SCROLL NEWS / DISCOVERY

Search headlines

Find the stories shaping the conversation.

Search mode
Refine results
Active filters Keyword All time

Results for " cap " 10,726 found 🔀 AI-powered Shuffle

A timeline of Mike Causey’s sometimes-turbulent tenure as NC insurance chief

A look at Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey’s career as a second complaint about his behavior with women surfaces.

newsobserver.com logo
Oct 21 • 1:14 PM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com
Making sense of America: Alumnus Astead Herndon's approach to political journalism

Nationally recognized journalist Astead Herndon, Comm ’15, discusses the values, experiences and reporting philosophy that guide his efforts to help Americans make sense of an increasingly complex political landscape.

today.marquette.edu logo
Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • today.marquette.edu
Race To Uncover Travel Path Of Nigeria's First Ebola Patient

Nigeria's lone Ebola patient was only diagnosed almost two weeks after showing symptoms – and is reported to have travelled to the capital, Abuja, from Uganda

healthpolicy-watch.news logo
Oct 21 • 12:21 PM EDT • Health • healthpolicy-watch.news
Section V girls soccer tournament scores: Small school playoffs begin

Here are the latest scores, stats and recaps from the Section V girls soccer playoffs.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 12:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NMSU research centers celebrate fall with outreach events

PHOTO CAPTION: New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center at Clovis hosted about 720 fifth-grade students from Curry County during the center’s Pumpkin Patch Day earlier this month....

newsroom.nmsu.edu logo
Oct 21 • 11:10 AM EDT • Science • newsroom.nmsu.edu
Google CEO Admits Cloud Business Is Sacrificing Revenue to Win AI Race

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is giving up potential Cloud revenue to prioritize AI research, even as customers struggle to secure computing capacity. Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion in the second quarter, while its...

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:49 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Watch: The SpaceX rocket science inside Tesla’s new Roadster

Explore the physics and challenges behind Tesla's Roadster stunts, rocket science, thrusters, and road-legal feasibility.

thehindu.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:44 AM EDT • Science • thehindu.com
Saints GM Loomis in Paris addresses criticism from team owner amid slow start to season

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said Wednesday he understands the recent criticism from owner Gayle Benson but asked for patience with what he called a “young developing team.”Benson, in comments before the Saints (2-4) beat the New York Giants last Sunday, said Loomis and his staff are responsible for “building a roster capable of sustained success.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jalen Hurts' health shouldn't be up for debate

Football has long tradition of treating Black quarterbacks injuries as character referendums first and medical event second.

andscape.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:28 AM EDT • Health • andscape.com
Thune makes bold prediction about Republicans' Senate chances as GOP pulls millions from key races

John Thune says Republicans will outperform the polls in toss-up senate races despite shifting campaign cash away from Georgia and into Kansas.

foxnews.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:25 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Conversation on Migration with Roberto Carlos: Politics in Latino Immigrant Families

As the November midterm elections approach, Latino voters remain an important part of the country’s political landscape. Within Latino immigrant families, the development of political beliefs and civic knowledge can be influenced by how information is shared across generations, including the role children play in informing their parents.

bakerinstitute.org logo
Oct 21 • 10:13 AM EDT • Politics • bakerinstitute.org
MATCH PREVIEW, pres. by Toyota: Red Bull New York Host Inter Miami CF on Saturday Afternoon at Sports Illustrated Stadium

New York have posted a 2-3-0 mark in their last five MLS matches

newyorkredbulls.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Sports • newyorkredbulls.com
NEAR Rebounds After Launching A Business Wallet That’s ‘Confidential From The Market’, With XRP, Bitcoin And Solana Support

NEAR Business allowed teams to pay staff and vendors, swap assets, and allocate capital across more than 35 chains, including BTC, ETH, and SOL.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Peek into hidden worlds revealed by the 2026 Nikon Small World contest

This year’s photomicrography contest captured the wonders of the very small, from flying ink droplets to the most adorable jumping spider you've ever seen.

sciencenews.org logo
Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition winners

The 52nd annual Nikon Small World competition honours the world’s most remarkable images captured through a microscope

theguardian.com logo
Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
National Business Capital Expands to West Coast, Appoints Veteran Investment Banker Eric D. Coonrod to Lead Institutional Partnerships

