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Securing America’s 250: Law enforcement faces shifting plans and World Cup demands

The day after the White House kicked off celebrations for America’s 250th birthday with a UFC fight on the South Lawn, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that law enforcement had thwarted a plot to attack the event using drones and snipers to target Trump and others.

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Jul 2 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Meta plots AI cloud business to challenge Amazon, Microsoft and Google

Meta plots AI cloud business to challenge Amazon, Microsoft and Google

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Jul 1 • 12:02 PM EDT • Business • latimes.com
CalChamber has lost the plot: It’s time to reclaim the fight for California business

CalChamber must stop asking for a seat at the table and start demanding a change in the menu.

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Jun 30 • 3:32 PM EDT • Business • ocregister.com
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This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’

Euplotes gigatrox’s shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in surprisingly complex ways.

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Jun 30 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
'Yellowstone' creator Taylor Sheridan slams Marvel movies and studio execs: 'It didn't used to be this way'

'Yellowstone' creator Taylor Sheridan had harsh criticism for Marvel movies, saying the superhero films use 'information dumps that you have to follow to get to the action rather than actually moving plot.'

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Jun 29 • 9:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Disgraced Actor's MAGA-Coded Movie Trailer Just Dropped — And The Plot Is WILD

"Run Hide Fight: Infidels" comes almost three years after Majors’ conviction for assaulting his then-girlfriend.

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Jun 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
'Supergirl' spoilers! Milly Alcock explains that 'twisted' ending

Spoiler alert! The following post discusses important plot points and the ending of “Supergirl” (in theaters now) so beware if you haven’t seen it yet.

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Jun 26 • 6:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
4 new mysteries and thrillers perfect for long summer days

This month's lineup of new mysteries and thrillers offers plenty of suspicious ongoings, dark secrets and deliciously twisty plots.

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Jun 24 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Justice Department charges two more in alleged plot to attack White House UFC event

Two more men have been charged in the alleged plot to attack the UFC White House fight earlier this month, providing new insight on how far in preparation the Justice Department believes the group came in carrying out the would-be attack.

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Jun 22 • 5:41 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
'Gears of War' movie reveals first plot details: 'The origin story of Delta Squad' (exclusive)

'Gears of War' movie plot revealed: Netflix's live-action adaptation will be 'the origin story of Delta Squad.'

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Jun 22 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Netflix's “Gears of War” live-action movie reveals first plot details: 'The origin story of Delta Squad' (exclusive)

David Leitch of "Bullet Train" and "The Fall Guy" will direct the video game-to-film adaptation.

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Jun 22 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
5 real UFO coverups you missed in 'Disclosure Day'

How real-life intelligence programs inspired the plot

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Jun 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Jet-engine manufacturer plots expansion in Pontiac on site of former movie studio

Williams International is seeking a 15-year extension of its Renaissance Zone tax break to support an expansion.

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Jun 22 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
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Ruben Ostlund reveals further plot details of ‘The Entertainment ...

Cricket, Australian masculinity, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Adam Sandler all play their part.

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Jun 19 • 10:48 AM EDT • Entertainment • screendaily.com
The 'Toy Story 5' moment that 'shattered' Tom Hanks

Spoiler alert! We're discussing an important plot point in “Toy Story 5” (in theaters now), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet.

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Jun 19 • 10:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
'Angry, Raucous …' review: Good performances weighed down by plot

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs the L.A. premiere of Pearl Cleage's 'Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous' at the Geffen Playhouse

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Jun 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Plot Twist Books Launches Bookmobile To Boost Business On NW Side

Plot Twist Used Book's bookmobile is stocked with about 300 books. The colorful bus will make appearances at farmers markets and street fests throughout the summer.

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Jun 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • blockclubchicago.org
Katie Couric (@katiecouric)

3,068 likes, 268 comments - katiecouric on June 17, 2026: "Rahm Emanuel has been a major force in Democratic politics for decades—from congressman and White House chief of staff to mayor of Chicago and U.S. ambassador to Japan. As the 2026 midterms approach, he joined me on Next Question to discuss President Trump's second term, why Democrats "lost the plot," why he believes the U.S. should end taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel, and what it will take for the party to reconnect with voters and regain lost ground. 🎧 Watch the full interview on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.".

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Jun 17 • 10:44 PM EDT • Politics • instagram.com
MrBeast's next challenge? Writing a book. See the cover, title, plot.

If popular YouTuber MrBeast and bestselling author James Patterson have anything in common, it’s that they’re both game to try something new.

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Jun 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Report links anti-Christian extremism and 'assassination culture' to alleged plot against Erika Kirk

A new report links anti-Christian extremism and assassination culture to the alleged bomb threat against Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA event.

