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Obama's new presidential museum, by the numbers

The Obama Presidential Center will open June 19, more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project.

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Jun 4 • 2:53 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Dunlap questions LePage’s commitment to Maine

Former Gov. Paul LePage has lived in Florida in recent years but re-established a Maine residence when he announced his campaign, an advisor says.

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Jun 4 • 2:30 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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ICON Park’s newest entertainment puts guests inside giant bubbles

Spheres Bubble Show is led by Blaise Ryndes, a four-time Guinness World Record holder and former America’s Got Talent contestant known for his innovative bubble artistry.

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Jun 4 • 2:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • clickorlando.com
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Detroit Lions Sign Former Delaware Standout Kyre Duplessis

The Detroit Lions have signed former Delaware wide receiver Kyre Duplessis following a productive 2025 college season.

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Jun 4 • 12:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Walmart elects board, welcomes new CEO at annual business meeting

Walmart Board Chairman Greg Penner called the retailer’s annual business shareholder meeting to order Thursday (June 4) morning, welcoming John Furner as the company’s new CEO and thanking former CEO...

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Jun 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
With Oval Office replica and skyline views of Chicago, Obama's new museum is political and personal

Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the Chicago location to the textured stone adorning its dramatic tower, art installations and a striped reading chairs that resemble ones in his own home

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Jun 4 • 11:12 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
WA doctors were sent for mental health help. It hurt their careers

Two former UW Medicine residents allege in a recent lawsuit that a physicians health program misdiagnosed them and threw their careers off track.

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Jun 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
James Comey Interview: 'Justice Can't Be a Political Force'

James Comey, the former FBI director recently indicted by Donald Trump's Justice Department, sits for an in-depth interview with Rolling Stone.

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Jun 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • rollingstone.com
Hartridge still admires Exeter despite Argyle move

New Plymouth Argyle signing Alex Hartridge says his move will not lessen the admiration he has for former club Exeter City.

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Jun 4 • 8:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Photos and Video: The Gilded Age Cast, Daryl Roth, Yoshiki Honored by Entertainment Community Fund

Performers included Lea Michele, Julie Benko, Ben Levi Ross, Primo Thee Ballerino, Jonathan Burke, Stark Sands, and more.

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Jun 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • playbill.com
Jill Biden tells memoir critic, 'Say it to my face, buddy'

Former first lady Jill Biden defended her memoir while discussing former President Joe Joe Biden's disastrous 2024 debate performance and his aging.

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Jun 4 • 7:46 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Ex-New York Giants QB Russell Wilson announces retirement from NFL

Former New York Giants QB Russell Wilson has officially announced his retirement from the NFL.

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Jun 4 • 5:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former Viking GM Reacts to New Vikings GM Hire

New Vikings General Manager Nolan Teasley was asked at his introductory press conference Wednesday about his impressions of Vikings quarterbacks […]

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Jun 4 • 5:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Jets sign former New York Giants kicker Jason Sanders

The New York Jets waived one former New York Giants kicker in order to sign the recently released Jason Sanders.

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Jun 4 • 4:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Michael Grant launches 2028 bid for Ben Albritton's Senate seat with 20-plus endorsements in hand

Michael Grant is making his move for 2028 — and he isn't being subtle about it. The former House Majority Leader and Punta Gorda Republican filed Tuesday

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Jun 4 • 3:50 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Former Adult Entertainment Venue in South Philly Sold for $2.3 Million, Will Be Repurposed

Show & Tel has closed and been sold. The new owner plans to repurpose the property as storage facility and office space.

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Jun 4 • 3:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • philadelphia.today
Chelsea’s former record goalscorer Bobby Tambling dies aged 84

Tambling made his debut for the Stamford Bridge club as a 17-year-old in 1959

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Jun 4 • 1:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Presidential museum showcases political and personal sides of Obama with sprawling community campus

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the location on Chicago's South Side to textured stone adorning its dramatic tower to striped reading chairs that are similar to ones in his own home.

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Presidential museum showcases political and personal sides of Obama with sprawling community campus

Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the Chicago location to the textured stone adorning its dramatic tower to art installations and a pair of striped reading chairs in the library that are similar to the ones he owns.

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Jun 4 • 1:01 AM EDT • Politics • click2houston.com
Bass has 'utterly failed' her constituents throughout political career, conservative commentator says

Conservative commentator Elisha Krauss and former California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson discuss California’s governor’s race and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ advancement to a November runoff on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

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Jun 3 • 11:43 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
President Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general

President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role

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Jun 3 • 11:18 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Former Bedford County parks director sues county, youth sports group for $7 million
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CNBC Sport: Eli Manning on youth sports, Jaxson Dart’s future and the Knicks’ playoff run

CNBC's Alex Sherman sits down with former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Izell Reese, CEO of RCX Sports.

