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Trump administration ends transgender student protection deals at schools

The decision affects five school districts and a college

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Apr 6 • 4:29 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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The year in review: Influential people who have died in 2026

As director of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller III transformed the agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But Mueller, who died in March, is perhaps

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Apr 6 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
NextGen Owners Bridge Fund Launches Platform to Address the Growing Financing Gap in Generational Business Ownership Transition

Platform launches with $25 million in initial deployment capacity, supported by a consortium of private capital

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Apr 6 • 2:49 PM EDT • Business • usatoday.xpr-gannett.com
Trump Administration to Pull Out of Civil Rights Settlements Backing Trans Students

The Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into schools.

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Apr 6 • 2:45 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Sol Rodriguez Signs With Strand Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Actress Sol Rodriguez has signed with Strand Entertainment for management, Deadline can report exclusively.

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Apr 6 • 2:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
Executive Order would put restrictions on student-athletes ability to transfer, limit eligibility

The introduction of Name, Image and Likeness deals and the transfer portal has opened a new frontier for college sports.

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Apr 6 • 2:04 PM EDT • Sports • abc11.com
FSU Herbert Wertheim College of Business honors faculty and staff, adds two to its Faculty Hall of Fame

The Florida State University Herbert Wertheim College of Business honored two former faculty members with lasting recognition for their decades of

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Apr 6 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • news.fsu.edu
Steve Ballmer commits $110M to LA youth mental health crisis; Cal State LA receives record $48M gift

A landmark $110M investment from Steve and Connie Ballmer is set to transform youth mental health in Los Angeles. Learn how Cal State LA is using a record $48M grant to provide scholarships and double its social work programs.

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Apr 6 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • foxla.com
Grand Strand chef becomes a Masters chef every spring

Ervin Abbott is one of the few people at the Masters in Augusta this week that hopes everything he does is above par. For a week or so before and during the storied event, Abbott moves from his position as a culinary director for La Vida Hospitality which operates the Crooked Hammock Brewery and the Big Chill Restaurant in Barefoot Landing to executive chef at Augusta National, a position he has filled for the last three years.

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Apr 6 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • myhorrynews.com
Notre Dame sees sixth player depart for the transfer portal

Tha departure total for Notre Dame basketball players leaving for the transfer portal is now up to six.

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Apr 6 • 12:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Bridging Gaps in Mental Health Care: A Multi-country Research Initiative

By combining cutting-edge digital technologies with rigorous evidence across countries, BRIDGE-MH aims to transform how mental health needs are identified and addressed in humanitarian settings.

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Apr 6 • 11:22 AM EDT • Health • worldbank.org
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'Your doctor, your price': Byron Donalds rolls out health care plan

'We're going to make sure that there is transparency in health care.'

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Apr 6 • 11:16 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Strengthens Entertainment Transactions Practice with Addition of New York Media & Entertainment Partner

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) announced today that it has expanded its national Entertainment Transactions group with the addition of Amy Stein Simon...

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Apr 6 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • businesswire.com
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Strengthens Entertainment Transactions Practice with Addition of New York Media & Entertainment Partner

NEW YORK, April 06, 2026--Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) announced today that it has expanded its national Entertainment Transactions group with the addition of Amy Stein Simonds as a partner in its New York office. With more than a decade of experience, Stein Simonds joins from Pryor Cashman LLP, where she was a partner in the Media + Entertainment group.

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Apr 6 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Teagan Mallegni is Iowa’s fourth player to enter the transfer portal

IOWA CITY — Teagan Mallegni’s first game as an Iowa women’s basketball player was an eye-opener.

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Apr 6 • 9:02 AM EDT • Sports • thegazette.com
A New Era of Sports Broadcasting: Galaxy S26 Ultra Unlocks New Perspectives, Bringing Cameras Inside the A ...

Capturing new angles like never before, Galaxy S26 Ultra’s broadcast-ready capture transforms how skateboarding is filmed, experienced and delivered in real time

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Apr 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • news.samsung.com
Songlin Fei receives McCoy Award for groundbreaking research in digital forestry

Songlin Fei will receive Purdue’s 2025 Herbert Newby McCoy Award for advances in digital forestry — using AI, remote sensing and computation to transform forest sustainability.