New California office marks a major milestone in National Business Capital’s continued expansion and investment in

wboc.com logo
Oct 21 • 8:45 AM EDT • Business • wboc.com
Taking a closer look at the political landscape in Minnesota

Republicans see hope in former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya. Can a Republican win a Senate seat in Minnesota for the first time since 2002?

wbur.org logo
Oct 21 • 8:06 AM EDT • Politics • wbur.org
This concert was going to be the last at Red Hat as we know it. Now it’s canceled

It’s the end of an era. Here’s what to know about the final show and ticket refunds.

newsobserver.com logo
Oct 21 • 7:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • newsobserver.com
Who went home on 'DWTS' Week 6 from Dedication Night

Tuesday night was an emotional one on Dancing with the Stars as the reality show hosted Dedication Night. The 10 remaining couples all honored special people -- or places -- in their lives, often bringing the crowd, viewers and judges to tears. Former DWTS pro and two-time Mirrorball champ, Kym Johnson, joined the panel as a fourth judge this week.

thenewstribune.com logo
Oct 21 • 7:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • thenewstribune.com
APEX FTE EXPO 2026: Stellar Entertainment Brings Cosmo AI and New Digital Tools to Singapore

Stellar Entertainment will showcase Cosmo AI, new digital tools, and expanded media and audio capabilities at APEX FTE EXPO.

apex.aero logo
Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • apex.aero
Pulpit Politics: Johnson Amendment Rarely Enforced

Oklahoma religious leaders are navigating a murky legal landscape around the Johnson Amendment, which bars tax-exempt churches from endorsing candidates but is rarely enforced. With a recent Texas lawsuit failing and Congress considering changes, some pastors endorse candidates without consequences while others see political neutrality as a theological obligation, not just a legal one.

oklahomawatch.org logo
Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • oklahomawatch.org
Becerra's time in Washington: Steady rise with a bumpy final ascent

In his more than 25 years in Washington, Xavier Becerra built important alliances and amassed power on Capitol Hill, but had some stumbles along the way.

latimes.com logo
Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Apologies Extended to Former Red Wings Captain Over Ceremony Disruptions

Dylan Larkin isn’t the only former Detroit Red Wings captain hearing the boo birds recently. Henrik Zetterberg was also the […]

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Commentary: What a new fight over chemical safety reveals about our changing politics

A new movement for human health is giving people from different backgrounds a reason to stand together.

ohiocapitaljournal.com logo
Oct 21 • 3:30 AM EDT • Politics • ohiocapitaljournal.com
Commentary: What a new fight over chemical safety reveals about our changing politics

For years, the politics of chemical safety seemed trapped in the same old argument. Environmental advocates called for stronger regulations. Industry warned about costs and government overreach. Democ...

yahoo.com logo
Oct 21 • 3:30 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Why Albania's political crisis is deepening

Albania's capital, Tirana, has experienced several days of violent confrontations. Student-led protests against PM Edi Rama have become a focal point for wider frustrations over corruption and economic hardship.

dw.com logo
Oct 21 • 1:15 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com
😐 Neutral (6%)
wow
50%
ahah
25%
sad
25%
Eagle Scout nominated for Service Award

Eagle Scout John Casper of Round Rock Troop 157 has been nominated for a Distinguished Conservation Service Award by the Capitol Area Council. DCSA is Scouting America’s highest conservation honor.

pleasantonexpress.com logo
Oct 21 • 1:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pleasantonexpress.com
Deep dive
😐 Neutral (15%)
wow
63%
sad
37%
Australian democracy is usually peaceful. But there’s a homegrown history of political violence

Like other features of our public landscape, both good and bad, political violence has a history in Australia – one from which we may learn

