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LETTER: Thompson does put people before politics

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How to watch Thompson vs Hoover High School football

You can watch Thompson football all season long with NFHS Network, including this week’s game against Hoover High School.

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Game Night Live ’26

WJBF NewsChannel 6 heads into Week 7 of the 2026 season of GAME NIGHT LIVE as Thomson takes on Burke County High School.

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Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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Oct 2 • 2:52 PM EDT • Science • chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com
Tuchel would never rule out players not in top flight

England boss Thomas Tuchel says he would "never rule out" selecting someone who is not playing in the top flight, should Manchester City be relegated.

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Oct 2 • 11:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CNN chief Mark Thompson in talks to remain in role after Paramount takes over network

Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison has approached Thompson about staying in charge following the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Oct 1 • 2:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Neuroscience launches seminar series with talk on brain circuitry by renowned neurobiologist Peter Strick P’98

The Bates Program in Neuroscience kicked off its new Neuroscience Seminar Series with a talk from Peter Strick P’98, Thomas Detre Professor and Chair of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Oct 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • bates.edu
Thomson Reuters and KKR complete joint venture for Global Print Business

/PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters Corporation (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced that it has closed on its previously...

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Oct 1 • 10:36 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Tanner Thomason dives into entertainment hot topics

Should you pay for your bestie to fly first class with you? Tom Cruise is still dancing, and Pete Davidson had something to say about influencers.

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Oct 1 • 10:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
UTD political science professor Robert Lowry dies after battle with cancer

Robert C. Lowry, a professor of political science in UTD’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, died Tuesday night after battling cancer since last spring, according to professor Thomas Brunell. Lowry joined UTD in 2006 and previously served as associate head and head of the Political Science Program and director of graduate studies. He...

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Sep 30 • 11:01 PM EDT • Science • utdmercury.com
NY Giants’ injury report: Andrew Thomas, Tyrone Tracy miss practice

Thomas’ absence seems like maintenance.

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Sep 30 • 4:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Journalists to discuss AI, technology at Drake’s Bucksbaum Business Lecture

Drake University will host journalists Karen Hao and Nicholas Thompson for its fourth annual Bucksbaum Lectureship in Business at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Knapp Center. The lecture, titled “Decoding America’s Tech Moment,” will explore the evolving technology industry and the implications of artificial intelligence. Hao is a bestselling author and award-winning AI reporter…

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Sep 30 • 12:46 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Broward Health Medical Center Dedicates Boyce Haller Family Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Suite, Made Possible by $5.2 Million Family Gift

(L-R): Michelle Thoman, chief operating officer, Broward Health Medical Center, Eileen LaMarca, consultant for the Broward Health Foundation, philanthropist Linda Haller, Shane Strum, president and CEO of Broward Health, Stacy Angier, commissioner on the North Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners, and Lauri Littleton, associate chief nursing officer, Broward Health Medical Center, cut the ribbon […]

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Sep 30 • 10:36 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Lexi Thompson Embraces TGL To Grow Women’s Game

Lexi Thompson joins the new WTGL league, calling it a no-brainer to grow women's golf as the first season kicks off in Palm Beach Gardens.

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Sep 30 • 9:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Morningstar joining Google at Thompson Center

The financial services firm will anchor the building alongside Google with the largest downtown office lease inked this year.

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Sep 30 • 8:52 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Could Trent Alexander-Arnold Ever Return To Liverpool?

Trent Alexander-Arnold's Real Madrid career continues to confuse with the right back back in Thomas Tuchel's good graces for England.

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Sep 30 • 7:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Half of Girls Who Want to Play Sports Never Get the Chance

Women’s sports have proven what is possible and every girl deserves the chance to find out for herself, writes Gabby Thomas.

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Sep 30 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • time.com
Borussia Dortmund administrative trio receives contract extensions

Borussia Dortmund have extended the contracts of Carsten Cramer, Lars Ricken and Thomas Treß. At the same time, Cramer has been promoted to Chairman of the Management Board with immediate effect.Cram...

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Sep 30 • 2:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ron Riegler dies at 71, led family business, Riegler Blacktop, one of largest privately-owned companies in Tri-State

Staff report Ronald Joseph Riegler Sr., 71, of Union, passed away peacefully on September 24 at Select Specialty Hospital in Fort Thomas surrounded by his loving family. With his brother, Boone…

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Sep 30 • 12:38 AM EDT • Business • nkytribune.com
OpEd: Representative Thompson chooses you over politics

Politics has no shortage of disagreement. That isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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Sep 29 • 10:15 PM EDT • Politics • cachevalleydaily.com
Prominent Journalists to Discuss Tech, AI Evolution at Bucksbaum Business Lecture

Drake University announced today the 4thAnnual Bucksbaum Lectureship in Business. Speakers Karen Hao and Nicholas Thompson will headline the lecture: “Decoding America’s Tech Moment.” Hao is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter covering artificial intelligence and Thompson is CEO of The Atlantic. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at...