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Jun 3 • 6:26 PM EDT • Sports • cnbc.com
Former primary rival resurfaces to challenge scandal-plagued Graham Platner in Maine Senate race

Maine Gov. Janet Mills reminds voters she remains on the ballot after suspending her Senate campaign, as rival Graham Platner faces mounting scandals.

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Jun 3 • 5:42 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advances to November runoff as she seeks second term

Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former star of the reality television show “The Hills,” was second in early returns. Pratt accuses Bass of letting wildfires get out of control and failing to make enough progress on the homeless crisis.

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Jun 3 • 4:53 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
A top Metaverse exec quietly left four months ago

Gabriel Aul, who led the Metaverse unit, retired earlier this year, replaced by former Epic Games exec Saxs Persson.

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Jun 3 • 4:38 PM EDT • Technology • businessinsider.com
A top Metaverse exec quietly left four months ago

Gabriel Aul, who led the Metaverse unit, retired earlier this year, replaced by former Epic Games exec Saxs Persson.

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Jun 3 • 4:38 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Americans Opposing AI Will Become America’s ‘Biggest Political Crisis,’ Top Investor Says

The former U.S. energy advisor warned the industry must change how it talks to the public or risk being blocked from building data centers and power plants fueling AI.

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Jun 3 • 3:41 PM EDT • Politics • forbes.com
Former Smoke Jumper Wins Democratic House Primary in Montana

Sam Forstag’s candidacy will test a liberal theory that left-leaning politicians running in Republican strongholds can do better in general elections than moderates have done historically.

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Jun 3 • 1:30 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Former ACC president William Parmley remembered as powerhouse in cardiology

Parmley is most noted for his research on the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, hemodynamics and new therapies for heart failure.

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Jun 3 • 1:25 PM EDT • Business • cardiovascularbusiness.com
'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Remains Atop U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through June 3

Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie remained No. 1 on the weekly Official Film Chart — the U.K. home entertainment sales chart — through June 3 due to digital transactions. Amazon MGM Studios’ former chart topper Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut on a mission to save humanity, remained at No. … Continue reading "‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Remains Atop U.K. Home Entertainment Sales Chart Through June 3"

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Jun 3 • 12:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • mediaplaynews.com
Football Extra's Dream Signings: Tottenham Hotspur

Another central midfielder, surely this is a wind-up. You could argue the former even saved them from relegation with his crucial goals against Wolves and Everton, though it seems unlikely Palhinha's loan from Bayern Munich will be made permanent at this point. Spurs may not be that right now – though signing Stiller would show serious aspiration to return to the Premier League's upper echelon.

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Jun 3 • 10:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kevin Magnussen Is Finally Coming to NASCAR

After years competing at the highest levels of motorsports, former Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen is finally getting his shot in NASCAR. The Danish racing veteran will make his Cup Series debut with Trackhouse Racing's Project 91 program at San…

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Jun 3 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Lions add former Dolphins GM Chris Grier to front office
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Lions add former Dolphins GM Chris Grier to front office

Former Dolphins General Manager Chris Grier has found a new job in Detroit.

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Former Dolphins GM Chris Grier lands job with Detroit Lions

Grier joins former Dolphins interim coach Dan Campbell with Lions.

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The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

