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4 mental tricks to help you remember things you tend to forget

The key to remembering mundane moments — like turning off the stove — is to make them feel extraordinary.

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Oct 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • washingtonpost.com
A gut health dietitian shares how she eats enough fiber every day

Sophie Medlin, a dietitian who has been specializing in the colon for 20 years, has built habits that make it easy to eat gut-loving foods.

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Oct 11 • 4:17 AM EDT • Health • businessinsider.com
A gut health dietitian shares how she eats enough fiber every day

Sophie Medlin, a dietitian who has been specializing in the colon for 20 years, has built habits that make it easy to eat gut-loving foods.

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Oct 11 • 4:17 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
In Pittsburgh, Medicare Advantage shopping can be a trial. AI to the rescue?

If there was ever a job tailor-made for artificial intelligence, choosing a Medicare Advantage plan is it. Seniors in Western Pennsylvania have a blizzard...

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Oct 11 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • post-gazette.com
Player Ratings: Real Madrid 1–0 Villarreal

Thibaut Courtois: 8. Made four saves and came up big late on, when Real Madrid were down to 10 men and Villarreal were pushing for an equalizer. Trent Alexander-Arnold: 7. Played some incredible passes over the top to Mbappé. Less convincing defensively, despite not being tested particularly often. Ibrahima Konaté: 6.5. His passing was poor […]

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Oct 10 • 8:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A surprisingly simple way to relieve knee arthritis pain without pills or surgery

A surprisingly simple change in how you walk could help relieve knee arthritis pain and even slow joint damage. In a year-long clinical trial, researchers found that adjusting the angle of a person's foot while walking reduced osteoarthritis pain by an amount comparable to medication, without requiring drugs or surgery. Even more promising, MRI scans revealed that participants who adopted the personalized walking technique experienced slower deterioration in a marker of knee cartilage health.

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Oct 10 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Bessent mocks Sen Warren, wishes her 'Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day' in response to letter

Scott Bessent accused Elizabeth Warren of having little knowledge about financial markets in a snarky response to her 10-year treasury yield letter.

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Oct 10 • 6:21 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

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Oct 10 • 3:50 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
South Texas Health System (@stxhealthsystem)

3 likes, 1 comments - stxhealthsystem on October 10, 2026: "Serving Health, Healing & Hospitality: Proper nutrition plays an important role in the healing process, helping patients recover, regain strength and achieve better outcomes. Across South Texas Health System's acute care facilities and behavioral hospital, our Nutrition & Dietary Services teams work diligently each day to provide nutritious meals and exceptional service to patients, visitors and staff. During National Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week, STHS proudly recognizes the dedicated Nutrition & Dietary Services teams at STHS McAllen, STHS Edinburg, STHS Children's, STHS Heart and STHS Behavioral for their hard work, professionalism and commitment to excellence. From developing specialized meal plans that support patient recovery to serving every meal with care and compassion, these team members play an essential role in creating a positive healthcare experience. Their dedication to both nutrition and hospitality is felt throughout our hospitals and contributes to the quality, compassionate care our patients receive every day. Thank you for the care, kindness and pride you bring to your work. Your commitment helps nourish our patients, support our caregivers and strengthen the communities we serve.".

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🚨 Augsburg-Bayern XIs: Saibari starts; Gnabry on the bench!

Augsburg and Bayern kick off Saturday's Bundesliga action, alongside other matches. The Bavarians want to capitalize on Borussia Dortmund's slip-up after they drew with Werder Bremen on Friday despite...

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Oct 10 • 9:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
From BJ’s to Lululemon, retailers are trimming assortments to boost business

Retail brands are shrinking assortments to get back to healthy growth, while box stores are culling products to better curate offerings and stabilize business.

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Oct 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
HASNAIN: The mental health taboo and its many adverse effects

Yet, I write this not to propose some novel solution on finding inner peace and instead hope to push students to capitalize on existing reliable resources.

