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Ally Achieves Historic 50/50 Sports Media Pledge One Year Ahead of Schedule

Commits to Continuing the Work to Advance Women's Sports and Support the Fans Who Made It Happen CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) today announced it...

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Apr 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • media.ally.com
Sports Daily: Wildcats make a couple moves in transfer portal, Royals on road for touch stretch -

Where do KU and K-State sit as transfer portal action picks up throughout college basketball? We look into a couple of moves the Wildcats made as we wait to see what the Jayhawks do.

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Apr 14 • 7:55 AM EDT • Sports • kwch.com
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How Ai Ogura is starting to fulfil his MotoGP potential

After a muted rookie campaign, Ogura is beginning to show the form that made him a Moto2 champion

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Apr 14 • 6:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WATCH: Science graduate students recap international industry internship

Penn State graduate students Samantha Seibel and Naomi Huntley discuss their participation in a six-week summer internship program in Germany that was made possible by a partnership between QIAGEN LLC and the University's One Health Microbiome Center.

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Apr 14 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • psu.edu
FOX Business’ ‘Made in America’ contest features Steele Saddle Tree

Steele Saddle Tree’s Ed Steele and Allen Holloway discuss their business and journey to becoming ‘Made in America’ finalists on ‘The Bottom Line.’

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Apr 13 • 8:25 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
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Rep. Eric Swalwell will resign from Congress following sexual misconduct allegations

The California Democrat said in a statement he was “deeply sorry to my family, staff and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.”

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Apr 13 • 5:46 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Trump officials consider physician, a Fox News regular, for top vaccine post

Houman Hemmati is under consideration to lead the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. A final decision has not been made.

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Apr 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
We built a $7 million business while traveling the world

Tricia Redulla co-founded Sky and Sol and built a sunscreen business while traveling across Asia, Europe, and the US. A year later it made $33 million.

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Apr 13 • 3:35 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sources: Mavs dismiss director of health in another shake-up

The Dallas Mavericks have dismissed director of health and performance Johann Bilsborough on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive year that the franchise has made major changes in that department.

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Apr 13 • 3:16 PM EDT • Health • espn.com
Romney returns to Mass. 20 years after 'Romneycare' passage

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made a rare public appearance in Boston on Monday to celebrate his signature health care law, which later became a liability during his unsuccessful run for president.

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Apr 13 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • wbur.org
Hezbollah official says the group won't abide by any agreements from Lebanon-Israel talks in the US

A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese militant group will not abide by any agreements made in upcoming direct talks between Israel and Lebanon in the United States.

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Apr 13 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • click2houston.com
Get on ‘board’ with Aspen’s newest charcuterie board business

Borde + Kurv offers handmade boards, along with baskets, spanning everything from brunch to charcuterie to dessert — with thoughtfully sourced and mostly local produce evoking European flavor and tradition.

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Apr 13 • 11:48 AM EDT • Business • postindependent.com
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High school sports top performers from the weekend took no days off

They don't need a break. These 15 high school sports top performers dominated the weekend across the diamond, field and courts. See who made the cut.

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Apr 13 • 11:13 AM EDT • Sports • metrowestdailynews.com
EOU students win awards for their business ideas

LA GRANDE — Local university students and alumni made a big splash in April with their business ideas at the Eastern Oregon Innovation Jam. The Rural Engagement and Vitality Center […]

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Apr 13 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • eastoregonian.com
New University City sports bar touts air-fried wings, grease-free game day eats

Expect made-to-order classics like burgers, chicken tenders and wood-fired pizzas.

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Apr 13 • 8:54 AM EDT • Sports • charlotteobserver.com
‘The Pitt’s Noah Wyle Reacts to Supriya Ganesh’s Shocking Exit

Wyle also explained why the decision was made to write Ganesh out of the show.

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Apr 13 • 8:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • northwestgeorgianews.com
NSF announces 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program award offers

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced that it has made offers and will award 2,500 Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year...

