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Syracuse Football: How Do Oddsmakers Feel About Matchup with Virginia?

The Orange are back in action this weekend against the Cavaliers following a 42-41 win over UConn.

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Oct 5 • 9:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
HOMETOWN HEALTH: Are you protected against measles? fifth U.S. death reported

One of the largest national medical organizations in the United States has a message it wants people to hear.

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Oct 5 • 9:18 AM EDT • Health • wdbj7.com
Detroit Lions vs. Arizona Cardinals Point Spread Revealed

The Detroit Lions are favored on the road against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 5. Check out the latest FanDuel point spread, moneyline and total.

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Oct 5 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles’ 14-Year NFL Veteran Gets Honest On ‘Overwhelming’ Start

Week 4 against the Los Angeles Rams served as the second game for Zach Ertz’s second stint with the Philadelphia Eagles. It was the first time Ertz donned Eagles green at home in South Philly in years. As expected, there was a lot of love shown to Ertz when he scooped up his first catch […] The post Eagles’ 14-Year NFL Veteran Gets Honest On ‘Overwhelming’ Start appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 5 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ohio Democrats’ path to the governor’s office runs through rural areas that had turned against them

Democrats say their nominee for governor in Ohio, Dr. Amy Acton, represents the party’s best chance in years to win that office.

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Oct 5 • 8:04 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
Ohio Democrats’ path to the governor’s office runs through rural areas that had turned against them

Democrats say their nominee for governor in Ohio, Dr. Amy Acton, represents the party’s best chance in years to win that office.

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Oct 5 • 8:04 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
Could we one day vaccinate against every cancer?

What science says so far about which cancers can be beat by vaccines — and which will require more creative approaches.

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Oct 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
The Economics of Delta Healthcare

How well is the system? Experts weigh in on status While agriculture rightfully gains most of the headlines when it comes to the Delta’s economy, the role of healthcare in the region cannot be underestimated. Many challenges face healthcare providers in the region and the state recently stepped in to assist. Nonetheless, healthcare leaders in […]

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Oct 5 • 7:54 AM EDT • Business • deltabusinessjournal.com
PFF ranks Michigan State's top five offensive players vs. Wisconsin

Check out who PFF ranked as Michigan State's top five offensive players against Wisconsin.

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Oct 5 • 7:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool

A new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on macOS 27, removes its downloaded models, and prevents them from being downloaded again. In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn't remove the models from your Mac's drive.

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Oct 5 • 7:12 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Providence Opens New Rural Health Clinic in Polson

Just over a year after breaking ground on a rural health clinic in Polson, community members, donors and hospital staff gathered Sept. 30 in front of the new building just behind Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. “Over the years we’ve heard about this need over and over again,” Chief Executive for Providence Montana Krissy Petersen […]

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Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets @ Pittsburgh Penguins 10/5/2026

Who: Winnipeg Jets (1-0-1, 4th place Central Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (2-0-0, 1st place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:30 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally televised game on Sportsnet Pittsburgh, Sportsnet+ up in Canada, out-of-market streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: Up next for the Penguins will be two road games against division opponent, Washington on Wednesday […]

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Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jobs in health care. Jobs for women. The US labour market is segmenting. Chernobyl’s radiation and Lenin’s love of literature.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Elmer Bischoff, Two Figures at the Seashore, 1957 The only really dynamic job-creator in the US economy is health care: The largest crunch has come in Federal government, which has shed 2.7 m jobs. Source: tchouvkov on Twitter Tech is struggling. [ Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈@JosephPolitano The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms 12:42 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 15.2K Views 15 Replies · 47 Reposts · 390 Likes ](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2106001807847940232?s=20) The new jobs are all for women. [ Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women. 1:09 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 33K Views 70 Replies · 146 Reposts · 644 Likes ](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/2106008723533533601?s=20) Meanwhile, real wages are being eaten up by modest over-target inflation. [ Heather Long@byHeatherLong The financial pain is real: Wage growth fell to 3% (y/y) in September. That's the lowest in 5 years. Wage growth: 3% Inflation: ~3.4% Inflation has eaten up all wage gains for the average worker since April. Many people are having to make hard choices about what to buy and what … 1:24 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 37K Views 24 Replies · 275 Reposts · 533 Likes ](https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/2106012367712620728?s=20) HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Elmer Bischoff, Bathers, 1960 Americans are disillusioned with higher ed. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Where the Chernobyl radiation went. h/t Simon Kuestenmacher aka simongerman600 How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution - Tariq Ali This, then, was the intellectual atmosphere in which Lenin came of age. His father, a highly cultured conservative, was the chief inspector of schools in his region and much respected as an educationalist. At home, Shakespeare, Goethe and Pushkin, among others, were read aloud on Sunday afternoons. It was impossible for the Ulyanov family – “Lenin” was a pseudonym adopted to outwit the tsarist secret police – to escape high culture. At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times. Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.” Source: The Guardian Elmer Bischoff, The River, 1953 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Oct 5 • 6:47 AM EDT • Health • adamtooze.substack.com
Yale School of Medicine On the Science of Childhood Anxiety, Say, Anxiety Disorders Are the Most Common Mental Health Challenges In Youth