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Sep 29 • 1:35 PM EDT • Business • news.drake.edu
Don’t cancel the Chicago Bears’ season just yet

After Monday night’s win over the Eagles, the Bears and their fans can breathe a little easier about their postseason chances writes @kdthompson5.

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Sep 29 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ausar Thompson Is Confident in His Rebuilt Jump Shot

Ausar Thompson says he is confident in his rebuilt jump shot after a full offseason of work. #Pistons

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Sep 29 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
England football news: Live updates, schedule and analysis of Thomas Tuchel's Three Lions

England football news: Live updates, schedule and analysis of Thomas Tuchels Three Lions

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Sep 29 • 8:41 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Will Republicans help this underdog liberal unseat a longtime Democratic congressman?

As young progressive Democrats across the country successfully unseat older incumbents, one California Democratic challenger is courting Republicans instead

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Sep 29 • 8:15 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
Ezri Konsa Injury Update as Thomas Tuchel Confirms 'Minor Issue'

Ezri Konsa missed England training ahead of their Nations League meeting with Czechia, with Thomas Tuchel waiting on further checks before deciding his availability

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Sep 29 • 5:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Palm Beach residents appointed to Cox Science Center board of trustees

Palm Beach residents Deborah Norville, Bill Roberts and Thomas Rosin are among seven new board members of the Cox Science Center & Aquarium.

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Sep 29 • 5:03 AM EDT • Science • palmbeachpost.com
Two Former Nets Still Without Training Camp Invites

Cam Thomas and Dariq Whitehead remain in free agency limbo as rosters solidify.

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Sep 28 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
In the News: Kevin Sauter on the Role of Political Debates - Newsroom

Kevin Sauter spoke with KARE 11 about the role of political debates as Minnesota candidates negotiate debate schedules for the 2026 election.

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Sep 28 • 5:32 PM EDT • Politics • news.stthomas.edu
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Clifton Thompson Gives Kansas Football Another Defensive Line Option

Clifton Thompson Gives Kansas Football Another Defensive Line Option

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Sep 28 • 4:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
7-9- years-old

7-9- years-old – from left, Laken Tyler Thomas received the award for prettiest hair and people’s choice. She is the nine year-old daughter of Nathan and Steffanie Thomas; second runner-up

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Sep 28 • 4:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • herald-citizen.com
Tuchel says Czech Republic game 'not yet a must-win'

England coach Thomas Tuchel said Monday the upcoming Nations League game against the Czech Republic in Prague was "not yet a must-win" despite a 3-2 loss to Spain last weekend.The Czechs have not lost any of their last four home games against England, and they won the last encounter 2-1 in a Euro 2020 qualifier in Prague in 2019.

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Sep 28 • 2:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Pistons Release 2026 Training Camp Roster

The Detroit Pistons have released their 2026-27 training camp roster, featuring Cade Cunningham, Ausar Thompson and John Collins, but not Jalen Duren.

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Sep 28 • 2:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jarell Quansah Ahead Of Alexander-Arnold In Tuchel’s England Hierarchy

Thomas Tuchel prioritizes physical presence and versatility, leaving the Real Madrid star sidelined while the Leverkusen defender cements his unexpected status as England’s preferred right-back.

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Sep 28 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Risk Of Death, Major Disease High Following Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept 28, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes dramatically increases a person’s short-term risk of death or life-threatening illness, a new study says. Within five years of their diagnosis, patients with type 2 diabetes have a 33% increased risk of ...

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Tom Kean Jr. backs Trump on Iran and tariffs, if not local issues

Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. sought to distance himself slightly from President Donald Trump on Sunday as his Democratic opponent, Rebecca Bennett, reminded him of his years of loyalty to the president.

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Sep 28 • 7:30 AM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com
Rockets forward Amen Thompson addresses shooting doubts

After signing a five-year contract extension this summer, Houston Rockets forward Amen Thompson addressed his shooting struggles.

