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Iowa women's basketball lands All-SEC transfer portal guard

Iowa women's basketball picked up its first impact player out of the transfer portal, landing first-team All-SEC guard Dani Carnegie.

Apr 11 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How aggressive breast cancer turns off the immune system

Researchers are launching a new project to crack the mystery of aggressive breast cancer, where predicting disease progression remains a major hurdle. By studying how tumors interact with and suppress the immune system, scientists aim to identify new biomarkers that reveal how the cancer evolves. Using real patient samples, the team hopes to turn earlier discoveries into practical clinical tools. The goal: more precise, personalized treatments that can outsmart even the most dangerous tumors.

Apr 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Seniors: Carol Watson, 72

Owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping in LaFayette enjoys her growing business — still puts in six-, seven-day weeks By Mary Beth Roach Carol Watson, the owner of Carol Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping, has been in gardens since she could walk. Literally. She said she learned to walk in her grandfather’s garden, which was next door to her current home and business in LaFayette. Today, at 72, she is running the business that her mother, Claire, opened in 1981 as Watson Greenhouse. Watson worked part-time for her mom until 1990, when she joined her full time. While she may not have had any formal horticultural experience, she said she learned so much about growing and raising plants from her mom, who had an abundance of energy and talent. Now, after 35 years in the business full time, Watson has no plans to retire, although she joked that she’d like a couple of days off a week. On her seven-acre site, complete with four greenhouses, Watson said her favorite parts of the job are working with and educating her customers; helping some of her young customers build terrariums; conducting occasional class field trips; and supporting local art by decorating the shop with an eclectic mix of pottery from at least four area craftspeople. A one-time employee of the former Dey Bros. department store in Syracuse, Watson said she loves merchandising and enjoys displaying unique pieces of art on shelves and even suspending from ceilings. “We’re creative. We also had top quality plants. We got a reputation of quality plants and unusual products,” she said. It’s tending to her customers and her plants, showcasing the unusual products, and hosting special events to benefit the community that keep her motivated to work six to seven days a week. “I just love it. I love taking care of the plants. I’m one of the few people that really enjoys watering,” she said. And while she has cultivated a solid customer base over the years, she remains savvy in her marketing efforts to draw in new customers. For example, she does a gardening segment on CNY Central television; her active Facebook page has thousands of followers; and she hosts a number of unique events and classes that not only introduce her shop to potential new clients, but some benefit nonprofits as well. About 13 years ago, when the local symphony orchestra was struggling, she said she wanted to help. So, partnering with the group, she began offering concerts, called Soirees, featuring the Syracuse Orchestra’s string quartet. Following up on a suggestion from a customer whose brother is a deejay in retirement, specializing in sock hops, she hosted the greenhouse’s first sock hop. Plants got moved back toward the walls to make room for dancing; a caterer was brought in, offering diner-like food; guests came in period outfits; and proceeds went to the Food Bank of CNY. She is excited about doing it again in October. Via her website, she promotes the greenhouse as an “oasis in the snow,” offering visitors the opportunity to pick up some decorating and gift ideas while taking in the floral and citrus scents. And she also caters to her four-legged friends. Over this past winter, she said, she came up with a “brilliant idea,” although at the time she didn’t appreciate just how brilliant it would become. Feeling it too cold outside to take her dog for a walk, she opted to bring it into the greenhouse. And before long, she was inviting people to bring their dogs into the big greenhouse as well. She looks forward to extending that invitation again this upcoming winter season. For Watson and her customers, the greenhouse is always in season.

Apr 11 • 4:39 PM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Patriots host potential backup quarterback on pre-draft visit

Jalon Daniels projects as a late-round pick or rookie free agent in this year’s NFL Draft.

Apr 11 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net

Early weight gain is linked to lifelong health consequences

Putting on weight earlier in life may be more dangerous than previously thought. Researchers found that early adulthood obesity significantly raises the risk of premature death, especially from major diseases like heart disease and diabetes. The longer the body carries excess weight, the greater the damage appears to be. Interestingly, cancer risk in women didn’t follow this pattern, suggesting other biological factors are at play.

Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Early weight gain is linked to lifelong health consequences

Putting on weight earlier in life may be more dangerous than previously thought. Researchers found that early adulthood obesity significantly raises the risk of premature death, especially from major diseases like heart disease and diabetes. The longer the body carries excess weight, the greater the damage appears to be. Interestingly, cancer risk in women didn’t follow this pattern, suggesting other biological factors are at play.

Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • sciencedaily.com

Watch Oregon quarterback Dante Moore talk importance of mental health

Apr 11 • 7:01 AM EDT • Health • registerguard.com

Women in science: Sheridan College performs play on life of female astronomer

In honor of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Sheridan College theater will perform the 2024 Stella Feehily play “The Lightest Element,” highlighting various moments in the scientist’s life

Apr 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thesheridanpress.com

In praise of popular science

As a kid, I was enthusiastically and unreservedly in favor of a manned space program. Our destiny lay in the stars, I figured. Get people out there. We need Star Trek here and now. As I got older, I became rather disenchanted with the idea. Humans are expensive, fragile, and inefficient as space cargo. We could flood the solar system with 100 robotic probes for the price of any single manned mission and get back just as useful data. Besides, it turns out space travel is dangerous. Tusk is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe When it came to the recent Artemis II mission, my cynical side didn’t really see the point. Flying around the Moon and back is literally something we did before I was born, and I once owned a Members Only jacket. Apollo 8 circled the Moon ten times and returned to Earth safely the same month that “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was released. What was the point of repeating a feat that far braver people once did with tin foil and slide rules? Yet I’ve surprised myself with how moving I’ve found the Artemis II mission to be. The photos have been stunning. The crew has been professional and engaging. There have been modest but important milestones — the farthest humans have travelled from Earth; the first woman, person of color, and non-American to leave low-Earth orbit; innovations in communication, and more. One thing that really stood out is that this is really NASA at its finest. Not that this is the most important mission they ever pulled off, but they did this in a competent way that celebrated the achievements and kept the crew and the science at the forefront of the project. This wasn’t some billionaire throwing celebrities or cars into orbit as a vanity project — this was a collective effort to send experts in to do a job and come home safely. We don’t see that sort of thing much these days. I’m guessing few people would describe many government agencies as inspiring, but this one counts for me. We’re living through a profoundly anti-science era, in which pathbreaking, lifesaving discoveries like mRNA vaccines are routinely downplayed or even vilified. As I’ve noted previously, this era is something like that of the Red Scare in the 1940s and 50s, in which “egghead” professors were portrayed as out of touch or even hostile to regular Americans. One of the things that helped break that spell was Sputnik — the Soviet communications satellite that demonstrated that the United States was falling behind in crucial scientific research and applications. Its launch triggered a new appreciation for American science and goaded the federal government into supporting research universities and labs. I’m not saying that Artemis is the equivalent of Sputnik, but it potentially reminds people that there’s some value to scientific endeavors and the human faces attached to them. Despite my love for the show “For All Mankind,” I’m far from convinced that there’s any real value to putting colonies on the Moon or Mars that would justify the capital investment and the massive health risks to the astronauts. But sending scientific good will ambassadors on a trip into space once in a while? Bring it. Share

Apr 10 • 9:54 PM EDT • Science • smotus.substack.com

“Who's the Boss?” star reveals he's delivering for Amazon: 'There's no shame in staying in motion'

Danny Pintauro portrayed Jonathan Bower on the ABC sitcom that aired between 1984 and 1992.

Apr 10 • 8:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • aol.com

'Who's the Boss?' star reveals he's delivering for Amazon: 'There's no shame in staying in motion'

'Who's the Boss' star Danny Pintaturo reveals that he's delivering for Amazon because the entertainment business has been so slow.

Apr 10 • 8:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Could treble hero Dante return to Bayern Munich as coach?

Pep Guardiola's favorite player might return soon.

Apr 10 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mamdani cleans up trash in the Bronx on his 100th day

Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked 100 days in office on Friday by cleaning up part of Soundview in the Bronx.

