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Chautauqua County Health Department Advises Residents Following Confirmed Measles Case in Erie County

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The Chautauqua County Health Department is alerting residents following confirmation of a positive measles case in Erie County, New York. Local residents may have traveled to locations visited by the infected individual.

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Jun 5 • 11:15 AM EDT • Health • chautauquacountyny.gov
Milwaukee health officials monitoring 3 who returned from Ebola-affected area

There is currently no danger to Milwaukee residents, and the risk to the American public is low.

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Jun 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • jsonline.com
E-bike safety; lung cancer treatment and prevention; keeping CMA Festival attendees safe; plus other stories with Vanderbilt Health sources

WKRN News 2 interviewed Jeffrey Upperman, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, about e-bike related injuries following the recent death of a Brentwood High student and a proposal to require safety training before students could ride a bike on a school campus in Williamson County. Fabien Maldonado, MD, MSc,Professor of Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, was on WTVF News Channel 5‘s live studio show, “Openline,” with host Ben Hall, to discuss lung cancer, treatment and prevention. WSMV’s “Today In Nashville” program hosted Vanderbilt LifeFlight paramedic/flight nurse practitioner Tony Smith to talk about safety for the CMA Festival. The New York Times reporter Carl Zimmer interviewed James Crowe, MD, Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Antibody Therapeutics, for a story about the race to find vaccines and treatments as Ebola spreads. The Vanderbilt Health News release about the pilot clinical trial conducted by Vanderbilt Health and Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc., that confirms the safety of ifetroban and supports the further development of the drug to prevent cancer metastasis, was picked up by Reuters, Stock Titan,and others. Women We Admire has named Lee Ann Liska, President and Chief Operating Officer, to its list of top women leaders of Nashville for 2026. Radiology Business, Aunt Minnie, Bioengineer, and Imaging Technology News covered the study from Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, the Mildred Thornton Stahlman Professor in Rural Health and professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, that found Black and Hispanic people, while known to be far more apt to have dementia, are significantly less apt than other racial and ethnic groups to show Alzheimer’s pathology on brain scans. STAT News interviewed Deva Sharma, MD, Transfusion Medicine & Hematology-Oncology, for a story about more patients requesting unvaccinated blood and what it means for the medical system at large. Yahoo! Health reporter Korin Miller interviewed Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, Director of Obesity Medicine, for a story about how semaglutide and tirzepatide compare. William Schaffner, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including: NBC News (new COVID vaccinations); Medscape (pneumonia and sepsis); and CNN (protection from contagious viruses). Shelbyville Times-Gazette is repurposing Jessica Pasley’s July 2025 Vanderbilt Health News story on tick-borne illnesses as a front-page story.

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Jun 5 • 10:54 AM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org
The Afghan Whigs tour tickets just dropped: How to secure eye-catching deals for limited U.S. run

With only 12 shows scheduled for the U.S., fans need to focus on securing tickets as soon as possible as the supply is expected to dwindle quickly.

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Jun 5 • 10:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • al.com
Fecteau orders Maine House investigation

The committee last met in 2021 when it voted to reprimand former Paris Rep. John Andrews, who at the time was a Libertarian, for refusing to wear a face covering on the House floor.

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Jun 5 • 10:16 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Morning Preview: A Jobs Report Surprise, Immigration Showdown and Rising Heat Risks

Today, economists and consumers are reacting to a better-than-expected job report and regulators are rethinking how schools spend billions on internet access and classroom technology. At the same time, the first major heat waves of the season are putting pressure on public health systems as summer ...

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Jun 5 • 10:02 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Port Laredo trade summit to draw global business leaders

Hundreds of trade professionals, executives and policymakers are expected to attend Laredo's inaugural Global Trade Summit in July.

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Jun 5 • 9:24 AM EDT • Business • lmtonline.com
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I've Used Starlink Every Day for 4 Years. Its Speeds Have Taken an Unexpected Turn

Years of testing Starlink from rural Idaho have transformed my home internet access, but my 2026 performance data raises new questions about speed, pricing, and priority tiers.

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Jun 5 • 9:16 AM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
‘No known exposures’ after measles detected in Brookings county child, health department says

South Dakota health officials have flagged the state’s ninth case of measles this year, according to the state Health Department.

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Jun 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • southdakotasearchlight.com
Denver Broncos roster review: OLB Dasan McCullough

While the entirety of the Denver linebacker room may be the weakest part of the defense, most of that blame can be directed to what’s happening on the interior as their outside linebackers have been one of the best parts about the defense and they come with a great amount of depth. The Broncos’ OLB […]

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Jun 5 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bengals Rookie Spotlight: Tacario Davis

Davis will be expected to help cover tight ends in year one.

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Jun 5 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Wall St Week Ahead Blockbuster SpaceX IPO set to test high-flying US stocks rally

The long-awaited, massive SpaceX initial public offering is expected next week, a major event for the U.S. stock market, with investors wary of possible overexuberance after a stunning ​rally.

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Jun 5 • 6:06 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
US Supreme Court backs federal regulators in wins for FCC and SEC

The U.S. Supreme Court in a pair of rulings backing the power of federal agencies has reaffirmed limits it previously imposed on government regulators but rejected bids by challengers to push those constraints into new territory.

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Jun 5 • 6:04 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
BOE Survey Finds Businesses Expect to Raise Prices at Faster Rate

U.K. businesses polled in May expected to raise their prices at a faster rate, but wage increases were seen slowing, according to a Bank of England survey released Friday.

