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Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs

The vice president, a Catholic, defended President Trump, who had accused the pope of being too liberal and “weak on crime.”The pontiff responded that he had “no fear of the Trump administration.”

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Apr 13 • 8:17 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Bleacher Report Lists Diamondbacks Top 5 in MLB Power Rankings

BALTIMORE – The No. 4 spot in Bleacher Report’s latest power rankings says as much about identity as it performs.

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Apr 13 • 6:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What the Albuquerque food business taught me about Bernalillo County economic development incentives

Street Food Institute leader backs a new county plan tying tax breaks to local hiring, purchasing and community investment.

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Apr 13 • 6:24 PM EDT • Business • abqjournal.com
‘Yellowstone’s Jefferson White to Guest Star on ‘Boston Blue’

See him with Donnie Wahlberg and Sonequa Martin-Green.

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Apr 13 • 4:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
2026 NFL mock draft 8.2: Pair of QBs go in first round, while Rueben Bain Jr. goes top 10
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Apr 13 • 4:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cubs vs. Phillies prediction, odds, line, time: 2026 MLB picks for Monday, April 13 from advanced model

SportsLine's model reveals its Chicago Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies best bets and MLB picks today

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Apr 13 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
What to do if Amazon killed your Kindle

Amazon is dropping support for older Kindles. Jailbreak it, strip the DRM, and load DRM-free books from Tor, Haymarket, and Gutenberg.

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Apr 13 • 1:51 PM EDT • Technology • boingboing.net
Morgan Wallen’s Tuscaloosa show is this weekend: Secure last-minute ticket deals before they sell out

Country music star Morgan Wallen will be in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this weekend for the next stop on his Still The Problem North American tour. Concertgoers still looking for tickets can find limited seats available.

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Apr 13 • 12:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • al.com
'My 600-Lb. Life' Star Dolly Martinez’s Cause of Death Revealed

The former reality star died at age 30 following years of weight-related health problems.

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Apr 13 • 12:33 PM EDT • Health • people.com
2026 MLB Power Rankings: What Are The Injuries To Watch For All 30 Teams?

Our latest MLB power rankings and how injuries have already affected every team so far.

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Apr 13 • 12:27 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Rock stars to car culture showcase highlight Grand Prix of Long Beach entertainment

Kings of Chaos and Lupe Fiasco bring the music while car culture and Lifestyle Expo are family-friendly festivities at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.

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Apr 13 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • presstelegram.com
7 ways AI is advancing healthcare and wellbeing around the world

AI-powered tools are being used to bring greater efficiency and security to healthcare around the world and increase access to medicines and care.

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Apr 13 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • news.microsoft.com
Last Night in Baseball: A Weekend For Sweeps

The Astros were swept, so were the Yankees and Mets, as were the Brewers and Rockies. Sweeps, sweeps and more sweeps, as well as more from the weekend's MLB action.

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Apr 13 • 9:22 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
MLB Power Rankings: Let the turnarounds begin? Which teams have already exorcised their early season demons

In the long slog that is a 162-game season, early results can mean nothing -- or everything

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Apr 13 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Craig Kimbrel Full GAME LOG

View Craig Kimbrel's full Game Log from the null MLB season

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Apr 13 • 7:54 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Conservation groups call for 'science-based' approach to Alberta grizzly bear hunt proposal

Conservation groups say recent calls for the provincial government to legalize the hunting of threatened grizzly bears in Alberta aren't justified by science due to a lack of up-to-date population studies.

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Apr 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Doctors expose ‘buffalo hump’ as potential sign of hidden health conditions
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Apr 13 • 6:43 AM EDT • Health • nypost.com
9 questions radiology practices should ask when pursuing ‘disruptive innovation’

CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. Kaihan Krippendorff, MBA, spoke on April 12 during the opening keynote of the Radiology Business Management Association’s annual meeting.

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Apr 13 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Early voting begins this week. What positions are on the ballot?

Shelby County will effectively have a new set of elected officials after the election; many current representatives are term-limited or seeking other offices.

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Apr 13 • 6:02 AM EDT • Politics • commercialappeal.com
Coachella 2026: The 21 best moments from the fest's 25th-anniversary weekend

From Justin Bieber and his laptop to the high-production headlining sets from Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G and the best of everything in between at Coachella.