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Oct 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • cavalierdaily.com
iPhone Duo will greet some owners by name on its first boot

New owners of the iPhone Duo will get an extra treat if they buy it from an Apple Store, with the option to personalize the smartphone's boot-up screen to greet them by name.

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Oct 10 • 7:36 AM EDT • Technology • appleinsider.com
Trump fumes at 'stain' on Norway after missing out on Nobel Peace Prize

The president described the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay as "disgraceful and embarrassing" and said he would "not forget."

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Oct 10 • 6:33 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s employers rely on it.

The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”

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Oct 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Amazon Small Business Event: Empowering the Next Generation and Scaling Service-Based Entrepreneurs

Join Hera Hub and Amazon for a hands-on workshop designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs and established service-based business owners bring new products to life. Amazon experts and small business owners will provide practical guidance, useful tools, and actionable next steps to launch a product and build a business with Amazon. This event is free but space is limited to 60 participants and will fill up. The event includes a light breakfast and lunch. Participants will choose from two specialized tracks based on their goals and stage of business. TRACK 1: NEXT GENERATION From Product Idea to Online Store Designed for aspiring young entrepreneurs, from junior high students through college and beyond, who have a product idea or want to explore the world of e-commerce. Amazon small business owners and Amazon experts will review topics such as: • How to develop and refine a product idea • How to set up and sell products on Amazon • What to consider when pricing, marketing, and fulfilling orders • Practical next steps for moving from idea to launch Whether participants already have a product in mind or are simply curious about entrepreneurship, this track will help them see what is possible and give them a roadmap to get started. TRACK 2: SERVICE EXPANSION Turn Your Expertise Into a Product Designed for consultants, coaches, speakers, creatives, and other service-based entrepreneurs who want to expand beyond trading time for money. Participants will explore how to transform their knowledge and expertise into tangible products such as: • Books and workbooks • Journals and planners • Card decks • Educational tools and resources Amazon small business owners will share how they identified viable product opportunities and created a product that can generate revenue beyond their one-on-one services. An Amazon expert will also review self-publishing and other ways to build a business with Amazon. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with greater clarity, practical guidance, and a tangible next step toward launching or expanding their product-based business. The event includes a light breakfast and lunch. This event is free but space is limited to 60 participants and will fill up.

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Oct 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • kpbs.org
Iranian Spokesman Slams France’s Nuclear Double Standards

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei criticized France’s contradictory positions on nuclear weapons, saying Western nuclear powers seek to monopolize the power to inspire fear and the perceived legitimacy to intimidate other countries.

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Oct 10 • 2:52 AM EDT • Politics • tasnimnews.ir
A photoinduced, FeX3-catalyzed, stereo- and regio-selective halofunctionalization of olefins with MXn via a radical-polar crossover reaction

Communications Chemistry - The classical reaction for the halofunctionalization of olefins involves hazardous and highly toxic molecular halogens. Here, the authors report the FeX3-catalyzed...

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Oct 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Apple Stores Will Add Your Name to iPhone Duo's Startup Screen

Apple has something special planned for customers who purchase an iPhone Duo in an Apple Store. Employees will be able to customize the Duo so it displays the name of the buyer at the "Hello" screen when it turns on for the first time. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple retail stores in the United States will have a personalization system for adding the buyer's name to an iPhone Duo, with English and Spanish language options.

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Oct 9 • 7:17 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Seahawks Injury Issues: Coach Earns Credit For Finding Answers

With key starters sidelined, first-time coordinator Brian Fleury earns praise for stabilizing Seattle’s offense through creative adjustments and steady leadership amidst a wave of early-season roster volatility.

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Oct 9 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
D.C. judge bars DOJ from gathering states’ voter lists to find noncitizens

Voting rights groups had challenged the effort, noting federal data includes errors that have led to citizens being wrongly removed from electoral rolls.

