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Alonso thought 'outside the box' against Arsenal

BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club team have been discussing Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso's "brave" and "fascinating" approach to defending Arsenal's corners. The Spaniard suffered his first defeat as Blues manager on Sunday, as Mikel Arteta's side came from behind to earn a 2-1 win at Emirates Stadium. On Sunday, Chelsea employed a tactic of leaving four players upfield for defensive corners, going man for man in the penalty area.

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Sep 8 • 4:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
30 years after her death, Gilda embodies Argentina’s enduring faith in folk saints

Thirty years after Argentine cumbia star Gilda died in a tour bus crash, the beloved singer has become something more to many fans: a miracle-working folk saint.

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Sep 8 • 12:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Michigan QB Depth Chart: Who is Bryce Underwood’s Backup?

Michigan Wolverines quarterback Bryce Underwood pulled off a miracle Saturday night against Western Michigan. Fans know the story by now. Underwood threw a Hail Mary pass out of bounds that seemed to give WMU the upset win, only for the officials to put one second back on the clock. The next pass was on target […] The post Michigan QB Depth Chart: Who is Bryce Underwood’s Backup? appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 7 • 8:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Washington Nationals Tie MLB Blown Save Record

The Washington Nationals will now look to pull off a miracle over the final 17 regular season games to not own the MLB's blown save record

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Sep 7 • 10:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Odegaard back to his 'very best' for Arsenal

It is surely too early in the season to get carried away, and there are likely to be bigger tests ahead for Mikel Arteta's side. Against Chelsea, they had to find a different way to win after £117m signing Morgan Rogers fired the visitors into a second-minute lead at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Former Manchester United and England player Ashley Young said Odegaard's form will be key for Arsenal this season.

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Sep 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mikel Arteta Issues Cristhian Mosquera Injury Update After Chelsea Win

Cristhian Mosquera was missing as Arsenal beat Chelsea at the Emirates, with Mikel Arteta confirming the defender is dealing with a muscular problem.

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Sep 7 • 2:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mikel Arteta hails Arsenal’s display in win against Chelsea

Mikel Arteta hailed a “beautiful” win after Arsenal came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium. The Premier League champions required a response after conceding for the first time this season, Morgan Rogers stunning home fans into silence with a volleyed goal after 77 seconds before the hosts hit back against a Chelsea side still finding its feet under Xabi Alonso.

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Sep 6 • 5:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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What Michigan Must Fix Before Facing Oklahoma

Michigan got a miracle win against MAC opponent Western Michigan in week one and now must prepare for a daunting task as Oklahoma comes to town for week two.

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Sep 6 • 4:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal v Chelsea teams announced

Arsenal welcome Chelsea to the Emirates on Sunday and we now know how the two teams will line up.Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty ImagesArsenal starting XI: Raya, White, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, L...

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Sep 6 • 10:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kyle Whittingham Blasts Michigan Performance Despite Miracle Win

Kyle Whittingham called Michigan’s 13-12 escape against Western Michigan “nothing short of a miracle” and outlined major concerns afterward.

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Sep 6 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Predicted XI: Xabi Alonso’s favourite team is clear

Chelsea are preparing to take on Arsenal at the Emirates, and we’re really curious to see who Xabi Alonso picks to start the game.If you enjoy Talk Chelsea coverage and want to see more of it, add u...

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Sep 6 • 7:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MAC Commissioner Responds to Big Ten Explanation in Michigan Miracle vs. WMU

MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher says the Big Ten provided video and audio confirming its explanation for restoring one second before Michigan’s game-winning Hail Mary.

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Sep 6 • 7:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal v Chelsea: Team News, Predicted Lineup and Score Prediction

Arsenal welcome Chelsea to Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon with both teams looking to maintain their perfect start to the Premier League season.After two wins from two, Mikel Arteta now has some ...

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Sep 6 • 5:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal v Chelsea Match Preview: Huge London Derby at the Emirates

Arsenal return to Emirates Stadium on Sunday looking to make it three Premier League wins from three when Chelsea arrive for a huge London derby.Mikel Arteta’s side followed their opening victory wi...

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Sep 6 • 3:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sequence of JJ Buchanan's Michigan Miracle touchdown catch

JJ Buchanan made an incredible catch of a Bryce Underwood pass with no time left to save Michigan from a stunning upset by Western Michigan.

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Sep 6 • 1:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal vs Chelsea – Predicted lineup and team news

Arsenal sit third in the Premier League table heading into Sunday’s derby with Chelsea, with a win at the Emirates Stadium the chance to close the gap on the teams above them. Mikel Arteta’s side ...

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Sep 6 • 1:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chelsea XI vs Arsenal – Predicted lineup and team news

Chelsea sit fourth in the Premier League table heading into Sunday’s trip to the Emirates Stadium, with a win over Arsenal the chance to move above their hosts. Xabi Alonso’s side have scored 12 g...

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Sep 6 • 1:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Michigan football stuns WMU with miracle Hail Mary after game seemed over

Michigan football opened its 2026 season with a stunning Hail Mary to beat Western Michigan. Here's who stood out.

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Sep 5 • 10:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Full House’ creator recalls ‘miraculous’ on-set moment with 1-year-old twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

‘Full House’ creator Jeff Franklin detailed the impressive acting Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were doing during the first season of the sitcom.

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Sep 5 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
“Full House” creator recalls ‘miraculous’ on-set moment with 1-year-old twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: ‘How is this possible?’

Jeff Franklin detailed the impressive acting that the child stars were doing during the first season of the sitcom.

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Sep 5 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Squad list for Bologna vs. Sassuolo

Domenico Tedesco has named the following squad for tomorrow’s match:Goalkeepers: Happonen, Pessina, Skorupski.Defenders: De Silvestri, Heggem, Helland, Holm, Miranda, Rahim, Theate, Vitik, Zortea.Mi...

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Sep 5 • 3:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Natalie Portman welcomes third child, her first with Tanguy Destable

The “Black Swan” actress previously shared that it was “such a privilege and a miracle” to have another child.

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Sep 5 • 2:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Arsenal v Chelsea: Key stats and talking points

Arsenal and Chelsea meet on Saturday having each won both of their opening matches. BBC Sport examines some of the key themes ahead of Sunday's meeting at Emirates Stadium (16:30 BST). Arsenal will aim to continue a strong start to their title defence by winning their opening three Premier League matches for only the second time in the past 21 seasons.

