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PACIFIC PARK ON THE SANTA MONICA PIER NAMES TIM DEFURIA AS DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIR Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier announced

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Apr 13 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • labusinessjournal.com
'Unbelievable' Liverpool star set for surprise exit offer

Hull City are keen on signing Andy Robertson if they get promotedis one of the two players who's guaranteed to be leaving Liverpool at the end of the current season.The Scotsman has been one of the Re...

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Apr 13 • 1:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Wisconsin AD McIntosh to take new position at Big Ten

Wisconsin AD Chris McIntosh is set to become the Big Ten’s chief strategy officer, reporting directly to Tony Petitti. Exact responsibilities are TBD.

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Apr 12 • 7:26 PM EDT • Sports • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Wisconsin AD McIntosh to take new position at Big Ten

Wisconsin AD Chris McIntosh is set to become the Big Ten’s chief strategy officer, reporting directly to Tony Petitti. Exact responsibilities are TBD.

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Apr 12 • 7:26 PM EDT • Business • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Hungary Has Ousted an Autocrat

Viktor Orbán had support from Moscow and Washington, but not from his own people.

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Apr 12 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com
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Cavs score vs Wizards. Injury report, regular-season finale highlights

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards end the 2025-26 NBA regular season season with a matchup at Rocket Arena. The playoffs await the Cavs.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Inside Vance’s Iran negotiations: No deal, but ‘friendly’ talks

Vice President JD Vance’s negotiations in Pakistan with Iran failed to end the war, but progress was reported on building goodwill.

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Apr 12 • 4:34 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How Oklahoma Landed America’s First Aluminum Smelter in Half a Century

Aluminum makers EGA and Century plan to break ground this year on a facility that would more than double U.S. smelting capacity.

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Apr 12 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Video: Local business I-CYCLE teaches adults and children how to ride a bicycle
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Apr 12 • 8:19 AM EDT • Business • lansingstatejournal.com
Photos: Local business I-CYCLE teaches adults and children how to ride a bicycle

Photos: Local business I-CYCLE teaches adults and children how to ride a bicycle

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Minneapolis public safety debate back in a familiar place: anger, political squabbling

The Minneapolis City Council’s rejection of Mayor Jacob Frey’s public safety commissioner renewed the angry divisions over policing that have characterized city politics in recent years.

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Apr 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • startribune.com
Democrats see gas prices as a potent political tool. Here’s the catch.

President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran sent gas prices surging, giving Democrats’ focus on affordability more traction if they can get voters to trust them.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Captain Clutch completes comeback, Mariners walkoff Astros 8-7

Mariners comeback from 5-run deficit

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Apr 12 • 2:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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RFK Jr. Once Touted Raw Milk. Now He’s Stopped Talking About It.

The health secretary has instead promoted whole milk, a politically safer choice, as he seeks to avoid “weird stuff.”

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Apr 11 • 7:00 PM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Mets reportedly calling up veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel
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Apr 11 • 12:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
High school sports a big focus

Sports reporter Brian Calloway is among the busiest people at the LSJ almost anytime of the year. That's especially true this time of year.

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Apr 11 • 11:19 AM EDT • Sports • freep.com
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High school sports a big focus

Sports reporter Brian Calloway is among the busiest people at the LSJ almost anytime of the year. That's especially true this time of year.

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The Growth of the Upper Middle Class, a Focus on Sperm Health and the Workers Shunning AI | WSJ Weekend Reads for April 11

Plus, a focus on sperm health, the workers shunning AI and making golf a family affair

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Apr 11 • 7:50 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Trump likes to back winners in foreign elections. The upcoming vote in Hungary will test his clout

Donald Trump has made a public flex of his political influence abroad on a scale that few, if any, U.S. presidents have, trying to marshal power he’s used domestically to sway races around the world

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Apr 11 • 12:07 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Player Availability Report: #SKCvSJ

Player Availability Report is SportingKC.com’s look at the latest status updates around the team ahead of upcoming matches and is presented by Saint Luke’s. All details listed are from the league’s official Player Status Report that is submitted the day prior to the match. Sporting Kansas City is set to

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Apr 10 • 5:47 PM EDT • Sports • sportingkc.com
Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office

In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.

