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The Latest: Final round of the 90th Masters has arrived

The final round of the 90th Masters has arrived, and it’s a tight race for the green jacket. Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young enter the round tied atop the leaderboard, and six others are within four shots after a dramatic Saturday. Sam Burns is one shot off the lead, Shane Lowry is two, and two-time Masters winner Scottie Scheffler lurks four shots back.

Apr 12 • 12:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Pop culture takes center stage at Shenandoah Comic-Con

Warriors, robots, demons and more came out to play at Shenandoah Comic-Con at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds exhibit hall on Saturday.

Apr 12 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • dnronline.com

As Swalwell’s campaign unravels, his rivals in California governor’s race scramble for an opening

The sexual misconduct allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell are damaging his hopes of winning the governor’s race, with former allies revoking their endorsements and a growing list of prominent Democrats telling him to withdraw.

Apr 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

'We are accountable.' Meet Robert Mullen, head of Aultman Health System

In this week's Five questions with feature, meet Robert Mullen, president and CEO of Aultman Health System, the largest employer in Stark County.

Apr 12 • 6:05 AM EDT • Health • cantonrep.com

'Human minds shouldn't have to go through' this: Artemis II crew recalls unreal moment when Earth disappeared — Space photo of the week

A stunning Earthset image from Artemis II recalls Apollo 8's Earthrise, marking humanity's return to deep space and the start of a new era of exploration.

Apr 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Bruce Ledewitz: Our politics is a world of unreason

We live in an age of political unreason. Unless we are learn to think more reasonably, especially rejecting our own side’s partisan lies, America...

Apr 12 • 4:30 AM EDT • Politics • post-gazette.com

Role reversal: Phillies 4, Diamondbacks 3

Almost the exact same scenario as last night played out, only in reverse

Apr 11 • 5:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Chamber of Commerce Presents Achievement Awards

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

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

3 arrested after shooting at Clanton business

No one was injured as a result of the shooting.

Apr 11 • 2:48 PM EDT • Business • wbrc.com

Iowa romance author Denise Williams loves happy endings

Her first book, “How to Fail at Flirting,” was published in 2020. Since then she’s written 10 more. All of them have been in the romance genre, including her most recent release, “The Re-Do List.”

Apr 11 • 1:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com

$10,000 bounty on the implementation of rollback netcode for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 placed by Maximilian Dood

It's been nearly 15 years since Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was released on November 15, 2011. Funnily enough, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was released about nine months after Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (February 15, 2011), which spawned ...

Apr 11 • 12:14 PM EDT • Technology • eventhubs.com

“AI polls” are fake polls

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

Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net

Finger Lakes Deaf Health Fair to feature 30+ local healthcare and advocacy organizations

Rochester, N.Y. — The 6th Annual Finger Lakes Deaf Health Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Monroe Community Hospital.The event offers a c

Apr 11 • 10:29 AM EDT • Health • 13wham.com

See 16 Actors You Forgot Guest Starred on 'Twin Peaks'

'Twin Peaks' premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990. From David Duchovny to Amanda Seyfried, find out the actors who appeared on the genre-bending TV series before (or even after!) they were famous.

Apr 11 • 7:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com

A key criminal case could soon get tossed because of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments

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

Apr 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Stark County Community’s Choice Awards business spotlight: Quality Heating & Cooling

We’re in the final stretch! Ready to recognize your favorite local businesses? Submit your nominations for Stark County Community’s Choice Awards today.