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Sep 5 • 8:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Watch Arteta pre-Chelsea and Slegers pre-Brighton press conferences

Arsenal Women begin their FA WSL campaign against Brighton on Sunday before Chelsea visit the Emirates to face the men’s side.Watch Arteta pre-Chelsea and Slegers pre-Brighton press conferences 3Ars...

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Sep 5 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2 South Florida men sentenced in $34.8M health care fraud conspiracy, DOJ says

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Kenneth Charles Kessler III, a Miami man, and Michael Andrew Gomez, a Miramar man, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

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Sep 4 • 7:21 PM EDT • Health • nbcmiami.com
Emirates gives premium economy seats a new feature: privacy screens

Until now, premium economy passengers have typically had little to separate them from their neighbors. Emirates wants to change that.

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Sep 4 • 7:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Arsenal brace for Chelsea test as Spurs seek spark

Something has to give when Arsenal host Chelsea in the Premier League this weekend, with both teams putting their 100 percent records on the line, while Tottenham are desperate to stop the rot.Recent history is against Chelsea, who are winless in nine Premier League games against Arsenal ahead of Sunday's clash at the Emirates.

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Sep 3 • 11:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It's a Miracle: GTA 6 Won't Make You Mash the X Button to Sprint

Now you press L3 to run

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Sep 2 • 8:30 AM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
Another chance in next tough test

Visiting European representatives SKN St. PöltenOn Saturday, our ADMIRAL Women's Bundesliga away tour takes us to face another set of last season's championship group opponents. Following matches aga...

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Aug 27 • 5:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Florida Governor Moves From Solid to Likely Republican

Florida has been a mirage for Democrats during the era of President Donald Trump. Some in the party hoped the Senate race could come online thanks to Alex Vindman’s massive fundraising hauls, but his loss to democratic socialist Angie Nixon effectively took that race off the table.

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Aug 27 • 3:51 PM EDT • Politics • cookpolitical.com
Texarkana fans reflect on late entertainment icon Dolly Parton

TEXARKANA -- Local fans on Wednesday added their voices to the millions expressing their grief and admiration upon the death of entertainment icon Dolly Parton.

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Aug 26 • 11:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • texarkanagazette.com
Elden Ring On Switch 2 – The Worst Way To Play The Best Game

Elden Ring on Switch 2 gets the job done admirably, but it is the inferior version of a fantastic game. - Game Informer

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Aug 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com
R.I. Governor McKee is 15 points down with 15 days to go

With just over two weeks to go until the Democratic primary, McKee would need something approaching a political miracle to come from behind and defeat challenger Helena Foulkes.

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Aug 25 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com
Sudan’s conflict worsening, UN political and peacebuilding chief warns

On 24 August, the Security Council held a briefing on Sudan at the request by Denmark to discuss the protection of civilians and the humanitarian consequences of the ongoing conflict. “The consequences of this conflict will be long-lasting and should shock us all,” said Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.Civilians face one of the worst humanitarian crises, she said, as they deal with frequent drone attacks against markets, schools, fuel stations and water infrastructure, and the rainy season. Some 13 million people have fled their homes, but access challenges have made it impossible to confirm the true death toll, "it is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands", she said. “Brutal mass killings and atrocities, abductions of women and girls and mass rapes are recurring patterns,” she warned.In North Kordofan, drone attacks continue as both parties compete for control of strategically important towns, she said, reiterating deep concern at the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces in and around El abdede. Drone strikes near Tina, on Sudan’s border with Chad, where the refugee influx has intensified pressure on already scarce land, have led to violent disputes over resources. Plus numerous armed movements are pursuing their own territorial and political interests. The UN continues to support efforts of the QUAD - United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates – for a humanitarian truce. And it is working with the Quintet partners, the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the League of Arab States, and the European Union to help advance a viable political path. “Our goal is to build confidence in the political path and pave the way for an inclusive Sudanese-led dialogue for a shared vision for the country’s future,” she said. Sudanese authorities have also bolstered efforts to support civilian dialogue. “Their desire for an inclusive and durable peace is clear,” she said. Both parties must now make concrete commitments on releasing of prisioners, particularly vulnerable groups such as women and children. “The Personal Envoy will travel to Sudan shortly to advance these conversations," she said.

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Aug 24 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • dppa.un.org
Man Had Massive Stroke That Left Him Paralyzed on the Floor. His Wife’s Random Decision That Day Led to ‘Miracle’ Recovery

Todd Meiklejohn was getting ready for his day the morning of Aug. 8, 2025, when he suddenly could no longer walk or see through one eye

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Aug 23 • 6:00 PM EDT • Technology • uk.style.yahoo.com
Our Grandmothers Only Had 3 Products in Their Bathroom and Their Skin Was Better Than Ours, Here's What They Knew That We Forgot

You have probably spent more than you care to admit on serums, gadgets, and miracle creams that promised to change everything – only to end up back at square one. Meanwhile, the women who raised us seemed to manage effortlessly with a handful of drugstore staples and a few clever rituals they never bothered to...

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Aug 23 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • graziamagazine.com
Extended HLs: Arsenal v. Coventry Matchweek 1

Relive full-match highlights from the opening fixture of the 2026-27 Premier League season as Arsenal host Coventry City at the Emirates.

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Aug 21 • 1:05 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Yankees' Pitching Factory is Attempting Another Miracle

The New York Yankees' pitching factory is trying to do the impossible yet again.

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Aug 21 • 11:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NJBIA to Honor 6 Rising Stars at NJ Women Business Leaders Forum

The winners of the NJBIA 2026 Rising Star awards are (L-R) Olivia Ivy Altidor, Erin Bolger Elizabeth, Melissa “Mel” Josephson, Jocelyn Kranicka, Zack Metzger and Monserrat Miranda. NJBIA will honor six standout students with “Rising Star” awards when more than 400 business leaders, entrepreneurs and students gather for the 12th Annual New Jersey Women Business Leaders Forum at Bally’s in Atlantic City on Sept. 23-24. “NJBIA’s[...]

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Aug 21 • 8:25 AM EDT • Business • insidernj.com
The complete guide to the 2026-2027 Premier League 📓

The Premier League returns this Friday night!The action will get underway this Friday, August 21 at 9pm with the showdown between Arsenal and Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium.Check out OneFootbal...

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Aug 21 • 7:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
US admiral praises USS Lincoln crew amid reported mental health concerns

Politicians voiced alarm over mental health struggles on carrier, with reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard.