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Jun 5 • 5:33 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Trump unfazed by GOP revolt as lawmakers seek political distance

The president has reacted to recent setbacks, notably the resistance of congressional Republicans, with angry defiance, saying he’ll nominate the unpopular Todd Blanche as attorney general and refusing to admit his payout fund is dead.

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Jun 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Official | Allan Saint-Maximin leaves RC Lens

Allan Saint-Maximin’s (29) exit from RC Lens has been confirmed. The Frenchman is expected to make a move to the MLS.Having joined Lens last February following the termination of his contract with M...

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Jun 5 • 4:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
JWST Measures Mass Of Most Distant Dormant Black Hole – Shattering Previous Record By 15 Times

JWST and gravitational lensing allowed scientists to resolve an area in the distant universe equivalent to looking at a "coin on the surface of the Moon."

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Jun 5 • 4:12 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
‘Star City’ Cast on Irina & Tanya’s Complex Connection

'Bad Dancer' showed several characters coming undone.

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Jun 5 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
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Charges dismissed against California woman accused of poisoning radiologist

A grand jury previously indicted dermatologist Emily Yu, MD, PhD, in 2023, charging her with four felony counts for allegedly poisoning her former husband with Drano.

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Jun 5 • 2:52 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
Bayou Phoenix project seeks public funds for New Orleans entertainment hub

Bayou Phoenix developers say they are still working on finalizing #350 million needed for the new entertainment hub, with $50 million expected to come from the public sector.

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Jun 5 • 1:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox8live.com
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has stress fracture in rib, expected to miss significant time

The Yankees said Judge is 'expected' to play again this season, but it's unclear when

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Jun 4 • 11:09 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Cubs' Edward Cabrera: Expected to start Friday

Cubs' Edward Cabrera: Expected to start Friday

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Jun 4 • 10:38 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Word on the Street: Election-night parties prove politics cures the loneliness epidemic

Watch parties, campaign friends and the ritual 8:45 p.m. vote drop create a rare sense of belonging in an increasingly disconnected age.

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Jun 4 • 7:45 PM EDT • Politics • sfexaminer.com
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From detour to diploma, Maggie House ’26 earns Business degree

Maggie House '26 returned to Columbia College, earned her Business degree and transformed a detour into a success story.

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Jun 4 • 5:25 PM EDT • Business • connected.ccis.edu
Eastern Kentucky addiction, behavior health center owner indicted on federal charges in fraud scheme

Timmy G. Robinson Jr. faces one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering in a scheme to allegedly defraud two potential buyers of a multi-million dollar Employee Retention Credit offered to certain employers by the Internal Revenue Service, who paid workers qualified wages during and were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jun 4 • 4:19 PM EDT • Health • wymt.com
Eastern Kentucky addiction, behavior health center owner indicted on federal charges in fraud scheme

Timmy G. Robinson Jr. faces one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering in a scheme to allegedly defraud two potential buyers of a multi-million dollar Employee Retention Credit offered to certain employers by the Internal Revenue Service, who paid workers qualified wages during and were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jun 4 • 4:19 PM EDT • Health • wkyt.com
Three Materials Science PhD Students Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - USC Viterbi

The prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) supports emerging researchers who demonstrate exceptional potential to advance science and engineering

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Jun 4 • 4:03 PM EDT • Science • viterbischool.usc.edu
Samsung Health app is getting a big AI-centric redesign ahead of Galaxy Watch 9 [Gallery]

Samsung is expected to launch its new Galaxy Watch 9 next month and, ahead of that, the Samsung Health app...

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Jun 4 • 3:45 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
4 things to know about Obama's new presidential museum

Here’s a closer look at the top attractions of the campus that is expected to draw as many as 1 million visitors annually.

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Jun 4 • 3:39 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
How Travis, Jason Kelce Reacted To Patriots' A.J. Brown Trade

Jason's former team, the Philadelphia Eagles, sent A.J. Brown to the New England Patriots.

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Jun 4 • 3:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Expect the unexpected: “Big Brother Canada” is being revived with new host

The show previously ran for 12 seasons with Arisa Cox as host.

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Jun 4 • 3:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Ford recall tells owners not to drive certain Bronco Sports, Mavericks

Dealers are being instructed to contact vehicle owners to warn them not to drive the vehicle.

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Jun 4 • 3:03 PM EDT • Sports • detroitnews.com
Trump says he plans to attend G7 summit, shortly after UFC event at White House

In a video posted to TikTok, the president likened the UFC arena being constructed to Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower

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Jun 4 • 2:40 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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AHN replacing Canonsburg hospital in Cecil’s Southpointe II business park

Allegheny Health Network announced Thursday that it’s building a new hospital in Cecil to replace its aging Canonsburg hospital — a major investment in the fast-growing area of Washington County. Construction is expected to start in early 2027 with an anticipated opening in 2029. The roughly 150,000-square-foot facility will sit

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Jun 4 • 1:36 PM EDT • Business • triblive.com
Rare type of Lyme disease found for the first time in New York

The bacteria, which can cause more severe symptoms, have only been detected in the upper Midwest.

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Jun 4 • 1:21 PM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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AOC-backed Dem connected to Twin Towers bombing terrorist faces congressional pressure after primary win

Rep. Michael Lawler says he will seek a full investigation of Democratic primary winner Adam Hamawy over his ties to Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman.

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Jun 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
How to Improve Your Gut Health (and Why It’s So Important)

Almost 40% of Americans say their daily lives are affected by their bowel habits so Dr. Trisha Pasricha, author and a director of gut-brain research, joins TODAY to break down why gut health is so important. She explains how your gut is responsible for regulating metabolism, immune health, and mood, highlights signs to know if your gut is healthy, and shares ways to improve gut health like eating more fiber.

