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Genesee Health Plan celebrates 25 years after serving thousands of county residents

Genesee Health Plan celebrated a huge milestone Tuesday morning.

Oct 20 • 1:59 PM EDT • Health • midmichigannow.com

Hackensack Meridian Health, Hunterdon Health sign definitive merger agreement

RARITAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Hunterdon County) — Hackensack Meridian Health and Hunterdon Health have signed a definitive merger agreement that includes $230 million in planned capital and technology investments, bringing the …

Oct 20 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • wrnjradio.com

Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

ID@XBOX x IGN Showcase Recap: All the News and Announcements

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Oct 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com

DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC

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Oct 20 • 1:33 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

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Oct 20 • 1:32 PM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com

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Oct 20 • 1:23 PM EDT • Health • fox5vegas.com

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Oct 20 • 1:12 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org

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Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

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Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com

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Oct 20 • 12:52 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com

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Oct 20 • 12:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com

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Oct 20 • 12:38 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com

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Oct 20 • 12:32 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org

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Oct 20 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AMD Announces FSR 4.1 for Xbox Series X/S, Z2 Extreme and Z2A Handhelds, RX 6000 GPUs and More

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Oct 20 • 12:28 PM EDT • Technology • digitalfoundry.net

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Oct 20 • 12:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • cnn.com

Axena Health Named Finalist for the Digital Health Hub Foundation - Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH

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Oct 20 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

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Oct 20 • 11:57 AM EDT • Health • fox5vegas.com

Philadelphia Union's Cavan Sullivan tops 22 Under 22 Rankings

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Oct 20 • 11:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 20 • 11:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NED and Partners Launch October 30 Coalition, Issue Global Call for Release of Political Prisoners

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Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Politics • ned.org

Walmart and Sam’s Club combine plus memberships into one fee

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Oct 20 • 11:33 AM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

Giants are releasing running back Najee Harris, AP source says

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Oct 20 • 11:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Arkansas’ September nonfarm job numbers hit a record high

A 1% gain in the number of nonfarm payroll jobs and a more than 8% decline in the number of unemployed helped push Arkansas’ jobless rate to 3.9% in September,...

Oct 20 • 11:23 AM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

AMD and Microsoft announce FSR 4.1 support for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Ally, bringing huge performance gains

In a video address, AMD revealed FSR 4.1 support is coming "soon" to Xbox consoles, and this week to Xbox Ally.

Oct 20 • 11:22 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

As Summer Crowds Fade, Keystone Businesses Navigate the Annual Shift to Winter

After a summer defined by packed streets, Fourth of July festivities, and celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary at nearby Mount Rushmore, the tourist hub of Keystone is settling into its quiet off-season

Oct 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Business • kotatv.com

Johnson’s winning coalition fractures as two SEIU locals back Giannoulias

Mayor Brandon Johnson had all three SEIU locals in 2023, but they broke from his coalition after he took office

Oct 20 • 11:19 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

BBC closures make business sense, but far more savings are needed, says Katie Razzall

The BBC announced it will close its BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra broadcast channels.

Oct 20 • 11:17 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

Announcers revealed for Patriots' Week 7 matchup against Bears

The announcers have been revealed for the New England Patriots' Week 7 game against the Chicago Bears on Thursday.

Oct 20 • 11:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

France could face even worse destruction with second weekend of planned riots, State Dept warns

An internal State Department document warns antifascist protests near Marine Le Pen's National Rally congress in Orléans could spark new unrest.

Oct 20 • 11:14 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Perot Museum announces $185 million expansion, plans outdoor science center in downtown Dallas

A 4-acre downtown Dallas parking lot could become an outdoor science center with exhibits, water features, and gardens, with a 2028 opening goal.

Oct 20 • 11:13 AM EDT • Science • nbcdfw.com

2027 Wide Receiver Yuto Kawamura-Johnson Flips Commitment to Michigan

The Wolverines poach an explosive Florida playmaker from Toledo after a dominant visit. Boasting a staggering 24 yards per catch, the dynamic slot receiver brings elite vertical speed to Ann Arbor.

