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Fifteenth Court of Appeals Holds the Texas Business Court’s “Qualified Transaction” Jurisdiction Extends to Any Claim With a But-For Connection to the Transaction

In re Joseph Beard, No. 15-26-00136-CV – Decided October 15, 2026 In a unanimous opinion, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals held that an action “aris out of t

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Oct 21 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • gibsondunn.com
SpaceX offers employees extra pay to help build its data centers

Elon Musk's rocket company is offering employees a 20% pay bump if they volunteer to move, according to an email seen by Business Insider.

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Oct 21 • 2:11 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Researchers call for coordinated action to protect European sleep health

A new paper from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Early Career Network of the European Sleep Research Society warns that sleep health is becoming a growing public health challenge across Europe and is calling for coordinated action to protect it.

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Oct 21 • 1:35 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
Trump shuffles key federal panel ahead of vote on his arch

Four Trump political appointees were added to the National Capital Planning Commission, which could approve the president’s project on Nov. 5.

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Oct 21 • 1:32 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
O'Neill clashes with committee members over Garvaghy Road

The First Minister Michelle O'Neill has clashed with unionist politicians at a Stormont committee over her involvement in protests on the Garvaghy Road blocking an Orange Order parade last month.

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Oct 21 • 11:11 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
‘Egregious’: Denver City Council’s Health and Safety Committee Argues Against Proposition 132

By Nahila Bonfiglio Members of Denver City Council’s Health and Safety Committee voiced their opposition to proposed fentanyl ballot measure Proposition 132 in an Oct. 7 meeting. Council members Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez and Amanda Sandoval came together to take a stand against the proposition, w

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Oct 21 • 11:04 AM EDT • Health • denvervoice.org
Your 2026 NFL Week 7 announcing schedule

The NFL will have its first-ever regular-season game in Paris in Week 7, even amid the civil unrest in France. Dave Pasch, Jason Kelce, and Kurt Warner will return to their international booth duties (after Bob Wischusen and Louis Riddick stepped in for Week 7) to call the Pittsburgh Steelers-New Orleans Saints game for NFL…

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Oct 21 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers vs Saints: 4 big causes for concern this week

The Steelers and Saints square off in Paris this week and there are some serious concerns for this week's game.

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Oct 21 • 10:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mohammed Saleem wins American Heart Association career development award

Mohammad Saleem, PhD, is the recipient of a 2026 Stephanie Watts Career Development Award, sponsored by the American Heart Association Council on Hypertension’s Trainee Advocacy Committee and Data Sciences International.

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Oct 21 • 10:31 AM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org
How The New York Times Reports on A.I. Images

A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.

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Oct 21 • 9:21 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Science News unveils its list of 10 scientists making an impact on our world

As a teenager, Gabriela Farfan became fascinated by the shapes and colors of minerals. Now, as curator of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she studies what they can reveal about our planet.From corals that preserve chemical signatures of changing oceans to sparkling gemstones, Farfan uses crystal structures, chemistry and spectroscopy to uncover the information trapped inside minerals and show why they’re an essential part of natural history. WASHINGTON, O

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Oct 21 • 9:05 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
New York congressional candidate Brad Lander says he was detained by IDF in the West Bank

Lander, the former New York City comptroller, wrote in a post on X that he was detained by the Israeli Defense Forces while harvesting olives with other volunteers.

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Oct 21 • 8:22 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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The Politics of Tit-for-Tat
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Oct 21 • 7:25 AM EDT • Politics • execfunctions.org
Handy Youth Develop Smart Fidget Device to Support Mental Health Awareness, Win National Innovation Award - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report

Handy Fidgibeat team South Florida teens develop Fidgibeat, a prototype that combines fidgeting with real-time heart rate and usage tracking to help inform conversations about stress and emotional well-being October […]

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Oct 21 • 7:06 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Prominent Chester County business owner facing more child porn charges, police say

According to new court documents, the former owner of Harry's Hot Dogs, and several other businesses in Sadsbury Township, had pictures of teenage girls he knew that had been manipulated with AI to appear naked.

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Oct 21 • 6:53 AM EDT • Business • 6abc.com
Laika's 'Wildwood' is rated PG-13. Here's how animation is changing

The PG-13 stop-motion epic opens Oct. 23. Can it draw teens and adults when even well-reviewed originals like “Forgotten Island” have struggled?

