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Election 2026: Political newcomer Pierrette Farber running unopposed in Ulster County Legislature District 17

When New Paltz voters head to the polls, they will elect a political newcomer to represent them on the Ulster County Legislature.

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Oct 12 • 3:51 PM EDT • Politics • dailyfreeman.com
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‘Play On!’ hits all the right notes

The English Renaissance meets the Harlem Renaissance in “Play On!,” a sparkling show that marries a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” with the music of Duke Ellington. Conceived by Sheldon Epps, who also directed the original 1996-97 production (first in San Diego, then on Broadway), the show is getting a marvelous revival under his direction to open Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 40th anniversary season.While the title “Play On!” refers to the famous quote about music being the food of love and thus to the dozens of Ellington songs—among them “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” “I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good),” “Solitude” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light”—incorporated into the plot, one of the highlights for me is the clever way Cheryl L. West's book reworks the story. Apparently, it's also been updated for this outing, among other things to give the women more agency. In the big opening number (there's a six-piece, horn-heavy onstage band), aspiring songwriter Vy (Hailee Kaleem Wright) is the one to “Take the 'A' Train” to “Drop Me Off in Harlem.” She wants to meet the famous Duke (Edred Utomi) — Ellington, not Orsino, that is — and she seeks the help of Jester (an engaging James Harkness) to find out how. When Jester tells her in no uncertain terms that the music industry is a man's world, she disguises herself as Vy-Man and persuades the Duke to listen to one of her songs. He's suffering from a creative block because he's pining for Lady Liv (Krystal Joy Brown), queen of the Cotton Club, and convinces Vy-Man to bring the Lady the song as if the Duke had written it, promising to reward her with employment. Vy reluctantly complies, and the predictable complications ensue. Lady Liv is attracted to Vy-Man, while Vy is attracted to the Duke and he to Vy, though it disturbs him because he thinks she's a man. The fallout when the deception comes to light bodes ill—at least for a while.Here's where West's book cannily diverges from Shakespeare. Vy's twin brother Sebastian really is dead, so West devises another love interest for Lady Liv basically by rehabilitating the Malvolio character, here named Rev (Alan H. Green), the Lady's uptight, self-important manager. His unrequited love for her is magically transformed after he gets his comeuppance (minus the torture) from Miss Mary (Alanna Lovely), her honey Sweets (James Earl Jones II) and Jester, the stand-in for Sir Toby, who has romantic problems of his own with a woman named CC (Kaylah Janssen). In other words, Rev gets the girl — and also a show-stopping yellow zoot suit from costume designer An-Lin Dauber. All the costumes are dandy, though those for the men have more pizzazz than the women's day dresses. The bilevel, slanted scenic design by Beowulf Boritt brings 1930s Harlem to life in a slightly expressionistic way with the help of Adam Honoré's lighting and Ray Nardelli's sound design. Edgar Godineaux's choreography adds to the period feel, though there could be even more of it.Most of all, the leads have splendid voices, and the performances are terrific. Green's Rev and Harkness's Jester get my vote for comedy chops, and Brown's Lady Liv probably will stay with me the longest for her complexity and big blues number, “I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues.”

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Oct 12 • 3:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • hpherald.com
Pickleball facility franchisor files for bankruptcy as founder acknowledges business mistake: 'I own it'

The Picklr's Chapter 11 filing stems from costly lease guarantees on about 40 franchise locations as an investor group commits millions for restructuring.

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Oct 12 • 3:06 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Lyndon Historical Society’s ‘Pies On The Porch’ Oct. 17

LYNDON — The Lyndon Historical Society will wrap up its summer and fall activities with Pie on the Porch at the Shores Memorial Museum in Lyndon Center on Saturday, October

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Oct 12 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • caledonianrecord.com
'The film of the year': Critics rave about Nathan Fielder's 'masterpiece' Elizabeth Holmes documentary

Filmed largely in secret, the "shocking" documentary takes viewers inside the life of the Theranos founder before prison.

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Oct 12 • 10:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Two Indian American scientists receive NIH innovative research awards

Neeraj Lal and Kavita Rangan among 42 recipients of federal support for early-career biomedical research projects.

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Oct 12 • 8:12 AM EDT • Science • americanbazaaronline.com
Piero Hincapié and Martin Zubimendi Absent from Arsenal Training

Arsenal have been dealt an injury blow ahead of Tuesday's Champions League clash with Lille, with two first-team players missing from training.

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Oct 12 • 7:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles RB Depth Vanishes Before Crucial London Game

Will Shipley exits with a foot injury, leaving the Eagles with Dameon Pierce and Carson Steele as the only healthy options for the rest of the game.

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Oct 12 • 7:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Newsmakers: Colliers promotes Reilly

This week’s Newsmakers includes a Colliers promotion, a new CMC neurosurgeon, four hires at LMR and new trustees at Franklin Pierce University.

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Oct 11 • 7:00 PM EDT • Business • unionleader.com
Brooklyn Store Says Kelly Clarkson Wanted To Buy Something That Wasn't For Sale

Kelly Clarkson blasted the retail shop on X, saying the employees looked at her like she couldn’t afford the pieces.

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Oct 11 • 5:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Microsoft Is Taking AI Beyond the Data Center, But Its Surface Business Is Just a Small Piece of the Pie

The tech giant's latest Nvidia-powered Surface devices add another dimension to its growth strategy as shares trade near all-time highs.

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Oct 11 • 4:30 PM EDT • Technology • barchart.com
Microsoft Is Taking AI Beyond the Data Center, But Its Surface Business Is Just a Small Piece of the Pie

The tech giant's latest Nvidia-powered Surface devices add another dimension to its growth strategy as shares trade near all-time highs.

