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Amazon Expands Autos Business: Time to Sell These 2 Stocks Now?

Amazon has the reach and capability to disrupt nearly any retail industry, and it's now doing more than dipping its toes in the automotive industry.

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Apr 16 • 7:15 AM EDT • Business • fool.com
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Da Vinci Science Center gains NASA grant to celebrate moon mission with Lehigh Valley youth

The Da Vinci Science Center is celebrating America’s return to the moon with a Saturday event and after-school outreach programs funded through a NASA grant.

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Apr 16 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • mcall.com
Warriors rally to eliminate Clippers, 76ers reach NBA playoffs

Golden State star Stephen Curry scored the go-ahead three-pointer with 50 seconds left as the Warriors rallied to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 126-121 and stay alive in the NBA play-in on Wednesday.Orlando trailed by just four with four minutes remaining, but the Sixers pulled away with a late spurt capped by Drummond's three-pointer with 41 seconds left. bb/tc

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Apr 16 • 1:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NBA says Ball's takedown of Adebayo should have been flagrant, merited ejection

The NBA says Charlotte's LaMelo Ball should have been ejected for an uncalled flagrant foul when he reached out and tugged on the ankle of Miami's Bam Adebayo.

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Apr 15 • 10:29 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Safe2Eat in 2026 – Science-backed guidance for all Europeans!

Now in its sixth year, Safe2Eat remains a flagship EU-wide initiative designed to make food safety science accessible and relevant to everyday life. By translating complex scientific knowledge into practical guidance, the campaign helps consumers better understand how food safety works and how it supports their health and wellbeing.Growing reach across Europe and neighbouring countriesSince its launch, Safe2Eat has steadily expanded its geographical scope. From an initial group of 9 participating countries, the campaign reaches 23 countries across Europe and beyond in 2026. This year’s edition...

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Apr 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • efsa.europa.eu
Sexual violence is a public health crisis, it's time we treated it like one

Survivors of sexual violence need to know that theirs is not a private burden, but a public health crisis, write Katie Curran O'Malley and Michelle Daugherty Siri, one that we all have a stake in not just reaching out but in making it unacceptable to look away.

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Apr 15 • 7:46 PM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org
UC Health reaches milestone with 10,000 robotic surgeries: ‘Incredibly proud’

UC Health has achieved a major milestone, completing 10,000 robotic surgeries that are transforming operating rooms with advanced technology.

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Apr 15 • 7:10 PM EDT • Health • wlwt.com
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Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly

The civil case accused Live Nation of using its reach to smother competition — by blocking venues from using multiple ticket sellers, for example

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Apr 15 • 3:19 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Skild AI Acquires Zebra Technologies’ Robotics Automation Business

Skild AI, a fast-rising startup that makes software to help robots learn to complete tasks, has bought the robotics automation division of Zebra Technologies Corp., marking its latest effort to broaden its reach in a hot segment.

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Apr 15 • 2:55 PM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
The economic outlook of women’s sports reached a tipping point this week

This week's free sports business newsletter from The Athletic, featuring Amazon's NBA snafu, Tax Day and some outstanding story recs.

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Apr 15 • 1:32 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
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JBAB’s public health team tackles preventative care

Bolling Medical Squadron Public Health ensures the medical mission readiness for military members, federal civilian employees and military families throughout Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and supporting agencies in the National Capital Region by eliminating preventable hazards before they reach the community.

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Apr 15 • 1:11 PM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net
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Private credit's $20 billion redemption rush in 3 charts

Private credit redemptions reached record levels in the first quarter of this year, and these charts explain how investors asked for about $20 billion back.

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Apr 15 • 11:24 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Ohio State urban science center celebrates 25 years

The Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) at The Ohio State University celebrated its 25th anniversary with a festive brunch and commendations from the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate, as well as from Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther.Founded in 2001, CURA’s mission is research and outreach to foster more sustainable, resilient an...

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Apr 15 • 10:30 AM EDT • Science • news.osu.edu
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Playtech opens worldwide sportsbook network to Inspired virtual games

Cloud-hosted integration gives Playtech operators access to Inspired’s licensed and U.S. sports content, widening distribution across regulated markets.

