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First inning fiasco dooms Diamondbacks against Yankees

Record: 80-74. Pace: 84-78. Change on 2025: +3. Is it too late to bring Angry Orchard on as an official SnakePit sponsor? In sharp contrast to last Friday night cider-cap, where we blasted the Rangers 9-1, tonight was an exercise in Charles Bukowski-esque cirrhosis. By the time the first inning was over, the sky had […]

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Sep 19 • 1:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Stellantis Canada plant's sale could allow Chinese entry, mayor warns

"Don't kid yourself, the dominance that the Big Three have had in the Canadian auto market will evaporate," said the mayor of Brampton.

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Sep 19 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • detroitnews.com
Los Alamos ScienceFest Returns September 18–26 with ‘It’s All Elemental!’

Scene from ScienceFest Discovery Day 2024/Courtesy photo Scene from Discovery 2025 at Los Alamos ScienceFest/Curtesy photo LOS ALAMOS MAINSTREET NEWS RELEASEReceived Sept. 18 Get ready for a week o…

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Sep 18 • 9:05 PM EDT • Science • losalamosreporter.com
Mayor Mamdani's uphill climb on housing, childcare goals

A new report covers every city agency from July 2025 through June 2026.

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Sep 18 • 8:10 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Pacific Beach boardwalk-driving suspect ignites mental health diversion debate

San Diego County judges granted mental health diversion in over three hundred felony cases in 2025, and suspects reoffended in more than a quarter of those cases.

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Sep 18 • 6:47 PM EDT • Health • nbcsandiego.com
DHS may have violated state election law, Virginia's AG says after whistleblower report

Virginia's attorney general said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state laws after a whistleblower accused its employees of misrepresenting themselves on voter lookup tools to hunt for noncitizen voters.

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Sep 18 • 5:56 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Political appointee turnover at unprecedented levels under Trump administration

Political appointees in the second Trump administration are leaving in record numbers, and often after short tenures. More than 900 appointees who did not require Senate confirmation left within the first 18 months of the administration, a new report shows.

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Sep 18 • 5:39 PM EDT • Politics • marylandmatters.org
Harvard School of Public Health Weighs Partnerships with CVS, United Healthcare, Tenet Amid Funding Uncertainty

Harvard School of Public Health Weighs Partnerships with CVS, United Healthcare, Tenet Amid Funding Uncertainty

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Sep 18 • 5:17 PM EDT • Health • thecrimson.com
Galaxy Tab S12 leak spills the beans on the Plus and Ultra specs

A leak may have revealed the full specs of Samsung's upcoming tablets, the Galaxy Tab S12 Plus and S12 Ultra.

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Sep 18 • 5:06 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Health officials confirm first dengue fever death in Hillsborough County

The Florida Department of Health confirmed the first dengue fever-related death in Hillsborough County.

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Sep 18 • 4:22 PM EDT • Health • wfla.com
Ask a Professor turns difficult topics into opportunities for dialogue

MSU Denver faculty host a series of student discussions designed to put the ‘civil’ back in civil discourse

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Sep 18 • 3:39 PM EDT • Politics • red.msudenver.edu
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Political appointee turnover at unprecedented levels under Trump administration

Nearly half of Trump appointees who have separated from government served less than one year, and about 25% served under six months, new research shows.

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Sep 18 • 3:31 PM EDT • Politics • federalnewsnetwork.com
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Sep 18 • 2:50 PM EDT • Sports • catamountsports.com
CACI wins up to $1.5B contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor CACI International has won a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to support the U.S. Central Command and its

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Sep 18 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Novant Health drives $4.33B in regional economic impact, study says