Apr 10 • 6:35 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com

Jodi Daniel Quoted by KFF Health News and CNN on Healthcare Privacy Concerns

Wilson Sonsini partner Jodi Daniel was recently quoted in a KFF Health News article, which was also featured by CNN. The piece, titled "Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical…

Apr 10 • 5:31 PM EDT • Health • wsgr.com

How OpenAI's reported ad plans could change the AI business model

OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is reportedly projecting $100 billion in advertising revenue by 2030. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley explains how this could shift the artificial intelligence (AI) business model.

Apr 10 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Mamdani hits 100 days as mayor of New York City

As Mamdani, a Democrat, marks an early milestone in his mayoralty, it remains to be seen whether he’ll be able to leverage his fame into achieving the progressive policy proposals that propelled him to office.

Apr 10 • 3:31 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

A New Case Exposed the Clever Workaround the FBI Uses to Read 'Secure' Messages on iPhones

Law enforcement used Apple's push notifications database to gather messages sent through Signal, and convict defendants for terrorism activities.

Apr 10 • 2:58 PM EDT • Technology • inc.com

Police say employee 'severely injured' in disturbance at Danville business

Apr 10 • 2:11 PM EDT • Business • wthr.com

Police: Employee seriously injured in fight at Danville business

DANVILLE, Ind. — Danville police responded to a fight at a business Friday that left an employee with “significant” head injuries. Officers with the Danville Metropolitan Police D…

Apr 10 • 1:08 PM EDT • Business • fox59.com

Gov. Laura Kelly signs bills altering defendant competency process, child health care program

Gov. Laura Kelly announces the signing of more than 50 bills approved by the 2026 Kansas Legislature.

Apr 10 • 12:31 PM EDT • Health • kansasreflector.com

Potholes and progress: Mamdani reflects on 100 days as New York’s mayor

Apr 10 • 11:36 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

David Spade calls on California leaders to change course, save entertainment industry

David Spade, Dana Carvey, and Tim Dillon spoke about how the entertainment industry in LA has been in crisis for years, to the point people and projects are fleeing to other states. (Fly on the Wall podcast, April 8, 2026)

Apr 10 • 10:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com

Science with Stevie: Spring Allergies

Meteorologist Stevie Daniels gives us some tips on how to manage the pesky seasonal spring allergies in this Science with Stevie segment!

Apr 10 • 6:05 AM EDT • Science • wmar2news.com

Media Mention: Sam Franck Profiled in Greater Wilmington Business Journal

Real estate attorney Sam Franck is the subject of a feature profile in the April 2026 issue of the Greater Wilmington Business Journal. The article, “Atto

Apr 10 • 4:30 AM EDT • Business • wardandsmith.com

'Let's not underestimate the achievement' - Dallas on Leeds' season

Former Leeds United cult hero and promotion winner Stuart Dallas says the Whites have "more than enough" to avoid relegation this season and he is "confident" they will do so. Daniel Farke's side beat West Ham last weekend to reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1987 and are four points outside the Premier League relegation zone with seven games to play. "Let's not underestimate the achievement of the club getting to a semi-final of the FA Cup and still being in a strong position to stay up," he told BBC Radio Leeds as he opened a new padel court in the city.

Apr 10 • 3:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mamdani balances governing with delivering on affordability agenda

“I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during his inauguration.

Apr 9 • 6:57 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com

Masters 2026: Rory McIlroy winning a green jacket has only made him more dangerous at Augusta National

McIlroy started slow on the first nine, but confidence allowed him to 'keep swinging' his way to the top of the Round 1 leaderboard

Apr 9 • 5:47 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Weekend entertainment guide: Comedy, music and spring festivals

Enjoy a variety of events this weekend, including stand-up comedy, dance parties and a spring festival

Apr 9 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdbj7.com

How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages From a Defendant's iPhone

The FBI was able to pull Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone—even though that user had deleted the app. Here's how they did it.

Apr 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • lifehacker.com

Zohran Mamdani on his first 100 days

Apr 9 • 2:04 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

The IX Sports Podcast: Aerin Frankel vs Ann-Reneé Desbiens

Host Maya Smith and guest Geremy discuss the record-breaking attendance at MSG and the battle for Goaltender of the Year.

Apr 9 • 1:16 PM EDT • Sports • theixsports.com

Comedians Roast Trump’s Delusional Belief That He’s Healthy

David Spade, Dana Carvey, and Tim Dillon questioned Trump’s energy despite his “purple legs and purple hands.”

