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Trendiana: New businesses in historic buildings

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Sep 29 • 11:22 AM EDT • Business • insideindianabusiness.com
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: Still the Best Health Buddy for Your Wrist

The fourth-gen Apple Watch Ultra doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it sure does pack plenty of upgrades, like more accurate health tracking and longer battery life.

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Sep 29 • 11:15 AM EDT • Health • gizmodo.com
Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations

The Trump administration is fighting to keep up "third-country" deportation flights. We examined the private contractors profiting from these abuses.

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Sep 29 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • theintercept.com
3 Reasons ‘Sleep on It’ Is Actually Pretty Good Advice, According to Science

After a long day or a stressful situation, you might hear the advice of “just sleep it off” or “you’ll feel better in the morning.” And while it might seem like an invalidating, oversimplified recommendation, it has some accuracy: often, our bodies and minds are better after a good night’s rest. According to Josef Newton, […]

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Sep 29 • 10:53 AM EDT • Science • vice.com
Democrats eye hopes of a blue wave in Wisconsin

Democrats see his race as one that could break their way if the blue wave they’re working toward turns into a tsunami.

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Sep 29 • 10:32 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
What to watch in CNN’s California governor race debate

Democrat Xavier Becerra debates Republican Steve Hilton on CNN Wednesday night.

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Sep 29 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Scientists Say They Know How Your Brain Clears Up Confusing Images

You walk into a dim room and swear someone is standing in the corner. A moment later, you realize it is only a coat rack. The correction happens so quickly that the mistake almost disappears from memo...

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Sep 29 • 10:18 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Stand Up for Science to Rally Scientists and Academic Leaders Against Trump Admin's Higher Ed Crackdown

Virtual rally follows 2025 Ed Compact anniversary; calls on university leadership to reject administration’s demands and defend academic freedom.

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Sep 29 • 9:53 AM EDT • Science • einnews.com
Stand Up for Science to Rally Scientists and Academic Leaders Against Trump Admin's Higher Ed Crackdown

Virtual rally follows 2025 Ed Compact anniversary; calls on university leadership to reject administration’s demands and defend academic freedom.

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Sep 29 • 9:53 AM EDT • Science • einpresswire.com
Sting adds two new shows to sold-out Brooklyn Paramount residency: How to secure tickets today
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Sep 29 • 9:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • syracuse.com
Controversy erupts around Ace Combat 8 on PC as bundled Belkan War re-release remains problematically attached to the new game, whereas it's standalone on console

Early adopters of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve were not happy to find one of the game's most exciting pre-order bonuses isn't quite what was advertised.

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Sep 29 • 9:15 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Mars debuts protein-filled Cheez-It crackers

Contains 7 grams of protein per serving.

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Sep 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • foodbusinessnews.net
Ten Kustom shares will become one as it seeks to meet Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid-price rule.

The stated outstanding-share count drops from 6,506,860 to 650,686, subject to rounding up fractional shares. Split-adjusted trading is expected Oct. 1.

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Sep 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
Syra Health Awarded Three-Year Public Health Analytics Contract with Mississippi State Department of Health

/PRNewswire/ -- Syra Health Corp. (OTCQB: SYRA) ("Syra Health" or the "Company"), an integrated healthcare solutions company powering better health outcomes...

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Sep 29 • 8:55 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Scott Harris Addresses Potential Riley Greene Contract Extension

Scott Harris declined to discuss a Riley Greene contract extension Monday but made it clear how highly the Detroit Tigers value their star outfielder.

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Sep 29 • 8:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Will Republicans help this underdog liberal unseat a longtime Democratic congressman?

As young progressive Democrats across the country successfully unseat older incumbents, one California Democratic challenger is courting Republicans instead

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Sep 29 • 8:15 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
See Alaska Airlines' new premium economy and business-class seats

Alaska is the latest US airline to shore up its premium offerings to attract customers willing to pay more.

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Sep 29 • 8:01 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Brandon McGinley: How being a one-party town warps Pittsburgh’s politics

Every time I write something critical about governance in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, one response tends to predominate in the comments and emails: “This...

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • post-gazette.com
Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge

Scientists have developed and experimentally demonstrated a long-sought method for identifying W states, an important form of multi-photon quantum entanglement. The technique could make complex entangled systems much easier to measure, opening new possibilities for quantum teleportation, communication, and computing.