Novant Health Coastal Region generates an annual overall economic impact of $4.33 billion in the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), according to a new report. Commissioned by Novant Health and conducted by Mouhcine Guettabi, associate professor of economics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the area’s regional economist, the report evaluates population growth in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties and whether the area’s healthcare infrastructure is positioned to meet the region’s demand. According to the study, while healthcare employment has kept pace with population growth in New Hanover and Pender counties, it has not kept up with the rapid population growth in Brunswick County, which is skewed toward an older population. “It points very clearly to Brunswick County being the bottleneck, or being the place where investment is most needed,” Guettabi said to the Business Journal Friday, “because the growth is the fastest, the composition of the growth is older (adults) and demand for healthcare is much higher for the subpopulation.” The Novant Health Coastal Region employs 8,295 full-time equivalent workers, according to the report, and is the region’s largest employer. Overall, through direct, indirect and induced impacts, the Novant Health Coastal Region supports 19,573 jobs, the report said. Using data collected from internal payroll, financial and capital reports, the report estimates that Novant Health Coastal Region pays approximately $1.15 billion in total compensation to its employees. According to the study, the provider’s annual operating expenditures, or direct economic impact, total $2.36 billion. That direct impact ripples through the regional economy through spending at its suppliers, or indirect impact, and household spending by staff and its suppliers’ workers, or induced impact. The report estimates the Novant Health Coastal Region’s indirect economic impact is $786 million, reflecting the multiplying effect of the provider’s operating expenses on expenditures like medical supplies, facilities, food, IT and professional services. Because 86.9% of Novant Health Coastal Region employees live within the tri-county region, the report estimates that wages paid by Novant circulate into the regional economy, creating an induced economic impact of $1.17 billion. “That money just doesn’t go into thin air,” Guettabi said of the wages paid to Novant Health Coastal Region employees. “Some of that money is being re-spent, and therefore it’s supporting grocery stores, hiring, restaurants and bars, and there are a lot of other companies or organizations whose employment, whose activity partially depends on that.” The combination of direct ($2.36 billion), indirect ($786 million), and induced ($1.17 billion) impacts totals an estimated $4.33 billion, according to the report. A study commissioned by Novant Health in 2024 and conducted by FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy found that Novant Health generated nearly $2 billion of direct impact, with $628 million in indirect impact and $857 million in induced impact. Healthcare investments in the pipeline for Brunswick County Additionally, the study found that while healthcare employment has kept pace with population growth in New Hanover and Pender counties, it lags in Brunswick County. “Once you go below the metro level and you decompose the three counties that make up the Wilmington Metro,” Guettabi said, “it becomes fairly clear that Brunswick is the standout. And not only that, but clearly the growth there is fully domestic migration and largely retiree-driven migrants.” Using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on per-capita healthcare spending among age groups, Guettabi estimates that adults aged 65 and older demand 2.44 times the healthcare of working-age adults. “The share of the population in Brunswick County that’s over the age of 65 is 33%,” Guettabi said, “which is so much higher than the average share of people over the age of 65 within the state or within the country.” The report emphasizes that Brunswick County is the “strongest candidate” for new healthcare investment, adding that patient discharge records show Brunswick residents rely heavily on facilities in New Hanover County for inpatient care. “Investments in Brunswick County would not only meet the demand for those residents, but it would also relieve pressure for New Hanover County residents,” Guettabi said. Laurie Whalin, president of the Novant Health Coastal Region, told the Business Journal Friday that the provider plans to expand services at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, in addition to other investments in the area. In April, the state granted conditional approval to both Novant Health and Columbus Regional Healthcare System to build new hospitals, just miles apart, on either side of the Columbus County and Brunswick County borders. Columbus Regional’s $214 million 30-bed hospital would be located at the former Acme-Delco Middle School in Delco, according to the application. The project’s approved timetable has construction slated to finish in May 2029, with the hospital open for service by October 2029. The Whiteville-based provider, which Atrium Health manages, broke ground on an Advanced Care facility in December 2025 and operates four specialty clinics in Leland. Meanwhile, Novant Health’s proposed $251 million 20-bed hospital would be built just miles from Columbus Regional’s proposed hospital, near the Compass Pointe community in Leland. The provider estimates the hospital will open by 2030. State officials also approved Novant Health in March to build a freestanding emergency department in Carolina Shores, near U.S. 17. The project is estimated to cost $24 million, according to the application, and will operate under the Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center license. Additionally, Novant Health’s 16,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center is slated to open in Leland by year’s end, officials said.

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Sep 18 • 2:16 PM EDT • Health • wilmingtonbiz.com
Business Leaders Urge Congress to Maintain Workforce Funding

As federal lawmakers negotiate spending levels for fiscal 2027, a nationwide coalition of 96 businesses and business associations, including

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Sep 18 • 2:02 PM EDT • Business • njbia.org
Memorial Health to host prostate cancer screenings and men’s health event

It's an all-encompassing men's health event.

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Sep 18 • 1:34 PM EDT • Health • capitolcitynow.com
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Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief

A coalition of 600 Michigan Jews have affirmed their support for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. The group, Michigan Jews for Democracy, includes former Congressman Sander Levin; former Congressman Andy Levin; Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney and Democratic nominee for Michigan Attorney General Eli Savit; and Jessica “Decky” Alexander, the Chair of the Michigan Democratic […]

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Sep 18 • 1:21 PM EDT • Politics • michiganadvance.com
Alabama Florida State Rematch: What’s Changed Since 2025

Alabama’s Florida State rematch comes at a time when head coach Kalen DeBoer and his team are still trying to figure out what they trust. Last year, the Seminoles defeated Alabama 31-17 by controlling the line of scrimmage and making the Crimson Tide chase the game. Now Alabama is 2-0, is ranked No.10, and is …

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Sep 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump’s reason for holding the Kennedy Center hostage doesn’t even make sense

There is plenty that’s bizarre about President Donald Trump’s attempt to take the Kennedy Center hostage over a judge’s refusal to let him put his name on it. He’s now indicated twice in recent days that he will abandon the center — and even let it be “ripped down” — if the courts don’t change the ruling.

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Sep 18 • 12:09 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Sacramento receives $6 million state grant for cannabis enforcement, public health and youth programs

The City of Sacramento has received $6 million in state funding to expand efforts to address illicit cannabis activity while supporting public health education and youth development programs. The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday authorized the City to accept the Proposition 64 Public Health and Safety Grant from the California Board of State and Community […]

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Sep 18 • 11:52 AM EDT • Health • sacramentocityexpress.com
Google’s Pixel VIPs redesign starts rolling out to users

Pixel VIPs is getting a visual refresh with swipe navigation, redesigned profile pages, and the removal of activity recommendations.

