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Environmental Science Classes Earn Eco-Educator Award — Central Catholic High School

Central Catholic’s AP Environmental Science classes recently earned the Eco-Educator Award from the S.A.V.E. (Science Alliance for Valuing the Environment) Foundation. The S.A.V.E. Eco-Educator Award is a regional honor celebrating Toledo-area teachers who exhibit a strong commitment to en

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May 19 • 2:06 PM EDT • Science • centralcatholic.org
Spark Science Center ignites curiosity with interactive exhibits and hands-on fun

The new Spark Science Center is full of exhibits that feature STEAM; science, technology, engineering, arts, and math...

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May 19 • 12:34 PM EDT • Science • ktxs.com
The art of science on display at Analog Wine Bar

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology’s Art of Science program has a new show up at Analog Wine Bar, and it’s one of those quiet, sneaky-smart exhibits that rewards a second glass and ...

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May 19 • 8:30 AM EDT • Science • smilepolitely.com
May Fair Draws Crowds for Four Days of Entertainment

The Dixon May Fair returned May 7-10 for its 149th rendition, bringing carnival rides, live music, livestock exhibitions and community traditions to Northern California’s oldest fair.

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May 19 • 6:29 AM EDT • Entertainment • independentvoice.com
New Exhibit at International Museum of Surgical Science Highlights Role of Filipino Nurses in Healthcare

“Unheard Voices of Care: Filipino Nurses in America” runs until Aug. 2 at the International Museum of Surgical Science. The exhibit highlights stories of Filipino nurses from the 1940s to present day.

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May 18 • 3:57 PM EDT • Science • news.wttw.com
New MatterChat Model Helps AI to ‘See’ the Language of Science

From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high-resolution, three-dimensional data of the physical world, like the intricate lattice of atoms in a crystal. Delivering on the promise of using AI for science requires teaching these data-driven text models to seamlessly “talk to” physics-based models. Now, a new AI framework from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), called MatterChat, solves this problem by creating a specialized “bridge.” It connects the conversational power of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a physics-based AI that models “interatomic potentials”: the complex physical forces between atoms. The resulting system already significantly outperforms general-purpose AI tools like GPT-4 at predicting material properties, and the team hopes it can accelerate scientific discovery by serving as a robust research partner that provides grounded insights and generates step-by-step instructions for synthesizing novel materials. A paper describing this work was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. “Traditional simulations can provide the physical rigor required for materials science, yet their computational cost remains prohibitive for high-throughput screening. Conversely, while LLMs excel at rapid knowledge synthesis, they inherently lack the ‘structural vision’ to interpret materials directly from their underlying atomic coordinates,” said Yingheng Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and lead author on the paper. “MatterChat was built to solve this dilemma, empowering LLMs with a structural ‘vision’ that allows researchers to leverage their full potential for solving complex, real-world materials challenges.” Empowering language models to solve complex challenges in materials science To build MatterChat, the Berkeley Lab team drew inspiration from technologies like Vision Question Answering (VQA) and Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. In these tasks, AI must translate high-level text concepts into visual images, or vice versa. Doing so requires developers to build tools that “bridge” two fundamentally different forms of data. The researchers adapted this concept to the physical sciences. With MatterChat, they created a “bridge model” that successfully connects an LLM’s general knowledge with the deep understanding of the atomic-scale world encoded in scientific interatomic potentials. Until now, researchers using LLMs to solve materials problems usually had to feed them raw data files as if they were just strings of text. It’s like asking an AI to understand a complex 3D engine based only on a parts list: the LLM can read the names, but it can’t “see” how the atoms fit together in space. MatterChat solves this by training a specialized AI bridge model, pre-trained on millions of crystal structures and an LLM, to align the LLM’s representation of the world with the interatomic potential’s representation of the world. The bridge model can translate physical insights into a format the LLM can actually understand. By giving the LLM these “scientific eyes”— a scientific “inductive bias” in the terminology of AI — the Berkeley Lab team has transformed it into a robust research tool capable of providing grounded scientific insights into complex materials challenges, such as predicting thermal stability or analyzing electronic band gaps. “We think of atoms as living in a physical space, but from a machine learning perspective, they are just vectors living in some very non-trivially structured manifold in a high-dimensional Euclidean space; and, of course, the same is true for the sentences and paragraphs that we use to express our ideas about those atoms,” said co-author Michael Mahoney, Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Division (SDD) AI Initiative Research Lead. “The bridge model basically gets those two structures to ‘talk with’ each other.” As a proof-of-concept of this general approach, the team trained their bridge model on a dataset curated by pairing nearly 143,000 stable atomic structures from the Materials Project with their corresponding physical properties. This training data was automatically assembled using the Materials Project’s API and deliberately enriched with properties fundamental to microelectronics design — like formation energy and bandgap — allowing MatterChat to learn the complex patterns connecting a material’s atomic blueprint to its functional performance. To validate their model, the researchers benchmarked MatterChat against a suite of other AI systems, from general-purpose LLMs to other specialized scientific AI methods. The results show that MatterChat consistently outperformed its competitors across a range of tasks. The model was more accurate in classifying material types and demonstrated superior precision in predicting numerical properties. For example, it excelled at predicting a material’s bandgap, a property critical for designing new electronics from high-capacity energy storage to next-generation computer chips. “Our design is significantly more efficient because we don’t have to build a massive AI model from the ground up,” said co-author Zhi (Jackie) Yao, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s AMCR. “Instead, we take two powerful, pre-trained models — a structural encoder for materials physics and an open-source LLM — and use them off-the-shelf. The only component we actually train is the lightweight ‘bridge model’ that translates between them. It’s the difference between building an entire car factory and simply designing a smart adapter that connects a world-class engine to a world-class navigation system. This approach is not only computationally efficient, but also makes the system modular, so we can easily upgrade components or adapt the bridge for other scientific domains in the future.” Crucially, this modular design highlights exactly how institutions like Berkeley Lab and the Department of Energy are carving out a highly valuable niche in the booming AI landscape. Rather than competing with Silicon Valley tech giants to build ever-larger language models from scratch, the lab is focusing on the specialized connective tissue that makes commercial AI useful for hardcore science. Because the bridge model approach underlying MatterChat is forward-compatible, it is perfectly positioned to leverage these parallel tracks of innovation. As Mahoney pointed out, “We expect that industry will continue to develop improved LLMs, and we expect domain scientists and facilities will continue to generate new data. An important part of scientific machine learning is not simply to solve problems on today’s data, but instead to develop general methods that will be forward-compatible with orders of magnitude more data, whether from scientific domains or from LLMs.” According to Yao, the MatterChat project, which was initially developed and enhanced with funding from a Berkeley Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program, will now expand its capabilities. In a collaboration with Fermilab, MatterChat is already contributing to a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project — called Accelerating eXtreme Environment Specs-to-Silicon (AXESS) — that aims to speed up the development of next-generation, high-speed, radiation-hardened detectors for challenging particle physics experiments by using advanced 3D integrated circuits (chiplets) and AI-driven data analysis. In addition to the LDRD support, the team also credits supercomputing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, with MatterChat’s success. “We are incredibly grateful to NERSC; this research simply would not have happened without access to the Perlmutter supercomputer through their AI for Science program,” said Tang. Wenbin Xu, a NERSC postdoctoral fellow at the time, was also a major co-author of the work, as was Benjamin Erichson, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s SDD, highlighting the benefits of AMCR-SDD collaboration on AI for science. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov
Kyowa Hakko highlights Cognizin citicoline’s science-backed cognitive health benefits