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Jun 4 • 9:33 AM EDT • Health • today.com
First US screwworm case in 60 years: Should America be worried?

The US Department of Agriculture says New World screwworm has been detected in a Texas calf.

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Jun 4 • 9:05 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
James Comey Interview: 'Justice Can't Be a Political Force'

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

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Jun 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • rollingstone.com
Detroit Lions QB Teddy Bridgewater Disrespected by Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated ranked Detroit Lions backup Teddy Bridgewater No. 21 among NFL backup quarterbacks entering the 2026 season.

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Jun 4 • 8:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
More Americans own wearables, connected health devices: survey

Many adults are sharing device data with their providers too. But users are typically healthier and wealthier, suggesting people who could benefit the most from health monitoring are less likely to adopt the tools, according to Rock Health.

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Jun 4 • 8:26 AM EDT • Health • healthcaredive.com
Domino's Pizza Wades Into God of War Laufey No Kratos Discourse, Sparks Spicy Replies

The reveal of God of War Laufey has sparked a vociferous debate coming out of State of Play, and while the internet has plenty of opinions about this first game in the franchise to star Faye as the main character, criticism has also come from an unexpected sauce: Domino's Pizza.

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Jun 4 • 8:04 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection

Scientists examining amber from Goethe’s personal collection discovered three hidden fossil insects, including an extinct ant preserved in extraordinary detail. Advanced 3D imaging allowed researchers to see not only the ant’s outer features but also structures inside its body. The findings offer new clues about the species’ biology and suggest it likely built large nests in trees.

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Jun 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Armed clashes erupt in Somalia’s capital ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration

Opposition figures say the rally planned for Thursday was intended to protest what they call constitutional violations and efforts by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to extend his tenure. The government has rejected those allegations.

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Jun 4 • 5:59 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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LiveOne Expands Partnership With AT&T, Cisco For Connected-Car Entertainment.

LiveOne has announced an expanded collaboration with AT&T and Cisco aimed at supporting next-generation in-vehicle entertainment through AT&T’s Connected Car platform. Under the agreement, automotive manufacturers will be able to

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Jun 4 • 2:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • insideradio.com
Spain vs Iraq – Predicted lineup and team news

Spain host Iraq at the Estadio Abanca-Riazor on Thursday evening to commence their final World Cup warm-up campaign.The reigning European champions enter the tournament as one of the definitive favour...

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Jun 4 • 2:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rabies Makes Its Return to Wyoming - Wyoming Department of Health

As summer approaches and temperatures rise, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is warning residents about wild animals that may carry rabies. The most common carriers of rabies in our state are bats and skunks, but any mammal can be infected with rabies, including humans. The first confirmed case of rabies for 2026 occurred […]

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Jun 3 • 6:32 PM EDT • Health • health.wyo.gov
Caleb Williams strikes jump-throw pose for Madden NFL 27 cover

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has been announced as EA Sports’ cover athlete for Madden NFL 27. On the standard cover, Williams is depicted in a position similar to his

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Jun 3 • 5:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani Leads National League Second MVP Poll

As expected, the Los Angeles Dodgers' two-way star Shohei Ohtani is leading the MVP polls.

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Jun 3 • 5:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Saints RB Alvin Kamara makes surprise OTA appearance

Despite offseason speculation surrounding his future, the veteran unexpectedly appeared at the facility on Wednesday for practice.

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Jun 3 • 4:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Patriots star defenders' initial reactions to A.J. Brown joining team

How Patriots safety Kevin Byard and Milton Williams reacted to A.J. Brown being traded to New England.

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Jun 3 • 4:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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WATCH LIVE: House expected to vote on Iran war powers bill
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Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here’s why scientists are enthusiastic.

Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, in an effort to reduce mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus.

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Jun 3 • 3:40 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
REV launches new communications platform for businesses

REV Fiber for Business has launched a cloud-based communications platform designed to help employees collaborate and stay connected with customers through a single mobile and desktop application. “As workplace communication needs evolve from traditional offices to hybrid and remote environments, our business customers need platforms that remove friction,” Tressy Leindecker, REV’s executive vice president of […]

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Jun 3 • 3:24 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
From The Sports Desk: Vegas stuns Carolina in Game 1 to open Stanley Cup Final

Plus, the San Antonio Spurs are in the NBA Finals earlier than anyone expected, and Croatia’s Luka Modrić is today’s World Cup spotlight.

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Jun 3 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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UM-Health Sparrow moving to outsource nearly 400 employees

A union rep for the affected workers, who make about $16 to $25 an hour, said concerns about pay and benefits are abundant.

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Jun 3 • 2:40 PM EDT • Health • lansingstatejournal.com
Jennifer Garner reveals how 'upheaval' from Ben Affleck divorce impacted her career

Jennifer Garner says the end of her marriage to Ben Affleck led to such an 'upheaval' in her family life that she 'hardly worked' for years.

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Jun 3 • 2:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers' wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring makaer Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

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Jun 3 • 1:30 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People "Addicted" to Its AI

Microsoft explicitly says it wants to "make people addicted" to its new AI personal assistant agent in internal documents.

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Jun 3 • 1:04 PM EDT • Technology • futurism.com
‘Euphoria’ Star Darrell Britt-Gibson Breaks Down Bishop’s Betrayal of Alamo

Darrell Britt-Gibson peels back the layers of his mysterious character.

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Jun 3 • 12:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
West Nile virus detected in south central Ottawa County, health officials confirm

West Nile virus has been detected in Ottawa County.