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Apr 6 • 8:17 AM EDT • Science • purdue.edu
This “forbidden” exoplanet has an atmosphere scientists can’t explain

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere surprisingly poor in heavy elements—even less enriched than its own star, which defies current theories of how giant planets form.

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Platner using trivia games, happy hours to power Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message.

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Apr 6 • 7:04 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
The Blogs: Politics at the Seder table

A Passover debate about Palestinian suffering overlooks a harder task: understanding what drives Jewish ultranationalists in the first place

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Apr 6 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • blogs.timesofisrael.com
Return to Sport Rates Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

A recent study shows that understanding timelines and key factors could help clinicians give tailored advice and set realistic expectations for their patients undergoing TKA.

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Apr 6 • 12:02 AM EDT • Sports • consultqd.clevelandclinic.org
No Time to Read, Plenty to Say

In an era where information is increasingly packaged as entertainment and consumed rapidly, the transmission of meaning has become more fragile. Writers, technologists, and institutions alike are realizing that communication is a complex interaction shaped by audience habits, digital tools, and shifting cultural norms. Each alteration not only affects what we know but also how we understand. The result is a growing tension between expression and interpretation. One that challenges our assumptions about knowledge, attention, and responsibility in the modern world.

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Apr 6 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • acsh.org
Lincoln Heights community building brings more opportunities for businesses, organizations

The Village of Lincoln Heights is helping bring businesses and organizations together under one roof.

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Apr 5 • 10:54 PM EDT • Business • local12.com
Move Over Anbernic, the GAMEMT E5 ModX Might Be The Weirdest Handheld of the Year

The GAMEMT E5 ModX may be one of the strangest handhelds we’ve seen in a while, blending controller, vertical, and horizontal gaming in one device.

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Apr 5 • 8:30 PM EDT • Technology • retrohandhelds.gg
Teresa Guidice's Full Face Transformation Is Wild To See

"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice has undergone a significant face transformation over the years, and it's a little jarring to see.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • glam.com
Train transfer hub linked to reduced healthcare spending

Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University and Japan System Techniques Co., Ltd. evaluated the 2019 Osaka-Higashi Line station openings using a natural experiment and health insurance claims. While the overall rail-line effect was not significant, Shigino Station, a well-connected transfer hub, showed an estimated cumulative reduction of about JPY 62,500 per medically treated person over four years, highlighting that station connectivity and local context may determinewhether new stations deliver healthcare cost benefits.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • eurekalert.org
Photo Gallery: Busy Weekend For Whaler Sports Against Martha's…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

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Apr 5 • 7:22 PM EDT • Sports • nantucketcurrent.com
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Surveillance video shows car crashing into 40-year-old business in Oakland Park

New surveillance video captured the moment when a car crashed into a longtime Oakland Park business overnight, destroying its entrance and left the owner worried about what comes next.

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Apr 5 • 5:38 PM EDT • Business • nbcmiami.com
Newly discovered fossils give scientists first look at the evolution of early complex animals

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us.

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Apr 5 • 2:27 PM EDT • Science • pbs.org
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Opinion | Will GLP-1 Drugs Transform the Food Business?
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Apr 5 • 12:44 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Samsung will discontinue its Messages app in July and replace it with Google's

The official end of the Samsung Messages app means the transition towards Google Messages for all users.

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Apr 5 • 12:22 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Samsung gears up for Quick Share to AirDrop device expansion

Samsung is about to expand the Quick Share support to the AirDrop feature for Galaxy devices other than the Galaxy S26 series, as suggested in the latest leaks and app update rollouts. Quick Share is a file-sharing feature for Galaxy devices, bringing faster file transfers from one device to another. Despite this ease of access, […]

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Apr 5 • 12:10 PM EDT • Technology • sammyfans.com
One Georgia football transfer remains in the portal

Fourteen of Georgia's 15 outgoing transfers found new schools with 11 of those players landing at Power Four destinations. One remains in the portal

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Apr 5 • 10:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Rural Health Transformation Program Isn’t So Transformational

Rural health care systems have been in crisis for decades, a situation that will become more dire when steep cuts to Medicaid kick in next year.

