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Why Derrick Henry cannot realistically meet 2026 fantasy expectations

Derrick Henry is an all-time great. Full stop. He was also vastly overvalued in fantasy this summer. If you drafted him, here are the warning signs.

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Sep 13 • 9:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meet Malik Willis, Miami Dolphins starting quarterback for 2026 season

Malik Willis, originally a third-round pick of the Tennessee Titans, likely is a stop-gap measure for the Dolphins until they can draft a franchise quarterback.

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Sep 13 • 9:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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Sep 13 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
What if Rutgers pulls the plug on Schiano? Who’s next?

I know, still ten more games. But, it’s when, not if. Time to start thinking who could we get to replace him? I know more than a few people who start shopping for Christmas in July….well, actually they never stop shopping. They have a notebook (okay, a notes app on their phone) where they list […]

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Sep 13 • 8:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Miami real estate broker nears $1 billion in deals

Jordan Karp started his own real estate brokerage at 26. Now, he's nearing $1 billion in deals and works nonstop in Miami, Florida.

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Sep 13 • 8:24 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Gaza hospital generators stop operating amid shortages of fuel, oil: Health Ministry

Ministry warns more generators could shut down due to lack of spare parts, calls for urgent supplies | Anadolu

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Sep 13 • 7:54 AM EDT • Health • aa.com.tr
Brentford analysis: Schade haunts Cherries again

Kevin Schade scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 win against Bournemouth last December and was their tormentor again on Saturday. With the score at 1-1 deep into first-half stoppage time, the Bees were convinced they had a penalty as Kristoffer Ajer's shot struck Adrien Truffert's arm, but referee Jarred Gillett deemed the defender to be too close to react and waved away the appeals.

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Sep 13 • 6:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Championship leader endures Madrid nightmare race as rivals pounce

Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic took advantage of a well-timed Safety Car to make his pit stop and rejoin at the front, using track position to secure victory in the Formula 2 Feature Race in Madrid. It was a race to forget for championship leader Nikola Tsolov, who finished well outside the points.

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Sep 13 • 6:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A wave is building for Democrats. Republicans are building a wall to stop it

The 2026 election will be decided where the wave meets the wall.

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Sep 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Why Democrats will turn out even if they dislike their party’s leaders

At a rest stop off Interstate 95, Democratic voters said they are starting to set aside their frustrations to coalesce around the party's midterm candidates.

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Sep 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Kehoe holds signing for new health care licensing law

Gov. Mike Kehoe stopped in Kansas City on Thursday for a ceremonial signing of a new bill that opens doors for out-of-state health care professionals.

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Sep 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • newstribune.com
This Is Why Ohio State Should’ve Let Texas Score

The Ohio State Buckeyes had no business losing to the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night, not after the way OSU had dominated much of the game. But down the stretch, Arch Manning and the Longhorns started scoring, and the Texas defense began getting stops. All of a sudden, Texas was on the doorstep with less […] The post This Is Why Ohio State Should’ve Let Texas Score appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 13 • 2:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bone Health Without the Hype

I am at the Australasian Menopause Society meeting and we had a fantastic lecture on Bone Health on Day 2, called, “Everything you need to know about bones - except the boring bits!” Spoiler alert, there were no boring bits. The lecture was given by Dr. Amanda Beech, who is a senior staff specialist in Obstetric Medicine and Endocrinology at the Royal Hospital for Women, where she is director of the Bone Density Unit. I want to summarize my top 10 take-aways for you. Share Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass, disruption of bone microarchitecture, and fragility of the skeleton. It is a silent disease…until someone develops a fracture. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is based on either fragility/minimal trauma fractures or a T-score of less than -2.5 on a DXA (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry) or bone scan. It is important to recognize that about 50% of minimal trauma fractures occur when women have low bone mass (often referred to as osteopenia), but not osteoporosis. This tells us that bone strength is more complicated than a number on a DXA report. I am going to add a little here that wasn’t in the talk (one can only include so much in 25 minutes), as many women might read the above paragraph and think, “Shouldn’t we be treating everyone with low bone mass if this is when 50% of the fractures occur?” Many fractures happen for women with low bone mass because there are so many women with low bone mass –it is a statement about the population on a whole, not about the fracture risk of low bone mass. For you as an individual, bone density is only one component of fracture risk and many women with lower bone mass will not have a significantly elevated fracture risk. This is why individualized risk assessment matters. Subscribe We build bone in our teens and twenties, and by the time we are about thirty we have reached peak bone mass. This is why, when we discuss risk factors for osteoporosis, it is important to consider factors that might have affected us in our teens and twenties when we were actively building bone, such as nutritional restriction/energy imbalance. It is important to ask women about a history of eating disorders, and for those with such a history, getting a bone scan in perimenopause or at age 50 is likely warranted. (This image below isn’t from the talk, but is similar to one that was). Bone mass is relatively stable until about two years before the final menstrual period, and perimenopause marks a time of rapid bone loss for women. Using urinary markers of bone loss we know that the time of significantly accelerated bone loss starts about 1 year before the final period and ends about 2 years after the final period. The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) shows that over the menopause transition women lose an average of 10.6% of the bone at their lumbar spine and 9.1% at the femoral neck While this wasn’t covered in the lecture, I want to add that the rapid bone loss during perimenopause is clearly related to more than estradiol, because during this time estradiol levels can be erratic and not uniformly low. Bone loss during perimenopause is likely a multi-hormone event. For example, rising FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) tracks with bone loss better than estradiol, and there is evidence that FSH may act directly on bone. While decreased estrogen matters, there is clearly more going on. FSH and bone is an active area of research. Subscribe Screening for osteoporosis was recommended fairly broadly before age 65, and was taken from the “Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing Menopause,” from Monash University. Here is a screenshot from the toolkit that was used as a slide: I am going to add a little bit more about body weight here for clarification. Low body mass (typically 152.1 lb): 0 points (risk neutral) 60–69 kg (132.3–152.1 lb): 3 points (adds some risk)

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Sep 12 • 11:19 PM EDT • Health • vajenda.substack.com
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Security stops alleged trespasser on Kamala Harris’ Malibu property

Security stopped an alleged trespasser on Kamala Harris’ Malibu property on Friday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and her spokesperson, raising security concerns about the former vice president.

