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Falcons Roundtable: Can Atlanta Overcome Its Quarterback Crisis Against Panthers?

The Atlanta Falcons face the Carolina Panthers in Week 2 with major quarterback concerns after their loss to the Steelers. Our Falcons Roundtable breaks down Cooper Rush, Tua Tagovailoa's injury, Kevin Stefanski's challenges and score predictions for the NFC South matchup.

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Sep 18 • 1:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin reacts to video showing ICE officer punching teenager after altercation
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Sep 18 • 1:32 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Judge isn’t swayed by government’s claims that plans for an ‘anti-weaponization fund’ are dead

The fund for compensating Trump’s political allies encountered a fierce bipartisan backlash and threatened to derail Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Senate confirmation.

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Sep 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Eureka Ergonomic Launches Commercial Space Business and New B2B Platform

Los Angeles, California, Sept. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eureka Ergonomic officially announces the launch of its commercial space business, a...

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Sep 18 • 1:17 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
Business Trade Show coming Oct. 15

The Key West Chamber of Commerce and Mount Sinai present the 37th annual Showcase of Key West Businesses Trade Show on Oct. 15, 2026.

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Sep 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • keysnews.com
Alice Walton Foundation, Mercy break ground on massive Bentonville health care campus

The project has its roots in recent efforts to address the number of NWA residents who leave the region for specialized treatment.

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Sep 18 • 12:33 PM EDT • Health • fayettevilleflyer.com
Fortnite Is Selling Your Favorite Characters Back To You As Husks

Fortnite's latest crossover season is a weird branding exercise that's bad for both companies and fans

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Sep 18 • 11:01 AM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site
120-Acre Whole Health Campus Begins Taking Shape in Bentonville

The Alice L. Walton Foundation and Mercy have broken ground on a 120-plus-acre health care campus in Bentonville that aims to expand access

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Sep 18 • 10:53 AM EDT • Health • armoneyandpolitics.com
This sports retailer is opening another Baton Rouge location

Sports apparel and merchandise retailer Rally House is adding another Baton Rouge location, signing a lease for roughly 3,800 square feet of retail space in the Matherne’s anchored development acros… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

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Sep 18 • 10:46 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

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Sep 18 • 9:30 AM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Burglary suspects smash car into Colorado business, steal vapes and merchandise worth $5,000
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Sep 18 • 9:21 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Meet San Francisco's 'permanent underclass'

For non-techies and small-business owners, the city is starting to feel like an exclusive party they can't afford to get into.

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Sep 18 • 9:18 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
HOMETOWN HEALTH: How many hours of exercise a week really lowers your risk of type 2 diabetes??

Regular exercise can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes

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Sep 18 • 9:08 AM EDT • Health • wdbj7.com
Mercer political science professor brings fun, games to classroom

Games and simulations are a tradition in the courses taught by Phoebe Moon, Ph.D.

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Sep 18 • 8:49 AM EDT • Science • den.mercer.edu
Mercer political science professor brings fun, games to classroom

Games and simulations are a tradition in the courses taught by Phoebe Moon, Ph.D.

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Sep 18 • 8:49 AM EDT • Politics • den.mercer.edu
Chico entertainment zones not ready despite ordinance taking effect

CHICO, Calif. - An ordinance allowing entertainment zones in Chico where people can move from business to business with alcoholic drinks takes effect on Friday, September 18. But the zones are not yet operational.The ordinance was approved August 18, with the effective date set for 30 days. City officials said they hope to have the zones up and running this fall, but an exact date isn't set. The city is working with the Chamber of Commerce, Meriam Park and the Downtown Chico Business Association on details like approved containers and wristbands.The city is also installing signs that show the boundaries of the entertainment zones. Once operational, the zones will allow customers 21 and over to buy alcoholic drinks from participating businesses and carry them within the boundaries from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Sep 18 • 8:47 AM EDT • Entertainment • actionnewsnow.com
Podiatrist Reveals the No. 1 Exercise to Do Daily to Ease Plantar Fasciitis Pain

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a podiatrist shares her favorite simple exercise to relieve stubborn heel pain from plantar fasciitis.

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Sep 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Most Michigan voters disapprove of Trump’s tariffs on Canada, poll shows

Among the state’s independents, who could determine the outcome of several key midterm races, 68 percent disapprove of Trump's levies on Canadian products.

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Sep 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
CT Gov. Lamont, Fazio clash over health care as TV ads increase in final 50 days

With healthcare costs rising, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Republican challenger Ryan Fazio are clashing over how to solve the problem. Lamont unveiled a new television commercial this week that criticizes Fazio for failing to support…

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Sep 18 • 5:47 AM EDT • Health • courant.com
Why do Japanese studios suffer fewer layoffs? Because they have smaller teams and don't pay their execs $30m, says one expert

In 2026 alone, 96 percent of all the jobs lost in the video games industry were in North America and Europe.

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Sep 18 • 5:08 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
16th Asian Chief Dental Officers Meeting: Advancing universal health coverage for oral health in the WHO Western Pacific and South-East Asia Regions

Session 3 of the 100-Day Sprint BackgroundOral diseases remain among the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) across Asia, affecting people throughout the life course and placing a significant burden on individuals, families and health systems. Countries across the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region and South-East Asia Region have committed to strengthening oral health through regional action plans and by advancing universal health coverage (UHC). The 16th Asian Chief Dental Officers Meeting (ACDOM) serves as a regional platform for Chief Dental Officers in Asia to exchange experiences, strengthen collaboration and accelerate implementation of oral health commitments. For the first time, the meeting is being jointly organized by the WHO Regional Offices for South-East Asia and for the Western Pacific and the ACDOM Secretariat. This year's meeting introduces a 100-Day Sprint, bringing together oral health and UHC leads and technical experts to support countries in strengthening integration of oral health within national UHC benefit packages. Through the Sprint, participating countries will develop, refine, cost and operationalize country-specific essential oral health-care benefit packages using WHO tools, including the Service Package Delivery and Implementation (SPDI) Platform. The in-person 16th Asian Chief Dental Officers Meeting represents Session 3 and the midpoint of the 100-Day Sprint, providing an opportunity for countries to review progress, exchange experiences, identify challenges and refine their approaches before continuing with the remaining Sprint sessions. 100-Day SprintSession Date Format Title Session 1 (Day 0) 19 Aug Virtual Setting the Scene and Introducing Key Principles and Frameworks Session 2 16 SepVirtual Introduction to the SPDI Platform and Initial Mapping Exercise Session 3 27-29 Sep In-person, 16th Asian Chief Dental Officer Meeting, Malaysia Review and Refinement of Oral Health Service Packages Session 4 14 Oct Virtual Finalizing National Essential Oral Health Services Packages and Costing Exercise Session 5 (Day 100) 26 Nov Virtual Country Presentations and Closing of the 100-Day Sprint ObjectivesLeverage the 100-Day Sprint to define priority implementation actions for oral health in countries; Strengthen national capacity to design, cost and operationalize country-specific essential oral health care packages using SPDI platform; andExplore cross-country collaboration to expand access to essential oral health supplies and products, including harmonized specifications and pricing, and improve supply chains for essential dental preparations and medicines.Expected outcomesA draft country-specific essential oral health care benefit package developed using the SPDI platform and aligned with WHO’s Essential Oral Health Care packageA strengthened regional network in Asia of oral health and UHC leaders, fostering collaboration among South-East Asia and Western Pacific countries, WHO offices and WHO Collaborating Centres to support sustained implementation beyond the meetingParticipantsChief Dental Officers and national oral health programme leads;National focal points responsible for universal health coverage, health financing and health systems;Representatives from WHO country offices, regional offices and headquarters;WHO Collaborating Centres; andAcademic institutions and technical partners.