theguardian.com logo
Oct 20 • 10:59 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Student-produced film captures Ireland sports experience | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The documentary created by a UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media team premieres on campus Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. — This story, written by UNC Hussman alumnus Michael Lananna ’14, was originally published at unc.edu. — Carolina senior Anna Laible came up with the idea about a year ago. At the annual UNC Sports and Entertainment Summit, the journalism student walked up to then-athletic director Bubba Cunningham and took a chance. “Hi, Bubba, I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m part of the student broadcast team from the Olympics,” Laible told him. “I have this idea to do an Ireland documentary on the football team.” Encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the proposal, Laible and a team of students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media worked diligently to turn that vision into reality. In August, Laible and seven peers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, with the Carolina football team and women’s soccer team. Equipped with video cameras, the student journalists covered both teams during their international games — both wins — and filmed scenes throughout Dublin, interviewing Irish locals, Tar Heel fans and key Carolina figures who helped make the trip possible. Back home, Laible’s team put the finishing touches on the documentary, with its first screening at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 in Carroll Hall room 111. The project is the latest in a long line of sports documentaries produced under the guidance of C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tuggle and the Hussman school have sent journalism students to cover each of the Summer Games, and Tuggle’s students have also produced documentaries on Carolina teams that win national championships. But this Ireland excursion presented a new kind of opportunity. “This trip is really unique,” Tuggle said. “Bubba liked the idea, so we started working on it, and it’s all because Anna was forward-thinking and assertive.” Laible’s team worked to create a holistic depiction of the Dublin trip, billed as “Much More Than a Game.” The documentary’s 12 chapters cover Irish culture, music, trips to the Guiness Storehouse and the myriad connections between Tar Heels and Ireland. “Our main focus was to make sure we gave a whole encompassing idea of what this experience was like,” Laible said. “We wanted to show not just the student-athletes, but other students, other Carolina fans, Carolina alumni, the music and really incorporate that all in the documentary.” Joining Laible in Dublin were juniors Emily Brietz, Cooper Hall, Eliza Jennings and Katherine McCullough and seniors Molly Malek, May Proctor and Merrily Tew. Those students also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February. Those kinds of opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support of UNC Hussman and, in the case of the Ireland trip, the Carolina athletic department. UNC Hussman students create Ireland trip documentary. (Submitted photo) “Never in a million years did I think I would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics or to the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, and now I’m even being presented with potential opportunities go to the Super Bowl,” said Malek, who served in a leadership role with Laible in Dublin. “I think that Carolina does a terrific job of connecting us to these opportunities that almost no other university does. This is a university where you have the opportunity to have an interdisciplinary education and to learn and experience a lot of things all at once.” With the support of UNC Hussman, Tuggle and fellow students like Malek, Laible turned a spur-of-the-moment idea into a documentary. When the film screens, Laible said she’s not quite sure what emotions to expect. “I’m a little worried that I might cry — not that crying is a bad thing,” Laible said, laughing. “But I’m really grateful for so many people helping, and I’m excited for everyone to see it.”

hussman.unc.edu logo
Oct 20 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • hussman.unc.edu
Scientists Just Discovered That Earth’s Core Is Leaking, and It Has Been for Billions of Years

A new study suggests ancient hydrogen trapped deep inside Earth has been slowly escaping into the mantle for billions of years.

vice.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:08 PM EDT • Science • vice.com
New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

applevalleynewsnow.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com
UW Health East Madison Hospital expands surgical capacity

MADISON, Wis. — UW Health East Madison Hospital is expanding its facilities to meet growing health care demand in Dane County.

channel3000.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:21 PM EDT • Health • channel3000.com
Scientists Use Ancient Rains to Map the Possible Origin Life on Mars

Billions of years ago, rain may have helped shape where the chemistry of life could begin on Mars. A new study maps how formaldehyde, an important prebiotic molecule, may have reached the surface. This map could help guide future missions searching for signs of past life on Mars.

universetoday.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:16 PM EDT • Science • universetoday.com
Sacramento news roundup: ICE incident, seized business and energy rank

From a congressman's call for ICE accountability to a State Bar raid that hauled off 14 boxes of files, here's what's driving Sacramento conversation.

sacbee.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:07 PM EDT • Business • sacbee.com
Commentary: The slime machine in Ohio politics has reached a despicable new low in the 2026 election

I knew 11 years ago that our public discourse would be degraded down into unfathomable levels. The 2026 campaign in Ohio has now confirmed it beyond anything I could've imagined.

ohiocapitaljournal.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:24 PM EDT • Politics • ohiocapitaljournal.com
Alberta's decision to stay in Canada gives Carney backing to take on Trump

The overwhelming vote by Alberta to stay in Canada gives Mark Carney political capital to focus on remaking the country's economy, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet.

bbc.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:22 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Matchbox Omaha brings intimate live entertainment to the Holland Center

The 727-capacity venue is designed to give fans a more personal, curated live entertainment experience in downtown Omaha.