Credit: Matt Bradbury October 5, 2026 - By Isabella Backman - Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health challenges in youth. Left untreated, they can disrupt the lives of both children and their families. The good news is that with intervention, most children will overcome these conditions. Across Yale School of Medicine, scientists are working to understand anxiety at every level, from common anxious behaviors to molecular biomarkers in the brain. They are using their findings to develop and disseminate new evidence-based treatments for childhood anxiety. Today, the go-to treatment for childhood anxiety disorders is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This is a form of psychotherapy that teaches children skills for confronting anxious thoughts and helps them practice managing situations that cause anxiety. While it is the gold-standard treatment backed by considerable scientific evidence, up to 50% of children will not see sufficient benefit from CBT alone. Wendy Silverman, PhD, Alfred A. Messer Professor in the Child Study Center, co-directs the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program alongside Eli Lebowitz, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center. One of their main interests is learning how to improve outcomes beyond CBT. “We’re developing cutting-edge, research-based knowledge that can reduce the suffering that anxiety causes children and their families,” says Silverman. Changing parent behavior YSM experts are investigating how to improve CBT outcomes for children by involving the parents. Silverman’s research has uncovered two main components of parent intervention that improve childhood anxiety: not enabling children to completely avoid the things that make them anxious and taking steps to enhance their autonomy. Parents may unintentionally reinforce their child’s anxiety by allowing them to avoid what makes them anxious. They also may unintentionally limit the children’s sense of autonomy by being overly intrusive. “One of the things that we take pride in is that we’ve focused on trying to understand what parents need to do, and to test our ideas and see if changing the parents’ behaviors is enhancing the effects of CBT,” Silverman says. “Our findings thus far suggest that they do." As much as CBT can be helpful, it can also be challenging to get one’s child to do the necessary steps for CBT to work. This is one important reason why Lebowitz created a novel intervention program for parents named Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Existing intervention programs often teach parents to act as therapists for their child, such as training them on how to practice breathing exercises. “It makes sense, but this doesn’t work very well in practice,” says Lebowitz. “And part of the reason, I think, is that it’s not easy to get your kid to do things, especially if they’re not excited about doing it.” SPACE is unique because it focuses entirely on parent involvement and changing parental behavior—children are not involved in the sessions. For example, parents learn how to use supportive messages that convey confidence that their child can tolerate and manage distress. “It might sound like a parent saying to a child, ‘I get that this is really hard for you, but I know that you can handle it,’” Lebowitz says. The program also works with parents to identify the ways in which they are accommodating anxious behaviors. “We’ll pick one thing that parents are doing that is an accommodation and help them make a detailed plan for how they’re going to change that,” Lebowitz explains. Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Much of the existing research on SPACE has focused on parents of children under age 14. Ongoing studies are now exploring its use with parents of older teens. “Both anxiety and accommodation can interfere with normative developmental shifts during the teen years, including increased autonomy and individuation from parents,” says Rebecca Etkin, PhD, associate research scientist in the Child Study Center. “In this sense, SPACE may be particularly well-suited for anxious teens and their parents. We want to see whether it is effective during this distinct developmental window.” Unfortunately, many families in need of CBT face barriers, including limited availability of services and geographic constraints. One way to improve access is digital interventions. Silverman and her team are developing an evidence-based digitized intervention program for parents that they can access directly from their computer or smart phone. “The work we’re doing will be one of the very few parent interventions that is digitized and importantly tested for effectiveness,” she says. Creating interventions for anxiety-related challenges Silverman and Lebowitz recently received a generous gift to develop and test other interventions that help parents reduce other child anxiety-related behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as restrictive eating and unexplained somatic symptoms. One of these projects in particular focuses on understanding the risks of social media and its potential benefits, including offering a sense of connection. “A lot of research has focused on the idea that social media is harmful and the less of it the better,” says Lebowitz. “But we actually see is that this is not quite right—there are negatives, but there are also positives. So, we’re trying to get a little bit more nuanced of a picture.” The team is working with teens with social anxiety and their parents over an extended period to better understand their social media habits and how their anxiety levels affect engagement with different platforms. The teens will answer questions sent to an app on their phones about mood and social media usage in an effort to capture emotional responses as they unfold. “We hope to develop interventions that can help make the best of social media while protecting against the more problematic effects,” Lebowitz says. The brain’s role in anxiety Researchers are also testing therapies to address anxiety at the neurological and molecular levels. In collaboration with Dylan Gee, PhD, professor of psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, Lebowitz and Silverman are using brain imaging to identify changes in a child’s brain before and after parents enroll in SPACE. In one study, children viewed anxiety-inducing images while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); the researchers conducted scans with and without the children’s parents nearby. Before SPACE, children’s brains were better able to activate the regulatory circuitry needed to turn off an anxious response when their parents were nearby. But after SPACE, children could activate this circuitry even without the parent around. “As parents work on gradually reducing some of their accommodations, you can see a child get better at regulating their own fear system in the brain,” Lebowitz says. “It’s remarkable.” Research into the molecular underpinnings of anxiety can also inform new childhood anxiety treatments. In a recent study, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Flora Vaccarino, MD, Harris Professor in the Child Study Center, discovered that a protein known as fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could be protective from the toxic effects of stress. FGF2 levels in children and their parents were linked to the children’s risk of developing anxiety and depression, the study showed. The findings could help explain why some children who are exposed to early life trauma such as poverty or abuse are more prone to developing mental health disorders. And FGF2 could be a target for treatment. “This is very novel because it starts to give a clue to what is the molecular chain that connects those lived experiences to the actual psychological outcomes,” Lebowitz says. New ways to study and treat childhood anxiety Michael Crowley, PhD, associate professor in the Child Study Center, collaborates with Silverman and Lebowitz to study the role that attention plays in development and maintenance of childhood anxiety. There is a large body of research that shows that anxious children, like anxious adults, are prone to focus on threatening stimuli such as angry faces compared with neutral faces. This