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Conyers TikTok star trades health care career for auto repair and helps train new mechanics
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Oct 20 • 10:47 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Georgia nurse turned mechanic builds business and trains next generation
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Oct 20 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Texas native Matthew McConaughey urges independent voters to impact U.S. elections
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Oct 20 • 10:07 AM EDT • Politics • cbs19.tv
Perot Museum of Nature and Science announces expansion, adding hands-on attractions and outdoor space
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Oct 20 • 9:14 AM EDT • Science • cbsnews.com
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3 more Democrats slated to join summit on political future
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Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center cafeteria closes after failed health inspection
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Oct 19 • 11:07 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Inglewood small business builds knitting community, garners national attention
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Oct 19 • 10:30 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Inglewood business brings knitters together, garners national attention
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Oct 19 • 9:52 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston agrees to allocating $2 million to help businesses impacted by city construction

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responded to the City Council's request for changes to the 2027 budget, in which city revenue is expected to increase slightly more than 1% from this year.

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Oct 19 • 7:27 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center cafeteria fails health inspection; 200 live roaches found in kitchen

The cafeteria at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center failed a recent public health inspection, after officials found black slime and more than 200 live cockroaches in the facility.

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Oct 19 • 6:45 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Study finds 1 in 3 adults struggle with everyday health tasks
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Oct 19 • 5:51 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Fairburn Road bridge project raises concerns for nearby South Fulton businesses
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Oct 19 • 5:46 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Howard County Health Officer to retire at the end of the month

After serving as Howard County's Health Officer for more than a decade, Dr. Maura Rossman will be stepping down from her role at the end of October.

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Oct 19 • 4:23 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Trump signs executive order creating women's health division within NIH

"Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division?" President Trump said Monday.

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Oct 19 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Trump signs executive order creating women's health division within NIH

"Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division?" President Trump said Monday.

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Oct 19 • 11:59 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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CBS Sports grades Falcons' Week 6 loss to Chicago Bears

Falcons earn ugly grade for ugly loss to Chicago Bears in Week 6

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Oct 19 • 11:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles Calls Mount for Action Before NFL Trade Deadline

Multiple CBS Sports analysts argued Nick Sirianni and the Philadelphia Eagles could be major sellers at the 2026 NFL trade deadline. The post Eagles Calls Mount for Action Before NFL Trade Deadline appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 19 • 10:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting noncitizen voters

Federal authorities are arresting more than two dozen foreign nationals in California who authorities said have illegally registered and voted in U.S. elections | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

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Oct 19 • 10:46 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
Trump set to sign women's health order Melania helped shape

The order aims to close research gaps and modernize care for women, White House officials wrote on social media.

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Oct 19 • 10:46 AM EDT • Health • cbs12.com
Michiganders to vote on limiting political donations by utility companies, government contractors

Michigan voters will have a chance to decide whether to limit certain campaign finances through a citizen-led initiative.

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Oct 19 • 10:34 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Supreme Court to decide legality of federal ban on distilling liquor at home
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Oct 19 • 9:52 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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New TV shows to watch this week: Tune in to ‘Eternally Yours’ on CBS, stream ‘Yaga’ on AMC+ and revisit ‘Servant’ on Apple TV

Plus, Connie Britton plays a mom under suspicion in "Phony," and "The Diplomat" returns for Season 4.

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Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Digital health coaching is becoming a popular program for older adults
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Oct 19 • 7:41 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Tyler's Cup O Joy Tea House celebrates 7 years, boosts local small businesses
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Oct 19 • 7:38 AM EDT • Business • cbs19.tv
Breast cancer rates in Johnson County exceed national average, health officials say

Breast cancer is being diagnosed in Johnson County at a higher rate than the national average, making it the county’s most common form of cancer, according to l

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Oct 19 • 6:06 AM EDT • Health • cbs2iowa.com
Trump dangles rural health dollars to push states to change hospital laws

The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.

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Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Campaign 2026: Chloe Pierce (D) vs Scott Bendett (R) in NYS 107th Assembly District

Democratic nominee Chloe Pierce is challenging Republican incumbent Scott Bendett.

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Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cbs6albany.com
3 teens arrested after a string of business break-ins in Baltimore County
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Oct 18 • 11:47 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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New closures set to begin on I-70, Colorado businesses offer travelers welcome break from traffic
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Oct 18 • 8:45 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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New closures set to begin on I-70, Colorado businesses offer travelers welcome break from traffic

More closures are coming up as the I-70 Floyd Hill Project continues, and Two Bears Tap and Grill is preparing for an increase in travelers looking to take a break.