Apr 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • cantonrep.com

In praise of popular science

As a kid, I was enthusiastically and unreservedly in favor of a manned space program. Our destiny lay in the stars, I figured. Get people out there. We need Star Trek here and now. As I got older, I became rather disenchanted with the idea. Humans are expensive, fragile, and inefficient as space cargo. We could flood the solar system with 100 robotic probes for the price of any single manned mission and get back just as useful data. Besides, it turns out space travel is dangerous. Tusk is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe When it came to the recent Artemis II mission, my cynical side didn’t really see the point. Flying around the Moon and back is literally something we did before I was born, and I once owned a Members Only jacket. Apollo 8 circled the Moon ten times and returned to Earth safely the same month that “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was released. What was the point of repeating a feat that far braver people once did with tin foil and slide rules? Yet I’ve surprised myself with how moving I’ve found the Artemis II mission to be. The photos have been stunning. The crew has been professional and engaging. There have been modest but important milestones — the farthest humans have travelled from Earth; the first woman, person of color, and non-American to leave low-Earth orbit; innovations in communication, and more. One thing that really stood out is that this is really NASA at its finest. Not that this is the most important mission they ever pulled off, but they did this in a competent way that celebrated the achievements and kept the crew and the science at the forefront of the project. This wasn’t some billionaire throwing celebrities or cars into orbit as a vanity project — this was a collective effort to send experts in to do a job and come home safely. We don’t see that sort of thing much these days. I’m guessing few people would describe many government agencies as inspiring, but this one counts for me. We’re living through a profoundly anti-science era, in which pathbreaking, lifesaving discoveries like mRNA vaccines are routinely downplayed or even vilified. As I’ve noted previously, this era is something like that of the Red Scare in the 1940s and 50s, in which “egghead” professors were portrayed as out of touch or even hostile to regular Americans. One of the things that helped break that spell was Sputnik — the Soviet communications satellite that demonstrated that the United States was falling behind in crucial scientific research and applications. Its launch triggered a new appreciation for American science and goaded the federal government into supporting research universities and labs. I’m not saying that Artemis is the equivalent of Sputnik, but it potentially reminds people that there’s some value to scientific endeavors and the human faces attached to them. Despite my love for the show “For All Mankind,” I’m far from convinced that there’s any real value to putting colonies on the Moon or Mars that would justify the capital investment and the massive health risks to the astronauts. But sending scientific good will ambassadors on a trip into space once in a while? Bring it. Share

Apr 10 • 9:54 PM EDT • Science • smotus.substack.com

Are you a ‘HENRY’? Why 90% of financial advisers will waive their minimums to get your business.

Most advisory firms’ $500,000 or $1 million thresholds are actually just branding tools. Here’s how to tell if you’re actually a good fit for their services.

Apr 10 • 6:14 PM EDT • Business • marketwatch.com

Lansing business owners raise drainage issues after repeated flooding on Kalamazoo Street

Ingham County Drain Commissioner Patrick Lindemann is pushing back on residents’ concerns

Apr 10 • 5:52 PM EDT • Business • wilx.com

Player Availability Report: #SKCvSJ

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

Apr 10 • 5:47 PM EDT • Sports • sportingkc.com

5 To Watch: The Masters Edition & The Business of the Tournament

Check Out the 5 to Watch Masters Edition Below: This week with “The Sports Professor” Rick Horrow features a special edition with five things to watch at The Masters at Augusta National. Mr. Horrow goes behind the tournament with Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) Video providing two hours of exclusive live coverage before handing it over […] The post 5 To Watch: The Masters Edition & The Business of the Tournament appeared first on CorpGov.

Apr 10 • 5:29 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com

We Are America’s Story: Soundscapes Community Concert Celebrates Youth Voices

NEWPORT NEWS — Soundscapes will bring together students, families, and community members for its annual Community Concert, part of CNU’s Virginia Community Music Festival, in a powerful celebration of music, identity, and the stories that shape our nation. This year’s theme, “We Are America’s Story,” reflects the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States and […]

Apr 10 • 2:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • wydaily.com

Misericordia University Appoints New Dean to Lead College of Business

Misericordia University has appointed Todd A. Shawver, DBA, CMA as dean of its College of Business, effective July 1, 2026. A proven academic leader with a strong track record in enrollment growth, program innovation, and student success, Shawver brings extensive experience in advancing business education aligned with workforce needs and institutional mission.

Apr 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • misericordia.edu

Student-Led Fresh Check Day Promotes Importance of Student Mental Health - University of New Haven

A public health capstone course empowers students to design and lead an evidence-based mental health initiative, building peer-to-peer support and enriching campus awareness and suicide prevention readiness.

Apr 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • newhaven.edu

The week that supercharged MAGA media feuds over the Iran war

The right-wing media ecosystem that has long served as a useful bullhorn for President Donald Trump unraveled into disarray this week, as deepening fears over his management of the war — and fragile ceasefire — with Iran spilled into public infighting among some of his most prominent allies.

Apr 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Cowboys trade rumors could impact Bengals on draft night

The Cowboys might be trading around the top 10. It could hurt (or help) the Bengals.