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Apr 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • bloomberg.com
Intel "Big Battlemage" BMG-G31 said to feature 27.7B transistors, 48% fewer than AMD Navi 48

Intel BMG-G31 with 27.7 billion transistors on 368 mm² die PC Games Hardware says Intel has now disclosed the missing physical specs for BMG-G31,

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Apr 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message

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Apr 5 • 7:20 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

Democrat Graham Platner is attracting support for his Maine Senate campaign from voters willing to forgive his past transgressions and embrace his populist message.

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Apr 5 • 7:19 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
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Best and worst design features in a family's 560-square-foot tiny home

Brielle Matranga loves that her tiny home brings her family together and is easy to clean, but she hates not having a dishwasher or ample storage.

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Apr 5 • 7:16 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Why more small businesses are adding credit card surcharges — and what it means for your wallet

They're paying massive processing fees for card transactions. Often, you’ll end up footing the bill.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Business leaders want to turn Belle Isle into special economic zone -- what that means

A new $50 billion plan for Belle Isle would transform the island into a special economic zone with high-income housing, shopping, and about 50,000 residents.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
Union Station will host a World Cup marketplace for Kansas City's small businesses

Businesses and brand sponsors can apply now to take part in the activation, a short walk from where the FIFA Fan Festival is planned. “The marketplace will transform Union Station into a high-energy retail and cultural destination," organizers said.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • kcur.org
What the Muppets can teach us about Maine politics

For dreamers like me, the Rainbow Connection seems distant. Our political climate has abandoned what I consider the Muppet spirit: a celebration of wistfulness, a collective made strong by diversity and humble and transparent leadership. Contemporary politics has been like shadow puppets: projections designed to obscure the causes of our dysfunctional society. The Muppets offer […]

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • pressherald.com
What the Muppets can teach us about Maine politics

For dreamers like me, the Rainbow Connection seems distant. Our political climate has abandoned what I consider the Muppet spirit: a celebration of wistfulness, a collective made strong by diversity and humble and transparent leadership. Contemporary politics has been like shadow puppets: projections designed to obscure the causes of our dysfunctional society. The Muppets offer […]

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Apr 5 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • centralmaine.com
How to strengthen collaboration to tackle infectious disease

A trans-disciplinary, multisectoral approach that includes environmental health, can help manage the threat of infectious disease in a globalized world.

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Apr 5 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • weforum.org
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Truckloads of food are being wasted because computers won’t approve them

Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold, or even released, meaning that if systems go down, food can effectively become unusable—even when it’s physically available.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Microsoft takes on Google and OpenAI with its own AI models

From transcribing boardroom chatter to cloning voices in seconds, Microsoft's MAI model trio is here, and it is priced to make rivals sweat.

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Apr 4 • 4:11 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
The FT’s AI optimism rests on shaky science

Last weekend, the Financial Times published an article about the broader social impacts of AI. Studying, managing, and mitigating the negative impacts of the technological transition is supremely important, and doing so requires both the electorate and policymakers to be informed by good, impartial science. Unfortunately, for anyone with even basic training in social science [...]Read More...

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Apr 4 • 4:04 PM EDT • Science • unherd.com
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm

A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years.

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Apr 4 • 2:10 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Mizzou is open for business as transfer portal season begins

The process of assembling a new roster begins on Tuesday for coach Dennis Gates with the opening of the transfer portal.

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Apr 4 • 1:27 PM EDT • Business • columbiamissourian.com
Cunard Expands Entertainment Program on 2026 Transatlantic Crossings - Cruise Industry News

All Transatlantic Crossings aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 are set to feature an expanded entertainment program in 2026, the company said in a press release. Guests sailing between New York and Southampton can expect what the company says will be its most extensive program ever, marking the fact that the cruise line was selected Headline Partner of the Olivier Awards. “For more…

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Apr 4 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • cruiseindustrynews.com
President Trump signs order intended to stabilize college sports, threatens lost federal funding

Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.