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Jun 3 • 12:14 PM EDT • Health • wwmt.com
UW Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Needs Assessment of Wyoming’s Out

The University of Wyoming Jay Kemmerer Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality (WORTH) Institute released the first comprehensive outdoor business needs assessment ever conducted for the s

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Jun 3 • 11:44 AM EDT • Business • uwyo.edu
Reps. Mejia, Cleaver Demand Trump Administration Automatically Refund Illegal Tariffs Collected from U.S. Small Businesses and Provide Refunds to American Consumers

Reps. Mejia, Cleaver Demand Trump Administration Automatically Refund Illegal Tariffs Collected from U.S. Small Businesses and Provide Refunds to American Consumers Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) and Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) led dozens of lawmakers in demanding the Trump administration make consumers eligible for tariff refunds and implement an automatic refund[...]

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Jun 3 • 11:21 AM EDT • Business • insidernj.com
Milwaukee Brewers: 2026 team continues to defy conventional logic

Every year, the story repeats: the Milwaukee Brewers are projected to be around .500 at the end of the year. Their tendency to trade away top talent is going to catch up to them. They will maybe win 80 games, but there is no way that they will be one of the best teams in [...]

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Jun 3 • 11:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pixel 11 leak reveals all the official wallpapers arriving with this year's phone series

Ahead of an expected August launch, the official wallpapers for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 series has leaked.

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Jun 3 • 10:54 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Caleb Durbin Finally Playing Like Player Red Sox Expected

The Boston Red Sox acquired Caleb Durbin in the offseason, but he got off to a very slow start to the season.

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Jun 3 • 10:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
May's top PlayStation games by copies sold

Yesterday’s State of Play gave us an idea of where PlayStation’s heading next. But we’ve had our May estimates for a couple of days now (we always update our data daily for clients), so it’s time to look at what performed best on PlayStation last month. We’ve got a new IP at the top, two evergreens doing their evergreen thing, FC26 smashing it ahead of the World Cup Plus pivot, and a quiet but promising result for Lego Batman. Let’s have a look at the state of Play…Station’s top games for May. 007 takes #001 007 First Light sold 1M copies on PS5 in May, easily making it the month’s top PS5 game by copies sold. Over 80% of those May copies were digital, which is broadly in line with where PlayStation’s digital share has settled for new releases this year. To date, 007 First Light has sold through 2.2M copies across platforms (so no unsold retail copies in that figure). The platform split is 55.1% PS5, 33.1% Steam, and 11.8% Xbox (console, Windows, and cloud combined). In gross revenue terms, 007 First Light has generated $150M. Owing to regional pricing and audience composition differences, the consoles make up a higher share of revenue than they do copies. Of the $150M, 60.5% came via PlayStation, 27.6% via Steam, and 12.9% via Xbox. Part of this is because over two-thirds of 007 First Light‘s PlayStation audience is in North America (43.4%) or Western Europe (23.2%), where local currency means the game generates more revenue per player. On Steam, under half of First Light‘s audience is from those same regions (31.8% North America, 15.1% Western Europe). As we covered in last week’s 007 Steam piece, the Steam version is pulling in higher-than-expected numbers in China, which now accounts for 17.3% of First Light‘s Steam audience. 007 is the equivalent of $44 USD in China, which is roughly 37% cheaper than the US price and about 44% cheaper than Western Europe. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe The crossover data backs up what we’ve seen all year about launch-window cohorts. 11% of PS5 players who played 007 First Light in May also played Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, which launched just a few days before. Last month was a great month for Denmark! IO Interactive is Copenhagen-based, and Lego Group is headquartered in Billund (TT Games is UK-based but produces work under Lego Group licence and direction). Speaking of which… A very blocky #2 and #3 Minecraft sold another 788K copies on PlayStation consoles last month. Business as usual, since Minecraft hasn’t sold fewer than 760K copies in a single month all year. With over 350M copies sold across all platforms, Minecraft is the best-selling game in history and one of the strongest brands in the world. Every month, a new cohort of children reaches Minecraft age, which guarantees a constant volume of new sales regardless of what the broader market is up to. The demographic refresh rate is truly impressive, with the audience renewing itself faster than it’s churning. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight shifted 757K copies on PS5 last month, bringing its lifetime total on the platform to over 800K. Across all platforms, Legacy of the Dark Knight has now passed 1.5M sold through, so PlayStation accounts for over half of the game’s players. The May crossover data for Legacy of the Dark Knight on PS5 is also useful. 27% of those players also played Fortnite, 16% Roblox, 16% FC 26, and 14% NBA 2K. That’s the household-and-family cohort showing up, plus the launch-window cohort of core gamers who buy practically everything. FC 26 gets players through the door ahead of the World Cup FC 26 sold 411K copies on PlayStation last month (90% via PS5), the fewest copies FC 26 has sold all year and down heavily from April’s 700K. Part of this dropoff is because FC 26 has been available as a PlayStation Plus monthly game since 6 May, cannibalising premium sales. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe The strategic logic is straightforward for EA, which is sacrificing premium unit sales in May to build up the player base ahead of the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on 11 June. Obviously, a bigger player pool going into the tournament means a bigger pool of potential Ultimate Team spenders during the period when football attention is at its peak. The early returns are around what you’d expect, with 4.4M new players accessing FC 26 via PS Plus last month – a substantial new spender pool. Anecdotally, a few of my mates who were ‘’skipping FIFA and Ultimate Team this year’’, were drawn back in via PS Plus. Lo and behold, one of them is buying packs like it’s going out of fashion. Whether this is all a smart trade for EA depends entirely on the Ultimate Team conversion rate over the next six weeks. Either way, the short-term engagement impact on the game as a whole is evident. FC 26‘s MAUs hit a record 24M on PlayStation in May, up 30% from the previous record set in April. GTA V does what GTA V always does Rounding out the top five is another evergreen title. Grand Theft Auto V shifted another 387K copies on PlayStation last month. No matter what else is happening in the industry, GTA V keeps pulling players in. It’s sold another 1.8M copies on PS5 in the first half of this year alone, helping the franchise pass the 230M-sold milestone across all platforms. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe I have a theory that Minecraft and GTA V are doing the same thing at different demographic levels. Both are functioning as generational gateway games that the audience ages into faster than it ages out of. Minecraft captures kids around age 6-10, GTA V captures much of the same audience around age 12-15 (unofficially, of course). The crossover data suggests this: 40% of GTA V‘s monthly PlayStation players typically play Fortnite in any given month, while 30% play Roblox. Household accounts aside, that’s not the original GTA V audience from 2013. Of course, the under-12 audience would love to get their hands on GTA, too. It’s always been the way of things, and some parents are happy to oblige. Mine did too back in the day, and I turned out just fine. Right? Right!? Want to get your hands on our data for yourself – for free? We’re offering a free trial of our platform for games companies. Send us a message here, or reply to this email, and we’ll set you up. The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