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Steelers’ Mike McCarthy named one of best new coaches

Despite a strong start, McCarthy still ranked the lowest of the three new head coaching hires in the AFC North.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump Approval Hits New Low Two Weeks Before Midterms, Poll Finds

Likely voters favored Democratic candidates over Republicans by 11 percentage points in their congressional district, a New York Times/Siena poll found.

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Oct 21 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
For an Experiment in Political Affirmative Action, Look to Taiwan

The island adopted quotas for women running for public office decades before other countries. The upshot? Today, few of them need quotas to get elected.

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Oct 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Cardi B Is Using Her Music, Her Business and Her Politics to Express Herself

A shape-shifter with talent and personality to spare, the rapper keeps finding new ways to express herself.

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
15-Minute Lesson Plan: 100 Unanswered Questions in Science

What questions about ourselves, our world and our universe would you most like to have answered? Why?

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Oct 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Business Strategy: Re-Centering Ethics as Pharma's Competitive Advantage

By Dirk Brinckman Chief Compliance Officer, Johnson & Johnson Chair, IFPMA Ethics and Business Integrity Committee Chair, IFPMA Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers Roundtable Today is Global Ethics Day and this year’s theme is “Re-centering Ethics”. At a time when organizations face competing pressures and unprecedented change this theme serves as a call to intentionally...

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Oct 21 • 3:10 AM EDT • Business • ifpma.org
TWICE’s Jihyo Departs JYP Entertainment After 21 Years + Launches New Agency EMITHAUS

Jihyo is beginning a journey with a new company! On October 21, the TWICE member took to her Instagram to share the following handwritten letter: Hello, this is Jihyo. I’m writing today because there’s something I’d like to share with you. After 21 years, my journey with JYP Entertainment, which began when I was just a child, has come to an end. Trying to put 21 years into just a few words is harder than I thought it would be.From childhood through my teenage years and into adulthood, I’ve spent most of my life at JYP.There were good days and difficult ones, but one thing I know for certain is that every one of those moments has shaped who I am today.I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone at JYP who has been by my side and helped me grow over the years.I will always cherish the time we shared and the memories we made together. To me, independence is not so much a conclusion about the time that has passed, but a choice about how I want to live going forward.As the first step in this new chapter, I have established my own company, EMITHAUS.Just as “EMIT” means to “express or release,” I hope this will be a place where I can freely explore and bring to life even the possibilities within me that I have yet to discover.As I step away from a familiar environment and begin working in new ways, I will approach every decision and every endeavor with even greater thoughtfulness and responsibility. I also want to make it clear that this decision does not mean saying goodbye to the team I’ve been part of for so long.TWICE is an irreplaceable part of my life.Just as I cherish all the years we’ve shared, I look forward to all the moments still ahead of us.I will continue to stand on stage with my members and keep building more memories together for many years to come. Above all, I want to thank ONCE for believing in me and standing by my side for the past 11 years.I know that watching someone grow and change through so many stages of life and continuing to support them along the way is never something to be taken for granted.Thank you for giving me the courage to keep moving forward through your unwavering trust, love, and support.I will continue to fill the years ahead with choices and efforts that stay true to who I am and keep growing as an artist who lives up to all the love and support you’ve given me. Thank you. https://www.instagram.com/p/DevZGTkmTD2/ Jihyo is the third TWICE member to officially leave JYP Entertainment following Jeongyeon and Chaeyoung. Wishing Jihyo all the best on her new start!

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Oct 20 • 11:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • soompi.com
Warriors guard Brandon Williams unlocks partial contract guarantee

Guard Brandon Williams now has $1.4 million guaranteed by making the Golden State Warriors opening night roster

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Oct 20 • 9:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Disney's Erik von Detten accused of elder abuse in $2-M gold scam

Sheila and Norman Greenberg allege former teen heartthrob Erik von Detten tricked them into rolling over $2 million in retirement savings into gold.

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Oct 20 • 9:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified Polarization

The justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.

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Oct 20 • 8:38 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Researchers warn of growing threats to sleep health across Europe

A new paper from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Early Career Network of the European Sleep Research Society warns that sleep health is becoming a growing public health challenge ...