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Oct 11 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Microsoft Is Taking AI Beyond the Data Center, But Its Surface Business Is Just a Small Piece of the Pie

The tech giant's latest Nvidia-powered Surface devices add another dimension to its growth strategy as shares trade near all-time highs.

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Oct 11 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • barchart.com
3 Stocks With Exposure to Prediction Markets as US Event Trading Grows

Prediction markets tied to sports, politics and real world events are suddenly trading like mainstream derivatives, and that surge is colliding with listed US exchange operators that already run futures and options markets. A new player like Kalshi floating an IPO story at a reported US$40b valuation hints at fresh competition and fresh demand. This piece walks through three stocks from the US regulated derivatives and exchange operators screener that appear positioned as potential winners...

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Oct 11 • 3:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Scientists Discover Groundbreaking Clues to Tissue Regrowth and “Immortality” in the Ocean

Sea cucumber tissue kept growing for more than three years after removal, surviving in seawater teeming with microbes. Like Thing, the disembodied hand in The Addams Family, a severed piece of sea cucumber tissue kept living without the body it came from, prompting scientists to describe the animal as a “real-life zombie.” Weeks after being

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Oct 11 • 3:14 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
‘It’s Going To Solidify as One of the Greatest Games in History’ – Developers, Players, and Analysts Reveal How GTA 5 Took Over the World

Could GTA 6 be as big as its predecessor? We take a look at how GTA 5 became one of the biggest games in history, selling over 230m copies and being played by millions of people every week for over a decade.

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Oct 11 • 10:30 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Nashville health officials approved nearly 400 tattoo festival permits in 4 hours

Nashville health officials issued nearly 400 permits to tattoo artists, body piercers, and technicians in just four hours for the 2026 Villain Arts Tattoo Festival.

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Oct 11 • 9:31 AM EDT • Health • wkrn.com
Syracuse Football: More Bad News on Quarterback Injury Front

Not only did the Orange lose against Virginia on Saturday night, they may have lost multiple important pieces.

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Oct 11 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sweating the details: Sauna's potential health benefits draw scientists' interest

A group of international researchers is pushing to rigorously study the potential health benefits of sauna and other heat therapies. They hope to bring scientific legitimacy to the age-old practices.

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Oct 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • npr.org
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Sweating the details: Sauna's potential health benefits draw scientists' interest

A group of international researchers is pushing to rigorously study the potential health benefits of sauna and other heat therapies. They hope to bring scientific legitimacy to the age-old practices.

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Oct 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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Serie A official line-ups: Como vs. Roma

Como start Nico Paz, Maxence Caqueret and Lucas Da Cunha in this top of the table showdown with Roma, who rely on Paulo Dybala, Donyell Malen and Pierluigi Gollini.It kicks off at the Stadio Sinigagli...

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Oct 11 • 5:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AS Roma XI vs Como – Predicted lineup and team news

AS Roma head to Como on Sunday aiming to reclaim outright first place in Serie A from Inter Milan.Under Gian Piero Gasperini, Roma have made a strong start to their league campaign. They sit at the to...

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Oct 11 • 1:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists Say the Secret to a Happier, Healthier Society May Begin in Childhood

How children are raised may matter for social well-being worldwide, with surveys across three culturally different countries linking supportive childhoods to adults’ trust and sense of belonging. At home, a child seeking comfort depends on a caregiver’s response, while time for free play offers room to explore. A University of Nottingham-led study linked these experiences,

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Oct 10 • 10:28 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Science and Sense: The story of a rock, and time

To some, it‘s just a rock. A nice piece of petrified wood, about 200-225 million years old, from the late Triassic Age (Mesozoic Period) – a youngster as rocks go.

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Oct 10 • 9:45 PM EDT • Science • dcourier.com
Community members learn about marine science at Cal Poly Pier Open House

On Saturday, October 10, visitors got a close look at marine science during Cal Poly's Pier open house in Avila Beach. Guests explored touch tanks filled with live marine creatures.

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Oct 10 • 9:41 PM EDT • Science • ksby.com
Pierpont's School of Health Sciences hosts inaugural 5K

The event promotes healthy living while raising funds for student scholarships and support services.

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Oct 10 • 6:27 PM EDT • Science • wboy.com
Pierpont's School of Health Sciences hosts inaugural 5K

The event promotes healthy living while raising funds for student scholarships and support services.

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Oct 10 • 6:27 PM EDT • Health • wboy.com
Fabregas: “Roma are great, but we will do our best.”

It’s also a tough day at Como. Tomorrow, the Como side will face Gian Piero Gasperini’s Roma in the lunchtime match of Serie A’s sixth matchday, when the season resumes after the international b...

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Oct 10 • 9:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
At one of WA's busiest ERs, each day brings teamwork and ‘an element of chaos’

Good Samaritan is the only hospital in Puyallup, the single emergency trauma center serving a large swath of central and east Pierce County, meaning staff members have to get creative.

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Oct 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Svilar a major Roma doubt for Como clash

Multiple sources in Italy say Roma goalkeeper Mile Svilar is a major doubt for Sunday’s clash against Como after a finger injury, so Pierluigi Gollini is expected to start.Roma goalkeeper Svilar is ...

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Oct 10 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
IRRR, AEOA celebrate 1,000 small business grants

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into the news and happenings of northern Minnesota, alongside the Canadian border. www.elyecho.com

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Oct 10 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • elyecho.com
Pieper edges Judson 43-42 behind backup quarterback Lance Reid

Backup quarterback Lance Reid led a 22-point fourth-quarter rally, throwing a late touchdown and winning 2-point pass as Pieper edged Judson 43-42.

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Oct 10 • 2:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Zelda: Ocarina of Time Switch 2 pre-orders set Amazon record, dominating GTA 6

The Ocarina of Time remake and GTA 6 should overshadow all November competition. Yet physical Amazon sales of the Zelda title are moving at an unprecedented pace. Nintendo’s Switch 2 exclusive game has sold more than 100,000 copies in the last month alone.