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Jun 3 • 10:49 AM EDT • Technology • alineaanalytics.substack.com
The Trump Administration Has Launched Its Biggest Threat Yet to Scientific Research. We Can Stop Them.

Last week, the White House released draft regulations that—if enacted—will upend US science as we know it. Under the rule proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), political appointees would have the final say over who gets billions of dollars of federal funding for res

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AT&T Expands Connected Car™ Platform with LiveOne and Cisco

AT&T announces collaboration, which simplifies how automakers integrate connectivity, billing, and premium audio content, at AutoTech Detroit.

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Jun 3 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • about.att.com
Roma considering loan for Vaz and Dovbyk

Tony D’Amico’s arrival as Roma’s new Sporting Director is now a matter of hours. The official announcement is expected between today and tomorrow, and he will immediately have to address several...

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Jun 3 • 8:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
George Santos reported to DOJ over suspicious Kalshi trades, AP source says

The prediction marketplace Kalshi detected trades made by Santos ahead of Trump's Feb. 24 speech

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Jun 3 • 7:38 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
George Santos reported to DOJ over suspicious Kalshi trades, AP source says

The prediction marketplace Kalshi detected trades made by Santos ahead of Trump's Feb. 24 speech

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Jun 3 • 7:38 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
'Grangeville' review: Samuel D. Hunter play grapples with fraught past

The Idaho-set play has its West Coast premiere at Ruskin Group Theatre in a production directed by John Perrin Flynn and starring Tim Cummings and Jeff LeBeau.

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Jun 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
COMMENTARY: Politics and failure

Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. Yet politicians, Democrats and Republicans, continue to get re-elected.

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Jun 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • newstribune.com
Top Georgia politicians rake in cash as lawsuits that could stop them drag

A handful of Georgia politicians raked in millions of dollars during the recent legislative session while most elected officials were prohibited from raising money.

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Jun 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • ajc.com
President Trump seeks control of science funding

The White House and the Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars federal grants. This move has implications for areas as broad as housing and transportation, but science and health would be the most significantly impacted. Scientists and advocates say if it goes into effect, the change would jeopardize the integrity of science in the United States.

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Jun 3 • 4:39 AM EDT • Science • southcarolinapublicradio.org
Factorial Raises $150 Million to Expand AI Agents in Business Software

Venture-capital firm General Catalyst led the funding round—that also attracted interest from Atomico and Four Rivers—as AI reshapes the business-management software market.

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Jun 3 • 4:07 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Bitter GOP primary for South Dakota governor heading to runoff as businessman Toby Doeden projected to advance

Businessman and self-described outsider Toby Doeden will advance to a runoff for the GOP nomination for South Dakota governor, CBS News has projected, after a competitive and frequently contentious primary.

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Jun 3 • 2:56 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Fixing in sport: ‘I don’t want to get us killed’ – How suspected cartel money corrupted Australian soccer

The Athletic's eight-month investigation into fixing details the way a group of Australian players were corrupted

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Jun 3 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
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Steph Ruhle: MASSIVE checks for politics are “only getting bigger”

For billionaires to "write big checks right now, it's like water. When you think about the amount of money in AI, in crypto, even in finance right now, they're writing such giant checks because they know from a Donald Trump presidency you can't just influence politics, you can control it." Stephanie Ruhle breaks down why sums of money injected into politics are only getting larger.

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Jun 2 • 11:00 PM EDT • Politics • ms.now
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use voting map favoring GOP

The high court rejected a lower court’s ruling that Alabama discriminated on the basis of race when it drew its preferred map.

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Jun 2 • 10:17 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
10 TV shows that dared to kill off their main character

From "Breaking Bad" to "Charmed," these shows didn't pull their punches when it came to doing away with their leads.

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Jun 2 • 7:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
FDA highlights recall of certain Impella introducer kits after 3 injuries

This latest recall was put in place due to an increased risk of blood clots developing during use. Only a small number of hospitals are affected.

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Jun 2 • 7:11 PM EDT • Business • cardiovascularbusiness.com
Juneau Costco shipping changes expected to hurt Southeast small businesses

For years, Juneau’s Costco has offered a specialized shipping service for members in outlying communities that many small business owners relied on. But that’s changing Sunday, June 7.

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Jun 2 • 6:52 PM EDT • Business • alaskapublic.org
Silent Hill: Townfall launches September 24 on PS5

More on the horror’s narrative driven puzzles, characters, and PS5 features as pre-orders go live.