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
Germophobe Primates Want to Avoid Getting Sick, Too

Some monkeys become significantly more cautious about food sources that appear contaminated after experiencing deadly outbreaks of disease.

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Oct 20 • 7:05 PM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
AFC Team Shows Interest in Former Steelers Wide Receiver

A former wide receiver of the Pittsburgh Steelers could soon have a new home in the NFL.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Could Steelers Snatch Pro Bowl WR From Latest Opponent?

The Pittsburgh Steelers could acquire another playmaker from one of their recent opponents. The Pittsburgh Steelers are once again in […]

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Oct 20 • 6:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Two Colorado House Candidates Are Thinking About AI

In Colorado, two millennial candidates are thinking about A.I.

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Oct 20 • 6:47 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.

Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Oct 20 • 6:45 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner Vie to Become the Second Biggest Film This Year...

(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.) Often, people blame “data” for ruining Hollywood, when I’d argue that hype (which can often be debunked by data) is often worse, as you can see in these two headlines. To use a common meme, here’s how it started: and how it’s going: Earlier this year, I read countless (and I mean countless) articles (in almost every mainstream media outlet) about how Heated Rivalry was a huge hit and that it “heated” interest in hockey. But Heated Rivalry wasn’t a huge viewership hit compared to the hype: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) [ You Can’t Eat Buzz…Did Heated Rivalry’s Buzz Translate into Actual Viewership? ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) Entertainment Strategy Guy · Jan 22 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) In this case, the hype (Heated Rivalry is really popular) belied the data (It didn’t make the top ten charts, meaning it wasn’t a huge hit.1) Even worse, every time I write about this, I get a lot of negative feedback, hence why I only sparingly mention the show these days or add lots of caveats when I write about it, but this just further cements the hype. But companies, and the executives leading them, have to determine strategy based on reality, not media coverage. The NHL committed real marketing dollars to a campaign that didn’t work. Sure enough, the latest NHL season opened to under a million viewers. At some point, you have to focus on what the data says, because real dollars are at stake. And that’s why we have the Streaming Ratings Report! To provide and analyze cold, hard data. Luckily, this week, I can be positive and take a look at a huge opening on streaming, along with a very buzzy horror film that customers kind of like, but don’t really love. And a comedy that tried to rebound on streaming. Today, I’m covering two weeks—21-Sep and 28-Sep—so we have a lot to discuss (nearly 5,000 words worth), including a series of film misses for Netflix, another argument for weekly-released TV shows on streaming, another sitcom tries to avoid the comedy curse, Netflix has two new game shows (one powered by AI), Reacher falling off the charts after a huge run, Prime Video tries its hands at the romcom game**,** a look at the WNBA’s big season, a big night for the VMAs on CBS and MTV, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to October 4th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - Two Hits and a Miss Come to Streaming… Three very interesting films came to streaming in one week, and I like comparing them since they show the range of theatrical films. One was a huge blockbuster, one was popular, and one was neither. One is a horror film, a buzzy genre; one is a comedy, a struggling genre; and one is an animated family film, the king of the box office. One went to a tiny streamer (HBO Max), one went to a second-tier streamer (Disney+), and one went to the biggest (Netflix). So… If you just went by box office, you’d expect Backrooms—the $197 million grosser, and partner of Obsession for “YouTube Horror Summer”—to dominate on streaming. If you read this report, though, you know that horror films don’t do great on streaming, and that’s the case again. Backrooms opened at 3.8 million hours according to Nielsen, and had 3.9 million hours in its second week. Here’s how that stacks up to other HBO Max films: 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… ...why I don’t buy Backrooms budget… …two new games shows arrive on streaming… …another sitcom struggles… ...another argument for putting out shows weekly on Netflix... ...and a whole lot more, nearly 5,000 words more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, I’ll be taking a look at the eighth season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, answering the question: will this show ever make the charts? If Mormon wives can make it, surely one of social media’s most popular families can as well. Also, Prime Video has a new horror show based on popular IP, Carrie, Netflix has a horror show starring Josh Hartnett, Below, and Apple TV has a UK import, Small Prophets. Plus a bunch of movies like Disclosure Day heading to Peacock, The Housemaid coming to HBO Max, Ben Affleck’s latest on Apple TV, Animals, and Matchbox the Movie on Apple TV, a John Cena action comedy inspired by Hasbro’s toy cars. The week after is even busier! I’ll look at another IP-based horror show, Crystal Lake, a new MCU show on Disney+, VisionQuest, season two of The Lowdown on FX/Hulu, the fourth seasons of The Diplomat on Netflix and Tulsa King on Paramount+, another season of Love is Blind, and four straight-to-streaming films: Netflix’s Sacrifice (starring Chris Evens, Anya-Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek. Charlie XCX), Apple TV’s Tenzing (starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Defoe), Prime Video’s Love of Your Life (Margaret Qualley) and Masterplan (Stanley Tucci) and a whole lot more, somehow. Long term, here’s some huge IP news: a Game of Thrones movie is coming to theaters, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest in 2029, while Jon Watts (who helmed three of the most recent Spider-Man movies) is directing the next Star Wars trilogy, to be written by Simon Kinberg. I’m cautiously optimistic for both. It feels obvious to say that making good movies matters, but for bets this big (Star Wars is on a swoon, Game of Thrones hasn’t been to theaters yet), the quality has to be there.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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A Woman’s Journey to Lifelong Bone Health