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Apr 13 • 6:59 AM EDT • Science • nsf.gov
Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Styles Made of High-End Materials

Apple is developing at least four different styles of smart glasses, and the company is betting that their superior design will set them apart from rival products, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says that Apple's latest designs are made from a high-end material called acetate, which is "more durable and luxurious" than the standard plastic used by most existing brands.

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Apr 13 • 5:29 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Pirates made a mistake signing Marcell Ozuna over Andrew McCutchen

The Bucs made a bad decision.

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Apr 13 • 5:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Politics made Alabama power bills high. It can lower them

The Alabama Legislature passed a law to cut the public out of the rate-making process. Here’s the flaw in it.

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Apr 13 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • montgomeryadvertiser.com
Romneycare turns 20: Mass. leaders celebrate health care reform

The landmark health care reform made Massachusetts the most insured state in the country.

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Apr 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
Watch: As AI Makes More Health Coverage Decisions, The Risks To Patients Grow

This year, executives from nearly every major health insurance company made the same declaration in calls with Wall Street analysts: Using artificial intelligence to make coverage decisions would help save them money.

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Apr 13 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • ctnewsjunkie.com
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Bayern planning second summer signing

After joining Bayern Munich on loan from Gambinos Stars Africa in January, Bara Sapoko Ndiaye finally made his debut for the German champions in their 5-0 win over FC St. Pauli on Saturday, coming off...

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Apr 13 • 3:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
About His Business

Elder Kearon teaches that callings from the Lord are tailor-made for our growth and that when we respond to a call, we don’t merely fill an assignment but join the Saviour in His redeeming work.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • churchofjesuschrist.org
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Astronomers detect mega-laser beam signal from 8 billion light-years away

Science News: One of the most remarkable discoveries made by astronomers in recent years is the identification of an extremely strong \"mega-laser\" signal that has t.

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Apr 12 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Commissioner Bill Canda created septic business to evade taxes

Thanks to a miscommunication in March between the Custer County Sheriff’s Office and the 12th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Alamosa, the majority of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into Custer County Commissioner Bill Canda for alleged sales tax fraud was made public. The

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Apr 12 • 2:09 PM EDT • Business • wetmountaintribune.com
Apple made iOS users wait for the iPhone Fold only to get it wrong

Is the iPhone Fold destined to join the graveyard of Apple's niche experiments, alongside the iPhone mini and iPhone Plus?

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Apr 12 • 10:51 AM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
Snapdragon X2 Elite Offers A Solid Foundation For A Windows On ARM Ecosystem, But OEMs Current Strategy Risk Its Future

Qualcomm has made incredible strides with the Snapdragon X2 Elite, but OEMs using the SoC risk that higher adoption with their current strategies

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Apr 12 • 9:36 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Bill calls for mental health assessments be made available for all Virginia 6-12th graders

A proposed law would ask that mental health assessments be made available for all sixth-12th grade public school students in Virginia.

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Apr 12 • 9:22 AM EDT • Health • pilotonline.com
Philippines says any energy deals with China must respect its sovereignty

The Philippines said on Sunday that any decision to pursue oil and gas cooperation ​with China would be made strictly in line ‌with its constitution and respect its sovereignty.

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Apr 12 • 7:33 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
After being an iPhone user for 13 years, here's why I'm finally switching to Android for good

After 13 years with an iPhone, I finally made the switch to Android — and it all came down to one simple feature.

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Apr 12 • 5:30 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
3 diet tweaks heart health nutrition scientist made to prevent disease

How quickly and when you eat could affect your metabolic and cardiovascular health, professor Sarah Berry said.

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Apr 12 • 5:09 AM EDT • Health • businessinsider.com
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Colman Domingo and "SNL" Revisited the Glory Days of TV Science

Domingo's first time as host made for a terrific episode

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Apr 12 • 3:07 AM EDT • Science • insidehook.com
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Flyers Postgame Blog: Statement Win; Vladar Bounces Back; Vintage Couturier

The Philadelphia Flyers made a statement on Saturday. It was a dominating 7-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets that lowered […] The post Flyers Postgame Blog: Statement Win; Vladar Bounces Back; Vintage Couturier appeared first on Philly Hockey Now.