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Sep 18 • 11:10 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Engrams Embedding Entendre: Codesign for Efficient DRAM/SSD Offloading

Engram extends standard token embeddings with learned multi-token lookups. Recurring local patterns retrieve vectors directly, reducing the need to reconstruct them through attention and feed-forward layers. With Engram model architecture optimization, it allows for lower HBM capacity to be needed for models at the same quality. This does not mean there won’t be an insane demand for HBM but it just means that model architecture will continue to innovate around constraints. This model architecture design is naturally codesigned for parameter offloading: each token accesses a few embedding rows whose addresses depend on token IDs, not hidden states. The runtime can prefetch those rows from host DRAM while earlier layers compute, keeping the table outside HBM without transferring entire weight matrices. Our Memory model contains our latest estimates of quarter by quarter HBM, DRAM, & NAND supply and demand. Offloading frees HBM for model weights and KV cache, potentially supporting larger batches or more concurrent sessions. When DRAM becomes the next constraint, NVMe offers another tier. Recommendation systems already cache frequently or recently accessed embedding rows in faster memory while backing colder rows with SSDs. After NVIDIA roadmap had to change due to massively despec’ing Rubin Ultra from 1024GB to now ~200GB of HBM per chip, model architecture optimizations like emgram maybe helpful. Our DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash configuration uses roughly 189 GiB of memory for Engram. We replace it with a memory-mapped (mmap) file and measure serving performance with offload to SSD. Later on in our report, we will show our Engram offloading experiments along with the official InferenceX agentic inference serving results on Engram models like DeepSeekv4.1 Flash across all 6 NVIDIA GPU SKUs along with MI355X. Unsurprisingly, the CUDA Moat is still mogging MI355X on the ultra popular DeepSeekV4.1 Flash model. We also show how even on high capacity HBM SKUs, offloading emgrams to DRAM could result in even better performance for most of the pareto than keeping the emgram in HBM. Our benchmark has been widely reproduced, validated and/or supported by almost every major buyer of compute from Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure to Oracle, to Meta and many more. Furthermore, it has the support of the ML community including from vLLM, LMCache, SGLang, PyTorch, Huggingface and the support of major labs like OpenAI, MiniMax, ZAI, Qwen, Moonshot Kimi, etc. Star the InferenceX GitHub repository if you find the open-source benchmark and data useful!. InferenceX is the only inference benchmark in the world to have TPUv7, Jalapeño, Nvidia Rubin NVL72, AMD, and soon, SambaNova and Trainium. Due to how realistic AgentX scenario is to real world agentic inference workloads, AMD has committed to collaborating on MI455X UALoE72 too. DeepSeek did not release the original paper’s two trained Engram models. We replicated its setup on fineweb-edu using the released code and training hyperparameters, at an estimated 6E18 FLOPs per run. We observed the same U-shape scaling: Engram improved performance over pure MoE baselines. We also reproduced DeepSeek’s results, where earlier-layer representations with Engram resembled those of later layers. Like the original Engram paper, it is possible to probe Engram’s gate scores to see what n-grams DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash makes the most use of. Our gate scan finds names, code fragments, relational phrasing, and boilerplate. These examples prioritize interesting-ness over gate strength. One unexpected result was Wright : Ace Attorney. These examples suggest learned memory optimizes the training objective, not a judgment of which facts deserve storage. Licenses, bibliography fragments, API scaffolding, and website furniture can provide prediction shortcuts, so the value of additional Engram capacity may depend on what survives data preparation. This does not show that table capacity is “wasted”: the evaluation-corpus scan establishes neither training exposure nor the capacity occupied by each category. For offloading, strong gates do not identify cache-hot rows. Low gates do not automatically save reads either: computing the gate requires the retrieved key and undoes the performance gain of a fused kernel. Skipping reads would require a separate usefulness predictor before retrieval. In the original paper’s inference-time ablation, factual-knowledge benchmarks retained just 29–44% of their original performance, while reading comprehension retained 81–93%. This is due to the training–inference mismatch. The resulting degradation therefore measures this trained model’s dependence on Engram, not the performance difference between models trained with and without it. In our ablations, suppressing Engram worsens token likelihood across all evaluated domains, especially encyclopedia text and several code corpora. Surprisingly, GSM8K accuracy stays within measured run-to-run variation and removing Engram has no effect. Engram is not a detachable dictionary beside an unchanged MoE. Removing it changes downstream features and expert selection. We tested whether rerouting hurts or compensates by holding tokens fixed in a teacher-forced experiment on CRUXEval, a code-reasoning benchmark of small Python functions where the model predicts a function’s output from its code and an input, and scoring the reference answer. Removing Engram raised answer loss from 0.2848 to 0.3093 bits/token. Forcing the ablated model to use the original Engram-on expert choices made it worse still, at 0.3375 bits/token. Rerouting partially compensates for the missing memory. Memory features and expert selection work together, rather than following a clean “memory stores facts; experts reason” division. On the same CRUXeval, removing Engram during either phase reduced accuracy and increased generated tokens; removing it throughout produced the largest changes. Keeping Engram for prefill leads to more correct answers than keeping for decode likely due to semantically richer KV cache transferred to decode workers, allowing it to mitigate some of the performance loss. Engram’s table is large, but each lookup is small. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash requests 24 rows at each of two Engram layers, about 12.4 KiB per processed token position across the model, or 3.1 KiB per GPU when split across four GPUs. Currently as of Day 7 since Model Release, MI355X is still 2-4x worse performance per dollar compared to B200 even when normalized by Mi355X’s lower TCO. Our full total cost of ownership breakdown comes from our AI Cloud TCO Model along with monthly market surveys of over 100+ gpu clouds & gpu cloud customers. On the Day 0 release of DeepSeekv4.1 Flash, NVIDIA vLLM works out of the box with zero issues across all 6 SKUs: H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, GB300! This was thanks to the amazing work by the NVIDIA & Interact teams! In comparison, AMD vLLM did not work on day 0 for DeepSeekv4.1 Flash.Source: SemiAnalysis InferenceX AMD’s vLLM documentation points to using vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:deepseekv41-flash-0909, but from hour 0 of the model release to hour 23, AMD has not publicly released the image. AMD claims, “SPEED IS THE MOAT,” yet it has still not released it by the 23rd hour. We wish that, going forward, the AMD team has a better process for hour 0 model releases. Eventually when they did publicly release for “day 0” image support, performance-wise, it is currently up to 14.8x worse perf per dollar than H200 and up to 42x worse perf per dollar than B200/B300. The power of the CUDA MOAT is NVIDIA’s collaboration with its massive 6 million-developer community ecosystem including most of the vLLM & SGLang & Tokenspeed maintainers which means that CUDA is optimized on day 0. Overall, AMD did make significant improvements but the performance per dollar is still currently 2-4x worse than B200. AgentX Engram DRAM Offloading Improving Performance The HBM and DRAM offload use the same GPU kernel to select and dequantize rows. With HBM, it reads GPU memory; with Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA), it reads pinned host memory directly. Both support full decode graphs. Moving the table into HBM accelerates only the sparse lookup, leaving decoder computation and communication unchanged, resulting in little overall benefit while consuming memory otherwise available to KV cache. Another benefit of Engram offloaded to DRAM which means you can reduce the communication overhead by using less HBM GPUs per replica. For example, when enabling Engram offloading on B300, we are able to switch from TP4 to now TP2 which improves the pareto curve by up to 1.6x. When iso-model quality, less HBM is required as the engrams could be offloaded to host DRAM. Thus HBM bandwidth matters way more than HBM capacity. For inference workloads where memory bandwidth matters the most, 4-hi HBM provides the best $/bandwidth and therefore lowest cost per token. If China continues to make more and more revolutionary model architecture innovations, soon it could potentially 0Hi HBM stacks. [ ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) [ Long Live the Short King: Why 4-hi HBM Wins ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) Myron Xie, Bryan Shan, and 3 others · Sep 13 [ Read full story ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) Moreover, on B300 and week-0 stack, moving the Engram table back to HBM did not improve results and stay within run-to-run variance. This is a result of the work optimizing DRAM offload, such as async, and overlap. SSD Offloading On B200, we created a unoptimized vLLM fork and stored the Engram tables in memory-mapped files on local SSDs. File backing lets the OS reclaim table pages when other applications need RAM. Pages already cached in memory can be served without reading the SSD again. Furthermore, note that we were unable to turn on GDS The unoptimized SSD implementation changes how rows reach the GPU. It copies row IDs to the CPU, deduplicates them, gathers the requested rows into pinned buffers, copies those rows back to the GPU and dequantizes them. This work runs between segments of the GPU execution graph. Native UVA performs row selection and dequantization directly on the GPU, avoiding the CPU round trip. A warm filesystem cache removes physical SSD reads, but leaves the coordination, row gathering and transfers. This is why a file already cached in RAM can still perform worse than a pinned DRAM table. The comparison measures the whole serving path; it does not separate the time spent on each of these operations. B200 DRAM dominates both measured SSD serving curves in total tokens per dollar and P90 interactivity. Near 125 tokens/s/user, DRAM delivers 121 million total tokens per dollar versus 52 million for SSD. For production serving, SSD offloading is likely not worth the tradeoff. On the B200 configurations we measured, SSD offloading loses on both measures: every observed SSD point has a DRAM alternative that delivers higher P90 interactivity and more total tokens per dollar. The only points where Cheaper storage does not automatically produce a cheaper inference service. Moving Engram to SSD leaves the same four expensive GPUs and the rest of the server in place. Reclaiming RAM only creates an economic benefit if it enables a cheaper server configuration or additional useful capacity. The current unoptimized path provides neither benefit, and the filesystem cache still consumes RAM when table pages are resident. Next we will look at the mechanisms and specific implementation of ngrams from DeepSeekv4.1 Flash, LongCat, Qwen3.8 Flash Next.