Kyowa Hakko USA is spotlighting citicoline’s benefits for cognitive performance and long-term brain health through multiple complementary mechanisms. The supplier will exhibit its citicoline ingredient Cognizin at this week’s Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) Innovation Day 2026 in Sydney, Australia (May 21). CMA Innovation Day is one of Australia’s annual industry gatherings for the nutraceuticals supply chain, showcasing the latest innovations shaping the market for vitamins, minerals, and supplements in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

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May 18 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • nutritioninsight.com
Dates, times set for pair of Detroit Lions preseason games

No time or date has been set yet for the Lions' lone home exhibition game against the Washington Commanders

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May 17 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rooted in San Francisco: 10 Years of the Legacy Business Program

Opening reception at the San Francisco Public Library for the exhibit celebrating a decade of San Francisco’s Legacy Business Program, June 4 from 6:00-7:45 p.m., SFPL Main Library, 4th Floor

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May 15 • 11:11 PM EDT • Business • sf.gov
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition sails to Great Lakes Science Center

TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition sails into Cleveland at the Great Lakes Science Center on May 21, and will stay through Jan. 18.

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May 15 • 10:52 PM EDT • Science • cleveland19.com
New Wings exhibit traces Paul McCartney’s reinvention as husband, father and bandleader

A new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland features the largest public display ever assembled of Paul McCartney’s personal artifacts | Talk 1370

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May 15 • 3:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Romelu Lukaku Included In Belgium's World Cup Squad For The Fourth Time

Romelu Lukaku was included in Belgium's World Cup squad despite an injury-hit season with Napoli, joining Kevin De Bruyne and Thibaut Courtois as Belgium prepares for Group G play.

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May 15 • 2:38 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Trump says sculpture garden honoring prominent Americans is planned for park along Potomac River

President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans in a tightly regulated park along the Potomac River, potentially opening a new legal fight over whether his administration is ignoring the approvals process that typically governs Washington's monumental core.

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May 15 • 11:43 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Rocket Science Health validates targeted olfactory-cleft deposition in non-human primates ahead of the 4th Nasal Formulation & Delivery Summit

As the pace of modern drug discovery accelerates, the industry is increasingly recognizing that a breakthrough molecule is only as effective as its ability to reach the target site.

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May 15 • 8:36 AM EDT • Science • news-medical.net
AMNH Presents For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence

New York, N.Y. - On May 15, the American Museum of Natural History will open For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence , a special exhibition that celebrates the artistry, history, and cultural impact of the world’s most coveted athletic prizes. The exhibition will open in the Melissa and Keith Meister Gallery, part of the Museum’s Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals, and will showcase more than 70 championship rings, trophies, medals, and jewelry spanning nearly 150 years of sports history. For the Win opens in advance of FIFA World Cup 2026™ and kicks off World Cup, World Cultures: Celebrating the Community and Science of Sport, a series of programs and experiences at the Museum for New Yorkers and visiting fans from around the world.

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May 14 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • iloveny.com
Smithsonian reveals 'In Pursuit' exhibit in celebration of semiquincentennial

The exhibit consists of 250 objects throughout the museum's 250,000 square feet

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May 13 • 7:03 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
New exhibit showcases the science of soccer in Vancouver ahead of FIFA World Cup
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May 13 • 4:32 PM EDT • Science • ca.sports.yahoo.com
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Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit

Flower Day, Motor City Comic Con, art exhibits, concerts and more are on deck around town this weekend, May 15-17.

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May 13 • 2:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • detroitnews.com
Oakland approves police contract with Israeli company that does business with ICE

Did city leaders ignore a law prohibiting contracts with vendors that work with federal immigration agencies?

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May 13 • 12:42 PM EDT • Business • oaklandside.org
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Benefit for Lincoln Theater, LASM art exhibit and a garden tour: 3 things to do this weekend

Our top 3 picks

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May 13 • 8:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • theadvocate.com
Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GWHCC) Business Expo 2026

The Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GWHCC) returns with their highly anticipated GWHCC Business Expo, taking place on Thursday, May 21, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. An event focused on connecting minority-owned businesses with corporate partners, business resources, and networking opportunities. Featuring more than 80 exhibitors, the event brings together entrepreneurs, industry professionals, and decision-makers from across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to support collaboration, visibility, and business growth.

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May 12 • 5:27 PM EDT • Business • eventsdc.com
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Eye test: Science center hosts optical-illusions exhibit

“Phenomena” presents 20 mind-benders, scientific explanations.

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May 12 • 8:38 AM EDT • Science • orlandosentinel.com
THE WEEK OF MAY 11, 2026

- Agencies propose DEI prohibitions for contractors - Academies members call for NSB reinstatement - House to reveal DOE budget proposal

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May 11 • 3:22 PM EDT • Science • aip.org
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Science Museum Oklahoma to host ocean-themed adults night

Science Museum Oklahoma presents SMO21+: SEAS The Night, an ocean science event for adults featuring exhibits, live programming, and planetarium shows.

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May 11 • 10:40 AM EDT • Science • journalrecord.com
A live two-toed sloth is coming to Richmond's Science Museum

It's part of a touring exhibition running from May 23 to Sept. 7 called "Survival of the Slowest."

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May 11 • 6:19 AM EDT • Science • axios.com
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‘Wheeee!': A giant slide is now an exhibit at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

“It’s huge, huge, huge — what is there to say? I mean, it’s incredible,” said Patricia Ward, the museum’s head scientist.

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May 8 • 7:12 AM EDT • Science • nbcchicago.com
Protecting the integrity of Colorado’s legal profession

By Jason Wesoky and Loren Furman Private-equity profits should not influence legal decisions between Coloradans and their attorneys. This principle is the driving force behind House Bill 1421, a piece of bipartisan legislation designed to protect Coloradans and maintain trust in our justice system. Colorado has long prohibited non-lawyer ownership of law firms and fee-sharing […]

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May 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Summer of STEM adventures awaits at the Saint Louis Science Center

Visit the Saint Louis Science Center this summer and never stop learning! From special exhibition experiences to major upgrades of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium, guests of all ages will have ample opportunities to engage in STEM and spark their curiosity. This season is jam-packed with events, OMNIMAX® Theater films, and much more. The Blue […]

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May 7 • 11:27 PM EDT • Science • stlamerican.com
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Museum of Life and Science Unveils Shaping Our Future Exhibit

The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., has announced the opening of its newest exhibit, “From Here On: Shaping Our Future”, an immersive and interactive experience that invites visitors to explore the possibilities of a world we might build together. With both indoor and outdoor activations, this exhibit aims to encourage conversation and collaboration with guests of all ages.

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May 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • aza.org
Maha clears Rs 3 crore for NASA trip for 51 science expo winners

Nagpur: The Maharashtra govt has approved over Rs3crore to send 51 school science exhibition awardees on an eight-day educational trip to NASA in the .

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May 7 • 7:41 PM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Scientists uncover hidden parasite diversity in barb fish from the Sea of Galilee

When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: microscopic ...