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Sep 18 • 4:22 AM EDT • Health • who.int
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Sitrin Health Care Center cuts ribbon on 75 years serving the Mohawk Valley

Sitrin Health Care Center celebrated 75 years with ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 9 sponsored by Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce.

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Sep 18 • 4:02 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
BNP Paribas Supports Research and Careers in Science

18/09/2026 - Discover our news on BNP Paribas Supports Research and Careers in Science - The bank for a changing world - BNP Paribas

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Sep 18 • 2:00 AM EDT • Science • group.bnpparibas
Kauai small businesses ask tourists to return after Hurricane Lowell, with aloha and some patience

Watching her staff happily hand out free meals for hundreds of residents outside their Wailua commercial kitchen, food truck co-owner Kelly Kakalia felt fulfill

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Sep 18 • 12:08 AM EDT • Business • wtop.com
Kauai small businesses ask tourists to return after Hurricane Lowell, with aloha and some patience

Watching her staff happily hand out free meals for hundreds of residents outside their Wailua commercial kitchen, food truck co-owner Kelly Kakalia felt fulfilled.

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Sep 18 • 12:03 AM EDT • Business • wral.com
New framework outlines principles for health-literate artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of how people seek, interpret, and act on health information.

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Sep 17 • 11:29 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
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Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation offers lasting heart health benefits

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduces hospital admissions by a third and heart attack risk by more than a quarter, as well as remaining beneficial in the long term, a new Cochrane review finds.

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Sep 17 • 10:43 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
Orlando Magic's Surrounding Cast Around Paolo Banchero Key to Improvement

Jalen Suggs anchors a fierce defense while Anthony Black faces a critical prove-it season, determining if Orlando’s supporting cast can transform potential into a deep playoff run.

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Sep 17 • 10:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nick Kroll Delivers Heartfelt Appeal for Productions to Shoot in L.A.: 'It Will Bring Life Back' to the City

Nick Kroll said upcoming Netflix comedy series "A Hundred Percent," which he co-created and stars in, is a "love letter" to Los Angeles -- and he expressed hope that a "thriving" production community can vitalize the city.

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Sep 17 • 8:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
Hamilton County Business Development Center listed with $6.5M minimum offer

Chattanooga commercial real estate agency NAI Charter has listed the Hamilton County-owned property at 100 Cherokee Blvd. that now serves as the Hamilton Business Development Center and is accepting proposals from potential buyers until Nov. 23.

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Sep 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • timesfreepress.com
Packers’ Matt LaFLeur gets real on offensive line woes

The Packers’ fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings was an abject disaster. Not only did the Vikings put up 29 unanswered points on Green Bay, but the offensive line had no answers for an onslaught of pressure from Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores, who sent blitzes at quarterback Jordan Love on 78.3 percent of dropbacks [...]

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Sep 17 • 6:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Pride of West Virginia to perform in Mercer County

PRINCETON, WV (WVNS) — Entertainment and music prepares to march into Mercer County with a performance from The Pride of West Virginia WVU Marching Band. According to a post on Princeton Senior High S...

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Sep 17 • 6:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Business groups call for $2 billion in federal Colorado River spending

A coalition of chambers of commerce, including nearly a dozen from Arizona, have sent a letter to congress asking the federal government to send new money for water-saving work.

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Sep 17 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • wyomingpublicmedia.org
Science Corporation Names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA Enters Commercial Market

Science Corporation has appointed Chief Strategy Officer Darius Shahida as president, expanding his responsibilities as the neural engineering and brain-computer... Read More

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Sep 17 • 3:46 PM EDT • Science • citybiz.co
Microsoft’s AI playbook shows businesses how to turn experiments into results

Microsoft’s new Frontier Playbook outlines how businesses can move beyond AI experimentation and turn artificial intelligence deployments into measurable business results, including greater productivity and time savings, Inc. reports. The guide draws on more than 100 of Microsoft’s internal AI projects across its corporate functions, commercial organization and engineering teams. It comes as enterprise AI […]

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Sep 17 • 3:46 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
2026 Trumbull First Selectman’s Address to the Business Community on October 1, 2026

October 1, 2026 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM2026 Trumbull First Selectman’s Address to the Business CommunityJoin the Trumbull Chamber of Commerce, an affiliate of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council

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Sep 17 • 3:23 PM EDT • Business • trumbull-ct.gov
The Faces of Entertainment

The Bridger Group is a second-generation, 57-year-old search firm focused on building products and commercial/residential interiors recruiting on a local and national level.

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Sep 17 • 3:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • grmag.com
Political party leaders contrast visions at forum

How does a nonpolitical organization help keep the public informed about political issues without getting political? The Western Institute of Lifelong Learning decided the solution was not a debate, but an event presenting the differing — and sometimes nondiffering — perspectives on certain issues held by representatives of Grant County’s major political parties. “Party Perspectives: A Conversation on the Issues” was presented Wednesday in Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global...

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Sep 17 • 3:00 PM EDT • Politics • scdailypress.com
Henrico-based Accendra Health names next CEO

Accendra Health names Kenneth Gardner-Smith as CEO, succeeding Ed Pesicka, and appoints Scott Lloyd chief commercial officer.

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Sep 17 • 2:02 PM EDT • Health • virginiabusiness.com
Henrico-based Accendra Health names next CEO

Accendra Health names Kenneth Gardner-Smith as CEO, succeeding Ed Pesicka, and appoints Scott Lloyd chief commercial officer.