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Sep 27 • 7:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Phillies enter final day of MLB regular season on verge of unfathomable choke in playoff race
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Sep 26 • 11:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Lions Shake Up Roster Before Week 3 Game

The Detroit Lions placed Thomas Harper on injured reserve and elevated Jalen Mills and Amen Ogbongbemiga for Sunday’s game against the Jets.

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Sep 26 • 4:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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England vs Spain

England begin their new Nations League campaign against Spain at Wembley tonight, with the reigning world and European champions providing an immediate test for Thomas Tuchel’s side.With both nation...

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Sep 26 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today

Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agriculture

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Sep 26 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Saindon, Thombs Seek House Seat in Warren, Union, Hope

Residents of Warren, Union, and Hope will have a new state representative in December.

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Sep 26 • 4:30 AM EDT • Politics • midcoastvillager.com
Politics Unusual: NYS Comptroller DiNapoli, Assemblymember Carroll

In this episode of Politics Unusual, FOX 5 NY's political reporter Morgan McKay speaks to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli about his campaign to reclaim his current office, as well as his political history. Also, a conversation with Assemblymember Robert Carroll about his push to bring the Olympic Games back to New York.

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Sep 25 • 6:08 PM EDT • Politics • fox5ny.com
Cole Palmer: England boss Thomas Tuchel questions how desperate Chelsea forward is to play for Three Lions

Cole Palmer withdrew from England squad with a fitness problem for the second time since Thomas Tuchel took charge; Palmer has played three times for England under Tuchel; Follow England vs Spain on Sky Sports website and app on Saturday

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Quick hitters: O-line health, safety depth and Dan Campbell’s first days in Detroit with Glenn

