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Small businesses face tough choices as health insurance costs rise

Some businesses are exploring choice arrangements, which allow employers to set a defined benefit amount rather than selecting one carrier and set of plans for all employees.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • wtkr.com
What happened in Juventus' last victory against Cagliari?

The Men's First Team are back in Serie A action this weekend with a Matchday 6 trip to face Cagliari in Sardinia.Luciano Spalletti's side come into the match having won the previous Serie A match agai...

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Oct 8 • 4:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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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Oct 8 • 4:22 AM EDT • Science • douglevin.substack.com
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5 steps for CEOs to improve mental health in the workplace

As we mark World Mental Day, a CEO toolkit outlines five actions that C-suite leaders can take to improve workplace mental health, for the benefit of all.

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Oct 8 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • weforum.org
China has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head

China has nominated health ​official Song Li ‌as a candidate to lead the World ​Health Organization, China's ​Foreign Ministry said on ⁠Thursday, confirming ​a Reuters exclusive that said ​Song was put forward to succeed the incumbent ​director general, ​Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Oct 8 • 3:29 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Firefox and AEG partner at Berlin’s premier entertainment venues

Firefox is teaming up with AEG and taking to the main stage at Berlin’s biggest and best indoor arenas. Starting this October, as the indoor music scene

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • blog.mozilla.org
A $3.5M hangar is underway at StanCraft Jet Center

Construction of a new $3.5 million hangar is underway at the StanCraft Jet Center, a full-service fixed base operator at the Coeur d’Alene Airport.

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • spokanejournal.com
Raising the Bar offers spirited history lessons

Once a month, at Hogwash Whiskey Den in downtown Spokane, historian Renée Cebula takes a roomful of students through centuries of American and global history that trace the wars, immigration, tariffs, and changing tastes that have helped determine what ingredients end up in her students’ glasses.

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • spokanejournal.com
Mali’s AI Propaganda War: The Fake Fighter With a Real Audience

Bamako-based TikTok account built up more than 436,000 followers with AI-generated material praising the army and the Africa Corps.

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Oct 8 • 2:47 AM EDT • Politics • politicstoday.org
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BBC Sport weekly quiz: What was odd about Lionel Messi's Argentina debut?

How much attention have you paid to what has happened in the world of sport over the past seven days?

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Oct 8 • 2:18 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
A Business and Regulatory Navigator to Accelerate Electrification

Demand for electrification is moving faster than the system it connects to. Electric vehicles, heat pumps and electrified industrial processes are scaling1, and the the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) Presidency has set a global target of 35% of final energy demand met by electricity by 2035, up from around 21% today.2 What now

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Oct 8 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • wbcsd.org
GA-ASI Recognizes Three Small Business Suppliers for Quality Performance

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has launched a new annual Supplier Quality Recognition program intended to recognize small businesses...

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Oct 8 • 1:36 AM EDT • Business • unmannedsystemstechnology.com
Trump tries to clarify Iran remarks about Los Angeles and San Diego
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Oct 8 • 1:34 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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The 2026 science Nobels went to decades-old discoveries

Optogenetics, IceCube and the Soai reaction all waited two to four decades for the call from Stockholm

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Oct 8 • 1:31 AM EDT • Science • openthemagazine.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
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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‘Canada is not our enemy’: Michigan’s GOP senate nominee breaks with Trump on tariffs
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Oct 7 • 11:47 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Chicago Bulls Defeat Phoenix Suns, 121-117, in Preseason Opener

Rookies Caleb Wilson, Dailyn Swain and Tobe Awaka each had their moments in the Bulls' first preseason victory.

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Oct 7 • 11:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.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
TikTok accused by NY of running secret safety tests on teens

New York Attorney General Letitia James has added new allegations to a child safety lawsuit against TikTok Inc., accusing the platform of running secret experiments on teen users. The new

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Oct 7 • 10:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
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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OPINION: Flippo's follies are making Nevada politics interesting again

OPINION: Flippo’s follies are making Nevada politics interesting again. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

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Oct 7 • 10:00 PM EDT • Politics • thenevadaindependent.com
Wednesday's Connecticut high school sports roundup: Comp Sci boys soccer beats International

A look at the Connecticut high school sports scene for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.

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Oct 7 • 9:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump repeatedly interrupted by protesters during Texas rally
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Oct 7 • 8:58 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Nearly 10 months at sea. Families now count the hours until USS Lincoln docks

Sailors went months without setting foot in a port after the carrier got called to the Middle East to fight the war in Iran

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Oct 7 • 8:56 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Dolly Parton's nephew accused of using 'no trespassing' sign, barbed wire to deter process server

Dolly Parton’s estate is alleging that Bryan Seaver, the singer’s nephew and former head of security, is avoiding being served in a lawsuit, which alleges he threatened and extorted her estate.