Oct 20 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Negro Spirituals Royalty Initiative Is Launched

The Negro Spirituals Royalty Initiative (NSRI) is a new program, created by the Social Justice Matters team of South Congregational Church in Centerville and managed collaboratively with the Hyannis-based Arts

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • capenews.net

XGIMI Launches AURA 3 Series, Bringing Cinema-Scale Entertainment to the Living Room

/PRNewswire/ -- XGIMI, a global leader in premium smart projection and home entertainment, today announces the official launch of its AURA 3 Series, a new...

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com

Visier Launches Vee Diagnostics Capabilities at HRTech 2026, Bringing Data Science Rigor to Everyday Talent Decisions

/PRNewswire/ -- Visier announced the early access launch of diagnostics capabilities within the Visier Workforce Insights Agent, Vee. Most organizations can...

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

USMNT announces December training camp, friendly vs. Jamaica

Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Engling plans to sue Bayh for defamation in secretary of state race over 'reckless' claim

After the Bayh campaign rebuffed Engling's call to retract and correct a campaign attack ad, the Republican says he's filing a defamation lawsuit.

Oct 20 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • indystar.com

Smucker, Mannion to go head to head in debate this Friday

Republican Congressman Lloyd Smucker and Democratic challenger Nancy Mannion will debate Friday afternoon at a forum hosted by the Lancaster Chamber and York County Economic Alliance.

Oct 20 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com

Exodus Chiropractic celebrates 15 years in business

Exodus Chiropractic celebrated its15th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 3, with a Williamson Inc. ribbon cutting ceremony.

Oct 20 • 10:49 AM EDT • Business • williamsonherald.com

York County Mexican restaurant fails state health inspection

The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories.

Oct 20 • 10:35 AM EDT • Health • centredaily.com

Trump administration announces $8 billion farm relief plan as fuel, fertilizer costs bite

(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced at a Kansas rally on Monday that his administration is introducing an $8 billion aid package for farmers in the face of high diesel

Oct 20 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • wxow.com

Rush Oak Park parent looks for Endeavor Health merger

Rush University System for Health announced last week that it is planning to merge with Endeavor Health.

Oct 20 • 10:25 AM EDT • Health • austinweeklynews.com

Evolution of women’s healthcare focus of URI’s annual Youngken Clinic

KINGSTON, R.I. — Oct. 20, 2026 — Women’s healthcare is evolving rapidly, and while greater emphasis has been placed on comprehensive care, women still face more barriers to healthcare than men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Pharmacists are key players in helping break down those barriers, playing an increasingly important role in improving […]

Oct 20 • 10:24 AM EDT • Health • uri.edu

Paxton campaign showing ‘desperation’ with manufactured story: Political commentator

In the final days until election, President Trump is set to hold another rally in Texas for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. MS NOW National Reporter Rosa Flores shares what she is hearing from voters there. MediasTouch Journalist Adam Mockler, Democratic Strategist Basil Smikle, Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin, and Rolling Stone Magazine Politics Reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez join the Group Chat with Stephanie Ruhle to share their analysis.

Oct 20 • 10:02 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now

New Apple TV 4K Features 'Whole Room Audio' With Four HomePods

The new fourth-generation Apple TV 4K announced last week can connect to up to four HomePods in front-left, front-right, rear-left, and rear-right positions, enabling an all-Apple surround sound system for home theater setups. There is also a related new feature that has not received as much attention: Whole Room Audio. Apple says the Whole Room Audio feature spreads sound evenly across four HomePods in a room.

Oct 20 • 10:02 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Prenosis and Carle Health Mark Sepsis ImmunoScore® Clinical Deployment and First Patients Enrolled in OBSERVE-ARDS Clinical Study

/PRNewswire/ -- Prenosis®, a biology-based technology company delivering precision therapeutics, today announced three milestones in its ongoing relationship...

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

DHR Health Expands Behavioral Health Team with Dr. Alexandra Treviño, Psychiatrist

DHR Health, the largest provider of specialty healthcare in the Rio Grande Valley, is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Treviño, has joined its team of physicians.

