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US Health Secretary Kennedy fires heads of key preventive health panel

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ​earlier this month fired ‌the chair and vice chair of the influential task force that ​decides which preventive medical care ​is provided at no cost ⁠to patients.

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May 20 • 12:53 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury and Gray Media double down on fan investment and the future of sports media

The extension ensures Suns, Mercury and Valley Suns games remain free over-the-air across Arizona through 2030 while also introducing a digital streaming option through Arizona’s Family.

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May 20 • 12:35 PM EDT • Sports • azfamily.com
Samsung Overtakes Apple for Top Smartphone Customer Satisfaction

Samsung has edged past Apple for the top spot in customer satisfaction for cell phones, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index's 2026 Telecommunications, Cell Phone, and Smartwatch Study, published this week. Samsung scores 81 in the ACSI's cell phone rankings while Apple posts 80, breaking last year's tie between the two companies for satisfaction leadership.

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May 20 • 11:45 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Google, Samsung Offer First Look at Android XR Smart Glasses. Here's What You Get, and What's Missing

In partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, Samsung will launch Google-based 'audio glasses' this fall. At I/O, XReal also offered a first public look at its Aura glasses.

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May 20 • 11:43 AM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
Local beekeeping business celebrates National Bee Day by supporting pollinators and veterans

National Bee Day celebrates the tiny pollinators that play a huge role in our environment and the bee keepers that continue to support them.

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May 20 • 11:23 AM EDT • Business • kolotv.com
Health care investment firms GHO and CBC to merge

Scaling for suvival.

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May 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Jeff Bezos Defends 'Melania' Documentary as 'Very Good Business Decision,' Denies It Was Way to Buy Influence

Jeff Bezos insists that Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release "Melania," a documentary about the First Lady, was smart business -- and not an attempt to curry favor with her husband.

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May 20 • 11:03 AM EDT • Business • variety.com
Omni, Pics, and a Big Search Overhaul: Everything You Missed at Google I/O 2026

Google's Tuesday I/O keynote was jam-packed with news about AI, AI, and more AI, from agentic AI in search and Gemini enhancements to details about the Google-Samsung smart glasses.

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May 20 • 10:49 AM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
Thrillz Atlanta indoor amusement park opens in June: What to expect

Thrillz Atlanta, a new indoor amusement park in metro Atlanta off of Spaghetti Junction, offers attractions like a 35-foot slide and airbag obstacle courses.

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May 20 • 9:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • ajc.com
Dear Doctor: Are health risks of drinking beer more or less than those of sugared soda?

Neither beverage is a healthy choice, and here's why.

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May 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • oregonlive.com
Wednesday morning sports: lacrosse, baseball, softball highlights

Video from several games, scores from across the north country.

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May 20 • 7:41 AM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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Learn about forests, beavers and butterflies at free Northern Michigan science talks

Ten weeks of presentations cover forest ecology, global pollution, biodiversity genomics, and other environmental topics at the University of Michigan facility.

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May 20 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • mlive.com
Google and Samsung launch AI-powered Intelligent Eyewear

Google and Samsung have entered the smart glasses market with Intelligent Eyewear, made with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.

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May 20 • 6:57 AM EDT • Technology • dezeen.com
Google expands AI push at I/O with enterprise-focused Gemini upgrades and smarter search tools

Alphabet Inc. ’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on Tuesday introduced a range of new artificial intelligence tools at its annual I/O developer conference, including AI agents integrated directly into Search and a faster, lower-cost Gemini model aimed at enterprise customers.

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May 20 • 6:35 AM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
Fire damages multiple businesses at Harwinton plaza

An overnight fire damaged multiple businesses at a plaza in Harwinton.

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May 20 • 6:03 AM EDT • Business • wfsb.com
Guitar string capital: This CNY company makes wire for 80% of U.S. market
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May 20 • 6:01 AM EDT • Business • syracuse.com
Iran war hits small business hard

Small business profits are sinking as entrepreneurs deal with a confluence of forces ranging from rising labor costs to higher energy prices.

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May 20 • 4:50 AM EDT • Business • axios.com
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English soccer club Southampton set to pay heaviest price for sporting espionage

Southampton were expelled from the Championship playoff final ‌by the English Football League.

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May 20 • 4:37 AM EDT • Sports • reuters.com
The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding

The AI revolution is here and the boos are getting louder.