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Sep 17 • 2:02 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Saudi Arabia says debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed 1, and other Mideast developments

Saudi Arabia said debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed one person, while the leader of the Iran-backed Houthis called for protests and said the kingdom committed a “monstrous fabrication” when it accused the rebels of trying to attack Islam’s holiest city. Meanwhile, United Nations-backed human rights experts said there are “reasonable grounds” to believe […]

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Sep 17 • 1:54 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Science Corp. names president as it looks to roll out vision-restoring implant

Former chief strategy officer Darius Shahida will continue leading commercialization efforts as Science rolls out its Prima implant to Europe.

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Sep 17 • 1:12 PM EDT • Science • massdevice.com
NFL's Week 1 total audience drops by 13 percent
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Sep 17 • 1:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wiregrass small businesses nominated for 2026 Alabama Small Business Award

DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — The Chamber of Commerce Association of Alabama and Business Council of Alabama has announced 40 small businesses as finalists for the 2026 Alabama Small Business Award, and sever...

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Sep 17 • 1:05 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
McCordsville business owner pleads guilty to $600K pandemic relief fraud scheme

INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) - A McCordsville business owner faces prison time after admitting to stealing more than $600,000 through a fraudulent pandemic relief scheme. Sandra Pierce, 42, pleaded guilty to t...

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Sep 17 • 12:37 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Behind the Science: Reprogramming Resistance to Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer is one of the most common – and most lethal – cancers in men. In the United States alone, nearly 300,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and it remains the second-leading cause of cancer death among men.

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Sep 17 • 12:35 PM EDT • Science • pfizer.com
Lexington Regional Health Center: Helping overcome feeding challenges one bite at a time
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Sep 17 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • nebraska.tv
Arsenal gets vindicated over Gabriel incident against Chelsea

Arsenal were perceived to have got away with it when Gabriel was not sent off against Chelsea after he kicked towards Emiliano Martinez during a goalmouth scramble and did not appear to be aiming at t...

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Sep 17 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How to College Football: Week 3

The undercards for the big bout

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Sep 17 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NEW RESEARCH: Staples Business Reveals Where SNFs Leave Savings on the Table

Sixty-three percent. Over the next three years, 63% of long-term care (LTC) organizations are likely to consolidate non-clinical suppliers. Another

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Sep 17 • 11:57 AM EDT • Business • skillednursingnews.com
G.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad: Hispanics ‘Feel Betrayed’

Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024. Her ad suggests worry among some Republicans about their standing with Hispanic voters.

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Sep 17 • 11:52 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
From dockers to hooligans: the Millwall-West Ham rivalry returns

A fresh chapter in one of English football's fiercest rivalries begins this weekend when Millwall and West Ham United meet for the first time in 14 years.The Hammers' relegation from the Premier Leagu...

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Sep 17 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
ACA health coverage enrollment in NH declined by 4.8k after credits expired

The KFF analysis found that New Hampshire enrollment in ACA healthcare plans fell by 8 percent from 2025 to 2026. Across the country, enrollment fell from roughly 21.8 million in 2025 to 19.2 million in 2026, per KFF.

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Sep 17 • 11:12 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
Michigan State Women’s Basketball Schedule Announced: High Expectations

Robyn Fralick’s squad eyes a deep postseason run as stars Kennedy Blair and Theryn Hallock reunite to navigate a daunting Big Ten slate and a fierce rivalry.

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Sep 17 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
First Saturday Photo: The Potsdam Pitches and Local Sponsor

Tom Burns, owner of Frog Acres Farm and The Dirty Business Bath Company, is pictured with The Potsdam Pitches during First Saturday, the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce’s welcome event for

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Sep 17 • 10:45 AM EDT • Business • nny360.com
Brewers Overcome Pirates to Secure Series Win

The Milwaukee Brewers narrowly beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday to take the series.

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Sep 17 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dove Group moving forward with $10.7M Geismar expansion

Local commercial HVAC and mechanical contractor Dove Group has received a construction permit to begin work on a significantly larger facility in Geismar. Permit filings show plans for an approxima… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

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Sep 17 • 10:36 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Is Small-Business Demand Creating New Growth Levers for Mastercard?

MA is targeting small-business demand for integrated tools, cybersecurity and premium features to deepen relationships beyond card payments.

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Sep 17 • 10:29 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Can MRVL's Data Center Business Sustain Its Growth in 2027?

Marvell Technology's AI-driven data center growth is accelerating across custom silicon, optics and switching, but competition remains fierce.

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Sep 17 • 10:17 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Rivalries renewed: The derby clashes back this season

West Ham visit Millwall and Wolves host West Bromwich Albion in the first derby weekend of the Championship season as fierce rivalries are renewed in 2026-27.

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Sep 17 • 9:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lamar Jackson explains how Ravens offense keeps defenses guessing

Lamar Jackson details how Baltimore's motion, formations and interchangeable weapons are making it harder for defenses to know what's coming.

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Sep 17 • 9:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Dun & Bradstreet Brings Verified Business Context to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Through MCP

/PRNewswire/ -- Dun & Bradstreet today announced that the D&B Commercial Graph™ is now available in the IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog via Model Context...

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Sep 17 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Roma in contact with free agent Matteo Darmian

A new name has been linked with Roma.According to TUTTOmercatoWEB.com, in recent weeks there have been contacts between Roma and Matteo Darmian, a defender released after several positive seasons with...

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Sep 17 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TISL: Getting involved with state politics

Founded in 1966, the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) will convene its 57th General Assembly in November. “Something important to note is that TISL is not just for political…

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Sep 17 • 8:39 AM EDT • Politics • easttennessean.com
Walmart Supercenter under construction in Liberty Hill

Walmart is opening a 176,000-square-foot Supercenter at Santa Rita Ranch Center in Liberty Hill, expected to launch in late 2027.

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Sep 17 • 8:19 AM EDT • Business • bizjournals.com
NFL Week 2 Survivor/Eliminator Picks

Here are a couple excerpts from last week’s Week 1 NFL Survivor article, just as a quick little “previously on” segment: “There will be some wild game in Week 1 that knocks out a significant percentage of players. Let’s try…

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Sep 17 • 8:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Can researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas?