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Sep 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Learning and fun had at this year’s Healthcare Expo in Kirksville on Saturday

KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - People of all ages stopped by this year’s Healthcare Expo in Kirksville on Saturday.

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Sep 12 • 7:34 PM EDT • Health • ktvo.com
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World’s largest shark discovered: what scientists found left them speechless

Off the Atlantic coast, a great white shark pulled onto a research vessel stopped scientists cold and forced them to rethink what they thought they knew about the species. What Ocearch's team measured...

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Sep 12 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
NASCAR Cup Series Starting Lineup: Enjoy Illinois 300 At Gateway

The NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup for the Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway Gateway is officially set. Joey Logano will lead the field to the green flag after setting the fastest time in qualifying. Kyle Larson will start alongside Logano on the front row, while Ryan Blaney and Christopher Bell will start […] The post NASCAR Cup Series Starting Lineup: Enjoy Illinois 300 At Gateway appeared first on Stadium Rant.

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Sep 12 • 5:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Crypto billionaires donate millions to Reform UK, raising concerns about money in politics

Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage, received £72 million (around €83.9 million) from two cryptocurrency billionaires this weekend, prompting concerns about money’s influence in British politics. Ben Delo, co-founder of the BitMEX platform, donated £36 million, and crypto investor Christopher Harborne matched that amount. Harborne supports Reform UK’s policies, believing they will […]

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Sep 12 • 3:32 PM EDT • Politics • europeaninterest.eu
Why Everything Scientists Thought About Fertilization Timing Was Just Proven Wrong - Futura-Sciences

What if Temperature Is the Real Key to Male Fertility? Did you ever stop and wonder why testicles are located outside the human body? Well, it’s not for the sake of making gym shorts more interesting. The real reason is that sperm cells aren’t fans of heat – they thrive...

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Sep 12 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Jackson Rallies Volunteers at Campaign Stop in Rockland

Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful said he entered politics because power and influence has held people back.

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Sep 12 • 11:24 AM EDT • Politics • midcoastvillager.com
SNL star stops by Old Sacramento business that will be closing its doors
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Sep 12 • 10:47 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Seattle’s oldest pawn shop has seen plenty

Barney’s Jewelry and Loan has experienced Seattle's highs and lows along with its residents. For some, the pawn shop is a financial stopgap. For others, it's a lifeline.

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Sep 12 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com
Céline Dion Tears Up Seconds into Her First Full Concert in Over 6 Years: ‘I Made a Promise to Come Back’

Céline Dion returned to the stage for her first full concert in more than six years on Sept. 12, kicking off her 26-show Paris residency. Dion became emotional seconds into the opening song at Plenitude Arena, momentarily stopping to wipe tears from her eyes.

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Sep 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com
The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’

A subset of male gamers have spent years warning that the transgressive series has been neutered by progressive developers, but the backlash isn’t taking hold.

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Sep 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Trump can’t stop insulting his own candidate in Texas. Why?

Republicans’ hopes of holding their Senate majority might hinge on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton more than anyone else.

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Sep 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Mets Make Bo Bichette Decision After Blue Jays Shortstop Move

New York Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns sent a clear message on the team’s infield for next season.

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Sep 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
I’m angry with leaders on both sides. The toxic rhetoric has to stop.

John Kasich: The question for voters is: Are we going to take the bait? If we reward this divisive rhetoric, we’re going to get more of it.

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Sep 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now
The politics and possibilities of ‘AI could kill us all’