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Jun 16 • 12:10 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
FBI says it foiled ‘planned attacks’ targeting White House UFC event

At least five people are in custody in an alleged plot that included 23 people, according to US media reports.

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Jun 16 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Adaptive plots splitting Pfizer-partnered drug discovery unit from diagnostics business

Adaptive Biotechnologies is planning to separate its drug discovery and diagnostics businesses,

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Jun 16 • 9:24 AM EDT • Business • fiercebiotech.com
25 best whodunit movies in movie history, according to fans

Stacker compiled data on the top whodunit movies and ranked them by IMDb user ratings, with any ties being broken by votes. To qualify, the plot of the film had

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Jun 14 • 12:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • northwestgeorgianews.com
25 best whodunit movies in movie history, according to fans

Stacker compiled data on the top whodunit movies and ranked them by IMDb user ratings, with any ties being broken by votes. To qualify, the plot of the film had

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Jun 14 • 12:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • elpasoinc.com
25 best whodunit movies in movie history, according to fans

Stacker compiled data on the top whodunit movies and ranked them by IMDb user ratings, with any ties being broken by votes. To qualify, the plot of the film had

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Jun 14 • 12:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
Food allergy group calls out Mindy Kaling's 'Not Suitable for Work' over 'dangerous' shellfish plotline

Mindy Kaling's comedy series 'Not Suitable for Work' included a 'dangerous' plotline involving shellfish, FARE, a food allergy awareness group, claims.

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Jun 9 • 9:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
‘The Targeted’: Six characters in search of a plot

A Red Orchid Theatre's world premiere of Hanna Kime's “The Targeted” on the Chopin Theatre Mainstage takes a provocative look at a problematic subculture, but the playwright merely has a

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Jun 8 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • hpherald.com
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Can Marco Rubio convince Trump that a free Cuba is America First?

As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has been a primary driver of President Trump’s foreign policy. But Cuba is his most personal challenge yet. And as he plots another potential run for the presidency in 2028, it’s the one whose success or failure could most closely define him.

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Jun 7 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People "Addicted" to Its AI

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

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Jun 3 • 1:04 PM EDT • Technology • futurism.com
Enzo Le Fée Is Sunderland’s Orchestrator Supreme

“He’s a supreme on-field tactician; a plotter, a schemer, one of the men that makes us tick,” writes Phil West.

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Jun 2 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Developer Eyes Brooklyn Center Plot for Business and Event Center

McNeal Management wants to build an event venue, commercial kitchen, cafe and business incubator in Brooklyn Center.

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Jun 1 • 2:32 PM EDT • Business • ccxmedia.org
Head of recruitment Hahn to depart

West Ham head of recruitment Max Hahn is leaving the club following their relegation to the Championship. The process for the exit of Hahn, whose official title is head of technical recruitment and analysis, is under way and will be confirmed in due course. It is understood the club are looking for a replacement with a deep knowledge of the Championship as they plot an instant return to the Premier League.

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May 31 • 8:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The ‘Return To Xbox’ Movement Is Starting To Lose The Plot

Microsoft is trying to recapture Xbox magic, but doing so by getting lost in minor complaints from fans, with big solutions nowhere in sight.

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May 30 • 8:35 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Watch veteran entertainment attorney Loren Plotkin accept his 2026 Tony Honor

Plotkin looks back on five decades of theatrical advocacy.

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May 29 • 6:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • broadwaynews.com
With the Protect College Sports bill finally in hand, SEC leaders are discussing contingencies

As a bipartisan Senate bill to regulate college athletics gains traction, the SEC is already plotting its own radical roster-building workarounds

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May 27 • 10:21 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
U.S. Business Leaders are Quietly Plotting Their Escape to Europe: How Will They Get There?

A growing number of wealthy Americans are exploring dual citizenship or Golden Visas in an attempt to escape the U.S. for what they consider a better life in Europe. These are the options.

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May 26 • 5:35 AM EDT • Business • kiplinger.com
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Hims & Hers CEO is plotting new ways to upend traditional health care

Hims & Hers built massive weight-loss markets using telehealth. Peptides, if authorized by the FDA, stand to become a major part of the company’s shift to wellness and longevity.

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May 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Murdoch Paper Warns That Trump, 79, Has ‘Lost the Plot’

It’s the latest scathing take from a conservative institution.

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May 23 • 2:37 PM EDT • Politics • thedailybeast.com
Scientists discover a shortcut to the moon that NASA missed

Getting to the moon is partly a fuel problem. Plotting the most efficient path between two points in space saves propellant, and every kilogram of propellant conserved is money in the bank. Even tiny ...

