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Michigan politicians float gas tax suspension amid 'bloodsucking' gas prices

Fuel prices continue to rise Friday, frustrating drivers across Mid-Michigan. At a gas station in Lansing, drivers were filling up their tank for 4.97 per gallon.

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Sep 18 • 8:29 PM EDT • Politics • wlns.com
Big game, big business: Central Mississippi feels Ole Miss-LSU impact

Fans across the Metro are preparing for the Ole Miss-LSU matchup, and the excitement is translating into business for Central Mississippi companies more than 100 miles from Oxford.

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Sep 18 • 8:23 PM EDT • Business • wlbt.com
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Belmont Park reopens as new sports and entertainment destination

ELMONT, N.Y. (PIX11) — The horses are running again at Belmont Park. For the first time in three years, race calls echo across the iconic Nassau County track as thousands of fans gather for the reo…

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Sep 18 • 7:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • pix11.com
West African scientists warn of weakening health systems and urge stronger outbreak detection

LOME, Togo (AP) — West African laboratory scientists called on governments Friday to strengthen capacity to detect disease outbreaks to avoid another major outbreak, saying health systems across the region are becoming weaker.

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Sep 18 • 6:43 PM EDT • Health • wral.com
Local health officials urge measles vaccination amid exposures

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — More measles exposures are being reported across the region. Exposures are now being tracked at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport, as well as a fe...

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Sep 18 • 5:43 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
PAHO: Strengthening El Niño raises growing health risks across the Americas

Drought, food insecurity, dengue, wildfires, and flooding are already affecting several countries across the region as El Niño intensifies.Washington, D.C., September 18, 2026 (PAHO) – El Niño continues to strengthen and could have significant public health impacts across the Americas in the coming months, according to the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) first regional situation report on the phenomenon.

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Sep 18 • 5:22 PM EDT • Health • paho.org
Business 51 rebuild through Weston slips toward 2030 as village presses state for a crossing DOT says won't fit

Weston has been planning for Business 51 construction in 2029-30. The DOT's schedule now points to 2030-31. Meanwhile, the village is pushing for a pedestrian crossing at Neupert Avenue that the state says the highway can't fit, and it just lost a grant for a second crossing near the elementary school.

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Sep 18 • 4:56 PM EDT • Business • wausaupilotandreview.com
iOS and iPadOS 27 expand language support for several system features

Apple today confirmed that more than 30 new languages and language variants are now supported across iOS and iPadOS features.

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Sep 18 • 4:31 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Health department to provide overdose training, materials across the county

People can learn in Frederick County on Thursday how to reverse opioid overdoses with naloxone.

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Sep 18 • 4:25 PM EDT • Health • fredericknewspost.com
United Bank hires Phil Poliquin to lead government contracting business

Phil PoliquinUnited Bank, a subsidiary of United Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: UBSI), has announced that Phil Poliquin has joined the Bank as senior vice president and managing director of Government Contracting (GovCon), leading the next phase of growth for United’s GovCon business across the Bank’s footprint.United has a longstanding history of serving government contractors and meeting the dynamic banking needs of companies supporting federal, state and commercial markets. Building on that foundation, the Bank is establishing a dedicated GovCon team led by Poliquin. The new team will bring together bankers from across United's footprint under a focused strategy designed to deepen industry expertise, strengthen client relationships and expand the Bank's presence in this important market.“Government contractors operate in a complex and highly specialized environment, and Phil understands that environment from multiple perspectives,” said United Bank Chief Commercial Lending Officer Mike Proctor in a press release. “His extensive commercial banking experience, combined with more than two decades of military and government service, brings tremendous depth and expertise to our team. We’re excited to have his leadership and insight as we continue strengthening how United serves our GovCon clients across the nation’s capital and beyond.”In his new role, Poliquin will lead United’s GovCon lending strategy and a team of specialists, with a focus on deepening client relationships and expanding the Bank’s presence in the government contracting and defense sectors. He will also serve as a subject matter expert across the organization, partnering with bankers across United’s footprint to support GovCon clients and opportunities.“Government contracting has long been an important part of the economy across the Washington region, and we believe it remains an attractive sector for growth,” said United Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Adams, Jr. in a press release “As the needs of these companies continue to evolve, investing in specialized leadership strengthens our ability to build on our established presence, expand how we serve this market, and pursue new opportunities.”Poliquin has a decade of experience in commercial banking, most recently serving as executive director of Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services (ADG) commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase. In this role, he led a team responsible for providing specialized financing and treasury advice to federal government contractor companies across the nation. Previously, he also held senior leadership positions at Bank of America.Prior to his banking career, Poliquin served 24 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring at the rank of Captain in 2013. A Naval aviator, he flew more than 100 combat missions in operations around the world and served in senior leadership positions, including as commanding officer of an F/A-18 Super Hornet squadron, leading more than 250 personnel during two combat deployments. He later joined the Intelligence Community as a program manager at the National Reconnaissance Office and contributed to the development of the Navy’s unmanned aircraft system strategy.“United has a strong foundation in government contracting, and I’m excited about the opportunity to build on that foundation by expanding our industry presence, deepening relationships, and developing a team with specialized expertise focused on serving government contractors,” said Poliquin in the release. “The goal is to be a trusted resource for growth-oriented companies that need a banking partner who understands what they do, where they’re headed and can help them navigate the opportunities and complexities of this market.”Poliquin holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, a master’s degree in national security strategy from the U.S. Naval War College, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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Sep 18 • 4:12 PM EDT • Business • bizfayetteville.com
Autonomous airplane completes first cross-country flight