has led to innovative interventions that involve attention retraining. The idea is that if experts train children to look away from threatening stimuli, it may reduce their anxiety—especially children with social anxiety who are most prone to attend to threats. The researchers have just completed a clinical trial for attention retraining with 10- to 14-year-olds with social anxiety disorders and are currently analyzing the findings. Besides this innovative attention retraining research, as Crowly notes, “I like to design tasks that are engaging to kids,” Crowley says. “My goal is to assess something without the kids knowing what we are assessing.” With this goal in mind, Crowley has created a virtual game, named Boom, to study threat processing in children with anxiety disorders. The game is similar to that of hot potato—the child and three digital players take turns virtually passing a ball to each other’s gloves. At some point, the ball turns into a bomb, and as the bomb lands in each player’s glove, the outline of the glove turns yellow. The goal is to avoid having the bomb go off in your glove. What isn’t obvious is that the game is designed to measure different types of threatening stimuli, both ambiguous and direct. In the game, the direct threat occurs as the bomb is traveling towards your glove. The ambiguous threat is the yellow outlined glove as it is unknown where the bomb will travel next. While children play the game, Crowley’s team measures their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). The researchers have discovered that in kids with anxiety, the brain reacts more strongly to ambiguous threats than it does in their peers, but less strongly to direct threats. They believe that the initial abnormally large brain response to not knowing where the bomb is going impairs the brain's ability to properly respond when the threat is actually traveling the child’s way. “The brains of children with anxiety are unable to differentiate between threats you need to do something about and those that are not your problem.” Michael Crowley, PhD, develops innovative games for studying anxiety in children and adolescents.Credit: Matt Bradbury Based on these insights, Crowley hopes to study whether interventions like attention training could restore appropriate threat processing. Crowley’s team is also working on a test called the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task, which evaluates risk-taking and avoidance behaviors. It features a digital balloon that is full of air and about to burst. Kids have six seconds to let air out of the balloon. The more air they let out, the less risk they face that the balloon will pop. But at the same time, the balloon becomes less valuable as it deflates. “The more air you keep in the balloon, the more points you get,” Crowley explains. So far, the researchers have found that when the balloons pop unexpectedly, teens with social anxiety show distinct brain responses. Studying these responses can help psychologists understand the underlying pathways driving the various manifestations of anxiety. The genetics of anxiety When Thomas Fernandez, MD, associate professor in the Child Study Center and of psychiatry, was still in training, there was a lot of excitement about understanding the genetics associated with autism spectrum disorder. Since then, scientists have identified around 250 genes associated with autism. The genetic contribution to anxiety disorders, on the other hand, has historically received less attention. Anxiety is less heritable than autism, but the genetic contribution for anxiety disorders that emerge in childhood may be higher than for anxiety disorders overall. While scientists estimate the heritability of anxiety disorders in general to be around 30% to 50%, some studies suggest higher heritability for certain childhood-onset anxiety presentations. “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism,” Fernandez says. “So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” “I saw firsthand how researchers in the field went about finding vulnerability genes for autism. So, we’re using a very similar playbook for childhood anxiety.” Thomas Fernandez, MD Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry Now, Fernandez and Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Child Study Center, are studying children and their parents to identify genetic changes that are present in the child but not the parents, known as “de novo mutations.” “All of us have some de novo mutations—maybe about 50 to 100 sprinkled throughout the genome,” Olfson says. “But when they occur within the coding regions of genes, they can be really disruptive.” Previous research shows that people with autism have higher rates of damaging de novo mutations than the general population. In 2022, Olfson, Lebowitz, Silverman, and Fernandez published a study on 68 children and their families that found that children with anxiety had similarly high levels of these mutations. Studying de novo mutations can help point the researchers to where they should be looking for genes associated with anxiety. “The end game is using the genes to steer us toward the right part of biology that we can then target to come up with better treatments,” Fernandez says. Building on those findings, the team is now studying more families to better understand how these de novo mutations, along with other genetic and environmental factors, shape pediatric anxiety disorders. They recently received a National Institutes of Health grant to enroll 750 new families over the next five years. Olfson is the principal investigator, with co-investigators Lebowitz, Fernandez, Silverman, and Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD, department chair and professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. Neurodevelopment, Risk Genes, and Mental Health Conditions - The Olfson Lab Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, is interested in how different anxiety disorders differ genomically. “We are studying social phobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, working to understand why people differ in their risk to these specific anxiety disorders and evaluating various risk factors,” he says. Gelernter was recently involved in one of the largest studies to date of the genomics underlying anxiety disorder. The study included around 122,000 people with anxiety disorders and around 730,000 without. It found that some genetic differences associated with anxiety were linked to signaling that helps reduce overactivity in the nervous system. Many anxiety medications available today work by targeting this process. “It’s nice when the biology that you get out of a large genome-wide study ratifies things that we already know because that can help increase confidence in further findings from the study,” Gelernter says. Uncovering the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is interested in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which anxiety is a major symptom. In the late 1980s, Krystal’s team discovered that the drug yohimbine activated symptoms in patients with PTSD. “This was the first time we could link a specific biological mechanism to the symptoms of PTSD,” Krystal says. At the time, he adds, this finding was highly controversial. “A lot of people felt that PTSD was a purely psychological syndrome that didn’t have an underlying biology.” Since then, Krystal has dived deep into understanding the neurobiology of PTSD to learn how to better treat it. His team is evaluating the use of ketamine and psychedelics. These would be among the first treatments to be developed specifically for PTSD. They may also be applicable for other disorders including anxiety disorders, Krystal adds. An important gap in PTSD treatment is the absence of biological tests that inform how to best help patients manage their PTSD symptoms. A doctor doesn’t diagnose cancer based on how they feel. Rather, they use tests of the biology of the cancer to determine the best course of treatment. “And we can’t do that in any psychiatric disorder other than Alzheimer’s disease,” Krystal says. “But now we are building a foundation for this approach to the treatment of anxiety disorders for the first time.” Source: Yale School of Medicine