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Aug 16 • 4:46 PM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
Top Admiral Praises Sailors but Concedes Hardships After Visit to U.S.S. Lincoln

Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, acknowledged the difficulty of the carrier’s nearly nine-month deployment but said mental health issues were lower than on other vessels.

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Aug 16 • 4:38 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Admiral Claims USS Abraham Lincoln’s Mental Health Cases Are Relatively Low—Despite Reported Crisis

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran for more than 260 days.

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Aug 16 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • forbes.com
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The trouble with getting used to miracles

Success has a strange effect on wonder. It turns miracles into infrastructure!

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Aug 16 • 1:31 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Curiosity stumbles upon a gigantic Martian “honeycomb” that has scientists intrigued - Futura-Sciences

In a 360-degree panorama captured by the rover on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes stretch in every direction as far as the rover can see. They even extend around the sides of a nearby butte nicknamed “Miraflores,”...

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Aug 15 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino reveal Romy and Michele’s new love interests in sequel

‘Romy and Michele’ stars Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino reveal their character’s new love interests in the upcoming sequel.

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Aug 14 • 11:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Section IV Football Media Day ushers in new season

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – High School football is back and primed for the new season. Wednesday morning, teams from all over Section IV converged for a special media day opportunity at The Links at Hiawatha Landing golf course in Apalachin. The theme was simple, be better this year than the last for players, teams and […]

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Aug 12 • 7:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nathan Fillion joins DC’s ‘Mister Miracle’ animated series as Guy Gardner (exclusive)

Nathan Fillion is joining DC’s ‘Mister Miracle’ animated show in his latest appearance as Green Lantern Guy Gardner, following ‘Superman,’ ‘Peacemaker,’ and ‘Lanterns.’

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Aug 12 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Arsenal vs Borussia Dortmund – Match preview and team news

Arsenal returns to their home ground as they will play the German side Borussia Dortmund in their next pre-season match on Sunday at the Emirates Stadium.Arsenal vs Borussia Dortmund – Match previe...

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Aug 9 • 1:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Destiny 2’ Players Are Miraculously Unvaulting Cut Content From The Game

It is one of the most infamous moments in Destiny history, when Bungie announced that it could no longer support the enormous mountain of content the game was amassing.

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Aug 7 • 9:59 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Schrager: New York will regret going into the grocery business

The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different preferences, needs and resources, and they manage

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Aug 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • thedailynewsonline.com
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Emirates NBD Bank to acquire retail banking business of HSBC Egypt

Emirates NBD said on Sunday that its fully-owned subsidiary in ​Egypt had entered into a definitive ‌agreement to acquire the retail banking business of HSBC Egypt.

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Aug 2 • 11:08 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Rays Reacts Results: Winning the AL East

The trade deadline approaches tomorrow afternoon, and we’ve already seen one major domino fall in the last few hours, as the Dodgers have miraculously scooped up Tarik Skubal for just OF Zyhir Hope (ranked in the 25-50 range on MLB top prospect lists) and two throw-ins (injured RHP River Ryan and wonky RHP Brady Smith). […]

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Aug 2 • 7:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RBS women start new season with win

2-0 success at home in openerFC Red Bull Salzburg Women 2-0 SpG Südburgenland/TSV Hartberg (H/T:1-0). Goals: Plattner (43'), Akrap (90+4')What a successful start to the ADMIRAL Women's Bundesliga sea...

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Aug 1 • 3:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cleveland Browns Named 'Miracle Required' Team to Make Playoffs
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Jul 31 • 1:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New York Will Regret Going Into the Grocery Business

The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different preferences, needs and resources, and they manage to come up with a price. The market clears, and everyone is better off.

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Jul 31 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
Continual integration of single-cell multimodal data with MIRACLE

Nature Computational Science - MIRACLE is an online continual learning framework that efficiently integrates single-cell multimodal data across batches, modalities, tissues, and diseases.

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Jul 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
The biohacking sauna blanket Gwyneth Paltrow calls a '10 out of 10' is $140 off at Nordstrom

Fans of the infrared heat therapy also include Kate Hudson and Miranda Kerr.

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Jul 27 • 2:55 PM EDT • Technology • pagesix.com
Chandler Economic Development launches "Let's Talk Business" to give companies direct access to economic development leadership

Monthly one-on-one meetings offer businesses, developers and investors dedicated time with Chandler's Economic Development Director

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Jul 27 • 12:30 PM EDT • Business • chandleraz.gov
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon

Adm. Daryl Caudle path to the top Navy job is a case study in how the military promotion process at the Pentagon under Hegseth has deviated from tradition, leaving it susceptible in the view of critics to politicization and favoritism.

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Jul 26 • 9:48 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Matches To Make After Busy Combat Weekend

UFC Abu Dhabi went down yesterday (Sat., July 25, 2026) inside Etihad Arena (a.k.a. Fight Island) in United Arab Emirates which saw Magomed Ankalaev stop Bogdan Guskov in the fifth and final round of their Light Heavyweight main event (highlights). But UFC wasn’t the only show on during a busy sports weekend that also included […]

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Jul 26 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon

Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.

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Jul 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Lukic goes on loan within ADMIRAL Bundesliga

Move to TSV HartbergOliver Lukic will play for TSV Egger Glas Hartberg on loan next season.The talented midfielder moved from the youth academy of Austria Vienna to Salzburg in the summer of 2022. Sin...

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Jul 25 • 4:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Handled with care, AI can be miraculous

Although it has huge potential for harm, artificial intelligence is accelerating breakthroughs in science and medicine — but it can’t replace human imagination

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Jul 24 • 2:46 PM EDT • Science • thetimes.com
Goodbye neck pillows: We tried Emirates' game-changing new headrest

Emirates' A350 economy cabin already included a handful of premium features, but the new U-Dream headrest is the best yet.