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Oct 9 • 5:47 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Denison business flourishing, 7 years after downtown fire

Seven years after a destructive fire on Main Street in downtown Denison, Texas, the area has been revitalized with a new visitor center and a Phoenix sculpture created from the remains of the buildings that burned. This transformation honors the past while embracing the revitalization of the once-devastated block.

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Oct 9 • 5:40 PM EDT • Business • kten.com
Saratoga Springs Specialty Clinic and Cancer Center Expanded

Intermountain Health is expanding access to specialized care close to home with the opening of the new Saratoga Springs Specialty Clinic and Cancer Center.

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Oct 9 • 4:37 PM EDT • Health • news.intermountainhealth.org
Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos

Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health

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Oct 9 • 4:20 PM EDT • Health • pymnts.com
Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris reaches major health milestone two months after medical emergency

Paris has entered a rehabilitation facility following his August hospitalization, but his family is asking for help as he has

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Oct 9 • 4:16 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Land O’Lakes Bulks Up Its Protein Capacity

The cooperative is expanding its processing facilities to capitalize on consumer demand for more protein products.

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Oct 9 • 3:33 PM EDT • Business • tcbmag.com
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Netflix’s Summer of Bummer

(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.) Today, I’ve got a guest post from longtime friend of the newsletter, Brandon Katz. I’ve been trying to find time all summer to look at Netflix’s straight-to-streaming film slate, but between a pre-planned trip and Nielsen moving up their streaming data timeline, I’ve been swamped. So I reached out to Brandon, one of my favorite fellow analysts, to write about it. And I feel like he captured the tone and data focus of the newsletter perfectly. You can connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and Twitter. Enjoy! Don’t worry, folks. You’re in safe hands with me. To ease any anxieties about an interloper in ESG’s domain, I’ll start by stealing one of his best framing devices: headlines. Box office flops are covered in the same way the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eye pizza: with cartoonish insatiability. I would know. I’m a former reporter who wrote nearly identical headlines: Yet, intentionally or not, streaming misses get treated with kids gloves, filtered through a rosy lens: In the last six years, U.S. streaming viewership has become nearly as transparent as the box office, but the data often arrives weeks later, in a number of less intuitive metrics, and with nary an official budget to be found. This plays into the Wall Street-whispering narratives major streamers have been cultivating for years. They get a pass in a way that theatrical studios simply don’t. Subscribe Netflix’s Summer Slate Not a single Netflix original film released between May and August this year opened above 20 million U.S. TV hours, per Nielsen. That benchmark usually serves as the EntStrategyGuy’s floor for a streaming hit on Netflix. None of these films enjoyed a hit-cementing single week of 20-plus million hours during their runs. Netflix’s two best films were true crime docs, Maternal Instinct (16.5 million hours) and The Crash (19.7 million), the best overall week for a film this summer. Great for most other streamers, but not necessarily what we’re used to seeing from Netflix. For an overly-dramatic comparison, Happy Gilmore 2 opened last summer to around 47 million hours (celebrity cameos, baby!). Zooming out, the picture looks even worse. In 2026, Netflix’s five biggest scripted summer films posted the lowest average (28.6 million hours) and median (28.8 million hours) eight-week viewership totals of the past four years. Now, it’s unrealistic and unfair to expect Netflix to deliver a _KPop Demon Hunters-_sized hit every year. But it’s also not ideal to see the size of their hits shrinking over the last few summers. Let’s quickly run through some of the notable summer misses. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein’s perfectly fine romcom, Office Romance, fell off the charts after 20 million hours in its first two weeks. Top films usually last for four-plus weeks. Starry titles ideally don’t decay that fast either. Homegrown star Millie Bobby Brown couldn’t prevent the snappy Enola Holmes franchise from diminishing returns. At 14.3 million U.S. hours, the third film posted roughly half of what the first two films did in their first two weeks. What’s on Netflix calculated that per-day global views were down nearly 60% from the second movie. The Whisper Man did okay with more than 36 million hours over its first four weeks. But I expected a little more juice from a film featuring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. Kevin Hart’s Ladies First collected just 11.2 million hours total across two weeks. That’s a big miss for one of Netflix’s go-to stars. Plopping into the same bucket are Sunny Sandler’s Don’t Say Good Luck (10.3 million in two weeks) and John Cena’s Little Brother (17.5 million). Meanwhile, English-language originals Color Book (June 19), In the Hand of Dante (June 24) and Heartstopper Forever (July 17) never sniffed Nielsen’s Top 10 at all, despite needing only 2 to 5 million hours to land in the top ten most weeks. (By my count, eleven English-language scripted original films released between May and August did chart). It’s only fair to mention that Swapped (1-May) posted nearly 42 million U.S. hours over five weeks (the longest Netflix original run this summer) and is currently their eighth most-watched English-language film ever worldwide. Remarkably Bright Creatures (37 million, 4 weeks) and Voicemails for Isabelle (27 million, 4 weeks) weren’t bombs