I found myself fielding a lot of questions from folks who don’t usually talk much about AI this week. They were mostly along the lines of “do you think AI is going to kill us all?” or “how worried should I be about this human extinction stuff?” Motivating this wave of existential anxiety was the highly dramatic resignation of now-former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who quit his job while publicly sharing his concerns about safety practices at the leading AI companies. More specifically, he declared that almost everyone at OpenAI and Anthropic, the leading AI labs, believes that there’s a decent chance the AI systems they’re producing could “kill us all” by the end of the decade, and the companies aren’t “acting responsibly.” Other AI safety researchers, including those still employed at Anthropic and OpenAI, all confirmed that yes, Coxon is correct, they’re all worried that their company’s products might prove fatal for the entire human race as well. Two more AI employees quit and joined the chorus. Now, the warning shot has been covered everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News to WIRED to the Guardian. I understand why all this sounds scary, but my response to those who have asked, has generally been: No, you don’t need to worry that AI will kill go rogue and kill us all. But that does not mean we shouldn’t worry, period. Far from it. The companies building AI products are now among the wealthiest and most powerful entities in the world. And they very much are building enormous engines of mass surveillance, extraction, and automation. They can and have allowed their AI systems to carry out felony hacks of other companies, provided the government with autonomously generated kill lists, and sold enterprise technology to firms around the world that is explicitly intended to replace jobs. But “AI” has done these things not because they have all-powerful minds of their own but, ultimately, because people have programmed, calibrated, and directed them to. In other words, it’s not AI we need to worry the most about. It’s the people and corporations working to profit from and gain power by deploying it. The technology is sophisticated, sure, and, especially in cybersecurity contexts, potentially disruptive to plenty of existing systems. But if we want to stop this predatory, profiteering, and extractive form of AI—and it’s worth noting that at this point, most people do—we absolutely can. A quick note/plea: I can only do all of this with the support of readers like you, so if you find value in independent, critical tech journalism and analysis, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I want to keep as much of this un-paywalled as absolutely possible, and I need your support to do so. Many thanks to all who continue to chip in, it’s very much appreciated. Onward. Subscribe First, some context: AI industry folks like Coxon have been discussing the prospect that AI will destroy humanity for years. Even before the beginning of the AI boom, many working in the industry, from the executive staff to the rank and file researchers, have obsessed over ‘x-risk’, or the possibility that AI will become sentient or semi-sentient and move one way or another to exterminate humanity. This is ostensibly why Elon Musk bankrolled OpenAI in the first place, and is the grounds for his lawsuit alleging OpenAI betrayed its charter by abandoning its nonprofit status to become a commercial enterprise. Many AI engineers and startup founders have calculated their own personal p(doom), or the probability that the tech product they are working on will initiate an actual humanity-extinguishing apocalypse. 10-25% p(doom)s are pretty common. (I wrote about a long weekend I spent among these folks at one of their top conferences here, to give you an idea of their ideas and belief systems.) Sam Altman himself drove the narrative of the imminent rise of a super-powerful AI, or artificial general intelligence, to prominence by declaring that the technology he was building posed an existential risk to humanity. This idea is in other words baked into the DNA of modern AI companies and into the products they engineer. It’s also why the industry is routinely accused, by myself and others, of “doom marketing,” ie, using such proclamations and framings to impart the sheer power of the technology behind your product onto investors, partners, consumers, and the state. Some ambient understanding of this tendency may have helped prevent the press from repeating the claim every time one of the x-risk folks made it over the years, including when they quit their jobs at AI companies while doing so. Yet Coxon’s AI x-risk alarm has broken containment, as they say, and has exposed the idea to the mainstream media once again. This has happened, I think, for a number of reasons. First, when AI CEOs were going around saying AI might kill everyone in 2023, their companies were well-capitalized, but not nearly to the extent they are today. They were more easily dismissed as eccentric geeks of the sort that Silicon Valley is supposed to produce. Now, not only do their products have much greater market saturation, but people are more aware of a) the often unethical ways the executives and companies comport themselves b) the other adverse impacts of AI that have already arrived, and c) the physical cost of building these systems, particularly when it comes to data centers. Finally, toss in the constant stream of headlines in 2026 about AI models going rogue or potentially upending the world’s infrastructure. [ ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) [ With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) Brian Merchant · Aug 27 [ Read full story ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) As a result, general sentiment was already overwhelmingly skeptical of AI and its overlords, so the table was pretty well set for someone to come along and say ‘just a reminder, the companies that are building the product that promises to take your job and leave a data center in your neighborhood also think that it might exterminate the human race’ and get a strong reaction from the media and the public. The question is: Should we understand this stuff as hype, strategically fanned to feed already swelling valuations? Is it doom marketing? Genuine cause for alarm that the infrastructure that undergirds modern life is facing a novel threat vector? Or reason to be sincerely worried that AI companies are amassing too much power, and that their products are genuinely dangerous? The answer, I’m afraid, is “yes.” Let me try to untangle all of this a bit, because arguments over how to navigate this moment are extremely heated right now, as they are essentially arguments over how to approach the politics of AI at a moment where there may be a unique opening for action. Those sympathetic to AI alignment concerns and x risk arguments—which increasingly includes a faction on the left who want to shut down AI over safety concerns—argue that people who dismiss AI as all hype have their heads in the sand. Meanwhile, critics of the x-risk narrative—which I might note includes a cadre of investors and tech folks on the right, too—argue that it is hype and can be used to further inflate valuations or for pursuing regulatory capture. The challenge is that many feel that dismissing AI as just hype or purely marketing also diminishes the urgency of taking on the AI industry as the novel and threat to labor, civil society, and the public sphere it is; others that by accepting the industry’s own terms, we imbue it with undue power and enable it. But let’s be clear: Declarations that AI is so powerful it might end the world are a kind of marketing, and anyone who says otherwise is just as off base as those who say that’s all that it is. If you don’t think that these sub-trillion dollar companies have higher-ups who noticed that when their founders talked about super-powerful dangerous AI they got spikes in media interest and phone calls from investors, or that those founders didn’t notice that themselves, and lean into certain narratives to advantage their products, then I don’t know what to tell you. Not all marketing is a Pepsi ad campaign with a celebrity spokesperson. Yet confronting the AI industry should certainly be considered an urgent project. Do I share the x-riskers’ fear that out-of-control, super-intelligent AI agents might end the world? I do not. I’ve read a good deal of AI extinction literature over the last couple of years and I have not come across a credible, step-by-step documentation of how exactly AI might move from self-recursively improving AI to killing every single human on the planet. Most of what I’ve read seems predicated on a sort of reverse Ian Malcolmian logic: Eventually, it becomes smart enough and AI, uh, finds a way (to exterminate humanity). Are the AI companies also overstating and dramatizing what their products can do? Yes, pretty much all the time. They’re in a knife fight for market share and are trying to win customers and government contracts before their investors come knocking. And yet. They have concentrated enormous amounts of compute, have extensive data collection and surveillance capacities, have inserted themselves into the state in numerous capacities, including military kill chains, and they are being run by egomaniacal billionaires who are rushing to monopolize an entire new market. The way I think about their most recent frightening-seeming exploits is not as a “swarm of rogue AI agents building a new civilization” or whatever, but as corporations with a hitherto-unimaginable amount of compute at their disposal recklessly experimenting with automation programs, completely unafraid of any repercussions because we have been unwilling or unable to impose any on them. So I think we should welcome any newfound imperative to hold them accountable. I also think that ultimately, the AI critics, Pause AI folks, leftists, doomers, effective altruists, and, honestly, most of the public, want a lot of the same things: legitimate checks and limits on AI companies’ power, actual transparency into what the companies are doing, and for more of AI to be under public control. (Ultimately, a lot of what animates the x-risk fears are rooted in just that: a fear of losing control.) How we move towards all this, exactly, is the question of the day, and while there’s much to be argued over in terms of building a viable political platform to challenge the AI industry’s power, I do want to cast a vote against one particular approach. Not to pick on Chris here, as there are a lot of folks out there proposing stuff like this, and the policy ideas actually stem from AI safety groups. But not only would this be challenging to land politically (I can already hear the ‘China will beat us to AGI’ calls) and all but unworkable in practice, this approach is a) far too limiting, b) fails to address the current harms caused by AI and c) would likely only wind up serving Anthropic and OpenAI; it’s what regulatory capture looks like in action. Full model transparency is the floor for what should be on offer here. If these companies believe their products will kill us, the very least we deserve is to know how. It’s in the public interest. I would also argue we might get a lot of the way to stopping any currently envisioned robot apocalypse simply by forcing AI companies to assume liability, and to submit to the full brunt of the law. If Sam Altman were liable to be charged with a felony for approving the hack on Hugging Face1, if Google was forced to pay defamation fines each time it published a false and injurious AI Overviews, these companies might suddenly find cause to restrain their models’ output, and we might hear less about rogue AI. We would need to introduce new frameworks and available tools for tracking automated lawbreaking, to be sure, but I’d wager that little would frighten the AI companies more than actually being held accountable for what their products enable. To that end, Illinois has passed an AI liability law, which the industry fought tooth and nail, and Florida is considering one. The next steps would be towards moving AI under public control; again, it’s only reasonable, since everyone, not just AI insiders, should get a say over how a technology whose developers say might kill us is developed and deployed. Dismantling the whole industrial project as currently structured should be on the table, too, pending democratic input. But that’s for another post. For now, suffice to say that while I won’t be losing any sleep about an AI-enabled extinction event, Mr. Coxon and co. have given us an opportunity to underscore the urgency of the clear and present damage AI companies are doing, the extreme power they wield and the extent to which they hold themselves unaccountable, and the abundance of political capital there is out there for taking them on. Subscribe 1 Purely speculative! I do not know if he did or not.

