head into this game with European aspirations after going unbeaten in f...

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Apr 19 • 7:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
National Science Foundation’s future in limbo as Trump eyes cuts

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation. Since Trump’s retu…

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Apr 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • thehill.com
Joe Starkey: Thankfully, Pittsburgh sports in much better shape as NFL Draft spotlight falls upon city

We’re not quite the City of Champions again, but we’re not the City of Chumps, either. Not anymore, and thankfully not this coming week, as the eyes of the sports world descend upon Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft. It’s easier to be a good host when you’re not wearing a

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Apr 18 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • triblive.com
In Phoenix, Trump Eyes Lower Gas Prices and Frets About the Midterms

President Trump told a crowd of supporters that the price of oil and gas was coming down, part of an effort in recent days to present a rosier picture of the nearly two-month-long Iran war.

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Apr 17 • 10:26 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Outdoors: Catch-and-release turkey hunting? Yes, it’s a thing

As I look back on the years that have ticked by, I realize I’ve lived through some amazing times with regards to new species moving into the valley I call

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Apr 17 • 3:17 PM EDT • Sports • unionleader.com
Barcelona Eyes Atlético Madrid's Sorloth As Potential Lewandowski Successor

Barcelona have reportedly initiated contact with Atletico Madrid striker Alexander Sorloth as Hansi Flick seeks a long-term successor for Robert Lewandowski.

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Apr 17 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Ohio State offensive line target set to announce commitment today

Ohio State will find out today if a crystal ball prediction to land four-star lineman Jimmy Kalis comes true.

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Apr 17 • 11:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Iran agrees to stop enriching uranium, Trump tells NewsNation

When asked directly whether Iran had agreed to halt uranium enrichment, Trump replied, “Yes.”

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Apr 17 • 10:49 AM EDT • Politics • newsnationnow.com
Things People Thought Were 'Rich People Stuff' As Kids

I don't care what anyone says, Viennetta ice cream cake will always be an expensive delicacy in my eyes.

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Apr 17 • 8:30 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
Morning Sports: April 17, 2026

Sheridan/Johnson County HS Spring Sports: The weather, or the worst of it, held off just long enough yesterday, for Sheridan High School Spring Sports teams to get some games in. The Broncs soccer team was down 1-nothing at halftime at home vs. Campbell County, then scored 4 times after the break to win. Liam Nelson […]

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Apr 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sheridanmedia.com
Friday’s Everton News: Derby preview, Leicester winger Fatawu linked

Recapping all the Everton news from yesterday

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Apr 17 • 3:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2026 NFL Draft final combined big board: Buckeyes defender is No. 1, with Fernando Mendoza right behind him and Rueben Bain Jr. top-5
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Apr 16 • 6:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chargé Arnold Speech - Implementation Plan of Five-Year Health MOU - U.S. Embassy in Madagascar