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Jun 2 • 5:38 PM EDT • Technology • blog.playstation.com
Alphonso Davies confirms he'll miss Canada's World Cup opener

Canada will have to manage without Bayern Munich star Alphonso Davies for their World Cup opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12.As expected, Davies will sit out the match as he continues to...

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Jun 2 • 5:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
GitLab Stock Rises as the Software Company Raises Guidance on AI Business Momentum

GitLab stock rises after the software company reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings and raised full-fiscal year guidance.

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Jun 2 • 4:38 PM EDT • Business • barrons.com
Albert Mohler says recurring health episodes are manageable, not life-threatening

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler said Monday that recurring medical episodes that have affected him during recent public speaking appearances are related to complications from previous surgeries and are not life-threatening.

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Jun 2 • 4:25 PM EDT • Health • baptistpress.com
DeVonta Smith on A.J. Brown trade: We had a great time here, business is business

Eagles wide receiver DeVonta Smith said in early May that he was focused on doing his job when asked about the expected trade of A.J.

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Jun 2 • 3:53 PM EDT • Business • nbcsports.com
Libertarian Ted Brown courts disaffected conservative voters in Texas’ U.S. Senate race

Brown received more than 267,000 votes in the 2024 Senate race, a record for a Libertarian candidate. He sees an opening this year with Republican voters who are reluctant to support the party’s nominee for the November election, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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Jun 2 • 3:14 PM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Mercy’s Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences Welcomes New President

Pamela Slaven-Lee will lead Mercy's Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Cape Girardeau as its new president, as selected by the college's Board of Trustees.

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Jun 2 • 2:58 PM EDT • Health • mercy.net
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

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Jun 2 • 2:46 PM EDT • Technology • 404media.co
US CDC Flags Health Risks Linked to Travel-Related Cosmetic Procedures

June 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for ⁠Disease ⁠Control and Prevention said on ⁠Tuesday that many Americans suffered serious complications — including bacterial infections and, in some cases, death — after traveling within the country and ‌abroad for cosmetic procedures. The agency ‌cited a study ...

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Jun 2 • 1:16 PM EDT • Health • usnews.com
WVU Health System, Independence Health System merger expected to close in the fall

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Health System, WVU Medicine and Independence Health System have signed a definitive agreement that will lead to the acquisition by the WVU Health System. Pending regulatory approvals the transaction is expected to close in the fall of 2026. Since preliminary plans were announced last fall, WVU Health System

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Jun 2 • 11:17 AM EDT • Health • wvmetronews.com
Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability

The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.

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Jun 2 • 11:03 AM EDT • Technology • 404media.co
How Science Works