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Apr 10 • 3:18 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Al Roker stops 'Today' interview with 'Laguna Beach' star over wardrobe malfunction: 'Guys, on live television?'

'Laguna Beach' star handled a wardrobe malfunction that occurred on live TV like a pro Friday on 'Today.'

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Apr 10 • 2:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
How Political Differences Can Affect Golf Players Concentration on the Links and Beyond

A new study suggests political differences among golfers can affect concentration on the links—and perhaps in the workplace as well.

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Apr 10 • 2:00 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Crowd chants ‘Run again!’ to Kamala Harris, who said she’s ‘thinking about it’

The former vice president’s statement at a Black political convention was one of her most explicit signals yet that she could campaign again for president in 2028.

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Apr 10 • 1:44 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Construction Business Taking a Hit From Iran Conflict

Rising prices for fuel and materials such as aluminum push up costs just as they were stabilizing. ‘This war just trashed that.’

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Apr 10 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
The Sperm Health Industry, Inside the World of MAHA Moms and America’s Record Low Fertility Rate | WSJ Health for April 10

Plus, a look inside the world of MAHA moms and why America’s fertility rate is falling

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Apr 10 • 12:55 PM EDT • Health • wsj.com
French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux

It's part of a broader European movement to reduce reliance on American tech.

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Apr 10 • 12:54 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on AstraZeneca, Novartis, Roche Holding and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.

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Apr 10 • 12:47 PM EDT • Health • wsj.com
New health service lets Mountain Brook, Vestavia, Homewood residents skip the long waits

A new house call service is coming to Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Mountain Brook.

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Apr 10 • 11:46 AM EDT • Health • al.com
Watching Sports on TV Is More Annoying Than Ever. Can the Government Help?

The Justice Department launches an investigation into the NFL’s media universe. It’s a bigger riddle than football.

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Apr 10 • 11:45 AM EDT • Sports • wsj.com
WHO Says Iran Health System Is in Crisis, Commits $800,000 Emergency Funds

The World Health Organization released $800,000 from its emergency contingency fund to support the health response in Iran. Hanan Balkhy, a regional director for the United Nations agency, welcomed the current cease-fire but warned the health crisis in Iran was ongoing. “Humanitarian and health nee

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Apr 10 • 8:17 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
SBJ Football: Taking stock of the NFL’s offseason business

The offseason isn't off for the NFL's business side, with a number of deals and other issues, such as an 18th game and media rights, pending after the draft. Also in this week's SBJ Football newsletter: Athletes First's NFL business trips for players and the Rams' pulling back on draft house.

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Apr 9 • 5:41 PM EDT • Business • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Weekend Entertainment | A Good Day for the Globetrotters

Tickets remain available for the Harlem Globetrotters show at Covelli Centre as part of the team's 100th anniversary tour.

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Apr 9 • 12:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • businessjournaldaily.com
Exclusive | Justice Department Opens Investigation Into NFL

Government officials have raised questions about whether the league is engaging in anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers.

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Apr 9 • 10:27 AM EDT • Sports • wsj.com
Pitt’s philosophy program ranked No. 5 in the 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject

The three Dietrich School units that make up the program continued its top-five streak, which dates back 10 years.

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Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • pittwire.pitt.edu
Disney plans to cut 1,000 jobs, WSJ reports

Disney is planning to ​cut as many ‌as 1,000 positions in the ​coming weeks, ​many of which ⁠will be ​made in the ​company's marketing department, the Wall Street ​Journal reported ​on Wednesday, citing sources.

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Apr 8 • 8:34 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Exclusive | Disney Planning Layoffs Under New CEO Josh D’Amaro

The entertainment company is preparing to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks.

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Apr 8 • 8:15 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Trump to discuss leaving NATO in meeting with alliance’s leader, White House says

The president, long a NATO skeptic, has been especially angry at alliance members in recent weeks for declining to take part in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

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Apr 8 • 6:49 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
New York Giants announce jersey numbers for incoming free agents

After an active free agency period, the New York Giants announced jersey numbers for their new faces on Wednesday.

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Apr 8 • 3:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cuba Excluded Political Prisoners From Mass Pardon, Rights Group Says

Cuba’s release of more than 2,000 prisoners last week excluded regime critics and political prisoners, according to civil rights advocates.