When should women really start worrying about bone density? If you think the answer is 65, you might want to reconsider. A Hackensack Meridian Health expert weighs in.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Health • newswise.com
MAGA Inc. Unleashes Millions to Turn Out Republicans At the Polls

MAGA Inc. is now flooding the social media platforms with targeted ads as it seeks to turn out Republicans amid the president’s historically low approval ratings.

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Oct 20 • 6:28 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
How to Vote in the 2026 Midterms: A State-by-State Guide

Early voting is underway in many states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While the general election is on Tuesday, Nov. 3, millions of people have already cast their ballots. Because states run the federal elections, voter registration deadlines, early voting schedules and absentee ballot rules ...

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Oct 20 • 6:27 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
SpaceX and Tesla form committees to explore merger

Elon Musk, who is CEO of both companies and owns billions in stock, said he can't be a part of those merger discussions.

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Oct 20 • 5:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
From fun to fear: How harsh coaching affects mental health for student athletes

Research shows 1 in 4 athletes face abusive coaching. Metro Detroit teens and psychologists share how harsh tactics affect mental health and performance.

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Oct 20 • 5:43 PM EDT • Health • planetdetroit.org
Michigan Senate Candidates Make Dueling Pitches to Business Leaders in Detroit

Mike Rogers and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the candidates in the tight race, defended their economic policies at the Detroit Economic Club.

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Oct 20 • 5:40 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Cam Heyward Once Again Elected to Esteemed Post for Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers have elected Cam Heyward as their NFL Players Association player representative, per source. Outside linebacker Alex Highsmith, […]

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Oct 20 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sphere Entertainment jumps as investors appear to bet on a short-covering rebound

Sphere Entertainment Co. (SPHR) is up 9.4% today. Here is some analysis on what might have caused this price movement.Analysis: There does not appear to be a single fresh company announcement driving Tuesday’s move, so the rally looks most likely tied to short covering and bargain hunting after a steep pullback earlier this month. Investors may also be revisiting Sphere’s underlying growth story, including strong performance from its Las Vegas ve

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Jay Z's past political statements won't help perception of NFL politicizing Super Bowl halftime

Jay Z reportedly chose himself to perform the 2027 Super Bowl halftime show, but his extensive political history could deepen a troubling viewership trend.

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Oct 20 • 5:03 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
SpaceX Swings to a Profit, Even as A.I. Spending Soars

Elon Musk’s rocket company also said its revenue had more than doubled, driven by its Starlink internet satellite service and artificial intelligence products.

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Oct 20 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Steelers Week 7 power rankings roundup: Starting to believe yet?

Pittsburgh Steelers Week 7 power rankings roundup.