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Sep 18 • 10:35 AM EDT • Technology • newsletter.semianalysis.com
A Closer Look at the $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program

The 2025 budget reconciliation created the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will award $50 billion in state grants over a five-year period. This brief provides an overview of the program, describing its structure, how funds can be used, how funding compares to Medicaid spending reductions in the reconciliation law, and how the funds are being distributed across and within states.

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Sep 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
Duncan Sheik, Tony Award-winning composer, dies at 56

Duncan Sheik attends 'The Broadway Legacy Foundation Launch' at the Broadway Museum on November 11, 2025 in New York City. (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer behind Spring Awakening and more, has died, according to his Instagram. He was 56.The Friday morning Instagram post said the "father, husband, son, brother, and friend" died on Thursday night "surrounded by love."A message shared on Sheik's Instagram earlier this week by his family said he was "receiving medical care" and was "in critical but stable condition.""The world has a lost a singular talent, and deeply influential voice in music and theater," Friday's statement said. "From his Grammy-nominated hit “Barely Breathing” to his groundbreaking, Tony and Grammy Award-winning work on Spring Awakening, Duncan’s artistry touched many and leaves an indelible mark on the cultural landscape."Born on Nov. 18, 1969, in Montclair, New Jersey, Sheik rose to fame in 1996 when he released his self-titled debut album, which included his hit song, "Barely Breathing."The song peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned him a Grammy nomination for best male pop vocal performance.Following his debut album, he released Humming in 1998, Phantom Moon in 2001 and Daylight in 2002.While "Barely Breathing" established Sheik as a singer-songwriter, his career later expanded into musical theater, where he found success as a composer.Sheik collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater and composed the music for Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006.He told Broadcast Music, Inc. in 2015 that around the time he was making the music for Spring Awakening, he wasn't "a huge fan" of music that was happening on Broadway and he wanted to make the music for an audience "beyond the normal crowd that would go to a Broadway musical."The rock musical, based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play and starring Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, John Gallagher and Skylar Astin, became a major success. It won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including best musical, best original score and best orchestrations.He went on to compose music for several other stage productions, including American Psycho and Because of Winn-Dixie. He also collaborated with Sater again on Alice by Heart and The Secret Life of Bees.In his interview with Broadcast Music, Inc., he added that working on musical theater has "helped broaden my palette."Sheik went on to release several more albums throughout his career, including White Limousine, Whisper House, Covers 80s, Legerdemain and Claptrap.In May, it was announced that Sheik's new musical, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, would make its off-Broadway debut this fall. The musical is based on Moyoco Anno's manga graphic novel of the same name.An off-Broadway revival of Spring Awakening is also set to open this fall. Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Sep 18 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken.

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Sep 18 • 9:41 AM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is 30fps on Nintendo Switch 2

Some Nintendo Switch 2 owners have been disappointed to find out that LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is only 30fps on the Nintendo Switch 2. The latest LEGO game doesn’t feature a Performance…

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Sep 18 • 9:40 AM EDT • Technology • mynintendonews.com
Black moms and pregnant women forced out of their homes in metro Detroit face health and safety threats

Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.

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Sep 18 • 9:01 AM EDT • Health • theconversation.com
Brad Rateike: The rising anxiety from an annual physical exam

Many of us have those moments regretting the blueberry cake doughnut at the office.

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Sep 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • ibj.com
Best of Des Moines 2026: Learn about this year’s winners

As we do each year, we asked our readers to cast votes for what Des Moines has to offer in a variety of business-related categories. These people and organizations make up an ecosystem in our region that supports the local economy and the community at large. Here’s how it worked: You voted. We checked the…

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Sep 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
That security patch date on your Android phone is no longer the full story

Google has released new tools allowing Android apps to get a much more accurate picture of how secure your phone really is.

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Sep 18 • 6:12 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Wisconsin health officials hopeful encouraging measles vaccination can stop growing outbreak

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced two new measles cases in Vernon County, including one in a person visiting the county from out of state.

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Sep 18 • 6:03 AM EDT • Health • wpr.org
Illinois' 2nd-largest government union spent 38 times more on politics than member representation

New federal LM-2 reports reveal SEIU Illinois spent 72% of its 2025 budget on politics and less than 2% representing members.

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Sep 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • illinoispolicy.org
Mid-America Science Museum to host STEM career fair for students

Mid-America Science Museum has invited local students in grades eighth to 10th to the third annual STEM Works career fair on Sept. 25 in the Hall of Wonder.

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Sep 18 • 5:04 AM EDT • Science • hotsr.com
Why ProPublica Is Leaning Into Sports Investigations

Sports is a wealthy, powerful industry. We’ll cover the system instead of the games. We’ll ask who’s responsible for some of its biggest problems and who’s preventing them from being fixed.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • propublica.org
Liverpool line up move for 'perfect' £34 million star

Liverpool made a fair few changes to their squad during the summer transfer window. This was obviously expected to happen after the Anfield outfit finished fifth in the Premier League during the 2025-...