Apr 9 • 1:06 PM EDT • Health • thedailybeast.com

‘A clear and present danger to the country": Democratic Congresswoman on calls for Pres. Trump to be removed from office

Apr 9 • 12:46 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

A deal or a mirage? Trump’s Iran ceasefire collides with chaos on the ground

Less than three hours before President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline for Iran to make a deal or face his apocalyptic warning of death and destruction, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, the country’s top two military officials, were summoned to the White House.

Apr 9 • 10:31 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

What will bring visitors back to the Science Museum of Minnesota?

The Science Museum of Minnesota is drawing half the number of visitors it did compared to before the COVID 19 pandemic. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about how the museum is responding to the plunge in attendance and revenue.

Apr 9 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • mprnews.org

ArtsGala to showcase Wright State students’ artistic growth with elegant entertainment extravaganza

Wright State ArtsGala returns Saturday, April 11, in the Creative Arts Center, offering an evening of performances, fine dining and a silent auction to support student scholarships in theatre, dance, music, motion pictures and visual art. Continue reading →

Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • webapp2.wright.edu

Stifel cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on guidance miss

Stifel cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on guidance miss

Apr 9 • 8:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • investing.com

Arlington Supports Businesses Ahead of World Cup 2026™

In the latest episode of “Arlington Welcomes the World,” City experts shared key guidance on permits, planning and business readiness ahead of the tournament.

Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • arlingtontx.gov

How Colorado Prioritizes Public Health Data Modernization

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently spoke to Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE’s) state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy and COVID-19 surveillance program manager Alicia Cronquist, MPH, about how updates to the state’s public health data reporting policies will help the agency’s efforts to protect Coloradans from communicable diseases, such as flu, salmonella, measles, and HIV.

Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • pew.org

Entertainment briefs | Trio performs with Fortuna Concert Series

The Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre at Cal Poly Humboldt will present “Contemporary Music for Percussion” performed by the Cal Poly Humboldt Percussion Ensemble and “Samba of Bahia” performed by the World Percussion Group.

Apr 9 • 6:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • times-standard.com

Former NFL quarterback bullish on Commanders in 2026

One former NFL quarterback loves the Commanders' offseason moves and what they mean for Jayden Daniels.

Apr 9 • 6:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Judges keep knocking down weak DC gun cases brought by Jeanine Pirro’s office

The Trump White House touted its surge of National Guard members to Washington, DC, last summer as the way to put more dangerous perpetrators in the nation’s capital behind bars. But in nearly a dozen criminal cases since the surge began, people who were found to be carrying weapons and charged in federal court have walked free.

Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Morning Sports: April 9, 2026

University of Wyoming Spring Football Practice: Today marks the halfway point for spring practices for the University of Wyoming Football Team. The Brown and Gold will hold the first of 2 scrimmages this coming Saturday, to see how far the team has progressed. UW Head Coach Jay Sawvel says the Pokes’ defense has had some […]

Apr 9 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • sheridanmedia.com

The danger of when government goes rogue

It’s dangerous, even fatal, when government goes rogue whether in a democracy or autocracy. Government officials who ignore or taunt laws that constrain bad acts should be given the heave ho. We’re witnessing these egregious scenarios now at the federal and the Douglas County level. Scorn of basic rules of governance at the federal level […]

Apr 9 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Pose-based embodied interaction for digital Dunhuang dance heritage

npj Heritage Science - Pose-based embodied interaction for digital Dunhuang dance heritage

Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com

The war is on hold. But the economy is still in danger.

The best-case scenario for the Iran crisis is still pretty bad.

Apr 8 • 5:20 PM EDT • Politics • vox.com

Giants agree to one-year deal with OL Daniel Faalele

Apr 8 • 1:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Yorkers Mostly Like What They See From Mamdani So Far

Residents gave Mamdani high marks on his leadership, but his approval rating is lower than Eric Adams’s was around the same period.

Apr 8 • 11:06 AM EDT • Politics • nymag.com

Mamdani earns positive marks at 100-day milestone, Marist poll finds

A majority say the city is headed in the right direction.