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Apr 4 • 8:28 AM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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23 Things That Used To Be "Good"...Until They Became Way, Way, Way, Wayyy Too Popular

"National parks are ruined. I remember when the entrance was free... Now, there are permits, reservations, waiting lines, fast food, crowds, and trash everywhere."

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Apr 4 • 8:16 AM EDT • Technology • sg.style.yahoo.com
Scientists built a quantum battery that breaks the rules of charging

Scientists have taken a major step toward futuristic energy tech by building a working prototype of a quantum battery—one that can charge, store, and release energy using the strange rules of quantum physics instead of chemistry. This tiny, laser-powered device hints at a future where energy storage is not only faster but actually improves as systems get larger, flipping the rules of conventional batteries.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
The 5 Final Four players who wouldn't be eligible under Trump's 'Save College Sports' order

Trump college sports order explained: Which Final Four players would be ineligible under new eligibility and transfer rules.

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Apr 4 • 7:52 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Sony TCL Deal Reshapes Home Entertainment Role And Investor Focus

Sony Group (TSE:6758) has agreed to form a new home entertainment joint venture with TCL. The deal transfers a majority stake and global TV and audio product operations to TCL, including manufacturing facilities. The partnership affects Sony branded consumer TVs and audio products across key international markets. Sony Group (TSE:6758) is known for its entertainment, gaming, imaging, and consumer electronics businesses, with TVs and audio products serving as core branded offerings. The new...

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Apr 4 • 6:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Scientists discover fossils that change what we know about evolution

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth

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Apr 4 • 4:50 AM EDT • Science • independent.co.uk
France to Offer Loans to Small Businesses Hit by Fuel Costs

The French government will offer loans of as much as €50,000 ($57,600) to small businesses that are the most exposed to rising fuel costs in transportation, fishing and agriculture.

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Apr 4 • 3:08 AM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
Trump signs order aimed at reforming college sports

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday tightening the rules for eligibility and transfers in the NCAA, his latest attempt to rein in college athletics in the pay-to-play era. The order…

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Apr 3 • 10:07 PM EDT • Sports • thehill.com
Black Stripe Alert: Alabama transfer sheds black stripe

An Alabama Crimson Tide transfer becomes the fifth player to lose his black stripe this spring.

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Apr 3 • 8:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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President Trump signs executive order intended to stabilize college sports

In the order signed hours before the women's Final Four tipped off one of the biggest weekends in college sports, President Donald Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.

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Apr 3 • 8:47 PM EDT • Sports • wral.com
Game room owner says she thought business was legal following BCSO raid

Carrie Gutierrez said she was transparent from the start about her business, and said she believed it was a legal operation.

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Apr 3 • 8:24 PM EDT • Business • ksat.com
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MXene breakthrough boosts conductivity 160x with perfect atomic order

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise. Researchers have developed a cleaner, more controlled way to build these materials using molten salts and iodine, eliminating the messy chemical processes that once left their surfaces disordered. The result is a perfectly arranged atomic structure that lets electrons flow with remarkable ease, boosting conductivity by up to 160 times.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
BREAKING: AJ Ferrari will not return to Nebraska next season

Nebraska heavyweight AJ Ferrari will not return to the Huskers next season and is expected to enter the transfer portal, first reported by HuskerOnline.

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Apr 3 • 7:48 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
Teen Science Cafe/ AI in Everyday Life and Healthcare

We are excited to invite you to the Alexandria Teen Science Café on April 16, where we’ll explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the future of health. This month’s café will show you how the data behind everyday apps is being transformed into powerful tools that help solve medical challenges once considered impossible, even predicting

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Apr 3 • 7:37 PM EDT • Science • arlnow.com
Trump pushing to stabilize college sports and limit transfers

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at fixing college sports that would give federal agencies authority to cut funding at schools that don't comply.

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Apr 3 • 7:23 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Houston East End underpass floods again, drivers stranded and businesses impacted

A flood-prone underpass in Houston’s East End is once again causing problems for drivers and businesses, with neighbors saying even light rain can make the road impassable.