The retrofitted Cessna handled taxiing, takeoffs, bad weather, and landings without a human pilot.

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Sep 18 • 2:56 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Warhammer 40k & Horus Heresy: The New Custodes Are Here In Force Across Two Timelines

The Emperor's Finest steal the spotlight in both games this fall - check out the preview!

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Sep 18 • 2:52 PM EDT • Technology • belloflostsouls.net
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Sept. 18

Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships and products across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL Íñigo Aznar Named CRO of Inter Miami CF and Nu Stadium Inter Miami CF announced Iñigo Aznar has been named chief revenue officer of the club and Nu Stadium. Aznar brings 25 years of international experience …

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Sep 18 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arkansas Department of Health offering no-charge flu vaccinations in communities

The Arkansas Department of Health is scheduled to begin offering free community flu vaccine clinics across all 75 counties starting Sept. 21.

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Sep 18 • 1:50 PM EDT • Health • kark.com
Arkansas health officials offer free flu vaccines statewide

The Arkansas Department of Health will begin offering free flu vaccines at community clinics across the state starting Monday, Sept. 21

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Sep 18 • 1:29 PM EDT • Health • katv.com
ATA Action forms coalition to advance interstate telehealth licensure

The Cross-State Care Coalition brings together health systems, academic medical centers, telehealth companies and virtual care advocates to champion federal legislation that eases licensing constraints while maintaining state regulatory authority.

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Sep 18 • 12:47 PM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
Lewis County health officials identify source of foul odor reported in Weston

The Lewis County Health Department has identified the source of an unpleasant odor reported across parts of Weston, confirming it originated from a nearby dam rather than the sewer system.

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Sep 18 • 12:11 PM EDT • Health • wdtv.com
United Way shares update on Food Security Plan

More than two years after helping launch the Central Iowa Food Security Plan, United Way of Central Iowa shared progress made through a community-wide effort to improve food access, strengthen partnerships and address the root causes of food insecurity across Polk, Dallas and Warren counties. The plan was developed through a partnership between United Way…

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Sep 18 • 11:52 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Fortnite Is Selling Your Favorite Characters Back To You As Husks

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

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Sep 18 • 11:01 AM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site
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
Dodgers Face Sasaki Decision After Encouraging Live Session

Roki Sasaki’s recovery forces a strategic crossroads for Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts: deploy the flamethrower as a high-leverage reliever or vital rotation insurance.

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Sep 18 • 10:23 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Central Health’s Proposed 2027 Budget Focuses On Expanding Access To Care Across Travis County

Sponsored Content Central Health is looking ahead to 2027 with a proposed budget centered on one key goal: making health care easier to access for Travis County residents. Dr. Pat Lee, president an…

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Sep 18 • 10:05 AM EDT • Health • kxan.com
Pikachu in space! New ESA-Pokemon partnership sends the electric mouse to the ISS

The coming family-friendly exhibitions across Europe will unite science and imaginative visual storytelling.