either. Still, overall, I think it’s fair to say this was a quieter summer season than we’re used to seeing from the market-leader. You might not realize that given the language commonly used in public analysis. The Twist Despite the starkly black-and-white tone of the coverage, here’s the twist: when many box office bombs arrive on streaming, their viewership looks a whole lot like many of Netflix’s supposedly successful summer releases. Hmm, where have we heard that one before? Masters of the Universe topped out at $65 million stateside against a $170 million budget_._ I’ll admit, Skeletor ripping sleeveless curls as a gym bro and bodyslamming Adam’s co-workers was funny. But, much to the chagrin of my bank account, my laughter doesn’t launch franchises. Yet the He-Man reboot opened to 19.6 million hours (from a Wednesday five-day opening instead of just one weekend), on par with Hoppers on Disney+ (19.4 million). It put up nearly 47 million hours over its first six weeks, bigger than all of Netflix’s summer releases. Pretty darn healthy and likely to land among the 25 most-watched movies on streaming this year. Sticking with Amazon, The Sheep Detectives just barely broke even at the box office with $133 million worldwide (and only $66 million domestic). I never expected cloven-hooved, cud-chewing mammals to be able to bring me to tears. Yet that’s exactly how I found myself at the end of this surprisingly affecting movie (#NoShame). It was likely the unexpected quality in a family-friendly film that powered its streaming over-performance. Sheep Detectives delivered a solid run for Prime video netting 26.2 million hours! How about franchise IP? Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu had the lowest opening ($81 million) and lowest-grossing Disney-era live-action Star Wars film ($178 million domestic). One day before release, its Heat score (19.8%)—audiences who list their interest as a 7/7—fell behind blockbusters Wicked (21%), Superman (23%), Fantastic Four: First Steps (23%), Michael (23%), Toy Story 5 (26%) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (27%), according to Greenlight Analytics. The urgent enthusiasm just wasn’t there. On streaming, Mando opened to weeks of 12.1 million, 6.1 million and 2.7 million hours (21 million total) over its first three frames. Not the numbers Lucasfilm was hoping for nor the numbers of a streaming hit. But they’re in the same vicinity as some Netflix summer releases with $345 million at the global box office to offset a smidgen of the pain. Final Thoughts So why oh why does this nuance gap exist? Four key reasons: Data Literacy: A “$100 million opening” just makes sense. After decades of box office reporting, even casual movie fans are well-versed in the benchmarks of hits and home runs. There’s an immediate shorthand. But “16.5 million” hours doesn’t land nearly as cleanly. Despite leaps of progress, the streaming ratings era is still in its infancy compared to theatrical. The EntStrategyGuy and I met thanks to a late 2010s group chat of data nerds hungry to find a shred of certainty in nebulous streaming performance. I’m not surprised to see “No. 1 on Netflix” still getting misconstrued out in the wild. Timing: By Friday morning, we have the box office’s Thursday night previews totaled, allowing us to better project the weekend’s expectations. From there, ticket sales are reported daily. By Sunday, the film’s fate is usually finalized, at least in terms of public perception. In streaming, Nielsen recently improved its delay to…two weeks. The medium isn’t forced to contend with instant gratification as harshly. Financials: Theatrical film budgets are a mere Google away. Profit and loss is calculated in the cold and unforgiving naked light of day for all to see. But finding the vast majority of streaming exclusive movie budgets requires the forensic investigation skills of a Criminal Minds detective. Also, it’s very difficult to calculate how much revenue/value a straight-to-streaming films provides a streamer. This is why there are so few stories about streaming original movies “losing X amount of money”. On top of that, marketing budgets are far greater for theatrical movies than streaming exclusive movies, which leads to earlier and better awareness. This then translates to a wider pool of potential interest. Narrative Control: Netflix is the only major streaming service to publish weekly first-hand viewership data and annual engagement reports. Naturally, some headlines borrow their first-hand framing**.** Other streamers benefit from their comparative lack of transparency. They may occasionally announce vague performance platitudes such as Apple TV’s Mayday becoming its “biggest film debut on the platform to date over its first 18 days,” and that it ranked No. 1 with left-handed viewers in its first weekend. (Fine, I made up that second one). But, for the most part, they keep first-hand viewership shrouded in mystery to avoid bad press. Especially for outlets that demand multiple articles per day from their writers, it’s an easy (and understandable) way for some reporters to hit their daily article quota by just repeating what the streamers have told them. TL:DR version: Streaming-exclusive movies are asked to do different things than theatrical movies, but that doesn’t mean they should escape judgment. Both still need to draw enough eyeballs to justify their cost within the proper performance contexts. The more cleanly we can inject a little nuance into streaming analysis, the better we’ll understand the audience and content trends that drive this industry. And that’s what all of this is really about: knowing what audiences actually want! Brandon Katz is the Director of Insights & Content Strategy at Greenlight Analytics where he focuses on evaluating the ever-fluid media landscape to unearth understanding, opportunity and value. Greenlight Analytics is the entertainment intelligence consulting company redefining how Hollywood finds, understands, and activates audiences. Prior to joining Greenlight Analytics, he served as the senior entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, and as a full-time entertainment industry reporter covering the Xs and Os of Hollywood, most notably with TheWrap and the Observer.