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Jul 24 • 9:51 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Ranking Members Markey, Velázquez Push to Roll Back Trump Administration’s Discriminatory SBA Lending Policy that Blocks Immigrant Entrepreneurs from Pursuing the American Dream

Bicameral resolution would rescind Trump administration policy banning green card holders from accessing SBA loans Resolution Text (PDF) | One-Pager (PDF) (Washington, July 23) – Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7) today introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to rescind the Trump administration’s policy that bans green card holders from accessing essential Small Business Administration (SBA) loans to start and grow their businesses and invest in Main Streets nationwide. Trump’s SBA restrictions buck decades of precedent, attacking immigrant small business owners who are lawfully in the U.S. with no justification. The Trump administration’s green card holder ban is the most recent escalation of SBA’s draconian citizenship restrictions that are killing jobs and putting the American Dream further out of reach for entrepreneurs. In Fiscal Year 2025, the SBA made an estimated $5.7 billion in loans to green card holders, which supported more than 80,000 American jobs. Ranking Member Markey’s introduction of the CRA resolution follows his introduction of the Investing in the American Dream Act alongside Ranking Member Velázquez earlier this year. The Investing in the American Dream Act would roll back the SBA’s draconian lending restrictions and restore previous SBA lending policies for immigrant entrepreneurs lawfully in the U.S., including green card holders, refugees, and asylees. More than 100 organizations have called for the passage of the legislation and over 60 Massachusetts state legislators have raised concerns about the impact of the citizenship restrictions in their local communities. “Once again, Donald Trump is shutting hardworking immigrants out of the American Dream with his discriminatory and dangerous policies, fear tactics, and violent rhetoric. The anti-small business lending requirements implemented by Trump’s SBA won’t Make America Great Again—they are Making America Hate Again,” said Ranking Member Markey. “I am fighting every single day to roll back Trump’s brazen attempt to steal the American Dream from entrepreneurs in Massachusetts and across the country who enrich our communities, strengthen our Main Streets, and create jobs in the United States.” “Starting and owning your own business is one of the pillars of the American Dream. Under the Trump Administration, the SBA has sought to deny immigrant small business owners and entrepreneurs that dream by preventing them from accessing the capital they need to grow and scale their businesses. Not only is this policy cruel, but it is also self-defeating and holds our country back economically. As Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee, I will do everything in my power to reverse this terrible policy,” said Ranking Member Velázquez. Massachusetts state legislators applauded Ranking Member Markey’s actions and emphasized the critical contributions of green card holders to Bay State communities and the Commonwealth’s economy. "Green card holders are our neighbors, workers, entrepreneurs, and taxpayers,” said Massachusetts State Senator Adam Gómez (D-Springfield), Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses. “They open restaurants, launch small businesses, create jobs, and contribute every day to the economic strength of Massachusetts. Denying lawful permanent residents access to SBA loan programs doesn't make our economy stronger—it makes it harder for small businesses to succeed. I support this resolution because opportunity should never be limited by unnecessary barriers that prevent hardworking people from investing in their communities and pursuing the American dream." “Senator Markey’s CRA Resolution provides a valuable moment for our federal leaders to show their commitment to small businesses and the American Dream,” said Massachusetts State Representative Andy X. Vargas (D-Haverhill), House Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses. “The SBA’s recent policy restricting lawful residents from accessing the popular 7(a) and 504 programs has shut out some of the most entrepreneurial and hard-working members of our community from much-need capital. In Massachusetts, these programs have invested millions of dollars into small businesses owned by green card holders, supporting thousands of jobs. This should not be a partisan issue. People who worked hard, have legal status, and contribute so much to their communities via employment and economic impact don’t deserve to be in the crosshairs for political purposes. The Senator’s resolution is a step forward in restoring access to the American Dream that small business owners across the country deserve.” Several small business advocates and stakeholders voiced their support for Ranking Member Markey’s efforts to roll back Trump SBA’s discriminatory lending rules. “Immigrant-owned businesses are the foundation of the American economy. They power our neighborhoods, provide essential services, and employ our loved ones. Yet, systemic hurdles like the Small Business Administration’s citizenship restrictions unfairly block their path to prosperity," said Elizabeth Sweet, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition. "We applaud Senator Markey’s continued leadership and look forward to a future where immigrant entrepreneurs can share their ingenuity without arbitrary restrictions that hold us all back.” “Independent restaurants have always been built by people willing to work hard, take risks, and invest in their communities. When lawfully authorized entrepreneurs lose access to the financing they need to start or grow a business, we all lose. These are the businesses creating jobs, filling storefronts, and strengthening our neighborhoods. Access to capital should help good businesses succeed, and that’s exactly what restoring these SBA loan programs would do,” said Jen Ziskin, Executive Director of Massachusetts Restaurants United. “At the Latino Economic Development Corporation, we see firsthand that access to capital transforms lives, creates jobs, and strengthens neighborhoods. Many of the entrepreneurs we serve are lawful permanent residents who have invested their savings, opened businesses, and employ local residents. Restricting access to SBA financing doesn’t just impact business owners, it limits economic opportunity for entire communities. Main Street succeeds when every qualified entrepreneur has a fair chance to grow,” said Andrew Melendez, CEO and Founder of the Latino Economic Development Corporation. "Immigrants and immigrant-owned businesses are the heart and soul of small business communities in cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth, and across America. Limiting access to these SBA loans not only sends the wrong message about immigration, it will have significant negative economic impact on our small business ecosystem,” said Keith Mahoney, Vice President of Public Affairs at the Boston Foundation. “The SBA’s recent policy changes that prevent Legal Permanent Residents, and other non-citizens from participating in any of the SBA’s valuable programs are changes that are unwelcome, immoral, and antithetical to our purpose, our mission, and our vision for Massachusetts communities and businesses. Immigrant entrepreneurs and others have expressed concern that Common Capital will ‘report them to ICE,’ so loan demand has decreased. There is no valid reason for excluding Legal Permanent Residents and other noncitizens who are lawfully present in the U.S. from accessing the SBA’s programs. Immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses, they create jobs, they support their families and their communities. Our government should be in the business of encouraging their full participation in our economy,” said Raymond Lanza-Weil, President of Common Capital. "ECCHO-Latino now represents over 400 educators and 300 microbusinesses across Massachusetts, where immigrants make up 60% of the childcare workforce. When a green card holder is ready to grow her business—from expanding her home child care to opening a center—she shouldn't be turned away by local banks simply because of federal citizenship rules. Blocking access to SBA loans kills opportunity and deepens our state's childcare crisis. ECCHO-Latino strongly supports Senator Markey and Representative Velázquez in passing this resolution to put Main Street first," said Harold Antonio Blanco, Co-Founder & Executive Director of ECCHO-Latino Inc. "This is exactly how political ideology ruins an economy. Washington has taken lawful, tax-paying entrepreneurs who live in our communities, invest in America, and hire American workers, and declared their businesses ineligible for critical financing simply because a green card holder owns even a fraction of the company. Using policies ostensibly aimed at illegal immigration to punish lawful permanent residents is nothing short of ideological overreach and economic self-sabotage. The SBA exists to help viable small businesses grow, rather than imposing nativist tests that ignore an entrepreneur’s credit history, business plan, or ability to create jobs. When the federal government closes the door on qualified entrepreneurs, they’re also closing the door on American entrepreneurship and on American workers, while handing future companies, jobs, innovation, and investment to our competitors. America should be competing to attract people who want to invest and build here, not creating arbitrary barriers that drive their talent and capital elsewhere,” said Javier Palomarez, President and CEO of the United States Hispanic Business Council (USHBC). "The U.S. Small Business Administration's decision to prohibit legal permanent residents, including green card holders, from accessing SBA-backed loans has the potential for disastrous consequences that could reverberate throughout America's economy for years to come. After all, immigrants are twice as likely to start small businesses as U.S.