Apr 10 • 5:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

Apr 10 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com

LeBron James dunks right behind KTVU sports reporter Bailey O'Carroll

It's all eyes on Lakers LeBron James ahead of the Warriors final home game of the regular season. While warming up with some free throws ahead of their game with the Warriors, LeBron James decides to dunk, nearly taking out our sports reporter!

Apr 9 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • ktvu.com

Celebrate Amazing Stories and Science Fiction’s 100th Birthday

Doors Open 7:15 p.m. Celebrate Amazing Stories and Science Fiction’s 100th Birthday with us! In April 1926, Hugo Gernsback published Amazing Stories magazine for the first time, and while the name of the genre took a few more years to become a household term, many credit this moment with the birth of Science fiction fandom as we know it today! Join us for a two-panels featuring a discussion on the impact of Amazing Stories and Science Fiction as a genre! Featuring published authors, scholars, and podcasters with deep knowledge of the history and great works of the last 100 years. The second panel will be a how-to guide for writing your own Science fiction stories or novels, including teachers, authors, and scholars of the genre. Verbatim Books on Facebook / Instagram

Apr 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • kpbs.org

Penn researchers use AI to surface unreported GLP-1 side effects in Reddit posts

Could mining Reddit with AI help spot drug side effects earlier? A new Penn study suggests it might. Using large language models to map patient posts to standardized medical terms, researchers analyzed more than 400,000 Reddit posts about GLP-1s and found both known side effects and possibly underrecognized symptoms, like menstrual changes. The team says the approach could eventually help generate early safety signals for other drugs and wellness trends discussed online.

Apr 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org

Cuban president urges US dialogue without conditions of political change

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told ​NBC News that the ‌country has asked U.S. President Donald ​Trump's administration to ​engage in dialogue without ⁠demanding changes from ​Cuba's political system ​or imposing other conditions, the network said on Thursday.

Apr 9 • 5:09 PM EDT • Politics • reuters.com

‘Blaming the conduct of companies may provide some comfort’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

Apr 9 • 2:57 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com

What to know about changes to US military draft registration

The US Selective Service registration process is changing to automatic enrollment. The agency says the move aims to streamline registration.

Apr 9 • 2:50 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Franya Esquivel

CohnReznick, a leading professional services firm, has announced that Franya Esquivel has joined its Assurance practice as a director.

Apr 9 • 1:36 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

US software stocks fall as Anthropic's new AI model revives disruption fears

U.S. software shares tumbled on Thursday after Anthropic held back the wide release of a powerful AI model over concerns ​it could expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, deepening investor fears about ‌the threat to traditional software firms.

Apr 9 • 11:27 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Chicharito joins Henry, Ibrahimovic as Fox Sports 2026 World Cup analyst

Mexico's all-time leading scorer adds to a star-laden panel of TV analysts for this summer's World Cup

Apr 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

Michael Patrick of 'Game of Thrones' Dies at 35. Motor Neuron Disease, Explained

The actor passed away on April 7 following a three-year-long health battle.

Apr 9 • 10:03 AM EDT • Health • today.com

Unrivaled Sports Partners with Under Armour and DICK'S Sporting Goods to Build the Future of Youth Sports Experiences

/PRNewswire/ -- Unrivaled Sports, the nation's leader in youth sports experiences, today announced landmark partnerships with Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) and...

Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • prnewswire.com

ULM Political Science faculty and students participate in state meeting

Political Science faculty and graduate students from the University of Louisiana Monroe recently participated in the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Political Science Association (LPSA), held Friday, February 27, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La.

Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • ulm.edu

ULM Political Science faculty and students participate in state meeting

Political Science faculty and graduate students from the University of Louisiana Monroe recently participated in the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Political Science Association (LPSA), held Friday, February 27, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La.

Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • ulm.edu

Cardio vs. Strength: Cardiologist on Which Is Better for Heart Health

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a cardiologist weighs in on the best type of exercise routine for heart health and heart disease prevention.

Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com

1979 Is the Year That Explains Donald Trump

And pretty much all of the 1980s do too.

Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com

Trump promised to clamp down on health insurers. His policies are enriching them

In December, Trump said he would summon health insurance execs to the White House. It doesn't seem a meeting ever happened.

