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Analysis | The October Surprise isn’t what it used to be

The idea of one news story remaking an entire election in the final weeks of the campaign might be from a bygone era.

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Oct 8 • 5:20 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
What tensions? Uniqlo is back in fashion in China despite Beijing-Tokyo dispute

The Japanese clothing brand saw its China sales recover over the past year despite ongoing political tensions and China’s consumer slowdown.

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Oct 8 • 5:15 AM EDT • Business • scmp.com
Pick of the stats: West Bromwich Albion v Birmingham City

The key stats before West Bromwich Albion's clash with Birmingham City in the Championship on Saturday.

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Oct 8 • 5:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal youngster receives MBE from Prince William

The Arsenal forward was honoured for services to association football after helping England win a second successive European Championship.Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty ImagesMichelle Agyemang describ...

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Oct 8 • 5:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Long-Deployed Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Set for Homecoming

The ship, whose crew endured food shortages, spent much of its nearly 11-month deployment in combat without a day off.

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Oct 8 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Medical Debt Is Crushing Hospital Patients in Los Angeles. Public Health Officials May Have a Fix.

In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.

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Oct 8 • 5:01 AM EDT • Health • tradeoffs.org
Janesville News Gazette editor discusses ballot referendums, new city leadership and area business growth

Janesville journalist Neil Johnson discusses ballot referendums, new city leadership and agriculutre growth in the small city of Evansville.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • northernpublicradio.org
At 81, he’s the most-cited nutrition expert. Here’s what he eats in a day.

Walter Willett’s research has changed the way Americans eat, revealing how diet and other lifestyle choices can shape your risk of chronic illnesses.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
The surprising new idea that is reshaping how we think about ADHD

Scientists are starting to uncover the links between being a night owl and some neuropsychiatric conditions.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Alaska found a way to elect more moderates. Now voters might end it.

Alaskans will decide in November whether to ditch a system that allows four primary candidates, regardless of party, to advance to the general election.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Medical debt Is crushing hospital patients in L.A County. Health officials may have a fix

In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • latimes.com
Medical debt is crushing hospital patients in LA. Health officials may have a fix

In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can't pay.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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The Math Singularity Is Here, and Science May Be Next

OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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AI use lifts participation in WorldQuant contest

Hedge fund WorldQuant said on Wednesday registrations for this year's flagship global quant research contest have almost ​doubled from a year earlier, as increased adoption ‌of AI has helped more university students build trading models.

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Oct 8 • 4:12 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Gimme Him: One player Commanders would steal from Giants

There is one player the Washington Commanders would love to steal from the New York Giants in their Week 5 matchup.

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Oct 8 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Disney Believe to debut new entertainment and dining experiences in December 2027

Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Believe will enter service on 18 December 2027, with the new Wish-class ship set to introduce new entertainment, dining and accommodation across its public spaces and...

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Oct 8 • 3:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • cruiseandferry.net
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Businesses fear impact of parking charge rise

Shropshire Council has proposed plans that could mean an increase in the price of parking.

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Oct 8 • 3:06 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Release | We’ve partnered with a podcast!

The Bundesliga Show (TBS) & Get German Football News (GGFN) are delighted to announce a brand new partnership for the 2026/27 season and beyond!As a result, there will be an alliance to bring you the ...

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why early-season data points to Premiership style shift

Underlying numbers from the start of the Scottish Premiership season suggest a refreshed approach could be taking hold across the league.

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Oct 8 • 2:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Oil prices climb amid supply fears and shipping attacks; prospect of rate rise weighs on UK housing market

Brent crude heads towards $103 a barrel while Asian shares slide

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Oct 8 • 2:51 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Colorado’s girls deserve same sporting lessons I had

I learned to swim at the Piney Creek Pool in Centennial. I was a kid chasing the girl in the next lane, with no idea that water was about to become my classroom. That pool led me to Smoky Hill High School, where I won back-to-back state championships in the 200 individual medley and set […]

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Oct 8 • 2:45 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
NFL Canada Partnership Could Be A Game Changer For Penn Entertainment Stock (PENN)

PENN Entertainment recently saw its theScore Bet unit secure a multiyear role as an official NFL partner for sports betting and online casino in Canada, alongside an analyst upgrade that reflected these business developments. The Canadian NFL tie-up gives PENN Entertainment another channel to push its digital betting brand into a live sports audience, which could affect user acquisition costs and long term engagement across its broader entertainment ecosystem. We will now look at how PENN...