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May 20 • 1:05 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Spring sports scores and highlights: May 19, 2026

Highlights feature the baseball and softball games between Turner Ashby at Spotswood and Strasburg at Central

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May 20 • 12:03 AM EDT • Sports • whsv.com
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State Rep. Chris Rabb wins Democratic primary for Philly congressional seat, a decisive win for the progressive left

Rabb is now all but certain to win a two-year term to represent Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, a seat that has been held for a decade by retiring U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans.

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May 19 • 10:54 PM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com
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Roanoke focus group wraps up Entertainment District talks; Berglund Center needs $30M+ in repairs

he Roanoke Entertainment District focus group met for the final time to discuss what comes next for the city’s performance and sports venue, the Berglund Center, as leaders weigh major repairs and long-term plans for the facility.

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May 19 • 9:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdbj7.com
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Portland Trail Blazers lay off employees in restructuring of business office

The staff cuts are the first major change in the organization since Tom Dundon officially took over as owner earlier this year.

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May 19 • 8:07 PM EDT • Business • opb.org
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Raiders owner Mark Davis touts Las Vegas as growing major-league sports hub

Raiders owner Mark Davis says Las Vegas is a top global sports destination.

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May 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • fox5vegas.com
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Google and Xreal's 'Project Aura' XR Smart Glasses Are Legit

The spatial computing experience isn't as immersive as an XR headset, but maybe it doesn't need to be.

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May 19 • 7:17 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
Palmetto Sports Daily: Spurrier headlines latest SC Athletic Hall of Fame class

Former South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier was immortalized Monday as part of the latest SC Athletic Hall of Fame class.

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May 19 • 6:23 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com
Inaugural Maine Science Awards planned in Bangor this fall

Hollywood Casino Bangor to host, Maine Discovery Museum will produce the awards ceremony, set for Oct. 15

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May 19 • 6:15 PM EDT • Science • wabi.tv
Exclusive: US Health Secretary Kennedy backs away from some recent changes to CDC vaccine panel

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest effort to reconstitute a CDC vaccine advisory committee backs away ​from some reforms he announced just weeks ago and could complicate his efforts to alter federal immunization policy, according to a copy of the plan reviewed by ‌Reuters.

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May 19 • 6:11 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com
College Station sports medicine clinic treats everyone like an athlete

SPONSORED: "We're building a community, not a clinic." Alpha Sports Performance Medicine in College Station has a unique approach — treating everyone like an athlete. Dr. Ben Baumgartner travels the world with Team USA and brings that expertise home.

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May 19 • 5:51 PM EDT • Sports • kbtx.com
Palmetto Sports team LIVE ahead of Clemson baseball's matchup vs. Notre Dame in ACC Tournament

Palmetto Sports' Ella Grogan and Caroline Soro preview Clemson baseball's matchup vs. Notre Dame in ACC Tournament LIVE.

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May 19 • 5:35 PM EDT • Sports • foxcarolina.com
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Google's First AI Smart Glasses Launching This Fall With iPhone Support

Google today said that its first "intelligent eyewear" product is set to launch this fall. It is teaming up with Samsung and eyewear manufacturers Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to launch new AI audio glasses. The glasses will run Android XR, which is Google's platform for smart glasses and AR/VR headsets. There are cameras, speakers, and microphones in the glasses, but there is no display in the lenses.

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May 19 • 5:34 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Possible human remains found in crawl space of Rock Hill business

Officers were called around 11:30 a.m. to a business in the 300 block of Oakland Ave. after workers renovating the property found the remains in the crawl space.

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May 19 • 5:30 PM EDT • Business • wsoctv.com
Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Tigers-Guardians game on Thursday

The Detroit Tigers will play Game 3 of their series against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday, May 21 and there’s a new way to watch.

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May 19 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • wnem.com
Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Tigers-Guardians game on Thursday

The Detroit Tigers will play Game 3 of their series against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday, May 21 and there’s a new way to watch.

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May 19 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • wnem.com
Paducah Sports Park to host first tournament in new facility this weekend

Crews are still finishing parts of the $65 million complex, but officials say the park is ready to welcome teams beginning Saturday.

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May 19 • 5:21 PM EDT • Sports • kfvs12.com
Google to release smart glasses and add AI ‘agents’ to search engine

CEO Sundar Pichai says features powered by new Gemini model will close gap with Anthropic and OpenAI

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May 19 • 4:47 PM EDT • Technology • ft.com
Springfield losing its detox beds as Behavioral Health Network moves toward transitional treatment

Springfield's Carlson Recovery Center is ending detox beds with 24/7 medical supervisor due to staffing, shifting to less-intensive residential addiction care.