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Apr 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Business Monday ETC: April 13, 2026

Business Monday ETC

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Apr 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • masslive.com
Daniel Schneemann Full GAME LOG

View Daniel Schneemann's full Game Log from the null MLB season

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Apr 13 • 5:19 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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Shelby Russ, whose 50-year-old company furnishes offices, sees positive signs for economy

"The things that are wrong with New Orleans can be fixed. The things that are right about the city, no one else could recreate. We have to start from that, and this self-deprecation that we culturally do has got to stop."

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Apr 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Schwalbe Reveals New Romy Tire, UltraSoft Compound & Radial Tacky Chan

New tread patterns and new rubber compound options.

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Apr 13 • 3:01 AM EDT • Technology • pinkbike.com
DHS investigating claim about Swalwell nanny filed by conspiracy theorist

Joel Gilbert, who mailed anti-Barack Obama film to voters in 2012, accuses congressman of violating immigration law

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Apr 12 • 8:04 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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An Evening with Kip Moore

Live Interview + Special Performance in celebration of Moore's album release "Reason to Believe".

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nashvillelifestyles.com
Dodgers Have Chance to Break 142-Year-Old MLB Record

The Los Angeles Dodgers have gotten off to a great start in 2026, and their run differential definitely reflects that.

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Apr 12 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
I rode in the Goodyear blimp over Coachella

The Times’ Mikael Wood got an invite to float over Coachella. Hey, why not?

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Apr 12 • 7:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Coachella 2026: The story of the festival's Ferris wheel, La Grande XL

You've seen Coachella's Ferris wheel throughout your social media feeds. We talked to the operators about what it takes to put together La Grande XL.

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Apr 12 • 4:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
GameThread: Tigers vs. Marlins, 1:40 p.m.

Detroit Tigers (6-9) vs. Miami Marlins (8-7) Time/Place: 1:40 p.m., Comerica ParkOpponent Site: Fish On FirstMedia: Detroit SportsNet, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: LHP Tarik Skubal (1-2, 2.55 ERA) vs. RHP Sandy Alcantara (2-0, 0.74 ERA) Lineups MARLINS TIGERS Austin Slater – RF Kevin McGonigle – SS Agustin Ramirez – C Gleyber Torres – 2B Jakob Marsee – CF Colt Keith […]

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Apr 12 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Braves vs. Guardians prediction, odds, time: 2026 MLB picks for Sunday Night Baseball from advanced model

SportsLine's model reveals Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Guardians picks, MLB best bets for Sunday Night Baseball

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Apr 12 • 10:23 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Chicago Cubs news and notes

#Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bryce Eldridge GAME LOG

View Bryce Eldridge's MLB Game Log

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Apr 12 • 7:49 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Democrats see gas prices as a potent political tool. Here’s the catch.

President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran sent gas prices surging, giving Democrats’ focus on affordability more traction if they can get voters to trust them.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Nintendo's Animated Films Challenge Disney's Box Office Dominance

Nintendo's expansion into theatrical animation, with billion-dollar films and an annual release slate, is challenging Disney's dominance while strategically promoting its gaming hardware and franchises like the successful Switch 2.

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Apr 12 • 2:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • indexbox.io
UFC 327 live blog: Jiri Prochazka vs. Carlos Ulberg

Jiri Prochazka and Carlos Ulberg battle for a vacant UFC title in UFC 327 main event

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Apr 12 • 12:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Health-Related Quality of Life in Burn Injury Victims Attending a Specialized Institution

Introduction Burn injuries cause long-term physical, psychological, and social consequences that substantially affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL), particularly in LMICs. The eviden...

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Apr 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • cureus.com
Bullpen took care of business for the Hens

The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips.

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Apr 11 • 7:59 PM EDT • Business • milb.com
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High school sports results for Saturday, April 11, 2026

SATURDAY’S RESULTS Baseball NON-SECTION Albert Gallatin 4, Steel Valley 0 Toronto, Ohio 20, Carrick 0 Softball WPIAL CLASS 5A Section 2 Kiski Area...