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Oct 8 • 1:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Dodgers, Brewers meet again in second straight NLCS

If the Dodgers are going get back to the World Series to finish off their third consecutive championship, they’ll have to travel the same path as in 2025 to complete their trek through the National League. The Dodgers will play the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS beginning Sunday night, October 11 at American Family Field […]

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Oct 8 • 1:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Husker football scouting report: Indiana

Nebraska hosts its first ranked opponent of the season. Indiana’s football team will bring a championship-winning team to Memorial Stadium to face the Huskers.

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Oct 8 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
I’m a pediatrician in Michigan, and here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health

In medicine, poverty is often screened for, documented and then ignored as a “social” issue outside the scope of medicine.

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Oct 8 • 12:36 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
The Midterm Elections Won't Keep Trump From College Football on Saturday. A Hurricane Might

WASHINGTON (AP) — The midterm elections are looming and the first hurricane of the Atlantic Season is menacing the Gulf Coast. But President Donald Trump is really, really hoping the weather doesn’t stop him from going to another big college football game — this one in Alabama on Saturday night.

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Oct 8 • 12:08 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
Muramasa: Revenant Blades hands-on gameplay preview

Recently, I had the chance to visit Marvelous at its Shinagawa headquarters for a one-hour preview of its upcoming Vanillaware side-scrolling action RPG remaster Muramasa: Revenant Blades. As a dis…

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Oct 8 • 12:01 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Exclusive: ICE agents told to ramp up daily immigration arrests despite GOP unease as midterms near

Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive.

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Oct 8 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Why people from Bermuda come to Boston for healthcare

Mass General Brigham receives more patients from Bermuda than from any other international country or territory.

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Oct 8 • 12:01 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
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Preview: 'Muramasa: Revenant Blades' Polishes Vanillaware's Gem To Shine Brighter Than Ever

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Oct 8 • 12:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
President Trump Remarks at Science and Technology Summit in Washington, D.C.

President Trump hosts a summit to highlight technology, artificial intelligence, scientific innovation, and his administration's updated science policy framework.

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Oct 8 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • c-span.org
MSFT Stock On 4-Day Winning Streak: Microsoft Takes On Apple's Macs With Nvidia-Powered Surface Ultra, More On-Device AI

Microsoft is pushing Windows deeper into the local-AI era with Nvidia-powered Surface, on-device models and hybrid Copilot features.

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Oct 7 • 11:28 PM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

CHI Health hosted its 16th annual ladies night on Wednesday, celebrating those impacted by the disease as they gathered to support one another.

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Oct 7 • 11:21 PM EDT • Health • foxcarolina.com
Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

CHI Health hosted its 16th annual ladies night on Wednesday, celebrating those impacted by the disease as they gathered to support one another.

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Oct 7 • 11:21 PM EDT • Health • 1011now.com
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly From Dodgers' Series-Clinching Win

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday and booked their ticket to the National League Championship Series, but they still have a lot to improve.

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Oct 7 • 10:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Is Pessimism Surrounding Wizards Head Coach Brian Keefe Deserved?

After amassing just 34 wins over the last two seasons, does Washington Wizards head coach Brian Keefe have something to prove in 2026-27?

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Oct 7 • 10:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Debra Messing backs GOP NY gov candidate in political shift

‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss ‘Will & Grace’ star Debra Messing’s surprising political shift after a long period of support for Democrats.

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Oct 7 • 10:40 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Could Dodgers Face Padres in Southern California NLCS Battle?

Imagine seeing the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres renew their rivalry with a trip to the World Series on the line in the National League Championship Series.

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Oct 7 • 10:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

CHI Health hosted its 16th annual ladies night on Wednesday, celebrating those impacted by the disease as they gathered to support one another.

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Oct 7 • 10:14 PM EDT • Health • 1011now.com
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Penguins Ghastly Giveaways Give Capitals Big Win

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was the final time Alex Ovechkin would be introduced for a Washington Capitals (2-1-0) home opener. […]

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Oct 7 • 10:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Oil rises as Middle East supply concerns persist amid shipping attacks

Oil prices rose on Thursday on persistent worries about supply from the key Middle East producing region amid an increase in attacks on shipping in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

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Oct 7 • 9:25 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
New Hampshire Film Festival announces 2026 lineup

The New Hampshire Film Festival returns to Portsmouth Oct. 15–18 with more than 100 films, Spotlight screenings and an Alicia Silverstone “Clueless” event.

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Oct 7 • 9:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • unionleader.com
Thunder Rookie Aday Mara Passed His First Real Test

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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Oct 7 • 8:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ryan Smith launches survey in search for 'strong local vibe' at SLC entertainment district

With two-thirds of the Delta Center's renovation now complete, the owner of the Utah Jazz and Mammoth is now shifting his attention to a planned district east of it.