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Minaris Evolves Business Model with Addition of Dedicated Viral Vectors Business Unit

/PRNewswire/ -- Minaris, a global cell and gene therapy (CGT) CDMO and multimodal contract testing organization, today announced the addition of a dedicated...

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
What’s In Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing

The artificial intelligence giant reportedly believes that it’s on track for a record-breaking stock market listing, according to a prospectus seen by Reuters.

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Sep 29 • 7:58 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Smart ring maker Oura postpones public listing due to 'uncertainty in the IPO market'

The digital health IPO window may be closing, at least for now. | Smart ring maker and health tracking company Oura is postponing its previously announced initial public offering on Nasdaq due to "uncertainty in the IPO market," the company announced Tuesday morning.

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Sep 29 • 7:30 AM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
A Simple iPhone Setting Can Actually Stop Spam Callers In Their Tracks

Wave goodbye to pesky unknown calls.

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Sep 29 • 7:24 AM EDT • Technology • huffingtonpost.co.uk
The Beclowning of Scott Bessent

One iron law of current politics is that nobody who associates themselves with Donald Trump emerges with a shred of credibility. For some, that’s not a big loss — it’s not as if anyone respected Pete Hegseth even before he decided that the key to military success in an age of drones and AI was more testosterone. For others, however, the costs are real. I’m old enough to remember when Marco Rubio was widely considered a reasonable, thoughtful politician. Right now, however, my candidate for the biggest loser is Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury. Bessent started out with significant reputation to lose: When Trump selected him, this was the headline in the Financial Times: Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s chief economist, described him as a “credible Treasury secretary who has a real understanding of the global economy”. But Bessent has now transformed himself into the Baghdad Bob of bonds. Three weeks ago, after intervening (for reasons that remain somewhat unclear) to support the Japanese yen, Bessent boasted about his ability to move markets and dared investors to bet against his, declaring “I am the house now.” He then tried to push long-term interest rates down, buying 30-year U.S. Treasuries in a move some have compared to paying down part of your mortgage by running up your credit card balance. Here’s how that’s going so far: To get some perspective on how high interest rates have gone, here’s a longer-term perspective: We haven’t seen interest rates this high since the fading days of the dotcom bubble. Why are interest rates hitting new records? The backdrop, as I argued in last Sunday’s primer, is the huge AI-driven investment boom; more on that next week. But the immediate cause of the latest interest rate spike was Trump’s rejection of an Iranian proposal to end the war. This rejection sent crude oil prices, which for a while had fallen considerably, shooting back up: It’s notable, by the way, that oil prices remain high even though a significant amount of oil is now being shuttled through the Strait of Hormuz by night, on smaller vessels. That’s an interesting story, which has a lot to do with the fact that oil from the Hormuz shuttle runs must be transferred to larger vessels before being shipped to markets in Europe and Asia; around 15 percent of the world’s large crude carriers are now parked off the coast of Oman, waiting to be tanked up. This is creating a shipping crunch: But that’s a topic for another day. For now, the point is that with oil still high and refined products, especially diesel, still close to record levels, inflation will remain elevated. And this in turn means that the Federal Reserve will keep short-term interest rates high, an expectation that is feeding into longer-term rates. Hence Bessent’s bond-market humiliation. The truth is that Bessent might not have been able to get interest rates down even in the best of circumstances. But he certainly won’t get anywhere as long as Trump keeps believing that he can somehow convert his Iran debacle into a triumphant victory. And Trump will keep believing that as long as he is surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear. Sycophants like, for example, Scott Bessent, who is predicting the imminent collapse of the Iranian economy, possibly within two weeks. Bessent is right to say that the embargo on Iranian oil exports is placing the country under great economic strain. But his implicit prediction that this will quickly produce a deal that Trump can call victory looks no more plausible than his boasts about the bond market. The big question now is, why would anyone with a reputation to lose work for Donald Trump? As the beclowning of Bessent shows, joining the Trump team won’t just damage your reputation; it will utterly destroy it.