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Apr 3 • 6:33 PM EDT • Business • click2houston.com
Executive order aims to limit NCAA athletes to 5 years, 1 transfer

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump Friday limits NCAA athletes to a five year playing window and how often they can transfer between schools.

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Apr 3 • 5:17 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
President Trump set to sign executive order aimed at college sports, targeting transfers and eligibility

The Commander-in-Chief is advocating for limiting transfers, capping eligibility and NIL reform

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Apr 3 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Faith vs. Sports: Bulls' Jaden Ivey waived after alleged anti-NBA Pride Month remarks

Start your morning with The National News Desk as Angela Brown sits down with the co-founder of Transformation Church and Pastor Derwin Gray to discuss former C

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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Stay tuned, Cincinnati: WKRP is coming to town, N.C. station's director says

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Women’s Final Four teams reflect on the transfer portal’s impact
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Cosmic Baseball lights up Oklahoma City this weekend with unique sports twist

Fans can experience a glowing, high-energy baseball show as Cosmic Baseball transforms Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark into a neon-lit spectacle this weekend.

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A look inside the digital backbone of business

AI and data systems are transforming the modern Midwestern workplace

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Microsoft releases new AI models: competition with OpenAI ramps up

Microsoft AI has made its in-house models for transcription, speech recognition, and image generation available on Foundry.

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Why Silas Demary’s Improved Health Is So Significant For UConn In Final Four

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Sports Daily: Bill Self back for another season

KU’s biggest piece enters the transfer portal. What does it mean for the Jayhawks?

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Sports Daily: Big piece for KU enters transfer portal; Royals fall short of sweep

KU’s biggest piece enters the transfer portal. What does it mean for the Jayhawks?

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‘PlayStation 6 Is Not Many Years Away’: Leaks Suggest Sony Is Working On Imminent Generational Transition With Handheld Support and ‘PlayGo’ Smart Delivery

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How gender-affirming care is becoming a political test for top medical groups

The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth.

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PlayStation To "Enhance Gameplay Visuals" With Buyout Ahead Of PS6

SIE buys the developer of AI-based technology that can transform a photo into a "volumetric 3D experience."

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Depend on it: why external enablers are now core board business

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Sexual Healthcare for Cancer Survivors

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Public higher education is the people’s business

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Theatrical and musical delights await guests on the Queen Mary 2's transatlantic voyages

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Nebraska women’s basketball’s Petra Bozan to enter transfer portal

Nebraska women’s basketball sophomore forward Petra Bozan will enter the portal, On3’s Talia Goodman reported late Thursday night. Bozan, from Split, Croatia, started 19 games this season for the Huskers, averaging 6.6 points per game and 3.4 rebounds per game.

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The hero of the day

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Strange “elephant skin” rocks reveal ancient life in the dark ocean

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Community celebrates rural health care drone project

Representatives from Valkyrie UAS Solutions and Mid-America Transplant, in partnership with Missouri S&T, hosted a ribbon-cutting event on April 1 to commemorate the nation's first health care drone corridor.

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Texas basketball coach laments transfer portal after Iowa State mass exodus

Texas coach Vic Schaefer got emotional discussing Iowa State's Bill Fennelly and his large number of players lost to the transfer portal.

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Massachusetts heart transplant recipient's foundation offers underserved communities improved access to health care

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Iranian president in letter says Iran doesn't pose a threat to US

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Milton heart transplant recipient’s foundation helps improve health care access
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ESPN dubs DT DeSean Watts Washington's top newcomer for 2026

ESPN labeled one of Washington's most important transfers, DT DeSean Watts, as the Huskies' top newcomer for the 2026 season.

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How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animals

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How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animals

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

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2025-26 CBS Sports college basketball individual awards: Duke's Cameron Boozer is Player, Freshman of Year

Arizona's Tommy Lloyd is the Coach of the Year and Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg earned Transfer of the Year honors from CBS Sports experts

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Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.

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A Forecast of What’s Next for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science - USC Viterbi

The 20th annual Student Symposium and Showcase at the USC Viterbi Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science highlights research in AI-driven materials discovery, energy transition and biomolecular engineering.

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