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Apr 8 • 12:09 PM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com
How the Journal Covered Trump’s 12-Hour Iran ‘Civilization’ Countdown

Plus, the White House decided to hang on to Kristi Noem’s $70 million jet.

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Apr 8 • 6:58 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Gilead Sciences, Sovato and more in the latest Market Talks covering the health care sector.

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Apr 8 • 6:13 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Pat Fitzgerald was vilified, then vindicated. His truth comes out at last

Pat Fitzgerald opens up to USA TODAY Sports about his firing at Northwestern, hazing allegations and building a future with Michigan State football.

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Apr 8 • 5:46 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Republican wins runoff to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress

Clay Fuller, a district attorney backed by President Donald Trump, defeated Shawn Harris in the deeply red district vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Apr 7 • 8:37 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Dropping the Series Opener: Mets 4, Dbacks 3

The Arizona Diamondbacks dropped the series opener to the New York Mets on Tuesday, falling 4-3 in extra innings after squandering a late lead. Leading 3-2 into the eighth, the D-backs watched the game slip away as the bullpen allowed tying and winning runs against Jonathan Loaisiga and Paul Sewald. This felt like a painfully […]

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Apr 7 • 7:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Men Are Obsessed With Their Sperm Health, and Brands Are Cashing In

Wellness brands are fueling a growing demand for male-fertility products, selling supplements and sperm-testing kits.

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Apr 7 • 11:55 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Brenda Alexander has the latest in entertainment headlines:

Are Kim K & Lewis Hamilton dating? Lil Nas X may have caught a break in his felony assault case, and Stephen Colbert's replacement has been announced.

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Apr 7 • 11:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
SBJ Women’s Sports: On the ground at the Final Four, PWHL’s record night

Phoenix showed why it's a women's basketball town while hosting the Final Four, as SBJ's Women's Sports newsletters details. The PWHL is also building even more momentum with another record-breaking sellout, and data showing the colleges playing flag football.

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Apr 7 • 10:05 AM EDT • Sports • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Three Ways Trump’s Iran Deadline Could Play Out Tonight

Plus, Steve Bannon’s conviction for contempt of Congress is poised for dismissal.

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Apr 7 • 7:02 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Social Science Has a Replication Problem

And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if it inspires self-correction.

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Apr 7 • 6:15 AM EDT • Science • wsj.com
Springfield's March business recap: Openings, closings, and more

Aside from openings and closings in March, it was a busy month for business and restaurant news. Here's a recap of anything you may have missed.

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Apr 7 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • sj-r.com
Trump’s many threats of possible war crimes reach a crescendo in Iran

After more than a decade floating actions that might constitute war crimes, US President Donald Trump is threatening to make good on such threats in Iran.

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Apr 6 • 3:10 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Rams QB Fits: Ranking 2026 NFL Draft Quarterbacks

Ranking 2026 NFL Draft quarterbacks based on how they fit the Los Angeles Rams offense.

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Apr 6 • 12:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AMC Entertainment Delivers Best Ever Global Revenue Mark for a 5-Day Easter Weekend, Led by THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE, Strong Merchandise Sales, and Solid Performances by Other Titles

LEAWOOD, Kan., April 06, 2026--AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and in the world, today announced that it delivered a record-setting performance over the 5-day Easter holiday weekend, achieving the highest combined global admissions and food & beverage revenue for the holiday frame in AMC’s 106-year history.

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Apr 6 • 8:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Trump Says He’s Calling Iran’s Bluff In WSJ Interview | WSJ Politics Newsletter for April 6

Plus, Jamie Dimon warns of higher inflation and interest rates from the Iran War

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Apr 6 • 7:03 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Embark on a science adventure at UW-Madison’s Science Expeditions

The community is invited to try hands-on activities at six Exploration Station hubs, tour research spaces, view Science Spectacular Shows, and attend lectures.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • wmtv15news.com
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Why the U.S. Spends So Much on Healthcare

A big reason is the high prices Americans pay for surgeries and drugs.

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Apr 6 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Column | Do men or women have worse farts? Science has the answer.

Yes, scientists have studied whether men or women have worse farts, what makes them smell and why air travel tends to make people gassy.