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Oct 18 • 8:28 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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3 teenagers charged in string of Baltimore County business burglaries
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Oct 18 • 7:46 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Streaming’s Biggest Show Returns…and a Buzzy Genre Struggles

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Obviously, the big news of the week (if not month) is Netflix letting go of executive Bela Bajaria, their chief content officer. I’m going to cover this in my next “Most Important Story of the Week”, but I also have a data angle that I might publish before then. (Too much news this month, am I right?) But first, I have a bonus Streaming Ratings Report issue for you. Today’s article is a bit of a grab bag of topics I’ve wanted to write about, but couldn’t squeeze into the (already very long) Streaming Ratings Report issues. The NFL drives huge viewership numbers, so I’ve got a look at that. A whole bunch of TV shows returned to the traditional broadcast channels, and I have thoughts. And I have a quick look at adult animated shows, since a couple flopped earlier this month. Plus, the Emmys aired earlier this month, and we got some fun data bout how popular those nominated shows are and why I’m not optimistic about the show’s future. That’s a lot, so let’s dive right in. Subscribe Sports - Football Remains the King of Streaming Over the last two Streaming Ratings Reports, I sorta ignored the biggest “show” each week. (I was tempted to say “piece of content” but I know that word bugs folks.) In my database, I call these “specials”, and they sure are special. I speak of the king of American TV: football!!! Streaming football is back and, unlike some other sports, it routinely dominates all viewership. Probably the best way to show this is to update one of my favorite graphics, the “40 Million Hour Club”1 since football games have joined that club each week they’ve premiered: (Yep, that’s the data through 28-Sep, the first four weeks of the season. As a reminder, I take the average minute audience provided by Nielsen, factor out a percentage of linear TV viewers in home markets, and multiply the run time by the three-hour runtime.) Again, the numbers are huge. Let’s start with Netflix. They grabbed the rights to the bonus opening week NFL Kickoff game (which was on YouTube last year) and it put up 18.5 million viewers on average. That nets out to 47.4 million hours of estimated streaming hours. That’s good! Though, notably, it’s well below Christmas Day games from previous years. Compared to other streamers/broadcasters, that’s a bit of a mixed result. On one hand, Netflix’s 18.5 million average is about what YouTube claimed last year, though Nielsen used a bespoke methodology at that time, so I trust this viewership figure more. So that’s good. (The game also shifted from a Friday to a Thursday and that could have helped the viewership as well.) And Netflix continues to best Prime Video in total viewership—as you’ll see next—though Netflix has had much higher-profile (opening week and Christmas Day) games. NBC/Peacock’s opening game the night before averaged 25.1 million average viewers, which is just much bigger than Netflix (or Prime Video). That’s the big caveat to all streaming viewership records: even in success, they can’t compete with traditional linear TV. Previously, I called this my “hierarchy of viewership”, and the data keeps supporting that thesis. The downside for NBC is that this game’s viewership was down compared to previous years, though it may be a counting issue. Here’s a great chart from Sports Media Watch: Indeed, looking at all the opening week games across all windows, Netflix still lags the other primetime windows, but does well compared to the afternoon games: I saw a few folks make the case that streamers still lag traditional broadcasters in reach, and I’d add they really lag compared to “broadcast plus streaming” options like NBC/Peacock, ESPN/Disney+ and CBS/Paramount+. The best data I saw for this came from Samba TV, who charted reach through the 2025 season, and, wow. (Samba TV’s numbers are historically lower than Nielsen’s, so don’t compare their household figures to Nielsen’s hours, but use them as a proxy for the relative reach of the streamers.) The good news is Prime Video is NOT having a down year. Their opening Thursday Night Football game reached 18.6 million viewers (about what Netflix got), but that’s a high for Prime Video on Thursdays and the biggest Thursday night game since 2015. The TNF games the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep continued this streak, getting 43.1 (16.8 million average viewers) and 42.5 total hours (16.6 million average viewers), which were both up from last year. Still, that continues the (typical) season slide: (For those new-to-streaming-football-numbers folks, the viewership declines for Thursday Night Football as the year goes along.) Overall, it appears as if Prime Video is now part of the “football habit”, be it for customers at home or out at places like bars and