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Three Things UNC Fans Must Know About Pittsburgh

Facing a ranked opponent, the North Carolina Tar Heels must neutralize a high-scoring sophomore quarterback and survive a battle-tested defense.

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Oct 5 • 9:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists finally see how nature moves energy so efficiently

Researchers have captured key steps in a chemical reaction that helps nature transfer energy with remarkable efficiency. Ultrafast X-rays revealed how changes involving electrons and protons are closely linked to the rearrangement of surrounding water molecules. Because similar reactions drive photosynthesis and other energy-conversion processes, the technique could help scientists develop better catalysts, fuel cells, and flow batteries.

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Oct 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Arkansas veteran battling leukemia fights to restore health insurance
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Oct 5 • 7:45 PM EDT • Health • katv.com
Congress may be in recess, but the unfinished business is piling up

“We’ll have to see how the court sort out all the battles that are ongoing right now,” said Mitchell Miller.

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Oct 5 • 3:02 PM EDT • Business • federalnewsnetwork.com
Supreme Court kicks off new term with major climate case

The Supreme Court returns for its new term on Monday, and oral arguments in a major case over the fate of a costly climate change lawsuit brought by Boulder County, Colorado, will kick off a term set to feature several blockbuster legal battles. Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County will decide whether a […]

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Oct 5 • 1:26 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
iPhone 13 Pro vs. iPhone 18 Pro Buyer's Guide: Is It Worth Upgrading?

Apple released the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max in September 2026, five years after the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. The 2021 models introduced ProMotion displays, macro photography, a 3x Telephoto camera, and substantially longer battery life than their predecessors. They remain capable phones and support iOS 27, but owners now have five generations of upgrades to consider.

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Oct 5 • 11:58 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez looks for political lifeline in snap election

Embattled Socialist leader aims to capitalise on housing crisis to remain in power

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Oct 5 • 11:33 AM EDT • Politics • ft.com
After a legal battle, Marylanders will vote on future redist...

Marylanders will vote on Question 3 in November after the state’s highest court cleared a revised redistricting amendment for the ballot.

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Oct 5 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • afro.com
Paid influencers and political ads - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture

My associate Isabel Miller and I worked on a story last week about paid influencers in campaigns. We decided to look into it after reading news reports about how the Chicago Teachers Union has been using paid influencers in its battle to control the elected Chicago school board and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is also […]

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Oct 5 • 10:04 AM EDT • Politics • illinoistimes.com
Data centers become a new political battleground in Tennessee

As opposition grows, AI companies are spending heavily on campaigns and lobbying as data centers reshape Tennessee politics.

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Oct 5 • 6:03 AM EDT • Politics • knoxnews.com
Data centers become a new political battleground in Tennessee

As opposition grows, AI companies are spending heavily on campaigns and lobbying as data centers reshape Tennessee politics.

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Oct 5 • 6:03 AM EDT • Politics • tennessean.com
Inside Michael Douglas’s new memoir: Secret affairs, on-set battles and family secrets

In 'One Helluva Ride,' Michael Douglas opens up about firing his dad, affairs on set, his son’s imprisonment and a lifetime lived under the spotlight.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Who’s Winning the Battle for Congress?

It’s Oct. 5 — 29 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.

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Oct 5 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2026

Nearly four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate battleground map is growing after signs of improvement for Democrats in several red-leaning states.

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
UTSA ousts Rice 16-14 in defensive-driven battle

UTSA defense steps up in Houston, avoids upset in the “trap game from hell.”

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Oct 5 • 2:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Around the Big Ten: PJ Fleck continues to row

After the second week of conference play, Big Ten teams are battling for a chance for the championship. USC, Northwestern and Minnesota all took home big wins, while Iowa, Washington, Michigan are looking to recover.

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Oct 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
“I’m in the Hospital”: Chad Ochocinco Announces Health Update After Sudden Illness Amid Bengals’ Loss to Jaguars

As a former wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, Chad Ochocinco had no choice but to root for his team as they battled against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Week 4 game. Unfortunately for him, the Bengals lost the game by 22-17.