Apr 8 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • ny1.com

Update, safeguard Colorado’s mail ballot with voter ID

By Chuck Broerman and Suzanne Taheri Coloradans often refer to our state as a leader for accessible and secure elections. We have led on all-mail ballots, automatic voter registration, and same-day registration, turning Colorado into a model for modern elections while also increasing turnout and lowering costs. But leadership also means staying ahead of the […]

Apr 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Democrats lost in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old district. They still had one of their best election nights in recent memory

At this point, it’s not really news that Democrats are doing very well in special elections and other races held since the 2024 presidential contest. Their recent track record is abundantly clear. But even by their recent standards, Tuesday was a very good night – one of their best of the Trump era, in fact.

Apr 7 • 11:48 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Mayor Mamdani appoints 'mom and pop czar' to reduce red tape for NYC small business owners

Delia Awusi was hired to reduce the runaround mom and pop small businesses often face in dealing with permits, inspections and fines.

Apr 7 • 11:20 PM EDT • Business • abc7ny.com

Antibacterial products may contribute to dangerous superbug crisis, study suggests

Antibacterial soaps and cleaning wipes may contribute to antimicrobial resistance, a new study suggests, with experts recommending plain soap and water instead.

Apr 7 • 10:43 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

Moment of Science: New research finds corona discharges glowing on treetops during storms

A missing piece of storm science has now been found! Dan Smith shows how the tops of trees can "glow with the show" as clouds rage overhead. 🌩️🌲

Apr 7 • 8:27 PM EDT • Science • 13abc.com

Viewpoint: FP10 should remain open, excellent and secure

Europe is right to worry about research security. Foreign interference is real. So is the misuse of sensitive knowledge. Universities working in sensitive areas such as AI, quantum, semiconductors and advanced materials cannot afford to ignore the geopolitical environment around them.But Europe is in danger of drawing the wrong conclusion, one that would increase, not reduce, its strategic vulnerabilities.If the EU applies an “EU preference” logic to the next Framework Programme for research and innovation (FP10), it will weaken one of its greatest strategic assets: a research system built on openness, excellence and international collaboration. In the name of security, Europe could end up advancing science more slowly, innovating less effectively and making itself less attractive to global talent and partners in advanced science and technology.That would be a serious mistake.The EU preference included in Article 10 of the proposed European Competitiveness Fund may make sense in some industrial or deployment contexts, but is far harder to justify when applied to collaborative research in advanced science and technology, where excellence and global connectivity are crucial. Research is not procurement. It does not thrive when isolated. It advances through access to the best ideas, the best people, the best facilities and the best data, wherever they are found. This is why FP10 should not simply absorb industrial policy logic by default. Doing so would risk importing instruments that are ill-suited to research and that ultimately increase vulnerability rather than resilience.For universities of science and technology, the issue is especially acute. These institutions sit at the frontier of knowledge and technology creation in the very fields Europe sees as critical for its future competitiveness and resilience. They know better than most that security risks are real. But they also know that openness and security are not opposites. In practice, they have to be made to work together. Research security is not about closing doors. It is about building resilience through collective responsibility, trust, proportionate safeguards and better governance. That is a fundamentally different approach from default restriction.The risks of non-collaborationThe real danger in the current debate is that Europe talks too much about the risks of collaboration and not enough about the risks of non-collaboration. Those risks are strategic too. Cut researchers off from international networks and Europe loses access to knowledge, data, infrastructures and talent. Slow down global collaboration in critical technologies and Europe slows down its own progress on cutting-edge science. Make participation rules unpredictable and Europe weakens its attractiveness to researchers and investors alike.In other words, over-restricting collaboration will create strategic vulnerabilities, particularly in advanced science and technologies.This point is often underestimated in policy discussions that frame openness mainly as a value to be defended. Europe’s scientific strength, technological development and long-term competitiveness depend on remaining connected to the best research ecosystems in the world. For a continent that wants to accelerate deep tech, strengthen industrial capacity and reduce strategic dependencies, weakening the excellence base would be self-defeating. That does not mean ignoring risk. Quite the opposite. Universities are already strengthening due diligence, internal governance, awareness-raising, screening procedures and compliance support. Across Europe, institutions are working to manage risks linked to foreign interference, sanctions, export controls and the misuse of research. The right response is not complacency. It is better risk management. But that means targeted, evidence-based and proportionate measures, not blunt top-down restrictions with wide spillover effects. In the daily reality of universities, openness and restriction often coexist. The real challenge is how to apply safeguards without sliding into securitisation that damages academic freedom, open science and international cooperation. Restrict partners, not nationsMore restrictive treatment of collaborators from European Economic Area members Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, or from Switzerland and the UK, is strategically very difficult to justify. These are deeply embedded partners in Europe’s research and innovation ecosystem. Beyond that, Europe should still resist default exclusion and instead rely on case-by-case assessment. The relevant question is not nationality in the abstract. It is the actual risk profile of a collaboration: the institution, the affiliations, the field, the knowledge involved, the intended use and the safeguards available. Screening should focus on institutions and affiliations rather than nationality alone. Related articlesParliament ‘misreads’ link between Horizon Europe and ECF, Commission official saysFrustration grows at governance gap in next Horizon EuropeIf EU preference logic is imported into research without careful calibration, the likely result is a chilling effect. Researchers may step back from legitimate and beneficial collaboration, even where risks are manageable. International partners may see Europe as less predictable. And Europe may end up undermining the very excellence base it needs to compete, scale up and lead in strategic technologies, thereby increasing its dependence on others.FP10 should do the opposite. It should remain open by default, with restrictions used only exceptionally, and then on the basis of clear evidence. It should integrate research security into open science and research integrity frameworks, not set them against each other. And it should recognise that academic freedom, scientific excellence and responsible international collaboration are not obstacles to Europe’s security, they are part of it. Europe needs stronger tools to protect itself. But it also needs the discipline to avoid measures that would weaken it and increase its strategic vulnerabilities in the process. In FP10, that means staying open, excellent and secure.Louise Drogoul is senior advisor for innovation and sustainability at the Cesaer university association.