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Sep 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • space.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
Holy Cross Health Recognized for Zero Reported Hospital-Onset

The hospital is committed to evidence-based strategies that protect patients by reducing infection risks. August 26, 2026 – Holy Cross Health is one of a select group of U.S. hospitals to be recognized in the Healthcare Associated Infections-Hospital database for reporting zero hospital-onset Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections. The database relies on publicly reported […]

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Sep 18 • 9:53 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
On Your Side Safety Check: How to Protect Your Pets From Rabies

The Alabama Department of Public Health says there have been 39 confirmed cases of rabies in animals across Alabama since last Friday, with raccoons accounting for the largest number of cases.

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Sep 18 • 8:58 AM EDT • Health • wbrc.com
Review: Valheim (Switch 2) - Epic Survival Crafter Finally Hits 1.0, With Performance & Crossplay Hiccups

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Sep 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Flood leaves Hagerstown business owner at a crossroads

For 26 years, Gary Schuette has owned and operated Nettle Creek Ace Hardware, an anchor of Hagerstown’s shopping center area along East Main Street. Floodwaters ruined that storied business within hours Aug. 12, leaving its future in limbo. In addition to the hardware store, water affected the nearby hair salon, food mart, thrift store, car […]

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Sep 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • westernwaynenews.com
Asbestos health effects: Future research and education needs

Asbestos contamination across public spaces in Austria and Hungary has raised concerns about how hazardous materials can spread undetected

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Sep 18 • 7:48 AM EDT • Health • openaccessgovernment.org
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi welcome their second baby

(CNN) — Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi have welcomed their second child, a year after adopting their first baby.

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Sep 18 • 7:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • crossroadstoday.com
Two Washington Nationals Execs Recognized Among Best Across MLB

A pair of Washington Nationals were recognized among the next batch of rising executives across the MLB heading into the offseason

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Sep 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Forgotten Harvest targets underserved food need in northern Macomb County

The organization is training a growing network of nonprofit partners to rescue more food across metro Detroit.

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Sep 18 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses

Tribal leaders across Washington and Oregon told Stateline that this year’s record-breaking wildfires burned timber that they rely on for income, threatened food sources and waterways, and harmed the health of their communities.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • stateline.org
Atlético CEO proposes 31 or 32-match LaLiga player limit

Miguel Ángel Gil Marín has put a concrete proposal to UEFA aimed at easing football’s overloaded calendar: capping the number of Liga matches an individual player can be available for across a 38-...

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
16th Asian Chief Dental Officers Meeting: Advancing universal health coverage for oral health in the WHO Western Pacific and South-East Asia Regions

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

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Forgot to Pre-Order iPhone 18 Pro? Apple Store Pickup Available Today at Most Locations

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models are now being delivered to customers worldwide following the pre-order period that began on Saturday, September 12. For those who didn't pre-order, there's now a 3-4 week wait time for iPhone 18 Pro Max models across all storage options and colorways in the U.S. Demand has been less strong for iPhone 18 Pro models, but you're still looking at a 2-3 week wait for any configuration.

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Sep 18 • 4:00 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Retail sales bounce back across Great Britain

Latest data to defy economic gloom shows 0.5% rise boosted by purchases of sports items, aircon units and fans amid heatwaves

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Sep 18 • 3:40 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Sep 18 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
El Niño-driven Kelvin wave could raise Bay Area sea levels by up to 1 foot, scientists say

A little-known ocean phenomenon linked to El Niño is making its way toward California and could raise Bay Area sea levels by as much as a foot this fall, increasing the risk of coastal flooding across the region. Here's what to know about Kelvin waves.

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Sep 17 • 8:40 PM EDT • Science • abc7news.com
WA Kenyan community, healthcare workers alarmed by uptick in ICE arrests

An increase of arrests of Kenyan immigrants in Washington is raising alarms for communities and labor groups across the state.

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Sep 17 • 8:27 PM EDT • Health • kuow.org
See Brevard County's high school football live scoreboard, Week 5

See Florida Today's live scoreboard for Week 5 high school football games across Brevard County on Sept. 17-21.