-born individuals. Congress must overturn rules requiring the SBA to block legal permanent residents from accessing lending resources because so many of the entrepreneurs who drive job creation in this country were born outside the United States," said John Arensemeyer, Founder and CEO of Small Business Majority. “NCRC supports the Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn SBA’s citizenship restrictions that bar green-card holders from receiving the 7(a) and 504 loans. When qualified entrepreneurs are denied access to SBA loans, all of Main Street gets hurt. Communities lose jobs. Neighborhoods lose services. Local economies lose the opportunity to build wealth and shrink disparities,” said Jesse Van Tol, President & CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). “We cannot afford to have the American Dream out of reach for hard-working, immigrant small business owners.” “Asian Americans and Asian immigrants have been integral in building local economies. They create businesses, jobs, and opportunities in communities across the country that benefit everyone. Lawful permanent residents pay taxes, invest in their communities, and strengthen Main Street, yet the SBA's discriminatory citizenship restrictions unfairly deny them access to the same tools that help small businesses grow and succeed. We applaud congressional leaders for advancing this resolution to overturn the latest restrictions on SBA lending for green card holders, and we urge lawmakers to also pass the Investing in the American Dream Act to fully restore access to SBA loan programs for all eligible people in the United States. Ensuring that immigrant-owned small businesses have a fair opportunity to access capital is essential to building a stronger, more inclusive economy that works for all,” said Joanna Derman, Director of Anti-Profiling, Civil Rights and National Security at Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC). "Immigrant-owned businesses often turn to SBA 7(a) and 504 loans because they face higher denial rates from traditional lenders,” said Imani Augustus, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Opportunity. "These programs provide the capital they need to expand operations, hire workers, and invest in their businesses. Reversing the ban on lawful permanent residents is a critical first step toward ensuring these financing tools are accessible to everyone strengthening their communities through entrepreneurship. We applaud this action and urge Congress to fully restore access by passing the Investing in the American Dream Act.” "Last year, nearly 5,700 SBA loans worth $5.7 billion went to businesses owned by green card holders, supporting more than 80,000 jobs. These are entrepreneurs who have put down roots here, hired their neighbors, and invested in the communities they call home. Barring them from capital doesn't protect Main Street—it starves it. What should matter is the strength of a business and its potential to grow, not the immigration status of its owner. This resolution doesn’t eliminate all the citizenship restrictions in SBA’s policy change, but it’s a step toward restoring a commonsense principle that stood for more than 30 years," said Howard Wial, Director of Research at ICIC. "I'm encouraged to see Congress moving to reopen access to capital for green card holders, a key tool for small business survival. Green card holders accounted for an estimated 5,700 SBA loans in Fiscal Year 2025, worth $5.7 billion and supporting more than 80,000 jobs across the country. That capital is often what keeps a business operating through its toughest stretches when cash flow gets tight. When qualified entrepreneurs lose access to that capital over their immigration status rather than their ability to repay a loan, it's the local economy that pays the price,” said Small Business for America's Future Co-Chair Shaundell Newsome, Founder of Sumnu Marketing. “Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, and entrepreneurs —including green card holders — take risks every day to build businesses, create jobs, and strengthen communities. SBA loan programs should be administered with clear, consistent standards that safeguard public resources while ensuring these programs remain focused on supporting eligible entrepreneurs and job creators. This resolution responds to the opportunity to support all entrepreneurs and preserve the integrity of federally supported lending programs. We applaud the introduction of this resolution and remain committed to policies that strengthen small businesses, promote economic growth, and maintain confidence in these vital lending programs,” said Carolina Martinez, CEO of CAMEO Network. “National CAPACD wholeheartedly supports the introduction of this resolution aimed at overturning the SBA's misguided policy prohibiting immigrants from accessing the 7(a) and 504 loan programs. As a coalition, we are committed to creating systems, organizations, and societies that are fair and just. We believe we and our economy are stronger when we uplift our rich and diverse communities. Access to capital helps small businesses create jobs, build wealth, and strengthen neighborhoods. Restoring this pathway is an important first step toward ensuring immigrant entrepreneurs can continue to grow their businesses and contribute positively to our economy as a whole. We urge Congress to build on this momentum by passing the Investing in the American Dream Act, which would fully restore fair access to safe and affordable credit and uphold our commitment to a fair economy that works for everyone,” said Seema Agnani, CEO of National CAPACD. Ranking Member Markey is fighting for small business owners and immigrants that rely on SBA loans to start and run their businesses, create jobs, and contribute to their communities. In May, Ranking Member Markey highlighted the significant contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs in Massachusetts and across the country and condemned the Trump administration’s repeated attacks on immigrant communities at a Small Business Committee hearing. MIRA’s Elizabeth Sweet, who participated in Ranking Member Markey’s listening session earlier in May, provided testimony at the hearing. Also in May, Ranking Member Markey hosted a listening session at the Urban College of Boston to hear directly from several Massachusetts immigrant small business owners, lenders, and chambers of commerce how President Trump’s cruel and callous anti-immigrant policies are hurting Main Streets in the Bay State. Earlier in May, Ranking Member Markey hosted a press conference alongside Ranking Member Velázquez, Democratic lawmakers, and stakeholders to condemn the Trump administration’s harmful anti-immigrant lending policies and to introduce the Investing in the American Dream Act. In March, Ranking Member Markey released a comprehensive report detailing the harms to small business owners, workers, and consumers caused by the Trump administration’s ICE raids in communities across the country. In February, Ranking Member Markey introduced the Small Business ICE Disruption Fund Act, which would provide grants to small businesses that have been impacted by the Trump administration’s violent immigration enforcement actions on Main Streets across the United States. Earlier in February, Ranking Member Markey, Ranking Member Velázquez, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) sent a letter urging the SBA to rescind their lending rule change that bars legal permanent residents from receiving SBA loans. Previously, Ranking Members Markey and Velázquez released a statement condemning the actions of the SBA after it announced that small businesses with legal permanent residents will be barred from receiving SBA loans. In December 2025, Ranking Member Markey and all Democratic members of the Senate Small Business Committee sent a letter to the SBA reiterating concerns with the SBA’s citizenship requirements and highlighting a drop in SBA lending volume. In September 2025, Ranking Member Markey heard directly from SBA lenders about the issues with the citizenship verification requirements. In July 2025, Ranking Members Markey and Velázquez sent a letter to the SBA expressing serious concerns with the agency’s new, draconian citizenship verification requirements that require small businesses seeking SBA loans to be 100% owned by U.S. citizens, nationals, and legal permanent residents. SBA has not responded to the letter. ###