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Sep 18 • 4:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Novuna Business Cash Flow Launches Asset-Based Lending Proposition

Novuna Business Cash Flow has expanded into asset-based lending with the launch of a new £2 million to £25 million funding proposition, extending its ability

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Sep 18 • 3:25 AM EDT • Business • abfjournal.com
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Eclipse Business Capital Adds Charlie Bacon to its Business Development Team

Eclipse Business Capital (EBC) added Charlie Bacon as a managing director.

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Sep 18 • 3:22 AM EDT • Business • abfjournal.com
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Controversy, Secrecy And Suffering After Year One Of The America First Global Health Strategy

Country controversies, secret terms, opaque procurement, and massive unspent Congressional funds have characterised the first year of the America First Global

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Sep 18 • 3:16 AM EDT • Health • healthpolicy-watch.news
Fabian Hurzeler explains Jason Ayto’s Brighton exit: ‘It was the wrong moment’

Ayto parted company with Brighton in June, just nine months after arriving as sporting director.

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Sep 18 • 2:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
In The Lead: Women-Owned Businesses 2026

Behind every business in this year’s In the Lead: Women-Owned Businesses section is a founder who decided, at some point, that building something of her own was worth the risk.

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Sep 18 • 12:46 AM EDT • Business • libn.com
House clears Russia sanctions as Republicans dodge impeachment vote

GOP cuts voting session short after some NJ Democrats joined in punishing Russia

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Sep 18 • 12:08 AM EDT • Politics • njspotlightnews.org
From Python and Statistics to Agentic AI: 5 Data Science Certificate Programs in 2026

Python and statistics still sit at the center of data science, but the work surrounding them has expanded. Professionals now move from cleaning data and testing hypotheses into predictive modeling, recommendation systems, deep learning, Generative AI, and applications that can retrieve information or act through external tools. That progression matters when comparing programs. A curriculum […]

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Sep 17 • 11:10 PM EDT • Science • bnonews.com
Former Institute of Peace Workers Warn Trump May Push to Engrave Name on Building

As part of a lawsuit, the workers have asked a federal court to stop any plans to engrave the building with President Trump’s name.

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Bruins GM Don Sweeney Announces Extension For Young Forward

The Boston Bruins have made several moves so far during the offseason that they hope will help further propel them in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season; they returned to the playoffs after missing in 2025, though they’d be eliminated in the opening round by the divisional rival Buffalo Sabres.The Bruins, who lost forward Viktor […] The post Bruins GM Don Sweeney Announces Extension For Young Forward appeared first on HEAVY.

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University of Arkansas graduation rates reach record highs

The University of Arkansas said Thursday (Sept. 17) that its six-year graduation rate reached a record high of more than 73%, and its four-year graduation rate hit an all-time high...

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One Year Of America First Global Health Strategy: Controversy, Secrecy And Suffering

Country controversies, secret terms, opaque procurement, and massive unspent congressional funds have characterised the first year of the America First Global

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Sep 17 • 5:26 PM EDT • Health • healthpolicy-watch.news
History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a

A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains

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Sep 17 • 5:20 PM EDT • Science • mcgill.ca
Monroe County Public Health reports potential measles exposure at Rochester Airport

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Monroe County Department of Public Health says two people who traveled through the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport have tested positive for measles. The county says the two traveled through the airport on Sept. 8 and Sept. 13, and may have exposed others to the disease. The two don’t live […]

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Sep 17 • 4:48 PM EDT • Health • whec.com
Another hit to the wallet: Why health care price increases are expected in 2027

Health insurance premiums are set to surge next year as insurers request rate increases driven by rising prescription costs and a changing pool of policyholders.

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Sep 17 • 4:46 PM EDT • Health • fox13news.com
Dartmouth Health lays off 124 in effort to ‘improve long-term sustainability’

Dartmouth Health, the hospital system that operates eight hospitals and clinics throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, announced this week that 124 employees have been laid off and 303 openings canceled, for a total of 427 positions terminated.

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Sep 17 • 4:11 PM EDT • Health • newhampshirebulletin.com
Tech Sector Priority: Turning AI Into Business Value

This Week Tech: AI needs organizational order, while data and digitalization reshape energy and finance.

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Sep 17 • 3:45 PM EDT • Business • mexicobusiness.news
Lodi Grape Festival returns to San Joaquin County with four-day event

The Lodi Grape Festival returns this week with live music, carnival rides and several ways to save on admission.

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Sep 17 • 3:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • recordnet.com
State to allocate $855.4K in Rural Health funds to West Virginia Health Information Network

West Virginia will distribute $855,400 of its federal Rural Health Transformation funds to the West Virginia Health Information Network.