Chargée d’Affaires Stephanie Arnold's Speech Discussion on the implementation plan for the five-year health Memorandum of Understanding (…) Colleagues, and honored guests, Good morning, and welcome to the United States Embassy. It is a pleasure to host you today for the second day of this important workshop to discuss the implementation of our bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding on U.S. Government health activities in Madagascar, made possible through the Trump Administration’s America First Global Health Strategy. Today’s focus— discussing a shared vision and developing a preliminary draft for the health MOU Implementation Plan and the terms of reference for the two committees that will steer its implementation—is a decisive step in moving from commitments on paper to concrete action over the next five years. On December 22, 2025, the Governments of Madagascar and the United States signed a five-year bilateral health MOU, with a financial intention of approximately 554 billion Ariary from the United States and This jointly decided MOU intends to strengthen Madagascar’s health system, support lifesaving services, and improve disease prevention and response that matter to both our countries’ health security. For the United States, this means detecting and containing infectious disease outbreaks including malaria, polio, and emerging health threats before they can reach American shores through international travel and trade, protecting American families while reducing the need for costly domestic emergency responses Yesterday, technical experts from the Ministry of Public Health and the U.S. Government worked in thematic groups to draft a preliminary Implementation Plan. Today, your task is to review the shared vision and preliminary draft MOU implementation plan, and the proposed terms of reference for the Joint Steering Committee and the Operational Committee that will guide its implementation. These committees are not just administrative structures. They are the mechanisms that will ensure clear roles and responsibilities, regular dialogue between our two governments, consistent monitoring of progress, and real accountability for the results that will directly benefit the lives of Malagasy citizens. They will also track performance against the benchmarks we have jointly established, which will guide the continuation of U.S. support over the five-year period . Continued U.S. support will be contingent on meeting these performance benchmarks. This ensures accountability to both American and Malagasy taxpayers and guarantees that our partnership delivers measurable results. America First Foreign Assistance means that U.S. support must be strategic, results-driven, and accountable to our taxpayers. It also means we aim to support greater self-reliance and reduced long-term dependence on foreign assistance, with systems that are increasingly financed and led by Madagascar itself. This approach benefits both our nations: Madagascar gains sustainable health capacity, while the United States advances our health security interests and creates opportunities for American health innovations and companies to support Madagascar’s development. In that spirit, I want to recognize the presence of the Ministry’s leadership and the technical directors and program heads responsible for surveillance, basic health services, family health, immunization, countering malaria, laboratories, medicines, and health information systems. Your leadership and technical expertise are essential if this bilateral health MOU is to translate into real and lasting improvements for people in need across the country. Let me emphasize how important collaboration is to the United States in this effort. We can bring American resources, technical expertise, and tools. But this bilateral health MOU can only succeed if it reflects Madagascar’s priorities and if Malagasy institutions lead and maintain its implementation. We see this not as a U.S. project, but as a joint framework under Malagasy leadership, with U.S. support. That is why we are genuinely pleased to host this event here at the Embassy. Opening our doors to you today symbolizes our commitment to work side by side and to remain transparent about how we use U.S. resources in support of Madagascar’s health system. In closing, thank you for your time and your partnership. We are very happy to welcome you here and proud to accompany Madagascar in this next step of implementation planning for our bilateral health MOU. I wish you a productive and focused session. The work you do today will shape how our two governments cooperate on health in the years ahead; it will influence the quality and reliability of health services that Malagasy communities receive; and, most importantly, it will help protect both our nations from infectious disease threats while building Madagascar’s capacity for long-term health system sustainability. Thank you.

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Apr 16 • 8:34 AM EDT • Health • mg.usembassy.gov
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Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I. Yes, A.I.

After selling its business for $39 million last month, the company said it planned to buy powerful computer chips and rebrand itself NewBird AI.

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Apr 15 • 8:31 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Indiana Fever fans react to 2026 WNBA Draft haul

Following the completion of the 2026 WNBA Draft, here are some of the most notable social media reactions to the Indiana Fever's three selections.

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Apr 15 • 5:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Billy Crystal eyes return to Broadway in one-man show about the house he lost to LA wildfires

Billy Crystal returns to Broadway this fall with an intimate one-man show called "860." | Talk 1370

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Apr 15 • 12:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Six-figure offers and hundreds of calls, all-conference guard details portal decision

Hudson Mayes had \

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Apr 14 • 6:42 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Las Vegas neon sign company celebrates nearly 100 years of family business

YESCO has shaped the Las Vegas skyline since the 1920s, from the iconic Welcome sign to the Sphere.

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Apr 14 • 10:13 AM EDT • Business • fox5vegas.com
Jon Prosser Still Not Fully Cooperating in Apple's iOS 26 Trade Secrets Lawsuit

A joint status report filed yesterday in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against YouTuber Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti shows Prosser is still failing to comply with discovery, prompting Apple to seek a court order to compel him. The latest filing, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California yesterday, covers developments since the parties' last update in February 2026.

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Apr 14 • 9:57 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Unpicking the negativity that surrounds double-chasing Celtic

It has all felt a bit negative since the win over St Mirren on Saturday, a bit heavy, which is a strange place to be when we're effectively seven games from a double. Yes, we've won many titles before - 13 of the past 14 no less - but when were we last in a genuine title race this close?

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Apr 14 • 8:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BUILDERS OF MINNESOTA | Inside FairPlay Entertainment: How Matt Allen and Ryan Hayes Are Rebuilding Access, Dignity, and Creative Power in Minnesota

FairPlay Entertainment builds an affordable St. Paul studio expanding access, supporting diverse artists, and strengthening Minnesota’s music scene.