With 22 competing theories and no consensus in sight, the science of consciousness is lost. In this exclusive IAI interview, Berkeley psychedelics researcher and bestselling author of a new book on consciousness Michael Pollan insists that even though consciousness lies beyond traditional forms of scientific investigation, we should resist becoming dualists who see it as something radically different from ordinary stuff in the world. Instead, he makes the case for reimagining science itself: it must stop reaching for objective descriptions of physical reality, and instead embrace subjectivity as the indispensable core of all inquiry. Alasdair Craig: How did your experiences with psychedelics get you interested in consciousness?Michael Pollan: One of the things that happens on psychedelics is that they foreground consciousness. What formerly seemed perfectly transparent and ever present—and yet, non-existent, as water is to fish—suddenly you see it. The metaphor I use in the book is that psychedelics sponge the windscreen. Suddenly you realize: wow, there’s a windscreen, there is this phenomenon that’s mediating my relationship to reality. This is not an unusual realization on psychedelics. I think a lot of people are called to think about consciousness after psychedelic experiences. So that was the proximate inspiration for A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (2026).And then there was a more specific way in which psychedelics influence the book. That was a particular experience I had on psilocybin. I had the sensation that the plants in my garden were conscious and returning my gaze, with their own point of view and agency, and I got curious as to how to evaluate an insight like that. I mean, what’s the truth quotient of insights you have on psychedelics? And I was reading William James—who, of course, wrote beautifully about mystical experience—and he said, we can’t judge the metaphysics here, but we should pay attention to two criteria: (1) How useful is it to think this is true? He was a pragmatist, of course. And (2) can we subject it to other ways of knowing to validate it? Because maybe we should treat these insights as hypotheses. And that’s kind of how I approach psychedelics, as a great generator of hypotheses, but they need to be tested against other ways of knowing. And so that led me down this long path exploring the science of plant intelligence and plant sentience.AC: I love your phrase, “smudging the windowpane of conscious experience.” So do you now start to think, actually, even when I’m not on psychedelics, I’m just seeing a screen all the time, which is not reality, but rather is my conscious experience, behind which reality is hidden?MP: Well, you know, not when I’m brushing my teeth and making breakfast! But yes, in meditation, certainly. I mean, one of the things you realize is that my experience happens to be this way now, but it could be another way. And many things can affect it. My morning coffee changes the screen in various ways, sharpens certain things.___The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness.___There’s this wonderful metaphor in Aldous Huxley’s book, The Doors of Perception, where he thinks we channel consciousness, and that what the brain does is edit it, and there’s a reducing valve. And psychedelics open the reducing valve wider. I don’t know that I’m ready to buy into the idea that consciousness exists outside brains, but I do love that metaphor because there are times when you are more conscious than others. I know I’ve switched from window pane to valve, but you know, a camera aperture can open wider or narrower. And I do have a sense of that. I have a sense of when I’m being less conscious, and when I’m being more conscious, by which I mean, you know, more present, taking in more sensory information. So when you start thinking about consciousness as a matter of degree, that changes things also.I think when we scroll on social media, obviously, we’re conscious. But minimally so, because we don’t have to generate our own thoughts. We’re basically taking these little hits from other people and thinking their thoughts.The process of writing this book made me kind of relativize everyday consciousness as just one type, which is exactly what William James said. Normal consciousness is one type, separated by the flimsiest of screens from the other types.AC: If we stick with the metaphor of the smudge on the window that you get when you take psychedelics, it seems like we’re saying that consciousness has become like an object that you’re looking at, right? You’re looking at the smudge and that just is consciousness. But sometimes we’ll talk about consciousness as a state that you’re in, rather than an object you can perceive. You’re either conscious or you’re not conscious. So it’s difficult to really know what sort of thing we’re talking about when we talk about consciousness, right?MP: Yeah. When you say that consciousness is an object, what’s the subject? Consciousness also? The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness. So we’re in a closed loop and when we get a perspective on consciousness, we’re not achieving any distance from it. That’s one of the problems with studying consciousness. Science is predicated on an objective, God’s eye view of things, and you never get that. There’s no such thing. SUGGESTED VIEWING The brain filters consciousness With Àlex Gómez-Marín But, yeah, there is this sense, I think, that consciousness is something you can approach. Certainly, when you’re writing and trying to recreate a conscious experience, it’s a fiction, but you’re standing back from it, and looking at it. But there’s no real subject-object distinction.AC: That’s so interesting, because when philosophers start talking about consciousness, they often talk about what they call “qualia”, which is their word for the felt experience of, say, the color red. And I think that way of speaking often makes us think of the qualia as an object, which you can see out there: the redness of red. But, as you say, we also want to collapse the subject-object distinction when we talk about consciousness. So there’s something strange going on here…MP: Oh, yeah, there are many strange things going on! *AC: Let’s talk about the varieties of consciousness. Apart from perceptions, there are, pains, emotions, thoughts, and so on. What is it that holds all this diversity together so that they all count as instances of consciousness? What is it that they all have in common?MP: Yeah, that’s a really good question. I mean, there is sensory information, right? Which we perceive coming from the world outside ourselves. And then there’s internal information, which is what’s called interoception. And this is very important too. This is where feelings come from—what are sometimes called homeostatic feelings—that are intended to get the brain to keep us in these narrow ranges of temperature and glucose and so on. That’s a very important part of consciousness. And according to some researchers, who I think are probably right, this is where consciousness begins, with these very primal feelings, like hunger and thirst and warmth and itch, and things like that. And then there’s this third thing, which is our thinking about thinking.And what holds all this together is, I think, the sense of self. Consciousness generates a self: it is probably an organizing principle. All this stuff is happening to the self. It’s a construct, I think, but it is very useful. It can connect all these different streams of consciousness to a single being or a place, metaphorically speaking.