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Oct 9 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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Trump taps conservative commentator as next White House press secretary

Katie Zacharia replaces Karoline Leavitt, who departed the White House in August after giving birth to her second child.

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Oct 9 • 3:07 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
‘Boy Meets World’ Star Reveals Unexpected Health Scare

Will Friedle was hospitalized after waking up and urinating blood. The “Boy Meets World” star later revealed that doctors found a kidney stone. He discussed the experience on his podcast while making ...

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Oct 9 • 3:06 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Deep-sea expedition around the Hawaiian Islands includes 10 local scientists, students, educators

The expedition will utilize remotely operated vehicles and seafloor mapping technologies to explore never-before-seen ridges, seamounts and abyssal plains throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago.

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Oct 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • kauainownews.com
Cook moves 18 more House races toward the left

Polling and the work of prognosticators like the Cook Political Report suggest Democrats are likely to take back the House in November.

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Oct 9 • 1:40 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Strengthens New York City's Special Pathogen Preparedness through Specialized Hands-On Training

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue today hosted around fifty health care workers from NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, and NYC

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Oct 9 • 1:32 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Testing on animals draws backlash while scientists say it's still needed

Scientists say we still need to utilize animals to advance medical research, at least for now.

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Oct 9 • 1:14 PM EDT • Science • spectrumlocalnews.com
A Republican attack ad misidentifies its Democratic target. Twice.

A GOP ad used a photo of Republican Myron Lizer instead of Democrat Jonathan Nez. Nez is challenging Rep. Eli Crane (R-Arizona).

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Oct 9 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
A baby tyrannosaur possibly cannibalized its dead relative

Or was it raptors?