ketv.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • ketv.com
😐 Neutral (11%)
love
100%
Urban Meyer only has one concern about a 24-team College Football Playoff

Urban Meyer won three national titles as a college football head coach, but the game is already very different from his time at Florida and Ohio State. The ways NIL and the transfer portal have shifted the sport’s landscape were hard to predict, and the Fox Sports college football analyst is among those who misread…

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Is Mold in Coffee a Real Problem? Here Is What the Science Says Before You Panic

Is mold in your morning coffee actually a problem? Food scientists say probably not and here is why.

newsobserver.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • newsobserver.com
UC Davis may develop new Lake Tahoe science and community hub. Here’s where

The university has entered into a partnership with Placer County to explore a new project at three underutilized county properties.

sacbee.com logo
Oct 20 • 5:55 PM EDT • Science • sacbee.com
Chandler family acquires specialty truck manufacturer

Springdale business owners Chris and Morgan Chandler recently acquired Stephenson Specialty Trucks LLC, a Parsons, Kan.-based manufacturer of vacuum, grapple, roll-off and hook lift trucks. Financial terms of the deal...

talkbusiness.net logo
Oct 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Chandler family acquires specialty truck manufacturer

Springdale business owners Chris and Morgan Chandler recently acquired Stephenson Specialty Trucks LLC, a Parsons, Kan.-based manufacturer of vacuum, grapple, roll-off and hook lift trucks. Financial terms of the deal...

talkbusiness.net logo
Oct 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Politics • talkbusiness.net
The truth of 'Dancing with the Stars' – What training with a pro is really like

Editor's note: Anna Kaufman is a former reporter at USA TODAY, who trained with a pro dancer from "Dancing with the Stars" to see what the process is really like. This story originally ran in November 2025.

centredaily.com logo
Oct 20 • 4:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • centredaily.com
Ilhan Omar's daughters show up at scene of DC raid as rumors swirl about embattled rep's whereabouts

Isra Hirsi was spotted entering Ilhan Omar's D.C. home under cover of darkness as Capitol Police were called to the residence later that evening.

foxnews.com logo
Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
SpaceX quarterly revenue jumps, beats estimates as AI business surges

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday said its third-quarter revenue more than doubled, beating estimates as AI and Starlink grew, while capital spending nearly tripled as it invested in compute infrastructure, sending its shares up about 3%...

wtvbam.com logo
Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
Cafeteria license at Advocate Illinois Masonic suspended after health inspection reveals cockroaches, black slime

The Chicago Department of Public Health has suspended the kitchen license at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Lakeview.

chicagotribune.com logo
Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Health • chicagotribune.com
BayMark Completes Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring

Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced Monday that it completed its new-money recapitalization and a debt-for-equity

bhbusiness.com logo
Oct 20 • 4:01 PM EDT • Business • bhbusiness.com
Oregon to increase 2027 payments to care organizations for Health Plan members

Oregon health officials say that they expect the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to approve the rise by the end of 2026.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com logo
Oct 20 • 3:31 PM EDT • Health • oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Earn up to $4,300 in travel with the latest Capital One Venture X Business card offer

This Capital One Venture X Business card welcome bonus is more valuable than any previous offer for this card.

cnbc.com logo
Oct 20 • 3:15 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Cook Political Report shifts two Senate races toward Democrats, one toward GOP

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, on Tuesday moved Minnesota’s Senate race from likely to lean Democrat, while also moving South Carolina’s Senate seat from…

thehill.com logo
Oct 20 • 2:44 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Spurred by Pulitzer Prize-winner's visit, business leaders grapple with state's housing crisis

The capital of Georgia — a city of more than 500,000 people nearly 1,200 miles away, where African-Americans outnumber their white counterparts — bears a striking similarity to New Hampshire’s capital. In Atlanta, like in Concord and countless municipalities across the country, housing costs have far eclipsed what working people can afford. Brian Goldstone, journalist […]

concordmonitor.com logo
Oct 20 • 2:32 PM EDT • Business • concordmonitor.com
Hackensack Meridian Health, Hunterdon Health sign definitive merger agreement

RARITAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Hunterdon County) — Hackensack Meridian Health and Hunterdon Health have signed a definitive merger agreement that includes $230 million in planned capital and technology investments, bringing the …

wrnjradio.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • wrnjradio.com
Seahawks Hosted Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Patients At Practice For Crucial Catch Month