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Sep 29 • 7:10 AM EDT • Politics • paulkrugman.substack.com
Lesbian Bar Project Co-Founder: Purity Politics Could Destroy Our Remaining Spaces

Subscribe As a professional lesbian and Massachusetts native, I’ve recently been asked by a lot of folks what I think about the saga unfolding at Last Ditch. The now-viral story, first reported by The Boston Globe, centers on a Western Massachusetts lesbian bar that lifted its mask requirement for one night a week to help drum up business. The decision ignited an intra-queer controversy that has been feasted on by media outlets across the political spectrum—from the New York Post to LGBTQ Nation—and is even reportedly being eyed for a Hollywood adaptation. Apparently nothing is more entertaining than a bunch of lesbians and queers fighting with each other over KN-95s. What has been lost in all of the chatter and media coverage is the very real possibility that Last Ditch, which just opened in April 2025, will have to close its doors. The venue’s one remaining founder, Jackie Matellian, revealed in a community Zoom meeting that she’s working four jobs, is now solely responsible for the bar’s $50,000 business loan and is struggling to keep up with the bills. So as we laugh about the controversy’s similarity to a “Portlandia” skit and how one of the bar’s founders left to enroll in clown school, we forget that yet another lesbian bar is facing an existential crisis—and this time the call is coming from inside the house. In 2020, my friend Elina Street and I created The Lesbian Bar Project, an Emmy-, Webby- and GLAAD Media Award-winning docuseries and initiative that tells the stories of lesbian queer bars around the world. We were moved to act because at the time there were only an estimated 16 lesbian bars in the United States, and the pandemic threatened to bring that number down even further. There are now more sapphic bars than there were just before the pandemic—about 36 of them in total—but this is down from approximately 200 in 1980. Maybe that doesn’t mean much to you, but for the millions of sapphics living in the U.S., this number is calamitous. As the world laughs at lesbians and sapphics, I want to take a second and tell you what I feel when I walk into one of these bars, which are all unique and irreplaceable in their own way: I feel seen. Sometimes I think Cubbyhole in New York City’s West Village neighborhood knew I was gay before I did. When I walked in there for the first time, before I was even out, I was transfixed by the colorful array of tchotchkes hanging from the ceiling and how the women standing next to me were completely unafraid to express their desire for one another. I knew the minute I was ready to come out, I had a home. I also felt the joy of a new couple falling in love at Seattle’s Wildrose, the quiet confidence of a short king lining up her shot at the pool table at Ginger’s in Brooklyn and the kick of cayenne pepper in Julie Mabry’s crawfish at Houston’s Pearl Bar. Subscribe Lesbian bars don’t just serve lesbians; they serve queer folks across the spectrum, including bisexual, pansexual and trans people. As Elina and I traveled across the U.S. and Europe and to parts of Latin America to document the bar owners, staff and patrons that make up the ecosystems of these spaces, we also became uniquely acquainted with the factors that threaten their existence: gentrification, wage gaps, sexism, environmental disasters, gun violence, rising insurance premiums and political administrations working to annihilate queer people and their families. Lesbian bar owners, like all leaders and entrepreneurs, are imperfect. There have been significant issues over the years at lesbian bars: employee harassment, racism, lack of accessibility, sexual assault and transphobia. All bar owners should be held accountable and should listen to their communities to evolve into safer and more equitable spaces. I also acknowledge my privilege: I am able-bodied, white, cis and from a family system that loves me for who I am. Not everyone has that. Queer people, especially trans and bisexual people, are suffering from disproportionately high levels of depression, and our mental health system isn’t equipped to support them. Immunocompromised people and long COVID are real, and many of my friends are suffering to this day. The people with the least safety net are often the ones for whom a bar closing costs the most. And yet, as we’re seeing with Last Ditch, the queer community often lashes out at each other. It’s also the mainstream media taking the internal conflict and making a mockery out of it, distracting from the real possibility that this bar could close due to financial pressures. A bar that many people loved and needed is facing extinction. Perhaps it’s safer to dissent with one another than with the larger forces trying to eradicate us, but in doing so, we risk destroying the few spaces we have left. Due to the constraints of purity politics—some in good faith, some not so much—lesbian bar owners, almost all of whom are queer women themselves, are forced to be everything for everyone, similarly to how women are forced to be everything for everyone. By asking these bars to uphold impossible standards—standards very few other third spaces are asked to consider—we all end up losing. I want to move as a community toward dialogue, compassionate dissent and collaboration to make our spaces better with the goal of keeping them OPEN and thriving, rather than destroying them from the inside with expectations that are arguably unattainable. Subscribe While I have your attention—for this fleeting second of the news cycle—may I urge us to spearhead a way to keep these small businesses afloat without attacking our own community along the way? Bar owners are left with an impasse: They want to be community-centered, but they also have to make money to keep their doors open. Sometimes they might make business decisions that don’t work for everyone—and that’s partly because different patrons have different priorities and want different things—but these owners deserve the opportunity for productive dialogue**.** We have to work with them and with each other to keep our spaces open, to keep them growing. Lesbian bars raised me into the queer woman I am today. One thing I think about as I reflect on the six years of work we’ve done to document these spaces is that shared, unspoken language I have with a stranger the moment we both walk into one of these bars: the nod, the ease, the not having to explain ourselves. I don’t want to lose that, and neither should you. If objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, LGBTQ-focused journalism is important to you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Resource Impact, by clicking this button: Donate