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Oct 5 • 6:44 AM EDT • Science • goldrushcam.com
Democratic socialists scored big primary wins. But that’s not the whole story.

DSA-backed candidates, sharp critics of Israel, made historic gains. But a closer look makes clear they’re not taking over the Democratic Party – so far.

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Oct 5 • 6:22 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org
Health care's emerging risk: unauthorized AI agents

Health systems that are scrambling to protect themselves against cyberattacks and data breaches have a new problem: unchecked AI agents .

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Oct 5 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Sunderland Youngster Enjoys Major Career Milestone On International Duty

Sunderland striker Juan Riquelme Angulo scored his first senior Ecuador goal against Panama.

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Oct 5 • 5:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BagelUp Growth Lab Returns as Business Incubator for Emerging Bagel Entrepreneurs, Launching a Year-Round Partner Program

Great bagels may start with flour, water, yeast and skill, but building a successful bagel business takes much more. On Saturday, November 14th, 2026, BagelUp (which produces New York BagelFest) will present the second annual BagelUp Growth Lab, a business incubator designed to help promising bagel entrepreneurs gain the knowledge, connections and industry resources needed to turn their bagel concepts into sustainable businesses. Taking place at Loft 39 the day before New York BagelFest at Citi

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Scientists uncover a clue that could hint at why we regain weight after diets

A chemical mechanism may cause weight regain by creating a “memory” of obesity in fat cells, a study suggests.

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com
Uncovered raw shrimp a tic against wings restaurant

The following is a list of restaurants in Richmond and Columbia counties that were inspected Sept. 25 through Oct. 2, accompanied by their scores and, in some cases, the health infractions that lowered those scores. Scores below 70 are considered failing.

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Oct 5 • 4:02 AM EDT • Health • thestate.com
IRGC General Warns Regional States against Letting US Use Their Territory

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Brigadier General Ali Fadavi warned regional countries against allowing the US to employ their territories for operations against Iran, stressing that any location used as a launch point for attacks on Iran will be targeted.

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Oct 5 • 3:39 AM EDT • Politics • tasnimnews.ir
Total Access Elevator Buys Competitor

Total Access Elevator, an elevator servicing company based in Santa Fe Springs, has made its fourth acquisition in a buying spree aimed at gaining market

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Oct 5 • 3:25 AM EDT • Business • labusinessjournal.com
Students, politicians gather on Beinecke to protest Trump negotiations

On Friday afternoon, protesters marched to Beinecke Plaza, where they convened with Connecticut politicians, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, to urge Yale administrators against settling a federal investigation into its admissions practices.

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Oct 5 • 3:20 AM EDT • Politics • yaledailynews.com
Brazil Heads to Lula-Bolsonaro Runoff as Right Gains Ground in First Round

With nearly 99 percent of votes counted, Bolsonaro had about 47 percent of valid votes, compared with 44.9 percent for Lula.

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Oct 5 • 3:06 AM EDT • Politics • politicstoday.org
Yemen Launches Major Offensive to Retake Houthi-Controlled Territory

As the Yemeni government announced its counteroffensive, the Houthis launched ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi Aramco sites.

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Oct 5 • 2:51 AM EDT • Politics • politicstoday.org
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Euro pummelled by France's debt burden; stocks mixed

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Asian stocks made brisk gains on Monday as investors pared back expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month, while the

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OPKO Health (OPK) Sharpens Its Focus, Is It Still A Bargain?

OPKO Health (OPK) has been drawing attention after recent trading moves around its US$1.56 share price, with investors weighing its mixed return profile over the past year against longer term performance trends. For context, OPKO Health’s recent pullback, with a 7 day share price return of down 4.29% and a 30 day share price return of down 4.88% from US$1.56, comes after a stronger 90 day share price return of 4.70% and year to date share price return of 22.83%. The 1 year total shareholder...

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Oct 5 • 1:21 AM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
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“I’m in the Hospital”: Chad Ochocinco Announces Health Update After Sudden Illness Amid Bengals’ Loss to Jaguars

As a former wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, Chad Ochocinco had no choice but to root for his team as they battled against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Week 4 game. Unfortunately for him, the Bengals lost the game by 22-17.

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Oct 5 • 12:22 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
5 winners, 5 losers from Lions’ loss to the Panthers

The Detroit Lions fell flat against the Carolina Panthers and are now facing some serious questions about their team.

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Oct 5 • 12:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Colorado football's quarterback carousel keeps going round and round

Deion Sanders struggles to find a consistent signal-caller as schematic failures and shifting offensive identities force another benching, leaving the Buffaloes searching for a desperate spark against Utah.

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Oct 5 • 12:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chiefs Face Difficult Prediction on Tyquan Thornton From Sports Doc

A sports doctor provided a grim outlook for Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyquan Thornton after his injury against the Raiders. The post Chiefs Face Difficult Prediction on Tyquan Thornton From Sports Doc appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 5 • 12:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Sunday Night Football: Tetairoa McMillan's big night powers Panthers to 32-26 victory

McMillan caught 14 passes for 192 yards with two touchdowns against Detroit, as Carolina moved to 2-2 in 2026.

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Oct 4 • 11:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Broncos vs. Chargers Opening Odds: Bolts underdogs in Week 5

The Los Angeles Chargers are turning the page to their next game against the Denver Broncos.

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Oct 4 • 11:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Giants vs. Commanders odds: Opening lines for Week 5 matchup

Does Vegas have faith in the 3-1 NY Giants on the road against the 1-3 Commanders?

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Oct 4 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Darius Slay Roasts Detroit Lions Defense on X

Former Detroit Lions CB Darius Slay took to X to deliver a brutal assessment of Detroit's defense during Sunday night's game against Carolina.

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Oct 4 • 10:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Our Week 4 Super Bowl,’ ‘No Tougher Job in NY Sports’ — Jets’ ‘4 Straight Plays, 26 Yards’ Post Gets Roasted in 492-157 Loss to Bears

The New York Jets’ official X account celebrated four straight plays that gained 26 yards during Sunday’s 23-12 loss to the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, a game in which Chicago outgained New York 492-157. The loss dropped the Jets to 1-3 and was their third straight.

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Oct 4 • 10:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Winners and Losers from Seahawks’ needlessly close win vs. Chargers

The Seahawks won as expected against the Chargers, but it was far from pretty.

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Oct 4 • 10:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Brazils presidential race heads to Lula–Bolsonaro run-off as right gains ground

Now there are two: Brazil heads into a runoff after a first round that failed to fully energize voters, setting the stage for a more polarized contest that Washington is watching very closely.

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Oct 4 • 10:31 PM EDT • Politics • opb.org
Ashton Jeanty tallies 126 total yards

Las Vegas Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty busy against Kansas City

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Oct 4 • 10:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
49ers get optimistic Kyle Juszczyk update after scary knee injury

San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk seems to have avoided the worst after injuring his knee against the Denver Broncos.