* AC: The first half of your book is about the science of consciousness. Is consciousness just another thing, like black holes or the origin of life, which we don’t yet understand, but which we should have every hope that science will one day get to the bottom of, or is there something special about consciousness that makes this unlikely?MP: It depends how you define science. As we define science now, it’s going be very difficult. Science since Galileo has had a set of rules or assumptions, which is that the proper remit of science is to deal with the objective, quantifiable, third-person world. And the physical sciences have done amazing work under that set of limitations. Galileo—for tactical reasons, not for philosophical reasons—said science should not deal with the soul, which at the time was what consciousness was considered to be. So what is subjective, what is qualitative, what is first person, we’re going to leave to the church, he said. And this was a good agreement, and it probably kept many scientists from getting burned at the stake. But it leaves science in an awkward spot, now that it wants to venture into that territory of qualities, of first-person experience. And I don’t think it has the proper tools. I think it will have to add to its toolkit in some way, and find a way to bring in phenomenology, or lived experience and introspection, which science is usually dismissive of.The challenge—we alluded to it earlier—is that the only tool you have to study consciousness with is consciousness. And what I mean by that is, the whole scientific enterprise is a manifestation of consciousness. As much as scientists like to flatter themselves with this idea that they attain a godlike perspective on what they study, when it comes to consciousness, there’s no such thing. And it’s fine for all the things you can step outside of and study from that perspective. But two areas it won’t work are consciousness and cosmology.___It could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.___With cosmology, too, you have to study the universe from inside the universe. It’s not that cosmologists haven’t made progress. We know a lot about the age of the universe and expansion and things like that. But we can’t penetrate what happened before the Big Bang. We just don’t have the tools because we can’t stand outside.The fact that there are 22 full-scale theories of consciousness tells you all you need to know: we’re kind of lost. And I was surprised to find that we are more lost than I thought we were when I started this. I thought that there’d be leading theories, or that we had experiments that we could conduct that would nail some of this down. And the fact is, we don’t.So, I don’t know if science can solve it. But, of course, we can change the rules of science. A really influential book for me was a book called The Blind Spot, by two physicists, Marcello Gleiser and Adam Frank, and a philosopher, Evan Thompson. It’s a reminder that science is a social practice. It’s organized in a certain way and it can be organized in a different way. But it has this huge blind spot at the center of it, which is its failure to recognize that it is a form of consciousness itself, and it doesn’t have a good way of taking account of lived experience.AC: On the one hand, I think you want to resist traditional dualism, which would say that consciousness is something magical, something supernatural, right? But on the other hand, you’re accepting that there is this division in reality between the stuff that you can investigate objectively and measure, and so on—the stuff that science has been good at finding out about—and consciousness, which, for some reason, you can’t objectively measure. Some would take this to suggest that the dualism is actually right. Is there a way of reconciling these two strands of your thinking?MP: To call it magical is full of value judgement. I mean, you could just say immaterial. The interesting thing is, I think, that intuitively we’re all dualists. And I don’t know whether that’s because we’re children of Descartes and other cultures are less dualist than we are. Or it may be because that’s how consciousness feels. It feels different than the body. It feels separate from the body. But I don’t think we should trust that intuition.AC: So let’s think about ways that science might be changed to get at consciousness. I suppose the starting point would be the way that you begin the second half of your book. You have this nice line from William James, where he says, “We now begin our study of the mind from within.” Could you give us some sense of the ways of studying the mind from within? What does this involve?MP: I don’t know what that science looks like. But one of the points I’m making is that it depends on the humanities. I found that I learned as much, if not more, about consciousness, from reading novels and poetry. There is a sense of the fullness and complexity of consciousness that you don’t get in any scientific account. I interviewed this stream-of-consciousness writer and I approached her as an expert on consciousness, and she is. So I think that dialogue is really important.I’m reading Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription. Just read the first page of this novel: it’s a man falling asleep on a train, going to conduct an interview, and there is the experience of being in the train, facing backwards, there’s the view outside, but there’s a reflection of himself through which he’s seeing outside. There’s the memory of dropping his kids off at school. All this is going on in one moment of consciousness. Scientists aren’t going anywhere near that. But I think it’s useful for them to think about. That’s where we’re trying to go: like, how does such a layered experience happen? You know, it also makes you wonder, could a computer ever do this? And it gives you some doubt.