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May 19 • 4:46 PM EDT • Health • masslive.com
2 small businesses were hit by burglars in the same N.J. county hours apart

Two Gloucester County businesses were broken into hours apart, with police arresting a suspect in one case and investigations ongoing.

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May 19 • 4:25 PM EDT • Business • nj.com
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

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May 19 • 4:00 PM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Philly DA Larry Krasner got kicked out of election day lunch after clashing with union leader Ryan Boyer

The argument stemmed from last year’s DA’s race, when Boyer, a political centrist who leads the powerful Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, endorsed Krasner’s challenger.

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May 19 • 3:45 PM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com
Google takes a page out of Meta's book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is back in the glasses game with "audio glasses" out this fall.

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May 19 • 3:15 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Blazers Lay Off Business Staffers Under New Owner

“We made the difficult decision to restructure several areas of the business.”

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May 19 • 2:53 PM EDT • Business • wweek.com
Vermont health officials investigate salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry

Health officials in several states, including Vermont, are investigating salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry.

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May 19 • 2:42 PM EDT • Health • wcax.com
Everything New in Wear OS 7

Wear OS 7 has been announced, set to release to supported smartwatches later this year. Google claims that watches upgrading from Wear OS 6 to Wear OS 7 can expect up to 10% improvement in battery...

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May 19 • 2:34 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
Google, Samsung unveil Android XR smart glasses at Google I/O 2026

Billed as "intelligent eyewear," the upcoming smart glasses are expected to arrive later this year.

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May 19 • 2:04 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Google and Samsung Reveal Designs of Upcoming Smart Glasses

The companies are collaborating with eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster

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May 19 • 1:46 PM EDT • Technology • bloomberg.com
First Batch of Android XR Smart Glasses Launch This Fall

Exactly one year ago today, Google announced that it was building Android XR smart glasses with the help of Samsung, in partnership with brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The same thing is...

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May 19 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
Caesars Entertainment partners with nonprofit to rescue convention food

Caesars Entertainment is teaming up with a local nonprofit to turn leftover convention food into meals for families in need.

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May 19 • 1:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox5vegas.com
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This comedy legend doesn’t allow his 10 kids to join showbiz until they’re 18. Here’s why.
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May 19 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nj.com
‘Go get checked’: Retired corrections officer encourages people to prioritize their health after surviving stroke

Thomas Eckert suffered a stroke in June 2023.

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May 19 • 12:25 PM EDT • Health • 12onyourside.com
Ribbon cutting ceremony set for Youth Outdoor Sports Complex in Cape Girardeau

A ribbon cutting ceremony will celebrate the new Youth Outdoor Sports Complex in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

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May 19 • 12:22 PM EDT • Sports • kfvs12.com
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Keep Up Entertainment celebrates one year!

Keep Up Entertainment is marking its first anniversary with a free celebration featuring live music, DJs, food trucks and more!

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May 19 • 11:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • kcrg.com
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Democrats push to ban private equity from youth sports

Private equity interest in sports, including youth sports, is surging.

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May 19 • 10:23 AM EDT • Sports • axios.com
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Orlando Science Center’s Science Night Live returns with illusions and games

Orlando Science Center's adults-only Science Night Live event returns with optical illusions, board games, trivia, and more. Don't miss out!

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May 19 • 9:31 AM EDT • Science • wftv.com
WSB-TV adds 3 p.m. newscast, bumps ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ to 1:05 a.m.

Kelly Clarkson's show, which is ending in August, has been bumped to 1:05 a.m. on WSB-TV in Atlanta, replaced by a 3 p.m. newscast.

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May 19 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • ajc.com
Alabama city named one of the nation’s 50 best sports business cities

The Sports Business Journal published its fourth annual list.

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May 19 • 9:13 AM EDT • Sports • al.com
Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

For Claudia Buonocore, the ​thought of parting ways with her 15-year-old Kindle Touch e-reader is painful.

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May 19 • 9:02 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Withings Body Scan smart scale review: Premium health insights, premium price

The Withings Body Scan is not your everyday smart scale. Sure, it tracks your weight and body composition, but it also measures ECG, assesses the flexibility of your arteries and detects nerve activity in your feet.