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Oct 20 • 4:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hackensack Meridian Health signs definitive agreement to acquire Hunterdon Health, commits $230M

Hackensack Meridian Health has signed a definitive agreement to pick up Central New Jersey’s Hunterdon Health, a $230 million deal that would grow the state’s largest health system to 19 total hosp | The announcement did not outline a potential timeline for the merger, which would add a nineteenth hospital to New Jersey's largest health system.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
NC State’s Agroecology Education Farm: Where Agriculture, Ecology and People Connect

Walking through rows of leafy greens, ripe, red tomatoes or rich-smelling rosemary at the Agroecology Education Farm, it’s easy to feel more connected to where your food comes from. And with a mission rooted in community outreach, that's the point.

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Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Science • cals.ncsu.edu
Former Netflix and Tubi Producer To Launch Shortee, A Vertical Streaming and Gaming App

Nelson Moses Lassiter, an Emmy-nominated producer known for his work on Netflix’s major international hits and for creating original films at Tubi, is launching his venture. Shortee, a mobile entertai...

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Oct 20 • 3:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
If Democrats Win Congress, Could the G.O.P. Refuse to Seat Them?

A changing of the congressional guard in January could leave room for meddling, though most legal scholars doubt it would happen.

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Oct 20 • 2:54 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.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.

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Steelers' Aaron Rodgers rips Buccaneers' home stadium after win

PIttsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers doesn't hold back on his opinion of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' home stadium.

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Democrats Outline Priorities for Next Congress’ House Science Committee

Eying victory in November, Dems on the House Science Committee hope to reverse the ‘damage’ the Trump White House has caused to science while still pursuing bipartisan priorities.

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Oct 20 • 1:42 PM EDT • Science • aip.org
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Berrien County Health Department warns parents, teens about kratom risks

The Berrien County Health Department is launching a campaign warning parents and teens about the risks of kratom. According to the health department, kratom contains a chemical called 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, that acts like an opioid and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms.

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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.

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Saints arrive in Paris for Sunday's game against Steelers
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Workplace illness prevention: New guide for health and safety committees

The University of Connecticut calls joint committees “one of the most effective tools” for preventing work-related illnesses.

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Ted Danson ‘almost didn’t forgive’ Larry David over this ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ plotline

Ted Danson ‘almost didn’t forgive’ Larry David over a ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ plotline that involved Danson’s IRL wife, Mary Steenburgen.

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Steelers rookie Germie Bernard nominated for NFL award

Pittsburgh Steelers rookie wide receiver Germie Bernard was nominated for the FedEx Air & Ground Player of the Week for his historic performance in Sunday’s overtime win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Pistons Guarantee Ron Holland’s Fourth Year Before Tipoff

The Pistons settled Ron Holland's contract future hours before their season opener. #Pistons

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Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier

A Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges.

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Giants Cut Ties with Former Steelers RB Najee Harris

The New York Giants are releasing former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and first-round pick Najee Harris, per Ian Rapoport of […]

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HCA Healthcare honors Portsmouth Regional Hospital volunteer...

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Shop from Black-owned businesses at this free festival

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Maxwell Economist John Cawley Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Medicine

Membership in the National Academy of Medicine is one of the highest and most esteemed honors in the fields of health, medicine and medical science.

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Start-Up Claims to Treat a Patient With A.I.-Created Viruses

Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a virus to attack one patient’s illness.

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United CEO Scott Kirby calls for wealth tax and a near-100% inheritance tax

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says wealth inequality threatens society and calls for a national wealth tax and steep inheritance taxes.

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A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

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France Protests Show Europe’s Shift Away From Centrist Politics

Europe’s centrist parties are losing ground among young people and workers, who are increasingly tempted by populist promises of radical change.

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10 movies like '10 Things I Hate About You,' and where to watch them

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The AI industry’s race for influence includes $100 million in campaign cash

Leading AI companies have set up political action committees to support both Republican and Democratic candidates in the midterm elections. The effort by…

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Annoyed by political ads? Vote ASAP.

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Can Real Estate Out-Organize Tenants in New York? This Group Will Try.

A new organization, Built for New York, plans to raise money to mobilize voters in the real estate industry, which has endured several political losses in recent years.