*AC: Before we get to computers, perhaps we could talk briefly about plants. How did you come to feel that they are sentient?MP: Well, it was a psychedelic experience, and it’s not unusual on psychedelics. In fact, there’ve been studies about how people become animists during psychedelic experience. Their belief in animism arises after a single psychedelic experience.You know, most scientists would say this is all a myth. But we have only 400 years of the age of enlightenment and science. Before that, we were animists, and if you go around the world, most indigenous cultures are still animists, and children are animists, by and large, until they go to school. So it could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.As I said, I wanted to test this idea, and see whether there was conventional scientific evidence for it. And there’s fascinating work going on in a field that calls itself—in a rather cheeky way—plant neurobiology. These are people who fully realize there are no neurons in plants, but they’re trolling conventional botanists! And they’re doing experiments that are demonstrating that plants can learn and remember, which is kind of amazing: how do you store a memory without neurons? They’re finding plants that can solve problems, that can hear and see. In fact, they have 20 senses to our five or six. For example, a bean plant looking for something to twine, and given a pole within eight inches or so of it, knows where that pole is and will aim its spiraling reach at that pole. What is that about? Is it bouncing signals off of it?One of the spookiest things is the fact that the same anesthetics that put us out put plants out. You might think that plants are already out, but they’re not. They’re just slow. If you take a plant with a fast behavior, like a Venus flytrap, and give it an anesthetic, it will stop reacting. So you have to ask yourself, what is lost when the plant is anaesthetized? Some state of alertness, of awareness, of its environment, of reactivity. I’m not prepared to call that consciousness, but maybe it’s sentience—which is a simpler form of consciousness, and involves the ability to sense what’s going on in your environment and assess what’s good and bad for you and act appropriately. That may be a universal quality of life.AC: Let’s turn from plants to AI. You point out that LLMs are trained on the internet rather than direct interactions with reality. You put this really nicely when you say the internet is not the world so much as a shadow cast by the world. So LLMs are living in this kind of shadow world, or in Plato’s cave, as you put it. What’s the significance of this for AI consciousness and moral consideration? And, to recall the beginning of our conversation, if we’re stuck behind a veil or screen of consciousness, are we also stuck in a kind of shadow world?MP: I don’t think they’re the same shadow worlds because our world includes nature and other people. And even if it’s mediated in some ways... There is a reality out there, and we are in relation to it, through consciousness. There’s friction with it. What’s missing from the LLMs is that friction with the real world. There’s more to the world than human representation, which is what they’re dealing with. And that means that so far, AI is a cultural technology for combining thoughts we’ve already had. SUGGESTED VIEWING Cracking the code for thought With Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Max Tegmark, Güneş Taylor Genuine creativity is more than collage. A lot of what AI does now is tantamount to collage, putting this with that and you know, that’s part of art, certainly. But there are also genuinely new ideas that come into the world that don’t come in through manipulating the representations we already have. So it remains to be seen whether AIs can be truly creative in that more radical sense.But my arguments against AI becoming conscious have to do with the fact that the idea of AI consciousness is based on this faulty metaphor that the brain is a computer. There are dimensions in which the brain is like a computer—it certainly does its share of computation. But computers have this sharp distinction between hardware and software, and brains don’t. In a brain, hardware and software are identical. Every memory is a physical change to the brain. Brains are not interchangeable in the way computers are. So this idea that you could take the consciousness out and somehow run it on another substrate, a silicon substrate, seems foolhardy.Anyway, it’s a more extended argument, and I may be wrong. And when we move to computers that aren’t based on silicon—neuromorphic computers and things like that—all bets may be off.AC: Regarding your point about LLMs being stuck in the world of our representations—the internet or whatever—and not being able to interact with reality, are these representations, the world of the internet, themselves part of reality? We’ve created the internet, but it’s still a real thing that exists. And so while the LLMs may be trapped within that part of reality, they’re nevertheless within reality and interacting with it and so on. So it’s not obvious that there’s a barrier there to them becoming conscious and being creative.MP: Yeah, I mean, if our consciousness is built out of human culture, which is what we’re talking about with all those representations. But I tend to think consciousness comes a bit more out of nature and friction with the natural world, but...AC: So there’s a fundamental divide between the natural world and human artefacts?MP: And we lose track of that, and especially people in this computer world. You know, the people who are creating these AI systems, my guess is they’ve been into video games since the age of three, and they didn’t go outside a lot. And their own contact with nature is somewhat limited. I could be wrong, it’d be a very interesting thing to ask, all the wizards of AI, whether they like to go fishing and hiking and do things like that. Or were they on computers from a very early age? I interviewed Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who came to believe that LaMDA, the Google LLM out at the time, was conscious and deserved personhood. It was very clear that he didn’t see a distinction between this bubble in which he lived and the real world. And I think we’ve all been distanced from the natural world, and this is taking us even further away. But it’s still there, you know, and we still have bodies, and we’re still mortal, and we don’t live in a simulation.AC: I think that’s a great place to finish. Michael Pollan, thank you very much!