In honor of Crucial Catch month, the Seahawks hosted six Virginia Mason Franciscan Health patients at a practice.

seahawks.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • seahawks.com
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

bigtechnology.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com
ID@XBOX x IGN Showcase Recap: All the News and Announcements

We've just wrapped up another fantastic ID@XBOX and IGN Showcase, bringing the latest news and updates on many brilliant indie titles heading to XBOX.

news.xbox.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Nigeria records first Ebola case, health authorities say

Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case in the capital, Abuja

washingtonpost.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:40 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Nigeria records first Ebola case, health authorities say

Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case in the capital, Abuja.

newsday.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:36 PM EDT • Health • newsday.com
😐 Neutral (11%)
wow
63%
ahah
37%
Athletics, CBA and everything MLB in between

Cardinals on My Time is back for the winter in a little different capacity! With the offseason and winter looking questionable at best and the Cardinals sitting in an awkward spot, I decided to take the opportunity to expand my podcast a little bit. Since writing all things St. Louis Cardinals for the past few […]

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
😐 Neutral (9%)
wow
34%
ahah
33%
love
33%
DEA serves search warrant at Cape Girardeau health clinic

The Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant at a health clinic in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday morning, October 20.

kfvs12.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:17 PM EDT • Health • kfvs12.com
Hackensack Meridian Health, Hunterdon Health to merge

Hackensack Meridian plans to invest $200 million into capital projects that support Hunterdon facilities and programs.

modernhealthcare.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:10 PM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
A special art project reveals the beauty of science to parkgoers in Virginia Beach

A temporary installation at Mount Trashmore transforms a section of the park into a landscape of sound, color and movement.

whro.org logo
Oct 20 • 1:03 PM EDT • Science • whro.org
Oregon State expert to lead soil health workshop

Oct. 29 event free for farmers; Registration deadline Oct. 22 The registration deadline is fast approaching for a free soil health training in Aumsville, Ore. The event, held by Oregon […]

capitalpress.com logo
Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • capitalpress.com
TENNESSEE VOLS FOOTBALL: Bishop captures national weekly honors

Tennessee senior DeSean Bishop earned two national weekly award honors on Tuesday following his standout performance in the Volunteers' Third Saturday in October rivalry win over No. 6/7 Alabama last Saturday.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 12:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UC Davis Experts Share Worries, Hopes for 2026 Midterm Elections

The 2026 U.S. midterm election is among the most contentious elections ever without a candidate running for president. This year voters will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, potentially reshaping the nation’s political landscape.

ucdavis.edu logo
Oct 20 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • ucdavis.edu
UW Health's East Madison Hospital unveils $140 million expansion

Additions include six new operating rooms, bringing the hospital’s total to 20 operating rooms. There will also be increased surgical prep and recovery bay capacity — increasing from 23 to 60. Inpatient beds are increasing from 84 to 98.

spectrumnews1.com logo
Oct 20 • 12:16 PM EDT • Health • spectrumnews1.com
Among the Academies: The Importance of Talking Politics

How often do you talk politics with friends and family? How about with colleagues? Talking politics might lead to a disagreement, but political scientist Robert Huckfeldt believes that’s a good thing. One way of explaining people’s political beliefs is to make assumptions based on their job, level of income, their religion and other facets of their lives. Huckfeldt, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political science at UC Davis, thought people’s sources of political information mattered more.

ucdavis.edu logo
Oct 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • ucdavis.edu
Hemp business hoped to sell from home. What Lexington had to say

A resident applied to start a home business selling hemp products. Here’s what the Midlands town decided.

thestate.com logo
Oct 20 • 11:40 AM EDT • Business • thestate.com
Jane Muir: Champion of Community and Leader in Business Law

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Setting the standard for efficiency and community engagement, while blending professional acumen with altruism Jane Muir is a leader in the Miami legal landscape. She founded J. Muir & Associates in 2018 and has spent over 15 years building a business law practice, a strong team and a sterling […]

communitynewspapers.com logo
Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Business • communitynewspapers.com
OU's goal remains the same: 'Make the playoffs'

Following the 21-13 loss to No. 12 Kentucky on Saturday night, OU defensive backs Omarion Robinson and Reggie Powers and tight end Hayden Hansen recapped the game.