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Oct 9 • 11:20 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Gears of War: E-Day Sold 168,000 Copies on Steam but Xbox Game Pass Players Generated 130% More Revenue

We recently reported that Gears of War: E-Day wasn't having the best launch week over on Steam, but according to Alinea Analytics's Rhys Elliott, Steam doesn't even account for half of the game's revenue or owner base. The analytics firm estimates that Gears of War: E-Day sold around 230,00...

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Oct 9 • 7:54 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur Nurse Educator Receives Award from LeadingAge New York

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur Skilled Nursing Facility announced the recognition of Nurse Educator Jasmin Slater Small, RN as recipient of the 2026

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Oct 9 • 5:52 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Collin Gillespie Gives Honest Take on State of Suns

Despite preseason turnover struggles and late-game collapses, guard Collin Gillespie remains optimistic that Phoenix possesses the depth and chemistry necessary to master a complete 48-minute winning effort.

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Oct 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
H-E-B Crowns 2026 Quest For Texas Best Winners

H‑E‑B named the winners of its 13th annual Quest for Texas Best, celebrating five standout small businesses and the Texas-made products poised to become customers’ next favorites. Selected from a record-breaking 978 entries representing more than 500 companies statewide, the five winners shared $110,000 in cash prizes, with the Grand Prize recipient earning the title of “Texas Best” and placement on H‑E‑B shelves.

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Oct 9 • 2:06 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
Bears can solidify contender status by landing 17.0 sack veteran

Chicago could use one last piece.

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Oct 9 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Trump wants Talarico and Paxton to debate. Talarico couldn't be happier

When Democratic nominee James Talarico stopped holding campaign events in the Texas Senate race, his Republican opponent Ken Paxton saw an opening to pounce.

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Oct 9 • 1:33 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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More Than Crew Room Politics. Our Careers Are on the Line.

This week, former Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones published an opinion piece questioning whose interests the Teamsters are really representing as they continue to push back on the Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern merger. Read on to hear his logic.

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Oct 9 • 12:57 PM EDT • Politics • smart-union.org
Gears Of War: E-Day Estimated To Have Sold Just 320,000 Copies Despite Rave Reviews

But the Game Pass math is more complicated than you might think

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Oct 9 • 12:41 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Gears of War: E-Day sells 230K copies

Gears of War: E-Day has sold 230K copies since its advance-access launch on October 1 and full release on October 6. Steam accounts for 168K of those, with Xbox (console and PC) selling 62K. But there’s more to this story, as Xbox makes up the bulk of revenue. E-Day is the best-reviewed Gears game in nearly two decades (and the best one ever made, in my opinion). The Coalition has made a banger here (it’s currently in my top 10 of the year). Despite E-Day’s undeniable quality, this is a soft result. And it’s down to the business model, really. E-Day has made $37M so far, thanks to the Premium upgrade On Xbox, Game Pass is cannibalising much of the premium revenue. Our estimates show that 1.7M folks accessed E-Day via their subscription rather than a copy. But Xbox is having it both ways – or having it halfway, at least – via its Premium Edition Game Pass upgrade. Game Pass subscribers could pay $30 (or their local equivalent) for up to five days of early access starting October 1. Our estimates show that of the 1.7M who accessed E-Day through Game Pass, 722K paid for the upgrade. Between the review embargo lifting on October 1 and the full release, E-Day managed to shift another 250K early-access upgrades – no doubt helped by the campaign’s rave reviews. So despite selling far fewer copies on Steam, Xbox accounts for almost three-quarters of the revenue (roughly $26M of the $37M, versus about $11M on Steam). So “230K copies” undersells the paying audience. Including the 722K upgrades, nearly 950K people actually paid something for E-Day. The $30 upgrade is a halfstep from cannibalisation, but will Xbox go all the way? While E-Day is a sublime game, these are soft numbers for a flagship when Xbox badly needs revenue wins. E-Day sold 62K copies on Xbox against 722K Premium upgrades, so for every one copy sold on Xbox, nearly 12 Game Pass upgrades were sold. The $70 premium SKU is – functionally – dead on Xbox. Normally you can’t see what a Game Pass player would have paid, because the game’s just there in the subscription. But the $30 early-access upgrade estimate shows that 722K people demonstrated they’ll spend real money on this game. In a world without day-one Game Pass, many of these folks would have bought E-Day at $70. They paid $30 for five days early access to something they don’t own. Xbox is, in effect, charging its most valuable customers the least, based on a hangover from a tried-and-exhausted strategy from a previous administration. Those 722K willing-to-pay players generated about $21.7M via the upgrade. If three quarters of this group – mostly US and European audiences – bought E-Day outright, that’s nearly $40M. Of course, Game Pass does bring in meaningful recurring revenue, and E-Day is adding value for hundreds of thousands of subscribers. However, Game Pass is no longer growing, so Xbox is at a crossroads. Xbox is reportedly looking to do a Netflix and bolt on an ad-supported tier to pad it further. But that will just set a new floor, and leadership keeps telling us the priority now is revenue growth, which is subscriber-speak for ARPU. Xbox has already pulled Call of Duty from day-one Game Pass after day-one inclusion hammered its sales, with new CoD titles now arriving on the service around a year late. We know that some Microsoft executives believe the service devalues games outright, and rumours (which Microsoft has dismissed so far, to be fair) suggest that day-one releases could be taken off Game Pass. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe When a game this well-reviewed does this softly on its home platform, the model – not the game – gets brought into question. What else E-Day’s early adopters have played (including this month so far) Looking at E-Day‘s players on Xbox, most have played the franchise before (86% have played Gears 5, 76% Gears 4), and every game on the crossover list is either a shooter or a title from an Xbox-owned studio (though Game Pass is inflating those numbers, of course, more on that later): As for what else Xbox’s E-Day players have played this month, the top three are Fortnite (16%), Roblox (7%), and Call of Duty (6%). Another 5% played Minecraft Dungeons II, which is also on Game Pass and launched a couple of days before Gears‘ advance-access date. Many Game Pass players are happy to check out most big new additions. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Over on Steam, the top crossover games are also mostly shooters (slightly more PC-coded ones), including Space Marine 2, which was itself heavily inspired by Gears: Looking at what E-Day‘s Steam players are into this month shows who they are – as subscriptions don’t skew the data. The top three are Wardogs (13%), Deadlock (12%), and CS2 (10%), so you’ve got the restless shooter crowd checking out the new hotness. A little further down are Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2, your co-op PVE shooter players who’ll feel right at home in Horde mode. Game Pass is skewing the playtime distribution on Xbox Looking at the playtime distribution in our platform, E-Day players on Steam are – relatively speaking – playing for longer: 54% of E-Day players on Xbox have played for five hours or less (versus 32% on Steam) 19% of Xbox players played for over 15 hours (versus 33% on Steam) 14% of Xbox players played for over 20 hours (22% on Steam) The absolute number of people playing for over 15, 20, and 50 hours is, of course, bigger on Xbox, thanks to the sheer volume of folks who came in through Game Pass (upgraders included). None of that is cause for alarm. Game Pass is the reason Xbox playtime skews lower, as when a game is free to try, people try it and bounce without putting in even an hour (17% under an hour on Xbox versus 6% on Steam). Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe The subscription brings in tourists alongside the committed, dragging down the average even when the game is excellent (but also perhaps winning over the uninitiated). It’s standard across every subscription-included title, on PS Plus too. Forza Horizon 6, for instance, had 11% of its Xbox players bounce under an hour, versus just 2% on Steam. So, Xbox’s crossroads So there we have it. Gears of War: E-Day is an incredible game whose revenues have been stifled by subscription inclusion and exclusivity. It’s the best-reviewed entry in the series in fifteen-odd years, but it still turned into one of the year’s softer flagship launches, not because players didn’t want it, but because Xbox’s own storefront gave its most willing buyers a reason not to pay. Which leaves Xbox at a crossroads. Will it keep making Gears games when the financial returns are this thin and the margins this low? And if it does, does the next one arrive off Game Pass at day one – the way CoD now does, or even on PlayStation? I think it should. Alright, back to E-Day for me! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