Apr 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net

Unexplained shoulder pain could signal dangerous health condition, doctor warns

While shoulder pain is often the result of rotator cuff problems, injuries, arthritis, nerve problems, or other orthopedic and muscular issues, it can also signal a dangerous health condition.

Apr 7 • 7:38 PM EDT • Health • ktvu.com

St. Bede teacher selected for international science program

St. Bede Academy science teacher Dan Fitzpatrick has been selected to attend a prestigious international science program this August at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Apr 7 • 7:00 PM EDT • Science • shawlocal.com

Billionaire Bill Ackman Thinks This Entertainment Giant Is "Dramatically Underperforming." Here's His $64 Billion Plan to Fix It This Year

This is the latest move by the hedge fund manager to be the modern-day Warren Buffett.

Apr 7 • 6:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • fool.com

De'Von Achane not in attendance for Dolphins' voluntary workouts

Apr 7 • 3:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Apr 7 • 1:18 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

City’s BLM-era mental health push puts cops in danger after sword-wielding suspect stabs officer: police

Boston's mental health-first crisis response model faces scrutiny after police say a man emerged with a sword and stabbed an officer on Saturday.

Apr 7 • 12:56 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

2026 Masters field: Ranking the invited players from 1-91 at Augusta National

Why are neither Scottie Scheffler nor Rory McIlroy sitting at No. 1? Is this the year for Justin Rose or Tommy Fleetwood? Will Jordan Spieth have a resurgence?

Apr 7 • 11:36 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

The Danger of a Political Pentagon

Sen. King issues a grave warning about converting the military "into an armed force with greater loyalty to the President than to the Constitution."

Apr 7 • 10:59 AM EDT • Politics • time.com

NEW: Phil Weiser Unveils ‘Healthy Colorado Plan’ to Lower Costs, Deliver Better Health Care for All Coloradans | Phil Weiser for Colorado

Three-part plan launches ‘Primary Care for All’ to transform Colorado’s "sick care" system into a true "health care" system.