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Sep 17 • 2:54 PM EDT • Health • westvirginiawatch.com
Health: State Abortion Bans And Ectopic Pregnancies

Between 2020 and 2025, nearly 200 women have died from ectopic pregnancies. That’s almost double the number of deaths in the previous six years.Ectopic pregnancies happen when an embryo implants outside the uterus and can’t develop properly. If left untreated, the embryo can rupture, causing deadly bleeding. The treatment for ectopic pregnancies – which are almost never viable – is termination. But since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, terminating a pregnancy has become more complicated in states with abortion restrictions.We sit down to talk about a new investigation from ProPublica that explores the role these state abortion bans could be playing in the rise in deaths related to ectopic pregnancies.Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.

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Sep 17 • 2:44 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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From classroom to the community: Transforming health in underserved areas

Across South Texas, the future of healthcare is being shaped by a new generation of health professionals who are preparing to serve the communities that need them most. Through education, mentorship and hands-on experiences, they are building the skills and connections needed to expand access to care and strengthen the healthcare workforce for generations […]

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Sep 17 • 2:10 PM EDT • Health • news.uthscsa.edu
Massive Jump In Miami Heat National TV Games Much Deserved

The Miami Heat are stepping into a much bigger national spotlight for the 2026-27 NBA season. After just five nationally televised games in 2025-26, the number of Miami Heat national TV games will jump to 31 this season (including NBA TV). That's an increase of 26 games, reflecting a dramatic shift in the attention surrounding …

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125 schools receive Choose Iowa Local Food for Schools grants

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Wednesday that 125 public and private schools across the state will receive funding through the Choose Iowa Local Food for Schools Program to purchase Iowa-grown and Iowa-raised food. Each school will receive about $1,600 to purchase local food and will match the funding at least dollar-for-dollar. A full…

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Pella Corp. hires new operations executive

Pella Corp. has named Rob Adams executive vice president of operations, effective Sept. 14. Adams, who has more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing, industrial products and consumer goods, most recently served as senior vice president and chief manufacturing and supply chain officer for American Woodmark Corp. In his new role, Adams will lead…

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What to know about Falcons

It’s the first divisional matchup of the year between two teams coming off tough losses.

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Sep 17 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Week in Health: Diabetic Wound Care, Public Health Workforce

Mölnlycke's diabetic amputation data, COFEPRIS's Edomex deal, and hospital groups on scale define this week's Health coverage.

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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
Big Ten Preview: Week 3

FRIDAY NIGHT Portland State (0-3) at Oregon (1-1), 10:30 p.m. on BTN Details: The 2025 Penn State comparisons are fully in effect for the Ducks. They were a playoff team and returned a lot, highlighted by Dante Moore deciding to return at quarterback. Well, the Ducks, picked by plenty of pundits to win the conference […]

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Sep 17 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tennessee's new Music Advisory Council will boost advocacy and tourism

Governor Bill Lee is among the state officials behind an initiative to support music industry professionals.

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Where disciplines meet: UTulsa scientists, conservators unlock secrets of centuries-old manuscripts

UTulsa and Gilcrease Museum researchers use Raman microscopy to analyze pigments in 16th-century Indigenous Mexican manuscripts, uncovering historical and scientific insights while preserving cultural heritage.

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Sep 17 • 10:56 AM EDT • Science • utulsa.edu
Viewpoint: Let's take dark money out of Montana politics

John Westenberg writes, I realize money will always play a role in politics. I’m convinced, however, that a huge step can be taken to make that money “honest”

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Original Switch Has Dropped to $35 at Select Retailers as Part of Nintendo’s Customer Appreciation Sale

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on Nintendo Switch is 42% off at both Amazon and Best Buy, dropping to $34.99, as part of Nintendo's Customer Appreciation Sale.

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FDA has too few staffers to hire more staff

FDA's hiring bottleneck, Dems plan for health care oversight, and more from STAT's D.C. Diagnosis newsletter.

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Sep 17 • 10:17 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues

Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level

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Sep 17 • 9:45 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
Health Departments Offer Flu Vaccine Ahead of Peak Flu Season

An annual flu shot is the best way to prevent serious flu-related illness and is now available at health departments across coastal Georgia.

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Sep 17 • 8:29 AM EDT • Health • coastalhealthdistrict.org
Roku Adds 30 New Bundles To Premium Subscriptions, Offering Combos Of AMC+, Fox One, Starz & More

Roku is introducing a customizable set of bundles creating 30 new combinations of services including AMC+, Fox One and Starz.

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Women’s kidney health may be overlooked, delaying critical prevention and treatment opportunities

Statement Highlights: Diagnosis of women’s chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often delayed, and they are less likely to begin dialysis or receive a kidney transplant. Several female-specific factors impact women’s kidney and cardiovascular health...

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Sep 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • newsroom.heart.org
Banking scandal rocks Brazil’s politics and the country’s presidential election in October

On the night of November 17 2025, Brazilian federal agents pulled banker Daniel Vorcaro off the tarmac at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos airport as he prepared to board a private jet. He was initially detained as a flight risk and arrested a few months later on multiple charges of bank fraud, corruption and money laundering. He currently awaits judgment. Now, less than a month before Brazil’s national elections, the so called “Banco Master crisis” threatens to shake the country’s democracy to its core.