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Apr 13 • 6:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • minneapolimedia.town.news
House eyes possible expulsion of multiple members as it returns to Washington

Both parties appear to be factoring in the razor-thin majority that Republicans hold in the chamber as they weigh whether to oust members.

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Apr 13 • 4:22 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Exclusive: Manulife Investment Management eyes Cellnex Swiss business, sources say

Spain's Cellnex is in talks to sell its stake in its Swiss ​unit to Toronto-listed Manulife Financial Corporation's investment management ‌unit, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

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Apr 13 • 1:06 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
2026 NFL mock draft 8.1: Cardinals surprise with their picks (yes, plural), while Giants take a weapon at No. 5
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Apr 13 • 10:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mystery Tarkov-Marathon Extraction Blend, ‘Fragmentary Order,’ Raises Questions

Fragmentary Order, already being called “Starkov” by many, debuted a seven-minute cinematic trailer yesterday, dropping from new studio Rant Gaming and publisher Cor3,

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Apr 13 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Imaging science research gives new clarity on what color helps eyes focus best

Research by RIT assistant professor Benjamin Chin published in Science Advances may help determine which wavelengths helps the eye focus best.

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Apr 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • rit.edu
Iowa basketball set to host Illinois State transfer portal guard

Iowa basketball is reportedly set to host an Illinois State transfer portal visitor next weekend.

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Apr 12 • 8:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science Pub: Investigating the Lithium Rush

Lithium has been described as “white gold,” the next oil, or a kind of savior from climate change. Consumers are

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Apr 12 • 6:54 PM EDT • Science • independent.com
Ryan Day reveals Ohio State's extreme recruiting standards

During a recent podcast experience, Ryan Day raised eyebrows when he said the Buckeyes are only looking for future first and second-round draft picks.

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Apr 12 • 11:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science & Medicine: Pain researchers have their eyes on ending chronic pain

A UT Health San Antonio researcher is working to map the nerves involved in jaw pain as part of a federally funded consortium aimed at developing the first targeted, non-opioid treatment for chronic pain, research he hopes will give millions of suffering Americans their lives back and ultimately reverse or even prevent pain in the first place.

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Apr 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • tpr.org
Mayor Helena Moreno eyes a new City Hall, courthouse: ‘We have waited long enough’

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno is taking on a problem that generations of mayors before her have tried — and failed — to solve: The need for a new City Hall.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
Iowa women's basketball lands All-SEC transfer portal guard

Iowa women's basketball picked up its first impact player out of the transfer portal, landing first-team All-SEC guard Dani Carnegie.

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Apr 11 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
2026 NFL mock draft 8.1: Cardinals surprise with their picks (yes, plural), while Giants take a weapon at No. 5
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Apr 11 • 9:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
All eyes are going to be on Justin Bieber at Coachella

Justin Bieber’s headlining set at Coachella on Saturday will be important moment in his slow-walked return to the stage following a turbulent few years marked by health struggles and cancelled tours.

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Apr 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cnn.com
Indiana Fever reportedly signing Monique Billings in WNBA free agency

The Indiana Fever are reportedly signing Monique Billings in WNBA free agency.

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Apr 11 • 7:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BIA Business Perspective: Legislative crossover brings business priorities into focus

By Natch Greyes

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Apr 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • unionleader.com
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NHL Playoffs: What’s next for the Penguins?

The Pittsburgh Penguins completed a double whammy yesterday, not only did they clinch a playoff spot for the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs as a result of their victory, they also clinched second place in the Metropolitan Division courtesy of the Philadelphia Flyers loss. That makes for the best of days. What’s next for the Pens? […]

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LeBron James dunks right behind KTVU sports reporter Bailey O'Carroll

It's all eyes on Lakers LeBron James ahead of the Warriors final home game of the regular season. While warming up with some free throws ahead of their game with the Warriors, LeBron James decides to dunk, nearly taking out our sports reporter!

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Apr 9 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • ktvu.com
Was Waukesha mayor's race partisan? Yes, its participants say

Alicia Halvensleben, backed by Democrats, is Waukesha's new mayor. Republican State Rep. Scott Allen says he tried to keep partisanship out of it.