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Oct 7 • 8:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Trump interrupted by protesters as he fights to rally Texas voters behind Paxton

This was Trump's third trip to Texas in less than a month as the GOP tries to stave off a blue wave.

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Oct 7 • 8:30 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Tribal-owner business launches beer for a good cause

Thurston County tribal-owner business Talking Cedar is launching a seasonal beer with a goal of bringing awareness to missing and murdered indigenous women.

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Oct 7 • 8:23 PM EDT • Business • fox13seattle.com
Andrew Scott's AIDS drama 'Elsinore' kicks off London Film Festival

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Actor Andrew Scott says the biographical drama "Elsinore", which opened the 2026 London Film Festival on Wednesday, is an ode to living

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Oct 7 • 8:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
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Should Diseases Be Renamed When Science Advances?

Changes in scientific understanding are prompting renewed scrutiny of disease names and their effects on how patients, clinicians, and researchers view conditions.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • medscape.com
Young Bridgeport scientists learn by doing

BRIDGEPORT – Bridgeport Middle School’s eighth graders at John Martin’s Engineering and Science Technology class are learning the ropes as young scientists and engineers. They have completed their latest project, a wave machine where pendulums swing in a precisely calculated pattern. His classroom and lab is in the Bridge, the new multipurpose facility which opened […]

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • timesleaderonline.com
Cat-powered 'Therapod' visits Westwood, sharing mental health benefits of felines

In between classes, third-year sociology student Veronica Rodriguez spent her Tuesday afternoon petting a Maine Coon cat inside a carpet-lined box. Purina, a pet care company, held the Cat Chow Cats As Therapy Project event at Wilson Plaza on Tuesday and Broxton Plaza on Wednesday to highlight the mental health benefits of cats.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • dailybruin.com
After October 7: new faces, changing maps

Al Majalla examines this changed landscape—from Israel's domestic political scene to its external ambitions, where it occupies large swathes of new territory in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • en.majalla.com
New Mexico Department of Health renews syphilis testing order

The order’s main goal is to curb the state’s high rate of congenital syphilis, which is passed from mother to baby during pregnancy.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • santafenewmexican.com
Far western, eastern N.C. issues overshadowed by campaign ads

From Helene recovery to ferry tolls, Tim Boyum tackles some very local issues impacting North Carolinians in the far western and eastern part of the state.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone

Google today said it is making its SynthID Detector available to everyone for identifying content created using AI. SynthID Detector first rolled out to members of the media last year, and it is now available worldwide in English. SynthID Detector is a website that lets users upload a photo, video, or audio file to determine whether it has a SynthID watermark that identifies it as AI-generated.

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Oct 7 • 7:42 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Predicting the Detroit Tigers Outfield for Next Season

The story of the Detroit Tigers outfield in 2026 was much akin to Jekyll and Hyde. While the team benefited from a stellar but abbreviated rookie season from Max Clark, as well as another All-Star campaign from Riley Greene, injuries and inconsistency plagued the outfield spots. Parker Meadows and Wenceel Perez missed large parts of …

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Oct 7 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rising gas prices could influence some North Carolinians before Election Day

AAA reports the statewide average for regular gas was about $4.12 per gallon Wednesday

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Oct 7 • 7:37 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Four Ohio college basketball teams play Outdoor exhibition

CareSource Invitational event University of Dayton head coach Anthony Grant started four years ago after his daughter died by suicide.

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Oct 7 • 7:34 PM EDT • Health • spectrumnews1.com
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House Democrats hold 'shadow hearing' on election security in Queens

With fewer than four weeks until Election Day, House Democrats say the stakes are far greater than political power.

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Oct 7 • 7:27 PM EDT • Politics • nystateofpolitics.com
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House Democrats hold 'shadow hearing' on election security in Queens

With fewer than four weeks until Election Day, House Democrats say the stakes are far greater than political power.

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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
Packers tight end Kraft struggling with drops as he comes back from torn ACL

Green Bay’s Tucker Kraft said this summer he believed he was playing as well as any tight end in the NFL before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament last season.

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Oct 7 • 7:10 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumnews1.com
Push to increase access in N.Y. to mental health treatments

The announcement is in the wake of President Donald Trump’s April 2026 executive order accelerating medical treatments for serious mental illness.

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Oct 7 • 7:06 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.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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Attorney general candidates set to clash on Spectrum News

Attorney General Letitia James will face off against her Republican opponent, Saritha Komatireddy, on Thursday night.

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Trump to give Musk top US science medal

Tech bosses Sergei Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su will also receive the National Medal of Science.

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Packers defense gets ready to take on Bears

The Green Bay Packers renew their rivalry with the Bears Sunday at Lambeau Field. By necessity, the Packers defense will have a different look.