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Oct 5 • 12:22 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
'All INdiana Politics': Albright and Forrestal battle for closely divided seat in Senate District 31

INDIANAPOLIS — One of Indiana’s most competitive Senate districts is the site of a high-stakes showdown as a family physician and a former sheriff vie for the seat vacated by Republican Sen. Kyle Walker. Senate District 31 covers Delaware and Fall Creek townships in Hamilton County, including most of Fishers, along with Lawrence and parts […]

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Oct 4 • 11:16 PM EDT • Politics • wrtv.com
Raiders show heart, but Chiefs escape Vegas undefeated

LAS VEGAS—It was a heavyweight collision in Las Vegas but, instead of the ring, the battle took place on the gridiron.

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Oct 4 • 9:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Kansas Suddenly Became a Battleground State for Senate Control

The state hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century. Economic challenges during President Trump’s second term, as well as other factors, have put it in play.

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Oct 4 • 1:53 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
All INdiana Politics: Albright and Forrestal battle for closely divided seat in Senate District 31

INDIANAPOLIS — One of Indiana’s most competitive Senate districts is the site of a high-stakes showdown as a family physician and a former sheriff vie for the seat vacated by Republican Sen. Kyle Walker. Senate District 31 covers Delaware and Fall Creek townships in Hamilton County, including most of Fishers, along with Lawrence and parts […]

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Oct 4 • 12:15 PM EDT • Politics • wishtv.com
Milan to battle it out with Roma over Endrick loan

Endrick’s future could become one of the hottest topics between Italy and Spain. Roma and Milan continue to closely monitor the situation of the Brazilian Real Madrid striker, who was already on bot...

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Oct 4 • 11:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra: (Slightly) faster charging and potentially fewer camera artifacts

While industry insiders are currently focused on the starting mass production of some Galaxy S27 series components like the Exynos 2700, leakers are sharing more details about battery and camera improvements that could matter to end users.

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Oct 4 • 9:28 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Zay Flowers Injury Update: Ravens WR’s Week 4 Status Revealed

Zay Flowers spent the past week battling a hamstring injury in practice, but the Baltimore Ravens star wide receiver should suit up for Week 4's battle against the Tennessee Titans. A first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Boston College product immediately established a rapport with quarterback Lamar Jackson. Back in 2023, the rookie …

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Oct 4 • 7:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Black Community in Louisiana Faces a Future Without a Champion in Congress After Redistricting

SCOTLANDVILLE, La. (AP) — If you cross the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long-O.K. Allen Bridge, pass the Exxon Refinery, then head north for a few minutes, you'll find a pocket of Louisiana that's unlike any other place in America's never-ending battle over what it means to have equal ...

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Oct 4 • 7:30 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
What channel is the Commanders vs Colts London game today? Start time, schedule, streaming

The Colts and Commanders battle in London today. Marking the third of nine NFL International games this year. Here's how you can watch the Week 4 action.

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Oct 4 • 6:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The counties to watch on the massive midterm elections battlefield

The breadth of the public backlash against President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term is rapidly widening the campaign battlefield for 2026.

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Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Packers vs. Buccaneers: Game Time, TV Channel, Injury Report, Betting Odds, Prediction and Key Matchup

The Green Bay Packers face a high-stakes crossroads against a winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad starting a rookie quarterback. Survival hinges on a battle of struggling offensive lines at Raymond James Stadium.

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Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
GOTY 2026’s Final Nomination Is a Battleground of 8/10 Games

The year of 'good, not great' rages on

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Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Race Results: 2026 NOAPS Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas

Corey Day came out on top in a thrilling late-race battle with Carson Kvapil in Saturday night’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Day crossed the finish line ahead of Kvapil by a margin of 0.287 seconds. Jesse Love, Brent Crews, and Taylor Gray rounded out the top-five […] The post Race Results: 2026 NOAPS Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas appeared first on TobyChristie.com.

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Oct 3 • 10:59 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Iowa Football: Numbers That Stood Out From Ohio State Loss

Ohio State won the time of possession battle by 17 minutes, but the real eye-opening stat was Jeremiah Smith recording 200+ yards for the second straight game.

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Oct 3 • 8:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Rebels beat Cal in battle of big plays

QB Jackson Arnold delivered with 287 yards total offense and five touchdowns in the 39-31 win over the Golden Bears.