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Sep 29 • 7:01 AM EDT • Politics • unclosetedmedia.com
New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools

Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics

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Sep 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Detroit Pistons: Langdon Draws Zion Williamson Comparison With Jalen Duren

Despite an offseason filled with negotiation, Jalen Duren still hasn’t signed a contract with the Detroit Pistons

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Sep 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Erika Kirk Doesn't Really Want to Talk Politics. So How's She Going to Lead Turning Point USA?

One year after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the MAGA movement is fracturing and the future of Turning Point USA—the influential and lucrative conservative youth organization he founded at 18—is uncertain. His widow now finds herself both its leader and a victim of the conspiracy mentality Kirk fomented. With unprecedented access to her world, Clara Molot set out to answer the question: Who is Erika Kirk?

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Sep 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • vanityfair.com
Families separated by 2,000 miles help track down tiny science boat

The families from the Hebrides played a part in finding the boat after its crossing of the Atlantic.

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Sep 29 • 6:53 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Primetime Review: That’s Entertainment?

If you decide to see Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, it’s important to remember the title as you watch. Yes, this is a biopic of sorts about Chris Hansen and his work on To Catch a Predator, but it is more accurately about the quest for fame and using people’s trauma to attract ratings. True crime entertainment continues to have a prominent place in many people’s television habits, and this film asks us to examine what that means both for those whose stories have become our viewing pleasure and those of us watching. Primetime starts as Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) is told that his show, To Catch a Predator, is moving to a 9 PM spot opposite LOST. Chris and his producer, Andie (Merritt Wever), see this as an opportunity to make the program even more sensational, looking for bigger, more horrific predators. As part of their plan, they hire a young actor, Dan Plum (Skyler Gisondo), to play “Decoy Dan,” the person who greets the would-be predators who were catfished by Xavier Von Erck (Matthew Maher). Oppenheim, along with writers Ajon Singh and Luke Dittrich, is less concerned with an accurate retelling of the show as much as they are interested in interrogating the why of it all. That decision sometimes leaves Primetime feeling less like a biopic and more like a satirical look at the nature of programming like this. Visually, the movie is impressive. Oppenheim uses light and color effectively to cast Hansen as both villain and savior. Pattinson plays Hansen in an almost comical manner, as we see him wake his two young sons to watch a clip of the show, just to brag that he was moving into a prime spot on television. Even Andie struggles to accept a “nice” job when there is so much more fame to be found producing salacious true-crime content. Wever does an excellent job showing how the hunger for fame is not just in front of the camera, but in every aspect of the production. The heart of the movie, and the standout performance, belongs to Gisondo as Dan Plum. He is someone who just wants to get enough hours to be admitted into the Screen Actors Guild, and stumbles into this job without really knowing what it is. Throughout the film, we watch him suffer one trauma after another, ending with him witnessing the suicide of a District Attorney who is about to become the next unwitting star of Hansen’s show. If there is a sympathetic character in Primetime, it is Decoy Dan, and Gisondo plays him brilliantly. If you’re a fan of programming like To Catch a Predator, then Primetime will probably make you feel uncomfortable, and I think it’s worth sitting with that feeling and examining why we turn on shows that display the worst of humanity while we judge from our couches. Yes, it is correct to want to see people who would hurt children brought to justice, but perhaps it shouldn’t be something that we watch as entertainment. Rating: 3.5/5 This review originally appeared in The Dominion Post on September 25, 2026. MacGuffin or Meaning: Film & TV Reviews and Reflections is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

Pa. Health Department reverses course on new disease-tracking guidance, for now

Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has rescinded a 502-page proposal that could’ve given the agency more control over how it tracks and investigates the spread of diseases — and that spelled out the measures officials can take in response.

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Sep 29 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • wesanews.org
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Top Democrats Start to Fund James Talarico in Texas Senate Race

The main super PAC for Senate Democrats will begin to run digital ads in the state’s Senate race, in a sign of the party’s growing confidence.