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Oct 4 • 10:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jalen Hurts Repeats Honest Analysis Of Eagles’ Loss vs Rams

Week 4 was another bad showing for the Philadelphia Eagles‘ offense. While they managed to add more points to the board after putting up just seven points in Week 3 against the Chicago Bears, the Eagles slightly improved their performance while shorthanded, putting up 20 points against the Rams. Still, it wasn’t enough. At the […] The post Jalen Hurts Repeats Honest Analysis Of Eagles’ Loss vs Rams appeared first on HEAVY.

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Preview: Phoenix Suns Open Preseason Play vs. Detroit Pistons

Jordan Ott debuts a revamped, ball-dominant starting five against the Eastern Conference’s top seed while testing how new floor spacers fill the void left by departing sharpshooters.

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Oct 4 • 10:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Broncos open road favorites in Week 5 vs. Chargers

The Broncos are 3.5-point road favorites against the Chargers in Week 5. The over/under stands at 42.5 for this matchup.

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Oct 4 • 9:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Broncos Inept Offense Leads To 24-10 Loss To Niners

The Denver Broncos offense struggled again as they lost an ugly game to the San Francisco 49ers.

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Oct 4 • 9:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ashton Jeanty Injury Update: Will Raiders RB Return Against Chiefs?

Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty was knocked out of the game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. The post Ashton Jeanty Injury Update: Will Raiders RB Return Against Chiefs? appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 4 • 9:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dalton Kincaid shut down for second straight week

Dalton Kincaid held to season-low one reception in Week 4 against New England.

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Oct 4 • 9:26 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Lula, Brazil's political titan, races against time

Shirtless and drenched in sweat on his treadmill, Lula...

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Derrick Henry scores TD against old team

Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry rushed 23 times for 73 yards and a touchdown in Week 4

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Brazil's presidential race heads to Lula–Bolsonaro run-off as right gains ground

Now there are two: Brazil heads into a runoff after a first round that failed to fully energize voters, setting the stage for a more polarized contest that Washington is watching very closely.

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Coffee-Rich Diet May Be Linked to Better Breast Cancer Outcomes, But Experts Urge Caution

A new study is again drawing attention to a popular morning beverage: coffee. Researchers found that women with breast cancer who consumed higher amounts of polyphenols, naturally occurring plant compounds abundant in coffee and many plant-based foods, experienced lower rates of breast cancer-related death over a long-term follow-up period.

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Oct 4 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • baptisthealth.net
Rams Stun Eagles With Wild Comeback to Avenge 2025 Heartbreak

The Rams pulled off a dramatic come-from-behind win against the Eagles, avenging their heartbreaking 2025 loss. The post Rams Stun Eagles With Wild Comeback to Avenge 2025 Heartbreak appeared first on LA Sports Report.

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Oct 4 • 7:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Patriots’ HC Raves About Drake Maye Compared to Josh Allen

The New England Patriots needed a response after a lopsided loss. Head coach Mike Vrabel received one from his quarterback against a division heavyweight. New England stunned the previously unbeaten Buffalo Bills 29-26 on Sunday, Oct. 4, and Vrabel placed Drake Maye in the same conversation as reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen afterward. “Gets us […] The post Patriots’ HC Raves About Drake Maye Compared to Josh Allen appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 4 • 7:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
3 Most Disappointing Cubs Players In 2026

From high-priced free agents to a botched blockbuster trade, these three struggling stars derailed Chicago's championship aspirations and fueled a premature postseason exit against the Padres.

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Oct 4 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Lions vs. Carolina Panthers live discussion, game chat

Our live discussion during the Detroit Lions’ Sunday night game against the Carolina Panthers.

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Oct 4 • 7:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Can HRT help prevent dementia? New research suggests it might

As debate continues over whether hormone replacement therapy can protect against dementia, new studies suggest timing and formulation are key.

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Oct 4 • 7:15 PM EDT • Health • scmp.com
Virginia High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams

As fall begins to set in across the country, some great high school football is being played in Virginia. Some great programs are going head-to-head against one another, and even going outside their borders to test themselves. Not too much time remains in the regular season. Races are beginning to take form and are setting […]

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Oct 4 • 5:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kings Have One of NBA’s 10 Craziest Games in History

Relive the historic night Sacramento erased a massive 35-point deficit against Chicago, cementing a legendary comeback that remains one of the most improbable statistical anomalies in basketball history.

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Oct 4 • 5:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What’s your music consumption medium of choice?

Are you streaming only? Have you dug out your old iPod? Have a massive vinyl collection? I want to know which music formats you listen to most and why. I’ve been buying more on Bandcamp, ripped all my CDs, and started carrying around an iPod again. But I haven’t been able to ditch streaming completely.

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Packers Reveal Brutal Edgerrin Cooper Update After Big Win

The Green Bay Packers entered Week 4 NFL action badly needing a win on the road against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When all was said and done, they were able to get that win by a final score of 17-14. Once again, nothing looked pretty for the Packers. They struggled at times on both sides […] The post Packers Reveal Brutal Edgerrin Cooper Update After Big Win appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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White Sox offseason business during the postseason: Arbitration figures, play-by-play future

The last two times the White Sox were in a real postseason — 2008 against the Rays, 2021 against the Astros — they fell behind 2-0 in the the ALDS, and had to scratch out Game 3 victories each time in order to ensure that they wouldn’t participate in the bare minimum of games. Three…

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Buccaneers’ Rally Falls Short Against Packers

The Buccaneers dropped to 0-4 after Jalon Daniels’ late comeback attempt fell short.

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Oct 4 • 4:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Josh Allen threw the game away against the Patriots

Josh Allen did not play like an MVP against the Patriots.

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Oct 4 • 4:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Matthew Golden scores again in Week 4

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Matthew Golden posted three receptions for 21 yards and a touchdown on seven targets in Week 4

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Oct 4 • 4:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Otters suffer first regulation loss of season against Ottawa

Ottawa 67’s 6, Erie Otters 1

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Oct 4 • 4:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Everything Brewers Fans Must Know About Padres Game 3 Starter

Fresh off a dominant return from injury, right-hander Nick Pivetta brings postseason poise and high-strikeout potential to the mound for San Diego’s critical showdown against Milwaukee.