restaurants. And its viewership is slowly catching up to broadcast. One last chart shows this. Last season, Nielsen started adding out-of-home viewership to the charts, so I try not to do season-to-season comparisons as I did for the first few years. And while Nielsen added Big Data viewing this year, I’m going to compare the last two seasons. Here’s that chart, which shows the season-over-season gains: When it comes to streaming football, we have to keep a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our head… First, streaming doesn’t come close to matching broadcast’s reach and, thus, viewership. Second, even with that gap, football is still the biggest “thing” on streaming. It’s very, very popular. Third, while some methodology changes have likely helped Prime Video’s numbers, their viewership does appear to be growing. Lastly, yeah, the NFL started the season off poorly, with week one dragging down the numbers in year-over-year comparisons. However—and again, methodology changes may have helped this—the viewership grew compared to previous seasons over the next couple of weeks. So football is still king. On streaming and off. Television - Adult Animation Continues to NOT Make the Streaming Charts In the last two reports, two adult-animated shows whiffed: Netflix’s animated comedy, Dang! Paramount+’s Sega-video-game-inspired fantasy/comedy, Golden Axe. Neither made the charts, but that’s usually the case for animated shows. I mean, here’s literally every animated show that’s made the Nielsen Original charts since the start of 2025: And one of those shows is G_abby’s Dollhouse_! A kids show! The problem with charts like this is that they don’t give you a sense of how many shows miss the charts. Netflix had at least eleven animated flops, including comedies like Big Mouth (a show everyone assumed was popular in the pre-Streaming Ratings Era), Long Story Short, Haunted Hotel, Mating Season, Strip Law, and Alley Cats, and action shows like Blood of Zeus, Castlevania: Nocturne, Devil May Cry, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Prime Video had at least six animated misses, two in the same universe (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss), three more comedies (#1 Happy Family USA, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy and Kevin) and an action show (The Mighty Nein). Disney+ had MCU and Star Wars animated misses (Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld) but I can’t tell how many of those shows were geared towards adults. HBO Max had Harley Quinn and Hulu had Solar Opposites. None of these shows made the charts! That’s a lot of misses! If I remade the chart with all those misses, here’s how it would look: Listen, I know the counter arguments. First, it’s cheaper to produce animated shows than live action. Fair enough, but with viewership this low, even that cheaper price point starts to not matter. Second, just look at the acquired charts. Hit animated comedies can generate viewership for years! Shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers do really, really well. Fair enough, but streaming has failed to recreate the dynamic that Fox has mastered so well. That’s a problem for streaming still. Television - Emmys! The annual Emmys broadcast was a few weeks ago, and I’ve got data on how the nominees performed on streaming, plus hot takes on this year’s viewership (and the big news about the broadcast’s, er, streamcast’s future). We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… The top Emmy-nominated shows… ...why I’m worried about the future of the Emmys telecast... ...the pros of broadcast television ...and the cons... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue (since the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep were so light), but then I’ll be all caught up after a deluge of streaming ratings data from Nielsen in September. In the meantime, I’m going to try to take a look at Netflix’s stats to explain why Bela Bajaria is out. But even light weeks give me plenty to talk about. The Great British Baking Show returns to Netflix and Apple TV has a buzzy new star-studded comedy. And Netflix has a controversial-but-appears-to-be-popular new game show. Plus big films like Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner head to streaming. And is East of Eden a hit? After that, The Kardashians return to Hulu, Prime Video has a reboot of Carrie, and Netflix has a horror show, Below. Disclosure Day heads to Peacock, The Housemaid heads to HBO Max_,_ a new Ben Affleck film, Animals, lands on Netflix, and Apple TV has a new John Cena action film based on, checks notes, Hasbro’s Matchbox toys. Okay. Longterm, some interesting TV production news. HBO Max ordered How to Survive Without Me, starring Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson, Ray Romano and Rita Wilson, for fifteen episodes! I love that some streamers (or, at least, HBO Max) are finally ordering TV shows with more than eight episodes. In less wise production news, Landman does not appear to be coming back this year, since it just started production. Frankly, I don’t love this (get your shows out on time) but Landman is so popular, I doubt it matters.