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Michigan business concerned after 6 workers stopped by federal agents
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Razorbacks visit Fayetteville High for mental health pep rally

The Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team made a stop at Fayetteville High School Friday, bringing students a message that goes beyond the basketball court.

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Sep 11 • 9:57 PM EDT • Health • 4029tv.com
Video: Opinion

President Trump’s unpopularity is a threat to Republican candidates across the country. But that’s not stopping him from promising $5,000 checks to voters and telling them to pretend he’s on the ballot. The Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that these efforts to woo infrequent voters are not only harmful to the party but also “profound political malpractice.”

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Sep 11 • 7:35 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Kansas State Football: Washington State Preview

Washington State needs to run the ball. There are some questions about K-State’s ability to stop the run. Those questions will be answered, one way or another, on Saturday.

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Sep 11 • 7:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Monroe hot sauce company ordered to stop sales over botulism risk: Health officials

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) is urging the public to not consume hot sauces made by a Monroe company, saying they have a potential Botulism risk.…

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Sep 11 • 6:52 PM EDT • Health • wtnh.com
Grammy-winning singer Victoria Monét to make hometown Sacramento tour stop

The award-winning R&B and soul singer will bring her tour to Memorial Auditorium this winter.

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Sep 11 • 5:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • sacbee.com
LeadingAge to CMS: Halt the Hospice, Home Health Moratorium

LeadingAge has urged the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to end the temporary hospice and home health moratoria in advance

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Sep 11 • 3:56 PM EDT • Health • hospicenews.com
‘We have to stop the stigma of mental health’: Hope 2 Help event to provide suicide awareness in Iron Mountain

Great Lakes Recovery is a nonprofit organization that supports families affected by suicide.

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Sep 11 • 1:16 PM EDT • Health • uppermichiganssource.com
Top Entertainment Stocks To Follow Today

Verizon Communications, Walt Disney, Spotify Technology, Autodesk, GameStop, SEA, and DraftKings are the seven Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of companies involved in producing, distributing, or delivering entertai

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Sep 11 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Routine Reset: How to Prioritize Your Mental Health This Fall

School is back in session and life is getting back to normal, so psychotherapist Niro Feliciano stops by TODAY to share tips for resetting your routine. See her advice for dealing with shorter daylight hours and packed schedules, which includes “progress over perfection,” limiting phone use, going for walks, and more.

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“Dark Knight” actor makes rare comment on moment he learned costar Heath Ledger died

Gary Oldman reflected on Ledger’s 2008 death, after he and the Australian actor starred in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed “The Dark Knight” Batman movie.