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Shaky political "science": breakdown of the peer review process

[This article is the latest in our “Shaky Political Science” series. In our 38 page report, “Shaky political ‘science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting,” released in December 2025, we examined over 40 studies focused on ranked choice voting (RCV). Many of these studies suffered from puzzling research methodologies, poorly constructed surveys, unrealistic simulated elections, cherry picked data and faulty analyses that often were contradicted by results from real-world elections (a link to our full paper is here). Here are links to the first four articles in our series: the first one summarizing the overall results of our report; the second one analyzed a study co-authored by University of Minnesota academic Larry Jacobs, which was one of the most error-prone of all the research we reviewed in our report; a third article showing an admirable example of two political scientists holding two other political scientists accountable for their flawed, sloppy research; and a fourth article that analyzed seven studies sponsored by New America’s political reform program that deployed flawed methodology based on “simulated” elections instead of real-world elections, which when combined with some basic misunderstandings of RCV, produced odd and misleading results]. In this fifth article in our “Shaky Political Science” series, we examine two flawed studies on the impact of RCV on voter turnout authored by San Francisco State University professor Jason McDaniel. McDaniel’s research in these two papers stands out for its puzzling methodology, inadequate and cherry-picked data, and faulty analyses that not only misunderstands ranked choice voting but reflects a basic misunderstanding of politics in general. The first of the McDaniel studies actually passed through a peer review process and then was subsequently published by the Journal of Urban Affairs, despite its obvious errors. It is perplexing that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the errors and send it back to McDaniel for a rewrite or outright rejection. This calls into question the credibility of the peer review process itself. The peer review process is supposed to represent the intellectual pinnacle of the profession – a way for academics to certify the quality of each other’s work, and to act as a check against sloppy research. In the case of the McDaniel study, the peer review process failed. Yet his flawed study has been cited dozens of times by other political scientists in their own flawed works — an unvirtuous circle of academic research. Here is the first Jason McDaniel study that we analyzed: “Writing the Rules to Rank the Candidates: Examining the Impact of Instant-Runoff Voting on Racial Group Turnout in San Francisco Mayoral Elections,” by Jason McDaniel, 2016, Journal of Urban Affairs. This study covered San Francisco’s use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in mayoral elections, purporting to show that RCV reduces voter turnout overall, increases voter errors, and has a negative impact on “marginal populations,” i.e. racial minorities, mainly as the result of the alleged complexity of RCV asking voters to rank candidates and having to be familiar with multiple candidates and related dynamics. McDaniel reached these conclusions by examining five San Francisco mayoral elections taking place in odd years (i.e. where there are no federal or state races on the ballot) from 1995 to 2011, comparing three earlier non-RCV races (in 1995, 1999 and 2003) with the later two RCV races (in 2007 and 2011). Only two RCV races were studied, and as McDaniel acknowledged, only the contest in 2011 was “competitive” (that contest in 2007 was the first mayoral election using RCV, and incumbent mayor Gavin Newsom won easily in the first round of counting, earning 74% of first choices and far ahead of the second place candidate who had just 6.3% of first choices). Yet even the allegedly competitive contest in 2011was won by an incumbent with a landslide margin of nearly 20 points. No other elections were studied by McDaniel, even though San Francisco elects 17 other offices besides mayor with RCV, including the 11 seats on the Board of Supervisors (the name for the city council) in even years, and six other citywide offices in odd years. Previous academic research has found that competitive elections can stimulate greater voter involvement and higher turnout. For unexplained reasons, this study ignored at least 34 other RCV races between the years 2004 to 2011, many of which were very competitive and had high voter turnout. Instead, McDaniel’s analysis based its conclusions on data from only a single, marginally-competitive mayor’s race using RCV. These 2007 and 2011 mayoral elections were the only two RCV elections that McDaniel used as the sole basis for his small data set to determine the impact of RCV on voter turnout. Despite having no meaningful data to inform his study, McDaniel nonetheless concluded that RCV lowered turnout when compared to the previous three mayoral non-RCV elections using two-round runoffs. Then, using the same inadequate database of San Francisco elections, McDaniel also found that “Instant-runoff voting is associated with a significant decline in Black voter turnout and White voter turnout…On average, Black voter turnout decreases by 18 points and White voter turnout decreases by 16 points …” But how could he credibly arrive at that conclusion when his study was based on voter turnout in two RCV contests that were not even remotely competitive? Beyond that, McDaniel tacitly admits that the key determining factor driving Black voter turnout was not RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable Black candidate. McDaniel wrote, “Black voter turnout was about 17 percentage points higher for the two elections that featured an African American candidate compared to the three elections that did not” — but one of those three elections did not use RCV. The same dynamic was present for White voter turnout, in which higher turnout was not correlated with RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable White candidate. Beyond that, McDaniel’s voter turnout results, whether correlated with the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections, showed no clear patterns. In his Figure 1, he shows low Asian voter turnout in the non-RCV elections in 1999 and 2003 when there was no viable Asian candidate running, but in the 2007 mayoral election using RCV, there is still no viable Asian candidate, yet Asian turnout increases dramatically. For Latinos, voter turnout is virtually the same in 1999 (no viable Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2003 (leading Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2007 (no viable Latino candidate, RCV elections) and 2011 (leading Latino candidate, RCV elections). Meanwhile White voter turnout increased dramatically from a low in the 2007 mayoral election, in which the leading candidate was a white incumbent, to the 2011 election in which there were no leading white candidates that finished any higher than sixth place with 5.6% of the vote. Clearly other factors were determining voter turnout than either the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections. Despite these inconsistent findings, McDaniel boldly marches forth to render conclusions about the impact of RCV on different groups of racial voters, even though his conclusions are not remotely supported by his data. This looks like the worst kind of “data cherry picking” to cover up a puzzling conclusion based on a poor data set involving only two RCV elections, neither of which were remotely competitive. McDaniel’s cherry picking didn’t stop there. In calculating voter turnout for the three non-RCV mayoral elections in 1995, 1999 and 2003, he failed to mention that in each of these years there was a two-round runoff election, with a first round election in November in which no candidate garnered a winning majority of the vote, followed by the decisive runoff in December. So there were two non-RCV elections in each election year. But McDaniel only decided to include one of the two elections in his data set, apparently the December runoff in each year (which had higher turnout in two out of the three mayor’s races, and lower turnout in the third). So he ignored the November 1995 election, the November 1999 election when turnout was only 45 percent, and the November 2003 election when turnout was only 45.7 percent. This is flawed methodology based on blatant cherry picking, since McDaniel simply omitted three elections worth of data that did not fit within his frame. His study should never have made it through a peer review process, and it is an embarrassment to political science that not only was it approved for publication, but it has been uncritically cited by dozens of other political scientists. Share A “study” without wider context or credible data Lacking a data set that included even a single competitive RCV mayoral race, McDaniel declared that RCV lowered voter turnout in 2011, when turnout was 42.5 percent. But he also ignored -- or did not realize -- that voter turnout in mayoral elections during 2011 had sharply declined in all big cities, including far more steeply in nearby Los Angeles and other cities. In fact, San Francisco’s election in 2011 had the second highest turnout of any mayoral election in the nation’s 