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Apr 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
Inspired Entertainment Expands Global Reach Through SaaS Distribution Agreement for Virtual Sports with Playtech

NEW YORK, April 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inspired Entertainment, Inc. (“Inspired” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: INSE), a leading provider of B2B gaming content and systems, today announced a new SaaS distribution agreement with Playtech (LSE: PTEC), one of the world’s leading gambling technology companies. Under the agreement, Inspired’s Virtual Sports portfolio, including its market-leading licensed content and U.S. sports offerings, will be distributed via Playtech’s Sportsbook platform to op

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Apr 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
No let-up from Southend after reaching play-offs

Southend United captain Gus Scott-Morriss rules out the team taking a breather in their three remaining National League games after securing a play-off place for the second consecutive year.

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Apr 15 • 3:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
100 Points: Breaking Apart Bruins’ Win Over Devils

BOSTON – The Boston Bruins reached 100 points on Tuesday, and so did David Pastrnak, just in a different way. […] The post 100 Points: Breaking Apart Bruins’ Win Over Devils appeared first on Boston Hockey Now.

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Apr 15 • 3:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Aegon to sell UK business for 2 billion pounds to Standard Life

Aegon said on ​Tuesday it had ‌reached an agreement with ​Standard ​Life to divest its ⁠UK ​business for a ​total consideration of 2 billion ​pounds ($2.7 billion).

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Apr 15 • 1:15 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Atletico Madrid 1-2 Barcelona (agg: 3-2): Diego Simeone's men lose on the night but reach Champions League semi-finals

Atletico Madrid reached the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2016/17 after a 3-2 aggregate win over Barcelona.

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Apr 14 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Letter: It's not politics, it's the Gospel

"Funny how (Sen.) Cramer thinks it's OK to twist Biblical passages to defend his political cruelty, but not for the Pope to speak out on the very thing all ministers of the Gospel are called to proclaim – advocacy for the least of these and the message of peace, love, grace and acceptance that’s the core of who God is and what preachers are ordained to preach," writes Rev. Paula V. Mehmel.

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Apr 14 • 4:42 PM EDT • Politics • inforum.com
OPINION | More than a vote: discovering my place in politics

In high school, I viewed politics as one of the most mind-numbing subjects imaginable. From my perspective, Congress was dominated by wealthy, older white men and my single vote felt insignificant, as though it could never truly represent me. Politics seemed distant, unrelatable and ultimately pointless. In 2024, however, Congress reached a record high of...

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Apr 14 • 1:37 PM EDT • Politics • lionsroarnews.com
More than a vote: discovering my place in politics

In high school, I viewed politics as one of the most mind-numbing subjects imaginable. From my perspective, Congress was dominated by wealthy, older white men and my single vote felt insignificant, as though it could never truly represent me. Politics seemed distant, unrelatable and ultimately pointless. In 2024, however, Congress reached a record high of...

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Apr 14 • 1:37 PM EDT • Politics • lionsroarnews.com
How the rewards app Freecash scammed its way to the top of the app stores

Freecash was removed from Apple's App Store after TechCrunch reached out for comment.

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Apr 14 • 12:43 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Ally Bank reached 50/50 spend on men’s and women’s sports. Now its CMO is taking on ‘fanflation’

Women’s sports are booming, but rising prices could push out the very fans who built them.

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Apr 14 • 12:36 PM EDT • Sports • fortune.com
'Pagan' outreach, Wiccan prayer defense could haunt Dem in battleground race

Iowa Democratic candidate and Lutheran minister Sarah Trone Garriott backed a Wiccan witch's prayer, saying Jesus engaged with pagans multiple times.

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Apr 14 • 10:16 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Millions of Rockstar Games Business Records Stolen, Hacking Group Says

A hacking group with a history of compromising major global corporations said it had stolen nearly 80 million business records from video game developer

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Apr 14 • 10:10 AM EDT • Business • insurancejournal.com
Iraola to leave Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola will leave the club this summer. The Spaniard joined the club in 2023, replacing then head coach Gary O'Neil. Bournemouth had been determined to keep Iraola at the club but were unable to reach an agreement with the 43-year-old.

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Apr 14 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ally reaches ’50/50 pledge’ on women’s sports spending ahead of schedule

The pledge, which aimed for gender parity in sports media investment within five years, has been realized in just four.