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Oct 4 • 3:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists Find A Molecular Clue That Could Explain Why Weight Comes Back

Anyone who has lost a lot of weight knows the cruel part can come later. The scale drops, clothes fit again, and the hard work seems to have paid off. Then the pounds begin creeping back, sometimes al...

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Oct 4 • 3:27 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Los Angeles Chargers rule former FSU All-American inactive

Former FSU safety and Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James is inactive for their game against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Oct 4 • 3:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Patriots WR Mack Hollins exits game with non-contact injury

Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins hopped off the field of Sunday's game against the Bills with an injury.

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Oct 4 • 3:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chargers reveal Week 4 inactives vs. Seahawks

The Los Angeles Chargers are sitting a handful of players ahead of their Week 4 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Oct 4 • 3:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Oregon-UCLA is Must-Win For Ducks Playoff Chances

The Oregon Ducks have a must-win game against the UCLA Bruins this weekend.

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Oct 4 • 2:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles' Saquon Barkley Ruled Out With Hamstring Injury Against Rams

Philadelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley exited with a hamstring injury in Week 4 against the Los Angeles Rams.

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Oct 4 • 2:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Josh Allen Sets Bills Record Against the Patriots

The dual-threat quarterback surpassed Hall of Fame legends Andre Reed and Thurman Thomas, etching his name atop the franchise leaderboard with a historic first-half touchdown plunge.

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Oct 4 • 2:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Minkah Fitzpatrick ends long interception drought for New York Jets

The New York Jets defense had not had interception since the regular-season finale in 2024 prior to Sunday against the Chicago Bears.

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Oct 4 • 2:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lina Khan says AI companies shouldn't follow Big Tech's playbook

Former FTC chair Lina Khan cautioned against AI companies regulating themselves during an interview on ABC's "This Week."

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Oct 4 • 2:03 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Biljana Plavsic, a Former Bosnian Serb Political Leader, Has Died

Biljana Plavsic, a Bosnian Serb, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. She later recanted and said she “would do the same again.”

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FSU’s Pass Rush Turns In Dominant Performance Against Virginia

FSU’s struggling pass rush finally erupted against Virginia, producing 10 sacks as Tony White’s defense overwhelmed Beau Pribula.

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Oct 4 • 1:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
C.J. Uzomah tailgates with Bengals fans before Jaguars game

C.J. Uzomah tailgated with Bengals fans before the game against the Jaguars on Oct. 4.

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Oct 4 • 1:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Colorado residents fight back against Verdad's 22-well plan: 'It's about health and safety'

"People are upset about this site."

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Oct 4 • 12:44 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
New York Jets vs Chicago Bears Game Thread

The Jets try to get back on track against the Chicago Bears

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Oct 4 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jadon Sancho Attracting Premier League Interest After Man Utd Exit

Fresh off a Europa League triumph with Aston Villa, the former £73 million winger searches for a new home as top-flight suitors weigh his talent against looming wage concerns.

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Oct 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New England Nation: Inside the Locker Room

The New England Nation team takes you inside the Patriots locker room with various players ahead of their first AFC East matchup of the season against the Buffalo Bills.

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Oct 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rams' Colby Parkinson Out, Full Inactives List for Eagles Showdown

Los Angeles Rams tight end Colby Parkinson is officially out against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Oct 4 • 11:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Courtland Sutton Can Tie Broncos Legend Against His Son's 49ers

Courtland Sutton needs just one catch against the 49ers to tie Ed McCaffrey for fifth in Broncos history, with McCaffrey's son Christian on the opposite sideline.

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Oct 4 • 11:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Penn State Opens as Underdog Against USC

Penn State has opened as an underdog for the first time in the 2026 season. Following back-to-back loses to begin Big Ten play, the Nittany Lions will be a 1.5-point home underdog when they face USC on Saturday. Despite the game being the annual White Out, the oddsmakers are still not confident in Penn State’s […]

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Christian Benford, Six Others Inactive For Bills Against Patriots

The Buffalo Bills have announced their inactives for Week 4 against the New England Patriots, including number one cornerback Christian Benford and six others.

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Oct 4 • 11:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lane Johnson update: Eagles tackle suddenly questionable for Week 4

The Eagles could be without their All Pro right tackle against the Rams in Week 4.

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Oct 4 • 11:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What Is DSA in Politics? Inside the Fight Over Democrats’ Future

What is DSA in politics? Explore the Democratic Socialists of America, its electoral gains, policy goals and tensions within the Democratic Party in 2026.

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Oct 4 • 10:21 AM EDT • Politics • finchannel.com
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Broadcast details for Florida's homecoming game vs South Carolina

Broadcast details for Florida's football's homecoming game against the South Carolina Gamecocks in Week 6 were released on Sunday.

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Oct 4 • 10:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Novak Djokovic Stuns Alexander Zverev to Reach Beijing Open Semifinals

In one of his best performances this year, Novak Djokovic is once again in the semifinals at the Beijing Open after overcoming World No. 2 Alexander Zverev in a tight three-set match 4-6 6-4 6-4. The Serbian, now 32-0 at the tournament, came from a set down to secure his joint-best win of the season …

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Oct 4 • 9:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Three Last-Minute Packers vs. Buccaneers Predictions

Green Bay Packers' Jordan Love seeks rhythm against a winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad with undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels leading the charge.

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Oct 4 • 9:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Election 2026: Richmond mayoral race pits veteran against political scion

Claudia Jimenez, Ahmad Anderson will face off in November

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Election 2026: Richmond mayoral race pits veteran against political scion

Claudia Jimenez, Ahmad Anderson will face off in November

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Poll: Latino voters swing away from Trump and Republicans

Democrats have a significant lead among Latino voters in 2026 amid economic concerns, according to the NBC News/Telemundo poll, though the GOP has made some long-term gains.