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Sep 11 • 12:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
James McAvoy reacts to Christopher Abbott’s casting as Professor Xavier in new ‘X-Men’ film (exclusive)

From one Xavier to another! James McAvoy is reacting to Christopher Abbott’s casting as Professor Charles Xavier in Marvel’s upcoming ‘X-Men’ film.

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Sep 11 • 11:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
London Theatre Drops Duke of York Name After More Than 130 Years

A historic theater in London’s West End is getting a new name after more than a century as the Duke of York’s Theatre. Owners ATG Entertainment said renaming the playhouse as the Tom Stoppard Theatre ...

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Sep 11 • 11:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
From ‘Ozempic breath’ to hair loss: sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs

Do you gain weight once you stop using them? Do they make your face saggy? Can they improve your mental health? Experts explain whether 13 common beliefs about GLP-1s are true or false

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Sep 11 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
Stop networking like a robot: Use the FORD method to build better business relationships

Commentary: The FORD Method helps professionals build genuine business relationships by focusing on family, occupation, recreation, and dreams during networking.

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Sep 11 • 5:51 AM EDT • Business • thedailyrecord.com
Miami-area hospital to get new kids’ cancer center. How Palace founders are involved

The new center, made possible by a $15 million donation from Palace founders Helen and Jacob Shaham, will serve as a one-stop shop for care.

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Sep 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • miamiherald.com
2026 Rising Stars: Kristopher Pockell

Kristopher Pockell is a software engineering manager at Liberty Lake-based OpenEye by day and the co-founder of Spokane Valley-based Elixir Sauce Co. by night.

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Sep 11 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • spokanejournal.com
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Christopher H. Palmer

Christopher H. Palmer is managing partner of Cullen and Dykman and chair of the firm’s banking and financial services department.

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Sep 11 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • libn.com
Elena Rybakina stops Coco Gauff’s U.S. Open surge to face Aryna Sabalenka in the final

The new world No. 1 came back from a set down to meet the player she will replace at the top of women's tennis.

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Sep 10 • 11:09 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Dan Schneider loses ‘Quiet on Set’ defamation case

A court stopped Dan Schneider’s defamation case against the creators of ‘Quiet on Set’ from proceeding.

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Sep 10 • 8:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle, raise concerns about corruption in Springfield townhall

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle held a “stop the corruption” town hall in Springfield Thursday. The town hall was a part of a tour focusing on concerns about corruption in politics.

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Sep 10 • 8:09 PM EDT • Politics • klcc.org
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Indiana business climate, one-stop shops for storm victims, ICE in Indy, Amazon lawsuit

Gov. Mike Braun spoke to hundreds of regional government and industry leaders in Muncie Thursday, highlighting the state’s commitment to growing business, jobs and wages and commending the economic momentum

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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Bringing 'Color Bash' to Bryce Jordan Center

Another Hot Wheels show will make a pit-stop at the Bryce Jordan Center next spring with a new experience built around color, three performances and a

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As fall sports season gets under way, boys soccer team earns 9-1 win, girls team ties

Compiled by Matthew Christopher Haraden • Hull High School’s fall sports season is under way. The boys varsity soccer team opened its season with a 9-1 win over Norfolk County Agricultural High School on Tuesday. The Pirates face Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School at home on Fr

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Sep 10 • 6:15 PM EDT • Sports • hulltimes.com
Ilana Glazer talks grief, giggles and activism before Madison stop

‘Ilana Glazer Live!’ comes to Madison’s Orpheum Theater on Sept. 17. The ‘Broad City’ star feels better than ever on their second ‘grownup standup tour.’

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Sep 10 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
Politics, The Vote And The Black Church - The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Today, the Black Church is a key stop on the agenda of every political candidate seeking a sure vote. This is why so many of them race to the church to be seen and smiled at, the Sunday before every election.

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Sep 10 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • sdvoice.info
Extradition is becoming a political football — here’s how the states can stop it

A governor who wants to shield someone from a prosecution he objects to, or from a sister state whose politics he finds distasteful, may simply keep an extradition demand “under investigation” inde…

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Sep 10 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Dr. Singh discusses the science of sleep

A board-certified physician and psychiatrist concentrated in the applied science of sleep as well as a sleep consultant for the Broncos stopped by in the final hour. With the Rams and 49ers having to make the long trek to Australia for their Week 1 matchup, she explains her thought process if her team were to…

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Sep 10 • 10:33 AM EDT • Science • danpatrick.com
TCB Selects Christophe Beck as Its 2026 Person of the Year

Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck refuses to shrink from complicated and thorny problems. As the opponents to data centers have grown exponentially, Beck has become a major public spokesman on how to reduce the water and electricity used in the centers. As Minnesota’s economy has produced slow growth, Beck’s spoken bluntly about needed changes in the

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Stop Automating Your CRM, Start Orchestrating Your Business

Why CRM must evolve into an AI-powered operating system that unifies agents, workflows, governance, and customer experience across the enterprise.

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Sep 10 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
Ohio-based Clarence Health brings personalized health support to everyday life

Managing your health doesn’t stop when you leave the doctor’s office. Clarence Health helps people stay organized, prepare for medical visits and create personalized health plans, all in one place.

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Sep 10 • 7:01 AM EDT • Health • knoxpages.com
It's Time for Phillies to Worry About Cristopher Sanchez
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Brewers' Contreras Reaches Major Home Run Milestone

The Milwaukee backstop powered a dominant offensive surge against Chicago, crushing a two-run blast to secure triple digits and cement his status as the roster's premier power threat.

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Sep 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Houston Texans News: Thursday September 10, 2026

Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Thursday September 10, 2026.