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Baton Rouge gets a slice of New York with Prince St. Pizza

Prince St. Pizza, the New York City-born chain known for its thick Sicilian “SoHo” squares and traditional New York Neapolitan-style round pies, is opening its first Louisiana location in Baton Rouge, 225 reports. The restaurant, 6556 Siegen Lane, will open Friday, Oct. 9, with a “pizza cutting” celebration and meet-and-greet featuring former MMA fighter Jon […]

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Oct 9 • 10:56 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
PS5’s next big entertainment update is aimed at One Piece and Jujutsu Kaisen fans

A new PS5 hub curates top anime series, games, and original tie-ins like Ghost of Tsushima Legends on the PS5 home screen.

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Oct 9 • 8:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • makeuseof.com
Museum of Science opens another immersive venue for live events

The 10,000-square-foot William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common was supported by a $155 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies. It can transform into an immersive environment with video projections and movable LED walls.

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Oct 9 • 5:50 AM EDT • Science • wbur.org
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Nicola Berti, score us a goal. And Nicola never failed to deliver. For Inter fans, there was no sweeter sight than Berti finding the net in the derby. It first happened in 1990, with just five minutes...

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Oct 9 • 3:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Oct 9 • 1:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump wants Talarico and Paxton to debate. Talarico couldn't be happier

No debate has been scheduled so far. Paxton has not publicly responded to Trump's debate demand.

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Oct 8 • 6:41 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump bucks and the politics of mailing checks