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Jun 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • iai.tv
Former Wisconsin great earns $100M contract with Pittsburgh Steelers

Former Wisconsin Badgers great Nick Herbig has earned a massive payday with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Jun 3 • 6:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Is This Former Red Wings Player a Hall of Famer?

The post Is This Former Red Wings Player a Hall of Famer? appeared first on Detroit Hockey Now. Is former Detroit Red Wings tough guy Bob Probert worthy of Hall of Fame status? Another former Red Wings player […] The post Is This Former Red Wings Player a Hall of Famer? appeared first on Detroit Hockey Now.

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Liverpool encouraged to move for England star

Ben Foster Makes Case for Jarrod Bowen MoveLiverpool have been encouraged to enter the race for Jarrod Bowen after former England goalkeeper Ben Foster backed the West Ham United captain as an ideal a...

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Former US Army doctor Adam Hamawy will win Democratic House primary in New Jersey, CNN projects

Adam Hamawy, a retired US Army combat surgeon and sharp Israel critic, will win the crowded Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.

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Jun 3 • 2:34 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Pirates score 8 runs on homers in series-opening win against Astros

HOUSTON — Oneil Cruz paused for a moment of admiration. Across from him, on the mound, former Pirate Mike Burrows shook his head in frustration. Both...

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Astros vs. Pirates Game Thread: Game 62, 6/2/2026

TONIGHT’S GAME: The Houston Astros (27-34), who are 7-3 in their last 10 games, will continue their nine-game homestand tonight as they open a three-game series against their former divisional opponent, the Pittsburgh Pirates (32-28). RHP Mike Burrows (3-6, 5.40 ERA), who was acquired from the Pirates this offseason, will open the series against his […]

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Jun 2 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dallas Mavericks Pick Former Valley View Site for Arena, Entertainment District

After months of speculation about the site of the team's future multi-billion-dollar arena and entertainment district—possibly, and controversially, including the Dallas City Hall site—the Mavs are heading up the Tollway to a new home off LBJ Freeway. But tip-off won't be until at least 2031.

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Jun 2 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • dallasinnovates.com
Recently released Brewers minor-leaguer to give college football a try

Jordyn Adams, an outfielder on the Brewers' Class AAA minor-league team and a former top football prospect, will give football a try at SMU.

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Jun 2 • 3:34 PM EDT • Sports • jsonline.com
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Former UNC commit returns to college football after MLB stint

There's plentiful crazy stories in the sports world. How about a former UNC football commit enrolling at an ACC rival after playing in the MLB?

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Jun 2 • 1:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Indie Video Game ‘Mina the Hollower’ Sells 300,000 Copies in Three Days

The new action-platformer is the best-reviewed video game of 2026 so far

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Jun 2 • 1:20 PM EDT • Technology • bloomberg.com
Former Orioles Outfielder Suddenly Retires To Play Division I Football

A veteran of three MLB seasons with the Orioles and Angels is headed to college to try his hand at football.

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Jun 2 • 12:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jill Biden Gives Grim Update on Joe Biden's Health on 'The View'

The former first lady was on hand for Tuesday's live episode.

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Jun 2 • 11:33 AM EDT • Health • tvinsider.com
Mike Leach makes College Football HOF ballot after lengthy wait

The former Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State coach is one step closer to college football immortality.

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Jun 2 • 11:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Where Forensic Science Meets AI: eSleuth, Inc. Names Former ATF Director Ken Melson to Its Advisory Board

eSleuth, Inc., the AI-driven investigative platform putting the power of advanced data analysis and machine learning directly in the hands of investigators, today announced the appointment of Kenneth E. Melson, former Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to its Advisory Board. Melson brings a rare depth of expertise spanning federal prosecution, agency leadership, and forensic science policy that directly strengthens eSleuth AI's mission to transform how la

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Jun 2 • 11:30 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Donald Trump nominates former Sarasota lawmaker Doug Holder as Ambassador to Bulgaria

The nomination is one of many appointments sent to the Senate this week.

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Jun 2 • 10:41 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
A.J. Brown breaks silence on Eagles departure, relationship with Jalen Hurts

Former Eagles receiver A.J. Brown answered questions about his departure from Philly, relationship with Jalen Hurts and more.

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Jun 2 • 10:26 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
WATCH LIVE: Rubio testifies on Capitol Hill for the 1st time since start of Iran war

The Republican former senator will sit before House and Senate committees to make the State Department's annual budget request. But the focus is likely to shift quickly to the already unsteady ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, which has been further tested in recent days by back-and-forth attacks.

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Jun 2 • 9:25 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Digital Eclipse Reveals Toy Story Retro Collection And Toy Story 3 Remaster

There are thowbacks in my boots!

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Jun 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com
The Women’s Tennis Association is focusing on maternal health, and they want you to join them

Former Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli is pushing for access to care and support for pregnant women around the globe.

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Jun 2 • 7:59 AM EDT • Health • wbur.org
Wisconsin Badgers legend Russell Wilson set to join CBS Sports

Former Wisconsin Badgers legend Russell Wilson is set to join CBS Sports, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

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Jun 2 • 7:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BTS, Cardi B, Lainey Wilson, Muse, Snoop Dogg and others will perform at iHeartRadio Music Festival

K-Pop band BTS, Benson Boone, Cardi B, Lainey Wilson, Major Lazer, Muse, Snoop Dogg and Zara Larsson are among the performers this fall at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

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Jun 2 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com
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Jake Tapper: Jill Biden’s rosy if not blindfolded ‘View from the East Wing’

The former first lady’s account of her husband’s health and fitness is very difficult to believe, if not just downright false.