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Sep 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Treasury Must Keep Collecting and Preserving Business Owner Info

The Treasury Department’s decision to stop collecting certain business ownership information and delete information already collected will hinder fraud investigations by the IRS and other federal agencies, columnist Danny Werfel writes.

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Carteret Health Care takes free screenings on the road with countywide stops

CARTERET COUNTY — Carteret Health Care is taking free health screenings on the road this month, with several stops planned across the county.No appointments are

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Sep 10 • 3:21 AM EDT • Health • wcti12.com
La Kaña brings energetic style for nonstop dancing

ELOY — With hits like “Arroz con Camarón,” “Canchame” and “El Chiquito,” music group La Kaña brings its energetic and upbeat cumbias and tropical sound to the Eloy Fiestas Patrias

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Sep 10 • 2:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • pinalcentral.com
As the midterms loom, Trump returns to his happy place: on stage in the theatre of the absurd

President’s quest in self-mythology stops off in Dallas for a Republican convention where fans indulged his lies and revelled in his jokes

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Sep 10 • 1:59 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Mets Survive Marlins in Wild Shootout

Christopher Morel haunted his former team, while Francisco Lindor launched a crucial blast as New York withstood a furious late rally to outlast Miami in a high-scoring thriller and complete a three-game sweep.

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MedStar Health Offers New Nonsurgical Weight-Loss Procedure

/PRNewswire/ -- For the first time at MedStar Health, patients struggling with obesity who may not want, or may not qualify for traditional bariatric surgery,...

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Sep 9 • 5:58 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Most Americans Have Stopped Believing the Government

A pair of new polls offer a sobering snapshot of the impact of President Trump’s second term in office thus far.

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Sep 9 • 5:04 PM EDT • Politics • nymag.com
Okay, WVU Women’s Soccer Really Is This Good.

Photos by Emma Lentz Well, I guess we can keep overreacting. Last week, I asked if WVU women’s soccer was really THIS good. The Mountaineers responded by beating Marshall 1-0, moving to 5-0 and giving me absolutely no reason to stop getting excited about this team. So, thanks for making my job easy. WVU is […]

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Sep 9 • 4:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
With AI memes, Trump promotes mythical version of himself as challenges stack up ahead of midterms

In the real world, President Donald Trump is struggling to stop inflation, rout the Iranian government and restore American manufacturing with tariffs. It's a different story in the fantastical vision that he shares with supporters on social media.

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Sep 9 • 3:26 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Jakobi Meyers will play in Week 1

A hand injury will not stop Jakobi Meyers from playing in Week 1.

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Sep 9 • 2:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jimmie Johnson | Racing Report

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — This week on Racing Report with Chris Weaver, we’ll take a look at the opening race for the NASCAR Chase for the Championship that kicked off at Darlington Speedway with the Southern 500. We’ll chat with winning driver, Christopher Bell, who got his first win of 2026 and we’ll also […]

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Melissa Castro swore under oath she stopped pulling Coral Gables permits. Records show 132 more

New records contradict Castro's sworn declaration that her permit-expediting firm cut all ties with Coral Gables.

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Sep 9 • 10:04 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
NFL stops Vikings from signing Kenny Dyson to practice squad after he was waived-injured
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Schumer and Jeffries opposed a Brooklyn power play. It happened anyway.

The Brooklyn party chair rewrote the rules ahead of a leadership vote despite objections from the nation’s two most powerful Democrats, and some in the party are wondering if they could do more to stop her.

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Today’s Papers – Big Inter gifts, Juventus in trouble

La Gazzetta dello SportJuve, you need to get yourself blessed.Locatelli returns in 2027; stop for BogaAfter Yildiz and Thuram, the captain underwent surgery too (could be out for six months)Inter’s ...

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China-Nepal floods; ‘Asian water tower’ wobbling: 7 science highlights

From Beijing’s bid to stop US AI dominance to impact of China-Nepal floods, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

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Sep 9 • 3:30 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
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Angel Reese Is Getting Way Too Good to Ignore

At some point, we have to stop calling Angel Reese a “future star.” She is already a star. Reese has taken her game to another level with the Atlanta Dream, averaging 16.1 points, 12.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game this season. And somehow, she still feels like one of the most underrated…

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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Sep 9 • 2:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Multiple amiibo Listings Have Apparently Been Spotted On GameStop's Internal Database

New Zelda amiibo were announced yesterday

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Sep 9 • 12:55 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Improv troupe to bring an evening of laughter to Waynesville

Get ready for an evening of spontaneous comedy and nonstop laughter as Waynesville-based Parking Space Comedy Improv performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12.

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Sep 9 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • themountaineer.com
Marlins' Brian Navarreto Finding Value Beyond Bat

Miami’s veteran backstop has endured a difficult offensive year while continuing to provide the Marlins with dependable work behind the plate and timely contributions.