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Apr 11 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com
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Dodgers, Yankees, Brewers Headline Dontrelle Willis' MLB Power Rankings

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

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Apr 11 • 5:13 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Phillies 22-year-old enters MLB's top prospects list

Philadelphia Phillies right-hander and fourth-ranked prospect, Gage Wood, has entered MLB's top 100 prospects list after Chicago Cubs Moises Ballesteros graduated.

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Apr 11 • 4:44 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.

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Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com
Gulf Coast Sports and Entertainment Network to air 15 Biloxi Shuckers games starting tonight

Brewers' Double-A affiliate competes in Southern League

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Apr 11 • 2:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • kalb.com
Gulf Coast Sports and Entertainment Network to air 15 Biloxi Shuckers games starting tonight

Brewers' Double-A affiliate competes in Southern League

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Apr 11 • 2:53 PM EDT • Sports • kalb.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 ...

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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.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Microbial hockey: Scientists discover how bacteria rotate tiny pucks

At the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Jérémie Palacci's research group is venturing into metallurgy—albeit with a twist. Instead of traditional tools, the scientists use E. coli bacteria, ...

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Apr 11 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • phys.org
Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani breaks Ichiro Suzuki all-time MLB record

Shohei just keeps making baseball history.

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Apr 11 • 9:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Amazon ends support for these older devices

Some have criticized it for making up to two million devices “obsolete."

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Apr 11 • 9:08 AM EDT • Technology • al.com
Alaska business plan competition awards Native entrepreneurs tackling rural service gaps

Alaska Growth Capital’s Alaska Marketplace competition awarded Indigenous entrepreneurs up to $20,000 to grow businesses addressing service gaps across rural Alaska.

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Apr 11 • 8:32 AM EDT • Business • tribalbusinessnews.com
Today on Pinstripe Alley

Looking to turn the page after the first series loss of the season.

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Apr 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees news: Volpe slated to start upon return

Volpe expected to retake starting gig once healthy; flaws emerge as Yanks nosedive from hot start; Average salary in MLB rises; Mike Ford retires, takes role in Rays’ front office.

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Apr 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers' Max Muncy makes incredible MLB history

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

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Apr 11 • 3:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Shohei Ohtani breaks Ichiro Suzuki's MLB on-base streak record for Japanese players
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Apr 10 • 11:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Shohei Ohtani passes Ichiro Suzuki for another Japanese MLB record

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

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Apr 10 • 11:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
$600K grant expands school-based mental health support across Wisconsin

The funding, from the Roots & Wings Foundation, will support a school-based mental health initiative led by the WEA Member Benefits Foundation.

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Apr 10 • 10:30 PM EDT • Health • wmtv15news.com
UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg Final Face-Offs

The vacant light heavyweight title is on the line in the UFC 327 main event on Saturday. Former titleholder Jiri Prochazka faces No. 3 ranked Carlos Ulberg in the featured fight at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. During Friday's UFC 327 Ceremonial Weigh-In, the athletes faced off ...

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Apr 10 • 8:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Good Sports: Fresno City College baseball aiming for championship

It's a group the Fresno City staff has a hard time comparing to any other Rams squad, and pitching coach Eric Solberg has pretty much seen it all.

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Apr 10 • 7:58 PM EDT • Sports • abc30.com
Manipulating Science, Manipulating Us

Four decades ago, I and Gerald Markowitz published an article in the American Journal of Public Health that attracted a fair amount of attention. The article was about the history of the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline in the 1920s. The article detailed the controversy over putting lead, even then a known industrial poison and neurotoxin, into the gasoline that was powering the new automobile, particularly those that were produced by the General Motors Company.

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Apr 10 • 4:21 PM EDT • Science • milbank.org
Pirates get 1st hit off Cubs' Thielbar in 7th inning after Imanaga departs

Shota Imanaga pitched six sharp innings for the Chicago Cubs before Ryan O’Hearn led off the seventh with a single to right off Caleb Thielbar for Pittsburgh’s first hit of the game | 97.3 The Sky

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Apr 10 • 3:55 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
UC People: Mary Blackburn, public health pioneer

Trailblazing Black dietitian Mary Blackburn began her University of California career in the tumultuous Civil Rights era.