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Sep 17 • 7:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
United Group Launches AI-Driven EON 3.0 Entertainment Platform Across Southeast Europe

United Group Launches AI-Driven EON 3.0 Entertainment Platform Across Southeast Europe

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Sep 17 • 7:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • thefastmode.com
New report details lead levels in New York schools

A new report released Thursday details the amount of lead found in drinking water at schools across New York state.

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Sep 17 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
The Business Journal launches redesigned website

TheBusinessJournal.com has a new look, expanded local coverage and more business intelligence for readers across California’s Central Valley.

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Sep 17 • 6:28 PM EDT • Business • thebusinessjournal.com
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Sep 17 • 6:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • youtube.com
HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Fall festivals, art shows and Violent Femmes concert set for the next several days

Art, music and heritage festivals fill the schedule across the region this weekend

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Sep 17 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdbj7.com
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Chef David Chang hits the road across the US in new food-centric CNN travel series

Chef David Chang's new CNN travel series, “The Detour with David Chang,” explores America's culinary landscape.

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Sep 17 • 5:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of ​its streaming business, as the company ‌seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and ​Hulu.

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Business Briefs: Blue Cross Foundation tabs Sanchez for MMPI post

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation appointed Liz Sanchez as director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute, a dedicated arm

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of its ​streaming business, as the company ‌seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu. • The company also ‌named ​Joe Earley...

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of its streaming business, as the company seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu.

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of its streaming business, as the company seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu.

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of its streaming business, as the company seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu.

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Walt Disney on Thursday named insider ​Adam Smith chairman of its streaming business, as the company seeks ‌to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms ⁠such as ​Disney+ and Hulu.

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Sep 17 • 5:08 PM EDT • Business • ksl.com
Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Thursday named insider Adam Smith chairman of its ​streaming business, as the company ‌seeks to sharpen its focus across its direct-to-consumer platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu. • The company also ‌named ​Joe Earley...

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Sep 17 • 5:08 PM EDT • Business • kfgo.com
LACCE

The Landslide Change Characterization Experiment (LACCE) will investigate landslides as they occur in real time across California and Alaska.

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Sep 17 • 5:08 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Snow4Flow

Investigating snow accumulation and ice flow of glaciers across the Arctic to better project what they will look like by the end of this century.

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Sep 17 • 5:04 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Middle Schooler Selected As Finalist In National Science Competition

Kianoosh Nawai, an eighth grader at the West Virginia Virtual Academy, was the only West Virginia student chosen from close to 2,000 entrants from across the country for a national science competition.

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Sep 17 • 4:54 PM EDT • Science • wvpublic.org
New York Yankees Urged to Make Bold Paul Goldschmidt Decision

The New York Yankees, much like all the other postseason teams in MLB, will have to make tough decisions when it comes to their October roster. It’s a 26-man roster in October across MLB, and no team can carry more than 13 pitchers. How a club opts to round out its roster is entirely up […] The post New York Yankees Urged to Make Bold Paul Goldschmidt Decision appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 17 • 4:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MIT School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in spring 2026

Faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering were recognized in spring 2026 with prestigious awards for their contributions to research, technology, society, and education.

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Sep 17 • 4:20 PM EDT • Science • news.mit.edu
BNI Flag City chapter connects local business professionals

Business Networking International (BNI) brings local business professionals together to build connections and pass along referrals. In Findlay, the Flag City chapter has 37 businesses represented across a variety of industries.

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Sep 17 • 4:11 PM EDT • Business • hometownstations.com
Carolina Hurricanes Announce Eric Robinson News During Training Camp

Thursday, September 17, is an important day on the NHL calendar, as teams across the league have begun the training camp portion of their season. That is the case for the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes. After the lengthy title run, the Canes are dealing with a handful of injuries, but all things considered, […] The post Carolina Hurricanes Announce Eric Robinson News During Training Camp appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 17 • 4:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Microsoft’s AI playbook shows businesses how to turn experiments into results

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

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Indoor family entertainment concept coming to Denton - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound

A 30,000-square-foot entertainment center with trampolines, a ninja course, virtual reality, arcade games and more is coming to Denton. Launch Family Entertainment will open a new location on Friday, Oct. 30 inside the Golden Triangle Mall at 2201 South I-35. The center will also feature Multi Ball and a Valo Area, along with the Launch’s […]

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Candidates in SECU election share thoughts

Five members are vying for three board seats at Raleigh-based SECU, the nation’s second-largest credit union with $60 billion in assets. Three were recommended by a board-led nominating committee.