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Apr 11 • 10:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tigres thrash and outclass Chivas at El Volcán!

Tigres made a statement at El Volcán, thrashing Chivas 4-1. The felines controlled much of the match, handing the Liga MX leaders one of their most painful defeats of the Clausura 2026. The party st...

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Apr 11 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Plymouth Maple Fest sheds light on the maple syrup business

People from across the Plymouth community gathered on Saturday for the annual Maple Fest, which celebrates hand-made maple syrup across Sheboygan County.

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Apr 11 • 9:11 PM EDT • Business • nbc26.com
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Get on ‘board’ with Aspen’s charcuterie board business

Borde + Kurv offers handmade boards, along with baskets, spanning everything from brunch to charcuterie to dessert — with thoughtfully sourced and mostly local produce evoking European flavor and tradition.

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Apr 11 • 7:00 PM EDT • Business • aspentimes.com
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Masters 2026: Shane Lowry erupts after hitting a hole-in-one Saturday at Augusta National

It marked the second ace Lowry has made at Augusta National.

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Apr 11 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers, Yankees, Brewers Headline Dontrelle Willis' MLB Power Rankings

FOX Sports MLB studio analyst Dontrelle Willis lists his top five MLB teams right now. See who made the cut!

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Apr 11 • 5:13 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Forget Masters leaderboard, Scottie Scheffler still biggest threat to Rory

Scottie Scheffler, the world's No. 1 golfer, made a significant comeback in the Masters third round, challenging Rory McIlroy.

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Apr 11 • 5:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Her recovery literally is miraculous’: Walmart Heart celebrates Church Hill girl after series of health issues

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Church Hill community gathered at Walmart in Kingsport on Saturday to support a girl who has made a remarkable recovery after facing serious health issues. Charleigh M…

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Apr 11 • 4:53 PM EDT • Health • wjhl.com
Chamber of Commerce Presents Achievement Awards

Event also marked 110th of the chamber’s presence in Oswego [caption id=attachment_10469 align=alignright width=450] Abby Waever and Keara Patterson (in the middle) receive the Community Leadership & Legacy Award, presented to The Alberts Group.[/caption] The Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce (GOFCC) on March 4 hosted its 2026 Annual Meeting, presented by Constellation, at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego. The event’s theme, Rooted in Community. The meeting celebrated the GOFCC’s 110th anniversary in the Oswego community and 10th anniversary of integration with CenterState CEO. The chamber also unveiled a new logo. “I am proud to say the GOFCC has been a force for business success, growth and opportunity, supporting organizations of every size, connecting neighbors and entrepreneurs and ensuring that every voice in Oswego County is heard,” said GOFCC Executive Director Sara Broadwell. The event featured keynote remarks from Novelis’s Kevin Schutt, vice president, manufacturing and production support at Novelis North America. [caption id=attachment_10454 align=alignright width=450] Maria Hudson of Constellation, holding the award, receives the Nancy L. Premo Woman of Distinction Award.[/caption] The GOFCC recognized the following organizations and individuals with achievement awards: • Oswego County Impact & Excellence Award, presented to Oswego County Office of Mobility Management. This award Honors a small business or nonprofit organization that demonstrates outstanding achievement through innovation, growth and measurable positive impact on Oswego County’s economy or quality of life. • Community Leadership & Legacy Award, presented to The Alberts Group. This award recognizes an individual, business or organization whose long-term leadership, investment or philanthropy has significantly advanced the vitality, resilience and future of Oswego County’s communities. • Nancy L. Premo Woman of Distinction Award, presented to Maria Hudson of Constellation. This award honors a woman in business who has made a meaningful impact on her community, inspired others through her leadership, and exemplified the values of service, integrity and empowerment. This award is presented in tribute to the late Nancy Premo, CenterState CEO’s former vice president of Human Resources.