Oct 20 • 9:58 AM EDT • Health • megadoctornews.com

Wire 3 Begins Construction on Easley Expansion

Wire 3, a leading 100 percent fiber internet provider, announced that construction is underway in Easley, marking another step in the company’s South Carolina expansion. Powered by a fully funded $19 million investment, the Easley expansion will...

Oct 20 • 9:46 AM EDT • Business • greenvillebusinessmag.com

Cincinnati's business leaders can't have it both ways on school funding

Opinion: Cincinnati business leaders are opposing the CPS levy after helping to create the financial crisis that public schools are facing.

Oct 20 • 9:41 AM EDT • Business • cincinnati.com

Perceptions of science and scientists shape partisan views on common vaccines

How Americans view science and scientists is strongly associated with whether they think vaccines are safe and effective - and helps explain partisan differences in perceptions of some vaccines, according to a new study led by a team from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania.

Oct 20 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • news-medical.net

Salesforce To Buy Braze In $5.6 Billion, All-Cash Deal As Acquisitions Continue

Salesforce stock fell after the enterprise software maker announced the $5.66 billion, all-cash purchase of Braze.

Oct 20 • 9:16 AM EDT • Business • investors.com

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA coming to Switch 2 on February 25, 2027

Publisher NIS America and developer Falcom will release a Switch 2 version of action RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA on February 25, 2027, the companies announced. It will feature Spanish-language s…

Oct 20 • 9:14 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

Hampton Beach businesses want free trash pickup; residents say it’s time to pay

Should businesses pay for trash collection at Hampton Beach? A packed hearing showed a division between residents and business owners.

Oct 20 • 9:13 AM EDT • Business • seacoastonline.com

L'Oréal USA Names 2026 For Women in Science Awardees, Supporting the Future of Scientific Discovery

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, L'Oréal USA announced the 2026 For Women in Science (FWIS) awardees, providing five women postdoctoral scientists grants to advance...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

Health Foundation of South Florida Opens Nominations for 2027 Inspiring Women of Health Awards

/PRNewswire/ -- The Health Foundation of South Florida today announces that nominations are now open for the 2027 Inspiring Women of Health Awards, which...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

340 Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice Providers Earn Inaugural Trusted & Transparent™ Recognition from Accushield

/PRNewswire/ -- Accushield today announced the inaugural class of Trusted & Transparent™ home-based care companies, with 340 organizations and 883 location...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

Aprio Broadens its AI-Powered Advisory Partnership with Intuit to Further Accelerate Mid-Market Business Growth

/PRNewswire/ -- Aprio, the 20th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S. today announced the next phase of a strategic partnership with...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

Silicon Valley GTM and Business Development Veteran Dylan Gittleman Joins Dialogica's Founding Sales Team

/PRNewswire/ -- Dialogica ("Dia"), the voice-first AI secretary for the world's top law firms, today announced that Silicon Valley go-to-market business...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Oct 20 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com

Experian Health Acquires eInsights, Expanding Insurance Discovery to Help Healthcare Organizations Recover Missed Reimbursements

COSTA MESA, Calif., October 20, 2026--Experian today announced its acquisition of eInsights, a healthcare technology company.

Oct 20 • 8:55 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

300+ Charleston builders to gather for heart health talk at Hard Hats with Heart event

Hard Hats with Heart will be hosting their annual networking celebration Tueday. They state that theCharleston construction industry leaders build healthier he

Oct 20 • 8:37 AM EDT • Health • abcnews4.com

Planning commission lauds work on ‘complex’ Lake Fairfax Business Center development plan

Plans to transform most of the Lake Fairfax Business Center in Reston into a mixed-use neighborhood are heading to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for a final vote. Developer EYA secured a supportive recommendation from the Fairfax County Planning Commission last Wednesday (Oct. 14) after its legal representative confirmed that any lingering disagreements with

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • ffxnow.com

Too Lost’s latest expansion is a deal with Xelon Entertainment

Distributor and tech firm Too Lost's ambitions in the APAC region continue. It acquired Australian distributor and artist-services company Gyro·Group in July, and now it has announced a partnership with another distributor, Xelon Entertainment.