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Sep 17 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • businessnc.com
About 35 million people have been put into new House districts in the fight over congressional maps, report says

The findings display the stark overhaul that partisan redistricting fights kicked off by President Donald Trump last year have caused for Americans across the country.

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Sep 17 • 2:59 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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
National Institutes of Health awards $3.6 million grant to study health threats from Hawaiʻi’s plantation history

Investigating a hidden environmental health threat across Hawaiʻi—pollutants left behind by decades of agricultural and industrial activity, and whether wildfires and other disasters can bring those contaminants back into the environment and into people’s bodies—is the focus of a new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-led research project that received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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Sep 17 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • mauinow.com
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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50 New macOS Golden Gate Features and Changes Worth Checking Out

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate this week, and despite the company's focus this year on refining its flagship operating system, improving performance, and nixing bugs, there are still plenty of new things to explore. There's an overhauled Siri experience, changes across Apple's apps, and much-needed updates across the system interface. In this article, we've selected 50 new features and lesser-known changes that are worth checking out if you're updating your Mac.

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Sep 17 • 12:18 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Jian Li and Akshat Dave Among Faculty Awarded Grants From AI Innovation Institute

Ten interdisciplinary projects have received funds from Stony Brook University’s AI Small Grant Program. Selected from a pool of 63 applications, these research initiatives will advance integrated AI innovation and strategic diffusion of AI technology across Stony Brook’s campus, New York State and the world. Lav Varshney, Della Pietra Infinity Professor and inaugural director of

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Two CT business owners plead guilty to millions in COVID program fraud

Prosecutors across the country took part in enforcement against 160 defendants responsible for frauds totaling $245 million targeting the Paycheck Protection Program, authorities said.

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Sep 17 • 11:50 AM EDT • Business • ctpost.com
Chef David Chang hits the road across the US in new food-centric CNN travel series

Chef David Chang's new CNN travel series, “The Detour with David Chang,” explores America's culinary landscape | Newsradio 1140 WRVA

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Sep 17 • 11:49 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Chef David Chang hits the road across the US in new food-centric CNN travel series

Chef David Chang's new CNN travel series, “The Detour with David Chang,” explores America's culinary landscape | WWL

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Chef David Chang hits the road across the US in new food-centric CNN travel series

Chef David Chang's new CNN travel series, “The Detour with David Chang,” explores America's culinary landscape | Talk 1370

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‘Nearly 100% fatal’ disease on the rise across US. See risks in Washington state

Federal health officials just issued a nationwide alert about the animal-transmitted virus.

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Sep 17 • 11:23 AM EDT • Health • thenewstribune.com
ACA health coverage enrollment in NH declined by 4.8k after credits expired

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

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Sep 17 • 11:12 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
MDI Health Celebrates Community at 2026 Annual Meeting