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Sep 29 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
What the CDC chose to highlight — and omit — in its 2025 teen health report

The CDC’s latest youth survey highlights wellness gains but quietly sidelines long‑tracked risks.

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Sep 29 • 5:03 AM EDT • Health • seacoastonline.com
$10 for a gallon of gas has red Alaska thinking about a Democratic senator

Mary Peltola hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race all about prices, federal aid and Donald Trump.

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Sep 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Liverpool Midfielder given ultimatum amid contract standoff

Julian Ward is taking over as Liverpool’s sporting director in the middle of an important transition period. The last 18 months have seen the Reds be very active in the transfer market, meaning lot...

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Sep 29 • 4:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Real Madrid, Barcelona and Liverpool still tracking Dortmund star

Nico Schlotterbeck was heavily linked with a move away from Borussia Dortmund earlier this year.He eventually signed a new contract with BVB until 2031, but that did little to end the speculation, wit...

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Sep 29 • 4:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
OCT NIBJ: Women in business: Building success together in Sandpoint

Women have always been an important part of Sandpoint’s business community. From entrepreneurs and business owners to managers, professionals, employees, nonprofit leaders, and community volunteers, women contribute every day to the strength and character of our local economy.

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Sep 29 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • cdapress.com
AB Science provides an update on its development plan and financial calendar following a sponsor Good Clinical Practice inspection

PRESS RELEASE AB SCIENCE PROVIDES AN UPDATE ON ITS DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND FINANCIAL CALENDAR FOLLOWING A SPONSOR GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE INSPECTION ...

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AB Science provides an update on its development plan and financial calendar following a sponsor Good Clinical Practice inspection

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Daniel Suarez sits 16th in Chase standings after Kansas

Daniel Suarez sits 16th in the Chase standings after the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway.

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Dove Lab links dialogue about racism and Black maternal health

Researchers at the Dove Lab published two studies exploring how communication between providers and Black women can minimize pregnancy risks.

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Caribbean Diet: Traditional Foods, Nutrition, and Cardiometabolic Health

Traditional and neo-traditional Caribbean food patterns emphasize locally produced plant foods, roots, legumes, fruits, and seafood, with observational evidence linking these patterns to more favorable cardiometabolic profiles. Nutrition transition, import dependence, changing food practices, and structural pressures are reshaping these diets, highlighting the potential value of culturally relevant and locally resilient food systems.

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Sentara Health and Anthem contract dispute could affect Hampton Roads patients
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SPH researchers publish new tracker to map private equity involvement in healthcare nationwide

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Reality Check: Marshall returns attack ad towards Taylor

Tuesday marks five weeks until Election Day in Reno's mayoral race between Kate Marshall and Kathleen Taylor. Taylor's campaign previously ran attack ads against Marshall, who has now responded with

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Chamber of Maui Political Action Committee announces Its 2026 candidate endorsements

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Golden Knights Starting Over, but Fueled by ‘Unfinished Business’

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Zach Charbonnet might return to practice soon

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Beyond 'normal' and 'abnormal': Health checkup values show nonlinear links to future health care costs

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IEDC boasts businesses moving to Indiana, eyes supercomputer and Space Academy

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Trump’s mail voting crackdown tests Postal Service leader who says he’s ‘not political’

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Second Prosecutor Quits Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case

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Tyler Herro on Miami: 'That's the capital of distraction'

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Austin Reaves embraces new role as leader in LA

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NY1 Exclusive: Brooklyn Dem chair backs out of party race

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[NAC] FNCS Solos Qualifiers in NA Central: Qualifier 1 Day 1 Round 1

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Health Brief: The fight over ultra-processed foods

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Perriello lays out health care platform as 5th District race heats up

With the race for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District heating up, challenger Tom Perriello brought his health care message to Lynchburg on Monday.

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Assembly pathway reveals how bacteria build protein coils that extend in acid

The assembly pathway behind refractile-body proteins may have finally been resolved, researchers from Science Tokyo report. Using genetic engineering and several techniques for analyzing protein structure, ...

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Monday practice report for Browns

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How Can Health Systems Foster Psychedelic Literacy in Oncology?
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Rico Dowdle misses practice Monday

Steelers RB Rico Dowdle does not practice Monday after missing Week 3 game

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49ers to open DE Mykel Williams' practice window this week
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New book traces Twin States’ cultural split to the soil itself

“Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshire and Vermont,” by Brian Porto argues that the two states are “fraternal, not identical” twins.