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Oct 7 • 8:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • ksl.com
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Trump administration paving way for temporary sale of some unapproved peptides

Food and Drug Administration scientists and some medical experts have raised alarms about increasing access to certain peptides.

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Oct 7 • 8:38 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Trump hit with second lawsuit over taxpayer-funded political propaganda ads

The lawsuit came the same day the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a separate challenge in Washington, D.C., seeking to stop the administration from using federal funds for the ad campaign.

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Oct 7 • 8:31 PM EDT • Politics • democracydocket.com
Two Washington Nationals Prospects Shine in Arizona Fall League

A pair of Washington Nationals stuck out through the first week of the Arizona Fall League

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Oct 7 • 8:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Award-winning Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh detained by US immigration authorities

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming

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Oct 7 • 8:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Scientists warn a popular vitamin D supplement may have a hidden downside

Not all vitamin D supplements are created equal, and new research suggests that one popular form may have an unexpected downside. Scientists found that taking vitamin D2 can actually lower the body's levels of vitamin D3, the form naturally produced by sunlight and more effective at boosting overall vitamin D. Previous studies also suggest that vitamin D3 may provide stronger immune protection against viruses and bacteria.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
As AI Learns to Write, Tuhin Chakrabarty Studies What Humans Stand to Lose

As AI models are able to generate increasingly convincing prose, what began as an experiment—can AI write something that sounds plausibly human?—is becoming a commercial reality, with blog posts, YouTube video scripts and even bestselling novels bearing AI’s fingerprints. But the speed of that shift brings unique challenges, including questions of copyright infringement and an

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Oct 7 • 7:22 PM EDT • Science • news.stonybrook.edu
Data centers in Ohio are redrawing political battle lines

In Southwest Ohio, planned data centers are fueling intense local backlash. NBC News’ Ryan Nobles traveled to a Trump stronghold where the debate is shifting political allegiances and could swing the balance of power in Congress come November.

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Oct 7 • 7:09 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Mia Goth files for divorce from Shia LaBeouf nearly 10 years after the actors married

Mia Goth has filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf nearly 10 years after they married | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Oct 7 • 6:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Kyle Larson Is Putting Together Historic NASCAR Chase Run

Current points leader Kyle Larson’s numbers have been ridiculous halfway through NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup. Larson drove the No. 5 Chevy to a second-place finish at Las Vegas last Sunday, extending his points lead and clocking in his fifth straight top-five finish in the Chase. After finishing 31st in the regular-season finale at Daytona, Larson has […] The post Kyle Larson Is Putting Together Historic NASCAR Chase Run appeared first on HEAVY.

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AI disruptions roil local Boston tech companies PTC, HubSpot

HubSpot is cutting jobs, PTC is getting bought out, and Amazon is shrinking its office.

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Oct 7 • 6:17 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
At Black business expo, officials urge owners to speak up

State and federal lawmakers called for more Black small business owners, who disproportionately face economic challenges, to meet with elected officials and ask for support.

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Oct 7 • 6:17 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
8 Washingtonians weigh in on how they view the political parties

KUOW asked eight Washingtonians what they have to say about their political evolution and how they now identify politically.

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Oct 7 • 6:13 PM EDT • Politics • kuow.org
New AI trade group launches with focus on health sector

MassIntelligence launched with two founding member companies and plans to add 13 others by invitation.

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Oct 7 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com
Financially troubled Redeemer Health failed to make a bond payment on Sept. 1

The Montgomery County nonprofit that owns Holy Redeemer Medical Center in Abington Township said it is working on "a reorganization of our hospital system to ensure its continued viability."

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Oct 7 • 5:47 PM EDT • Health • inquirer.com
Flight attendants' union raises safety concerns over Trump's Washington arch

The union representing thousands of flight attendants said Wednesday it has safety concerns about President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch that will be on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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Oct 7 • 5:41 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
EPA grant supports nature-based solutions and sediment science for North Bay marsh

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month announced that it selected the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Association of Bay Area Governments as awardees of a $13.9 million grant to restore and enhance some 1,500 acres of tidal wetland habitat known as Strip Marsh East along the State Route 37 corridor in Solano County.

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Oct 7 • 5:38 PM EDT • Science • blog.bayareametro.gov
After vast sewage spill, officials say testing shows Potomac is back to health

Testing “found no current signs of harm” from the millions of gallons of raw sewage that flowed into the river in January, according to D.C. Water.

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Oct 7 • 5:30 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Animal welfare deserves science, not a patchwork of state laws

Animal welfare should be driven by science, not by a patchwork of state-by-state legislation.