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Oct 9 • 12:01 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
"That's why sometimes I realize like, this is not a …

"That's why sometimes I realize like, this is not a …

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Oct 9 • 11:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NVIDIA-Backed Upscale Wants to Make Rival AI Chips Work Together

NVIDIA GPUs dominate today’s AI data centers, but they’re no longer the only processors companies want to use. Cloud providers are developing their own AI chips, while specialized accelerators are entering the market. Getting these different processors to work together efficiently is creating a new challenge for data center operators. That’s the problem Upscale hopes […]

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Oct 9 • 11:09 AM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com
‘Boy Meets World’ Star Reveals Unexpected Health Scare

Will Friedle was hospitalized after waking up and urinating blood. The “Boy Meets World” star later revealed that doctors found a kidney stone. He discussed the experience on his podcast while making ...

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Oct 9 • 11:01 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Foscue Gives Rangers Affordable Designated Hitter Option

With Joc Pederson’s price tag rising, the Texas Rangers could pivot to Justin Foscue’s versatile bat to stabilize the lineup without breaking the offseason budget.

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Oct 9 • 10:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dr. Jeff Bird: Indiana University Health Strives to Provide Excellence in Healthcare

By Dr. Jeff Bird— MUNCIE, IN—IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital provides the primary healthcare service for most of the residents of Delaware County and acts as the tertiary care referral center for East Central Indiana. The clinical care is led by two dedicated clinical leaders: Dr. Ryan Johnston MD, the Chief Medical Officer, and Melissa Hicks, DNP, RN, the Chief Nursing Officer. Under their leadership, the quality and safety of patients hospitalized at IU Health Ball Memorial is vigorously monitored, and processes are in place to continually improve. IU Health Ball was founded in 1929 by funds primarily given by...

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Mental health, meteorology on TV, and managing it all

I realize that everyone has a different experience with mental health, but I wanted to share what my journey has been like. I will dive into what I experienced during my first panic attack, the process of getting the help I need, and some resources that are available for mental health.

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Oct 9 • 6:59 AM EDT • Health • wral.com
COVID in Mass.: Experts highlight endemic status and low severity

Emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and deaths remain at record lows.

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Oct 9 • 6:29 AM EDT • Technology • bostonglobe.com
Analysis | The politics of prediction markets

Amid concerns that political insiders might use privileged knowledge to make money, there’s a new wave of efforts to regulate the platforms.

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Oct 9 • 5:25 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Talarico vowed to back an LGBTQ rights bill. Now, his stance isn’t so clear.

The Texas Democrat pledged during the primary to sponsor the Equality Act. As he moderates in the general election, his campaign won't say if he still intends to.

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Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence Force’ wants safety without slowing innovation

The administration hopes to reap what it sees as the economic opportunities of AI while easing fears that the technology could wage cyberattacks, ax jobs and raise energy prices.

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Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Science Hill and Sullivan East capture District volleyball championships

(WJHL) — It was high school district volleyball championship night in Classes 2 and 3-A in the region. Science Hill faced Dobyns-Bennett at David Crockett High School, and Sullivan East faced Eliza…

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Oct 8 • 11:05 PM EDT • Science • wjhl.com
Vance, Rubio brush off questions about claim that Guilfoyle asked donor to pay $100K Amex bill

Allegations by former congressional candidate Eric Deters are the latest controversy to swirl around the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

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Oct 8 • 9:43 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Health Brief: Surprise billing gets a new House fight

Plus: A new path emerges for peptides

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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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Online sports betting petitions in Nebraska get another $7 million from DraftKings and FanDuel

National online sports betting apps continue to see a big opportunity with two Nebraska petitions that would legalize and regulate online sports betting in Nebraska, donating a combined $7 million in a two-month period.

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Speaker Johnson says he doesn’t know what’s next for him if GOP loses House

The remarks prompted speculation the Republican leader might retire from politics if Democrats retake the chamber.