Allen Park — Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and quarterbacks coach Mark Brunell met with the media on Friday. Here are the noteworthy items from those conversations. Healthier up front, banged up in the back It’s good news, bad news on the injury front. First, the offensive line is going to be far closer to full strength with starters Blake Miller (knee) and Christian Mahogany (hip) on track to return to the lineup. That provides stability the offense lacked against Buffalo, particularly at right tackle, where backup Larry Borom allowed 11 quarterback pressures and committed a trio of penalties. Subscribe However, with that same unit, veteran Ben Bartch (foot) is likely to miss Sunday’s matchup with the Jets. The left guard competition that’s been ongoing since May has effectively been whichever option is healthy that week. In the back end, safety Thomas Harper (ankle) is also unlikely to be available on Sunday. That leaves the team precariously thin at the position following Avonte Maddox going on injured reserve this week. Christian Izien is expected to get the start alongside Chuck Clark. “Izzy's been working a lot back there and had a full week,” Campbell said. “And he's gotten a ton of work this week, a ton of reps, full-speed reps. ‘This is what you're going to do, this is the calls’ and just dousing him with full-speed reps and he's done a good job this week.” Safety depth is the bigger concern. The team is expected to count on some combination of Jalen Mills, who signed to the practice squad on Monday, Bishop Fitzgerald, the undrafted rookie poached off the Steelers’ practice squad on Tuesday, and rookie cornerback Keith Abney, who doesn’t have experience at safety. “I'll say this about Abney, man, for a rookie, he's a pretty dang smart, conscientious, aware football player that's got a ton of room to really take off,” Campbell said. “…He's young. He's another one, he just needs reps and reps. But, if we need it, that'll be a guy who may have to go in for us.” You can check here for the full injury report, with game designations, later this afternoon. Reflecting on the past Responding to comments made by Jets coach Aaron Glenn this week, Campbell reflected on his earliest days with the Lions, before the coaching staff had been fleshed out and it was just he and Glenn at the facility working through what they wanted things to look like. “It was just he and I in the lab,” Campbell said. The coach said the two would fill the whiteboard that remains in current coordinator Kelvin Sheppard’s office top to bottom with notes about philosophy, coaching style, team identity and the type of players they wanted to target. “He looks different than me,” Campbell said. “I'm taller, I'm whatever. He's quicker. All these different things, man, but we're really the same. I mean we're so much the same. And he's the defensive version, I'm the offensive version. He was my right hand man. …It was fun, man. Those were good days.” Campbell said it was one of the best and worst days of his life when the Jets hired Glenn to be their coach. “AG means the world to me,” Campbell said. “He's one of my dearest friends because I know what he's made of. “…It's because you know you're losing a little piece of you. That's what he meant to me and to us. So, that's hard.” Traits under center A couple of weeks back, Sheppard noted that Brunell had identified Saints quarterback Tyler Shough as the best prospect at the position ahead of the 2025 draft. On Friday, Brunell confirmed his evaluation and explained what he looks for when studying a young quarterback. Here’s the full answer: “Young quarterbacks, you have to look at everything, you know? I look at guys coming out of college just like I look at any free agents that we might be looking at, or guys that we might add to our roster. Do they take care of the ball? Are they on time? How is their decision-making? How are their feet? “It's tough because you look at a college player, you don't understand what they're trying to do offensively, what their reads are, but you can identify when a guy is accurate, obviously, and when the ball's getting there on time. If there are a lot of interceptions, it raises a red flag. And I think with a lot of the spread offenses of what you're seeing, when you see a young player and they're running some pro concepts and he's having to make protection calls, and he's getting the right play out of the run game, and when there's a lot on his plate and he's executing it very well, and he's managing all of that, that really jumps out at you. It’s really hard to find. “That's one thing we saw with Luke Altmeyer. He had a lot of experience. We call it, ‘Hey, he's playing quarterback.’ And what does that mean? It's not just completing passes. It's getting guys lined up, getting the right play, getting the protection call right, just fixing some problems, being able to progress (through reads). And there's still some young guys out there that can do that at a high level, which is good to see.” Regarding Altmyer, who competed for the team’s backup job through the offseason and currently resides on the practice squad, Brunell acknowledged physical development slows once the season starts, because there aren’t reps to go around. However, there’s still extensive mental development that’s ongoing. “The key for him is approach the game as if you're the starter, mentally,” Brunell said. “And that's really all you can do. Approach the game as if you're the starter and be good in the (class)room. You come in alongside Jared (Goff), and you come in alongside Josh (Dobbs) and (do) whatever they need. And if you get an opportunity to talk to Luke, he'll tell you he does have a lot of responsibilities besides just getting donuts for us on Saturday. “For him, it's mentally staying focused, and even though there's really no chance this Sunday of him playing, he has to approach it as if he's taking the first snap and playing the whole game. So what's our game plan? What are our checks? What are we anticipating? And then during the game, we keep him involved as far as looking at coverages and pressures. And so, really, for him, it's just a mental game. And for now, that's all we can do.” Reason for more zone The Lions have significantly increased their usage of zone coverage on defense this season. I asked Campbell if that was a reaction to their personnel or driven by the focus to generate more turnovers, given it can be easier to produce interceptions when you can keep eyes on the quarterback while playing zone. “I think it was a little bit of both,” Campbell said. “We just felt like this would suit us a little bit better up to this point, and then be disruptive and get takeaways, which worked well Week 1. We had two (opportunities) last week against Buffalo we weren’t able to get, but they’re there.” I followed up by asking how much the combination of heavy blitzing with the back end playing zone has contributed to some of the early-season coverage woes, since adding extra players to the pass rush means leaving the coverage short-staffed. “I mean, it’s challenging, and that’s why a lot of the things we’ve done in zone, for the most part, have been to reduce that stress level back there,” Campbell said. “But that also requires the front getting there. And if you don’t get there, we already kind of talked about that, but there (has to be) a trust there.” The alternative, Campbell explained is sending four and it taking longer for the rush to get home, which can create different problems for a defense. “You can bleed yards,” Campbell said about the strategy. “It gets a little longer and it’s dink-and-dunk and run after catch. …So, we do what we think is right by what we feel like our personnel (does well). But also the game plan, who you’re going in to play, the matchups, their offense. “We’re not stuck on one way.” Detroit Football Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Palmer misses too many opportunities to play for England

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Loneliness, Isolation Can Strip Away Years Of Healthy Life, Large Study Finds

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CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider

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Jonathan Taylor Thomas arrested, accused of kicking Los Angeles deputy

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UT celebrates groundbreaking for 865 Neyland Entertainment District

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Google is reinventing the Thompson Center. Hear from the team making it happen.

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Personnel note: The Southern Group adds another dose of health care expertise with AHCA alum Erica Floyd Thomas

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Former Cowboys Starter Headlines Packers’ 3 DB Workouts

The Green Bay Packers worked out three players after their Week 2 win against the New York Jets, per the league’s transaction wire. Defensive backs Chris Edmonds, Wande Owens, and Juanyeh Thomas were all brought in for workouts on Monday. The Packers were already thin in their safety room. They signed Kahlef Hailassie to their […] The post Former Cowboys Starter Headlines Packers’ 3 DB Workouts appeared first on HEAVY.