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Something Took Wing in Paleocene Sunsets

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The WPI Conversation: Why global health still needs external funding

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Jalen Ramsey in Sling at Practice

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers got started early for their preparation for Thursday Night Football, practicing at UPMC Rooney Sports […]

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Criminal allegations fly in OH-07 race

The campaign for Congress in northeast Ohio between embattled Rep. Max Miller and his Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter is getting nasty, with both sides accusing each other of engaging in criminal behavior.

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Philly DEI panel endorses Parker’s contracting overhaul as Black business owners warn of consequences

Parker said new national legal precedent made the city’s practices vulnerable to court challenges. Council’s committee agreed.

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Business - France braces for a day of strikes and protests over civil servants' pay
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Haunted house, Oktoberfest: 4 events to attend in New Caney, Porter this weekend, Oct. 2-4

Explore weekend events in New Caney, Porter and Cleveland from Oct. 2-4, including Halloween attractions, Oktoberfest and a heavy trash day.

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Lions Announce Pair of Roster Moves Following Win Over Jets

The Detroit Lions released DB Natrone Brooks from the practice squad and brought back TE Miles Kitselman ahead of Week 4.

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ERIC, Business Groups Back AT&T in 401(k) Forfeiture Appeal

The groups’ amicus brief argues that AT&T’s use of forfeitures to reduce future employer contributions is consistent with ERISA and regulatory guidance.

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Commanders QB Jayden Daniels traveling to London, possibly playing Colts

Jayden Daniels will return to Commanders practice this week in London, though playing prospects vs. Colts are uncertain

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Opioid settlement funds could bridge some health gaps

Back when now-Gov. Maura Healey was the Massachusetts attorney general, in July 2021, she sued opioid distributors, manufacturers, and pharmacies for their prescription practices, which the state argued contributed to a national opioid crisis. What resulted was a settlement of more than $1 billion from opioid-makers Johnson and Johnson and opioid-distributors McKesson, Cardinal, and AmerisourceBergen. […]

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‘An opportunity to compete’: DC-area small businesses connect with big institutions

Small minority-owned construction businesses in the D.C. area connected with large contractors at an event at Georgetown University’s Capitol Campus Monday.

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Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