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Jun 2 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Mark Cruz (Klamath) Nominated to Head Indian Health Service

The White House announced on Monday, June 1, that Mark Cruz, a citizen of the Klamath Tribes, has been nominated to serve a four-year term as director of the Indian Health Service (IHS).The IHS director position has been vacant since the start of the second Trump administration, following the resignation of former Director Roselyn Tso […]

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Jun 2 • 4:02 AM EDT • Health • nativenewsonline.net
Health officials oppose US plan to treat Ebola-exposed Americans overseas

Healthcare officials in the U.S., including former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials, on Monday warned Congress against adopting ​a proposed policy to treat Americans exposed to Ebola in ‌Kenya or countries in the European Union.

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Jun 2 • 1:22 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Former NBA Guard, Hall of Fame Coach, Dies at 79

A coach whose innovative offense changed the league and earned him more than 1,000 wins in a Hall of Fame career died.

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Jun 2 • 12:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Takeaways from Jill Biden’s new memoir

Former first lady Jill Biden offers a largely unvarnished and, at times, self-aware take on her husband’s time in office, the end of his political career and all of the things and people that rubbed her the wrong way.

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Jun 1 • 10:27 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Former Michigan State football commit to reportedly make MLB debut

It looks like Jase Bowen ultimately made the right choice turning down Michigan State football to pursue a career in baseball

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Jun 1 • 8:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Studio Founded By Forza Horizon 5 Director Announces Open-World Action-Driving Game Clutch

The game is set to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in spring 2027.

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Jun 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com
Colorado Democrats slam Tina Peters’ release, while Republicans cheer

Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted of breaching her county’s secure voting equipment, drew cheers from fellow Republicans upon her release from prison Monday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence. Other state Democrats, however, said remarks the 70-year-old Peters made in an online interview after leaving prison demonstrate that she lacks […]

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Jun 1 • 7:50 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
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Dallas Mavericks choose former Valley View Mall site for proposed new arena, entertainment district

The Dallas Mavericks announced plans to pursue the former Valley View Mall site for a new arena and entertainment district, keeping the team in Dallas as debate over City Hall continues.

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Jun 1 • 6:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • keranews.org
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Donald Trump names Daniel Perez as Ambassador to Brazil in latest round of appointments

A history-making former Lieutenant Governor also nabbed a nomination to a Trinidad and Tobago ambassadorship.

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Jun 1 • 6:51 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Mavericks choose former Valley View Mall site in North Dallas for new arena, entertainment district
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Jun 1 • 6:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • sports.yahoo.com
Mavs eye former Valley View Mall site for new arena and entertainment district
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Jun 1 • 6:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbsnews.com
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Clemson lands commitment from former football star David Pollack’s son

Clemson’s hot day of recruiting continues with the commitment of a former college football stars son.

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Jun 1 • 5:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mavericks plan to build new arena, entertainment district in North Dallas

The Mavericks plan to build a new arena and entertainment district on the site of a former mall.

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Jun 1 • 5:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • nytimes.com
A.J. Brown shares goodbye message to Eagles fans

Hear from the former Eagles wide receiver.

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Jun 1 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mavericks leaving downtown Dallas, plan arena, entertainment complex in North Dallas

The Dallas Mavericks executed option agreements to purchase approximately 104 acres of the 110-acre former site of Valley View Mall, according to the Dallas Morning News.

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Jun 1 • 4:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • kltv.com
Dallas Mavericks choose Valley View site for new arena and entertainment district

The Mavericks on Monday executed option agreements to purchase approximately 104 acres of the former site of Valley View Mall.

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Jun 1 • 4:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • nbcdfw.com
Barcelona ‘considering’ re-signing former attacker

La Liga giants Barcelona are mulling over the possibility of bringing Jan Virgili back to the club this summer.This would come with a view to selling the winger on for a profit over the weeks to follo...

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Jun 1 • 4:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Warriors forward Draymond Green reveals his top-three defensive teammates

Former Defensive Player of the Year Award winner Draymond Green recently revealed the top-three defenders he's played with throughout his career.

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Jun 1 • 3:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sam Altman is backing a startup that's building software for robots and cars

A former Tesla designer's startup has won investment from Sam Altman and other top investors as money floods into physical AI.

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Jun 1 • 3:31 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
7 best individual performances in Stanley Cup Final history

Who will be the standout performer of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final? The NHL’s title chase is a stage where one player can tilt an entire series. In fact, a few performances have come to define the sport’s biggest moments.…

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Jun 1 • 3:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Milan leaning more to Glasner than Jaissle for new coach

While Milan are also expected to meet with Matthias Jaissle of Al-Ahli, it is increasingly likely their next coach will be former Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner.The Rossoneri are having a total re...

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Jun 1 • 2:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former Steelers WR signs with NFC East team

A Pittsburgh reunion is off the table for now.