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How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy

Hey all, Jason here. Money20/20 is still two weeks away, but I’ve already started packing (not procrastinating for once!). My calendar is already filling up with various sessions I want to catch, meetings, and of course happy hours, dinners, and other side events. If you’ll be in Vegas and want to catch up, let me know by replying to this email, and we can try to find a time amidst the chaos of the Venetian. A big if not totally unexpected piece of news dropped on Friday: the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents smaller U.S. banks, filed a lawsuit against the OCC and Comptroller Jonathan Gould, arguing that the regulator’s move to grant trust bank charters to firms seeking to use them to conduct substantial non-fiduciary activities exceeds the authorities granted to the OCC by Congress. I haven’t had time to fully digest the legal filing or speak to folks in my network about it, but you can expect to see coverage and analysis on it in next week’s newsletter. Subscribe or Support by Upgrading The NerdCon agenda just dropped. It’s stacked. Partner content: Nubank built an AI-first bank. Chime built its own banking core. Figure and Valon are rebuilding the mortgage stack. At NerdCon, you’ll hear from the people behind those bets: what they chose, what they learned, and what they’re still figuring out. The agenda is live, with leaders from Nubank, Chime, OpenAI, Remitly, Mercury, Figure, Valon and more. Follow the mainstage conversations, bring the problem your team is wrestling with to a hands-on workshop, or pull up a chair at a roundtable. Pick your quests. Meet us in San Diego, November 18–20. Fintech Business Weekly readers save 20% with code FBW20. Explore the Agenda Things To Know & Other Good Reads Federal Reserve Board finalizes changes to enhance the transparency and public accountability of its stress test and reduce volatility in its stress test-related capital requirements (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship (FDIC) Modernizing Financial Regulation: Initial Observations from eSLR (Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman) The Data Version of Godzilla versus Kong: FRED Takes on AI (Fed Governor Christopher Waller) Financing the AI buildout (Brookings) Q3’26: Rules for Banks but Not for Crypto (Fintech Takes Banking) The Inevitability of Local Stablecoins (Lombard Notes) Delusions of AI Governance: The Human-in-the-Loop Comfort Blanket (Fintech Snark Tank) Stripe agrees to acquire Parafin to expand revenue opportunities for platforms and help small businesses grow (Stripe) Listen: Fighting Fraud in the Age of AI, with SEON’s Tamas Kadar (Fintech Business Weekly) How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy If there is one overarching theme across the economy and politics in the U.S. at the moment, it’s “affordability.” The term is vague enough to encompass a panoply of factors shaping Americans’ day-to-day lives: rising costs for the hallmarks of being “middle class,” including healthcare, housing, childcare, and education, inflation and rising interest rates, and a job market with the specter of AI hovering over it. At the same time, policy shifts under the Trump administration have resulted in reduced subsidies to those who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and new restrictions on qualifying for Medicaid and SNAP, the impacts of which have yet to be fully felt. These factors are contributing to declining consumer confidence and general dissatisfaction with the economy, despite continuing GDP growth and stock market records. This divergence is encapsulated in the idea of the “K-shaped” economy, in which a small proportion of Americans have seen their wealth balloon, while the majority of American households struggle to preserve the lifestyle they have. Perhaps the greatest determinant of which branch of the “K” a household is on is whether their wealth and income are primarily derived from employment vs. from assets. Nearly two decades of low interest rates and, more recently, elevated rates of inflation have benefited asset owners, while those whose income is primarily or solely derived from labor have largely seen real purchasing power stagnate or decline. This is reflected in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that labor share of U.S. GDP — the fraction of economic output that accrues to workers as compensation in exchange for their labor — dropped to just 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since the BLS began keeping records. In 1947, approximately 2/3rds of economic output accrued to workers; even as recently as 2001, labor’s share of GDP was 64.1%. Against this backdrop, we’ve seen the rise of more credit and credit-like products: cash advance apps, “no-fee” overdraft, earned wage access, and buy now pay later, which are often used as small-dollar short-term borrowing mechanisms to meet immediate consumption needs or pay other bills (eg utilities, cell phone, other debt payments). With the markers of a middle class existence and, increasingly, basic financial stability seemingly out of reach for many, it should be no surprise there’s been an increase in “financial nihilism,” something industry peers like Alex Johnson and Frank Rotman have discussed and analyzed the roots of. The explosion of gambling and gambling-adjacent products and services — often marketed under the guise of being an “investment” — is inextricably intertwined with the rise of financial nihilism. Crypto, sports betting, and, more recently, prediction markets offer an escape or even hope of sorts, like a contemporary, digital version of a scratch-off lottery ticket, while leaving the overwhelming number of people who use such products worse off. Share of Households That Are Financially “Vulnerable” Ticks Up The Financial Health Network’s 2026 Financial Health Pulse® report adds context on how American households are faring. (I linked to this report in last week’s newsletter, but wanted to take time to further unpack the data in the report this week.) The Financial Health Network publishes the report annually, providing insight into how Americans’ financial circumstances are changing over time. The 2026 report is derived from a survey fielded in April and May 2026. The report leverages survey responses to assess indicators of financial health across spending, saving, borrowing, and planning/protecting and to determine a zero to 100 “FinHealth” score. Those with scores between 0 and 39 are considered “Financially Vulnerable,” consumers with scores ranging between 40 and 79 are defined as “Financially Coping,” and those with scores of 80 to 100 are “Financially Healthy.” The report found that moderate improvements in 2025 were reversed, with the share of respondents considered financially “vulnerable” rebounding to 17%. The longitudinal data reflect the impact of pandemic-era programs, like expanded unemployment, cash stimulus payments, and pauses of federal student loan payments. The positive impacts of those programs, as reflected in the Financial Health Pulse reports, had largely disappeared by 2023. While pandemic-era inflation — to be fair, in part caused by the various support and stimulus measures — had come down from as high as 9% in 2022, it has rebounded since the start of Trump’s second term, with tariffs and energy market disruptions owing to the war in Iran pushing prices back up. Specific indicators in the survey that deteriorated from 2025 to 2026 include the share of respondents spending less than their income over the past 12 months, the share paying all bills on time over the past 12 months, the share that have a manageable amount or no debt, the share that are “moderately” or “very” confident their