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May 7 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Free science festival in Redding celebrates 101st anniversary of planetariums

Residents of Redding can explore space- and science-themed exhibits during a free festival at the Schreder Planetarium.

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May 7 • 12:05 PM EDT • Science • krcrtv.com
Great Lakes Science Center maritime events planned for May

The downtown Cleveland attraction celebrates the opening of the historic Steamship William G Mather and the debut of TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition with family-friendly activities throughout the month.

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May 7 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • cleveland.com
Korean Air Gallery Preview | California Science Center to Host Media Viewing of Aviation Exhibits | The South Pasadenan

Discover the future of flight! California Science Center hosts a first viewing of the Korean Air Aviation Gallery artifacts in Los Angeles on May 12, 2026.

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May 7 • 6:02 AM EDT • Science • southpasadenan.com
Giant slide at new Griffin Museum of Science and Industry exhibit set to be a scene stealer

The new permanent exhibit titled 'Powering the Future' features a 28-foot-high slide and opens May 8.

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May 6 • 2:23 PM EDT • Science • wbez.org
Anglonordic Life Science 2026: A focus on execution

The latest Anglonordic Life Science Conference on 23rd April exhibited a cautious optimism.

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May 6 • 7:14 AM EDT • Science • pharmaphorum.com
Hospitals sue Anthem over policy prohibiting use of out-of-network radiologists

Anthem defended the policy in response to the lawsuit, contending patients shouldn’t have to worry about surprise medical bills when visiting in-network hospitals.

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May 6 • 5:08 AM EDT • Business • radiologybusiness.com
How science is taking tripping mainstream

President Trump recently signed an order to speed up the evaluation of psychedelics to treat the brain. That’s coming after decades of strict prohibition on psychedelic drug use dating back to President Nixon. So how did we go from that to a psychedelic renaissance? A look into a key institution in the world of psychedelic research may give us some clues. This episode, NPR’s brain correspondent Jon Hamilton shares insight from a recent trip. (No pun intended.) Want more psychedelic content? Catch our episode on ketamine therapy here, or learn why some scientists want to take the trip out of psychedelics here. Have other questions about psychedelics and the brain? Let us know by emailing shortwave@npr.org!

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May 6 • 3:00 AM EDT • Science • npr.org
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240-million-year-old giant “sand creeper” found hidden in retaining wall

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, Arenaerpeton supinatus, revealing an almost perfectly preserved skeleton—complete with rare traces of skin. This ancient river predator, about 1.2 meters long, looked somewhat like a giant salamander but was bulkier and armed with fearsome fang-like teeth.

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May 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
AMC Theatres Launches Live Concert Business

The exhibitor and a new live entertainment business called Arena One are planning to show live concerts at more accessible price points on the big screen.

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May 5 • 5:35 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
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AMC Theatres Launches Live Concert Business

The exhibitor and a new live entertainment business called Arena One are planning to show live concerts at more accessible price points on the big screen.

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May 5 • 5:35 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
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AMC Entertainment Launching New Live Concert Experience With Arena One

AMC, the world’s largest exhibitor, and new live entertainment company Arena One set a June launch for a new live concert programming venture.

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May 5 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
AMC Entertainment Q1 Revenue Jumps 20% Amid Box Office Recovery

Giant exhibitor AMC Entertainment saw strong domestic performance and “vastly improved” international results boost first quarter revenue.

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May 5 • 4:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
$1M volleyball event to be held at AT&T Stadium

Four women's college volleyball teams will play for a total of $1 million in a made-for-TV exhibition at AT&T Stadium in August, event organizers announced Tuesday.

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May 5 • 12:25 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Course on science museums travels to the United Kingdom

Every child can recall their first trip to a museum and the sense of wonder and excitement that comes from laying eyes on the real-life remnants of a dinosaur or the preserved artifacts of our ancestors. For a group of students taking a course on the impacts of colonization on science museums, that spark was ignited by all the work that went into the completion of those museum exhibits.

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May 5 • 11:01 AM EDT • Science • psu.edu
Met Gala guests arrive on carpet in dramatic works of art

On display this Spring, the “Costume Art” exhibit will “examine the centrality of the dressed body.”

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May 4 • 6:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • ny1.com
Syracuse Common Council to discuss biometric identity technology restrictions

It comes days after Erie County passed a local law to prohibit biometric identification in commercial settings.

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May 4 • 11:04 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Artist Eric Mack mixes his loves of plants and paint in ‘Silent Melodies’ exhibit

Atlantan Eric Mack's love of artmaking is matched only by his love of growing plants. Twice a month, Mack stages plant sale pop ups at his historic East Lake home.

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Global Health & WASH: May 2026 Funding Opportunities (14 new opportunities!)