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Oct 3 • 8:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UCF’s Scott Frost Shares Injury Updates After Houston Loss

Keyone Jenkins battles through late-game scares and center Jacob Maiava undergoes X-rays as the Knights’ depth chart thins ahead of a grueling stretch against ranked conference opponents.

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Oct 3 • 8:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
iPhone Owners Turn Off This Setting To Save Battery Life

The Background App Refresh on iPhone keeps your apps updated with the latest information before they are opened, which is nice, but it drains the battery.

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Oct 3 • 4:47 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Trump rallies in Ohio to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race against Sherrod Brown

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a few days campaigning in safe conservative territory, President Donald Trump on Saturday takes his midterm tour into Ohio, a battlegrou

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Oct 3 • 4:29 PM EDT • Politics • wtop.com
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Trump rallies in Ohio to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race against Sherrod Brown

President Donald Trump is taking his midterm tour to Ohio, a battleground state with a crucial Senate race.

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Oct 3 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
Trump rallies in Ohio to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race against Sherrod Brown

President Donald Trump is taking his midterm tour to Ohio, a battleground state with a crucial Senate race | WWJ Newsradio 950

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Oct 3 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
Trump reveals GOP senator’s phone number in battle over daylight saving time

Sen. Tom Cotton, usually a staunch Trump ally, has vowed to oppose efforts for year-round daylight saving time. He reiterated his opposition Saturday.

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Oct 3 • 3:36 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
See where Trump's $90 checks to 20 million seniors are going

President Trump said he plans to send $90 check to more than 20 million seniors this month. See how much money is going to midterm battlegrounds.

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Oct 3 • 1:16 PM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
BEFORE THE ROAR: LSU welcomes in-state foe McNeese

LSU opens October with an in-state battle.

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Oct 3 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How a 100-Year-Old Indie Movie Theater Stays In Business

The operator of the Cranford Theater in New Jersey battled back from the pandemic and a ceiling collapse — and is now planning to mark the centennial with a gala screening.

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Oct 3 • 8:01 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Memorial and Reitz battle till the final minute

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — In a battle of undefeated teams, Memorial high school football team beat Reitz in a close one 30-27. Next, the Tigers will travel to Floyd Central to take on the Highlanders. While the Panthers will face Bosse.

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Oct 3 • 12:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Henderson County loses close game to George Rogers Clark

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — After trailing 21-7 at halftime, Henderson County high school football team battled back against George Rogers Clark to lose in the end 53-48. Next the Colonels will travel to Christian County to take on the Tigers.

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Oct 3 • 12:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers World Series Hero Klein Makes Final NLDS Roster Push

Reliever Will Klein battles back from right elbow surgery to secure a last-minute spot in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ postseason bullpen this year.

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Oct 3 • 12:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker on first 1,000 days, politics and policies

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker joined an episode of Battleground Politics to talk about what her administration has accomplished and what's ahead.

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Oct 2 • 9:48 PM EDT • Politics • nbcphiladelphia.com
Solo Reload Victory Cup in NA West: Event 1 Event 1 Round 1

Battle your way to Platinum in Reload Ranked to be eligible for the first and second Events of the Season, Diamond for the third, and Champion for the final Event of the Season! Compete for the opportunity to win a cash prize! Reach Round 2 (top 1600 in EU; top 800 in NAC; top 320 in OCE, ASIA, ME, BR, and NAW), where every player who earns a Victory Royale will earn $100 USD. Good luck and have fun!

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Trump heads back to Texas on Wednesday as GOP fights to keep state red

Texas, long a safe Republican state, has emerged as a top battleground in midterm races up and down the ballot — but especially in the U.S. Senate race.

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Oct 2 • 4:59 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Kennedy Center Honors move to new venue amid building closure

The Kennedy Center Honors gala will move to Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., after the center’s closure amid a legal battle over the addition of Trump's name to the building.

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Oct 2 • 4:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Dolly Parton's nephew wants more time to defend himself against restraining order from her estate

Dolly Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, is seeking more time to secure a lawyer in a legal battle involving a restraining order taken out by her estate | Talk 1370

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Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

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

The moves offer a stark sign of how dramatically the Senate map has shifted just a month before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

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This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will be relocated amid ongoing legal battle

For the first time, the annual Kennedy Center Honors will be held somewhere other than the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts amid a political and legal fight that has put the institution’s future in limbo.