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Apr 14 • 9:10 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Pirates’ Paul Skenes reaches historic milestone in 59 starts

As Paul Skenes continues to stack milestones early in his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the 23-year-old added another historic note Monday in a 16-5 rout of the Washington Nationals. Making just his fourth MLB start of the season, Skenes…

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Apr 14 • 5:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists finally know where the Colorado River’s missing water is going

For years, water managers have been puzzled as the Colorado River kept delivering less water than expected—even when snowpack levels looked promising. New research reveals the missing piece: spring rain, or rather, the lack of it. Warmer, drier springs mean plants are soaking up more snowmelt before it can reach rivers, fueled by sunny skies that boost growth and evaporation. In fact, this shift explains nearly 70% of the shortfall, tying the mystery directly to the long-running Millennium drought.

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Apr 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Week of the Young Child at Science City

Science City Outreach Education Lead Jordan Fox joins Shane and Kerrigan to share all the details on the upcoming Week of the Young Child.

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Apr 13 • 2:01 PM EDT • Science • kctv5.com
Reach Heroic Heights in Reign of Talon

The climb continues as a new Hero rises and the fight for a better future pushes Overwatch higher than ever.

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Apr 13 • 1:30 PM EDT • Technology • news.blizzard.com
ShinyHunters breached Rockstar Games in ransomware attack, sets April 14 deadline

Rockstar can't stop getting hacked.

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Apr 13 • 1:18 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
BYU professor seeks to improve local political outreach

Looking to reform local political efforts in Utah County, Darin Self has a community-based approach to getting people involved in politics.

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Apr 13 • 12:26 PM EDT • Politics • universe.byu.edu
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Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index: AI posts gains in science and medicine while often struggling to read a clock

Stanford HAI’s 2026 AI Index paints a split-screen picture for R&D. In the report’s science chapter, “frontier models outperform human chemists on average on ChemBench,” yet “score below 20% on replication in astrophysics and 33% on Earth observation questions.” In medicine, the report reaches a similarly mixed conclusion, saying AI is transforming clinical care, but…

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Apr 13 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • rdworldonline.com
Bob Buckhorn becomes 10th candidate to enter Mayor’s race, will reach ‘every voter’

Buckhorn enters the race as the immediate frontrunner.

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Apr 13 • 8:45 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
After shedding legacy units, Kustom cuts annual loss by nearly $12M

Revenue from continuing operations reached $13.8M as stockholders' equity rose $11.4M; stronger working capital backs Kustom's entertainment-only pivot.

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Apr 13 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
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Data Breaches Announced by DermCare Management; Option Care Health; Aetna

Data breaches have recently been announced by DermCare Management in Florida, Option Care Health in New York, and Aetna in Connecticut. DermCare Data breaches have recently been announced by DermCare Management in Florida, Option Care Health in New York, and Aetna in Connecticut.

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Apr 13 • 8:20 AM EDT • Health • hipaajournal.com
Deloitte's Space Business Reaches New Heights as Two New Satellites Enter Orbit

/PRNewswire/ -- Key takeaways Deloitte-2 and Deloitte-3, launched on March 29, 2026, from Vandenberg Space Force Base to expand Deloitte's on-orbit footprint....

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Apr 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
TCL CSOT Will Launch A Dual-Mode Monitor With 4X Refresh Rate Switching With Up To 640 Hz

TCL CSOT plans a dual-mode monitor with 4X refresh rate switching, reaching up to 640 Hz at 1080p, potentially featuring OLED technology.

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Apr 13 • 7:43 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
How streaming platforms reignited the YA boom: TSITP to Heated Rivalry

Diverse storylines, coupled with the global reach of streaming platforms, have reignited an explosion of YA adaptations, and it's a race that isn’t slowing down.

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Apr 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Business Travel Market Expected to Reach USD 2,095.4 billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 9.5%: Allied Market Research

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "business travel Market by INDUSTRY (Government, Corporate), by SERVICE (Transportation, Food and Lodging, Recreation), by TRAVELER (Group, Solo): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2031". According to the report the global business travel market, valued at USD 689.7 billion in 2021, is projected to reach USD 2,095.4 billion by 2031, expanding at a CAGR of 9.5% over the forecast period — more than tripling in size within a d

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Apr 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
1 in 10 health ad dollars go to sites spreading misinformation

Advertising on health misinformation websites reached $336.4 million, with $35.7 million from public health entities, threatening credibility in health info.