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Apr 10 • 1:51 PM EDT • Health • ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu
Broncos ownership group becomes largest minority partner of Rockies, reportedly buys 40 percent stake in MLB club
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Apr 10 • 1:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Broncos owners buy 40 percent stake in Rockies, providing financial boost to MLB team

Penner Sports Group will be the largest minority partner in the Rockies organization.

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Apr 10 • 1:34 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Does Eric Adams Now Have Albanian Citizenship?

Several Albanian outlets have reported that the former mayor has been granted Albanian citizenship and a passport by the nation’s president.

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Apr 10 • 1:02 PM EDT • Politics • nymag.com
Penner Sports Group becomes largest minority owner of MLB's Colorado Rockies

Broncos owners Carrie Walton Penner and Greg Penner are expanding their footprint in Denver sports.

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Apr 10 • 12:40 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com
Italy's UniCredit says no plans to liquidate Russian business

UniCredit ​said on ‌Friday it had ​no ​plans to liquidate ⁠its ​Russian business ​or return the banking ​licence ​held by its ‌local ⁠subsidiary, which the Italian ​lender ​has ⁠held onto ​during ​the ⁠Ukraine conflict.

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Apr 10 • 12:26 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Broncos ownership group joins Rockies as minority partners

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

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Apr 10 • 12:23 PM EDT • Sports • mlb.com
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New health service lets Mountain Brook, Vestavia, Homewood residents skip the long waits

A new house call service is coming to Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Mountain Brook.

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Apr 10 • 11:46 AM EDT • Health • al.com
Breaking Down Barriers

Through the student-led Colby Community Health Program, students and shelter guests exchange health tips, snacks, and life lessons.

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Apr 10 • 11:01 AM EDT • Health • news.colby.edu
Money for Nothing? Universal Basic Income as Health Policy

To make a point, the Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright (1997) once borrowed a character from the 1960s comic strip Lil' Abner: a big blobby creature

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Apr 10 • 10:01 AM EDT • Health • milbank.org
Every Davidson player drafted by the Boston Celtics

Let's take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of Davidson.

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Apr 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Luis Torrens GAME LOG

View Luis Torrens's MLB Game Log

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Apr 10 • 6:48 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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Peru's Dysfunctional Politics Are an Economic Time Bomb

Peru has gone through three presidents since October, yet markets have largely yawned: Country risk has edged up only marginally, credit default swaps remain well below their five-year average and the currency has even gained against the dollar.

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Apr 10 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com
Italy's UniCredit considers liquidating Russian banking business, Kommersant reports

Italian bank UniCredit has abandoned plans to sell its Russian unit and is ​considering liquidating the business and relinquishing its ‌banking license in Russia instead, the Kommersant daily reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.

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Apr 10 • 5:01 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.

A study found that traffic fatalities increased in the United States by nearly 15 percent on the same days as the biggest album releases.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows

Google releases DBSC in Chrome 146 for Windows, binding cookies to devices to reduce session theft and prevent unauthorized access.

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Apr 10 • 3:58 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
White House Warned Staff Not to Engage in Insider Trading Amid War With Iran

The directive came amid a surge of suspiciously well-timed trades on oil and prediction markets just ahead of crucial moments in the conflict.

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Apr 9 • 8:56 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
RFK Jr.’s HHS rewrites rules governing key CDC vaccine committee

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved changes to rules that govern an expert group that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations.

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Apr 9 • 8:25 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com
North Dakotans can learn about resources to grow healthy habits on April 18 at Gateway to Health event | Health and Human Services North Dakota

Individuals and families are invited to the fourth annual Gateway to Health community event, which includes activities for all ages on Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. at North Dakota’s Gateway to Science in Bismarck. Participants will enjoy free access to the science center during their registered two-hour time slot, along with access to interactive booths and exhibits promoting health and wellbeing through hands-on activities, games and prizes.

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Apr 9 • 8:15 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov
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ARTEMIS Week Kicks off at Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park

The center is celebrating humanity’s return to deep space exploration. Visitors can explore the temporary ARTEMIS II exhibits and follow the mission as it unfolds in real-time.

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Apr 9 • 6:47 PM EDT • Science • kpbs.org
Sabrina Carpenter, Mona Lisa and Ozempic: A roundup of the buzziest Coachella 2026 billboards

Debuting bold billboards that reflect their visual aesthetic has become a rite of passage for Coachella performers.