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Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com
Masters 2026: Shane Lowry erupts after hitting a hole-in-one on Saturday at Augusta National

It marked the second ace that Lowry has made at Augusta National.

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Apr 11 • 3:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Newly discovered fossil challenges idea of ape origins in east Africa

The remains, discovered in 2023 and 2024, are incomplete, and made up of only a few jawbone fragments and worn teeth.

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Apr 11 • 3:01 PM EDT • Science • jpost.com
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Are the Bills better after offseason additions and departures?

The Bills made some big moves, including trading for DJ Moore and signing Bradley Chubb. Is Buffalo’s roster improved?

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Apr 11 • 12:01 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
Demons and pinball are a perfect match

A match made in hell.

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Apr 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Tigers' Casey Mize hopes sunny skies signal success vs. Marlins

Casey Mize made his most recent start in brutal weather conditions, and the Detroit Tigers right-hander hopes better weather will lead to better results on Saturday when he pitches the middle game of a three-game home series against the Miami Marlins on Saturday afternoon.

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Apr 11 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time

Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made from sewage sludge—points to a hidden route for contamination.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
A key criminal case could soon get tossed because of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments

As Todd Blanche takes the reins at the Justice Department, a federal judge is set to decide whether controversial remarks made last year by the now-acting attorney general should lead to the unravelling of one of the Trump administration’s marquee criminal cases.

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Dodgers' Max Muncy makes incredible MLB history

Los Angeles Dodgers star hitter Max Muncy made incredible MLB history in a win over the Texas Rangers.

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Apr 11 • 3:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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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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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 • 12:06 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
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Historic live-donor transplant at University Health saves 7 lives

Fourteen people made history at University Health this year, undergoing surgeries that saved seven lives.

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Apr 10 • 10:25 PM EDT • Health • ksat.com
Political analysts break down Trump's visit to Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — President Donald Trump made a brief and tightly controlled visit to Charlottesville on Friday, attending a private fundraiser at Trump Winery as he works to

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Who missed the cut at the Masters? Notables sent home after Friday

The second round of the 2026 Masters is in the books and the 36-hole cut has been made. See the notable names who were sent packing Friday.

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Apr 10 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • golfweek.usatoday.com
Robert MacIntyre has awkward Masters exit after a middle-finger moment, missed cut and no interviews

Robert MacIntyre made headlines for all the wrong reasons at the Masters | NewsRadio WILK

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Apr 10 • 7:21 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
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Business booming for local skincare business after relocation

The new store is more open, allowing customers to see products being made as they shop.

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Apr 10 • 5:47 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Scientists Successfully Made Advanced, Lab-Grown Brains—Could They Become Conscious?

Now, prototype spinal cords are part of the brain organoid assembly.

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Apr 10 • 5:04 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
The cast of 'Juno': See the stars of the 2007 Oscar winner, then and now

‘Juno’ put teen pregnancy in the spotlight and made a splash at the Academy Awards in 2007. Find out what the cast is doing now.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Broncos ownership group joins Rockies as minority partners

DENVER -- Penner Sports Group, the family entity of Greg and Carrie Penner that owns the Denver Broncos, has made an investment that will make it the largest minority owner of the Rockies franchise. The move, approved by Major League Baseball, was announced by Rockies owner, chairman and CEO Dick

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Apr 10 • 12:23 PM EDT • Sports • mlb.com
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David Blitzer Expands Sports Empire With Bet On Golf’s Next Generation

Billionaire David Blitzer's Bolt Ventures has made two significant golf industry investments during Masters week aimed at the game's next generation of fans and players.

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Apr 10 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • forbes.com
Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into

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Apr 10 • 11:23 AM EDT • Health • 13wham.com
Goodbye Traditional Bathtubs & Showers – There's A New Trend Taking Over

Technology has made its way into the smallest of spaces in our homes, including the bathroom. There's one smart tech feature in particular that's trending.