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The 98 Biggest TV Show Flops, Bombs and Misses in the First Half of 2026

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) In July, I updated my look at how the “streaming bubble” popped since 2023, showing the decline in streaming TV shows over time. But after compiling and analyzing and writing about over one hundred TV show flops in the first half of 2026—I counted 99 “nominees” and there are even more honorable mentions—I couldn’t have told you that the number of shows is going down. When it comes to scripted, English-language TV shows, it feels like we have as many bombs as ever. I don’t keep a specific count, but some streamers probably had as many flops as they’ve ever had.1 That’s right, it’s time for part two of my analysis of the biggest flops, bombs and misses on streaming in the first half of 2026. Two weeks ago, I took a look at films. Today, TV shows. If you want to read the full methodology for how I assemble this list, you can find it at the bottom of this article. In short, this list is… ...scripted and unscripted TV shows,...from the nine major streamers,...in the US (using US-only ratings),...excluding true crime, kids and foreign-language shows,...that got no/poor ratings,...from Jan-2026 to the end of June-2026. Reminder: this article does not represent my personal opinion—many of these shows are great!—but I follow the data, and a miss is a miss and a bomb is a bomb. Also, price matters. If a TV show costs north of $100 million, it needs to get lots and lots of streaming viewership to justify that budget. As with past editions, I ordered this list by streamer, going from best (fewest flops) to worst (the most misses)—taking the size of the flops into consideration—and like the last edition, three or four streamers vied to take the win/loss of having the most flops. (But the actual winner is no surprise.) I try to avoid tooting my own horn too much, but seriously, in just under 5,000 words (including the methodology section) I provide a mostly comprehensive overview of the eight major streamers (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and Apple TV) for the first half of the year, mentioning most of their hits and all their misses. It summarizes the entire first half of 2026! If you want to support this work, please subscribe. Subscribe Tubi Big Mood Boarders The Freak Brothers Twenty Twenty Six Honorable Mentions: Busted on Bodycam, Deestroying the Pitch, Destination World Cup 2026 I don’t think that Tubi spends all that much making or (mostly) licensing these original TV shows—Big Mood, Boarders and Twenty Twenty Six all come from the UK—but they’re not free and they didn’t chart anywhere. Winner: The Freak Brothers Have you even heard of this show? It’s an animated comedy...that’s on its third season! And Pete Davidson, Woody Harrelson, John Goodman and Tiffany Haddish all provide voice talent for it. Yes, animated shows don’t cost as much as live action shows, but cheap isn’t free! So a show with this level of talent needs to perform better. Disney+ Daredevil: Born Again Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Honorable Mentions: Behind the Attraction, Donna Hay Coastal Celebrations, We Call It Imagineering Disney+ doesn’t make all that many original shows anymore. They had two flops, and one was animated. Their one not-a-miss show, Wonder Man, got just good enough viewership to not be considered a “miss”...but it’s since been cancelled. At this point, Disney has pivoted entirely away from making big budget TV shows for Disney+ to making...almost nothing for Disney+? Sure, Disney’s spending circa 2019-2022 was unsustainable, but now they’re pivoting too far in the other direction. At some point, Disney needs to stop shifting strategies so wildly. Really, Disney should have made fewer shows for Disney+ at launch and the shows they did make at that time needed to be made at more reasonable budgets. And they should adopt that strategy now. Winner: Daredevil: Born Again Daredevil, the Marvel Comics character, is on my personal Mount Rushmore of favorite superheroes, so it pains me to give him the win/loss today, but this show deserves it. I’ll repeat my hot take from last spring: “Based on his popularity, Daredevil should be in movies, and probably ones that cost a lot less than the MCU’s usual price tag. Disney/Bob Iger/Ike Perlmutter (who, based on reporting, made the decision) made a huge mistake selling TV shows to Netflix in the 2010s, thus limiting this character to the small screen. Daredevil could have anchored Marvel’s post-Infinity War plans, and if he did, the MCU would probably be in a better place than it is now.” HBO Max We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… What four streamers had the most misses... HBO’s strong start to 2026… The caveat to Peacock’s turnaround this year... Paramount+’s key man problem… What country isn’t delivering hits for Netflix or Hulu... The cavalcade of stars on a streamer where no one is watching their shows... Across nearly 5,000 words of analysis… And a lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you’d like to read more about why you should subscribe, please read this article about the Streaming Ratings Report, why it matters, why you need it, and why we cover streaming ratings best.

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Activists detained at Oregon State Capitol protesting lithium mine

Activists from Portland, Eugene and southern Oregon were urging Gov. Tina Kotek to step in and stop a controversial lithium mining project.

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ICE raid targets Danville area workers

Danville, Pa. — Multiple traffic stops in the Danville area led to the detention of people suspected of being in the country illegally Sept. 2, while a separate account from

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Kaelen Culpepper Sets a Defensive Goal for Twins’ Final Month

Culpepper’s work at shortstop gives Minnesota another reason to watch his September closely, alongside an encouraging start at the plate.

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Travel information for the Champions League opener v Villarreal

Rail servicesGetting thereThe RE 57 from Sauerland will make unscheduled stops at Signal Iduna Park station at 6:15 pm, 7:15 pm and 8:15 pm, and at Dortmund Central Station five minutes later each tim...

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SEC sets meeting to discuss booting LSU from conference

The Tigers didn't ultimately add any NFL players to their roster ahead of Week 1, but that hasn't stopped the SEC presidents' crusade against them.

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Sep 8 • 2:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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​​If AI thinks it's conscious, it's more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how we use it?

A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities

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Stand Up for Science Demands Congress Stop Transfer of National Institutes of Health Research Funds to

New petition urges Congress to stop an interagency agreement that would allow health research money to fund War Department’s unspecified priorities.

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Stand Up for Science Demands Congress Stop Transfer of National Institutes of Health Research Funds to

New petition urges Congress to stop an interagency agreement that would allow health research money to fund War Department’s unspecified priorities.