Research funders are asking how they can stop confidential scientific ideas in grant proposals from leaking out through large language models (LLMs), for example if reviewers use AI to help them judge applications. Last week, a row erupted in mathematics after OpenAI announced it had solved a notoriously difficult problem, only for another mathematician to demand answers over whether the company had used ideas he had fed into its models. The spat, and the broader issue of idea leakage through AI models, was discussed by funders at an R&D policy conference held in Paris on September 14. At worst, it threatens to undermine the correct attribution of breakthroughs, one of the foundations of modern science. The mathematics dispute around OpenAI is “certainly something we're looking at” Jason Gallo, head of the newly established Office of Metascience at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), told the Blue Sky Forum, hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The controversy started on September 8, when OpenAI announced it had cracked a mathematical problem that had gone unsolved for 90 years. Using a swarm of AI agents, millions of dollars’ worth of computing power and a new internal model, the company said it had finally proved that a long-used formula for modelling fluid dynamics breaks down under certain conditions. However, Tristan Buckmaster, a New York University mathematician who had been independently working with collaborators on the same problem using OpenAI’s Codex tool, hit back with a statement questioning whether the company had snooped on his Codex sessions to gain an advantage. OpenAI has always denied it looked up the “specific user data” of Buckmaster and colleagues. However, the company initially admitted that “while unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models⁠,” although its proofs “differ significantly” from Buckmaster’s. The firm later said that, following an investigation, it concluded that Buckmaster’s Codex prompts “could not have influenced the [OpenAI] system in any way, including through training.”Funder concernYet OpenAI’s initial admission that its model might have ingested Buckmaster’s ideas, then spat them out to its own mathematicians, has scientistsworriedthat their work could leak out if shared with AI. Some AI tools give users an opt-out option to stop their sessions from training the model. If such guarantees can be trusted, this gives scientists some confidence they can use an LLM to develop an idea without the risk of it leaking out.But there’s a bigger potential vulnerability. To win money to investigate ideas, scientists have to share them with funding bodies. These grant proposals are normally kept strictly confidential, to prevent other scientists from scooping them, or to protect commercially valuable intellectual property. To preserve this confidentiality, when the NSF uses AI models, “we have to be sure that it's not making server calls out to an external party, leaking that data,” said Gallo to delegates in Paris. Leaks through reviewersHowever, funders normally use external academic reviewers to assess proposals. And there are growing worries that these reviewers are feeding grant ideas into AI models to help them make a judgement. Research funders have noticed that peer review reports and funding recommendations have “suddenly become much longer, more detailed and complex,” said Diogo Machado, head of the data science unit at Technopolis, a science and technology-focused consultancy. “The sense is that reviewers are increasingly using generative AI in their review work, even where guidelines sometimes forbid it,” he told Science|Business. “This is very difficult for funders to control or prove.” Happening at scaleThis sharing of confidential proposals with AI models is “happening at scale already,” said James Wilson, executive director of the Research on Research Institute, based at University College London, during the debate in Paris. In response, Gallo said the NSF had “strict guidance” around the uploading of proposals to AI models. But he added the NSF was mulling new types of assessment to make sure applicants were truly the originators of their ideas, such as following a short-form proposal with an oral presentation, which would allow the foundation to “really interrogate the investigator on their intellectual contribution.” Related articlesHow can Europe cope with a flood of AI-assisted research grant proposals?The risks and benefits of AI in screening research grant proposals Viewpoint: AI could make scientific overload worse“For us as funders, a lot of the ways to ensure that the application remains the applicant's own intellectual contribution, those ways are quite regressive,” Peter Clifford, head of strategy at Research Ireland, told delegates. “They're maybe ten or 15 or 20 years old, and they don't scale particularly well.” Disputes over the origin of ideas are as old as modern science. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent more than a decade arguing over who invented calculus, for example. And long before LLMs emerged, academics would agonise over how much of their early work to reveal at conferences, in case their colleagues scooped them, Jack Leahy, a senior metascience advisor to the UK government, told delegates. But AI was “accelerating” the “problems of the system,” he said.

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Sep 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Canada looks to deepen research and education links with the EU

Canada is looking for deeper research and education links with the EU, according to its prime minister, Mark Carney. His comments followed hard on the heels of an offer from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to give his nation associate membership of the EU, a status that currently has no legal status or definition. Both sides have yet to detail how this newfound political enthusiasm will translate into concrete action.Addressing the European Parliament on September 17, Carney cited both the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme and the Erasmus+ student mobility scheme as areas for future collaboration.Association with the next iteration of Horizon Europe “would allow us to pool resources, cooperate on frontier technology, leverage our world-class research institutes and universities,” he told MEPs. Canada joined the present programme in 2024, but only takes part in Pillar 2, which supports collaborative research projects. Carney also said that young people should be allowed to work, study and live where they want, on either side of the Atlantic. “Canadian membership of Erasmus+ would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn at some of the world’s top universities, to broaden their horizon and to build those lasting ties that will sustain our alliance,” he said.Limited exchanges with Canada are already possible, for example in the Erasmus Mundus strand of the scheme, which supports joint master’s programmes. This would be considerably increased if the country became a full associate member, a club currently limited to nations neighbouring the EU.Most favoured nation?As for the offer of associate membership of the EU, the aim would be to build “an alliance for the future to create a common prosperity and economic security base,” von der Leyen said during her state of the European Union address, also in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on September 16.“We will work on intelligent manufacturing,” she went on. “We will create a tech alliance. We will integrate defence industrial bases. We will make the Arctic a flagship joint project. We will work on energy-critical minerals and batteries, on [artificial intelligence], quantum, cyber and economic security.”Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor, told Science|Business that the political speeches by Carney and Von der Leyen will open the door to even more scientific cooperation between Canada and the EU. She even attributed the broader political partnership to the scientific diplomacy of Horizon Europe association. “The science and research collaborations have predated this political rapprochement,” she said.While she is not part of the government decision-making process, Nemer thinks Carney’s speech in the European Parliament is more than “political posturing” and the Canadian government is likely to come up with more practical ideas for how to boost collaboration in the near future. “The prime minister mentioned Horizon [Europe] and Erasmus+, maybe there is something more concrete around this,” she said.She went on to suggest that Canada and Europe could also work more closely together on setting international standards for emerging technologies, AI safety, data sovereignty and joint research infrastructures, such as particle accelerators and marine research fleets.Nemer confirmed that science cooperation will be on the agenda at an upcoming EU-Canada summit in October. She met recently with EU ambassadors to Canada to "see where the possibilities are, to signal that there is interest."Room for expansionLike other countries outside Europe that are associated to Horizon Europe, such as South Korea, Australia or Japan, Canada is not allowed to host European Research Council (ERC) grantees. However, Canadian universities hint they would like re-open that discussion. “Canada’s participation in Horizon Europe, the world's largest research funding programme, has been a big success,” said Robert Asselin, the chief executive of U15 Canada, an umbrella body for some of the country’s biggest research universities, in a statement. “Ensuring swift re-association to the next research programme, will be vital to maintain this momentum. We would welcome efforts to explore further opportunities to collaborate with European partners, such as through the European Research Council,” he said. Related articlesHow a new multilateral defence bank could boost innovationEurope’s independence hinges on innovation, von der Leyen saysBut so far, there are no details from the Commission on how von der Leyen’s proposal would boost Canadian access to the ERC or other sensitive research calls in Horizon Europe. And it is unclear how other non-European associated countries, such as New Zealand or Australia, would react if Canada was given better access than them. The same questions may arise closer to home. “How would a new category of associate member of the EU differ from Norway’s participation in EU programmes through the European Economic Area?” asked Jan Palmowski, secretary general of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. “And how does this proposal for Canada change discussion for the UK, Norway and Switzerland for the next Multiannual Financial Framework?”Another area for discussion is how far Canadian organisations can participate in sensitive projects. “I would expect some of the most crucial issues at hand to be whether Canada can participate more closely and predictably in calls that are deemed sensitive on research security or EU preference grounds, on critical technologies, for instance,” Palmowski said. Canada’s participation in other parts of Horizon Europe, as well as the European Competitiveness Fund, might also be discussed, he added.Whatever the details, closer cooperation between the EU and Canada represents a “substantial” opportunity, according to Mattias Björnmalm, secretary general of the Cesaer university group. “Scientific excellence depends on talented people being able to work together, exchange knowledge and access complementary expertise and infrastructure,” he said. “A closer EU-Canada partnership would strengthen these conditions and provide greater certainty for long-term collaboration.”