oudaily.com logo
Oct 20 • 11:28 AM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com
Negro Spirituals Royalty Initiative Is Launched

The Negro Spirituals Royalty Initiative (NSRI) is a new program, created by the Social Justice Matters team of South Congregational Church in Centerville and managed collaboratively with the Hyannis-based Arts

capenews.net logo
Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • capenews.net
Visier Launches Vee Diagnostics Capabilities at HRTech 2026, Bringing Data Science Rigor to Everyday Talent Decisions

/PRNewswire/ -- Visier announced the early access launch of diagnostics capabilities within the Visier Workforce Insights Agent, Vee. Most organizations can...

prnewswire.com logo
Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
NFL Mexico and CONADE Join Miami Dolphins Academy to Create Year-Round Flag Football and Education Programming Across the Country

The initiative, implemented through the Global Markets Program (GMP), reflects the commitment of the Miami Dolphins and their local partners in Mexico to promoting sports and bringing physical education to communities across the country.

miamidolphins.com logo
Oct 20 • 10:42 AM EDT • Sports • miamidolphins.com
York County Mexican restaurant fails state health inspection

The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories.

centredaily.com logo
Oct 20 • 10:35 AM EDT • Health • centredaily.com
Republic Business Credit Provides $15 Million Factoring Facility to Temporary Staffing Agency

Republic Business Credit has provided a $15 million factoring facility to an established Midwestern staffing agency. The funding delivers essential working capital to support daily operations, resolve an unexpected liability, and position the Company to execute its long-term growth plans.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
John Turturro, thief of New York characters, adds a capstone in 'The Last Pickpocket in New York'

John Turturro grew up in Hollis, Queens, and has lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn, since 1988

washingtonpost.com logo
Oct 20 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com
The National Landscape of Mental Health Treatment Courts

A national survey examines the growth of mental health treatment courts and the need for clearer standards, better data, and sustainable funding.

judicature.duke.edu logo
Oct 20 • 9:22 AM EDT • Health • judicature.duke.edu
Two longtime rivals seek new audiences in Oregon governor’s race. Who will persuade voters?

Despite the effective rematch from 2022, this year’s campaign trail has pushed both candidates to reach voters in opposing ideological lanes.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com logo
Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Life Science Connect Acquires BrevisRefero to Expand Biopharma Outsourcing Technology Capabilities

Life Science Connect (LSC) has acquired Toronto-based BrevisRefero Corporation, a biopharmaceutical consulting firm and developer of the RFP>Navigator® platform, expanding... Read More

citybiz.co logo
Oct 20 • 8:49 AM EDT • Science • citybiz.co
Indian scientists identify Martian analogue sites

Kerala researchers identify Martian analogue sites in Tamil Nadu and Atacama Desert via hydrous sulfates, aiding Mars paleoenvironments study.

thehindu.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:46 AM EDT • Science • thehindu.com
New Book Includes Previously Unreleased Interviews By Edward Gorey

For ardent Edward Gorey fans there’s a new book available, “Memento Gorey: The Last Interviews with Edward Gorey” by Chatham filmmaker and documentarian Christopher Seufert, published by Schiffer Publishing with

capenews.net logo
Oct 20 • 8:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • capenews.net
‘SIX’ Provides Lively History Lesson

Anyone who has seen “Hamilton” has doubtless thought, “Why can’t we learn all of our history from theater performances?”

capenews.net logo
Oct 20 • 8:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • capenews.net
Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of helium formed in the first five minutes after the Big Bang with unprecedented precision. Using one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team studied 15 remarkably pristine galaxies that act as cosmic time capsules, preserving clues from nearly 13.8 billion years ago.

sciencedaily.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Tacoma Dome eatery gets 60 red points. Here are Oct. 12 Pierce Co. food scores

Seven food establishments received 35 or more red points last week, which means they must be reinspected by the Health Department.

thenewstribune.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • thenewstribune.com
Tecsys delivers AI capabilities to help health systems anticipate and act on pharmacy and supply chain risks

/PRNewswire/ -- Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management company, today announced the availability of AI solutions that help health...

prnewswire.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
CA immigration business seized over allegations of practicing law without a license

The State Bar of California raided the North American Immigration Center in Chino, calling it an unauthorized law firm

sacbee.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • sacbee.com
How much longer will Sacramento’s progressive politics let Califia suffer?