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Apr 13 • 4:31 AM EDT • Health • news-medical.net
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Oil prices surge after failed US-Iran peace talks, Trump's blockade

Vice President JD Vance traveled to Pakistan on Saturday to engage in peace talks with Iran. However, the two countries failed to reach a deal.

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Apr 12 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Clorox Purell Deal Reshapes Health And Hygiene Investment Story

Clorox (NYSE:CLX) has completed the acquisition of GOJO Industries, the company behind the Purell brand. The deal brings Purell hand sanitizer and related hygiene products into Clorox's health and hygiene solutions portfolio. The acquisition is intended to support broader global reach and a more comprehensive offering in cleaning and disinfecting products. For you as an investor, this move connects a household cleaning name with a widely recognized hand hygiene brand under one umbrella...

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Apr 12 • 9:06 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Politics chat: Vance says talks with Iran haven't reached an agreement

Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. and Iran did not reach an agreement to end the war after meeting on Saturday. Control over the Strait of Hormuz remains a flash point in the war.

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Apr 12 • 8:24 AM EDT • Politics • kuow.org
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Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed

On his way to Florida, President Trump said it did not matter to him if a deal with Iran was reached or not: “We win, regardless,” he said.

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Apr 11 • 11:44 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Finley: Trump's college sports order is an overreach

President's executive order on transfer portal, NIL has him meddling where he doesn't belong.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • detroitnews.com
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Americans wait overnight for access to free healthcare as costs soar ‘out of reach’

Some Americans are sleeping in their cars for days to receive free healthcare from Remote Area Medical's volunteer pop-up clinics across the country. CEO Chris Hall shares details.

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Apr 11 • 3:23 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
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Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by third-party data breach

The ShinyHunters hacking group is giving Rockstar Games until April 14 to respond to its threats.

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Apr 11 • 1:51 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Golden Knights have chance to clinch playoff berth against Avalanche

It has taken longer than anticipated for the Vegas Golden Knights to reach this point, but better late than never.

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Apr 11 • 1:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Asha Bhosle health update: Granddaughter Zanai Bhosle confirms singer being treated for ‘extreme exhaustion, infection’

Asha Bhosle's granddaughter Zanai Bhosle confirmed on Saturday night that the legendary singer is hospitalised and is being treated at the Breach Candy Hospital

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Apr 11 • 12:57 PM EDT • Health • hindustantimes.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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GTA 6's Rockstar breached by hacker group with secret data up for ransom

GTA 6 could be in the crosshairs as a suspicious hacker group flaunts a ransom across the dark web

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Apr 11 • 11:25 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed

Well known hacking group, ShinyHunters, claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers

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Memorial Hermann and BCBSTX reach a new deal, restoring in-network coverage, hospital says

The Houston-based health system and the insurance giant had previously let an April 1 deadline pass without a new agreement, meaning many patients across the region were forced to pay higher medical costs or find new doctors.

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Apr 11 • 10:58 AM EDT • Health • houstonpublicmedia.org
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LeBron James hits NBA milestone as LA Lakers crush Suns

James became only the fourth NBA player to reach the milestone

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Shohei Ohtani passes Ichiro Suzuki for another Japanese MLB record

Ohtani has reached base in 44 consecutive regular season games, dating back to last August.

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ShinyHunters Claims Rockstar Games Snowflake Breach via Anodot

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Dark Matter Experiment Reaches Critical Milestone Deep Underground

Hundreds of times colder than outer space.

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IBM to pay $17 million in anti-DEI settlement

IBM reached a settlement with the federal government on Friday, agreeing to pay roughly $17 million to resolve allegations of illegal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

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Bath stage late rally to beat Northampton in classic

Bath come from 21 points down to beat Prem leaders Northampton 43-41 and reach the semi-finals of the Champions Cup in an incredible clash at the Rec.

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How will NASA get the Artemis II crew safely back on Earth? Here's the science behind splashdown

While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft will hurdle through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound and reach temperatures in the thousands of degrees – NASA has been doing it for decades.