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Denver man frustrated after recent thefts put business in jeopardy
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Oct 18 • 2:39 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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CBS News political panel dives into election trends
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Oct 18 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
13th Floor Entertainment brings spooky fun to Denver area for Halloween season
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Oct 18 • 12:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbsnews.com
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Vance faces tough questions on Iran war, immigration and more in CBS town hall

The string of sharp queries, some from voters who said they had supported him and President Donald Trump, previewed the rocky path Vance may face trying to answer for the administration’s record if he runs for president himself in 2028.

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Oct 18 • 11:25 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
CBS News political panel dives into election trends
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Oct 18 • 11:12 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Face the Nation: Cramer, political panel
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Oct 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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How Gen X should practice "the art of aging"
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Oct 18 • 10:28 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Woman allegedly hit business owner with a closed fist when he tried to stop robbery

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Oct 18 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • cbsaustin.com
Eye on Politics: Texas elections heat up as early voting kicks into high gear
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Oct 18 • 7:39 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Which NFL games are Fox, CBS broadcasting? Week 6 coverage maps

Which NFL games will be broadcast in your region in Week 6? Here are the coverage maps for Sunday's action.

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Oct 18 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Student athlete uses personal experience to educate others on health risk
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Oct 17 • 11:33 PM EDT • Health • cbs6albany.com
Second case of measles confirmed on Long Island, health officials say
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Oct 17 • 11:25 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Top takeaways from JD Vance town hall: Costly gas, DC corruption, immigration hot takes and the war

JD Vance defended Trump administration policies on gas prices, Iran's nuclear program, and H-1B visas while blasting Abdul El-Sayed at a CBS town hall.

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Oct 17 • 10:32 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
1 injured, 1 in custody after shooting inside business in Dearborn

An individual is injured and another is in custody following a shooting inside a business in Dearborn, Michigan, Saturday evening, police said.

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Oct 17 • 10:07 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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7 highlights from JD Vance's CBS News town hall: Iran, immigration, corruption and 2028 plans
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Oct 17 • 9:01 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Vance addresses small business owner's economic concerns, says progress "will take time"
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Oct 17 • 8:54 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Vance addresses small business owner's economic concerns, says progress "will take time"
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Oct 17 • 8:09 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Uniontown business makes it its mission to give back
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Oct 17 • 7:57 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Bluebird Days brings live music, local food and entertainment to Greenbelt

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Oct 17 • 4:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • idahonews.com
Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar accuse DOJ of violating judge's orders to follow protocols to protect her rights as member of Congress
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Oct 17 • 2:23 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Man charged with murder after deadly Garland shooting, police say

Ezequiel Hernandez, 31, was located in Mesquite after the incident.

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Oct 17 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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How to stay healthy during flu season
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Oct 17 • 10:42 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Star of hit sitcom reacts to creator’s diss about casting her

The star of a CBS sitcom was 'hurt' when the show's creator expressed regrets about casting her

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Oct 17 • 5:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • nj.com
Africa’s richest man plans to open his Ethiopian fertiliser business to investors through at least 10% stock-market listing

Aliko Dangote plans to list at least 10% of his Ethiopian fertiliser business on ESX, opening a potential ownership route into the Gode venture

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Oct 17 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • africa.businessinsider.com
Suspicious letters sent to political offices in Massachusetts
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Oct 16 • 11:07 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Colorado health officials confirm measles case, potential exposure at Denver International Airport
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Oct 16 • 10:43 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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California Proposition 4 would allow public funding for political campaigns
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Oct 16 • 9:37 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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California Prop. 4 would allow political campaigns to be publicly funded. Here's what to know.
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Oct 16 • 9:29 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Minnesota veterans receiving claims assistance, health exams at clinic
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Oct 16 • 7:47 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Minnesota clinic offering claims help, health services to veterans
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Oct 16 • 7:35 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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AOC's $1 million donation to Abdul El-Sayed sparks political speculation
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Oct 16 • 6:17 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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AI-assisted radiation treatment aims to protect healthy breast tissue
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Oct 16 • 6:02 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Grass Valley & CBS Sports: 2026 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards
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Oct 16 • 5:57 PM EDT • Science • televisionacademy.com
Boston stabbing survivor calls for more mental health resources to prevent violence: "It's really a shame"

A 23-year-old man who was stabbed in the neck during an attack in Allston is speaking out about his experience and calling for more mental health resources to help prevent future violence.