The message I had received was unsettling—for a moment. Then it was just really confusing. Back on January 20 of this year, at 5:15pm ET, I received an email with the subject line “Legal Correspondence re Bobby Kotick.” It was from the law firm Clare Locke, a firm I’d heard had been emailing reporters in recent years about their coverage of Kotick, the former, longtime CEO of Activision Blizzard. The letter was threatening. A lawyer from the firm introduced themselves as “defamation counsel to Bobby Kotick.” They issued a “demand” that I “correct” a Game File article I’d published a week prior. The article that had irked them had been a scoop of sorts. I’d written about a a 2022 lawsuit brought by a Swedish pension fund, AP7, over Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard. The suit wasn’t news, but I was first to review and report about Kotick’s extensive pushback to the fund’s claims. The pension fund’s core contention was that the sale had been rushed by Kotick to avoid the consequences of sexual misconduct scandals swirling around the company in 2021. (He’d not been accused of misconduct himself in those suits, to be clear.) As I wrote at the time, Kotick had denied the allegations of the rushed sale. Beyond that, Kotick used a December 2025 reply to the Swedish fund’s lawsuit to assign blame for those workplace scandals, the bad press and even for the AP7 lawsuit. I’d found Kotick’s arguments novel and newsworthy. Across nearly 3,000 words, I explained Kotick’s take: that a Swedish gaming company was behind the Swedish fund’s lawsuit (the Embracer group; they denied it); that the Microsoft-Activision deal was not rushed and was secured at what Kotick felt history had proven to be an optimal price for shareholders; that he believed a conspiracy of people at unions government agencies, PR firms and the media had spun up claims of widespread workplace misconduct at Activision Blizzard in 2021. The article gave context for all of this, letting readers assess the claims and weigh their credibility. As I’d later write to Kotick’s lawyers: I would be surprised if you could point to any news article about Bobby Kotick in the last five years that has spent more of its wordcount articulating his point of view. He is welcome to do an interview with Game File any time. Nonetheless, there they were in my inbox that Tuesday evening: Clare Locke, the law firm that secured a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over false statements about voting machines. They were emailing me, threatening that failure to comply with their demand could support a claim of “actual malice,” a legal standard for libel. Unless… Unless, they said, I added a key paragraph to my article. This was a paragraph that I already knew Kotick’s lawyers had been emailing reporters about for at least a year, and it was a paragraph that was already in my article. The paragraph they wanted is from a 2023 settlement that California’s Civil Rights Department struck with Activision Blizzard. The settlement had closed a two-year-old lawsuit over alleged sexual discrimination at the game maker. The paragraph basically said that claims of systemic or widespread sexual harassment—or of execs like Kotick tolerating such behavior—had never been proven. I’d already seen proof that Kotick’s lawyers had pushed for the settlement’s language to be added to reports about 2021 sexual discrimination and misconduct lawsuits brought against Activision Blizzard by California and, separately, by the U.S. federal government (both suits were since settled). I knew that Kotick and his lawyers felt that the California settlement language should be mentioned in the same breath as references to an article he hated and denied, a November 2021 Wall Street Journal article claiming Kotick knew “for years” of sexual misconduct at Activision Blizzard. So, in the Game File article that Clare Locke emailed me about, in the interest of ensuring I was being fair and balanced regarding the person I was covering, I had already included the following excerpt from the California settlement [emphasis added in bold]: (Kotick has repeatedly pushed back against that November article in the Wall Street Journal, citing among other things, language from a court-approved consent decree as part of Activision’s 2023 $54 million settlement over the California suit. It states: “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations that: there has been systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard [or] that Activision Blizzard senior executives ignored, condoned, or tolerated a culture of systemic harassment, retaliation, or discrimination.”) On the evening of January 20, I was incredulous. How do you write a four page legal threat about a week-old article and miss this? While scrambling to also make my kids dinner, I wrote a lengthy reply to Clare Locke’s lawyers, basically asking them to cool it with the threats and to start making sense. In part, I wrote: I hope you can understand why I am having trouble understanding what you’re asking for, when the statement you’re demanding to see in Game File’s article already appears in Game File’s article. Actual malice, as you know, refers to a reckless disregard for the truth. I’m not sure what your argument is when my article already states your client’s position. Here is where I should remind you, the reader, that I am an independent journalist. I publish on Substack, and have availed myself of the Substack Defender program that provides writers on the platform with legal support. But I’m no Wall Street Journal or New York Times, nor even IGN or GameSpot when it comes to such things as, well, having a legal department. There are more fun things for me to do as an independent journalist than writing back to a powerful law firm representing a very rich person. On the evening of January 20th, I was just trying to cook some pasta, broccoli and chicken nuggets for hungry twins. Nevertheless, I wrote back to them. Two hours later, I got a reply. Summarizing: A lawyer for Clare Locke said they’d “reviewed an incomplete version” of my article and they “apologize for the confusion.” (My guess: Someone didn’t read past the piece’s paywall, even though they’d had a full week to scrounge up the funds to do so. What I’d published above the paywall was balanced, as was what came after.)1 That was almost that, but something about the situation bothered me. The letter had been marked “confidential.” I hadn’t agreed to that, and I disliked the idea that powerful people on the beat that I cover would act like they could unilaterally control what I might tell my readers about. On the morning of the 21st, having already gotten the powerful law firm to back off, I oh-so-wisely re-approached them with just one more thing. I thanked them for clearing things up the night before but noted that I’d never agreed to keep their letter confidential. I’m all for agreeing with a source to keep things off the record, but that’s the thing. We have to agree. You can’t just declare it. I’m not bound by that. I wrote to Clare Locke’s lawyer and said, in part: I trust the matter is resolved. It was