The checks started going out last week, nearly one million of them, and mostly to battleground states. With a return address for the U.S. Treasury and a letter enclosed signed by President Donald Trump, these one-time checks for $500 were ostensibly government rebates for Obamacare enrollees who overpaid. In the accompanying letter, however, Trump attacks his predecessor and talks about his record in office on an important issue he’s not polling well on, which makes it seem more like the most expensive political mailer in U.S. history. The average piece of direct mail costs between 30 cents and $3, according to Mail Processing Associates, a print, mail, and fulfillment company. At $500 a pop plus roughly 50 cents each to issue the paper check, the cost of Trump’s healthcare mailer sent to more than 950,000 enrollees comes in at more than $475 million. Trump’s midterm healthcare message “For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare dot gov,” Trump wrote in the letter. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!” In the letter, Trump makes false and misleading claims about his administration’s record on healthcare costs, an issue Democrats have a 20 point advantage on over Republicans, according to a recent poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank. Trump touts his administration’s TrumpRX program, which he claims is “delivering massive discounts.” However, new research from KFF found that of a selection of drugs available on the TrumpRX platform, just five were the lowest price, while 13 were the highest price. Trump also falsely claims in the letter that he’s fighting to lower healthcare costs. In reality, average monthly premium payment costs for enrollees rose 58% under Trump while marketplace sign-ups declined 5%, per KFF. Under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, it’s estimated 10 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2034. You get a check and you get a check and you get a check Trump’s long promised cash outs to his fans, from his days as a casino operator and gameshow host to his presidency. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump administration made the unprecedented move to put Trump’s name on checks that went out under the CARES Act (notably the $500 refund checks this time around don’t feature Trump’s name). Ever since, Trump’s been chasing that high. In his second term, Trump’s promised more stimulus that never arrived, like refund checks from DOGE cuts and tariffs, while he said at his party’s convention last month that he’d give out $5,000 checks to everyone if Republicans win in November. In reality, DOGE overstated its cost cutting and Trump’s government actually now spends more than former President Joe Biden’s, while Trump’s tariffs actually grew the trade deficit. His proposal for $5,000 checks would add about $1.2 trillion to the national debt. The problem is there’s no money to give. These $500 checks — plus $90 Medicare rebate checks also going out as well as $250 deposited this week in some Trump Accounts for kids courtesy Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan — represent the closest Trump’s going to get to making good on his promise to deliver cash fast. And the checks seem especially targeted. Though the $500 checks went out to enrollees in one of 30 states that use the federal HealthCare dot gov marketplace, a Reuters review found 71% of the payments, or $339 million, went to enrollees in 13 states that have the most competitive elections for governor and U.S. Senate. Most Americans don’t buy it Could Trump bucks sway the election? An Economist-YouGov poll found 57% of U.S. adults doubt Trump will deliver on his promise for $5,000 checks, compared to 21% who do. “I’m waiting on my DOGE check and I’m still waiting on my tariff check,” one 2024 Trump voter who’s since turned on him told a recent focus group. “It felt like kind of trying to buy people’s votes, which honestly felt like in elementary when the class president was like, hey we’re going to take you to the water park if you vote for me. It’s like, I don’t think it works like that.” But for voters in swing states who got a check, it could still matter. One survey published in 2022 found receiving a physically personalized check in the mail during the pandemic was associated with a much greater self-reported likelihood of voting for Trump in 2020, and those gains mainly came from out partisans. The issue for Trump comes if these checks are mostly going to Obamacare enrollees whose premiums have gone up by more than just $500 since he took office and who view the money as something like a bribe before the election rather than an actual long-term solution to lowering household costs. Spending $500.50 per mailer would be absurd as a normal campaign expenditure, but since Trump’s checks and letter are a government rebate, his campaign and super PAC didn’t have to spend a dime and he got out his message regardless. If enough voters in key states are swayed by the one-time payment, it could prove to be the best $0 the Trump campaign spent. 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FCC considers allowing more political robocalls

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a petition that would allow certain political groups to make robocalls without first obtaining the recipient’s consent. NBC10 Responds Reporter Valeria Aponte Feliciano has more.

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Northwest Biotherapeutics and the UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant Announce Collaboration to Support DCVax®-L Production

/PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTCQB:NWBO) (the "Company" or "NWBio"), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for...

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What Eastern Wake school board candidates say they’ll do if they’re elected

School board candidates Bonnie Greaves, Sebrina Pierce and Jasmine Zavala talk about their priorities if elected.

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'The Social Reckoning' is all clicks, but no results

It’s been made quite clear that “The Social Reckoning” is not a sequel to “The Social Network” but more of a “companion piece.”

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Saginaw County Sheriff is leaving the Democratic Party

Saginaw County Sheriff, William Federspiel, announced he is leaving the Democratic Party.

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Supercharged Entertainment New Jersey, The World's Largest Indoor Multi-Level Karting Track, Launches Time Mission - An All-New Interactive Adventure

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Trump to award science medals to Elon Musk and others

Almost all of the award recipients or their companies have donated to either Trump’s campaign, his inauguration fund or the White House ballroom project.

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Trump to award science medals to Elon Musk and others

Almost all of the award recipients or their companies have donated to either Trump’s campaign, his inauguration fund or the White House ballroom project.

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Scoring more last piece of Crewe puzzle

Crewe's attempt to score more this season is the "last piece of the puzzle" to add to their unbeaten start to League Two, says assistant boss Ryan Dicker.

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Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (01-15 September 2026)

Situation Report in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Health, Protection and Human Rights and more; published on 8 Oct 2026 by Insecurity Insight

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The drive for Dr. Dakota St. Pierre’s career is quite simple, to serve people in need, transform a health care system he views flawed and inspire young people who are

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Wesley completes recovery, set to start vs Como

Roma is preparing for the restart of the season with some good news for Gian Piero Gasperini. Wesley has overcome the muscle problem he suffered during the international break and will be available fo...

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Soule eyeing starting role in Como showdown

Roma is approaching their match against Como, scheduled for Sunday, October 11th, at 12:30 PM at the Sinigaglia Stadium. After the international break, Gian Piero Gasperini can finally count on an alm...

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After the NFL Draft, Detroit’s small businesses want a bigger piece of the Final Four

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John Gillispie: Season three of 'Reacher' features clever story

Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie shares his thoughts about the third season of “Reacher,” which is “not rated,” according to the DVD box. However, because of the amount of

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Catching up with: Vestis Manufacturing Inc.

Thirteen years ago, Vestis Manufacturing Inc. was a five-person operation producing and installing fabric awnings for homes and businesses within 100 miles of Spokane. Today, Vestis focuses on manufacturing aluminum canopies, louvered sunshades, and bolt-on balconies for commercial clients…

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Colorado’s girls deserve same sporting lessons I had

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The 7-foot-3 Spaniard dominated the paint against Pelicans starters, flashing elite versatility and rim protection that suggests the Thunder have unearthed another high-impact piece for their frontcourt.

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After October 7: new faces, changing maps

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Pre Order Minecraft for Nintendo Switch 2

Minecraft for Nintendo Switch™ 2 launches October 27, and pre-orders are available now for the Standard Edition, Deluxe Collection, Ultimate Collection, and physical retail version. All editions include the Super Mario™ Mash-Up Pack with Vibrant Visuals, while the Deluxe and Ultimate Collections pile on even more goodies, including popular add-ons, exclusive Character Creator items, and Minecoins. Already own Minecraft digitally on Nintendo Switch™? A limited-time digital upgrade path lets eligible players pre-order the digital Standard Edition for free in most territories, or upgrade to Deluxe or Ultimate at a discount. So sound the trumpets, gather the puppies, blocks, and treats, and get ready for Minecraft on Nintendo Switch™ 2!