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IT’S SCIENCE. IT’S SURREAL. IT’S THE SIBILANCE OF KIM SALMON

KIM SALMON APPEARS on my screen intact, in motion, but not, I assure him, infected by any filters adding bunny ears, cat whiskers or fish scales. Dignity is appropriate for the man who emerged from the most isolated punk scene of all in late ‘70s Perth to become a force of nature, and whose early swamp-rock take on life after punk was to spawn a decade and a half later – for better and worse – the more earnest, less thrilling grunge movement.Yes, somehow that mega selling, decade-defining scene

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Apr 8 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • bernardzuel.net
Scientists Think Our Eyes Began as a Single Eye on Top of The Head

The eyes have it.

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Apr 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Sen. Andy Kim calls for 'politics of humility' in Princeton University speech

During a speech at Princeton University, Sen. Andy Kim said the U.S. is “no longer the indispensable nation” in the eyes of the world.

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Apr 7 • 7:29 PM EDT • Politics • newjerseymonitor.com
Pro sports owner eyes north Evanston for youth practice facility

The vacant Office Depot building at 2722 Green Bay Rd. could become a year-round site for youth sports, as a wealthy North Shore family with stakes in

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Apr 7 • 6:19 PM EDT • Sports • evanstonroundtable.com
Brooke County Health Department eyes one Saturday a month for bloodwork appointments

Brooke County residents could soon have a new option for getting bloodwork done on weekends, as the Brooke County Health Department looks to expand its hours to

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Apr 7 • 5:15 PM EDT • Health • wtov9.com
Dallas State Senator Nathan Johnson talks about his run for Texas Attorney General

Texas Senator Nathan Johnson, D – Dallas, is running against former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski in the May 26th primary runoff election after neither candidate received fifty percent of the vote. The winner will take on whoever wins the Republican nominee in November; either Texas State Senator Mayes Middleton, R – Galveston, or Congressman Chip Roy, R – Austin.

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Apr 7 • 2:45 PM EDT • Politics • nbcdfw.com
The Entertainment Report: Sean Hayes, ‘Stranger Things,’ and Byron Allen

Cindy Pearlman Gaber, senior writer for the New York Times and entertainment columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, joins Bob Sirott to talk about what show will be replacing “The Late S…

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Apr 7 • 11:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • wgnradio.com
Artemis II’s Awe Reminds Us of Science’s Fragility and Importance

Three words uttered yesterday from Mission Control to Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, perfectly capture the groundswell of emotion many of us have experienced over the last week as a team of astronauts flew beyond the previous reaches of human space travel: “Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.”

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Apr 7 • 10:10 AM EDT • Science • bloomberg.com
Hayes receives 2026 ESMO Breast Cancer Award

Daniel F. Hayes, M.D., was selected by the European Society for Medical Oncology, ESMO, for the 2026 ESMO Breast Cancer Award.

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Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • uofmhealth.org
Updated Iowa women's basketball scholarship allocations

After the transfer portal entrances of Teagan Mallegni and Emely Rodriguez, what does Iowa women's basketball's scholarship allocation look like?

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Apr 7 • 7:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics

Yesterday’s fallout. Today’s fight. Florida politics.

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Apr 7 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
I’m an AI power user — this 7-line ‘critical thinking’ prompt finally stops chatbots from being a ‘Yes-Man’

Tired of ChatGPT or Gemini just nodding along? This 'critical thinking' prompt forces AI to challenge your assumptions and make your decisions sharper

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Apr 6 • 7:03 AM EDT • Technology • tomsguide.com
FCC eyes changes to live sports broadcast rules amid fan frustration

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is opening the door to a rewrite of its rules for local blackout restrictions on live sports, a move that could be the first step in a potential shakeup …

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • thehill.com
Column | Do men or women have worse farts? Science has the answer.

Yes, scientists have studied whether men or women have worse farts, what makes them smell and why air travel tends to make people gassy.