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • musically.com

Digital Science and Sunmedia Partner to Bring Research Impact Reporting to Japan's Medical Affairs Teams

Digital Science today announced a partnership with Sunmedia to help medical affairs teams across Japan understand the impact of their research.

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Science • newswise.com

Beyond Moneyball: What the Milwaukee Brewers Can Teach Businesses About Teamwork

The Milwaukee Brewers’ sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers stunned the baseball world. But the series also showed that assembling the biggest collection of stars isn’t the only path to success, says University of Delaware researcher Kyle Emich. The Brewers' run to the World Series – which continues this week against the Tampa Bay Rays – demonstrates how a team can combine its strengths, adapt to an opponent and operate as a system, Emich says. That same p

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • newswise.com

‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks

Oct 20 • 8:14 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

North Carolina Could Play a Key Role in This Year’s Midterm Elections, Wake Forest Expert Says

Oct 20 • 8:10 AM EDT • Politics • newswise.com

Planning TB prevention: Considerations for an evolving toolkit

Explore our TB prevention toolkit: today’s tools, the pipeline of new options, and the open questions ahead.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • clintonhealthaccess.org

AI is Changing Science: Here’s What Journalists Need to Know

Researchers are rapidly adopting AI for everything from data analysis to planning and executing entire research studies. Journalists will need to keep up. That means learning the basic principles, strengths, and weaknesses of the diverse technologies labeled as “AI”—and how to tell when using AI in science is actually noteworthy. Luckily for science reporters, knowing your beat well can help you cut through the hype.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • theopennotebook.com

CAS collaborates with Microsoft to enable faster innovation in pharmaceutical, life sciences, and chemical industries

/PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, today announced the availability of CAS Connections in Microsoft Copilot. The connector gives...

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

Scientists finally uncover why statins can cause muscle pain

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent heart attacks and strokes, can sometimes cause muscle pain, weakness, and even severe muscle damage. Using advanced imaging technology, researchers discovered that statins can attach to a crucial protein in muscle cells and force open a channel that normally controls calcium flow. This causes calcium to leak continuously, potentially damaging muscle tissue.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Tecsys delivers AI capabilities to help health systems anticipate and act on pharmacy and supply chain risks

/PRNewswire/ -- Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management company, today announced the availability of AI solutions that help health...

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

NBA games on TV today: Schedule, times, TV channels, live streams to watch every team's season opener

Basketball is finally back. Here's when and where to watch every team's season opener.

Oct 20 • 7:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Woman Indicted In Alleged $612,000 Theft Scheme From Great Mills Business

GREAT MILLS, Md. — An Odenton woman has been indicted on six theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole approximately $612,758.92 from a Great Mills business through unauthorized payments and credit card transactions spanning several years. Heather Lynne Payton, 50, was indicted by a St. Mary’s County grand jury on September 28, 2026, in connection […]

Oct 20 • 7:39 AM EDT • Business • thebaynet.com

GTA 6 is so detailed no single Rockstar employee has seen it all - which is exactly how we got shrinking horse testicles in Red Dead Redemption 2

The infamous Red Dead Redemption 2 horse testicles were an unplanned feature because Rockstar staff apparently work autonomously, which bodes well for GTA 6.

Oct 20 • 7:20 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

GM's core profit rises 22% on strength of pickup-truck business

GM shares fell about 6% in premarket trading.

Oct 20 • 7:10 AM EDT • Business • detroitnews.com

Tennessee health departments providing free flu vaccines Tuesday

TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) — Health departments across the Northeast Tennessee region are offering free influenza vaccines on Tuesday as part of a statewide annual “Fight Flu” prevention …

Oct 20 • 7:08 AM EDT • Health • wjhl.com

Nashville CARES sues TN Health over HIV care restrictions

A Middle Tennessee HIV care center is suing the Tennessee Department of Health over new rules that require proof of citizenship to access services.

Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Health • nashvillebanner.com

Warren Madden, Iowa State leader who shaped campus growth, dies at 87

Warren Madden, revered business leader at Iowa State University, has passed away.

Oct 20 • 7:01 AM EDT • Business • desmoinesregister.com

Ambetter Health Announces 2027 Marketplace Offerings, Including Enhanced Condition-Specific Coverage Options

/PRNewswire/ -- Ambetter Health, the Health Insurance Marketplace product of Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC), today announced its 2027 Marketplace offerings,...

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

ChartHop expands organizational intelligence beyond HR data, connecting the business to the people who run it

New Salesforce, Zendesk and Google Sheets connections, finance-facing planning, portfolio-wide headcount visibility and

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • wboc.com

A week of disgraces dominates state politics

In a recent segment of Colorado Inside Out, Eric Sondermann highlights multiple current outrages in the state and beyond.

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • denvergazette.com

Knicks’ OG Anunoby Drops Unexpected Photo Featuring Anne Hathaway

For Knicks fans, this week feels like Christmas came early.After 53 years of waiting, the championship banner finally goes up at Madison Square Garden, and the players get their rings in front of a crowd that has earned it.The players have spent the last few days at practice, getting ready for LeBron James and the […] The post Knicks’ OG Anunoby Drops Unexpected Photo Featuring Anne Hathaway appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 20 • 6:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

Oct 20 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • anniedance.substack.com

How an acclaimed opera singer became Providence’s Bride of Cthulhu

What happens when an opera singer/organist/conductor meets Lovecraft? You get Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, a consummate performer and Bride of Cthulhu.

Oct 20 • 6:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • providencejournal.com

Names in the News: People shaping the future of Lake Area business

Sowela appoints vice chancellors Sowela Technical Community College is pleased to announce the promotion of two distinguished members of its leadership team, Allison Dering and Dr. David LaFargue, from executive […]

Oct 20 • 6:08 AM EDT • Business • americanpress.com

Westland puts $50K grants on the table to attract new restaurants

Westland officials say residents are leaving town to dine out. Now they're hoping to change that – and breathe new life into aging buildings.

Oct 20 • 6:07 AM EDT • Business • freep.com

Business owners like Hendricks and Uihleins create jobs

The voices that demand we “tax the rich” treat every successful entrepreneur as a potential villain whose gains must be redistributed or regulated.

Oct 20 • 6:06 AM EDT • Business • jsonline.com

LACMA, Perrotin, the new Metro and now the Brick: Todd Gray is having a banner year

Todd Gray has a solo show opening at the Brick on Oct. 18 — the cap on a banner year including a LACMA commission, a solo show at Perrotin and a public art piece for the Wilshire/La Cienega station for the D line.

Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

The Kardashian personal chef reveals celebs' top requests

Khristianne Uy, best known as Chef K, has built a career in the celebrity-sphere cooking for major names like Justin Bieber, Salma Hayek, Ryan Seacrest and — most notably —

Oct 20 • 5:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

New coalition aims to keep Virginians covered as Medicaid rules tighten

Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Marvin Figueroa on Monday announced the Virginia United Coalition, formalizing a partnership that builds on a series of roundtable meetings with him and Gov. Abigail Spanberger throughout the summer, as well as an executive order she signed.

Oct 20 • 5:20 AM EDT • Health • virginiamercury.com

South Florida is pivoting from tourism to national biz hub

Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt join companies opening campuses and offices in South Florida as it pivots from tourism to being a national business hub

Oct 20 • 5:10 AM EDT • Business • usatoday.com

Where to watch Tennessee-Duke basketball: TV, channel, streaming

Tennessee basketball will play Duke on Tuesday. Here is how to watch, including time, channel, TV schedule and streaming info.

Oct 20 • 5:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'We lost the battle': Local businesses prepare as DEI crackdown hits OEV

New Florida law forces Tallahassee to replace its minority business aid program with a neutral alternative. Some business owners worry about the future.

Oct 20 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • tallahassee.com

$42 million Purdue donor wants support for Black and Hispanic students

McDonald's millionaire and Purdue alum Roland Parrish says, \

Oct 20 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • jconline.com