22 largest cities from 2008-2011. Was 2011 just a particularly low turnout year all across the country, perhaps because the country was still reeling from the aftermath of the housing market collapse in 2008-2010? McDaniel ignored this factor and did not search for alternative explanations beyond his flawed thesis. Furthermore, while McDaniel suggested that RCV leads to more “overvotes” – which is an invalidated ballot in which a voter, in either a non-RCV or RCV race, makes a mistake and selects two candidates for a single choice – he failed to address that in the June 2012 US Senate primary contest, which used the typical “one-choice” plurality method and did not use RCV, there was more than five times as many overvotes in San Francisco and Oakland than in the RCV mayoral elections in those cities. Additionally, turnout had been significantly higher and more representative in RCV elections for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors races -- that McDaniel didn’t even bother to study -- as compared to previous “delayed two-round runoffs” for those offices, often higher by as much as 40% in the RCV races. Perhaps the most surprising irony was that an earlier study co-authored by McDaniel (Overvoting and the Equality of Voice under Instant-Runoff Voting in San Francisco by Francis Neely and Jason McDaniel, 2015, California Journal of Politics and Policy) found that overvotes are often more common in lower-income precincts, but that the pattern of overvoting is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. Wrote Neely and McDaniel: “[Overvote] errors appear to be a function of complexity in general and not IRV per se…. the pattern of overvoting is similar in both IRV and non-IRV contests…Even among votes cast in a top-of-the-ticket race like U.S. Senate, overvoting occurs in an uneven fashion” (IRV, or ‘instant runoff voting,’ is another name for ranked choice voting in single-winner contests). So McDaniel not only contradicted his own conclusion in his earlier study with Neely, but the earlier study had been an important corrective for one of the most frequently made mistakes made by anti-RCV political scientists – a continual failure to provide crucial context by pairing a comparative analysis of real world RCV elections with an analysis of real world plurality or other electoral methods. Unfortunately McDaniel’s earlier study does not get cited much by other researchers, and McDaniel did not even cite it in his own flawed study analyzed above. Incredibly, McDaniel cherrypicked McDaniel, even as his flawed study has been cited dozens of times. Despite being a textbook example of poor political “science,” featuring both inadequate as well as cherrypicked data, the shelf life of McDaniel’s study has been extended endlessly by other political scientists and media outlets who have cited it uncritically. Equally troubling, the Journal of Urban Affairs put this paper through its peer review process and published it despite its numerous flaws. McDaniel gets it wrong, Part II Not content with producing one shoddy, confused paper, McDaniel produced another one a few years later, here is the link: Electoral Rules and Voter Turnout in Mayoral Elections: An Analysis of Ranked-Choice Voting by Jason McDaniel. San Francisco State Univ. (McDaniel, 2019). In this paper, McDaniel extended his previous flawed research focused on San Francisco, about voter turnout and voter impact, to multiple RCV cities through the 2018 elections. In his data set he included San Francisco, Minneapolis, St Paul, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro and Santa Fe. He then compared their turnout in mayoral elections to non-RCV cities, and to mayoral elections in those cities held before first RCV usage, and concluded “a significant decrease in voter turnout of approximately 3–5 percentage points in RCV cities after the implementation of RCV.” But he replicated many of the same mistakes as his first study presented above. While in this study McDaniel attempted to distinguish between various factors, such as odd year vs. even year elections, competitive races vs. noncompetitive, contests with open seats and other factors, the analysis is superficial and inadequate. He attempts to incorporate so many often-conflicting variables that his conclusions are once again unsupported by the actual data, and ultimately unconvincing (this second study never underwent a peer review process). For example, McDaniel declared that for RCV cities “in elections that are more competitive than average (margin of victory less than 20%), there is no significant RCV effect on voter turnout.” Yet McDaniel is a professor in a city, San Francisco, in which the 2018 special election using RCV to fill a mayoral vacancy was exceedingly close, decided by a margin of only one percentage point, and resulted in the second highest turnout in San Francisco history for a mayoral election. Illustrating the complexity involved in assessing the critical factors in turnout, that special election was held on the same election day as federal and state offices, which tends to boost turnout. Yet more voters participated in that RCV mayoral election than voted on the same day in the non-RCV primary for governor in which former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom was running. Even more puzzling, in this study McDaniel inaccurately cited his own previous study from 2015 with Neely. McDaniel wrote, “Neely and McDaniel (2015) examine individual ballot image files within a natural experiment, and find higher rates of ballot errors in RCV elections compared to non-RCV elections” (emphasis added). However, we quoted from that 2015 study several paragraphs above, and in actual fact Neely and McDaniel actually concluded the opposite -- that the pattern of overvoting – which is the most common form of ballot error – is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. McDaniel also ignored the fact that in Bay Area RCV elections held in even years – at the same time as federal and state elections, when turnout is highest -- the “undervote” (that is, the dropoff in ballots cast for governor or mayor) has declined, which contradicts his thesis that the act of ranking ballots in RCV elections is too complex and presents a barrier for certain demographics of voters. To his credit, McDaniel actually acknowledged another contradiction in his own paper, which found a negative RCV turnout effect in some odd-year elections but not others, admitting that “may present a challenge to the theory that increased complexity [from RCV] will have a marginal negative effect on voter turnout.” But he tried to wallpaper over that contradiction by blaming it on an unlikely source -- bad election administration. McDaniels wrote, “This would suggest that the negative impact of RCV on voter participation may be alleviated by high quality election administration,” without presenting any data or even anecdotes to support such an unfounded theory. While competent election administration of any election, whether RCV or non-RCV, is crucially important, there is no credible research that supports the far-fetched notion that the quality of election administration has much of an impact on voter turnout in US elections, whether using RCV or otherwise. Upgrade to a $5 subscription The unvirtuous circle of academic research It is puzzling how McDaniel’s first study could have survived the peer review process for the Journal of Urban Affairs. The mistakes in McDaniel’s first study above should have been obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of ranked choice voting as well as elections in general, and elections in San Francisco specifically. It undermines faith in the credibility of the peer review process to think that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the egregious errors and reject McDaniel’s sloppy research and paper. And it remains a black mark on political science that this thoroughly discredited study has been cited dozens of times by other researchers. Indeed, in our research paper it became apparent that many political scientists cite each other’s flawed research to pad their list of citations and to legitimize their own flawed research, creating an unvirtuous circle of political science. More broadly, McDaniel’s voter turnout studies, like other studies evaluating RCV’s impact on turnout, lacked a recognition that no credible opinion or research can claim that RCV increases voter turnout merely because so many voters are excited to vote for their favorite candidates instead of “lesser evil” candidates without worrying about spoilers. Instead, with respect to turnout, the advantage of RCV has always been that, in most places where it has been used, it has eliminated a pre-November primary or post-November runoff, which usually saw about half the turnout of the November general election. This is especially true during even years when there are state and federal elections on the ballot which substantially drive turnout more than local contests. Any study that does not adequately account for this non-November primary/runoff vs November general election dynamic, or odd year vs even year election factors, is simply not credible. Both of McDaniel’s studies largely failed on those grounds. Steven Hill and Paul Haughey Share Upgrade to a $5 subscription Thanks for reading DemocracySOS…your digital portal for the pro-democracy movement. Subscribe for only $5 per month to receive full benefits and to support our work. Subscribe