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How STC NISOD Recipient Found Passion in Education

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Animal health company awarded 2026 Governor’s Bioscience Award

A global animal health company was named the 2026 recipient of the Governor’s Bioscience Award, which recognizes individuals or companies that make significant contributions to Nebraska’s bioscience industry.

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Trump’s $90 Medicare rebate rolls out, but millions are left out. Critics say it’s a political stunt

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Eagles reportedly calling up Dameon Pierce to the roster

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China’s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna’s on stability, studies show

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Martha Stewart Makes Eyebrow-Raising Admission About Her Business Education

Media mogul Martha Stewart reflected on her five-decade-long business career and shared one piece of advice she still follows. Stewart, 85, also admitted that she did not have much formal business edu...

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Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media

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Pellegrini favored to start in Como-Roma

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I'm an AI founder who chose to study in China over a US college

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Valerio Therapeutics Provides an Update on Its Business and Presents Its Financial Results for the First Half of 2026

VILLEJUIF, France, October 07, 2026--Regulatory News: Valerio Therapeutics (FR0010095596 - ALVIO), a pioneering biotechnology company in the field of next-generation precision therapies ("Valerio", or the "Company"), provides an update on its operations and presents its financial results for the half-year ended 30 June 2026.

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Willie Morgan exhibit grows as residents share their paintings

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Texas voters get ‘Are you white?’ political texts targeting James Talarico

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Option Care Health Inc. (NASDAQ:OPCH) soared by as much as 33 percent on Tuesday to $31.11 apiece following news that it is merging with Clayson, Dubilier, & Rice LLC (CD&R) and McKesson Corp. for $5.8 billion. In a joint statement, the firms said that they entered into a definitive agreement under which they will acquire […]

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'Real buzz' around Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland midfielder Shea Charles says "he could not be happier" following the side's unbeaten Nations League window.

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Phil Collins slams 'nasty' Trump, has idea for song 'Fat People with Guns'

Phil Collins called President Trump "nasty" and said it's a "scary time" in U.S. politics during an appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

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Students Use Forensic Science Skills in Escape Room

Hundreds of students from across the region put their problem-solving skills to the test this week during the Regional Science Consortium’s annual Forensic Science Escape Room. Elementary school students had just a few hours to figure out how someone died as part of a forensic science escape room activity. The Regional Science Consortium partnered with Mercyhurst University for the 10th year of the event, which is taking place at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center. It began Monday and runs through Thursday.Throughout the week, more than 250 students are working to solve murder mysteries using real forensic science techniques. Students must analyze the evidence, piece together clues and solve the crime before time runs out.Organizers said the event gives students interested in pursuing forensic science in college a firsthand look at what a career in the field could entail.Sarah Skelton, Special Gifts Coordinator at Iroquois, said the activity provides students with an opportunity to develop skills that can sometimes be difficult to practice in a traditional classroom. "It really helps them to work in teams and on critical thinking skills. Which, not that they don't get these opportunities, but it's hard sometimes in the classroom to develop those higher-level thinking skills”, said Skelton.Students also get a chance to learn how forensic science is used in real-life investigations. As Skelton explained, "What are the real-life applications? What would you actually see in a crime scene? How would you handle these types of forensic investigations? So it's really cool our kids get to see what opportunities are out there and possibly a career field one day."The popular event has grown over the years, with some students returning year after year. Organizers said watching those students grow and develop their interests is one of the highlights of the program.Jeanette Schnars, the Executive Director of the Regional Science Consortium said it's rewarding to see how students' interests evolve as they get older. According to Schnars, "How they have grown and matured and where their interests are going and maybe they aren't going into forensics, but if they are going into sciences or different disciplines, so it's really fulfilling to see how they have matured."One student who continues to enjoy the event is sixth-grader Mia Harvey of Iroquois. Harvey hopes to pursue a career in medicine and says the forensic science activities are helping her explore her interests, "One day I want to become a neurologist, and learning about the bones is probably going to help me."Harvey said her favorite part of the event is the real-life application of what she's learning. "While you are trying to find the clues, they teach real stuff that you would need to know”, said Harvey.Event organizers said if students are learning while having fun, then the program is accomplishing its goal. "Not only are they learning the science, but they are having fun with it too”, said Schnars.Adults will also have a chance to take part in the experience this Saturday during an adult version of the escape room, which will feature food, drinks and entertainment. For more information, click here.The Forensic Science Escape Room has become one of the Regional Science Consortium’s most popular events, with teachers signing up their students as soon as registration opens in August.

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Brazil: Lessons from a Disaster