The May update for Global Health & WASH brings new calls that cluster around three distinct shifts: LMIC research leadership moving from funder encouragement into a hard eligibility constraint, pharmaceutical and corporate-linked funders running structurally independent education and use-inspired research portfolios at substantial scale, and AI adoption shifting decisively from speculative tool to operational capability across health and WASH systems alike. In LMIC Research Leadership as Eligibility, Not Encouragement, Wellcome anchors the dominant signal of the month with three separate major calls that all require or strongly center LMIC leadership in their basic eligibility architecture. Wellcome’s ESIC Hubs (£1.5-£1.9M per hub over 3-5 years) explicitly requires an LMIC-based lead applicant, treating Global South leadership as a design constraint rather than a participation goal. Wellcome’s Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award funds transdisciplinary teams whose lead must be a mid-career or established researcher based at an organization in Africa, South Asia, or Southeast Asia. Wellcome’s larger Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award (£1M-£8M for optimizing licensed interventions) requires the administering organization to be in eligible LMIC regions and at least 50% of applicants based there. Around Wellcome, the same pattern shows up at smaller scale and across funders: CHINNOVA channels $1M into West and Central African research institutions for climate-health work; IBRO’s Neuroscience Training Grants explicitly tier ceilings by region of residence with Africa receiving the highest amount ($5,000); IHME’s GBD Emerging Researcher Award reserves at least one of its two annual awards for an LMIC researcher; Sidaction’s HIV Cure call funds research teams across France, the Netherlands, and eligible African countries with a minimum two-country collaboration requirement. Taken together, these calls signal a meaningful shift in how research equity is being operationalized — not as encouragement language at the bottom of a call, but as a structural feature of who can lead, where the work must be administered, and what proportion of the team must be regionally rooted. In Pharma-Funded Independent Medical Education and Use-Inspired Research, the lineup this month is unusually deep. Pfizer alone runs four parallel calls under independent education and quality improvement frameworks: a Migraine and Women’s Health RFP (200K x 2-year, $500K pool), Migraine IME ($200K, $1M pool), JAK Inhibitor evidence-based education ($100K), and Maternal Vaccination HCP Education in Saudi Arabia ($75K), plus a separate Pediatric Pneumococcal Surveillance research call in Saudi Arabia ($400K per project). Novo Nordisk Foundation runs four parallel calls of its own at substantial scale: Infectious Diseases Catalyst Grants (DKK 60M pool, up to DKK 7M collaborative), Non-Diabetic Endocrinology Collaborative Grants (DKK 53M pool, DKK 5-10M per project), Pioneer Innovator Grant Health (DKK 1.1M), and Distinguished Innovator Grant Health (DKK 6.8M). LEO Foundation deploys DKK 2-4M per project for dermatology research excellence. Pfizer’s framing across calls deliberately separates the funding from product promotion, emphasizing measurable practice-relevant change and structural distance between scientific outputs and commercial activity. Novo Nordisk’s “use-inspired” hard filter pushes researchers toward a credible translation pathway from mechanism to deployable tool. The pattern: industry-aligned funders are running structurally independent portfolios at meaningful $ that fund implementation evidence, not promotion. In AI as Operational Capability, Not Speculation, several calls this month explicitly treat AI adoption as a near-term operational question with real evidence and governance requirements, rather than a speculative trend to be watched. Wellcome’s ESIC Hubs frames AI as “the accelerator” for evidence synthesis, asking hubs to translate technical innovation into adoption-ready workflows that can match real-world policy timelines. UNICEF Venture Fund’s new Climate Tech for Children’s Health call funds for-profit startups deploying AI, machine learning, and blockchain in low-resource environments, with a strict requirement that solutions must already have a working prototype with promising pilot results. The Water Research Foundation has launched two simultaneous AI calls treating reproducibility, cybersecurity guardrails, and human-in-the-loop deployments as core design constraints rather than nice-to-haves: one on GenAI and Agentic AI in water utilities ($200K), one on alternatives to water shutoffs that explicitly screens for implementation economics evidence. Nordic Innovation’s quantum technology call (NOK 4.5M) extends the same logic into life science and healthcare, demanding consortium-stage projects mature enough to test with real users. TEF-Health offers €300K in subsidized testing infrastructure for European healthcare AI and robotics SMEs. The pattern: funders are converting AI pilots into playbooks, requiring transfer evidence and risk controls before AI can move from experimentation to sector-wide operational practice. For LMIC-based researchers in infectious disease or evidence synthesis, the three Wellcome calls together represent the deepest concentration of LMIC-led research capital in recent memory — pair the Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award (£200K, deadline May 19) as a strategic pipeline feeder into the larger Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award (£1-£8M, deadline June 2), since the development award functions explicitly as a track into the larger trial scheme. For Nordic researchers, the four Novo Nordisk Foundation calls plus LEO Foundation and Nordic Innovation Quantum represent ~$30M in regional research capital this cycle, all with deadlines clustered in May-August. For WASH practitioners, the three Water Research Foundation calls together (each up to $200K) are a cluster worth reading across — one on AI deployment, one on shutoff alternatives, one rewarding applied innovation — and the strongest applicants will articulate how their work bridges utility operations to policy-relevant evidence. For US-based clinical researchers and educators, the four Pfizer calls plus the APF Portfolio’s 80+ programs form an unusually accessible recurring pipeline; APF’s prohibition on indirect costs is a meaningful structural feature for early-career applicants whose institutions might otherwise absorb significant overhead. Snapshot of New Opportunities Total Estimated Funding Pool: $100 Million+ USD The grants are organized into three categories: Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date. 39 open opportunities- 14 new! Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible). 14 rolling opportunities- 1 new opportunity! Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows. 4 long term opportunities! A quick tip for returning readers: if you want to jump straight to the newest additions, use CTRL F to search for “New!” and navigate quickly to the latest funding opportunities This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. Open Calls: Migraine Competitive Grant Program: Migraine and Women’s Health (Quality Improvement and/or Research RFP), Pfizer.*Closing soon!* Pfizer, in collaboration with the American Headache Society, is seeking independent quality improvement and research projects that close persistent gaps in migraine care for women across the United States. The funding logic centers on measurable, practice-relevant change: proposals should generate actionable evidence, tools, or system improvements that can be shared and used widely, not just within a single site. Priority areas span menstrual migraine and screening in women’s health settings, the role of hormonal fluctuations across the lifespan, sex-specific risk factors, comorbidities and quality-of-life burden, and disparities in outcomes by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The call is structured as a two-step competitive process with an initial Letter of Intent, with the strongest concepts expected to translate scientific insight into implementable improvements in diagnosis, management, and equity. Geographies: United States. Who can apply: U.S.-based organizations (not individuals), including professional schools, healthcare institutions, professional organizations, and other entities focused on healthcare improvement. Funding amount: Up to USD $200,000 total over 2 years; total pool USD $500,000. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: migraine, women’s health, quality improvement, clinical research, menstrual migraine, health disparities. Deadline: LOI: May 5, 2026; Full proposal (by invitation): August 28, 2026. Learn more and apply here. This RFP rewards “shareable impact”: the most competitive submissions will pair rigorous methods with a clear plan for system uptake and dissemination beyond the originating institution. ReSSARC: Strengthening the Health Sector and Food Security in the Central African Republic (AID 013381/01/0) Call for Proposals, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). *Closing soon!* AICS is seeking a limited set of high-capacity humanitarian partners to deliver an integrated package that stabilizes essential health services while reducing acute malnutrition and strengthening food security resilience in priority areas of the Central African Republic. The funder’s logic is explicitly nexus-based: proposals should meet urgent, life-saving needs while reinforcing local systems, coordination mechanisms, and community-level capacity so results persist beyond the emergency window. AICS emphasizes inclusion and protection outcomes, expecting gender-sensitive design and explicit measures for groups facing compounded vulnerability, including women, children under five, internally displaced people, and people with disabilities. The call also signals a localization pathway, encouraging stronger collaboration with national NGOs and balanced partnerships, alongside clear coordination with existing cluster and humanitarian actors to minimize duplication and improve coverage. Geographies: Central African Republic (Bangui, Ombella-Mpoko, Ouham, Ouham-Pende, Lim-Pende, Lobaye). Who can apply: Non-profit organizations registered with AICS, plus eligible non-profits without an office in Italy that have a pre-existing collaboration agreement with an AICS-listed organization. Funding amount: Total pool EUR €1,800,000; max EUR €800,000 (single applicant) or EUR €1,000,000 (ATS). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: malnutrition prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, community health services, food security and resilience, localization partnerships Deadline: May 5, 2026. Learn more and apply here. This call is structured to reward partners who can link frontline service delivery to system durability and localization, not just short-term coverage gains. Contracts for Innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare, Innovate UK. *Closing soon!* Innovate UK, on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences Addiction Healthcare Goals program, is procuring R&D to accelerate innovations that can improve treatment outcomes, strengthen recovery, and reduce harm and deaths linked to drug and alcohol addiction. The competition is positioned as a market-facing readiness push: selected projects are expected to advance solutions toward later-stage validation, generate evidence of user acceptability and UK market fit, and map credible routes through regulatory and certification requirements. Innovate UK signals a preference for innovations that can be field-tested in relevant UK settings and progressed to TRL 6 or 7, with practical plans for commercialization after contract completion. This structure favors applicants that can execute most work in-house, co-develop with service providers and people with lived experience, and translate technical progress into deployable tools for addiction healthcare delivery. Geographies: United Kingdom. Who can apply: Single organizations of any size (including EU, EEA, or international) leading delivery, with most work and key deliverables carried out in the UK; subcontractors for specialist skills only. Funding amount: GBP £200,000–1.5 million per project (inclusive of VAT); Total pool: GBP £20 million (across two strands). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: Mental Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Research & Development, Technology Access. Deadline: May 6, 2026 (11:00am). Learn more and apply here. This call uses procurement to pull near-market addiction innovations toward operational proof and adoption pathways in UK services.