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Jun 1 • 2:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kevin Keegan confirms stage four cancer diagnosis as England legend issues health update

Kevin Keegan publicly shared details of his stage four cancer diagnosis during an appearance in Newcastle, as the Magpies sent their heartfelt support to their former manager

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Jun 1 • 1:53 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Jerome Powell uses JFK award speech to warn against political pressure on Fed, courts and schools

Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used one of his first major public appearances since leaving office to deliver a broad defense of independent institutions while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in Boston

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Jun 1 • 1:27 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Reid becomes Barrow's first summer arrival

New Barrow head coach Adam Murray brings in former Hartlepool forward Alex Reid as first Bluebirds signing.

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Jun 1 • 1:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TAHOE FUND AND BARTON HEALTH LAUNCH $25,000 MATCH FOR THE MARSH CAMPAIGN

250 donors can help unlock a $25,000 matching gift from Barton Health for the Upper Truckee Marsh The Tahoe Fund and Barton Health have launched an exciting new fundraising campaign to help restore the Upper Truckee Marsh South in South Lake Tahoe—the former site of the Motel 6 property. If 250 community members donate $50 […]

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Jun 1 • 1:05 PM EDT • Health • tahoefund.org
Gravity Circuit 2 announced for PS5, Switch, and PC

Publisher Dear Villagers and developer Domesticated Ant Games have announced side-scrolling action platformer sequel Gravity Circuit 2. It will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC via Steam an…

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Jun 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Michael Clinton examines aging and its impact on health and the economy

Michael Clinton, a former Hearst executive, discusses his book "Longevity Nation," which explores the implications of longer life expectancy for individuals and society.

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Jun 1 • 12:54 PM EDT • Health • koat.com
Caesars Entertainment Investor Alert: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Investigates Adequacy of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Caesars Entertainment, Inc.

Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”) are investigating the proposed sale of Cae...

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Jun 1 • 12:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • businesswire.com
Former Packers WR lands with former Packers coach in Philadelphia

Former Packers WR Samori Toure, a 2022 draft pick, is joining Dontayvion Wicks and Sean Mannion in Philadelphia.

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Jun 1 • 11:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles add another former Packers wide receiver as overhaul continues

The Eagles on Monday morning signed former Packers wide receiver Samori Toure, who has 14 career receptions in three NFL seasons.

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Jun 1 • 11:05 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Orlando musicians raged outside and inside Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall this weekend for ‘Free Uncle Lou’ benefit show

Local musician Robby Shambles assembled a veritable army of Orlando performers — including TV Generation, Pinko Beats, Warm Like Winter, Tom Haney, Constant Throw, Why Rhyme, Red Lungs, Anthony Smith and Ran Damone — to rock out for Uncle Lou on Saturday.

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Jun 1 • 10:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • orlandoweekly.com
Harrison’s Revenge: Giants-Brewers Series Preview

In this 4-game series, the Giants will face their former top pitching prospect, who is an ace for his new team.

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Jun 1 • 10:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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"The live-action Smurfs movie paid for itself entirely through product placement" - Former Dragon Age boss suggests games can be funded another way

Ex-BioWare veteran Mark Darrah has suggested publishers and studios could look to movies for new game-funding ideas.

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Jun 1 • 9:42 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Match for the Marsh with Barton Health

We’re back with another awesome opportunity to transform the south end of the Upper Truckee Marsh, this time with help from our friends at Barton Health! Now that the California Tahoe Conservancy has demolished the former Motel 6 building, restaurant, and parking lot from the Upper Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe, planning is underway […]

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Jun 1 • 9:26 AM EDT • Health • tahoefund.org
Kevin Keegan reveals stage four cancer diagnosis

Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has revealed he has stage four cancer.Keegan twice took charge of Newcastle during his coaching career, also managing Fulham, Manchester City and England.

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Jun 1 • 9:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former WXYZ Detroit sports director launches 'The Brad Galli Show' after departure from TV station

Former WXYZ sports director Brad Galli is turning to social media after leaving the news station.

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Jun 1 • 8:44 AM EDT • Sports • fox2detroit.com
Jill Biden Defends Backing 2nd Term for Joe Biden: ‘Had to Be His Decision’

The former first lady also gave an update on the health of the 83-year-old former president after his prostate cancer diagnosis.

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Jun 1 • 8:21 AM EDT • Health • today.com
Former St. Pete Science Center to become AI and startup campus

Plans for a $25 million redevelopment would transform the former St. Pete Science Center into an AI and startup campus.

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Jun 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • tbbwmag.com
Former staffer: Platner Platner sexted women while married

Graham Platner's wife called the media reports that her husband had previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women "shameful" over the weekend, the latest controversy to hit the Maine Democrat's whirlwind Senate campaign.

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Jun 1 • 6:42 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Liverpool to wait one year before moving for former player

Quansah Remains Part of Liverpool’s Long-Term VisionLiverpool’s summer has been dominated by change, uncertainty and major decisions, yet one name continues to feature prominently in the club’s ...

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