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The U.S. Chamber is Working Tirelessly to Defend the Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Initiatives, Preserving Benefits for American Business

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center is fighting on two fronts — defending Trump-era deregulation in court and challenging unlawful Biden-era regulations — to ensure pro-growth policies endure beyond political shifts.

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Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce Celebrates Business Leaders

Members of the Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce and Information Bureau convened to honor the area business community at its annual meeting and celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

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Political boot camps for women could redress gender imbalance

Immersive boot camps for women could be a way to overcome the stark gender imbalance in political leadership, according to new research that examined how to increase the political ambitions of talented ...

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A UCLA-led study published in Science Advances in 2025 found that African forest elephants are indispensable planters of ebony trees — the wood traditionally used for piano keys and guitar fretboards — and in parts of the Congo Basin where elephants have been hunted out, there are 68 percent fewer ebony saplings

The disappearance of African forest elephants from Congo Basin forests is quietly unraveling the future of the wood that lines piano keys and guitar fretboards.

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Dundee v Motherwell: Pick of the stats

A Dundee player leads the 2026-27 Scottish Premiership for tackles (Ryan Finnigan, 23), interceptions (Owen Bevan, 12) and possession won (Ethan Hamilton, 38). Motherwell have lost their past two league games by an aggregate score of 5-0. The Steelmen could lose three in a row for the first time since February 2025 (5), and could do so without scoring for the first time since December 2018 (3).

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With new building to debut, Mercy nursing college becomes university

Mercy College of Health Sciences will have a new name to display on its new 23,700-square-foot nursing school in downtown Des Moines.

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Sep 17 • 7:04 AM EDT • Health • desmoinesregister.com
Memphis People in Business for Sept. 17, 2026

A look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area business scene

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The Strange New Politics of AI. Plus. . .