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‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia comp sci students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field

‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia comp sci students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field ‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia comp sci students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field A field that once seemed like a direct path to stable, lucrative work is becoming less certain under AI, students and faculty told Spectator. By Ria Vasishtha and Arjun Menon May 3, 2026 Shanying Liu / Deputy Illustrations Editor Asia Genawi, SEAS ’29, first encountered artificial intelligence during her sophomore year at her high school in Indiana. Back in 2023, policies on AI varied widely—even within the same district—and some schools had no guidance at all. As Genawi began to see the effects of AI trickle into her classroom, she turned to guidance from her home state’s Department of Education, which she said she found “outdated and inaccessible.” Genawi spent the rest of her high school career dedicated to the issue, including writing a 15-page memo exploring varying AI policies across Indiana schools, which she sent to every Indiana state senator and representative whose contact information she was able to find. She later helped draft a bill that would have required public high schools to establish and share their own AI policies with students in an accessible format. But with so many other bills already awaiting referral, hers never made it to committee. When Genawi arrived at Columbia to study computer science, she found that the gaps she had spent years trying to address in Indiana had followed her there. Many students and professors were also grappling with what AI meant for the field. Across Columbia’s undergraduate schools, computer science has become the most popular major—accounting for around 11 percent of degrees awarded in Columbia College, 32 percent in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and 12 percent in the School of General Studies in 2024. While the number of computer science majors in SEAS grew from 166 to 173 during the 2024-25 academic year, the total number across the three schools fell around 4.5 percent from 393 to 375, driven by declines at Columbia College and General Studies. At Barnard, it has grown to become the second most popular major as of 2025, up from third the year prior. The number of degrees awarded have grown fivefold since 2016. Faculty members and students in the department told Spectator that the surge in the major’s popularity has been driven in large part by its apparent promise of a secure, well-paid career path. However, they noted that the recent rise of generative AI has compromised the sense of stability that once defined the field, even as interest in technical skills among students persists. According to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2024, out of 74 majors tracked, computer science had the fifth highest unemployment rate among majors at 7 percent, while computer engineering had the second highest at 7.8 percent. “Anecdotally, people are moving away from CS as a major,” Daniel Bauer, a senior lecturer in the computer science department, said. “They’re still taking some of our classes, right, because they think they need that, but they’re instead majoring in other things.” Bauer described a field that had shifted from what he called a “nerdy outlier discipline” to one that “everyone needs,” a sign that technical skills have become a baseline expectation across industries with the emergence of AI. “A lot of people thought, ‘Oh, it’s a guaranteed path to a stable income. You get a six-figure job right out of your undergrad,’” Bauer said. Now, companies may see AI as a way to reduce demand for entry-level programmers, especially in what he calls “code monkey jobs,” roles where a large number of employees are “just writing out code nine-to-five.” Chris Murphy, a senior lecturer in the computer science department, described the current moment as the convergence of two forces: the downturn of the job market and generative AI coming onto the scene. “Things kind of started to really pick up in 2014, 16,” he said, recalling the years after the weaker 2010 market. Murphy added that this was also a period where “students were getting more experience outside of class than they were inside of class” through internships, jobs, and side projects. Murphy suggested that the earlier momentum helped make computer science feel like both an academic program and a reliable pathway into work. That feeling is harder to sustain now as the industry reconfigures, which is a shift that students are seeing firsthand. Rebecca Yu, SEAS ’27, said that during a recent internship in Big Tech, she saw that “every single tech company was racing to integrate” large language models. She added that her manager said her intern class was the first to complete their assigned projects, which she attributed to the increased efficiency that comes with AI. Frank Liu, SEAS ’29, said that with AI lowering the barrier to coding, companies now expect everyone to write code. “A lot of companies outright say if you’re not using coding in your job, you might get fired for not being productive enough,” Liu said. Yu similarly expressed that students increasingly have to accept AI being a part of industry workflow, adding that many also “make use of it to maximize their productivity.” Richard Li, CC ’28, described a “franticness” among his peers as the pace of change accelerates. He explained how “some new tool” is released regularly, noting that tools rise and fall in prominence within weeks. He has come to believe that he doesn’t need to “match that speed all the time” and keep up with every development. Li has learned that AI tools allow him to “take a breath” and “get back into the loop much easier than before” when he needs to. While some companies specifically target Columbia when hiring, sending representatives to campus career fairs and recruiting large numbers from Columbia, a computer science degree cannot be treated as a static credential, Yu described. “You can’t just get your degree and stop learning after that. You have to always be learning,” Yu said. “That is something you basically have to expect for your job.” AI has not only affected students’ decisions to major in computer science, but also reshaped how the subject is taught. Across departments, faculty members no longer treat work done outside the classroom as a reliable measure of understanding, shifting instead toward in-person exams, quizzes, and attendance checks. While homework once made up as much as 60 to 70 percent of a student’s grade in computer science classes, Murphy said that breakdown has since flipped, with exams and quizzes now accounting for the majority. “The assumption—especially among pessimists—is that they’re using it to do their homework,” Murphy said. “They take the homework assignment. They put it into generative AI. Out comes the solution. Submit solution. The end.” Murphy said that faculty members ranged in their responses from fully prohibiting AI use to actively teaching students how to effectively work with AI. He said he shifted his approach this year after his teaching assistants called his belief that students weren’t using the technology “naïve,” and now permits students to use AI on assignments. His surveys of students in his introductory classes have told a more complicated story than the one so-called pessimists offer: Around 60 to 70 percent of students who reported using AI said they used it to have concepts explained to them, to clarify assignment instructions, to generate test cases, or to create practice questions. “Those are all ways that you might have had a tutor in the past to do that, and now you have this AI essentially as your tutor,” he said. Bauer has taken a different approach, teaching students how to use AI productively without sacrificing the core principles of the discipline. “People who are trained to actually use AI tools productively, while being in charge of designing the overall project, will be very much in demand in the next couple of years,” he said. Over the past year, a working group of computer science faculty has been redesigning the introductory and intermediate programming sequence to integrate generative AI as both a subject and a tool, representatives from SEAS wrote in a statement to Spectator. The effort is “coordinated” across the department, “not course-by-course,” with a systematic assessment of how AI integration is affecting student outcomes underway to shape the next round of changes. The goal, the department explained, is for students to be able to “read, verify, and reason about code, whether they or a model wrote it.” Tony Dear, senior lecturer in the computer science department, is piloting individualized AI feedback in a discrete mathematics course, while a machine learning course is also testing a Socratic AI dialogue system designed to “guide inquiry rather than supply answers,” the statement reads. Beyond individual courses, SEAS funded seven cross-departmental faculty projects in generative AI this past academic year, spanning biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, and computer science, according to the statement. This phenomenon extends beyond the computer science department. SEAS’ new AI minor, which it announced in November 2025, reflects the University’s attempt to adapt. The minor is specifically designed for noncomputer science majors and aims to provide “essential AI knowledge” while emphasizing practical and responsible use across disciplines, according to the SEAS website. At the center of the minor is AI in Context, a course taught by a team of faculty from the departments of computer science, applied mathematics, philosophy, music, literature, and the Writing Center, the representatives told Spectator. Bauer described it as targeted at students who want to bring AI into fields like economics or biology, rather than as a path into software engineering itself. At the graduate level, SEAS announced a new Master of Science in artificial intelligence in February, with the inaugural cohort starting in the fall. While recognizing how AI has helped them navigate coursework, students also described its rise as isolating, even among members of the Application Development Initiative, one of Columbia’s largest computer science clubs. “As people start to ask AI for questions that they would normally ask students and members, it starts to isolate people” Li said. Alexa Kafka, BC ’27, echoed Li’s sentiment, pointing out that computer science has always been a collaborative discipline with code reviews and pull requests, even as AI makes independent work easier. Despite this, Kafka noted that she hasn’t been to office hours “in at least a year.” Bauer added that faculty are exploring long-term solutions to the assessment problem. “One of the things that we’re trying to do at the department or school level is to maybe move towards computerized testing facilities,” Bauer said, referring to ideas in the department to revitalize computer labs as an alternative to pen-and-paper exams. “We have to accept that this is the reality, for better or worse.” But more exams, students say, does not mean better learning, nor does it reflect how computer science is actually done. “Code is so variable and can be approached in so many directions, there’s never just going to be one correct answer. There can be multiple optimal solutions,” Kafka said. Students also expressed concern that the shift toward exam-heavy grading pulls focus away from the applied, project-based work that better reflects both discipline and industry expectations. ADI has tried to respond more quickly than the curriculum can. Through a vibe coding workshop this past semester, club members said they wanted to help students understand not just that AI exists, but how to use it deliberately. “Vibe coding” refers to the practice of prompting AI to write code for a task or project, and has become widespread enough that ADI felt the gap in formal instruction was worth addressing, according to Sophia Huang, BC ’29. The workshop introduced students to the concept of context engineering, which Shaina Sahu, SEAS ’27, described as not just writing a prompt, but optimizing “the rest of the relevant information that you would feed into the model.” Without that, students said that AI-generated code can fail at scale or introduce difficult-to-detect bugs. Genawi said the shift toward AI has changed what it means to be good at computer science. “I think the shift has kind of gone towards what can you create and what can you do, instead of, what do you know,” she said. Indeed, during ADI DevFest, its annual hackathon, Li said more teams are trying to complete their projects than in years past. While sign-ups have historically outpaced submissions, Li said this is beginning to change because teams “have a tool that completes the vision for them.” While many students see AI as an equalizer that lowers the barrier to entry for coding and technical work, Murphy said it also creates new equity concerns inside the classroom around who can afford stronger tools and who already knows how to use them. “The equity issues I worry about are students who have access to paid versions of things versus free versions of things,” he said. Although popular AI models like ChatGPT and Claude have free versions available, both have paid models that can reach over $100 per month, which output different qualities of code. Murphy also pointed to differences in prior exposure to AI literacy itself. “Students who go to high schools or K-12 education, where they’re taught AI literacy, prompt engineering, context engineering, they understand how to do this, as opposed to students who go to schools who don’t teach that,” he said. “Then they come in, and then they’re somehow expected to know how to use these tools.” For Genawi, those disparities begin long before students arrive on campus. “It’s very interesting to consider how lucky you were geographically,” she said. “To be born where you were is influencing your ability to get access to these spaces.” Students like Yu, though broadly apprehensive about the future of computer science, are not without hope. “I’m optimistic, because I think if you’re truly passionate about CS, there will definitely be a place in the field to do something you want to do,” she said. Senior Staff Writer Ria Vasishtha can be contacted at ria.vasishtha@columbiaspectator.com. Follow Spectator on X @ColumbiaSpec. Staff Writer Arjun Menon can be contacted at arjun.menon@columbiaspectator.com. Follow Spectator on X @ColumbiaSpec. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter and like Spectator on Facebook. Produced with Spectate by Emily Ta