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May 22 • 5:30 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
How the anti-weaponization fund evolved from a 2024 Trump campaign idea into a reality

As Donald Trump plotted his return to the White House in late 2023, a group of campaign advisers began working on a plan to compensate political allies.

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May 21 • 3:29 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Opinion | How Democrats Lost the Plot

We need leaders who tell us hard truths while insisting that the present state of our politics is not permanent.

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May 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Three men headed to prison for $2B healthcare fraud – but kingpin is in the wind

Three men are headed to prison for their roles in an elaborate international scheme to con health insurers by sending $2 billion of phony telemedicine prescriptions – but the plot's alleged kingpin...

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May 19 • 7:50 PM EDT • Health • nypost.com
Sphere Entertainment secures $1.7B investment from Abu Dhabi for first international venue

The venue will built on a plot of land between Yas Mall and SeaWorld Abu Dhabi.

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May 18 • 11:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • musicbusinessworldwide.com
Houston's new budget could come down to this feud

Two of Houston's top elected officials are quietly plotting ambitions for the next mayor's race.

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May 18 • 7:18 AM EDT • Politics • axios.com
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Major airlines throw huge curveball at City Hall bosses over mass wage hike plot

Los Angeles City Council may have dodged financial ruin Wednesday, but only temporarily, after furious business leaders forced City Hall into emergency negotiations over a massive Olympic wage hike.

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May 13 • 9:57 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
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YAS ISLAND TO BE HOME OF SPHERE ABU DHABI, A NEW GLOBAL ICON FOR IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) and Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR) today announced that Yas Island has been selected as the location for Sphere Abu Dhabi, a landmark project with a construction phase cost of USD 1.7 billion. Poised to become a global icon, the venue will attract tourists from around the world, boost economic diversification, and strengthen Abu Dhabi's sense of place for residents and visitors alike. Sphere Abu Dhabi, which will be the first Sphere venue outside the United States, will be built on a plot of land between Yas Mall and SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, with lush green surroundings and proximity to other Yas Island theme parks and attractions. Construction on the venue is expected to be completed by the end of 2029. HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi, said: "Abu Dhabi has always built for the long term, and Sphere Abu Dhabi is a powerful demonstration of that commitment. In a region where the appetite for

Jared Wolff Plots Banc of Cal's Next Chapter - Los Angeles Business Journal

​Sitting at the helm of the $34 billion Banc of California, Jared Wolff is too busy to think about legacy. In seven years as the Brentwood-based regional

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May 11 • 3:01 AM EDT • Business • labusinessjournal.com
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'The Hunt for Gollum': All About the Upcoming 'Lord of the Rings' Movie

'The Hunt for Gollum' is the upcoming 'Lord of the Rings' movie. Here's everything to know about 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum', including the timeline, plot, cast, release date and more news.

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May 10 • 9:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com
How Netflix's 'Man On Fire' Stacks Up Against Denzel Washington's 2004 Classic

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II takes over for Denzel Washington as a worthy action lead in Netflix's adaptation of A.J. Quinnell's novel series.

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May 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Like Hart, sky-high political prospects of Swalwell given ‘The Monkey Business’

Eric Swalwell’s promising political career has likely reached an ignominious terminus. The man who aspired to the presidency in 2020 was plotting another route to that destination. Having entered California’s 2026 jungle primary for the governor’s office in Sacramento, he was leading the field when the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN ambushed the evident frontrunner […]

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Apr 27 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • coloradopolitics.com
Like Hart, sky-high political prospects of Swalwell given ‘The Monkey Business’

Eric Swalwell’s promising political career has likely reached an ignominious terminus. The man who aspired to the presidency in 2020 was plotting another route to that destination. Having entered California’s 2026 jungle primary for the governor’s office in Sacramento, he was leading the field when the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN ambushed the evident frontrunner […]

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Apr 27 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
New panel of climate scientists calls for fossil fuel transition roadmaps

The Science Panel for the Global Energy Transition, launched in Santa Marta, will provide evidence and insights to help governments plot a path away from oil, gas and coal

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Apr 25 • 7:09 AM EDT • Science • climatechangenews.com
MrBeast plots move into 'AI-native entertainment'

Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, is looking for a leader to build a new production capability where AI is "not a tool but the foundation."