BAR HARBOR—MDI Health celebrated the people and partnerships strengthening local healthcare during its 2026 Annual Meeting and Community Celebration, held September 15 at the Bar Harbor Club. The gathering brought together patients, medical staff, employees, trustees, volunteers, supporters, and community partners to recognize the year’s accomplishments and honor those whose contributions make a meaningful difference across the organization and the communities it serves. “This celebration is an opportunity to recognize the extraordinary people who make our work possible,” said Chrissi Maguire, president and CEO of MDI Health. “Their compassion, dedication, and belief in strong local healthcare can be felt throughout our hospital, health centers, Birch Bay Village, and the communities we serve.” During the celebration, MDI Health presented its 2026 Impact Award to Mount Desert Nursing Association (MDNA), recognizing the organization as Community Partner of the Year for providing compassionate, skilled in-home nursing care across Mount Desert Island, Trenton, and Lamoine. “MDNA extends care beyond our walls, helping people remain safely at home, surrounded by the people and places they know and love,” Maguire said. “Its work lies at the intersection of healthcare and community and strengthens our entire healthcare system.” “For 77 years, MDNA has helped our neighbors recover and remain safely at home,” said Amy McVety, MDNA Executive Director. “Our longstanding partnership with MDI Health helps ensure a seamless transition from hospital to home and the continued care patients need. We are grateful for this recognition and especially proud of our talented, hardworking team.” The evening marked a transition in Board leadership. Martha Wagner, PhD, was recognized as she concluded her term as chair of the MDI Health Board of Trustees. Madeleine Braun, PhD, MBA, was introduced as incoming chair. “It is an honor to build on Martha’s leadership and serve an organization so deeply connected to this community,” Braun said. Individual honorees recognized during the evening’s program included Nancy D’Agostino, MDI Health Volunteer of the Year; George Rossi, Birch Bay Village Volunteer of the Year; Marc Woolfolk, Birch Bay Village Employee of the Year; and Beth Applebee, MDI Hospital Employee of the Year. “These honorees represent the very best of who we are,” Maguire said. The program also highlighted new initiatives and honors from the past year. MDI Health launched a free Screening Mammogram Scholarship Program to remove financial barriers to early detection, supported by a generous grant from the Maine Cancer Foundation. An in-hospital food pantry has been opened to meet rising community need and address the link between nutrition and health. MDI Health earned CMS five-star ratings for Patient Experience and Nurse Communication, top marks in the 2026–2027 Lown Institute Hospitals Index, recognition from the American Hospital Association and American Heart Association, and a third consecutive Best Places to Work in Maine designation. The hospital will open its new Main Entrance this fall, as work advances on the expanded Emergency Department and other patient-care spaces. The Building Our Future Campaign has raised more than $56 million in capital and programmatic support to date. “Everything we have accomplished reflects the strength of this community,” Maguire said. “We are grateful to everyone who has contributed their time, talent, leadership, and support to help MDI Health continue meeting the evolving needs of the region.” Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Sep 17 • 10:46 AM EDT • Health • barharborstory.substack.com
Can MRVL's Data Center Business Sustain Its Growth in 2027?

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

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Sep 17 • 10:17 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Sports Media Winners and Losers From the Football Week

There were plenty of sports media happenings across college and the NFL.

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Sep 17 • 9:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Guaranteed Rate Affinity Hires Josh Rakiey To Grow New England Business

Guaranteed Rate Affinity has hired Josh Rakiey as vice president of mortgage lending, adding an experienced originator to expand its business across New England.Rakiey will serve homebuyers, develop relationships with real estate agents, and work to grow his team and regional presence, the company announced Thursday.

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AMD Plans 10% Price Hike Across GPUs, Chipsets, and Possibly CPUs

AMD is preparing for a series of price hikes in response to rising costs of acquiring silicon from its supply chain. According to ChannelGate, AMD is working on a 10% price increase across its products due to the upstream supply chain squeeze. Since most of AMD's silicon is manufactured by...

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Lawndale Christian Health Center celebrates new facility’s grand opening

Lawndale Christian Health Center was recently joined by Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city officials to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new Family and Senior Health Center at 3814 W. Ogden Ave. Located in North Lawndale, the facility expands LCHC’s Ogden Medical Corridor and will increase access to health care services for residents of North Lawndale and across Chicago’s West Side.

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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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5 things we now know about prostate cancer

This disease is highly treatable if caught early—but in its earliest stages, prostate cancer often has no symptoms, allowing it to develop without detection. Learn more about this common cancer and how Johnson & Johnson is innovating across both early-stage and advanced disease.

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Lena Dunham welcomes her first baby via surrogacy