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Tencent Music Entertainment Group Sponsored ADR (NYSE:TME) Stock Now Rated "Hold" by Wall Street Brokerages

Tencent Music Entertainment Group Sponsored ADR (NYSE:TME - Get Free Report) has been given an average recommendation of "Hold" by the thirteen ratings firms that are covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, three have issued a bu

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Former 49ers WR Reuniting with Aaron Rodgers and Steelers

On Monday, October 19, while the San Francisco 49ers are taking on the Washington Commanders in Monday Night Football, former wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling has found a new home in the NFL, and it’s a reunion with a QB he is very familiar with, Aaron Rodgers, and the Pittsburgh Steelers, according to multiple reports. Valdes-Scantling […] The post Former 49ers WR Reuniting with Aaron Rodgers and Steelers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Luke Bryan’s son undergoes surgery after high school football game injury: ‘Dang collarbone’

The “One Margarita” singer has two teenage sons with wife Caroline.

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Proposed New Visa for Home Health Aides and Nursing Assistants: What Healthcare Staffing Companies Need to Know

A new policy proposal published by the Brookings Institution recommends creating a temporary work visa that would let US employers sponsor foreign home health aides, personal care aides, and nursing assistants to help ease a growing shortage of caregivers. The September 29 proposal, authored by Brookings scholar Tara Watson through the Hamilton Project, would create an “H-1D” visa category built specifically for the direct-care workforce, launching as a pilot program of 30,000 visas per year. It would require employers to pay wages near the top of the local market, guarantee workers a minimum number of weekly hours, and contemplate a potential pathway to permanent residence after six years, although implementing that pathway would require additional changes to immigration law. The H-1D is only a proposal at this point. No H-1D legislation has been enacted, and employers cannot currently sponsor workers under this proposed classification. But if the idea gains traction, healthcare staffing companies could find themselves with both a significant recruiting opportunity and a new set of compliance obligations. This Insight walks through the proposal’s general immigration and employment requirements, then turns to the specific opportunities and challenges it could create for staffing firms.

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Steelers set to reunite with former wide receiver

The Los Angeles Chargers released Valdes-Scantling on Saturday.

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Numerous Escambia County families displaced after Hurricane Isaias, small businesses help rebuild

Local businesses and volunteer organizations provide food, storage and cleanup assistance to families displaced by the storm.

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Oct 19 • 9:54 PM EDT • Business • fox10tv.com
Trump’s Push for Deals With Russia Powers His Frustration With Ukraine

The series of recent steps by the president that seem to favor Vladimir Putin reflect his intensifying desire to normalize the relationship with Moscow even if it means further undercutting Ukraine.

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Oct 19 • 8:33 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Fruit and sugary drinks stood out in a three-year study of teenage mental health

A three-year study of 6,537 Australian adolescents found that higher fruit consumption was associated with a lower risk of elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, while greater sugar-sweetened beverage intake was associated with increased risk. Vegetable consumption showed no significant association with either outcome, and the observational findings cannot establish cause and effect.

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Oct 19 • 7:39 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
Melania Trump Announces White House Women’s Health Initiative

The effort comes as Republicans are struggling to win over female voters two weeks before the midterm elections.

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Oct 19 • 7:36 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Melania Trump Announces White House Women’s Health Initiative

The effort comes as Republicans are struggling to win over female voters two weeks before the midterm elections.

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Oct 19 • 7:36 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
U.N.C. Strikes Trump Deal to Keep Federal Funding

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not pay any financial penalties but agreed to abide by the Trump administration’s views on diversity and other matters.

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Oct 19 • 6:42 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Hope Ministries seeks volunteers to deliver 4,500 Thanksgiving meals

Hope Ministries has opened volunteer registration for its annual Thanksgiving meal program, which plans to provide up to 4,500 free meals to people in need across the Des Moines area on Nov. 26. The organization’s greatest need is for volunteer driver teams to deliver meals on Thanksgiving Day. According to Feeding America, more than 60,000…

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Oct 19 • 5:15 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Mike McCarthy’s comments could change Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ role

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy commented on the state of the offense after a win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Oct 19 • 5:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chamber volunteers to knock on business doors across Newport County on Friday

The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce and its economic development division, Connect Greater Newport, will send teams of volunteers into businesses across Newport County on Friday, Oct. 23, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., to ask owners how business is going. Volunteers will work in small teams, visiting businesses for roughly 15-minute in-person conversations. Participants […]