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Apr 10 • 10:30 AM EDT • Technology • housedigest.com
Trump administration admits a glaring error in its accusations about New York health care fraud

The Trump administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program

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Apr 10 • 9:45 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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This Women’s Healthcare Stock Is Up 15% on Reports of a Takeover In the Works

Organon shares surged Friday following reports India’s Sun Pharmaceutical made a bid for the women's healthcare company.

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Apr 10 • 9:25 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Texas Children’s Receives $5 Million Estate Legacy Gift to Advance Pediatric Behavioral Health Services

HOUSTON (April 10, 2026) — Texas Children’s announced a very special $5 million estate gift from Houston philanthropist Barbara LeGrange, who passed away last month. When fully realized, her planned gift commitment — made prior to her passing — will provide critical endowed support, along with $1 million in immediate support, for Texas Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative.

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Apr 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • texaschildrens.org
Trump administration admits error in accusations about N.Y. health care fraud

President Donald Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

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Apr 10 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Horne misses Toulon clash through injury

Glasgow Warriors head coach Franco Smith has made two changes for Saturday's Champions Cup quarter-final clash against RC Toulon. An unchanged front-row sees Patrick Schickerling continue at loose-head alongside Gregor Hiddleston and Zander Fagerson up front.

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Apr 10 • 7:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump administration admits a glaring error in its accusations about New York health care fraud

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states.

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Apr 10 • 7:18 AM EDT • Health • wral.com
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Robert MacIntyre faces reprimand after giving Masters the middle finger

MacIntyre made a quadruple-bogey-nine on the 15th after finding the water twice in a nightmare round of +8

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Apr 10 • 3:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
EBACE Show Canceled As New Format Fails to Win Support

EBAA trade group said lack of momentum made the show not viable

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Apr 10 • 3:32 AM EDT • Business • ainonline.com
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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‘Showing the upside to Down syndrome’: Columbia woman’s business giving back and inspiring others

Jewelry can hold meaning far beyond what meets the eye. For Columbia creator Lucy Graham, each bracelet and necklace is made with a purpose: showing “the upside to Down Syndrome.”

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Apr 9 • 11:04 PM EDT • Business • wistv.com
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Masters 2026: Rory McIlroy winning a green jacket has only made him more dangerous at Augusta National

McIlroy started slow on the first nine, but confidence allowed him to 'keep swinging' his way to the top of the Round 1 leaderboard

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Apr 9 • 5:47 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth Returns in 3D for 20th Anniversary from Cineverse and Fathom Entertainment on October 9

Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS), an entertainment technology company and studio, has announced that Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, will be the theatrical distribution partner for the re-release of Guillermo del Toro's master creation, Pan's Labyrinth. Guillermo del Toro's Pan Labyrinth 20th Anniversary will be released in theaters nationwide on October 9, 2026. The announcement was made ahead of CinemaCon, at which Cineverse will pro

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Apr 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices

Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles

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Apr 9 • 1:17 PM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Apple Apparently Still Undecided on iPhone 18 Pro Dynamic Island

Apple is weighing two options for the iPhone 18 Pro's Dynamic Island, and a final decision has yet to be made, according to the Weibo leaker known as Digital Chat Station.

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Apr 9 • 11:11 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
2026 NFL mock draft: Cowboys trade up for star defender as one pick is made for each NFL team

Dallas trades up to No. 6 in our latest mock, plus nine offensive linemen come off the board in Round 1.

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Apr 9 • 9:08 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Sabres reclaim Atlantic Division lead with comeback win over Rangers

Jason Zucker scored the tiebreaker, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 saves, and the Buffalo Sabres rallied to beat the New York Rangers 5-3 Wednesday.

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Apr 9 • 7:48 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle

Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.

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Apr 9 • 5:30 AM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Coös County health center CEO says new rural health funds not enough to counteract Medicaid cuts

Edward Shanshala, CEO of Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, said when Congress passed its massive tax cuts and spending law last year, he and his colleagues made the difficult decision to shut down the organization’s clinic in Franconia in anticipation of the law’s impacts. Shanshala doesn’t think a new tranche of federal funding will be enough […]

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Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • newhampshirebulletin.com
Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights

The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.