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Police seek suspect accused of business break-ins in Dauphin County

COLONIAL PARK, Pa. (WHTM) — Police are investigating a reported burglary at two Dauphin County businesses. According to Lower Paxton Township Police, someone broke into the Hibachi Buffet and…

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Punk Politics/Camp Costume is a fashion exhibition curated by (some of my) brilliant Parsons students!

I have the most amazing students. I teach Fashion Journalism at Parsons, as part of its MA Fashion Studies degree, though I have students of all different disciplines throughout the New School in my class — from fine-art photographers to investigative journalists to textile designers. And I learn about all sorts of fascinating things from them, like that designers are adding faux sweat stains to their garments now (part of a trend piece about “anatomy core”) and that real “French girl style” is actually about being “cunti cunta” (aka loud, rude, too much, liberated). So when I found out that some of my students were curating a fashion exhibition opening tonight(!!!), I just knew that it would be brilliant too. Wearable Art is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe It’s called Punk Politics/Camp Costuming1, and it’s up through May 10 at La Sudestada, the wonderful gallery and concept store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I asked the exhibit’s lead curator, Ella Birney (a talented costume and knitwear designer from Belfast who also happens to be in my class), all about it. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Tell me about the idea of this exhibition and how it came about. Ella Birney: For our Fashion Curation class, we had to pitch [exhibition] proposals to our professor, Jessica [Glasscock], and I really wanted to continue on the themes that I was exploring in my BA when I was studying in London a couple of years ago. My BA was very punk-inspired and very political. Everything I do, as you know from my writing, always has a slight Irish, political twist to it2. So in my BA project, it was looking at knitwear as a conveyor for exploring political identity in somewhere like Ireland, where identity is such a point of contention. And looking at the images that I generated from that project, there was something so camp about the whole thing. Like, it’s so playful and in bad taste to do a political message — like a knitted Union Jack — out of mohair. There’s something very camp about that. So that’s where it kind of became punk politics/camp costuming — looking at how from the 1970s to now there’s been protest through costume and clothing. What was your BA in? It was fashion textiles, knitwear. Very craft heavy, which — craft is never taken seriously either. That’s also a kind of spin [on the punk/camp thing]. The Union Jack knit that you made is included in the show — what is camp about knitting a Union Jack out of mohair? The whole ethos of camp is kind of bad taste, doing things that are tongue in cheek and a bit wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Like, this is a bit silly. Everything I do is like, this is a bit silly. Like, being from the North of Ireland, everything you do is political. So it’s like, everything is going to be looked at in a certain lens anyway, so we may as well lean into it. So the Union Jack was because I come from a mixed marriage — Protestant-Catholic. And in the North of Ireland, that’s still a big deal. And even though I’m a Catholic and brought up in a very like Catholic Nationalist family, there [were] Union Jacks [the symbol of the United Kingdom] on my street. So I was like, then I’m gonna make your Union Jack out of knitwear. And then that kind of all linked back to the punk movement that Vivian Westwood forefronted in the late 70s, [with her stores] Let It Rock and Seditionaries. How did you source your items? Once we decided on this exhibition idea, everyone in the class was put to [think about] what do you think can fit into punk politics/camp costuming and finding designers that fit that brief. Me and my co-curators, Dulcinea Flores and Allison Gramando, made a brief to send out — with a mood board and color stories, stuff like that — and then everyone kind of got to work emailing people. We reached out to other Parsons grads. Even through Instagram stories we’ve been able to reach so many people who were like, Yeah, of course, I’ll write something for this, or Please — let me submit stuff. It actually was quite easy sourcing things. … The Parsons thing gets you quite far. What were some great pieces you got? There’s a Brooklyn-based, nonbinary artist called Buzz Slutsky. I can’t even remember how I found them, but I came across this crazy, shoe thing — they had made all these different shoes out of papier-mâché, and the story behind them is so fantastic, so interesting. They were just so obliging, like, Of course, you can have these for a few weeks. I was really happy about that. And then we have art from a collective here called Art Comes First. And they lent loads of really amazing pieces that just tied everything together. You have your Union Jack knit in the show too. Any other pieces that you made? There’s three of my BA mohair knits. There’s the Union Jack. There’s a mohair with the word “No” — which is based on an old political campaign in Ireland that was “Ulster says no to sodomy.” And then there’s another one that is red, white and blue, like the Union Jack, but has the word “Catholic” on it and lots of holy medals. I’m so happy I got to include those. How many pieces are in the show? Between 49 and 52, something like that. A load of clothing and accessories, shoes. There’s a Brooklyn-based Irish photographer who’s given us photos. There’s also a shopping cart that is an art piece by Art Comes First that has gold knuckle dusters as the handles. There’s also lots of T-shirts, original pins from the 70s and 80s that were from people’s dads. I also brought my record player, and all of [co-curator] Allison’s dad’s original albums so everyone could play records. Oh my gosh! Yeah, it’s cool. Anything else you would like to add? If we get to do an exhibition, why would we not make it political in this day and age? I hope that people come. There’s a lot of history, because it starts back in the 70s. It’s not like chronological or anything, but there are historical objects. I hope people come out of it thinking, out of all the really horrendous decades of the 70s and 80s and 90s, all these amazing subcultures happened. There are horrible political times, but there’s art that comes out of it that lasts. Punk Politics/Camp Costume is on view May 1-10 at La Sudestada, 67 West St. Suite 513, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. RSVP for the opening Friday May 1 6pm-8pm here. There’s also a button-making and patch-making workshop and artist talk May 9. Follow the show’s Instagram page @punkxcamp.parsons. Special shout out to all the students who put on this show: Ella Birney (lead curator), Dulcinea Flores (curator), Allison Gramando (curator), Pierre Sanon (lead exhibition designer), Eliana Daneshvari (exhibition designer), Reilly Lowell (editor), Jess Gayo (researcher/writer), Joyce Gayo (researcher/writer), Maria Magdalena Ugarte Montero (researcher/writer), Cassidy Colarik (exhibition press officer), Shelby Shovein (educator), Sarah Mahnke-Baum (educator), Trinidy Coleman (graphic designer), and Leonie Soravia (project manager). Jessica Glasscock was the faculty advisor. 1 The website is definitely worth checking out. 2 This is true!