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Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com
Penguins/Panthers Recap: Pens take care of business, beat Florida 5-2, close in on playoff spot

Pregame The Penguins use the same lineup from yesterday — including in net with Arturs Silovs playing. Taylor Gauthier got the quick call up from Wheeling last minute to serve as backup, Stuart Skinner was unavailable with an upper body injury. The visiting Panthers are using this lineup, including starting Daniil Tarasov after he mopped […]

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Apr 5 • 5:44 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers Place Mookie Betts on IL, Recall Hyeseong Kim

The Los Angeles Dodgers placed shortstop Mookie Betts on the Injured List, and have called up Hyeseong Kim.

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Apr 5 • 12:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers' Mookie Betts placed on IL with oblique injury, Hyeseong Kim gets called up as replacement
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Apr 5 • 12:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science Sunday: Bernoulli’s Principle at work

Katie Vaughn pulled out a hair dryer and a ping pong ball to show WANE 15 how that low air pressure can be seen with your own eyes with the help of a hair dryer and ping pong ball.

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Apr 5 • 10:24 AM EDT • Science • wane.com
🚨Breaking: Good and bad news at Barça

Marc Bernal will be unavailable for this Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Atlético de Madrid, but Araujo, for his part, will be fit. Yesterday, both Araujo and Marc Bernal had to come off...

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Apr 5 • 7:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Grip on Sports: A Hall of Fame weekend has unfolded in Spokane, though neither NCAA men's semifinal games reached that level

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Where were we? Oh, yes. Celebrating an incredible spring weekend with the thought basketball rocks. And “Roundball Rocks” as the soundtrack.

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Apr 5 • 4:24 AM EDT • Sports • spokesman.com
Influencers tout injectable peptides as key to youth and beauty. Scientists say they're 'a giant scam'

Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. Yes, at some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how people tried to stay young. Right now, plenty of influencers will tell you that injectable peptides are the answer. But the scientists? Not so much.

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Single-session therapy can help address gaps in mental health care

Can a single therapy session make a difference? Experts say yes, but only with the right mindset. Jessica Schleider is a Northwestern University psychology professor and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health.

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Apr 5 • 12:05 AM EDT • Health • apnews.com
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Staley eyes another title as South Carolina meets UCLA

A win over UCLA would tie Staley for the third most titles by a coach/ The Bruins haven't won a national title since 1978.

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Apr 4 • 9:00 PM EDT • Sports • santafenewmexican.com
Orbán’s top rival eyes PM term limits to bar his potential return

Péter Magyar said his party would seek to limit the PM’s tenure to two terms.

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Apr 4 • 2:41 PM EDT • Politics • tvpworld.com
Bill Sniffin: Crazy Politics In Wyoming? Yes, I Have Had A Little Experience

Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, "I’ve watched statewide campaigns here for 56 years as a journalist and participated in two: my own run in 2002 and another…

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Apr 4 • 2:01 PM EDT • Politics • cowboystatedaily.com
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Hollywood's narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades

Hollywood has driven how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads. But fiction soon could be separated from — or revealed as — fact if government agencies release...

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Apr 4 • 12:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com
Hollywood\'s narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades

Hollywood has driven how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads. But fiction soon could be separated from — or revealed as — fact if government

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Apr 4 • 12:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
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Vikings Announce Key Dates for Offseason Program

It’s almost offseason program time, yes

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Apr 3 • 9:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Does a late state budget really matter? This Albany watchdog says yes

It’s a pattern that one good-government watchdog group doesn’t want you to get too comfortable with.

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Apr 3 • 9:06 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Black Stripe Alert: Alabama transfer sheds black stripe

An Alabama Crimson Tide transfer becomes the fifth player to lose his black stripe this spring.

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Apr 3 • 8:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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March Madness Expansion? NCAA Eyes Shocking 76-Team Field

The NCAA is looking to expand March Madness, and a decision is coming soon. NCAA leadership and members of the […]

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Apr 3 • 6:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
DI Sports picks | No. 3 Illinois’ Final Four matchup with No. 2 UConn

The waiting game is coming to an end for No. 3 Illinois as it prepares for its first Final Four appearance in 21 years on Saturday in a revenge game against No. 2 UConn. After two physical, hard-fought wins last week over the No. 2 Houston Cougars and the No. 9 Iowa Hawkeyes, the expectations...

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Apr 3 • 4:45 PM EDT • Sports • dailyillini.com
Trump gives rare praise to persistent GOP foe after White House ballroom vote

Trump gives a special shout out to Sen. Rand Paul after the fiscal hawk votes yes on plans for the estimated $400 million White House ballroom project.