By Antonio Martins (Outras Palavras) Defeats become deeper and more prolonged when we misunderstand what caused them, avoid correcting course, and embrace “solutions” that only compound our mistakes. Lula’s government and the Brazilian left suffered a disaster in Sunday’s election. Contrary to every poll, the president finished the first round 2.2 million votes behind Flávio Bolsonaro—and, more significantly, 3.4 million votes below his total four years ago, when the machinery of the state was working against him and in favor of his opponent. His vote share declined in 98 percent of Brazil’s municipalities. The PL, the main party of the far right, elected 121 deputies and 28 senators, becoming the largest caucus in both houses of Congress. The parties aligned with the Centrão—Brazil’s bloc of transactional center-right parties—were somewhat diminished, but will still hold roughly 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 35 in the Senate. That will make it easier to assemble the majorities needed to amend the Constitution or impeach Supreme Federal Court justices. If elected, Flávio Bolsonaro could appoint four members of the Court, substantially altering its internal balance of power. What produced these results? How can the far right be prevented from consolidating them into a prolonged political hegemony? And what is the essential change of direction the left now needs? Explaining the Disaster Across the commercial media and the exuberant chaos of digital platforms, interpretations are multiplying. Some focus on specific episodes: Lula’s absence from the Globo debate, his very close relationship with Alexandre de Moraes, or his emphasis on issues supposedly remote from most people’s everyday concerns, such as rare earth minerals. Among the more systemic interpretations, three seem especially questionable. One argues that the principal defeat was not the left’s, since its congressional representation declined only slightly. The decisive movement captured at the ballot box, according to this view, was a shift within the right itself—from the more moderate and transactional forces of the Centrão toward the more ideological and radicalized forces of the PL and Novo. A second interpretation holds that the nature of electoral and political processes has changed. The material interests and aspirations of society, it argues, no longer play the central role they once did; they have given way to forms of subjective self-identification that the left has yet to understand. And a third concludes that, because of these two developments, we should expect a political winter: a prolonged period in which the far right and the broader right dominate Brazilian political life. There are important elements in all three interpretations. The problem lies in what they deny or leave out: Lula’s third government was a small-bore government. It offered the majorities that elected it neither a clearly better life nor reasons to believe again in politics and its power to transform society. These failures flowed from two fatal accommodations, which I will examine below. As a result, the government suffered a slow but steady erosion of support. And, as has happened in so many Western countries, it gave the far right the opportunity to present itself as anti-system and to benefit from popular frustration and distress. The interpretation that emphasizes the migration of votes from the center-right and traditional right toward the far right has been advanced, among others, by the courageous journalist Leonardo Sakamoto. In his UOL column on Monday, October 5, he highlights the miserable behavior of the traditional conservative parties. Over the past four years, they repeatedly joined forces with the “neo”-fascists, helping to “normalize” them—a criticism that could equally be directed at almost the entire corporate media. Believing they could use the far right as a stepping stone, they instead ended up partly devoured by it. This was especially true in the Senate, where the PL’s gain of 13 senators and Novo’s gain of two came at the expense of the PSD, which lost nine; the MDB, which lost two; the PSDB, which lost two; and the PP, which lost one. Sakamoto’s observation is accurate and necessary, but it leaves uncomfortable questions unanswered. Why did the erosion of the Centrão benefit the far right rather than, for example, producing growth for the left—as has happened so many times before, both in Brazil and elsewhere? The answer is not difficult. Throughout its four years in office, Lula’s third government was almost invariably associated with the Centrão. Here lies its first accommodation: accepting the limits imposed by conservative institutions; avoiding, as much as possible, any attempt to strain those limits through popular pressure; and believing only in the modest changes that could be squeezed through openings in Congress. The failure of the campaign to end the six-day workweek is emblematic. Lula could have electrified the presidential race by pairing it with a popular campaign for passage of the measure. Instead, he chose to place his hopes in the hands of Senate president Rodrigo Alcolumbre. He generated no mass mobilization, did not force his opponents onto an uncomfortable defensive, and won no victory. In September 2025, the government squandered the greatest of its many opportunities to shake up conservative power in Congress. Popular opposition to the so-called Shielding Amendment—which, if approved, would have restricted criminal proceedings against members of Congress—brought crowds into the streets, mobilized primarily by artists and social movements. This opened the possibility for a broader political education: a campaign that could begin exposing the limits and dysfunctions of Brazil’s political system while putting Bolsonaro’s movement on the defensive for its predictable support of political privilege. The amendment was defeated. But the executive branch then backed away from the fight. It remained associated with an institutional world widely seen as corrupt, elitist, and indifferent to ordinary people’s struggles. In doing so, it forfeited its credibility as a vehicle for the protest vote. On Sunday, it reaped the bitter fruits. Are We Doomed? Taking a different approach from Sakamoto, the philosopher Moysés Pinto Neto and other writers have drawn attention, in their first analyses of October 4, to the fragmentation of the public sphere produced by Big Tech platforms. Through their algorithms, these platforms present each person with a different view of social reality. As a consequence, it becomes much harder to identify common material problems and demands—for example, the fight for labor rights or for a properly funded public health system. Voters no longer embrace such demands, these authors argue, because they no longer see themselves as part of a collective. Instead, they tend to value the identities assigned to them by neoliberal subjectivity—the role of the entrepreneur, for example. On this interpretation, the left’s possible error lies in clinging to outdated illusions. Moysés’s warning is highly relevant and resonates with arguments such as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s “Apocalyptic Fascism and the Billionaires’ Bet.” Unlike a century ago, the far right no longer promises a radiant future. It concentrates instead on resentment—especially that of young men. “They belong to a generation that fears it may never own a home, but compensates with the pleasure it gets from constantly provoking progressives online. Convinced their future has been stolen, they share memes romanticizing historical authoritarian regimes,” the authors write. But Moysés seems to confuse this danger with inevitability. He fails to see that the left’s answer cannot be adaptation. On the contrary, it must strengthen the possibility of politics as collective action. Nor does he recognize that precisely such a reversal is already becoming possible in some of the most promising mobilizations of the twenty-first century: the election, at the end of 2025, of the young Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, on a platform centered on the intensely material fight for an affordable city; the Left Party’s victory in Berlin two weeks ago, built around the demand to expropriate private real-estate corporations; and the very recent wave of demonstrations in Spain—including an occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol—in which tens of thousands of young people mobilized by the Tenants’ Union have demanded limits on rents. By putting itself in the straitjacket of the “fiscal framework” in the first months of 2022, Lula’s third government adopted the second fatal accommodation of its term. Faced with conservative institutions and a country devastated by four years of Bolsonaro, increased public investment was the government’s remaining weapon for offering a more dignified life to the majority and forging an anti-conservative pact with them. The same state that disburses 1 trillion reais a year to enrich a small class of rentiers could instead spend money to extend the Family Health Strategy to every Brazilian, at a cost of 30 billion reais; provide full-day public schooling and childcare to all adolescents and children—and, especially, relief to their mothers; achieve universal sanitation while cleaning up polluted urban rivers; multiply metro systems; begin transforming the urban peripheries; and undertake many other urgently needed projects. In April 2023, an article in Outras Palavras warned that the fiscal framework could “shrink the Lula government and preserve the forces that condemn the country to inequality and regression.” A year later, another article showed that restraints on public spending were strangling policies vital to ordinary people and undermining the president’s popularity. In November 2024 came a reality check, in the form of the government’s humiliating defeat in the municipal elections. Even then, the fiscal lock was neither removed nor loosened. On the contrary: throughout the government’s four years, fiscal restraint remained central to its political narrative. The administration proudly proclaimed that it had “put the state’s accounts in order,” without grasping either how misleading that phrase was—given the payment of 1 trillion reais in interest—or how badly the message was hurting it politically. Lula finally woke up in September 2026. The increase in Bolsa Família benefits, after four years of being frozen; the announcement that anti-obesity drugs would be offered through Brazil’s public health system; and the ban on online betting showed that the state has the power to act decisively on behalf of the majority when those in government are willing to confront obstacles. The huge marches that closed the campaign in Fortaleza, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo on the eve of October 4 showed how such initiatives can mobilize activists and the broader public. But it was too late—and too little to change the outcome of the first round. History has not ended The possibility of a turnaround in the three weeks leading up to November 25 cannot be ruled out. It will not be simple or easy. Lula must not only make up a deficit of 2.2 million votes; he must also offset the movement of voters who backed other right-wing candidates in the first round, most of whom are likely to move toward Flávio Bolsonaro. Pulling that off will require a broad, grassroots effort to win over voters, potentially reinforced by new initiatives from Lula. The coming hours and days will be decisive. If Bolsonaro’s movement also wins the presidency, the result will create a high-risk situation for Brazilian sovereignty and democracy. The enormous challenges posed by such an outcome would require the left to reexamine, in depth and with a genuine willingness to engage in self-criticism, its political projects—or its lack of them—and its practices. But would that mean we are condemned to the long winter of far-right hegemony that some analyses are beginning to forecast? It is far too early to say, suggests a recent text by Álvaro García Linera, the thinker who served as vice president of Bolivia under Evo Morales. His central hypothesis is that this political current will prove short-lived. At a moment when the entire world is once again talking about sovereignty and protecting national economies, the far right offers a stale, recolonizing neoliberalism. Its submission to the United States is as blatant and pathetic as Flávio and Eduardo Bolsonaro’s overtures to Donald Trump. Its project amounts to something like every man for himself: greater inequality, capitalism without limits, devastation, and supremacism. Will it work? In the United States, just two years into his second term, Trump himself is reaching record levels of unpopularity and may be on the verge of losing Republican control of both the House and Senate in November. Every new beginning is difficult. Whatever the outcome of the second round, the defeats of October 4 show how profoundly the Brazilian left will have to rethink and rebuild. But just as it would be foolish to underestimate the seriousness of its mistakes, it would be equally foolish to conclude that rebuilding a political project is no longer possible. History has not ended. The times are moving faster than ever. Originally published in Portuguese by Outras Palavras. English translation by Eric Blanc; I’ve added the subtitles. More We can’t stop the far right at home or abroad without a revitalized labor movement, which is yet another reason why you should become a sustaining supporter of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) — one of US labor’s pivotal bright spots. Relatedly, Jacobin published a short piece of mine reflecting on a decade of Bernie Sanders inspiring a whole new generation of young worker organizers.