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Oct 2 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
The Road to the Texas Midterms

Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina delve into the latest news in politics

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Oct 2 • 11:59 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Batteries on wheels: Oregon pushes businesses to switch heavy-duty fleets to electric vehicles
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Oct 2 • 11:54 AM EDT • Business • kgw.com
Report shows $1B Maine budget gap

The report comes as Republicans and Democrats battle for control of the Legislature and governor’s mansion.

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Oct 2 • 10:19 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Something Deep Inside the Earth Is Messing With Time—and Making Days Longer Than 24 Hours

A hidden battle of torques 3,000 miles beneath your feet decides whether today runs long or short.

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Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Rapper Rick Ross arrested on domestic violence battery charge

Rick Ross has been arrested in Miami on two counts of felony battery, including one by strangulation, which allegedly involve domestic violence. The "Hustlin'" rapper, 50, was arrested around 5

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Democrats expand battleground for House, reaching into bloodred districts

The additions include Kansas’s 2nd, Michigan’s 1st, North Carolina’s 13th, New Jersey’s 2nd, Oklahoma’s 5th, Texas’s 9th, Virginia’s 6th and Washington’s 5th.

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Oct 2 • 7:30 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Ally of Spanish PM threatens to derail housing decree as fury over evictions grows

Spain's leftist government faced a bruising battle in ‌parliament on Friday after an allied party opposed its plans to tackle a housing crisis stirring public protests, particularly over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman.

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With a steel mill and campaign cash, Trump and GOP leaders launch an Iowa rescue mission

Republicans are on a rescue mission in Iowa, touting new plans for a $15 billion steel mill as President Donald Trump and the state’s GOP leaders rush to blunt the political impact of a battered economy and prevent the governor’s office, a Senate seat and three House seats from slipping into Democratic hands in November.

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Browns win battle with Steelers but are losing war with Deshaun Watson

The Browns are surprisingly in first place in the AFC North. That should be good news, but let's fast forward a bit, writes columnist Nate Davis.

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Oct 2 • 12:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Full Dodgers NLDS schedule & start times

LOS ANGELES — The full schedule for the Division Series round was announced by Major League Baseball on Thursday, giving us the start times for potentially all five games of the Dodgers’ first postseason round. The Dodgers will play the winner of Thursday night’s Braves-Phillies wild card battle in Atlanta, with their NLDS opening up […]

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Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation, authorities said.

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Battle of the Bays features winless Buccaneers and struggling Packers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-3) need a victory even more than the Green Bay Packers (1-2) on Sunday. At least Green Bay has quarterback Jordan Love. Tampa Bay is turning to undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels after Baker Mayfield dislocated his right thumb in a loss to Minnesota.

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GA Sec. State Nominee, NJ-7 & Aviation Politics

GA Sec. State GOP nominee Tim Fleming, the battle for NJ-7 and how aviation is shaping politics—and could be impacted by the midterms.

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Oct 1 • 2:39 PM EDT • Politics • fox7austin.com
USA TODAY Sports predicts Florida vs Missouri outcome in Week 5

Here are the picks from USA TODAY Sports' college football experts for the Florida Gators vs Missouri Tigers battle at Faurot Field in Week 5.

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Oct 1 • 2:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
GA Sec. State Nominee, NJ-7 & Aviation Politics

GA Sec. State GOP nominee Tim Fleming, the battle for NJ-7 and how aviation is shaping politics—and could be impacted by the midterms.

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GA Sec. State Nominee, NJ-7 & Aviation Politics

GA Sec. State GOP nominee Tim Fleming, the battle for NJ-7 and how aviation is shaping politics—and could be impacted by the midterms.

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Mass. native, Good Morning America correspondent reveals cancer battle: ‘It’s shocking’

A Mass. native and Good Morning America correspondent is opening up about a health battle he kept private for months.

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Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

Authorities say rapper Rick Ross was arrested early Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation. Online court records show Ross, whose legal name

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Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

Authorities say rapper Rick Ross was arrested early Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation. Online court records show Ross, whose legal name

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​Toyota opens $50M+ EV battery lab at its R&D center near Ann Arbor

Toyota opened a new electric vehicle battery lab in Saline Township despite the national pullback from electrification.