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Oct 16 • 5:40 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Triple stabbing survivor calls for more mental health resources in Boston
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Oct 16 • 5:35 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Joe Manganiello on why he's sharing his 7-year health journey: "The alternative became too difficult"
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Oct 16 • 5:29 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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ChatGPT gave a man unlicensed medical advice, leading to mental health crisis, lawsuit alleges
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Oct 16 • 5:22 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Georgia business owners react to President Trump's midterm rally
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Oct 16 • 5:16 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Joe Manganiello talks about "lifesaving surgery" and 7-year health journey
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Oct 16 • 5:05 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Human trafficking probe at Smith County massage business leads to 2 arrests
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Oct 16 • 3:17 PM EDT • Business • cbs19.tv
Can DC blend horror with a superhero movie? 'Clayface' wants to blur genres

Superhero films and horror have usually stayed on separate sides of the multiplex | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

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Oct 16 • 1:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Colorado confirms first child flu death this season, health experts encourage vaccines
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Oct 16 • 12:55 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Hometown’s Best: Vote for your favorite Southwest Virginia live music, entertainment, or sports venue finalist in 2026

The search is on for Southwest Virginia’s favorite live music, entertainment, or sports venue, and the finalists for this year’s Hometown’s Best have officially been announced.

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Oct 16 • 12:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • wsls.com
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Can AI solve our mental health access problem?