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May 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • livescience.com
Exclusive: Airbus targets 10% cost cuts over global uncertainty and supply snags

Europe's Airbus is telling thousands ​of staff to reduce ‌spending by 10% as global uncertainty and supply ​chain problems continue ​to squeeze its core jetliner ⁠business, three industry ​sources said.

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May 19 • 8:54 AM EDT • Business • reuters.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
NBC Sports hires Dave Flemming for play-by-play

Dave Flemming, the longtime lead radio play-by-play voice on KNBR for the San Francisco Giants as well as a college basketball and football and MLB and golf commentator for ESPN, has joined NBC Sports as a play-by-play voice for MLB Sunday Leadoff games on Peacock and NBCSN.

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May 19 • 8:12 AM EDT • Sports • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Richmond considering changes to home-based business regulations

Richmond city leaders are considering implementing updated regulations regarding home-based businesses.

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May 19 • 7:56 AM EDT • Business • wkyt.com
Sports Daily Live: NBA Western Conference Finals open with thriller; Royals stumble again

In NBA action, the first game of the highly anticipated Western Conference Finals didn’t disappoint, as a battle between the top two seeds went into two overtimes.

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May 19 • 7:53 AM EDT • Sports • kwch.com
Business listings: See 34 new businesses in Central NY

See a list of business filings in Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, and Onondaga counties.

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May 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • syracuse.com
Advocate to adversary

And sports gambling’s “mental health crisis.”

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May 19 • 6:01 AM EDT • Sports • inquirer.com
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1 hurt in shooting at west Charlotte check cashing business

It happened just after midnight at the PLS Check Cashers on South Tryon Street at West Boulevard, officials said.

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May 19 • 5:46 AM EDT • Business • wsoctv.com
U.S. Senate to examine sports gambling’s ‘mental health crisis’

Americans wagered a record $165 billion on sports in 2025, while nearly 20 million people reported "problematic gambling behavior."

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May 19 • 5:01 AM EDT • Health • inquirer.com
Sterling slips after UK jobs data, politics in focus

Sterling dipped on Tuesday after data showed that Britain's employers reined in their hiring and posted fewer job vacancies in April.

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May 19 • 4:16 AM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
A Grip on Sports: There are three main ingredients in our Tuesday column but they all might actually revolve around just one

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Alliteration is a big deal on Tuesdays. Mainly as a way to menu plan. It is Taco Tuesday after all. Which makes a Tuesday Trio the right number of column subjects today as well.

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May 19 • 4:13 AM EDT • Sports • spokesman.com
WHO chief concerned at speed and scale of Ebola outbreak as cases rise

The head of the World ​Health Organization on ‌Tuesday expressed concern at the speed and scale ​of the Ebola outbreak, ​as number of cases ⁠rises.

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May 19 • 3:58 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
International health experts meet in search for Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine options

A panel of experts led by the World Health Organization will ​meet on Tuesday to discuss if there ‌are any vaccine options to help tackle a major Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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May 19 • 3:43 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Stellantis to push US revival, brands and Chinese deals in high-stakes pitch to investors

Stellantis' CEO Antonio Filosa will outline ​a new long-term strategy to investors on Thursday with a focus on reviving crucial U.S. sales, tightening the group's sprawling portfolio, ‌and leveraging tie-ups with Chinese firms.

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May 19 • 2:03 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Smart people react to Google and Blackstone collab on AI company

"The small fry are getting squeezed out," wrote one equities portfolio manager.

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May 19 • 1:40 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Forging an Edge in Fashion and Sports E-Commerce

Last week, BoF and Amazon Fashion and Sports Europe gathered industry leaders for a panel event to unpack how brands can drive attention and conversion on- and off-screen through compelling digital experiences. Now, BoF shares insights from the discussion.

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May 19 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • businessoffashion.com
Macomb takes first step in the creation of a sports complex

The Macomb City Council approved sending a letter of intent to use STAR Bonds for a sports complex project.

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May 18 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • wgem.com
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Jacobs Entertainment celebrates the completion of Phase One in Downtown Reno

Jacob’s Entertainment is celebrating the completion of Phase One, following a $400 million investment and five years of revitalizing the historic 4th Street in Downtown Reno.

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May 18 • 9:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • kolotv.com
Former AMC theater in Grand Forks to become entertainment destination

The former AMC theater on 32nd Avenue, vacant for years, will be transformed into a new entertainment destination.