It’s Thursday, September 17. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Douglas Murray asks, why do we allow terrorists to die of old age? The American nonprofits backing Hamas. A conversation with Dara Horn and Coleman Hughes. And much more. But first: inside the unlikely coalition warning that AI may kill us all. Last week, an AI researcher named Jacob Coxon made headlines around the world after saying that he had resigned from Anthropic because he believes AI might cause human extinction—and his co-workers do, too. Unlike the rest of us, potentially, the story just won’t die. The Pro-Human Assembly, a conference held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., about the existential dangers of artificial intelligence, couldn’t have come at a better time—or with a more eclectic coalition. The Archbishop of San Francisco was there. So was Steve Bannon, screaming about the Chinese. Bernie Sanders did a quasi-dramatic reading of messages posted to an online forum by rogue AI agents. Ashley Judd paraphrased a graphic Andrea Dworkin quote for reasons that remain a mystery to me still. It was odd. People in the AI industry have talked openly about the possibility of this technology causing human extinction for years, but it hits differently in the wake of the Hugging Face incident. If you don’t know what that is, all the more reason to read my dispatch today. As the doomers see it, the best-case scenario is a future in which humans are basically kept as pets: well cared for, but with zero autonomy. The worst-case scenario, obviously, is the everyone dies thing. What should be done? I heard lots of ideas but no easy answers. There are currently zero federal regulations on AI, which is sort of strange even to think about. After all, we regulate microwaves, and the people running the microwave industry have never once refused to rule out the possibility that their products will end all human life on Earth. What I saw in D.C. left me even more convinced that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes nothing should be done. You know, except for President Trump. — River Page River Page • Tech and Business [ The AI Doomers Have a Plan to Save Us. I Went to Find Out What It Is. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-ai-doomers-have-plan-save-bernie-sanders-bannon) Read story How Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr—and How to Better Fight Antisemitism On Monday, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a group of other NFL owners banned Macklemore from performing at their stadiums after the rapper delivered a “Free Palestine” speech while opening for Ed Sheeran. Kraft cited the rapper’s “broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.” Once multiple venues refused to host shows with Macklemore on the lineup, the tour’s promoter officially dropped him. Today, Josh Kaplan says that the move was counterproductive, arguing that though well-intentioned, Kraft’s decision turned an irrelevant footnote into a martyr. “You cannot cancel people into liking you,” Josh writes. Read his column on what a better response to Macklemore would have looked like. Read [ Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr ](https://www.thefp.com/p/robert-kraft-made-macklemore-martyr-antisemitism-palestine) This raises the question: What actually works against antisemitism? On the latest episode of Conversations with Coleman, recorded in front of a live audience in New York, Dara Horn joins Coleman Hughes to talk about her new book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question. She argues that antisemitism is a script that has repeated itself across countries and ideologies, and that most people don’t understand that well enough to fight it. Don’t miss their conversation. Watch [ The Lie at the Center of Antisemitism, with Dara Horn ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-lie-at-the-center-of-antisemitism-coleman-hughes-dana-horn) Listen now Douglas Murray • U.S. Politics [ Douglas Murray: The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America ](https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-911-failure-justice-terrorist-guantanamo-bay) Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the men who planned them have still not faced trial. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and most of the accused have been locked up in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Judges have retired, and plea deals have collapsed. Today, Douglas Murray examines how this happened and argues that a justice system that allows terrorists to die of old age in an interminable pretrial process is one that has failed. Read his latest column on what that failure says about our unpreparedness for the era we are now living in. Read story The Editors • U.S. Politics [ When Nonprofits Support Terrorists ](https://www.thefp.com/p/when-nonprofits-support-terrorists) A newly declassified CIA brief from 1998 found that Osama bin Laden used nonprofit shell organizations—including U.S.-based Islamic groups—to fund his terror plots. Today, a similar story is unfolding as multiple organizations on American soil present themselves as nonprofits, taking advantage of tax-exempt status while seeking to advance the ideological mission of terrorist groups like Hamas. Read our editorial on the latest evidence of this dangerous trend—and why there’s no excuse for making the same mistake the CIA revealed 28 years ago. Read story Simon Sebag Montefiore and Bari Weiss Live in New York For decades, the Middle East has shaped American foreign policy and loomed large in the public consciousness. Few understand its influence on our politics better than Simon Sebag Montefiore, who argues that America’s quagmires in the Middle East stem from a deep misunderstanding of the region—on both the left and the right. Join him October 1 as he sits down with Bari Weiss live in New York City to kick off his U.S. book tour for The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East. Get Tickets Now MORE FROM THE FREE PRESS [ Sydney Sweeney’s Naked Truth ](https://www.thefp.com/p/sydney-sweeneys-naked-truth-caitlin-flanagan) Caitlin Flanagan Read story [ I Thought Ukraine Was Losing. Then I Was Almost Hit by a Russian Drone. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/elliot-ackerman-ukraine-drone-gas-station-train) Elliot Ackerman Read story [ The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings ](https://www.thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideology-effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence) Shyam Sankar Read story [ Amanda Knox: Patrick Clancy Can’t Win ](https://www.thefp.com/p/amanda-knox-patrick-clancy-grief-internet-crime) Amanda Knox Read story THE NEWS The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point, its first hike since 2023, signaling that another increase could follow as the central bank tries to bring inflation under control. President Donald Trump fired back by demanding that rates be cut sharply, though he stopped short of criticizing Fed Chair Kevin Warsh by name. The Houthis fired drones and missiles at Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, including a major oil port on the Red Sea, and Saudi jets struck back with air strikes across Yemen in an escalating front of the Middle East war. (For more on the Houthis, read Zineb Riboua’s column from earlier this week.) A sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill passed the House in a 262–159 vote and is now heading to Trump for his signature. Named after the late senator Lindsey Graham, the legislation would hit countries that purchase large volumes of Russian oil and gas with tariffs of up to 100 percent, and is aimed at cutting off revenue that funds Russia’s war in Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member,” drawing a standing ovation from European lawmakers. The proposal, framed as a response to a world grown more hostile, faces an uncertain path as EU member states would have to approve it, and one diplomat said that “nobody really ​knows what it means.” The House voted unanimously to send billionaire Leon Black a criminal contempt referral after he defied a congressional subpoena to testify and hand over documents related to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Black chose to fight the subpoena in court rather than comply. Charlie Kirk’s family filed a wrongful death notice Wednesday against Utah Valley University, alleging that a series of security failures left him exposed to a rooftop sniper. The notice is a required legal step before the family can sue. Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, vibe coding, and cuffing season. The publisher said the new entries offer “a window into the world today.” The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article.

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Poll finds close Michigan Senate race. Here’s how El-Sayed lags his party.

A Post-Schar School finds 53 percent of Michigan’s likely voters say they want Democrats to control the Senate, but 48 percent support Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate race.

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Sep 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Mercy Health launches plan to boost healthcare access in Clark, Champaign counties

Mercy Health – Springfield has launched a new three-year plan targeting four major drivers of local health in Clark and Champaign counties: healthcare access, chronic disease, health behaviors, and social conditions.

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Sep 17 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • springfieldnewssun.com
Partnership provides grants for small business disaster relief

A new partnership between the American Red Cross and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is helping small business owners ensure they're ready for disasters and giving them a potential lifeline.

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Sep 17 • 5:15 AM EDT • Business • wrvo.org
Whales Have Rebounded in the Southern Ocean. Scientists Worry Commercial Fishing Could Threaten Their Comeback.

Researchers are calling for stricter regulations on krill fishing in Antarctica as climate change shrinks the habitat of whales’ primary prey.

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Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • insideclimatenews.org
Ohio Chamber sues healthcare giant, accusing it of deceit, misinformation

The Ohio Chamber of Commerce has sued UnitedHealth. It says the giant was to provide administrative services, but poached clients instead.

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Sep 17 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • ohiocapitaljournal.com
Feel Like Time Is Speeding Up? Scientists Have Figured Out Why—and What to Do About It

Experts are beginning to unravel why modern life messes with our time perception, making you feel like life is passing in a blur.

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Sep 17 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • inc.com
Georgia Tech vs Mercer Prediction: The Yellow Jackets Need This

After a 0-2 start and with the ACC schedule starting, Georgia Tech desperately needs a big win to get the season going. Here's the CFN preview and prediction.

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Sep 17 • 1:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Linnehan Kriner Speaks at Merrimack Valley Chamber Women in Business Lunch

Jodi Linnehan Kriner, president of Central Catholic High School, plans to address Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce members during an upcoming Women in Business lunch at North Andover Historical Society. Linnehan Kriner is the featured speaker for lunch titled “Empower and Thrive.” It takes place Friday, Sept. 25, from noon to 1:15 p.m., at North

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Capcom reveals new Mega Man and Monster Hunter expansion details at TGS

At the Tokyo Game Show, fans had a chance to play demos of “Mega Man: Dual Override” and “Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance”

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Sep 16 • 9:00 PM EDT • Technology • mercurynews.com
Should You Buy PayPal Stock For Its Credit Business?

PayPal (PYPL) has gained 27% over the past three months while the S&P 500 returned 0.7%. Over the trailing twelve months, the stock is still down 18.7%, so the whole gain is recent. A gain that recent still needs an operating reason to hold, and management points to what PayPal lends, not to the checkout button.