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Apr 24 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • businessinsider.com
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New issue: Mirrorlife | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Mirror life could end all life on Earth. That sounds dramatic, but senior biologists have raised the alarm about experiments happening all around the world. It sounds like something in a Doctor Who plot, but no – mirror life is a real possibility. So why do scientists want to create something that’s potentially apocalyptic? Well, it could also have huge benefits (think back to splitting the atom). The first thing to say, however, is that mirror organisms are still a little way away yet – but only decades, not centuries. So far, scientists have only made mirror molecules, one of life’s building blocks. What for? Life works because its building blocks fit together. Imagine drilling a screw into a piece of wood. The screw cuts a hole with a thread that snugly matches its own. If, for some reason, the Doctor showed up and handed you a mirror version of the screw, its thread would be in reverse. It wouldn’t twist into the hole you’d just made as the threads wouldn’t match. That said, the mirror screw would still work; you’d just have to create a mirror hole for it. Mirror molecules, including DNA, work a bit like that. They follow the same principles as the biology around us, but they’re entirely incompatible with traditional biological functions. In medical terms, this means they’re effectively invisible to your body’s systems. Our biology doesn’t have the tools to recognise these molecules and break them apart. And if someone took these mirror molecules and put them together to make a cell and then an organism… you’d have mirror life. But we don't have any way of breaking it down. If it escaped the lab, we’d just have to hope it didn’t have an appetite.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy Trashes Trump’s Typo-Riddled Plot

Nye warned Trump to step back before he makes “a huge mistake.”

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Apr 21 • 8:45 AM EDT • Science • thedailybeast.com
Eagles trade rumor could lead to deal with Vikings

The Philadelphia Eagles are reportedly looking to be active in the trade market during the 2026 NFL Draft, and the Minnesota Vikings might be in their crosshairs. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman is plotting to…

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Apr 20 • 7:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Movie Lover Argues Alamo Drafthouse Blew It

Sony-owned chain forces people onto phones despite once-strict ban, writes David Ehrlich

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Apr 19 • 9:55 PM EDT • Technology • newser.com
The return of power politics to the market: theory and practice of the geoeconomic zeitenwende

Descriptions, explanations, and recommendations regarding foreign policy as well as foreign trade policy increasingly refer to the concept of geoeconomics. In fact, the use of economic and technological measures in foreign policy practice is becoming more frequent and intensive, especially in those countries that have the necessary resources of power at their disposal, such as […]

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Apr 17 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • pubaffairsbruxelles.eu
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Why doctors are applauding this TV show's health plot line for women

Amanda Peet has praised "Your Friends & Neighbors" creator for including this storyline, especially since she’s also in perimenopause.

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Apr 16 • 5:04 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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Earth Day forum to explore climate solutions through business and policy in San Francisco

Earth Day arrives next week. Amid global distractions, a local public forum plots new strategies for tackling climate change. The World Meteorological

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Apr 13 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • localnewsmatters.org
'Euphoria' Season 3 returns with new plot and dedications

After four years, 'Euphoria' Season 3 premieres this weekend, dedicated to Angus Cloud and others. What to know.

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Apr 12 • 10:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • democratandchronicle.com
Santa Fe business owners, residents sound off south-side homeless shelter plans

The new shelter will be operated by Interfaith Community Shelter on a 1.1-acre plot of land near Santa Fe Place mall.

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Apr 10 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • santafenewmexican.com
Pro-Palestinian activist refuses to condemn political violence after threat against her is foiled

After a Molotov cocktail plot against a pro-Palestinian activist was foiled, Nerdeen Kiswani refused to condemn political violence, blasting Zionist aggression.

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Apr 10 • 4:15 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
In this era of political violence, candidate security costs are higher, new report says

Security spending for congressional and presidential campaigns has jumped fivefold over the past decade as an increasingly hostile political environment has led to escalating threats against public officials, ranging from doxing to assassination plots, according to a report released Thursday.

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RFK Jr. moved his ex-wife’s remains from Kennedy family plot to the edge of the cemetery

A new biography on RFK Jr. has resurfaced claims he moved his ex-wife's remains from the Kennedy family plot to the edge of the cemetery without her family's knowledge.

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Niners' Potential Trade Package Revealed to Get Star Defensive Player

Clutching their first-round pick, the Niners plot a blockbuster deal to land an elite pass rusher, aiming for Super Bowl contention.

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Apr 7 • 9:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dem ADMITS party 'lost the plot' amid woke politics push

2028 Democratic contenders are distancing themselves from 'woke' rhetoric, with Gov. Gavin Newsom claiming his office never used the term 'Latinx' despite video evidence as Rahm Emanuel admits the party is on the 'losing side' of the culture war.

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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Man convicted in political assassination plot he tied to Iranian paramilitary

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Will humans and animals ever be able to converse? Here’s what science says.

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Venezuela grants amnesty to 379 political prisoners

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Report: Liverpool to move ‘immediately’ to sign Premier League star

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Trent Alexander-Arnold set to stay at Real Madrid despite exit talk

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