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Senate Bans Prediction Markets for Its Members and Staff

Senators voted unanimously to prohibit betting practices in the chamber after some users made hundreds of thousands of dollars online by accurately predicting U.S. military actions.

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Anne Frank exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry opens the door to her secret annex

The full-scale recreation of the Frank family’s hideout during World War II in Amsterdam is the stunning centerpiece of a new exhibition opening Friday.

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Owner of Prohibition THCafé said his business has been burglarized 3 times in 2 years
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Owner of Prohibition THCafé said his business has been burglarized 3 times in 2 years
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Binghamton University Art of Science exhibit opens to public

Annual exhibit showcases scientific research through visual art, with contest winner to be announced.

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Miniso store open at Millcreek Mall. Hibbett Sports has closed.

Miniso, a store offering toys, collectibles, snacks and personal items, is open at Millcreek Mall. A restaurant opens soon, and a sports apparel shop closed.

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Scene Calendar: Harn exhibit on Florida, 'Million Dollar Quarter' at Hipp

Other local entertainment includes live music in the city of Alachua and at Heartwood Soundstage, and art at Santa Fe College and the GFAA.

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Denver Museum of Nature and Science

The variety of exhibits inside these walls are enough to fill a couple of days for the curious minds, but certainly a terrific way to spend a day.

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Colorado legislators eye new state requirements for ICE facilities

Colorado state representatives voted along party lines to pass a bill establishing additional inspection requirements for immigration detention centers and expanding civil liabilities related to sharing information with federal immigration authorities. It’s the latest proposal to come out of the state Capitol ,which has embraced so-called “sanctuary laws,” which limit or prohibit cooperation with federal […]

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Colorado Democrats eye new state requirements for ICE facilities

Colorado state representatives voted along party lines to pass a bill establishing additional inspection requirements for immigration detention centers and expanding civil liabilities related to sharing information with federal immigration authorities. It’s the latest proposal to come out of the state Capitol ,which has embraced so-called “sanctuary laws,” which limit or prohibit cooperation with federal […]

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Visual Voice and JAEBC Launch Strategic Partnership to Bridge Japan-Africa Entertainment Sectors

/PRNewswire/ -- Visual Voice Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo; CEO: Tetsuya Bessho), the operator of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA)—one of...

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Flutter Entertainment updates board committee roles

Flutter Entertainment’s 8-K/A details new board committee roles for Sally Susman and David Kenny, effective after the May 29, 2026 AGM, via RNS Exhibit 99.1.

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AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. to Announce First Quarter 2026 Results and Host Earnings Webcast

LEAWOOD, Kan., April 28, 2026--AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) ("AMC" or "the Company"), the largest theatrical exhibition company in the world, announced today that it will report its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026, after the market closes on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

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Philomath voters will decide on city's psilocybin-related business ban

Voters in Philomath will decide in May whether to prohibit psilocybin-related businesses and manufacturing within city limits.

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From Brazil to Livingston: Vania Assis’ journey in science finds a home at UWA

Dr. Vania Assis grew up in a small town in Brazil where she rode horses, tended pigs and chickens alongside her father, even helping butcher cattle when the need arose. Now an assistant professor at UWA, Assis is committed to studying and protecting amphibians and educating others about this endangered group of vertebrates.

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Hungarian Science Exhibition Opens in Washington with Katalin Karikó

A travelling exhibition celebrating Hungary’s most influential scientists has opened in Washington, featuring Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó.

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AMC Entertainment Scores a Thriller Weekend as MICHAEL Delivers a Record-Breaking Debut

LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and the world, once again…...

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"Marvel's Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing" extended into summer at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

Sunday was set to be the last day of the "Marvel's Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing" exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. But the exhibit has been extended again.

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Hibernian 1-2 Hearts: What McInnes said

Pierre Landry Kabore chases it and all of a something, it becomes something and obviously the keeper's handled it. You're up against good players and good players who believe they can go and win a title as well.

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Learning From the Archives: Louisiana’s Long History of Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice Advocacy

Despite having some of the most restrictive laws and among the worst reproductive health outcomes in the nation, Louisiana has a long history of reproductive rights and justice advocacy that spans religious, racial and cultural lines. A recent archival exhibit hosted by the Newcomb Institute at Tulane University showcased physical and digital archival collections at Tulane, along with personal and organizational records from community partners, documenting a history of activism from the 20th century to today in Louisiana and the broader Gulf South. By placing items from the historical archives alongside materials from current community organizations, the exhibit offered a reminder of how long Louisianans have fought to expand and defend reproductive rights and justice within the state.

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Apr 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • msmagazine.com
Anne Hathaway & Michaela Coel Talk <i>Mother Mary,</i> Fame & Knowing When To “Hibernate”

Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel talk their new A24 film, Mother Mary, pop stars, credit, and what they do when they want to escape the spotlight.