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Sep 16 • 8:40 PM EDT • Business • trefis.com
Expert available: Interest rate hike impact and rural business

Eric Mikolai, lending program manager for the nation’s third largest SBDC network, NorCal SBDC, is available to discuss today’s interest rate hike and its impact on small businesses in rural economies, including borrowing costs, cash flow, business expansion, and access to capital. Mikolai specializes in small business lending and capital strategy. He can speak to the broader economic implications on hiring, commercial real estate, business acquisitions, and long-term economic growt

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TCI Entertainment Aligns with Globant to Advance its Patented Interactive Commerce Technology

/PRNewswire/ -- TCI Entertainment ("TCI"), a technology company developing a proprietary platform designed to connect commerce with gaming and interactive...

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Sep 16 • 5:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
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Small-Business Owners Face Higher Borrowing Costs. These Moves Can Help Control Them

The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by 0.25 percent. Experts explain what entrepreneurs need to know.

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Sep 16 • 4:33 PM EDT • Business • inc.com
What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on how the Right should think about environmental and climate policy. Read Chris Barnard on Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left. More than a decade ago, the world’s governments negotiated and signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the following years, climate had immense cultural power. Greta Thunberg emerged. Fortune 500 companies established net-zero plans. The U.S. got the Inflation Reduction Act. Then the pendulum swung back. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, speaking of green energy as a “scam” and carbon footprints as a “hoax” and on all matters of international policy emphasizing bilateral engagement and power over globalism and cooperation. The technology companies that had been at the forefront of net-zero pledges and green leadership discovered the importance of all-of-the-above power to their visions for artificial intelligence and began quietly postponing or removing their targets. On the left side of the political spectrum, rising concerns about inflation and cost pushed climate lower down in the stated priorities of voters and stump speeches of politicians. The moment is ripe for a reset on the politics of climate change and for conservatives especially to chart a course that acknowledges and addresses the real challenges in plausible ways. So what should we think about climate change as we enter a post-peak climate era? If it is neither an apocalypse nor a hoax, what will hold up as a durable view of climate change? And how does it project onto the concerns and priorities of the right-of-center’s emerging coalition? New to Commonplace_? Subscribe below to get the magazine in your inbox._ Subscribe A Solid Foundation As the politics and economics of climate careened over the past ten years, the physics carried on regardless. In 2015, the year the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted, the world emitted 41.2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. By 2025, emissions had risen only 2.4%, to 42.2 gigatonnes, because falling emissions from land use offset increasing emissions from fossil fuels. But slow growth in annual emissions is not rapid decline, let alone net-zero, so carbon dioxide kept accumulating in the atmosphere, going from 399 to 426 parts per million. Global temperature kept rising too, from about 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 1850–1900 average in 2015, to 1.4 degrees above it in 2025. None of this should surprise anyone. Even most prominent skeptics, like the authors of the 2025 report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, accept the basic physics. Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere at industrial volumes accumulates and traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. That heat warms the upper ocean and increases temperatures at the surface. Increased ocean heat and melting of land ice cause sea levels to rise. Changes in the climate become noticeable to us as subtle shifts in temperature and precipitation, seasons arriving early or late, changes in the surrounding ecosystem, and weather extremes. The much more meaningful debate is not about whether these things are happening, but about what it all means for human societies. (While it is a proxy measure of overall risk, no one experiences global surface temperature.) This debate invokes at least three interesting questions: how much today’s warming is showing up in regional climate trends, how much more warming we should anticipate, and how extreme weather events can be understood in the context of climate change. Recent scientific advances give us new insights into each of these, but there is still much to learn. This is the context in which the next generation of conservative leaders will be the first to deal with significant climate change as a fact, not a forecast. It will be with them for their entire careers. Our evolving scientific picture of climate change will come from weather and climate records stretching further into the past, new kinds of observations in the present, better modeling tools for the future, and simply more time to observe the emergence of climate signals and their tangible effects on ecosystems and communities in the United States and around the world. The policy landscape will be shaped by not only the impacts of changes in the climate, but also by the ways in which societies respond and by the emergence of new technologies for both altering the trajectory of emissions and adapting to new climate realities. Global climate records now show the fingerprints of warming in different phenomena around much of the world. The IPCC, in its most recent assessment report, documents warming trends over all land regions, even as natural variability adds substantial variance to local trends. And the highest temperature extremes have become more intense and frequent, almost everywhere, since the 1950s. Scientists are highly confident that these changes are attributable to human influence. But confidence in detecting trends and attributing them to human influence degrades across heavy precipitation events; drought trends are heterogeneous and not attributable to human activity with great confidence. For hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms there is even less confidence in trends or their relationship to climate change. In general, a fair summary of the evidence is that for well-observed phenomena, like surface temperature or heavy rainfall, with a clear relationship to warming, our multidecadal observations are consistent with human influence overcoming natural variability over long time periods and extremes increasing. For regions that are sampled more sparsely, or phenomena with a higher noise-to-signal ratio, we will need to observe them longer to understand the magnitude of the climate signal or improve dynamical understanding using models and observations together. But for Climate For those who can’t wait, we also have new techniques that attempt to understand the role climate change has in influencing particular extreme events. When the climate is changing and disaster strikes, it is natural to ask whether that disaster was somehow “caused” by climate change. For scientists and policymakers acting in good faith, answering that question helps develop a more accurate picture of the problem, how it may be getting worse, and what preparations we should be making to respond to it. It may, at some point, give some weight to how liability is assigned by courts or adaptation funding is distributed by society. But how we ask this question is extremely important. It is easy to get the analysis wrong by discounting the role that meteorology plays. As meteorologist Theodore Shepherd explained in a clear 2016 review of climate attribution methods, “if a weather or climate event is truly extreme in the present climate, then perforce it requires unusual meteorological conditions, which means that climate change is at most a contributing factor.” Share Scientists have two ways to probe climate as a contributing factor, both of which have entered media coverage of extreme weather events. One asks a probabilistic question: How much more likely is a particular event (e.g., a temperature record over a particular area) amid global warming? The answer involves using historical records and computer simulations to estimate the likelihood of such an event in both a changed and a preindustrial climate. The findings are less about the specific event, and more about events of that nature. The other question is: How has the changed climate affected the specific event in question? Here, scientists try to understand what a similar event would have looked like in the preindustrial climate. This is sometimes called the storyline approach, where the story is the specific meteorological details of the event. These methods offer ways to test the intuition of scientists about real weather extremes. In late June and early July of 2021, a persistent high-pressure ridge, or heat dome, set up over the Pacific Northwest and an extraordinary heat wave affected the area from Oregon to British Columbia. For six days, it shattered temperature records across the region and hundreds died from heat-related causes, in an area where such high, and persistently high, temperatures were well outside of experience and many live without air conditioning. Scientists have studied its connection to climate change using multiple approaches. This specific event was created by a rare combination of meteorological factors, a strong high-pressure ridge created the conditions for extreme heat, which occurred on top of higher average temperatures in the region from global warming. Probabilistic analyses showed that climate change increased the likelihood of such an event by at least 8-fold to more than 100-fold. One standout example found that such an event had effectively zero probability of occurring in the preindustrial climate. The enormous range in these assessments reflects how hard it is to estimate probabilities of events at the tail of the historical record. Estimates of the effect on the temperature of the event are more clustered. A recent review paper documents how multiple methodologies have found a positive influence, roughly 1-2 degrees Celsius of an anomaly that exceeded 15 degrees, of climate change on the temperature magnitude of the event. Multiple studies have investigated and found some positive influence of climate change in other extreme events. Attribution studies found climate likely increased the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and surrounding regions in 2024. The extensive fires that struck Los Angeles in 2025 illustrate how the causal chain can become messy, though. Studies do detect a positive influence of climate on the event’s likelihood, but while climate change likely contributed to underlying aridity, it would not have played a role in the heavy winds or land practices that preceded disaster. These event attribution studies will become more common for extreme, or damaging, weather events. They can be produced quickly, and often are reported before peer review. As the Pacific Northwest heatwave example shows, when multiple methods converge on a positive attribution, the finding should probably carry some weight even if you have to be careful about accepting the results from a single study. I expect that as climate change proceeds and the climate thus departs further from a preindustrial counterfactual, the influence will become more detectable across a variety of extreme events and more easily identified. This will be used to cast blame, but can also be used to inform how communities and society adapt to ongoing change. We May Still Be Surprised One positive development, insofar as less climate change is better, has been that our central estimates for future climate change should probably be revised downward. Mostly, that is because the high-end warmings that scientists regularly analyzed about ten to 20 years ago, driven by high emissions throughout the twenty-first century, now appear to be somewhere between unlikely and impossible. At one time, the upper end of mainstream climate projections extended well into 4 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of this century, which, models suggest, would have wrought enormous real-world damage. Current energy and policy trends now point toward 2.5 or 3 degrees. Damages and risks are commonly modeled as increasing steeply with more warming, so this is already a better-than-previously-expected outcome for the climate (which is independent of the physical response to emissions). But we should maintain a wide range for plausible outcomes and prepare for the possibility of being surprised. Emissions trajectories are subject to deep uncertainty, the physical climate response is still developing, and whatever change occurs in the climate will then be mediated through unpredictable economic, social, and political institutions. Over the past decade, the pace of warming surprised some keen observers and appeared to accelerate, though not yet outside the range of expectation provided by climate models. The reasons for that apparent acceleration are being actively studied (as was the apparent pause in warming from 1998 to 2012), but no single driver has emerged. Some blame it on the El Niño, variability which would have no bearing on climate. Some think it is a result of factories in East Asia and global shipping fleets cutting aerosol emissions, which in the strongest version of the argument would indicate higher climate sensitivity to carbon-dioxide emissions. Others are more measured, not yet ready to draw solid conclusions as to whether climate projections require revision. We will have to see. Long-Term Thinking Climate change asks us to think over long time scales. But the pace of human-driven warming is compressing a large global change into a century. Changing weather patterns and extreme events are already causing adjustment costs and damages and will do more. Adaptation will help, but it is not free. For some communities, these costs will erode livelihoods and well-being, and may force migration. Are we prepared for large-scale managed retreats in the United States? Thankfully, American wealth, geographical diversity, and moderate climates may leave us better prepared than many around the world. But wealthy countries can still suffer serious disruption from narrowly concentrated costs, even if they appear entirely manageable in aggregate. Readers of Commonplace are familiar with the challenges of rapidly adapting to economic forces. The displacement that came from the China Shock is barely perceptible in aggregate GDP and employment data, but it affected millions of people and those people were far less mobile than economic models tended to assume. Deindustrialization rippled through the nation with enormous effects for not only our economic vitality, but also our national security. The forces surrounding climate change may not be so different; the world gets richer and must accept some diffuse costs. Those may be modest overall, but cause all manner of unpredictable effects with which policymakers must cope. In the case of the China Shock, our faith in a growing pie served us poorly. We’ll need to do better on climate. Leave a comment