Apr 9 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Advantage Liverpool? Reds battle Bayern in race for £35m attacker

Liverpool are among the clubs showing strong interest in signing Hoffenheim winger Bazoumana Toure during the summer transfer window.The Reds are expected to strengthen their attacking options after a...

Apr 9 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Italy’s Meloni Vows to Govern Until End of Five-Year Mandate

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to stay on until the end of her government’s mandate, seeking to stabilize her tenure after a bruising referendum loss last month.

Apr 9 • 3:25 AM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com

Vilma Jää Brings herding calls and mocking songs to Met Opera’s production of 'Innocence'

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music | 1080 WTIC NEWSTALK

Apr 9 • 1:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Vilma Jää Brings herding calls and mocking songs to Met Opera’s production of 'Innocence'

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT

Apr 9 • 1:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Vilma Jää Brings herding calls and mocking songs to Met Opera’s production of 'Innocence'

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music | KYW Newsradio

Apr 9 • 1:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

Vilma Jää Brings herding calls and mocking songs to Met Opera’s production of 'Innocence'

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

Apr 9 • 1:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

'Survivor 50' recap: Coach has a haiku-making meltdown

'Survivor 50' recap: Coach has a haiku-making meltdown as tensions rise before the biggest Tribal Council in franchise history.

Apr 8 • 9:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

100K new veterans sign up for VA health care amid 'landmark improvements'

Veterans Affairs has recorded 100,000 new health care enrollees already this year, hitting the milestone faster than in six of the last seven years, the department said this week.

Apr 8 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • foxbaltimore.com

100K new veterans sign up for VA health care amid 'landmark improvements'

Veterans Affairs has recorded 100,000 new health care enrollees already this year, hitting the milestone faster than in six of the last seven years, the department said this week.

Apr 8 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • komonews.com

FedEx gifts JSU business school $500K

Part of the unrestricted gift will go toward student scholarships.

Apr 8 • 7:08 PM EDT • Business • mississippitoday.org

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Apr 8 • 6:32 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com

Woman escapes kidnapping, drives to Polk County sheriff’s office after business owner killed

The Nebraska State Patrol has released new details as the investigation continues into an apparent murder and attempted suicide in Polk County.

Apr 8 • 2:19 PM EDT • Business • 1011now.com

Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the unknown. A particle that is just beyond its predicted mass can unravel scientists' ...

Apr 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • phys.org

Astronaut’s Science Blast empowers kids to reach for their own stars

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

Apr 8 • 11:45 AM EDT • Science • recordnet.com

Trump says U.S. will work with Iran to 'dig up' enriched uranium. Iran hasn't confirmed that

He previously said the U.S. would retrieve the deeply buried material, which is expected to be an intensive undertaking, if it struck an agreement with Iran.

Apr 8 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Iran reveals 10-point plan for peace with the US – here's what's in it

The U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire as Iran shares a 10-point plan demanding sanctions relief and the right to enrich uranium.

Apr 8 • 10:21 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Will ceasefire in Iran lead to end of war?

‘Fundamental disagreements persist’ between US and Iran and, if unresolved, could result in the same ‘impasse’ as before conflict began

Apr 8 • 9:29 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com

‘Project Hail Mary’ reinvigorates the science-fiction genre

The highly anticipated book-to-movie adaptation "Project Hail Mary" showcasts the star power of Ryan Gosling and collaborative nature of filmmaking.

Apr 8 • 9:01 AM EDT • Science • fsunews.com

Happy ending in Bremen? Werder star sends fresh signals

Romano Schmid appears to have a long-term future on the Weser. According to a report by kicker, the attacking player has returned to his longtime adviser Thomas Böhm. This is fueling hopes at Werder ...

Apr 8 • 8:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fernando Mendoza’s NFL draft prep has NFC West film focus

Apr 8 • 8:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles

Amazon has sent out emails to some of its users, with a warning that it’s discontinuing support for Kindle ereaders and Fire tables released in 2012 or earlier.

Apr 8 • 7:56 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Stockton sports roundup features spring break tournaments, perfect game

Spring break may mean a break from school, but not sports. Tournaments and a perfect game highlight San Joaquin County action from March 30-April 4.

Apr 8 • 7:01 AM EDT • Sports • recordnet.com

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

My year of unrest and CGMs.

Apr 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

My year of unrest and CGMs.

Apr 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • theverge.com