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10 Democrat-held House seats Republicans could flip to save their majority

President Donald Trump's margins in redrawn districts fuel Republican hopes of flipping 10 Democratic House seats in the battle for Congress.

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Oct 1 • 12:32 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds

President Donald Trump's administration is sending $500 payments to nearly 1 million Americans this week, in a move that strategists say could potentially influence races that may ​determine whether his Republicans maintain control of Congress in the November midterm elections.

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Oct 1 • 12:22 PM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds

President Donald Trump's administration is sending $500 payments to nearly 1 million Americans this week, in a move that strategists say could potentially influence races that may ​determine whether his Republicans maintain control of Congress in the November midterm elections.

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Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds

By Andy Sullivan, Helen Coster, Ahmed Aboulenein and Tim McLaughlin WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is sending $500 payments to nearly 1 million Americans this

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Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

Authorities say rapper Rick Ross was arrested early Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation. Online court records show Ross, whose legal name

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Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

Authorities say rapper Rick Ross was arrested early Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation. Online court records show Ross, whose legal name

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Pilot crashed and died after mental health battle

Investigators say Peter Beeson's poor mental health make it "likely" he crashed on purpose.

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Trump does not rule out demolishing the Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center was closed last month amid a legal battle over whether President Donald Trump can add his name to the performing arts venue.

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Oct 1 • 11:13 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

Authorities say rapper Rick Ross was arrested early Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation. Online court records show Ross, whose legal name

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Rapper Rick Ross arrested on domestic violence strangulation charge

Rick Ross has been arrested in Miami on two counts of felony battery, including one by strangulation, which allegedly involve domestic violence. The "Hustlin'" rapper, 50, was arrested around 6

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How Washington Funded the Politicization of Science

Over the last half-decade, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects designed to influence academic policies, both in the sciences and other disciplines. The aim was to foster a progressive conception of social justice in these fields. In pursuit of this end, the foundation earmarked nearly a million dollars for a project titled “Creating Inclusive Scientific Societies through Policies and Practices,” over a million for a project on “Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity,” and over $2 million to foster “racial equity focused departmental change.” Through a public records request, I’ve obtained the proposals and progress reports for dozens of NSF grants designed to promote social justice. Although funding for these grants was eventually halted by the Trump administration, the projects illustrate an important facet of recent higher-education policy. Many of the university policies that promised “social transformation” didn’t arise in a vacuum. They were actively encouraged by outside funders—often by the federal government itself. Subscribe Accreditation—the peer-review process which enables universities to receive federal grants and student loans—has recently become a policy battleground, with accreditors wielding significant power over both universities and academic disciplines. In 2020, when Oregon Health and Science University’s medical school issued an extensive diversity action plan—which promised “consequences” for employees who failed to support “DEI, anti-racism and social justice”—it specifically pointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the medical-school accrediting body, to justify the overhaul. The NSF actively promoted DEI-focused accreditation policies. The proposal for a $1.2 million program on promoting “community engagement” in STEM, which I obtained through a records request, notes that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology was exploring changes to its criteria “that would incorporate JEDI [justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion].” The proposal promised to “support broader JEDI efforts in the general criteria for engineering.” Another grant funded a conference designed to “identify and share best practices and strategies to integrate IDEA principles in accreditation criteria”—referring to an acronym that stands for “inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.” Scholarly societies have become another flashpoint in debates over higher education. Critics argue that many of these societies, which have the power to shape entire disciplines, have become increasingly politicized. Again, through its giving, the NSF played a role in promoting this politicization. In one million-dollar grant that received funding in 2024, a group of psychologists proposed a series of social-justice reforms to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The proposal, which I obtained via a records request, asserts that “[r]edistributing resources (such as moving different people into leadership roles) is not enough” and that the society’s “governance structures do not yet reflect its stated values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Its solution: review and rework the society’s criteria for leadership development, academic awards, conferences, and publications. Adjusting review criteria informed by “intersectionality” designed to fight “epistemic exclusion” is an easy way to introduce de facto ideological litmus tests into the peer-review process. For many of the grants I obtained, such litmus tests seem to be the point. “Academic departments are racialized social systems that produce and sustain the byproducts of systemic racism,” a proposal for a $2.7 million project funded in 2024 asserts, promising to develop “departmentally-focused change efforts that cultivate values, assumptions, and behaviors that advance racial equity.” The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s million-dollar “I-ADVANCE” project, which effectively created a small DEI bureaucracy on campus, promised to Embed 28 ADVANCE faculty fellows in STEM departments” to amplify its equity goals. Another $1.2 million project promised to create “faculty online learning communities,” made up of scientists at universities around the country, that would eventually build department-level diversity action plans. “Ultimately,” the proposal asserts, perhaps more perceptively than its authors realized, “both organizational change and intersectionality frameworks deal with power.” Indeed, such grants confer a great deal of power to administrators and scholar-activists, who can even use the mere availability of funding as a tool to advance their causes. That history is worth remembering amid today’s debate over federal involvement in higher education: Washington has been shaping university priorities for years, including by financing efforts to instill progressive ideas about race, gender, and equity into academic institutions—and many of the policies those grants encouraged remain embedded within universities long after the federal money has stopped flowing. John D. Sailer is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. Share