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Sep 16 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • commonplace.org
Electors bill pitched as protection against political coercion

Massachusetts has never had an issue with presidential electors swapping their allegiance at the last minute, but lawmakers heard support for a bill they say will proactively protect the “wil…

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Afognak Acquires Weaver Bros. Family of Trucking Companies

Afognak Commercial Group acquired a majority interest in the Weaver Bros., Doyle’s Fuel Service, and Doyle Transport family of companies.

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We Asked People Over 100 How They Live So Long. Here Are Their 7 Best Tips

In honor of Healthy Aging Month, this 1-week challenge features simple longevity habits from 100-year-olds who still live on their own, exercise and drive.

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Seven rural community colleges receive $5.93 million for healthcare training

Because community colleges can serve as an entry point for aspiring medical professionals, the RHTF funding for rural colleges is intended to help grow the healthcare workforce in areas of the state that have experienced shortages.

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Kato Roofing Closes After Nearly 50 Years in Business

Kato Roofing is permanently closing its operations after nearly 50 years in the commercial roofing industry. Majority owner Tori Hagen announced the closure in a statement Tuesday, September 15, saying the company had explored alternatives to remain open but ultimately determined that continuing operations was no longer financially viable. Hagen said disagreements within the

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New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll designed to mimic those destroyed at Herculaneum in A.D. 79.

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Sep 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Packers Film Room: Week 1 blitz of the week

Breakdown of the blitz leading to the Packers first quarter interception in week 1.

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Sep 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
ENTERTAINMENT SHOPPING PLATFORM COURTYARD EXPANDS INTO SNEAKERS WITH AN INNOVATIVE DISCOVERY EXPERIENCE THAT LETS YOU KEEP, SHIP, OR SELL BACK EVERY PAIR

Courtyard, the entertainment shopping platform pioneering a new category of commerce built around discovery and reveal, announced today the launch of Courtyard Sneakers, bringing its signature discovery experience to the sneaker market for the first time with the Courtyard Sneakers Pack.

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Sep 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Measles outbreak hangs heavy over Trump administration health nominees' Senate HELP appearance

Three key Trump administration leadership nominees

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Sep 16 • 1:22 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
NASA Had The Technology. Six MBA Students Found The Business Opportunity

Discover how six Crummer MBA students built SubQ Six, commercializing NASA technology into an innovative healthcare solution and prize-winning venture.

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Sep 16 • 12:56 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com