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Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com
Islanders fire coach Patrick Roy with 4 games remaining before playoffs, hire Peter DeBoer to replace him

The Islanders are making a coaching change while hanging onto the No. 7 seed in the NHL's Eastern Conference.

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Apr 5 • 12:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Opinion | Will GLP-1 Drugs Transform the Food Business?
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Apr 5 • 12:44 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Trump threatens Iran with ‘Hell’ over Strait of Hormuz in profane post

Trump escalated threats against Iran’s power plants, bridges and other infrastructure in an expletive-laden post on Truth Social on Easter morning.

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Apr 5 • 10:27 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Iran Executes Two Over Political Protests

Iran executed two men linked to recent anti-regime protests, according to a government statement. Authorities in the country have carried out death sentences for at least 13 political prisoners since the war’s start, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based group that mo

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Apr 5 • 5:14 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Netflix, CBS, ABC & NBC Cancel 11 Popular Shows in 2026

Here are some of the television programs on the chopping block in 2026.

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Apr 4 • 10:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • mensjournal.com
A Tough Nut, A Growing Business

Flagstaff Business News A Tough Nut, A Growing Business

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Apr 4 • 6:45 PM EDT • Business • flagstaffbusinessnews.com
NBA says Giannis Antetokounmpo declined to scrimmage 3-on-3 with Bucks as part of return-to-play protocol as investigation continues
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Apr 4 • 6:42 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
NBA says Giannis Antetokounmpo declined to scrimmage 3-on-3 with Bucks as part of return-to-play protocol as investigation continues
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Apr 4 • 6:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple debuts 50th anniversary exhibit at Apple Park with iconic products and photography

Apple debuts 50th anniversary exhibit at Apple Park with iconic products and photography.

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Apr 4 • 2:02 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Bucks reportedly told NBA investigators that Giannis Antetokounmpo declined to scrimmage 3-on-3 as part of return-to-play protocol
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Apr 4 • 1:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Sector That’s Hiring, 50 Years of Apple Products, Saying ‘No’ to an Inherited IRA | WSJ Weekend Reads for April 4

Plus, 50 years of Apple products, a scan for statin use and saying no to an inheritance

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Apr 4 • 7:50 AM EDT • Technology • wsj.com
Can AI Be My Health Adviser? I Tested Claude and Perplexity With My Real Medical Records to See
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Apr 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Giannis Antetokounmpo questions relationship with Bucks as NBA investigates team's statements about his health
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Apr 3 • 9:43 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Croston calls for changes while resigning at Hennepin Healthcare

The co-administrator said Hennepin County commissioners overruled the health care executive's operational decisions.

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Apr 3 • 8:33 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com
Artemis II astronauts are also having Microsoft Outlook issues

IT problems aren't just a terrestrial matter.

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Apr 3 • 2:57 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Eli Lilly, Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.

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Apr 3 • 12:42 PM EDT • Health • wsj.com
EPA puts microplastics, drugs on tap water list

A $144 million study into microplastics in water was also announced

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Apr 3 • 10:56 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
‘Bigger Than Fashion’ Review: Business That Keeps It Casual

The first streetwear retailers were small-scale operations. One designer sold jeans from the back of his car.

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Apr 3 • 10:54 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Exclusive | ServiceNow CEO Builds New Business Model Around AI

Bill McDermott envisions a ‘control tower’ for companies as AI moves beyond intelligence to execution.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Chaos Over Bondi’s Ouster Has Only Begun | WSJ Politics Newsletter for April 3

Plus, the attorney general learned she was out during a limo ride with Trump, and Hegseth removed the Army’s top general

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Apr 3 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Fuel Surcharges Hit Small Businesses as ‘Tariffs 2.0’

Shipping costs are climbing for online sellers as carriers such as FedEx and UPS pass along the rising price of diesel.

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Apr 3 • 5:30 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Gmail finally makes major change users are thrilled about: ‘Long, long, long overdue’

Some people won't be able to change their Gmail, according to the Google Help Center.

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Apr 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • pennlive.com
‘I Think It’s Time’: The Inside Story of Pam Bondi’s Ouster

The attorney general was always on the ropes but thought she was finally on safer footing. She wasn’t.