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May 18 • 9:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • valleynewslive.com
Cleveland City Council helping out small entertainment venues

Cleveland City Council approved eliminating the entertainment tax on small capacity live entertainment venues that hold up to 750 people.

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May 18 • 9:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • cleveland19.com
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I Know Why Desperate Trump Is in Free Fall: Political Guru

“He is in bad shape,” political analyst David Rothkopf said of Trump, after the president was dealt yet another political blow.

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May 18 • 9:05 PM EDT • Politics • thedailybeast.com
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Oregon sees a sustained drop in overdose deaths, state health officials say

Following national trends, the opioid crisis in Oregon may have reached its inflection point.

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May 18 • 8:10 PM EDT • Health • opb.org
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Portland groundbreaking pub The Sports Bra seeks to raise $1.2 million in uncommon crowdfunding model

Investors can commit as little as $250 for a stake in the bar that helped cement Portland’s reputation as a women’s hub.

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May 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • opb.org
Scientists found a smarter Mediterranean diet that slashes diabetes risk by 31%

A large European study revealed that a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet paired with exercise and coaching dramatically reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes. Participants who made these lifestyle changes were 31% less likely to develop the disease over six years. They also lost more weight and trimmed their waistlines compared to those following a standard Mediterranean diet alone.

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May 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
School science experiment fire leaves student with severe burns on nearly half her body

Multiple businesses came together to support a student who was injured in an accident during a school science experiment.

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May 18 • 7:46 PM EDT • Science • kbtx.com
School science experiment fire leaves student with severe burns on nearly half her body

Multiple businesses came together to support a student who was injured in an accident during a school science experiment.

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School science experiment fire leaves student with severe burns on nearly half her body

Multiple businesses came together to support a student who was injured in an accident during a school science experiment.

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Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network to air MHSAA baseball state championship games

Multiple MHSAA baseball championship games to air on GCSEN

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May 18 • 5:55 PM EDT • Sports • wdam.com
Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network to air MHSAA baseball state championship games

Multiple MHSAA baseball championship games to air on GCSEN

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May 18 • 5:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdam.com
Cahoots Rockford blends nostalgia with modern-day entertainment

Whether you’re in the mood for a bite, a bit of bowling or the rush of a claw game, Cahoots Rockford has you covered.

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May 18 • 5:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • wifr.com
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Iowa man sues Nintendo after being denied ‘Pokémon Professor’ status

An Iowa man is taking Nintendo and Pokémon Company International to federal court for allegedly refusing to grant him “Pokémon Professor” status.

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May 18 • 5:22 PM EDT • Technology • kcrg.com
UConn to cut university funding for 36 club sports teams

University funding for 36 club sports teams at UConn will end July 1.

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May 18 • 5:13 PM EDT • Sports • wfsb.com
Appeals court reverses Albert Lea’s denial of cannabis business registration

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the City of Albert Lea’s denial of Jacob Schlichter’s cannabis business registration, The Smoking Tree LLC, ruling the city violated its own ordinance requiring registrations to be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.

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May 18 • 2:11 PM EDT • Business • kttc.com
Pitbull hits the road for ‘I’m Back’ North American tour: How to secure last-minute ticket deals

Pitbull is currently on the road in the U.S. as part of his extensive I'm Back! tour. After performing a handful of shows so far, the Grammy Award-winning artist still has over 30 show dates left in the U.S. this year.

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May 18 • 2:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • al.com
Health leaders offer safety tips after Colorado hantavirus death

Colorado has recorded the second-highest number of hantavirus cases in the country since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starting tracking cases in 1993.

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May 18 • 1:48 PM EDT • Health • kktv.com
I wear Meta Glasses so I don't have to think — You won't either with this smart deal

I was skeptical at first, now these glasses turned into my everyday personal assistant.

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May 18 • 1:40 PM EDT • Technology • nypost.com
Jelly Roll schedules new Alabama show for May: Here’s how to secure last-minute ticket deals

Following the cancellation of his coheadlining tour date with Post Malone, Jelly Roll announced a new Birmingham show date for later this month.

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May 18 • 1:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • al.com
The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest

Dory CEO claims the $149 signs won't be bricked should Dory go out of business.

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May 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Adult dies of hantavirus in Colorado, state health officials say

An adult in Colorado has died after a ​confirmed case of hantavirus that is not linked ‌to a recent outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic, Colorado Department of Public Health ​and Environment officials said in a ​statement on Monday.

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May 18 • 11:35 AM EDT • Health • reuters.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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