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Your Next Breach Will Look Like Business as Usual

These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.

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FBI: Health care was top target for ransomware, other cyberthreats in 2025

Health care and public health was the top sector targeted for cyberthreats in 2025, according to the FBI’s latest annual report on internet crimes. There were 460 ransomware attacks and 182 data breaches, totaling 642 cyber events. Financial services was the next highest sector at 447 total events.

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UNC basketball reaches out to top Arkansas transfer

The UNC basketball program is pursuing Arkansas transfer Karter Knox.

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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

: Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Marvin Mims, Jr. talks mental health with Aurora elementary students

Partnering with Aurora Mental Health & Recovery, Mims has prioritized discussing mental health with youth in the area.

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'Let's not underestimate the achievement' - Dallas on Leeds' season

Former Leeds United cult hero and promotion winner Stuart Dallas says the Whites have "more than enough" to avoid relegation this season and he is "confident" they will do so. Daniel Farke's side beat West Ham last weekend to reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1987 and are four points outside the Premier League relegation zone with seven games to play. "Let's not underestimate the achievement of the club getting to a semi-final of the FA Cup and still being in a strong position to stay up," he told BBC Radio Leeds as he opened a new padel court in the city.

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Note to Colorado lawmakers — parents protecting kids isn’t abuse, it’s their job

By Matt Sharp and Sharon Supp During the last few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has made at least one thing clear: Colorado is consistently overreaching to apply its laws in unconstitutional ways. Colorado treated a cake artist with hostility because of his religious beliefs in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The state […]

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Orange Lutheran, Norco reach championship game at Boras Classic

No. 2 Orange Lutheran will face No. 3 Norco in the Boras Classic championship with the winner becoming the new No. 1 team in Southern California.

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Wisconsin upsets North Dakota to reach Frozen Four title game

Wisconsin topped North Dakota 2-1 on Thursday to reach the Frozen Four title game for the first time since 2010.

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Top College of Science students honored

Undergraduate and graduate students recognized for research, teaching, service and outreach.

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TSMC Has Enabled Smartphone SoCs To Approach 5GHz Frequencies Thanks To Advanced Lithography; Huawei The Biggest Loser In All Of This

With the exception of Huawei, every smartphone chipset manufacturer who chose TSMC is now able to reach a clock speed of 5.00GHz

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Did WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. Insiders Breach their Fiduciary Duties to Shareholders?

/PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating whether certain officers and directors of WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ:...

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Did WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. Insiders Breach their Fiduciary Duties to Shareholders?

NEW YORK, April 9, 2026

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Mariano urges business leaders to make a deal on income tax cut

House Speaker Ron Mariano appealed to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce on Thursday for help in preventing the tax-cut question from reaching the ballot.

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Under funding shortfalls, healthcare systems could reach breaking point
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Political oversight reaches Texas college classrooms, with Texas Tech and A&M at the forefront

Public universities across Texas have instituted sweeping changes to course teachings and offerings in recent months, in a bid to appease concerns from Republican lawmakers that they're indoctrinating students with what they consider to be liberal ideas.

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Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Is Up 7.2% After DOJ Antitrust Settlement Eases Breakup Fears – Has The Bull Case Changed?

In recent days, Live Nation Entertainment reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over an antitrust lawsuit, agreeing to divest 13 exclusive booking agreements and cap ticketing service fees at its owned amphitheaters. This resolution has eased concerns about a potential structural breakup, prompting analysts to highlight how reduced legal uncertainty may support the company’s operational plans and growth ambitions. We’ll now examine how the DOJ settlement, which removes...

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Iowa convenience store chain reaches national business milestone

An Iowa-based company is being added to a prestigious list this morning. Casey’s General Stores is now on the S&P 500 stock index. The Ankeny-based convenience store chain is only the second Iowa company on the list, along with Principal Financial Group in Des Moines. The S&P 500 encompasses both the New York Stock Exchange […]

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New YouTube report shows how online animators are reshaping the entertainment industry

Independent creators on YouTube are redefining the animation landscape as global audiences shift their focus toward original online series. This report explores how a new generation of animators reaches millions of people through digital platforms and cross-language content.