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Apr 2 • 9:00 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Former Browns defensive leader retires from the NFL

Cleveland Browns signed LB Anthony Walker to provide steady leadership in the middle of defense, injuries limited him

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Apr 2 • 7:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Weekend Entertainment | The Summit Has Got Our Number

Only a few people at the 330 Day concert knew anything about Ceci Taylor, who was one of the singer-songwriters on the bill.

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Apr 2 • 12:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • businessjournaldaily.com
Chinese satellite with robotic 'octopus arm' passes key refueling test in orbit — making longer-lived space assets more likely

The experimental Hukeda-2 satellite and its highly flexible robotic arm have passed a major refuelling test in low Earth orbit. The demonstration is the latest step toward China significantly expanding the longevity of its spacecraft.

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Apr 2 • 11:33 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
WME Sells Sports Agency to Publicis

Publicis Groupe is set to acquire 160over90 in a bid to win more of advertisers’ spending in sports.

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Apr 2 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • wsj.com
Democrats Are Suddenly Dropping F-Bombs Left and Right | WSJ Politics Newsletter for April 2

Plus, Trump tries to sell Americans on the war in Iran

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Apr 2 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Novartis, Roche Holding and more in the latest Market Talks covering the health care sector.

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Apr 2 • 6:58 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
WhatsApp Alerts 200 Users After Fake iOS App Installed Spyware; Italian Firm Faces Action

WhatsApp alerted 200 users in Italy to spyware iOS app, highlighting Europe’s expanding surveillance crisis.

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Apr 2 • 5:51 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Iran fires missiles at Israel and Gulf neighbors as Trump talks of winding down Mideast war

Iran responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to Americans on the war with new missile attacks targeting Israel and the Gulf Arab states

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Apr 2 • 3:45 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
100 years ago, the Spartans were born in the LSJ. Well, the ‘Spartons’. Close enough.

100 years ago this week, Lansing State Journal sports editor George Alderton first called Michigan State \

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Apr 2 • 12:53 AM EDT • Sports • lansingstatejournal.com
Europe has the resources to contain Russia but lacks the political will

Europe unquestionably possesses the industrial and economic base to outmatch Russia but has yet to demonstrate the unity and political will necessary to contain the Kremlin and stop Putin in Ukraine, writes Oleksiy Zagorodnyuk.

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Apr 1 • 8:10 PM EDT • Politics • atlanticcouncil.org
FishBait Solutions rebrands as Pivotal Sports & Entertainment

Some 18 years after is after its founding by Rick Jones as FishBait Marketing, the boutique agency known as fishboat Solutions since 2021, is rebranding to Pivotal Sports & Entertainment.

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Apr 1 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Texas judge rejects push to let churches make political endorsements

A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to allow churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status

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Apr 1 • 4:13 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Legacy Health goes out of network for Regence members

Legacy Health's contract with Regence has ended, as the two have been unable to reach an agreement over reimbursement rates for health care.The president of Reg

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Apr 1 • 3:34 PM EDT • Health • katu.com
Politics, the Constitution Face Off Over Birthright Citizenship

One of the most revealing exchanges in the Supreme Court hearing took place between the Trump administration’s Solicitor General John Sauer and Chief Justice John Roberts, over Sauer’s observation that “8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S. citizen.” Wednesday’s

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Apr 1 • 3:04 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Umpire C.B. Bucknor helped off field by trainers after taking foul ball directly to the face mask

C.B. Bucknor was able to walk off the field after a hard hit to the face mask.

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Apr 1 • 2:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Iran's New Supreme Leader ‘Is in Full Health,’ Official Says

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, “is in full health” but hasn’t appeared in public because of “wartime conditions,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Khamenei’s [whereabouts and well-being](https://www.wsj.com/world/m

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Apr 1 • 10:23 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
USC Big Ten ranking in one preseason prediction model unveiled

The new offseason SP+ rankings are out. See where USC landed in this first preseason measurement of the Big Ten's 18 programs:

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Apr 1 • 8:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Lions ‘unlikely’ to get bye week after Germany game

The Detroit Lions didn’t request—and aren’t expecting—a bye week after their game in Germany.

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Apr 1 • 7:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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