insurance is adequate to cover them in an emergency, and the share that “somewhat” or “strongly” agree that their household plans ahead financially. Unsurprisingly, lower- and moderate-income households are more likely to struggle to pay their bills on time and have any funds leftover to save. The share of low-income households whose income exceeded their spending dropped from 35% in 2025 to 31% in 2026, while the share of upper-income households whose income exceeded expenses remained unchanged at 63%. Households with student loans or revolving credit card debt reported having “a bit more” or “far more” debt than was manageable at rates far higher than those not carrying these types of debts. The share of those with student loan debt indicating their debt load was too high to manage increased from 50% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, while the share of those with revolving credit card debt saying the same ticked up from 51% in 2025 to 54% in 2026. Households that had student loans were markedly more likely to be financially “coping” or “vulnerable” vs. those without student loans. In 2026, 27% of households with student loans were considered financially vulnerable, a jump of 6% points vs. 2025. Households without student loans saw just a 1% point increase (not statistically significant) in those considered financially vulnerable. Households’ perception of the affordability of categories of goods and services paints a stark picture, with less than one-fourth considering higher education affordable, about a third deeming childcare affordable, and less than half viewing healthcare as affordable. Fintech Business Weekly is made possible by the generous support of paying subscribers — bringing you independent analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto without fear or favor. You can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber if you aren’t already. Paying subscribers enjoy: access to the entire archive of nearly six years of newsletters extended versions of the weekly newsletter, with additional content and analysis and (for founding member tier) quarterly personal 1:1 fintech Q&A / strategy calls with me, tapping into my unparalleled knowledge of the intersection of banking and fintech and experience working in the sector, including helping to launch Goldman Sachs’ retail bank Marcus Support Fintech Business Weekly You can also support Fintech Business Weekly by sponsoring a newsletter or podcast, putting you in front of 93,000+ of the most influential decision makers in banking, fintech, and crypto. Learn more about sponsor opportunities or request a media kit by dropping me an email. Democratic Senate Report Highlights How Iran Uses Tether to Evade U.S. Sanctions Iran uses stablecoins, specifically Tether, to evade sanctions, fund regional proxies, and to purchase military drones, a report released last week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says. The report was authored by committee ranking member Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the minority staff. Crypto and stablecoin proponents will often push back on criticism that criminals make use of these assets by arguing that, on an absolute dollar basis, far more illicit funds flow through traditional banking systems and payment rails than via crypto and stablecoins. And while that is likely true, it elides the reality presented in news story after news story: whether state actors — Russia, Iran, North Korea — or criminal groups, those looking to engage in illicit transactions increasingly favor stablecoins and, specifically, Tether (USDT). The report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released last week adds context to how Iran uses Tether has a lynchpin in its shadow banking system. The report analyzed 846 wallets that have been sanctioned or targeted for seizure, finding that 84% of them transacted exclusively or primarily in Tether. The ability to create near limitless, anonymous wallets and to move funds effectively instantaneously and irreversibly have made crypto a favored financial mechanism for bad actors. Stablecoins solved key drawbacks of bitcoin, namely, the original cryptocurrency’s highly volatile value in dollars. And while Tether (the company) has the technical ability to “freeze” or destroy funds, the company is often limited and reactive in its approach to doing so, the Senate report argues. Tether, which is nominally based in crypto-friendly El Salvador, “has stated that its compliance with OFAC sanctions is ‘voluntary’ and that it follows ‘OFAC guidelines,’” the Senate report says. Owing to these favorable attributes, Tether “became a primary cryptocurrency for Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis beginning in 2023 and has expanded in scale since,” according to the report. Tether’s role in Iran’s shadow banking system, the report says, is enhanced by crypto exchanges like Bybit, Kyrrex, OKX, Gate, and Binance, and through “over the counter” exchanges and hawala networks. The consequences of these financial flows aren’t hypothetical. The Senate report links Tether as a funds transfer mechanism to Iranian proxies in the region, including Hizballah, the Houthis, and Hamas. Tether has also been used to make payments to secure components necessary to manufacture drones, the report says. The report concludes by arguing that “[s]tablecoin issuers with a significant nexus to the United States, particularly those that offer dollar-denominated stablecoins, should be subject to American sanctions law rather than being allowed to hide behind foreign jurisdictions.” Stablecoin issuers like Tether must be held accountable for repeated failures to prevent illicit finance and sanctions violations by law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and OFAC, the report argues. [Paying Subscriber Exclusive] OUSD Goes Live, Make Your Own Neobank, U.S. Sanctions Russia’s A7 Network As “Transnational Criminal Organization” OpenUSD, the stablecoin issued by the Open Standard consortium that includes Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, core providers, crypto firms, and numerous banks, went live last week. Social commerce platform Whop raised eyebrows in fintech by offering creators on its platform the ability to launch their own neobanks, which the company describes as “great businesses that are easy to run,” in just 15 minutes. And OFAC and FinCEN target Russia’s “shadow banking” A7 Network — more on these stories after the paywall.

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Broncos Schedule Gauntlet Continues Against Undefeated 49ers

The Denver Broncos have another big challenge coming against the San Francisco 49ers.

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Oct 4 • 8:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The iPad Mini is slightly cheaper again during Prime Day

Save $100 during Amazon’s October sale.

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Fran Brown Delivers Three Important Messages After Syracuse Football Win

The head coach addressed multiple topics following the team's second win of the season, which came against UConn on Saturday.

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Julian Hall scores AGAIN as USMNT stun Mexico

By MLSsoccer staffJulian Hall keeps on rising to the occasion during his first US men's national team camp.Red Bull New York's star forward opened the scoring in the USMNT's 3-0 defeat of arch-rivals ...

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FanDuel: Illinois opens as slight favorite against Michigan State

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Broncos' 53-man roster for Sunday's game vs. 49ers

Here's a look at the Broncos' 53-man roster going into today's game against the 49ers.

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