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Oct 7 • 5:10 PM EDT • Science • agrinews-pubs.com
TENNESSEE VOLS TENNIS: Four head to regional tournament

Tennessee men's tennis will send four representatives to participate in the 2026 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Ohio Valley Regional Championships at the Farm & Forge Club in College Grove, Tennessee, from Oct. 8-13.

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Oct 7 • 4:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump says Reflecting Pool will be refilled this week, but work is ongoing

Material was still being applied to the bottom of the pool on Wednesday.

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Oct 7 • 4:39 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Pork Politics Heat Up as American Meat Producers PAC Targets Save Our Bacon Act Backers

While the campaign frames its messaging around family farms and foreign ownership, industry groups warn of animal rights strategists driving the multi-million-dollar push to preserve Prop 12.

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Oct 7 • 4:39 PM EDT • Politics • porkbusiness.com
How America can recover from Trump-era politics

How America can recover from Trump-era politics

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Oct 7 • 4:30 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Trump returns to Texas, where Republicans are struggling

Republicans are spending heavily to defend a state the president won comfortably two years ago.

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Oct 7 • 4:26 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Mayor Woodfin responds after wife's business subpoenaed in Birmingham data center lawsuit

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is pushing back after his wife and her real-estate company were named in a discovery dispute tied to a lawsuit over a proposed

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Oct 7 • 4:24 PM EDT • Business • abc3340.com
Griffin College of Business Hosts Third Annual Internship Open House

More than 150 students connected with 10 employers during the Neil Griffin College of Business Internship Open House. Students and recruiters came together on campus to discuss internships, career pat

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Oct 7 • 4:23 PM EDT • Business • astate.edu
Mia Goth files to divorce Shia LaBeouf after almost 10 years

Mia Goth files to divorce Shia LaBeouf after almost a decade of marriage. The estranged spouses share one child and separated last summer, according to court documents.

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Oct 7 • 4:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Health Officer issues mask order in specified health care facilities, encourages residents to get vaccinated for flu and COVID-19

To protect against the elevated risk of respiratory virus-related illnesses, such as COVID and flu, during the fall and winter, Sonoma County’s Health Officer Dr. Mia Shim issued a health order requiring health care personnel and others to mask in patient care areas of specified health care facilities. The health order, designed to protect the most vulnerable people in our community, will be in effect from Nov. 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027.

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Oct 7 • 4:17 PM EDT • Health • sonomacounty.gov
USA TODAY Sports announces National High School Esports Championship

USA TODAY Sports, in collaboration with PlayVS, announced the USA TODAY Sports National High School Esports Championship.

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Oct 7 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump Expected to Award Science Medal to SpaceX's Elon Musk, Fox News Reports

Elon Musk is set to receive the National Medal of Science from President Donald Trump. Discover the news here.

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Oct 7 • 3:43 PM EDT • Science • gvwire.com
Trump to appear at White House science event on Thursday

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific ​discovery on Thursday, according to a ‌social media post from his tech adviser Michael Kratsios. The event will highlight the Tru...

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Trump expected to award science medal to SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Fox News reports

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump is expected to ​award the National ‌Medal of Science to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Fox News reported. The National ‌Medal ​of Science ⁠is the nation's ⁠highest honor for scientists and engineers, accor...

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Trump expected to award science medal to SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Fox News reports

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump is expected to ​award the National ‌Medal of Science to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Fox News reported. The National ‌Medal ​of Science ⁠is the nation's ⁠highest honor for scientists and engineers, accor...

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Trump Expected to Award Science Medal to SpaceX's Elon Musk, Fox News Reports

By ⁠Courtney ⁠Rozen WASHINGTON, ⁠Oct 7 (Reuters) - US ‌President ‌Donald ⁠Trump is ⁠expected to award the ⁠National ⁠Medal ⁠of Science to SpaceX CEO ⁠Elon ⁠Musk, Fox News ⁠reported. (Reporting by Courtney ⁠Rozen; Editing by Nia Williams) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

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Oct 7 • 3:23 PM EDT • Science • usnews.com
NJ Health Commissioner Dr. Raynard Washington Leads Cooking Class at Harvest

New Jersey Health Commissioner Dr. Raynard E. Washington joined RWJBarnabas Health at Harvest: A Farm to Community Center where we joined a wonderful group of seniors for an interactive cooking class. Commissioner Washington and registered dietitian Alyssa chopped and mixed Rainbow Grain Bowls using colorful, nutritious, local Jersey-grown ingredients.

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Oct 7 • 3:12 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org
Analysis | The extraordinary amount of money pouring into the midterm elections

How much is too much?