(CNN) — Actress and writer Lena Dunham and her husband Luis Felber have welcomed a baby daughter via surrogate.Writing in an op-ed published by Vogue on Wednesday, Dunham, 40, who is best known as the creator of hit TV series “Girls,” revealed that the couple’s first child had arrived 13 days late, before describing the moment of her birth.“I was so focused on our surrogate — in awe at her concentration, her period of quiet followed by what sounded like a roar — I forgot to look down until I heard our baby’s cry,” she wrote.“I saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.”Dunham said she was “bashful and dizzy with joy.”In 2018, Dunham revealed that she’d had a hysterectomy in an attempt to end the pain caused by endometriosis.Endometriosis is a common and often painful condition that happens when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus itself. It’s estimated to affect more than 11% of women between the ages of 15 and 44 across the United States.The surgery removed her cervix and uterus, meaning that she was unable to conceive naturally.On meeting her surrogate, Dunham wrote in the Vogue piece: “While I’ve been known to make friends quickly —​ airport terminals, veterinary offices — ​this was the quickest leap from first coffee to gynecological procedure I’d ever done.”Dunham said in the months before the embryo transfer date, as she “got to know our surrogate and to trust her,” she thought she would feel “jealousy” towards her, but she did not.“Instead, I felt a different kind of jealousy — toward said baby, for the chance to be tucked into someone who radiated such safety. I could just tell she knew how to steer an SUV in the snow,” Dunham added.The pregnancy came after “12 years circling the fertility drain,” Dunham wrote, and revealed how she dealt with the nerves of the intervening months.“Powerless and unable to feel the physical changes that signal a growing fetus, I horrified friends and family who adhere to the Jewish superstition prohibiting anticipatory purchases, and I started shopping,” said Dunham, before recounting her journey into the world of baby fashion.“I was looking for garments that allowed her personality to develop and express itself rather than announcing an identity she didn’t yet have,” she said.“She would be a person that we helped to dress, who made an impression on the world based on our choices, until she was old enough to do it herself.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.​THE-CNN-WIRE (TM) & © 2026 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., A TIME WARNER COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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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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The Strange New Politics of AI. Plus. . .

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

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Arts and entertainment events happening September 17th-20th across the Mid-Ohio Valley

Here is a look at all the arts and entertainment events happening this weekend across the Mid-Ohio Valley.

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Sep 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • wtap.com
HSCC backs healthcare cybersecurity bills, calls for broader funding and stronger HHS-CISA coordination

HSCC backs healthcare cybersecurity bills, calls for broader funding and stronger HHS-CISA coordination across healthcare sector.

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Sep 17 • 5:15 AM EDT • Health • industrialcyber.co
Partnership provides grants for small business disaster relief

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

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Sep 17 • 5:15 AM EDT • Business • wrvo.org
Dave Chappelle to hit major cities for new tour. How to get tickets

The comedian plans to hit seven arenas across the U.S. this fall.

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Sep 17 • 5:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • usatoday.com
Orlando Health grant assists Early Learning Coalition Brevard

The Early Learning Coalition of Brevard County (ELCB) recently announced it has been awarded more than $250,000 from the Space Coast Health Foundation to expand evidence-based social-emotional learning supports for preschool children across Brevard County.

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Sep 17 • 5:06 AM EDT • Health • floridatoday.com
Across Minnesota, opposition to data centers is a political campaign season rallying cry

It's campaign season, and one issue is taking center stage: data centers. In Pine Island, a proposed hyperscale data center prompted a slate of first-time candidates to run for local office.

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Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • mprnews.org
Xbox Tokyo Game Show Sale kicks off with big discounts on 700+ titles

This year's Xbox Tokyo Game Show Sale is now up and running on the Microsoft Store, offering hefty discounts across some big-name games, DLC packs, and more.

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Sep 17 • 4:40 AM EDT • Technology • trueachievements.com
NSF and UKRI Invest More Than $10 Million in Quantum Chemistry Research

NSF and UKRI are investing more than $10 million across eight projects studying quantum information science in chemical systems.

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Sep 17 • 3:05 AM EDT • Science • thequantuminsider.com
For the Buffalo Bills, ‘O Canada’ is business

The Bills’ Canadian anthem salute is rooted in business and decades of cross-border fandom. In this political moment, it means more.

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Sep 17 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) Following Lyft Deal Has Its Valuation Back In Focus

Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) just signed a multi-year marketing deal with Lyft that makes the rideshare service the official partner across its venues, highlighting how transportation partnerships can shape the broader entertainment ecosystem. Sphere Entertainment’s recent Lyft tie-up lands at a time when momentum has cooled in the short term but remains strong over a longer horizon. The share price is down 15.8% over the past month, while the year-to-date share price return is 53.2% and the...

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Sep 17 • 1:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Virginia Department of Health officials, food quality professionals detail latest food regulations

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — New food safety regulations that establish updated standards for handling food, sanitation and staff oversight, while adding another food allergen, took effect across Virgi…

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