disappointing to have to spend less time with my kids last night in order to address your legal letter. Family time’s precious. I will add, for clarity’s sake, that, while your letter stipulated that it was confidential, I did not agree to those terms. In the future, should you wish to communicate with me confidentially, I am happy to agree to classifying our communication as “off the record” prior to the actual communication—as is standard with any professional journalist. The firm’s lawyer replied, not directly addressing the confidentiality issue but asserting that the matter was resolved. Why I didn’t write about this until now In May, I told this story on an episode of Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console, but I held off on sharing it directly with Game File readers. I held off to avoid stepping on the toes of another reporter, the journalist Mikhail Klimentov. He’d interviewed me in the spring of 2025 about an investigation he was working on regarding Bobby Kotick lawyers pressing the media to add the California settlement language to stories referencing the 2021 lawsuits. And about how some outlets had changed their stories and how some simply deleted them. Initially, I was a third-party source for Klimentov’s reporting, providing on-the-record context about the state of the games media. I’d heard about the letters but hadn’t put the time into pursuing the story. I thought it was interesting, and I was glad he was covering it. When the outlet that Klimentov was going to run his reporting in dropped the story, I began talking to him about potentially publishing his reporting on Game File. This was tentative. Then, in January, when I got my own Clare Locke letter, I told Klimentov that I didn’t think it would make sense for me to publish him, not with me now being part of the story. I had my own version of this situation to tell. But I wished him well and said I’d refrain from telling my tale until he could get his reporting out there. Last Friday, Klimentov finally ran his investigation, in a nearly 48-minute video report for People Make Games. It covers various Clare Locke letters, how media outlets reacted to them and what to make of all this. His video weighs the merits of Kotick’s request and looks at some of the articles that were changed (one of which had a glaring error). I highly recommend watching it: (Note, I did some editorial consulting for a People Make Games video last year but nothing to do with this report.) While many outlets haven’t left any public evidence that they updated their Kotick coverage at Kotick’s counsel’s request, at least one has. Back in October 2025, the mainstream outlet Reuters applied the most transparent article update I’ve seen. On the 3rd of the month, they published an article about the state of the Swedish pension fund’s lawsuit. Days later, they added this: In an October 7 letter sent after publication of this article, Kotick’s defamation counsel disputed claims of widespread harassment at Activision. “Not a single investigation, court finding, verdict, or ruling ever concluded that there was any merit” to the allegations of widespread harassment at Activision, Tom Clare and Nick Brechbill of Clare Locke wrote. I’ve never added a statement to my article on Game File, because none was needed. Not for fairness’ sake, nor to meet any demands of Kotick’s lawyers. I’ve nevertheless wanted to be transparent with Game File readers. If someone powerful is questioning my reporting, is threatening a lawsuit over it… if that threat is part of a pattern involving other games media outlets and if, in my case, the whole thing ran into a ridiculous ditch, I want you to know about it. I also share this as a real example of how I handle threats to Game File. I stand up for my own reporting, even when it’s not comfortable to do so. (In that same category of standing up for the work I do, I’ll point to an incident in late August. Asocial media post I published to X/Twitter regarding reporting I did about Take Two and GTA VI was hit by bogus copyright claim by a firm working for the publisher. I pushed back and got it reversed; even while a bigger games media outlet let themselves be censored. This is the other reason I’m sharing this story: To emphasize that dealing with threats from powerful people is one of the costs of covering the video game industry independently and as fearlessly as possible. This is where you come in. Your support, through free and paid subscriptions (sign up here!), can help me keep doing that. It can ensure that I’ve got the back-up I need. And it can help make fiascoes like this even less of a worry, so I can spend my evenings dealing with more important things, such as making sure I steam the kids’ broccoli just right. 1 That pension fund lawsuit I wrote about in January has all but gone away. In May, the fund and Activision Blizzard owner Microsoft agreed to settle. Lawyers for the fund brokered a $250 million settlement for former Activision Blizzard shareholders. In the settlement, the fund’s lawyers changed their rhetoric. Where once they’d questioned the meaning of the California settlement language, they adopted a version of it for themselves. Several weeks ago, while seeking to get a court to sign off on the terms of the settlement, they proposed their fee for their work in the case: $60 million.

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David Jolly is being outraised 8-to-1. He says voter frustration is the real currency in the Governor's race

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New polls show Graham holding slim lead over Andrews in SC Senate race

The Trafalgar Group and InsiderAdvantage have released polling in the U.S. Senate race showing one percentage point separates Graham and Andrews.

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Another health insurer could end up out-of-network with Lehigh Valley Health Network

A contract dispute between Jefferson Health and Independence Blue Cross could leave Lehigh Valley patients out of network if no deal is reached by the end of the year.

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Oct. 1 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Faces and Places

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Alabama agrees to two-year extension, raise with AD Greg Byrne

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Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy

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Is magnesium oil a 'miracle' for restless leg syndrome? Here's what science says

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Ms. Rachel faces criticism for talking politics and the situation in Gaza
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Ms. Rachel faces criticism for talking politics and the situation in Gaza

Author, journalist and homeschooling mom of six Bethany Mandel claims popular children's entertainer Ms. Rachel "cares more about activism than education."

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Suns Owner Defends Phoenix's Decision To Trade for Miles Bridges

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