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Hammond business damaged after car crashes into building

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Carrot Top awake after suicide attempt, reports of turmoil emerge

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Carrot Top Breathing on His Own as Rep Shares Major Health Update

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New leaders appointed for IFF's Food Ingredients business

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Kora and guitar meet in cross-cultural collaboration

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Fort Bliss celebrates Oktoberfest weekend

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Most Sports Parents Say There's More Good Than Harm In Youth Sports, Survey Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept. 21, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Sports parents overwhelmingly say the benefits of organized competition outweigh the drawbacks for them and their kids, a new survey has found. Nearly 9 out of 10 sports parents (89%) said the benefits of youth sports ...

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Cole Palmer expected to withdraw from England squad

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England latest: Cole Palmer withdraws from Thomas Tuchel's squad ahead of long international break

Cole Palmer was recalled to Thomas Tuchels squad after being snubbed for the 2026 World Cup; Palmer has scored four goals in seven games this season for Chelsea; Palmer had previously stated he felt back to his best after an injury-hit 2025-26 campaign

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Using drag, Beatrice L. Thomas shares her reproductive health experiences

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Sep 20 • 9:56 PM EDT • Health • dctheaterarts.org
Carrot Top's Rep Gives Update on Comedian After Alleged Suicide Attempt

A representative for Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson is reportedly giving an update on the comedian's condition as he remains hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt.

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Sep 20 • 9:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • heraldsun.com
Carrot Top rep provides promising health update after comedian’s hospitalization

Comedian Carrot Top, whose real name is Scott Thompson, is ‘breathing on his own’ two days after his hospitalization in Las Vegas.

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Sep 20 • 6:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Thompson Health Hosting Job Fair in Canandaigua

Thompson Health, Ontario County's largest employer, holds a job fair September 30 in Canandaigua. Learn about openings and interview on-site for positions.

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Sep 20 • 12:03 AM EDT • Health • fingerlakesdailynews.com
Detroit Pistons: How Ausar Thompson’s Deal Compares Across NBA

The Detroit Pistons signed Ausar Thompson to a five-year, $155 million rookie scale extension on Friday

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Sep 19 • 10:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chaos rules as France snatch win in final minutes

By LISA THOMAS France...............29pts Tries: Grando 39, Boulard 43, Bourdon Sansus 55, Riffonneau 68, Feleu 74 Conversions: Arbez 44, Queyroi 68 Australia ..........26pts Tries: Merlo 19, Naden 25, Halse 28, Duck 49 Conversions: Wood 19, 29, 50 FRANCE produced a remarkable late comeback to beat Australia by three points despite collecting five cards and at […] The post Chaos rules as France snatch win in final minutes appeared first on The Rugby Paper .

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Sep 19 • 9:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wausau’s Dr. Thomas Garver inducted into Army Sports Hall of Fame

Wausau resident and retired Marshfield Clinic orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas Garver has been inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame for his standout hockey and lacrosse career at West Point.

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Sep 19 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • wausaupilotandreview.com
Seattle Seahawks Lose Another Starter For Cardinals Game

The Seattle Seahawks announced Saturday that starting right guard Anthony Bradford is out for Sunday’s contest against the Arizona Cardinals; Mike MacDonald told reporters on Friday that Christian Haynes takes Bradford’s place in the starting lineup. In a corresponding move, the Seattle Seahawks promoted safety Rodney Thomas II, similar to the opening game against the […] The post Seattle Seahawks Lose Another Starter For Cardinals Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 19 • 9:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Comedians show support for Carrot Top after hospitalization

Fellow comedians are showing support for Carrot Top on social media after the comic was reportedly hospitalized following a suicide attempt Friday. Carrot Top, whose real name is Scott Thompson, wa…

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Sep 19 • 8:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • ktla.com
Carrot Top hospitalized in Vegas after alleged suicide attempt: report

Carrot Top has been hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt, according to a report. The comedian, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was rushed to the hospital ahead of his

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Sep 19 • 4:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Tennessee Titans' Solomon Thomas named potential trade candidate

One NFL analyst believes the Tennessee Titans should cash in on a potential Solomon Thomas trade.

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Sep 19 • 4:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Carrot Top hospitalized after alleged suicide attempt: report

Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson is recovering in a Las Vegas hospital as of Sept. 18 after reports of the comedian's alleged suicide attempt.

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Sep 19 • 11:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • usatoday.com
Carrot Top hospitalized after suicide attempt, TMZ reports

Comedian Carrot Top is in the hospital Friday after attempting suicide, TMZ reports. The Las Vegas-based performer, whose real name is Scott Thompson, reportedly attempted suicide in the Vegas area…

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Sep 19 • 1:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • ktla.com