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MyVisito Expands Digital Business Cards From Contact Sharing to Bookings, Sales and Connections

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Downtown Des Moines could get new entertainment district

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Bristol City appoint Sheffield Wednesday analyst Ben King as their new set-piece coach.

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Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in physics

Among past laureates are some of the most celebrated figures in science, including Albert Einstein, Marie and Pierre Curie, Max Planck and Niels Bohr.

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Jeffrey Archer, UK novelist and former politician jailed for lying in libel case, dies at 86

Jeffrey Archer, a British bestselling author who sold more than 300 million book copies in his career and a former politician who was jailed for lying in a high-profile libel case, died Monday.

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Oct 6 • 5:50 AM EDT • Politics • koco.com
Minnesota gubernatorial candidates discuss business platforms at Economic Club discussion

Minnesota gubernatorial candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DFL) and Rep. Lisa Demuth (R) faced off Monday afternoon in a forum hosted by the Economic Club of Minnesota. Each candidate took the stage independently to answer questions from a moderator for 30 minutes apiece.

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Oct 6 • 5:25 AM EDT • Business • northernnewsnow.com
Minnesota gubernatorial candidates discuss business platforms at Economic Club discussion

Minnesota gubernatorial candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DFL) and Rep. Lisa Demuth (R) faced off Monday afternoon in a forum hosted by the Economic Club of Minnesota. Each candidate took the stage independently to answer questions from a moderator for 30 minutes apiece.

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Oct 6 • 5:25 AM EDT • Business • kttc.com
De Roon to start alongside Kone vs Como

Roma returns to training today ahead of the trip to Como, scheduled for Sunday at 12:30. Gian Piero Gasperini will gradually reunite all the players who have been on international duty in recent weeks...

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Oct 6 • 3:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Deshaun Watson's Rollercoaster Performances for the Cleveland Browns

I'm going to focus on EPA for this piece. EPA stands for Expected Points Added, which measures the value of individual plays based on how much they increase or decrease a team's likelihood of scoring.Here is a fantastic video explaining what EPA is and why it is a measure that looks at years on NFL history rather than one person's subjective opinion on a certain play.Deshaun Watson's Current...

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Oct 6 • 3:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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