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Oct 8 • 5:15 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
OpenAI's annualized revenue $20 billion less than previously signaled, FT reports

OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $20 billion less than has been previously signaled, the Financial Times reported ​on Thursday, citing financial documents shared with investors.

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Eide Bailly to expand with Washington accounting firm

Accounting and advisory firm Eide Bailly announced that Bellevue, Wash.-based Loveridge Hunt & Co. PLLC will join the firm, effective Oct. 19. Loveridge Hunt provides tax, accounting, audit and consulting services nationwide, specializing in the affordable housing industry. The move will give Loveridge Hunt clients access to Eide Bailly’s expanded tax, advisory and technology services.…

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Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.

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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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“Boy Meets World” star Will Friedle reveals he was recently hospitalized after waking up ‘badly peeing blood’

The 50-year-old actor was recognized by a nurse, who teased him with Eric Matthews’ famous “Feeny Call.”

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U.S. backtracked on critical mineral, data demands in health deal with Zambia

The administration signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Zambia, but only after being forced to abandon controversial data-sharing and resource-access provisions.

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Hayden Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko gets legal status to protect their daughter's inheritance

A California court has granted Wladimir Klitschko legal authority to protect his daughter Kaya’s inheritance following her mother Hayden Panettiere’s death

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Oct 8 • 3:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com
Erie County lawmakers approve small business bill, pass resolution

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County lawmakers on Thursday voted to approve the Small Business Utilization Act and passed a resolution that calls for reimbursement from New York State. County L…

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Texas Launches Expedited Online Business Filing System via SOSPortal

Governor Greg Abbott announced the launch of online Texas Express services, allowing businesses to utilize same-day and next-day filings through the Texas Secretary of State.

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Whitesides Cosponsors Motion Picture, Television, Entertainment Act

Rep. George Whitesides (CA-27) hzs announced his cosponsorship of the bipartisan, bicameral Motion Picture, Television and Entertainment Revitalization Act

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Oct 8 • 3:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • scvnews.com
Presbyterian College alumna Liz Wolverton ’96 to deliver 2026-27 Vance Lecture on Nov. 9

Learn how business ethics shape leadership with Liz Wolverton at the Vance Lecture on Nov. 9 at Presbyterian College.

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Biggest Titans Weaknesses Texans Need to Exploit in Week 5

The Texans can dominate Week 5 by pressuring the Titans’ struggling pass protection and capitalizing on costly offensive mistakes

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No new attack on Iran before the midterm elections, Trump says

The president has acknowledged sometimes using public statements about negotiations and military planning to keep adversaries off guard.

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Aging Untold: Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

On this episode of Aging Untold, we explore how family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care. Plus, find out how creating an “anti-bucket list” can help you let go of guilt, grudges and obligations as you age.

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Aging Untold: Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

On this episode of Aging Untold, we explore how family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care. Plus, find out how creating an “anti-bucket list” can help you let go of guilt, grudges and obligations as you age.

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Celebrating Excellence in Student Health: District Nurses Earn National Certification - Pine Bush Central School District

We are proud to celebrate two of our very own school nurses, Kathleen Chamberlain and Linda Loennecker, our nursing department chair, for achieving national certification through the National Board for Certification of School Nurses (NBCSN)! Achieving NBCSN certification is a major milestone in school nursing. The rigorous examination tests advanced clinical expertise, specialized knowledge, and … Continue reading "Celebrating Excellence in Student Health: District Nurses Earn National Certification"

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Blizzard Is Making WoW Forever's Controversial Skyborne Race Look Worse On Purpose, And That's A Good Thing

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F1 Singapore: George Russell Penalized for Engine Change

The Briton will start from the back of the grid after the power unit failure in Malaysia. Mercedes brings forward the engine change planned for later. The sanction will be applied on Sunday, not in the Sprint, which gives him an opportunity to score.

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US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms

The U.S. and Zambia have signed a $2.49 billion health financing deal after removing clauses on specimen-sharing and patient data

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Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

Your family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care.