Last week I asked you what worries you most about AI in health. It was close, but your top answer was “AI giving bad health advice.” Last week’s poll results: You’re in good company. This concern was top of mind at a conference I joined at Stanford last week, where researchers, clinicians, and people who build AI systems spent a day debating trust and safety in health AI. Stepping back, I’m also hearing your emerging concerns about AI’s impact on our well-being generally. I see this as a matter of public health, and we’ll take it in pieces as we learn together. Today we’ll focus on AI chatbots used for therapy for mental health. Early this month, Governor Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 903, California’s most ambitious attempt to regulate AI use for mental health. It’s at the center of active debate, and raises the questions patients, family members, citizens, and voters will face as AI moves deeper into health care. Let’s work through it. What is “AI-based therapy”? It’s really two things: purpose-built mental health apps designed to deliver structured support, and general chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini that people increasingly use for emotional support—even if they weren’t built for it. Spoiler alert: I don’t know whether the shift toward AI therapy is good or bad. The evidence isn’t there yet. But I do know it’s already happening, and I have some ideas about how we can roll it out with safety in mind. The therapy dilemma, in a nutshell Mental health challenges are common, and strain health and well-being across populations. Therapy (interactive dialogue with a trained, empathetic practitioner) helps many people heal. The demand for licensed therapists far exceeds the supply in California, and AI-based therapy can narrow that gap. AI-based therapy remains novel, unproven, and not well tested. Right off the bat, we can see we’re dealing with trade-offs here. Since the main driver of demand for therapy from a robot is lack of access to therapy from a human, we’ll start there. It’s too hard to find and afford a human therapist California is short roughly 55,000 licensed, non-prescribing therapists and counselors, about 40% of what we need. Psychiatrists, who rely on talk therapy as a complement to prescribed medications, are even more scarce. Eight counties have none, and density ranges from 1.7 per 100,000 residents in San Benito County, to 68.1 in Marin County. My wife is a psychiatrist in Marin, and even here access is tight. If it’s hard in the best-supplied county, imagine rural Sierra County, or the San Joaquin Valley. In 2024, more than half of Californians who tried to make a mental health appointment struggled to find a provider who took their insurance, compared with 14% for physical health care. When Senate staff posed as “secret shopper” patients and called 120 mental health providers in Medicare Advantage networks, they landed an appointment less than once for every five tries. Insurers pay behavioral health clinicians about 22% less than medical and surgical clinicians for comparable office visits. On top of that, billing denials and prior authorizations hit hardest at the solo and small practices common in mental health. Psychiatrists opt out of Medicare at the highest rate of any specialty. In many places, a cash practice for therapy fills quickly with patients paying $250 or more an hour, with no insurance paperwork at all. Families who can pay cash find providers more easily. Those who rely on insurance, including Medi-Cal enrollees, older adults, rural residents, and non-English speakers, compete for what’s left. So we can’t pretend the human system works, and we can’t blame people for turning to AI for support when they’re in distress. AI is filling the gap It’s estimated that roughly a quarter of AI users use it for mental health support. If you have internet, it’s available 24/7, it’s cheap, and it speaks your language. Uninsured adults are about twice as likely as insured adults to do it (30% vs. 14%). It feels anonymous in ways that may enable people to ask things they’re unsure or embarrassed about. The largely hidden, personal use makes it hard to study whether it’s actually helping people with their mental health issues, but researchers are trying. Does AI therapy work? A 2026 analysis of nearly 40 randomized trials found chatbots showed a real but small reduction in depression symptoms. But most of these trials were compared to an alternative of no therapy, not a human therapist. So the benefit of AI therapy is probably real, but modest, and mostly untested against the alternative of human contact. We need more studies. Serious concerns OpenAI’s own estimate is that more than a million ChatGPT users each week show signs of suicidal planning or intent. These are high stakes encounters, and AI doesn’t always get it right. That’s partly because a chatbot can sound like a therapist, but it has no license, no duty of care, and it’s not clear who to hold accountable when it gets things wrong. AI is also designed to help users in whatever task they’re seeking to accomplish. People may feel like they’re getting therapy, but they’re mainly getting a convincing conversation. It’s easy for an AI companion to wander into gray areas, like playing along with “creative writing” that may be about the user’s own suicidal intent. Courts are driving safety conversations A wave of lawsuits have been filed on behalf of families claiming that chatbots pushed people they loved toward self-harm, including teens who died by suicide. The first settlements came this year. OpenAI is headquartered in San Francisco, and dozens of cases alleging that ChatGPT drove users to suicide or self-harm are now before a San Francisco judge. Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy after several states brought lawsuits accusing the chatbot of pushing dangerous content to kids. But the technology seems to be improving. Last month, an independent evaluation found that newer AI models “almost never endorse suicide.” That’s progress, but our societal appetite for even one preventable death is very low. So how do we move forward? Finding a middle ground Earlier this month the governor vetoed Senate Bill 903, a bill designed to place guardrails on the use of AI for therapy. The bill would have prohibited any AI-based platform from being advertised as psychotherapy, and would have required a licensed professional to review and approve each encounter where AI was used to support therapeutic decisions. Newsom called it overly broad, since even routine screening questions would have needed clinician sign-off. Knowing we’re already short on mental health providers, requiring human review of AI encounters may not relieve our access problems. Still, the answer isn’t no oversight. Here’s one feasible short term solution. Rather than reviewing each encounter, a licensed clinician can design the guardrails: what counts as a crisis, what triggers an immediate handoff to a human, and what gets sampled for audit each month. The AI runs inside that structure. Conversations get checked, failures get reported, and a real clinician owns the framework. Medicine already has models to learn from. The FDA process for rolling out newly approved medications is an example. After a product reaches patients, we keep watching for adverse events. Patient-facing AI needs the same “digital pharmacovigilance”: systematic tracking of harms, near misses, and the types of groups that get hurt and why. It’s also critical that users know that they can reach a human if they’re in crisis. Most chatbots now include messages like these: Bottom line The rush to use unproven AI tools for mental health support is mostly a workaround, a sign of a health system people can’t get into. We need better access to proven care from licensed clinicians. That takes reimbursement that makes accepting insurance viable, and a bigger workforce. But, built and tested well, AI could be part of the answer. It could be the 2 a.m. check-in when no one else is awake, or a way for patients to practice skills their therapist taught them. It could be the first step to get someone the right level of care, and take paperwork off clinicians’ plates so they spend more time with patients. None of this is simple. The SB 903 veto doesn’t end the debate, and the legislature will be back. In the meantime, those of us using these tools need to stay informed, ask hard questions, and hold the companies building them accountable. I’ll try to do my part, and we’ll keep learning together. Love,Matt P.S. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health challenges, emotional distress, substance use problems, or just needs to talk, call or text 988- you’ll reach a real person— or chat at 988lifeline.org 24/7. Dr. Matt Willis is the author of Your Local Epidemiologist in California. A California native, he’s served as a primary care physician, CDC epidemiologist, and public health officer for Marin County, where he guided the pandemic response. He lives in Marin with his family and their dogs, Teddy and Ramona. Thank you Cynthia He, MD, PhD, and Parnika Saxena, MD, for their guidance in preparing this article. Cynthia works in an outpatient mental health clinic, treating patients who have Medi-Cal or, sometimes, no insurance. Parnika works in an inpatient psychiatric unit, treating patients with public or private insurance or self-pay ability. All opinions are their own and do not represent their employers.

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