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Oct 7 • 3:09 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target

The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.

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Oct 7 • 2:55 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Anthony Rizzo Crosses Chicago Rivalry Line With White Sox Message

Anthony Rizzo will forever be connected to the Chicago Cubs, but that apparently doesn’t mean he has to root against everything happening on the South Side. The longtime Cubs star and one of the central figures from Chicago’s 2016 World Series championship team said Wednesday that he plans to attend Game 3 of the American…

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Five Brothers Sushi: From college start-up to lasting business

About ten years ago, Jacob and Ammon Chung saw a need in the community — a spot for late-night eats that wasn't pizza or fast food. That's when sushi came into play.

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Dayton’s most experienced EHR users see the future of VA healthcare

Dayton VAMC’s move to the Federal EHR marks a major milestone. Long-serving leaders reflect on the shift from paper to CPRS to today’s system and its impact on Veteran care.

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Oct 7 • 2:30 PM EDT • Health • news.va.gov
Atlantic & Kakao Entertainment Partner to Create K-pop Opportunities

Atlantic Music Group and Kakao Entertainment have formed a partnership to create more K-pop opportunities.

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Oct 7 • 2:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • billboard.com
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

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Oct 7 • 2:15 PM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
What’s with Trump’s cheap suit?

The fact that President Donald Trump was photographed flashing a suit tag from a bargain brand of imported suits should not really be news.

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Oct 7 • 2:15 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Chet Hanks explains himself after Eric André ComplexCon exchange

Chet Hanks explains why he confronted Eric André at ComplexCon in Los Angeles over the weekend. He accused the comic of 'trashing me to the media after I outshined him on his own show!!'

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Oct 7 • 2:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Government Watchdog: Trump Illegally Blocked Health Research Funding

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision issued today, which concludes that President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. illegally impounded fiscal year 2025 funding for health research conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research […]

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Oct 7 • 2:11 PM EDT • Health • murray.senate.gov
New state program helps business owners explore employee ownership

Feasibility studies and valuations are a key first step in converting a business to an ESOP model.

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Oct 7 • 2:08 PM EDT • Business • wbjournal.com
Calvert's Science Scores Climb, but Eighth Grade Won't Budge

Where Calvert County students shine, they shine. High school government students have finished first in Maryland for the fourth straight year, 30 points above the state. Where they are stuck, the school board did not hesitate to ask why. Calvert County Public Schools officials gave the Board of Education the district’s 2026 MCAP results in […]

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Meet the 2026 Contingent Faculty Award Winners for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership in the Profession -

The Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership by Contingent Faculty recognizes scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of political science without the support of tenure-track employment. This award is sponsored by APSA’s Committee [...]

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Meet the 2026 Contingent Faculty Award Winners for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership in the Profession -

The Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership by Contingent Faculty recognizes scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of political science without the support of tenure-track employment. This award is sponsored by APSA’s Committee [...]

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Oct 7 • 2:00 PM EDT • Politics • politicalsciencenow.com
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

Microsoft’s high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November.

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Oct 7 • 1:46 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
A$AP Rocky Launches 4-Year Scholarship For First-Time Freshmen At Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment At Long Island University

Rapper and entrepreneur A$AP Rocky is paying it forward.

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Oct 7 • 1:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Free ‘STEAM the Block Party' aims to get DC youth involved in science, tech, arts

Drones, robotics, AI and more: The Steam the Block Party in Southeast D.C. on Friday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. aims to spark a love of science. Members of the Swaliga Foundation talk with News4’s Molette Green. Performers include UCB.

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Oct 7 • 1:44 PM EDT • Science • nbcwashington.com
Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon: 'My intention here is clear: bring a championship to Portland'
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Oct 7 • 1:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Museum of Science’s William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common Expands Fall Lineup With Trevor Noah and Astronauts Sian Proctor and Amanda Nguyen

BOSTON, October 07, 2026--Driven by a bold vision to build public trust in science and inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone, the Museum of Science today unveiled an expanded fall lineup for the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common. The new 10,000-square-foot civic venue marks a major milestone in the Museum’s ambition to reach 1 billion people with transformative science storytelling by 2030, establishing a world-class platform where critical ideas meet local and globa

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Oct 7 • 1:31 PM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
New nonprofit launches campaign to preserve local newspapers

The Mount Desert Islander, Ellsworth American and Bangor Historian have formed a nonprofit, Acadia Newspaper Trust, to transition the newspapers from private, for-profit ownership to nonprofit ownership.

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Oct 7 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • mdislander.com
Mia Goth files for divorce from Shia LaBeouf

The former couple met while filming Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac.”

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