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Apr 9 • 6:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Take It from a New Business Owner: Your SMB Bankers Just Don't Get It

You're treating SMB onboarding as a set of tasks. Wrong: Your new small business client is looking to start a relationship.

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Apr 9 • 5:48 PM EDT • Business • thefinancialbrand.com
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Starting a Business

Marco Island has strong household income, steady tourism, and a customer base that values quality. On paper, it looks like an ideal market. But the longer you spend here, the more you realize something familiar: The opportunity is real. So are the constraints.

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Apr 9 • 5:46 PM EDT • Business • coastalbreezenews.com
Making Friends In Politics Is Possible

I knew getting involved in politics was a great way to make enemies, but it never occurred to me until I saw it in action that it can also be a way to make friends. I’m still not very involve…

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Apr 9 • 1:51 PM EDT • Politics • economistwritingeveryday.com
MLB Injury Report: Updates for Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Gerrit Cole, more for fantasy baseball early in April
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Apr 9 • 10:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Standout Michigan LB Jimmy Rolder works out privately with Saints

The New Orleans Saints have some work to do on the defensive side of the ball, and could look to draft Michigan linebacker Jimmy Rolder.

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Apr 9 • 6:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Xbox Achievements are getting some major changes, including the option to hide embarrassing games that you don't want to show off

Xbox is changing the achievement system, allowing for visual customization, hiding specific games, and highlighting others.

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Apr 9 • 6:05 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Andrew Walling Injuries

Learn about Andrew Walling's injury status at FOX Sports.

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Apr 9 • 5:13 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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9 current MLB catchers began career with Yankees

Apparently they're a catching factory.

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Apr 8 • 10:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rising gas prices force local food trucks and landscapers to rethink business

Rising gas and food prices are forcing local food truck and landscaping owners to rethink business in Albuquerque.

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Apr 8 • 8:41 PM EDT • Business • kob.com
Sabrina Carpenter Shouts Out Queer Community’s Impact on Entertainment: ‘I Don’t think Pop Music Would Exist If it Wasn’t for the Queer Community’

In an interview with Perfect, the pop star showed love to her LGBTQ+ friends and collaborators.

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Apr 8 • 8:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Secretly Distribution acquires music data and analytics firms Entertainment Intelligence and Babel Ops

Babel Ops was founded in 2020 by Erik Gilbert and Greg Delaney, who previously co-founded Entertainment Intelligence in 2014.

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Apr 8 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • musicbusinessworldwide.com
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TRADING DAY Markets gorge on huge TACO

World markets soared on Wednesday and oil had its biggest fall in five years, as investors gave a hearty welcome to the ceasefire in the Iran war. The question now is whether this is just a mega-relief rally, or a major turning point in ​sentiment.

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Apr 8 • 5:02 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Seattle Mariners vs. Athletics - Live Score

View the Seattle Mariners vs. Athletics game played on September 12, 2026. Box score, stats, play-by-play timeline, highlights, odds & more

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Apr 8 • 4:15 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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Breaking: ScreaM returns to action six years after hanging up the mouse

The 31-year-old fragger will look to roll back the clock on the Franco-Belgian roster.

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Apr 8 • 3:51 PM EDT • Technology • dust2.us
Wait no more: TCL's e-paper NXTPAPER 70 Pro is at T-Mobile for cheap

U.S. consumers need not wait anymore.

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Apr 8 • 3:08 PM EDT • Technology • androidcentral.com
From The Sports Desk: MLB predictions

The NBC News sports team forecasts the MVP, the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year races for the 2026 season.

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Apr 8 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Another Big Night for Democrats: Tuesday’s Wisconsin and Georgia Results

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

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Apr 8 • 2:16 PM EDT • Politics • centerforpolitics.org
Ben Albritton: Lawmakers won't approve budget before April 20

'We will share a schedule for that special session as soon as possible,' the Senate President wrote.

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Apr 8 • 2:00 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Beloved Madison baking business plans to close this summer

Vanilla Bean is a go-to store all your baking supply needs but now, they're closing up shop.

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Apr 8 • 1:31 PM EDT • Business • wmtv15news.com