The 2nd Weather and Climate Livestream is now underway. It is organized by a group of early-career researchers concerned about declining funding for the field and eager to demonstrate how weather and climate research makes a difference in our lives. Last year’s event was a great success, drawing terrific press coverage including a piece in the NY Times. This year features a strong lineup of talks aimed at a general audience — I highly recommend tuning in. Share I gave a talk yesterday about How Science Works in Three Steps. You can see the short presentation here (I’ve appended a transcript below): And please tune into the livestream here. It runs through tomorrow at 6 pm ET. Thanks for reading The Climate Brink! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Cleaned up transcript: Thank you, and thanks to everyone tuning in. I want to talk about something I think a lot of people don’t really understand: how science actually works. Arguments over any scientific topic — climate change, vaccines, you name it — revolve around competing claims. For climate change, the claims are: Is the Earth warming? Are humans to blame? What will the impacts be? Over the last 150 years, the scientific community has developed a remarkably robust method for sorting out which claims are true and which aren’t. That method is what I want to walk through. So how does science generate knowledge? If you ask a high schooler, they’ll give you the version they learned in ninth grade: an individual scientist forms a hypothesis, runs an experiment, and draws a conclusion. That’s more or less what happens at the individual level, though in practice it’s more iterative — you design, test, and refine all at once, landing on a slightly different idea each time until you reach a conclusion about whatever hypothesis you’ve ended up with. But this isn’t science. It’s only step one. Any individual scientist can make mistakes — scientists are human. Maybe there’s a bug in the code, maybe there’s an error in the experiment. Just because someone ran an experiment and reached a conclusion doesn’t mean it’s right, and scientists don’t treat a single result as settled truth. Step two is peer review, the first layer of quality control. The scientist writes up what they did and submits it to a journal, which sends the paper to other experts in the field. Those experts judge whether the methods are sound, whether it properly references prior work, and whether the conclusions actually follow from the data. Ask any scientist and they’ll tell you peer review is miserable — the comments come back brutal, often harsh, and you have to revise and resubmit, sometimes multiple times, before an editor finally accepts the paper. Peer review catches an immense amount of bad science, but it can’t catch all of it. Reviewers get sloppy or overworked, they miss obvious mistakes, and they can’t catch hidden errors — a bug in the code, a misread instrument. So a peer-reviewed paper making it into a journal doesn’t mean the paper is right. Nobody treats a single paper as the final word. That’s where step three comes in: the crucible of science. Important results get retested by the broader community. If you publish something interesting, it gets dissected. Sometimes people try to reproduce your work directly but more often they test its implications. If someone claims X is true, and that implies that Y is also true, then scientists will go check Y. If a claim survives this gauntlet long enough, it becomes accepted. That’s how we generate knowledge. Let me give an example: the ozone hole. In 1985 — and I doubt many people watching were around then, but I remember it well — Joe Farman and his colleagues published observations from Antarctica showing that a huge chunk of ozone was disappearing every year. This was shocking because most atmospheric chemists had expected ozone loss to occur at mid-latitudes and high altitudes, not over the South Pole. When scientists see something they don’t understand, they rush to explain it, and several competing hypotheses quickly appeared in the peer-reviewed literature. One pointed to chlorine chemistry from chlorofluorocarbons. A second blamed nitrogen chemistry, possibly driven by solar proton events — meaning the sun was responsible. A third argued it wasn’t chemistry at all but dynamics: winds were carrying naturally low-ozone air from the lower atmosphere up into the stratosphere. Then the community went to work testing which theory could survive the crucible. Aircraft flew into the ozone hole and found no nitrogen, ruling out the nitrogen theory. Measurements showed the air in the polar vortex was descending, not rising — which would bring high-ozone air down, eliminating the dynamics theory. Meanwhile, those same flights measured enormous amounts of chlorine, strongly correlated with exactly the regions where ozone was being destroyed. That became known as the “smoking gun” paper, and it established that chlorine chemistry was the cause. Through this process, a consensus emerged. And it’s worth being clear that this consensus is organic. There’s no vote, no poll, no meeting where it gets decided. Scientists go to conferences, talk to one another, and independently arrived at the same answer. It’s the ultimate free market of ideas. After the consensus was established, the peer-reviewed literature doesn’t even mention the rival theories — it simply takes chlorine chemistry as given. That’s what a consensus looks like. It doesn’t mean every single scientist agrees, but it does mean there’s no longer any legitimate debate. So where can you see what scientists actually think? It’s all in the peer-reviewed literature, which contains the entire historical record of the argument: the discovery, the competing theories, the debate, the testing, and finally the community coalescing around one answer. But there’s a lot of room for misrepresentation. You can dig up an old paper claiming the ozone hole was caused by dynamics and wave it around as if there still was a debate about the cause of the ozone hole — without mentioning that the idea was disproven long ago and that even its own authors no longer believe it. There’s a bigger problem, though: the peer-reviewed literature is written in a language I call “nerd.” It’s extremely hard to read — honestly, some of it is hard for me to follow. It takes graduate students years to work through the literature in a single field, so we can’t expect policymakers or ordinary people to do it. This is where scientific assessments come in. The most famous is the IPCC — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The job of an assessment is to read and summarize the peer-reviewed literature, synthesizing what’s settled, what’s been disproven, and what remains genuinely debated. To ensure the assessments accurately summarize the peer-reviewed literature, assessments are written by large teams, which are far less prone to bias than individuals and which dilute the influence of any one scientist with an axe to grind. The teams are deliberately assembled to avoid stacking the deck, and the reports themselves go through multiple rounds of peer review. That rigorous process is exactly why you can trust them and why people consider the IPCC to be the gold standard of what we know about the climate system. An assessment produced through a different process may well not be credible. You can even watch the consensus evolve across assessments. Take the attribution of warming. The 1990 IPCC report said the observed warming was broadly consistent with model predictions but also comparable to natural variability — in other words, we don’t know whether humans are responsible. By 1995, it concluded that the balance of evidence suggested a discernible human influence — a sentence only a committee could write, and one that barely commits to anything. By 2001, most of the warming over the previous 50 years was judged “likely” due to greenhouse gases; by 2007, “very likely”; by 2013, “extremely likely.” The 2023 report says essentially the same as 2013 — there’s not much stronger language available. So, to wrap up: science is our ultimate tool for deciphering the universe — the most successful method we’ve ever developed for determining what’s true and what isn’t. Our understanding is written into the peer-reviewed literature, so if you want to know what scientists think, that’s where to look. And for those of us who don’t speak nerd, scientific assessments are the Rosetta Stone — they translate nerd into English. Let me open the floor to questions. Thank you.

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Jun 2 • 10:35 AM EDT • Science • theclimatebrink.com
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Melinda French Gates Just Made a Massive, Unexpected Move Into Professional Sports

Yesterday, the philanthropist announced that she would join a popular organization as a minority investor.

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Jun 2 • 10:35 AM EDT • Sports • inc.com
Global Live Entertainment Market Size/Share Worth USD 859 Billion by 2034 at a 5.4% CAGR: Custom Market Insights (Analysis, Outlook, Leaders, Report, Trends, Forecast, Segmentation, Growth, Growth Rate, Value)

[220+ Pages Latest Report] According to a market research study published by Custom Market Insights, the demand analysis of Global Live Entertainment Market size & share revenue was valued at approximately USD 465.9 Billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 535.4 Billion in 2025 and is expected to reach around USD 859 Billion by 2034, at a CAGR of 5.4% between 2025 and 2034. The key market players listed in the report with their sales, revenues and strategies are GrupEventoplus, Acciona Cultu

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WFMS Educator Named STANYS Middle School Science Teacher of the Year

Kyle Maurelli, a biology teacher at William Floyd Middle School, has been selected as the Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) Middle Level Science Teacher of the Year for Suffolk County!