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Oct 19 • 4:20 PM EDT • Business • whatsupnewp.com
Sneaky politics? Or honest mistake? Election mailer lands Clay GOP in hot water

A letter from the Clay Republican Committee used a return address from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

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Oct 19 • 4:06 PM EDT • Politics • syracuse.com
Dee Snider to induct wife into Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame

Suzette Guilot-Snider created Twisted Sister’s iconic, trend-setting fashion Fashion designer Suzette Guilot-Snider will be inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) at their Stony Brook Village location at 97 Main Street on Saturday, November 14th at 8:30 pm. Her husband, Twisted Sister lead singer and LIMEHOF Inductee Dee Snider, will […]

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Oct 19 • 3:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • themusicuniverse.com
DOJ Charges 28 California Residents With Voting-Related Crimes Amid Trump’s Voter Fraud Push

The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.

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Oct 19 • 3:51 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
2026 NBAA Top Safety Focus Areas

The NBAA Safety Committee has identified the association’s Top Safety Focus Areas for 2026, highlighting multiple priorities in support of a greater commitment to business aviation safety standards.

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Oct 19 • 2:13 PM EDT • Business • nbaa.org
Republicans Barely Mention Trump in Political Ads Ahead of the Midterms

Only a small fraction of recent G.O.P. broadcast and streaming ads mention the president, according to a Times analysis of ad data.

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Oct 19 • 2:01 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Supreme Court to Hear New Case on Race and School Admissions

The court’s decision to review an admissions policy for selective middle school programs in Maryland follows its rejection of affirmative action in higher education.

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Oct 19 • 11:38 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Richland County Foundation funds $1.4 million in grants for health & housing needs

MANSFIELD – The Richland County Foundation Board of Trustees approved grants totaling $1,477,004.99 to non-profit organizations during its October meeting. Competitive and field of interest fund grants were approved by the board to four organizations. Community Health Access Project (CHAP) received a grant to enhance care coordination services for uninsured and underinsured residents in Richland […]

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Oct 19 • 11:25 AM EDT • Health • richlandsource.com
Steelers PFF grades: Germie Bernard shines; Troy Fautanu stagnates

If cornerback Jamel Dean can stay healthy, he may be a rare veteran acquisition to work out for the Pittsburgh Steelers at the position.

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Oct 19 • 11:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MAD: M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment Ups McAteer To ECD U.K.

To augment his team, McAteer hired three new creatives.

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Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mediapost.com
How a Monk, an Emperor, and Cave Beetles Built the Science of Underground Life

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of life in caves was not the work of laboratories or universities but of monks, aristocrats, merchants, and soldiers, all bound together by the ambitions of an empire. A new historical study published in

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Oct 19 • 10:32 AM EDT • Science • bioengineer.org
Trump Says Renovations on Disputed DC Golf Course Will Begin Immediately

A federal judge has ordered tree cutting halted at the city course as she considers a lawsuit over the legality of the administration’s plans.

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Oct 19 • 10:09 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Amazon Offers $900 Off 2026 16-Inch MacBook Pro With M5 Max Chip

MacBook Pro deals have been getting steeper and steeper over the past few weeks, and today Amazon has introduced the biggest discount yet on one model of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. You can get the M5 Max model with 36GB RAM and a 2TB SSD for $3,499.00, down from $4,399.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

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Oct 19 • 9:09 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Knicks can’t let banner night rush Josh Hart back

Josh Hart didn’t guarantee he’d be ready for opening night when asked about his sore ankle Sunday. His answer, reported […]

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Oct 19 • 8:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kenilworth/AmRev250 to Present Doo-Wop & Sock Hop

KENILWORTH, NJ – The Kenilworth/AmRev250 Committee invites everyone to step back in time at a fun-filled “Doo-Wop and Sock Hop” that is planned for Fri., October 23, 2026 (7 p.m.-11 p.m.) at the...

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Oct 19 • 7:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • tapinto.net
Worried About Your Teen? Check Their Dental Exam Results For A Window Into Their Well-Being

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 19, 2026 (HealthDay News) — You can tell a lot about your teen from their oral health, says a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) report. Many teenage health problems — eating disorders, smoking, drug use, sexually transmitted diseases — can be ...

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Oct 19 • 6:15 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com