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Apr 25 • 8:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • refinery29.com
Portland’s OMSI launches climate science exhibit

The Climate of Change/Clima de Cambio exhibit at the Nancy Stueber Natural Sciences Hall invites visitors to explore climate science through immersive displays and hands-on activities.

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Apr 25 • 3:35 PM EDT • Science • hereisoregon.com
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Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is embracing a statue it once kept at arm’s length | Talk 1370

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Apr 25 • 9:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Can Class Politics Win Again?

Krystal Ball, Vivek Chibber, and Matt Karp discuss how class politics stalled after the Bernie Sanders campaigns — and why a new political opening is finally emerging.

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Apr 25 • 7:01 AM EDT • Politics • jacobin.com
Hibernian v Hearts: Pick of the stats

Hibernian have won both of their past two home league games against Hearts; they had won just one of their previous nine home Edinburgh derbies in the Scottish Premiership before this (D4 L4). After their 1-0 win in February, Hearts are looking to win back-to-back Scottish Premiership meetings with rivals Hibs for the first time since April 2014; this is the 28th top-flight game between the two sides since then. Hibs remain unbeaten in nine home league games (W6 D3), keeping a clean sheet in their last three; they haven't recorded four successive home shutouts in the top flight since December 2009 under John Hughes.

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Apr 25 • 4:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is embracing a statue it once kept at arm’s length. A new exhibition, “Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments,” brings the bronze figure

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Apr 25 • 12:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
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Guests can't bring chairs to CCNB Amphitheatre. Here's why

More changes will be coming to the amphitheater down the road, but the venue does not plan on prohibiting any other items.

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Apr 24 • 3:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • greenvilleonline.com
'There's always a beef': A new exhibition turns identity politics between Arabic speakers into art

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Apr 23 • 9:19 AM EDT • Politics • haaretz.com
SCRC activism exhibit revisits protests, politics for America’s 250th

SCRC’s newest exhibit, “We Demand!: A Legacy of Activism in America” revisits newspapers, photographs, speeches of protests in the United States. The collection spans from the 1850s to the late 2010s.

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Apr 22 • 11:28 PM EDT • Politics • dailyorange.com
Weekly Entertainment Report: Live music and lively arts, April 23-26 » Nashua Ink Link

Live music and lively arts abound. Go out and get some.

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Apr 22 • 11:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • nashua.inklink.news
Experience Science City's Brand-New "Jurassic Journey"

Shane and Kerrigan join Floor Lead Travis Brown at Science City to explore their new, interactive dinosaur exhibit.

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Apr 21 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • kctv5.com
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From Donald Trump to Jacob Frey — has politics lost its profanity filter?

If there was ever a set of rules for politicians interfacing with the public, steadfast avoidance of profanity might have been at the very top of such a list. Robert’s Rules of Order, which are often invoked in political spaces, certainly prohibit personal insults, including profanity. But these are new times. Just last week, President Donald Trump […]

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Apr 21 • 10:44 AM EDT • Politics • cssh.northeastern.edu
FSU's "Art in STEM" exhibition shows the beauty of science

The exhibition helps the FSU community "bridge the gap between scientific discovery and popular interest." Neighbors can view the exhibition at FSU's Dirac Science Library through the summer.

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Apr 20 • 10:57 PM EDT • Science • wtxl.com
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Science is Cool: Capillary Action

Kirsten Hibbard, the executive director of the Challenger Learning Center, is here to teach us about capillary action.

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Apr 20 • 5:55 PM EDT • Science • wabi.tv
Most fashion mannequins are about a size 2. The Met Gala exhibit is making room for diverse bodies

The upcoming fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines “the dressed body” in art over the centuries | KMBZ

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Apr 20 • 10:34 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Report: Giants unlikely to trade Kayvon Thibodeaux

The Giants traded defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence to the Bengals over the weekend, but a report on Monday indicates that they aren't expected to ship out another veteran defender ahead of the draft.

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Apr 20 • 9:48 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com
FSU's Art in STEM returns for 12th year highlighting the beauty and artistry of science

Florida State University’s Art in STEM event returns for its 12th annual exhibition showcasing the artwork of FSU students conducting research in science,

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Apr 20 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • news.fsu.edu
Georgia's Vibrant District Is The Entertainment Hub Of Savannah's Scenic Riverfront

Aside from stunningly romantic riverfront views, the Plant Riverside District in Savannah, Georgia, offers many restaurants, shopping spots, and exhibits.

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Apr 20 • 7:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • islands.com
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The Unfinished War: Brinton exhibition highlights Native perspectives of famous battle

“We have this wonderful opportunity, because of our collection, to really tell this story from the (Native) perspective,” Wierich said. “Art can be a testimony to endurance and resilience.”

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Apr 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • thesheridanpress.com
El Paso Science Festival returns to Downtown

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) - Saturday and Sunday, several organizations including La Nube will host the El Paso Science Fest at the El Paso Convention Center, from 10:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. According to organizers, attendees can expect over 100 interactive exhibits for visitors to get hands-on experience with launching a spaceship, coding robots, engineering,

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Apr 18 • 12:42 PM EDT • Science • kvia.com
'Hearts close to signing midfielder Renauld'

Heart of Midlothian are reportedly close to signing Versailles midfielder Tom Renaud, while Aberdeen are linked with Hibernian's Martin Boyle.

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Apr 18 • 4:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Rare founding-era documents are in LA for limited time only

Exhibition open at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from April 17 through May 3

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Apr 17 • 11:53 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Tavernier wants maximum points from split as Rangers target title

Rangers captain James Tavernier has set his side a title-clinching target of five wins from five after the split. The Ibrox side, who were 13 points adrift of leaders Hearts when Danny Rohl took charge in October, are now just a point off the pace. Rangers begin their post-split games at home to Motherwell next weekend while Hearts are at Easter Road for an Edinburgh derby against Hibernian and third-place Celtic host Falkirk.

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Apr 17 • 4:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
They Froze a Brain to −196°C. Then Brought it ‘Back to Life’ in a Groundbreaking New Study.

Human hibernation seems like pure science fiction, but it could make interstellar travel a reality.

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Apr 16 • 5:15 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Cross-department collaboration brings art and science to The Bridge

A cross-department collaboration is bringing art and science together at The Bridge in ZSR Library through Botanical Bridges: Observation and Invention, a new exhibition showcasing work from Lydia Smith’s Spring 2026 Life Drawing class. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 17, from [...]

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Apr 16 • 12:27 PM EDT • Science • inside.wfu.edu
Another big change is coming to Seattle’s Pacific Science Center

After a property sale, shuffled exhibits on campus and a round of layoffs, Seattle’s Pacific Science Center announced a leadership transition Thursday morning.

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Apr 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • seattletimes.com
3 to See Art in Motion in Lake Worth; Norton exhibit; PB Symphony

Cultural Council for Palm Beach County recommends exploring new art exhibitions and a classical concert in Palm Beach County this week.

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Apr 16 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • palmbeachpost.com
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Tammy Baldwin targets game blackouts, expensive sports streaming apps

New legislation from Sen. Tammy Baldwin would prohibit league-owned streaming services from blacking out games and require a free option for fans.

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Apr 15 • 5:21 PM EDT • Sports • jsonline.com