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The Wingman

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‘It was a miraculous save’: S.F. drag club Oasis roars back

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Lionel Messi fuels Argentina’s stunning late rally past England into World Cup final

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CDC director nominee Erica Schwartz faces Senate for confirmation hearing

Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump's nominee for CDC director, faces the Senate health committee for her confirmation hearing on July 15. If confirmed, she will lead an agency dealing with workforce and leadership shortages, and new layers of political review.

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How birders in Chad ‘found’ the rusty lark, a bird lost to science for nearly a century

The morning of Feb. 2, 2026, started like many others for Pierre Defos du Rau and Julien Birard: It was hot and sunny with a gentle breeze, ideal birding weather. The two French ornithologists, who have been birding since their teens and have traveled the world in search of birds, were at Abou Telfane Game […]

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The UAE is putting a homegrown satellite constellation into orbit

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After the finals for 2XKO at Evo 2026 today, the developers decided to treat us to something special — namely a full reveal of the remaining characters for the game's first season.It was shown that Lux, the Lady of ...

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Jun 28 • 5:30 PM EDT • Technology • eventhubs.com
Medical miracles that changed how we treat disease

We've come a long way since \

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Jun 26 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today

Vice-president declares admiration for 37th president and claims Nixon and Trump targeted by ‘deep state’ forces

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Jun 25 • 8:12 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Fired Navy Admiral Wins Democratic Runoff in South Carolina’s 1st District

Democrats expect Nancy Lacore to run a competitive general election despite the district’s Republican leaning.

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Jun 23 • 10:14 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis set ‘Warriors’ musical for Broadway in 2027

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis are transforming their concept album “Warriors” into a Broadway musical.

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Jun 23 • 4:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Deepak Adwani Promoted to Executive Director of Miraj Entertainment Ltd.

Miraj Entertainment Ltd. has announced the promotion of Deepak Adwani from Vice President – P&L to Executive Director of Miraj Cinemas, effective immediately. This announcement comes in the wake of the untimely passing of Managing Director Bhuvanesh Mendiratta, and marks the next chapter in Miraj Cinemas’ journey. Adwani brings over two decades of experience in […]

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Jun 22 • 10:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • boxofficepro.com
Why Not US? Can Pochettino's USMNT Win It All, Curaçao's Miracle & Dutch Dominance
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Jun 21 • 11:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Turkish competition board approves Uber acquisition of Getir delivery business

The Turkish Competition Board said ​on Friday it ‌had approved Uber Technologies Inc.'s acquisition of ​the delivery arm ​of Turkey's Getir from ⁠Emirati controlling shareholder ​Mubadala.

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Jun 19 • 1:39 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Passenger finds nearly empty Emirates business class cabin on short flight
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Julien Planté has been appointed as Head of Entertainment at MIRAMIS

Miramis, the international hospitality company, has appointed Julien Planté as Head of Entertainment, a role focused on strengthening live entertainment and cultural programming across the company’s portfolio.

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Jun 15 • 9:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • hospitalitynet.org
Miramis Appoints Head Of Entertainment Ahead Of Gasometer Stockholm Opening

Miramis, the international hospitality company operating mainly in Italy and Sweden, has appointed Julien Planté as Head of Entertainment, a role focused on

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Gaethje's 'Miracle' moment highlights UFC Freedom 250

Let’s just call a spade a spade, whoever wrote the script for UFC’s Freedom 250 card at the White House on Sunday had the Midas Touch.

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Jun 15 • 3:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands

Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.

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After Game 4 miracle, Knicks return to '0-0 mindset' on verge of winning historic NBA Finals
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The Poetry of Pelé. The Miracle of Maradona. The Awakening of America

Tom Rinaldi reflects on why the the world’s game belongs right here at home

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