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Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

Your family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care.

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Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

Your family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care.

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Knowing your family health history matters more than you may think

Your family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care.

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Bills news: Assessing Buffalo’s offense through 4 weeks

After a hot start, Josh Allen and the offense have been inconsistent while Dalton Kincaid has been neutralized.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
7 US multimillionaire donors gave $189 million to universities in 2026, far more than Africa’s 23 billionaires publicly gave to science and research

Africa’s universities and research institutions continue to operate with far less funding than those in developed economies, even as several of the continent’s richest individuals have added billions of dollars to their fortunes in 2026

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Blizzard is changing the appearance of WoW: Forever's new Skyborne race in response to community feedback

A new blog post from the World of Warcraft: Forever team confirms the models for Skyborne elves are being reworked following feedback, coming early 2027.

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Obama endorses Troy Jackson in Maine Senate race

The former president told voters he is “proud to be on board” the Democrats’ campaign to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

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Oct 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
PepsiCo beats earnings expectations, lowers guidance as it aims to stabilize North America business

PepsiCo stock pops following better than feared results.

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Most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast

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Oct 8 • 6:28 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Tennessee football could capitalize on SEC's easiest road schedule

Tennessee's SEC road opponents -have won only one of 10 conference games this season. Up next: Arkansas, which has lost 13 straight SEC games.

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Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds

Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure - Global Strategic Business Report: Capitalize on 23.3% CAGR to US$92.7 Billion by 2032 as Dell, Nutanix, Cisco, HPE, and Huawei Disrupt Enterprise IT

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Digital Forensics - Global Strategic Business Report: Capitalize on 16.4% CAGR to secure share of US$37.6B by 2032 against Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics, Nuix, and Oxygen Forensics

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Sean Sweeney Already Building Strong Culture With Orlando Magic

From Seattle workouts to intensive two-a-days, the new assistant coach is cementing player buy-in through personalized development plans and a relentless commitment to rapport-building in Orlando.

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Oct 7 • 4:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Study finds gambling disorder diagnoses rose in states with legal sports betting

A new study found that diagnosed gambling disorders increased 61% in states that have legalized sports betting, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Oct 7 • 4:43 PM EDT • Sports • 6abc.com
RWJBarnabas Health Opens Sixth Food Farmacy and First in Southern Region

On September 8, 2026, RWJBarnabas Health opened the system’s sixth Food Farmacy at Monmouth Medical Center to provide patients with nutritious foods and individualized nutrition counseling from registered dietitians to support long-term health and well-being.

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Oct 7 • 4:32 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org
Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portra...

An Arkansas campaign ad depicting a white man as a Medicaid recipient who refuses to work has sparked a conservative backlash, reviving debate over the racializ...

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Inside Microsoft's plan to boost Xbox, Battle.net on PC — "Right now, it is simply very hard to work with Xbox," said Asha Sharma, with plans to fix it

Microsoft has long identified Battle.net as a key part of its Activision-Blizzard acquisition, and at yesterday's Town Hall with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, we got more hints about the future.

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Travis Barker in hospital, reveals health update in new photos

Travis Barker is giving fans a health update, with the Blink-182 drummer sharing new photos from an apparent hospitalization.

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Oct 7 • 11:31 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
Anta Sports officially becomes largest Puma shareholder

The Chinese sports giant finalized its acquisition of a roughly 29% stake in the athletics brand for about $1.7 billion.

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Oct 7 • 11:23 AM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com
Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times?

The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift may be affecting the well-being of people in industrialized countries.

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Oct 7 • 11:05 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
All 50 States Should Legalize The 'Booming Business' Of Marijuana, Brittney Griner Says

Brittney Griner, the professional basketball player who was previously incarcerated in Russia over possession of marijuana, says it’s time for cannabis to be legalized across the U.S., citing its role as a safer alternative to painkillers that athletes are commonly prescribed. “At this point, I feel like all 50 states…just might as well” legalize marijuana, […]

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