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NHL Playoff Picture 2026: Standings & Stanley Cup Bracket

The race to the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs is reaching its final, chaotic stretch. With less than a week left […]

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Real Madrid target reaches preliminary renewal agreement with current club

Real Madrid’s search for defensive reinforcements has taken another unexpected turn, with one of their previously monitored targets now looking increasingly out of reach. As the club continues to a...

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A teetering ceasefire bodes ill for treacherous US-Iran talks ahead

The sad truth is that Middle East ceasefires don’t always stop the shooting.

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Cleveland Browns NFL Draft Profile: DE Keldric Faulk, Auburn

A young player with room to reach his potential is catnip to Browns GM Andrew Berry.

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LAUSD high school sports would halt if unions strike on Tuesday

Three unions set to strike in Los Angeles Unified School District beginning Tuesday if settlement not reached in contract dispute.

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Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to "macOS time bomb"

The Apple MacBook, iMac and Mac mini suffer from a macOS bug that effectively acts like a time bomb. After a timer reaches a certain value, new TCP connections can effectively no longer be established, causing many apps and websites to stop working.

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Simple dinner table habit linked to poor diet and higher health risks in adults over 60

New research links the common habit of reaching for the saltshaker at dinner to troubling health patterns in older adults, including blood pressure and poor diet.

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Apr 8 • 2:18 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Astronaut’s Science Blast empowers kids to reach for their own stars

Students across San Joaquin County recently participated in the annual Science Blast program at University of the Pacific. Here's what to know.

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BetMGM, Borgata add NFL-themed virtual games in New Jersey

Borgata Online also launched V-Play Soccer and Basketball, widening Inspired's reach in New Jersey after BetMGM said Ontario saw positive player response.

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Israeli opposition leader slams US-Iran ceasefire as ‘political disaster’

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed the temporary ceasefire reached in the joint U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran on Tuesday, criticizing the deal as a “political disaster.” “Israel wasn’t …

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This week in Santa Cruz County business: County reaches settlement with Walgreens; businesses invited to partake in World Cup promotions

Jessica M. Pasko's weekly column returns with news of Santa Cruz County getting more than half a million from pharmacy giant Walgreens and local businesses' chance to get in on World Cup fever, plus names, numbers and dates to know.

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Trump’s Iran brinkmanship reaches truce, escalates backlash at home

The president’s ultimatum drew condemnation across the political spectrum and intensified open debate about his credibility, morality and sanity.

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Deloitte Global: Women's Elite Sports Continue to Change the Game with Revenues Expected to Reach at Least US$3 Billion Globally in 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- Key takeaways Women's sports are expected to continue to surge: Global revenues are expected to reach at least $3 billion in 2026, an increase...

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Shawnee, KCK chambers host World Cup marketing workshop for local businesses

Business owners are learning strategies to reach diverse audiences ahead of a major sporting event.

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Rollback of state minority business program will damage Harris County’s tax revenue, legal filing says

The comptroller's action, according to the lawsuit, will damage the stability of the county's procurement system, narrow the universe of potential bidders and reduce investment, workforce development and tax revenues in Harris County. The comptroller's office could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Xtreme One Entertainment Secures Temporary Restraining Order Against Lender Williamsburg Venture Holdings, Halting Alleged Fraudulent Transfer and Sale of $XONI Stock

Emergency Court Order Requires Immediate Return of Shares by Williamsburg and Securities Intermediaries Based on Alleged Breach of Contract and Fraudulent TransferGRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xtreme One Entertainment, Inc. (OTCQB: XONI), a diversified media and live-event sports company, and parent company of Xtreme Fighting Championships (XFC), today announced it was granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) based on the Company’s lawsuit that alleges fraud, breach

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Trump's message to Iran on deadline day: 'A whole civilization will die tonight'

The extraordinary threat signaled Trump's willingness to authorize U.S. military strikes on Iranian infrastructure if no ceasefire deal is reached by 5 p.m. PDT Tuesday.

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Artemis II’s Awe Reminds Us of Science’s Fragility and Importance

Three words uttered yesterday from Mission Control to Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, perfectly capture the groundswell of emotion many of us have experienced over the last week as a team of astronauts flew beyond the previous reaches of human space travel: “Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.”

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