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Announcers set for Bears vs. Jets Week 4 game

The Chicago Bears will battle the New York Jets in Week 4. See who will be calling the game on FOX this Sunday.

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I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars

Now a $15bn industry, astrology is more mainstream in the US than ever. But its practitioners are still debating: who gets to have authority on the celestial bodies?

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Football Frenzy Week 6 Preview: Conference battles heat up

The battle for championships in respective conferences around the West Michigan area are heating up as we enter Week 6.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How old battles over land, power and identity continue to shape the West’s politics

Anxieties about the future often become refracted as questions of community identity: Who are we? What do we stand for?

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Oct 1 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • hcn.org
Seminoles Secondary Performing Well Despite Defensive Woes

While the Seminoles struggle with high-scoring losses and defensive rankings, standout playmakers Ja’Bril Rawls and CJ Richard Jr. provide a glimmer of hope within an embattled backfield.

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Man City scandal risks damage to Premier League's booming brand

The Premier League has won a lengthy legal battle with Manchester City over financial impropriety, but the consequences could leave lasting damage for a league that has long since become the envy of world football.But the damage may not be limited to City alone with an entire era of the Premier League now under a cloud.

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UTD political science professor Robert Lowry dies after battle with cancer

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

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vivo X Fold6 finally goes global

Most of its specs are intact too, and the battery capacity is cut by only a tiny amount, believe it or not. Exactly three months after being released in...

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Camp Storylines: Ace Bailey Feeling 100 Percent

After overcoming summer back spasms and adding twelve pounds of muscle, the All-Rookie standout prepares to battle for minutes in Utah’s crowded, high-upside wing rotation.

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Bryce Harper’s Heroics Erase Braves’ Pitching Dominance

Bryce Harper hit a huge home run to save the Phillies' season, but the Braves' bullpen blew a lead in an intense 10-inning battle in Atlanta.

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US tennis star Navarro reveals health battle, ends season

American Emma Navarro, a three-time WTA tournament champion, revealed a three-year battle with health issues on Wednesday, battling against her body as she found success on the court."I couldn't think straight a lot of the time," she wrote.

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US tennis star Navarro reveals health battle, ends season

American Emma Navarro, a three-time WTA tournament champion, revealed a three-year battle with health issues on Wednesday, battling against her body as she found success on the court."I couldn't think straight a lot of the time," she wrote.

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Newsom signs anti-monopoly bill after bruising legislative battle

California’s new antitrust law will let prosecutors sue businesses for anticompetitive conduct, but not individuals

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Tennis star Emma Navarro reveals harrowing yearslong health battle — and how she 'gained my life back'

As the tennis calendar is in its final few months, Emma Navarro is speaking out about her health and revealing to all what the last three years have looked like for her.

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Senate blocks data center, stock trading bills ahead of November midterms

Battleground Republicans were hoping to campaign on the bills, but Democrats blocked both measures, saying they don’t go far enough

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Scientists Just Discovered Millions of Ancient ‘Batteries’ Hiding on the Bottom of the Ocean

They could herald an energy revolution—but may come with a big risk.

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Sep 30 • 4:09 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Troy Jackson apologizes for remarks about Jewish Maine residents’ views of Gaza war

Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee in Maine’s battleground Senate race, apologized Wednesday for saying it is “unfortunate” that Jewish residents of the state do not like to label the war in Gaza a genocide.

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