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Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Buy art made by people with disabilities at ASPIE\'s auction

Jerry and Jean Buckwalter are all too familiar with the gap that exists in support services for adults with disabilities.

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Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
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
Dyson made a handheld version of its iconic fans

Honey, Dyson shrunk its fans.

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Apr 8 • 8:01 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
RFK Jr. says he's launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

The show will launch next week and feature Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine crusader who has reshaped the country’s health policy, in conversation with doctors, scientists and agency staff.

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Apr 8 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org
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Kentucky lawmakers lean on fast-track tactics as session nears end

With two days left in Kentucky’s session, lawmakers are advancing bills quickly, often with final changes made outside public view.

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Apr 8 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
RFK Jr. is launching a podcast to expose ‘lies’ that have made Americans sick

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin “a new era of radical transparency in government,” according to a teaser video first obtained by The Associated Press.

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Apr 8 • 4:01 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com
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Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers may have made fatal health mistake: Detective

“It just scares me to think that somebody maybe took Miss Guthrie, and she had some sort of medical event.”

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Apr 8 • 3:44 PM EDT • Health • newsnationnow.com
BladderShield Claims Evaluated: Potent Bladder Leak Trick Supports Men's Health

A 2026 consumer awareness overview of BladderShield's bladder leak trick marketing claims, urobiome rebalancing positioning, ingredient research for overactive bladder and urinary urgency, men's bladder health context, pricing structure, and what men should verify before purchasingTallmadge, OH, April 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This article contains affiliate links. If a purchase is made through these links, a commission may be earned at no additional cost to the buyer. This is an informationa

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Another Big Night for Democrats: Tuesday’s Wisconsin and Georgia Results

Democrats enjoyed another double-digit victory in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race; their win will expand the liberal majority on the body to 5-2. Meanwhile, Republicans held GA-14, although it made for another Democratic overperformance.

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Apr 8 • 2:16 PM EDT • Politics • centerforpolitics.org
Fans Blast ‘Pokémon Champions’ Game—As Nintendo Wipes ‘Pokopia’ Stock Gains

Nintendo stock dipped Wednesday, closing at its lowest price in a month and erasing gains it made last month after the surprise success of “Pokémon Pokopia.”

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Apr 8 • 2:15 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
'Euphoria' made her a star. Now she's diving into the internet's darkest corners.

Barbie Ferreira opens up about her dark new role in "Faces of Death," navigating fame in the internet age and why she's still watching "Euphoria."

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Apr 8 • 12:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
High school sports top performers from Tuesday, April 7

Tuesday's high school sports top performers piled up the points, sprinted to the finish and aced the greens. Find out who made the cut from April 7.

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Apr 8 • 12:06 PM EDT • Sports • metrowestdailynews.com
Nancy Guthrie Kidnappers Likely Made This Fatal Mistake, Says Investigator

The 84-year-old mom of Savannah Guthrie has been missing for ten weeks.

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Apr 8 • 10:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • kten.com
Nancy Guthrie Kidnappers Likely Made This Fatal Mistake, Says Investigator

The 84-year-old mom of Savannah Guthrie has been missing for ten weeks.

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Apr 8 • 10:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • wyomingnewsnow.tv
Poulsbo’s Away With Words offers gifts for body and mind

Poulsbo's Away With Words is easier to get to than one might think and offers a unique blend of books and handmade bath and body products.

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Apr 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Galaxy S25 Ultra gets Ocean Mode update for your summer dives

Samsung’s Ocean Mode, originally made for coral reef mapping, is now rolling out to the Galaxy S25 Ultra running One UI 8.5 beta.

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Apr 8 • 8:45 AM EDT • Technology • sammobile.com
Scientists Are Using Sound Waves to Bend Materials to Their Will

Futuristic control of structure in some materials is being made possible by a physics loophole.

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