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Denton City Council proposes policy to disclose conversations with developers

Denton Mayor Pro Tem Nicholas Stevens said the proposal is intended to build public trust in local government.

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Novant Health reduces retirement match amid cost pressures

Novant Health announced changes to its retirement benefits Tuesday that will take effect starting next year.

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GOP lawyer seeks dissatisfied Dems in liberal House district

A Republican corporate lawyer is running in one of the most liberal House districts in the country to prevent a coronation of the Democratic nominee

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DNA From a Human Brain Gene Has Turned Up In a Virus

A surprising leap across genomes.

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Texas' 35th district tests GOP redistricting, Hispanic voters

The new boundaries encompass more Republican and rural communities, including southeast San Antonio and Wilson, Guadalupe and Karnes counties.

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NY-21 Democratic candidate Blake Gendebien talks debates, rural healthcare

Sonia Ossorio spoke about the issue.

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Vermont’s ‘slopaganda’ problem

After a successful challenge of Vermont's AI political media law, computer-generated election satire continues to make waves.

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Florida man in Maine to finish 12,000-mile walk for mental health awareness

A Florida man who has walked across America to raise mental health awareness has arrived in Maine to finish his journey.

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Space activities and a brewing science night coming to Spark Science Center

The Spark Science Center is celebrating World Space Week with two hands-on programs, and a week later it will launch a new adult-only series with a look at the science of brewing.

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California to recognize Jewish as ethnicity on state forms

The choice of Jewish as an ethnicity will begin appearing on state forms in 2029.

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Emery Theater earns awards for historic preservation

The Emery Theater earned five awards after its recent renovations, which transformed the landmark into a permanent home for The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati.

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Oct 7 • 5:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
Colonie Police raise concerns over mental health crisis response and aftercare

The Colonie Police Department responded to a domestic incident on Tattersall Lane Wednesday morning. It all happened after a woman called police claiming that her partner was committing acts of sel…

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Defense Secretary Hegseth addresses crew of USS Lincoln before deployment ends

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Lancaster General Health serves Amish families with special outreach programs

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health meets regularly with Amish bishops to help provide culturally-appropriate care to the Amish community.

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DeMeco Ryans takes over defensive play-calling for the 0-4 Texans

Ryans announced Wednesday that he’d take over calling plays from defensive coordinator Matt Burke.

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Oct 7 • 5:15 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
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

Boost IT ROI with HCI: consolidate compute, storage and networking, automate operations, scale by adding nodes, and optimize hybrid-cloud and edge workloads.Dub

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General Dynamics names next CEO, as Novakovic becomes exec chairman

Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics' longtime CEO, will transition to executive chairman on Jan. 1, 2027, as President Danny Deep becomes the Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor's next leader, the Reston-based company announced Wednesday.

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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

Prioritize advanced forensic tools, cloud and IoT capabilities, and compliance services to capture demand fueled by cybercrime and digital evidence adoption.Dub

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On the front lines: How rural clinics are confronting measles challenge

There were 108 reported cases of measles in the state as of Oct. 3, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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Oct 7 • 5:09 PM EDT • Health • spectrumlocalnews.com
Vet Hope spotlights mental health awareness with poop bag campaign

The Veterinary Hope Foundation is asking pet owners to "Give a Crap" about their veterinarians in a creative way: through picking up poop.

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WATCH LIVE: Shapiro, Garrity to engage in Pa. governor\'s debate

The two major-party candidates for governor of Pennsylvania will meet in Harrisburg tonight for the only scheduled debate in this year's general election.

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State police launch skill game compliance info webpage

PSP has opened a new webpage to help business owners better understand compliance requirements for the removal of skill game machines. Starting Oct. 14, business owners may be subject to criminal charges for maintaining the machines.

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National political trends may outweigh Ohio Republicans' redistricting advantage

Despite a new congressional map that favors Republicans in 12 out of Ohio’s 15 districts, national trends may have more impact on individual races than the GOP’s map advantage.

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Oct 7 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Thieves break into Mountain Feed and Nursery in Coarsegold, steal business checks

A second-generation, family-owned business in Madera County is warning the public not to accept its checks after a break-in that left its office ransacked.Mount

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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
Android’s physical navigation buttons are back on Googlebooks, but not the way you think

An oldie but a goodie — and kind of a necessity-die.

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Oct 7 • 4:44 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Wisconsin voters will consider 'equality amendment' on Election Day

The constitutional amendment is one of three that will be on ballots across the state in November.

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Oct 7 • 4:41 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light

Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.

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Oct 7 • 4:40 PM EDT • Science • wired.com
FCC considers allowing more political robocalls before midterms, including those created with AI

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices. Current federal law bans most robocalls to cellphones without prior consent.