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As WTC steel beam makes stop in D.C., Trump pledges to never forget 9/11 victims

Trump spoke as part of a Steel Across America tour that has been traveling the country with a salvaged beam from the World Trade Center

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As WTC steel beam makes stop in D.C., Trump pledges to never forget 9/11 victims

Trump spoke as part of a Steel Across America tour that has been traveling the country with a salvaged beam from the World Trade Center

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As WTC steel beam makes stop in D.C., Trump pledges to never forget 9/11 victims

Trump spoke as part of a Steel Across America tour that has been traveling the country with a salvaged beam from the World Trade Center

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\'Twilight\' film concert experience coming to Hershey; here\'s when tickets are on sale

Fans of the "Twilight" movies can experience the romance of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan all over again when the "Twilight in Concert" tour stops in Hershey in February 2027.

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Six decades of politics (but little government)

The first aired episode of “Star Trek,” entitled “The Man Trap,” premiered on September 8, 1966 — 60 years ago today. I’m actually editing a political science fiction issue of The Forum right now, and it’s prompted to me think a lot about the ways that Trek deals with politics and government and what it’s offered us as commentary. The @smotus report is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe The original TV series ran from 1966 to 1969. It had a loyal but modest following, but the audience grew substantially with the series in syndication for years after that. The franchise developed its first motion picture in 1979, followed by five sequels, and then a whole other series of films built around the “Next Generation” series that first aired in 1987. In recent decades, several more TV series have built up around it, including the current “Strange New Worlds,” now in its fourth season. Throughout the past six decades, the franchise has offered us a good many insights into US politics and international relations, although often disguised as science fiction yarns. The original series was largely a Cold War fable, with the United Federation of Planets (a stand-in for the US) perpetually at odds with the Klingon Empire (a stand-in for the USSR). The “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” episode (1969) posited a planet divided into two races, largely indistinguishable to outsiders, but nonetheless constituting a brutal racial hierarchy. “Patterns of Force” (1968) showed a struggling planet where the leader had attempted to construct a benevolent dictatorship — literally Nazism without bigotry — and found that authoritarianism could not exist apart from hierarchy and oppression. (Relatedly, I’d put “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,” high on a list of dad films about the end of the Cold War, near “The Hunt for Red October.”) Get 20% off for 1 year Indeed, the original series itself was something of a political statement, with a multi-racial crew running the Enterprise, a diverse and largely peaceful Federation mostly free from want and oppression, and protected by Starfleet, an armed force whose scientific mission was at least as important as its military one. Famously, when Nichelle Nichols wanted to walk away from the role of Uhura on the original series, none other than Martin Luther King, Jr. met with her and urged her to remain on the show, discussing the importance of viewers seeing an intelligent Black woman as part of the command team three centuries hence. Later series in the Trek franchise offered a good deal of political commentary on their own, but probably none as explicitly and incisively as “Deep Space Nine,” which ran from 1993 to 1999. The episodes surrounding the Dominion War, especially the “In The Pale Moonlight” (1998), showed the compromises, sacrifices, and moral rot associated with winning even a just war — probably better than any series would until “Andor” (2022-25). In “Far Beyond The Stars” (1998), Captain Benjamin Sisko is somehow transplanted to the role of a science fiction writer in 1950s New York. The writer is frequently sidelined and his ideas stolen because publishers don’t want to credit a Black writer. Several series have depicted the secretive Section 31 — an unacknowledged black ops security force operating within Starfleet. These episodes often end up using Section 31 as a foil to show the dangers of a lawless group within a lawful society, even (especially) when that group posits itself as essential for everyone else’s freedom to continue. The current “Strange New Worlds” has played with a few political themes. I found the first two seasons of this show among the best that the Trek franchise has produced in decades, but this season and the last have really been struggling for ideas. Yet one interesting thread is the idea that the diplomatic and enlightened leadership style of Captain Christopher Pike will not work in all situations. “A Quality of Mercy” (2022), which I wrote about here, puts Pike in the middle of a battle with a Romulan vessel in an alternate timeline, and finds that Pike’s conciliatory style would actually make a lengthy and deadly war more likely, while a quick and more violent approach might have prevented the war. This season’s opener, “Valles Marineris,” shows a pre-lightspeed civilization locked in a war to the death with a neighboring planet. The idea of an alliance or a federation hasn’t even occurred to them — their ship’s commander is curious but doesn’t see it as an option. For a franchise as political as “Star Trek,” one thing we almost never see is the government. We get occasional glimpses of Starfleet’s council — mostly uniformed people at a rectangular table — but almost no sense of how the Federation is governed. Are there elections? Who is in the legislature? How much power does the president have? What kind of factional divisions do they wrestle with and how? The shows and films are pretty silent on this. We’ve seen a few military tribunals within Starfleet, but little about how civilians deal with crime and injustice. With recent years seeing some of the franchise’s more interesting plot lines and casts, it seems clear that Star Trek is still full of energy and ideas. Given the erosion of American democracy and the reshuffling of the international order, there’s no shortage of material for future shows to comment on. I’m not sure we should toast to 60 more years, but cheers to a show that continues to teach us about ourselves. Share

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Sep 8 • 9:03 AM EDT • Politics • smotus.substack.com
Robinson's tired excuses don't cut it as pressure mounts

The latest in the line of Stephen Robinson's excuses was that the players were tired from recent travelling. It's time for excuses and talking to stop. Sadly it feels like time is already against Robinson - the fans made their feelings known at full-time on Saturday.

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Sep 8 • 8:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back

If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
Kerjota transformative - but has he earned a start?

If Hearts' mentality was in question after that late collapse against Aberdeen just over a month ago, Sunday's stoppage-time winner from Sabah Kerjota offered a pretty emphatic response. This was a side showing the resilience Wouter Vrancken is trying to build. VAR Andrew Dallas intervened in two major incidents missed by referee Chris Graham, while the introduction of supersub Sabah transformed hope into genuine belief.

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