“Cali is dying on the streets because there is no way...to help her.”

sacbee.com logo
Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • sacbee.com
'DWTS' Dedication Night: What each couple will dance to Tuesday night

Dancing with the Stars returns Tuesday night, with the 10 remaining couples participating in the always emotional Dedication Night. The evening allows the celebrity dancers to perform for someone or something important to them, often featuring guest appearances.

bellinghamherald.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • bellinghamherald.com
Post-Shanghai ATP Power Rankings: Alexander Zverev Takes Charge

As you already know, this is not the ATP rankings list; rather, these are ATP power rankings that combine 2026 results, recent form, performance against elite opposition, current fitness, and the level each player is realistically capable of producing during the final stretch of the season. The picture has changed considerably since our pre-Wimbledon rankings. …

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nashville CARES sues TN Health over HIV care restrictions

A Middle Tennessee HIV care center is suing the Tennessee Department of Health over new rules that require proof of citizenship to access services.

nashvillebanner.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Health • nashvillebanner.com
'We used to go to the climate conferences together. We are not anymore': ESA official Simonetta Cheli tells us how the political landscape for Earth observation is changing

Live Science sat down with the European Space Agency's Simonetta Cheli to discuss the importance of Earth observation, how NASA budget cuts have changed the picture, and how the proliferation of private satellites could hinder our ability to view the planet.

livescience.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Brightstar Capital Partners Invests in Material Handling Group, a Technician-Led Provider of Material Handling Equipment and Aftermarket Services

CANTON, Mich. & NEW YORK, October 20, 2026--Brightstar Capital Partners ("Brightstar"), a private equity firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams, has acquired a majority interest in Material Handling Group USA ("MHG" or the "Company"). Financial terms were not disclosed. MHG is a technician-led provider of new, used, and rental material handling equipment and aftermarket parts and service, serving customers across Michigan, New York, and the Mid-Atlantic reg

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
UW Health’s East Madison Hospital expands amid patient demand

The $140 million project expands inpatient and surgical capacity as officials say increases in patient demand continue to grow.

captimes.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:10 AM EDT • Health • captimes.com
LACMA, Perrotin, the new Metro and now the Brick: Todd Gray is having a banner year

Todd Gray has a solo show opening at the Brick on Oct. 18 — the cap on a banner year including a LACMA commission, a solo show at Perrotin and a public art piece for the Wilshire/La Cienega station for the D line.

latimes.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Opinion | Dane County must stop underfunding mental health services

Natalie Eilbert: The need for mental health support is high, but Dane County’s contract model sets major provider Journey Mental Health Center up to fail.

captimes.com logo
Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • captimes.com
Former campaign worker says she fended off advance by future NC insurance chief

The woman told FBI agents she quit Mike Causey’s campaign after he kissed her without provocation.

newsobserver.com logo
Oct 20 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com
Commentary: Stable jobs support healthier Hoosiers and a more sustainable Medicaid program

Indiana's low unemployment rate is good news for Indiana’s economy, and also matters for the health and stability of Hoosiers.

indianacapitalchronicle.com logo
Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • indianacapitalchronicle.com
So What Is Socialism, Anyway?

In a world dominated by neoliberal market fundamentalism, “socialism” is what will make a more moderate, regulated form of capitalism work for most people.

thenation.com logo
Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.com
Bigfoot to Bojangles: How a Charlotte family built a business on make-believe

Long before the store became a Charlotte fixture, it started with a phone call, a rack of costumes and a couple willing to take a chance.

charlotteobserver.com logo
Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • charlotteobserver.com
Oracle and AstraZeneca Partner to Advance AI-enabled Healthcare Innovation

Oracle today announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to explore how AI and real-world data can help clinicians identify eligible patients for clinical trials, accelerate evidence generation, and bring relevant research insights into everyday care. The collaboration is expected to combine AstraZeneca's scientific and therapeutic expertise with Oracle's health data, cloud, AI, analytics, and clinical workflow capabilities.

finance.yahoo.com logo
Oct 20 • 12:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Game Recap: Saints visit Giants in Week 6 Clash

Catch up on everything that went down in East Rutherford.

sports.yahoo.com logo
Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com