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Oct 7 • 4:33 PM EDT • Politics • journalgazette.net
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
Anthony Joseph Confirms Celtic Behind-the-Scenes News

There is a behind-the-scenes update on Celtic amid all the speculation around Martin O'Neill's future at the club.

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Oct 7 • 4:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Citadel now has guaranteed admissions agreement with Mass General Brigham University of Health Professions

Students from The Citadel now have clear access to competitive graduate and doctoral programs at Mass General Brigham University of Health Professions.

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Oct 7 • 4:18 PM EDT • Health • today.citadel.edu
FCC considers allowing more political robocalls before midterms, including those created with AI

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices.

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Exclusive: Nicolás Maduro and his wife expected to face new charges over alleged torture of Americans

Prosecutors in New York are expected to bring new charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over the alleged torture of Americans who were held in Venezuelan government custody in recent years, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.

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Oct 7 • 4:05 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Science on Target: Q3 Research We Conduct

The Target ALS Global Natural History Study (GNHS) is entering a new phase of discovery. As the only international, longitudinal study generating deeply characterized clinical, genomic, and biofluid data to accelerate ALS biomarker discovery and therapeutic development, the GNHS is now beginning to deliver large scale datasets and resources needed to support new insights into […]

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Science on Target: Q3 Research We Fund

$2.4 million Invested in Biomarker Innovation ALS is a heterogeneous disease with distinct subpopulations of cases clustering together based on common underlying biology and with distinct differences in the clinical time course and manifestation of disease. Biomarkers are therefore critical for enabling precision medicine to deliver the right therapy to the right individual at the […]

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Joe Manganiello opens up about near-fatal autoimmune disease battle

Joe Manganiello opened up about his health struggles, including a harrowing battle with autoimmune disease, in a new interview with People magazine.

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Oct 7 • 3:45 PM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
Health officials watching for measles cases; currently none in Monroe County

So far, there have been just over 100 cases across upstate New York, with health officials saying all of those were among unvaccinated people.

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Oct 7 • 3:23 PM EDT • Health • spectrumlocalnews.com
RWJBarnabas Health and Local Elected Officials Partner for Food Distribution Event

In September at the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center in Essex County Branch Brook Park, RWJBarnabas Health and Clara Maass Medical Center joined Senator Teresa Ruiz, Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin, Assemblywoman Shanique Speight, Assemblywoman Carmen Morales and Assemblyman Michael Venezia to distribute 180 boxes filled with healthy produce, eggs, bread and more to community members.

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Oct 7 • 3:17 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org
Scientists discover the genetic secrets that may have helped Jonathan the tortoise live to 194 years old

DNA samples from Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise reveal gene variants and epigenetic changes that could contribute to his remarkable lifespan.

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Oct 7 • 3:05 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
The Culinary Director at a Unique California Restaurant Reveals the Key Ingredients Behind Its ‘Needle-in-a-Haystack’ Business Model

Deborah Mullin oversees a complex operation at Little Saint, the plant-based restaurant in Healdsburg, California.

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Microsoft debuts Nvidia-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, as it aims for AI market

Microsoft debuted its Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia's RTX chip on Wednesday.

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Oct 7 • 2:56 PM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
$150M in Federal Funds for Beluga-Healy Electrical Intertie

The US Department of Energy awarded $150 million in defense readiness funds for an electrical intertie between Beluga and Healy.

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Oct 7 • 2:51 PM EDT • Business • akbizmag.com
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SGMC Health Encourages Early Detection During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, SGMC Health is encouraging women across South Georgia to prioritize their breast health through annual mammograms, educational resources, survivor stories, and community events focused on awareness and early detection.

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Oct 7 • 2:48 PM EDT • Health • sgmc.org
Novant Health reduces retirement match amid cost pressures

Novant Health announced changes to its retirement benefits Tuesday that will take effect starting next year.

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Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.

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Oct 7 • 2:24 PM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com
OPINION: An oligarchy is slowly taking over American politics

The United States was founded on what people call, “the American Dream.” Well, that dream is becoming harder and harder to obtain for the average American, but some seem to be unaffected. To begin, it may be helpful to define oligarchy in this context. Oligarchy, for the sake of this article, will be defined as...

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Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced.

Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity.

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Oct 7 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Jonathan the tortoise is 194 years old and thriving. His genes help explain why.

Jonathan is the world’s oldest land animal.

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Oct 7 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Patrick Mahomes reaches out to Fernando Mendoza after defeat

Andrew Leyden/Shutterstock.com Patrick Mahomes backs Mendoza’s path Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes backed the Las Vegas Raiders’ approach with rookie Fernando Mendoza after Kansas City’s 30 to 27 victory in Las Vegas on October 4, 2026, dropping the Raiders to 3 and 1. Mahomes said Mendoza can benefit from learning behind veteran Kirk Cousins,…

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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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