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Apr 3 • 3:47 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
More than 20 attacks on Iranian healthcare facilities since March 1: WHO

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says 'multiple attacks' on Iranian healthcare facilities have been reported.

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Apr 3 • 3:16 PM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
Minor League roundup, April 2: Some glorious debuts

Yesterday on the farm.

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Apr 3 • 1:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Science center pitches new plan; Riverhead eyes condemnation

LI Science Center representatives outlined a new phased plan for 111 E. Main St., but several Riverhead Town Board members remain skeptical as the town weighs eminent domain.

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Apr 3 • 10:18 AM EDT • Science • riverheadlocal.com
Miami Worldcenter Retail and Entertainment District Trades to Falcone-Led Venture in Ownership Restructure

Florida YIMBY says "Yes In My Backyard" to positive new development in Florida.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • floridayimby.com
‘We watched them die before our eyes’: Sudan health workers helpless amid medical shortages

As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan’s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices – with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.un.org
Morning Sports: April 3, 2026

Sheridan/Johnson County HS Spring Sports: Most of the Wyoming High School sports action took place during the mid-week to avoid conflicting with the Easter Holiday weekend. On the soccer field, the Sheridan boys and girls both won at Worland yesterday, by scores of 10-1 and 5-nil respectively. Buffalo split games at Powell. The Bison won […]

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Apr 3 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sheridanmedia.com
Virginia Tech football: James Franklin acknowledges chip on shoulder

Yes, James Franklin is motivated.

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Apr 2 • 11:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘This is a-maz-ing’: Women’s Final Four highlights growth of women’s sports

The Women’s Final Four marks explosive growth of women’s sports, bringing in high ticket prices, new NIL cohorts and brand partnerships while encouraging community engagement and leadership development.

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Apr 2 • 7:21 PM EDT • Sports • cronkitenews.azpbs.org
Steam Deck 2 Ditches Semi-Custom APU for Off-the-Shelf AMD Silicon, Eyes 2028 Launch

Valve's next-generation Steam Deck 2 handheld console is reportedly planned for release in 2028, with significant manufacturing changes expected for this sequel to the highly successful handheld gaming device. According to a well-known industry leaker, KeplerL2, posting in the NeoGAF community, Valv...

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Apr 2 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
The two most exciting positions to watch on the Buckeyes

These are two positions hopefully fans will be excited for.

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Apr 2 • 9:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Entertainment legend ‘keeping eyes open’ for return to Las Vegas

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said during One Night For One Drop he’s open to more activity in Vegas.

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Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • neon.reviewjournal.com
Classic Conversations: Entertainment journalist raps with the stars

Luther Vandross once told Barry Krutchik the meaning behind his middle name: Ronzoni (yes, like the pasta). Vanilla Ice was the first cover story he ever wrote, and he was

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Apr 2 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • argonautnews.com
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Classic Conversations: Entertainment journalist raps with the stars

Luther Vandross once told Barry Krutchik the meaning behind his middle name: Ronzoni (yes, like the pasta). Vanilla Ice was the first cover story he ever wrote, and he was

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Apr 2 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pasadenaweekly.com
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Fairfield eyes North Texas Street makeover with grant funding for local business owners

Building brighter and more vibrant businesses in Fairfield is the goal of the city's newly launched North Texas Street Revitalization Program.

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Apr 2 • 1:45 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Apple just changed AirTag 2’s anti-stalking feature

Apple shipped new AirTag firmware yesterday, and per official release notes, the update improves AirTag 2’s anti-stalking feature.

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Apr 1 • 1:54 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
WA eyes legal challenge to Trump’s mail-in voting executive order

Washington state leaders argue Trump's latest order infringes on state's constitutional right to administer elections.

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Apr 1 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Ohio State's Ryan Day explains Buckeyes' massive offseason transfer overhaul: 'Adapt or die'

The Buckeyes coach compared the current college football landscape to that of the dinosaurs

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Apr 1 • 11:12 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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2026 NFL mock draft 7.1: Jeremiyah Love, pair of Buckeyes go top-5 as attention turns to April
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Apr 1 • 10:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com