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Mekies Praises Liam Lawson’s Maturity in Formula 1

The Austrian team's director highlights the New Zealander's evolution in his three races as Hadjar's substitute. He underlines his calmness, his focus on the essentials and the points scored in Zandvoort and Madrid, far from his inconsistent first stint in 2025.

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Sep 17 • 7:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
West Suburban Medical Center, Weiss Memorial now under Insight Health Systems

Two shuttered Chicago-area hospitals are under new control on Thursday morning.

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Sep 17 • 7:31 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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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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Sep 17 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • scienceblog.com
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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Sep 17 • 7:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Heartland Whole Health Institute tests ways to expand health care

The institute is testing ways to expand access and lower costs.

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Sep 17 • 7:24 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Scientists Turned Ordinary Shiitake Mushrooms into Living Computers

Your next computer might grow in a compost heap.

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Sep 17 • 7:08 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Mary Means Business: Aldi sets target of 2027 to open in Columbus

Columbus shoppers, the wait for affordable groceries is officially counting down, though you may need to hold onto your quarters a bit longer.

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Sep 17 • 6:59 AM EDT • Business • cdispatch.com
Working Missourians can't afford hidden hospital contract games

Every year, the trustees of our carpenters’ health and welfare fund sit down to figure out how much it will cost to keep our members and their families covered. And every year, the number goes up. Not because our members are getting sicker. Not because they’re using more care. It goes up because health care […]

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Sep 17 • 6:45 AM EDT • Health • missouriindependent.com
Galaxy S25 and older models finally have a One UI 9 rollout date

The Galaxy S25 series and Samsung’s 2025 foldables are set to get One UI 9 on September 28, with older models following later.

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Sep 17 • 6:08 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.

Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.

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Sep 17 • 6:03 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.

Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.

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Microsoft shares workaround for Windows domain login issues

Microsoft shared a temporary fix on Wednesday for a known issue that prevents Windows 11 users from logging in with valid domain credentials after installing the September 2026 security updates.

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Sep 17 • 4:24 AM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
Denver board faces ongoing governance and civility issues

It’s mostly impossible to herd cats. So imagine how hard it is to herd a pride of snarling lions. That’s the task of Xóchitl Gaytán, president of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education. She was re-elected in 2025 along with three new board members: Monica Hunter, Dr. D.J. Torres and Anne Klein Molk. Unexpectedly, […]

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Sep 17 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Panthers Have Little Room for Error After 2025-26 Collapse

The market is hardly bullish on the Florida Panthers getting back to its Stanley Cup-winning form this season. The post Panthers Have Little Room for Error After 2025-26 Collapse appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 17 • 2:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Carbondale Area Science and Technology Club hosts STEM Night for elementary students

Members of the Carbondale Area High School Science and Technology Club hosted a “Blast Off to Summer” STEM Night for Carbondale Area Elementary students toward the end of the 2025-26 school year. Throughout the evening, students explored ex…

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Nearly all luxury resale transactions on TikTok Shop US now come from livestreams

Year-to-date, 94% of revenue on TikTok Shop from luxury resale in the U.S. is coming from streaming, the platform revealed last week.

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Sep 17 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • digiday.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
WhatsApp may soon let iPhone users add a third account

After recently letting iPhone users add a second account to the same app, WhatsApp is now working on expanding support to up to three accounts.

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Sep 16 • 6:39 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Ballad Health lawsuit against United Healthcare dismissed

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Ballad Health against national insurance group United Healthcare. The hospital system had claimed that United had routi…

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Sep 16 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • wjhl.com
Save the Children | Yemen: Latest Violence Threatens to Shatter an Already Threadbare Health System for Children

The latest violence in Yemen threatens to shatter the already threadbare health system for children.

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Sep 16 • 5:41 PM EDT • Health • savethechildren.org
Springfield considers cannabis tax revenue for small business grants

Proposed program would provide up to $100,000 to eight local businesses.

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Sep 16 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • capitolcitynow.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
Van Orden praises ‘high-quality’ GOP rural healthcare program as Medicaid cuts loom

William Garcia, whose daughter relies on Medicaid, criticized GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden over his vote for Medicaid cuts in Trump's 2025 budget law.

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In the News: Mark Osler on the Growing Business of Presidential Pardons - Newsroom

Mark Osler spoke with “60 Minutes” about paid pardon brokers, the federal clemency process and concerns about access to presidential pardons.

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Sep 16 • 3:07 PM EDT • Business • news.stthomas.edu
Delaware health officials warn residents of possible measles exposure in Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County

The warning comes after an out-of-state traveler visited the Rehoboth Beach area while contagious. Officials encourage residents to get vaccinated.

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Owner of Halfmoon dog boarding business acquitted of animal cruelty charges

The owner of a Halfmoon dog boarding business has been found not guilty of animal cruelty-related charges.Back in July 2025, CBS6 reported Giovanni was initiall

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iOS 27.2 gives Apple TV a new profiles feature on iPhone

iOS 27.2 beta 1 arrived today, and with it a key new feature for the Apple TV app on iPhone: user profiles.

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