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The work you can't always see: Beer is political, part 2

Recently I published a piece about beer, politics, and the question of who speaks up and who doesn’t. I meant every word of it. I still do. And then my inbox opened up. Cleveland Prost is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe I’ve been writing about beer since 2014. For most of that time, I kept things deliberately light — taproom profiles, new releases, the people behind the pints. Gradually, over years of building this thing, you gave me something I didn’t expect: permission. Permission to go deeper. To say what I actually saw in this industry and what I actually believed about it. That trust isn’t something I take lightly. It’s why that piece existed at all, and it’s why this one does too. I’m not walking anything back. But I want to go further. In that piece, I wrote that beer has never existed outside the system. That immigration policy affects who staffs breweries and harvests ingredients. That labor policy affects taproom workers. That civil rights policy affects who feels safe walking into a taproom. That “beer does not exist in a vacuum. The idea that it does is comforting. It is also false.” I believe that as much now as I did when I wrote it. But one idea came back at me, in different forms, over and over (from reader emails, comments, and conversations): that beer itself isn’t political — that it only becomes political when someone decides to make it that way. That what we’re really seeing is a choice by individuals to inject division into something that doesn’t inherently require it. It’s a comforting idea. It’s also wrong — and I think it’s worth being precise about why. That framing assumes that breweries operate outside the conditions shaping everything else. That politics is something you choose to bring into a room that was, until then, clean and neutral. That if you stay quiet, you stay clear of it. But the room was never neutral. It was never clean. Politics is already in the room. It’s in who walks through the door comfortably and who hesitates. It’s in whether a space can be used for organizing without fear. It’s in whether helping someone quietly might carry consequences you have to think carefully about in advance. It’s in who staffed the brewery, who harvested the grain, who can afford to be a regular. The idea that you opt out of all that by staying quiet is an illusion. You only change how visible your response to it is. This is, I realize, a hard thing to hear if you came to a beer newsletter for something lighter. I wrote recently that “beer, for me, has always felt like a refuge — a third place in an increasingly fractured world.” I meant that. I still do. But a refuge is not an escape from reality. It’s a place to gather strength to face it. Here’s what I actually missed — and what I want to correct. Multiple people in the industry reached out to me. I’m not naming them and I’m not identifying their businesses, because that’s not my call. If and when they want to be loud about what they’re doing, that agency belongs to them. What I can share is the substance of what they said, because it complicated something I presented too cleanly. The overall message: *You don’t know what we all are doing.* And they’re right. I don’t. One example involved a collaboration brewed quietly to support another business facing serious challenges in a whole different region, with proceeds directed toward solidarity, community, and keeping operations afloat. No announcement. It could have been broadcast widely. The point was never publicity. Another example involved logistical support for community efforts: organizing safe transportation, providing space for meetings on otherwise closed days, facilitating gatherings under difficult conditions. All of it happening while balancing real financial pressure and genuine concern for personal safety. None of what they described is a brewer “deciding to make beer political.” It’s people responding to the conditions around them — conditions that are already shaping who feels safe, who has access, who can gather, who needs help, and who has the capacity to offer it. Politics, again, already in the room. Already shaping choices. Whether anyone announced it or not. I’ve spent decades in taprooms, at barrel releases, at festivals, in back offices and brewing floors, talking to the people who built this industry from nothing. I know how much happens that never makes it onto social media. I know the owner who quietly comp’d a tab for someone having a crisis. The brewer who drove an hour to pick up a stranger who needed a safe ride. The taproom that stayed dark on a Tuesday so a community group could use the space without it becoming A Whole Thing. None of that gets a post. Most of it never will. So when I wrote recently about silence — when I said that “silence right now doesn’t feel neutral, it feels like complicity” — I was writing about what I could see. And I was right about what I saw. The public silence of breweries that have the platform, the stability, and frankly the safety to say something and choose not to? That still troubles me. I’m not softening that. But some of what I read as silence is actually something else entirely. It’s people doing the work with their hands instead of their phones. It’s people who are genuinely afraid — not of being canceled, but of real consequences for their families, their employees, their ability to keep the doors open at all. That deserves more than a footnote. It deserves to be named clearly. Here’s the tension I want to sit with honestly: public statements matter. They matter because people can’t rally around something they can’t see. Visibility creates awareness and solidarity. It helps people find each other. It tells someone standing outside your taproom door, uncertain whether they’ll be welcomed inside, something they need to know — or whether it’s even safe for them to be in public at all. That’s not performative. I wrote recently that the craft beer movement “was built on collective defiance. It was built on rejecting consolidation. On pushing back against homogeneity.” I believe that too. And I’ll extend it: breweries should be at least as loud about their values as they are when they drop a new seasonal. Your hazy IPA gets a full rollout — the label art, the tap handle photo, the countdown post. Human dignity deserves the same energy. Be as loud about human rights as you are about your beer. There is no reason those two things should require different levels of courage from you. But visibility isn’t the only form of courage. And not everyone can be visible right now without real consequences — financial, personal, sometimes physical. There are people in this industry doing hard, unglamorous, sometimes risky work in the background, and announcing it would compromise it or paint a target on someone who’s already stretched thin. That’s not silence as complicity. That’s operational discipline under pressure. What I want to push back on — clearly, not gently — is the idea that behind-the-scenes action and public visibility are in competition with each other. The person organizing quietly in the back room and the person posting a statement of solidarity on a Tuesday morning are both doing something real. We need both. We need the quiet infrastructure and we need the visible signal. We need people to know that this industry — at its best, at its most independent, and human — gives a fuck. I closed that piece with a question: “Reactive and fearful? Or clear and values-driven?” That question still stands. But having heard from you, I’d add a corollary: the values-driven path isn’t always the loudest one. Sometimes it’s a phone call and a recipe. Sometimes it’s a room made available on a closed Tuesday. Sometimes it’s a drive across town for someone who needed a safe ride home. All of it is political. All of it was always political. You don’t get to opt out of that — you only get to decide what you do with it. I’ve spent more than a decade writing about this industry because I believe it can be exactly that. I’ve been lucky enough to build an audience that lets me say so plainly. That’s a privilege I intend to use. The work is happening. Some of it you’ll see. Some of it you won’t. Support it either way. Cleveland Prost is a reader-supported publication covering beer and brewing across New York state. To receive new posts and support this work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Cleveland Prost is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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