Apr 7 • 10:45 AM EDT • Health • philforcolorado.com

Morning Sports: April 7, 2026

Breck Reed Of Sheridan HS To Play Football At Montana State University: A Sheridan Bronc football player will go from winning a state championship, to a team that recently won a national championship. Breck Reed has signed a written offer of athletic aid to play football at Montana State University. He missed part of his […]

Apr 7 • 10:31 AM EDT • Sports • sheridanmedia.com

Daniel Stallworth makes 'American Idol' Top 11. See what 90s song he sang

Mississippi's Daniel Stallworth is in 'American Idol's' Top 11. Learn about his '90s week performance and how to vote this season.

Apr 7 • 10:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • clarionledger.com

Hayes receives 2026 ESMO Breast Cancer Award

Daniel F. Hayes, M.D., was selected by the European Society for Medical Oncology, ESMO, for the 2026 ESMO Breast Cancer Award.

Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • uofmhealth.org

Freestone Grove's growth spurt sees assets jump past $6 billion

Freestone Grove, a hedge fund launched by Citadel veterans Todd Barker and Daniel Morillo, has expanded assets and headcount since launching in 2024.

Apr 7 • 5:47 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

When I get abused just for dancing, it shows how far hatred of politicians has gone

Concern over MPs’ competence is one thing, but this is silencing opponents’ voices by character assassination, says Labour MP Stella Creasy

Apr 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

‘Neighbors’ finds entertainment in the mundane

For fans of reality TV, a new series has entered the world of streaming services. “Neighbors,” an American television series, was released on Feb. 13. Directed by Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, “Neighbors” aims to bring out the world’s craziness by showcasing real-life conflicts over mundane topics between various neighbors and neighborhoods. At the moment,...

Apr 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • northernstar.info

Let Colorado’s communities govern their own neighborhoods

By Jeff Bailey and Cindy Bailey Coloradans have always done things their own way. From how we manage our land to how we build our economies, the instinct to govern locally — to trust mayors, councils and commissioners over distant bureaucracies — is not a partisan position. It is a point of pride. When a […]

Apr 7 • 2:30 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

New metric says 'true cost' of NYC is unaffordable for most

A new way to measure the economic well-being of New Yorkers shows millions fall short.

Apr 6 • 8:55 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com

Belpre Area Business Exchange returns for a third year

The public is invited to attend the third annual Belpre Area Business Exchange from 4:30-6:30 p.m. April 29 at the Parkersburg Art Center at 725 Market St. Hosted by the Belpre Area Chamber of Commerce, the event welcomes the public to meet with the various sponsors and organizations in attendance. Refreshments will be served. According […]

Apr 6 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • newsandsentinel.com

China Star Entertainment (SEHK:326) Valuation After Full Year Results Confirm Widened Losses

Full year results and confirmed pressure on earnings China Star Entertainment (SEHK:326) released full year 2025 results that confirmed earlier guidance, with sales of HK$404.92 million and a net loss of HK$443.76 million, compared with HK$351.93 million a year earlier. See our latest analysis for China Star Entertainment. Despite the widening loss, investor sentiment has been strong, with a 47.58% 1 month share price return and very large 1 year total shareholder return, suggesting recent...

Apr 6 • 3:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Do Not Install These Apps

Check your smartphone now — these apps are dangerous and should be deleted.

Apr 6 • 1:54 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

State election officials wonder if massive federal voter database will be used to sow doubts about midterm elections

Apr 6 • 1:47 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Student’s life experiences inform political science, media studies scholarship

Emily Danczyk, fourth-year Penn State student double-majoring in political science and media studies with a minor in legal studies, was recently named a diversity fellow for the American Political Science Association.

Apr 6 • 1:10 PM EDT • Science • psu.edu

Student’s life experiences inform political science, media studies scholarship

Emily Danczyk, fourth-year Penn State student double-majoring in political science and media studies with a minor in legal studies, was recently named a diversity fellow for the American Political Science Association.

Apr 6 • 1:10 PM EDT • Politics • psu.edu

NYC's top economic agency still leaderless under Mamdani. Business leaders are worried.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is approaching 100 days in office. He still hasn't found someone to run the city's Economic Development Corporation.

Apr 6 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • gothamist.com

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warns of business 'exodus' from NYC as Mamdani, lefty pols push for tax hikes

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a thinly veiled warning to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, saying crushing taxes and red tape are already sparking a “large exodus” of...

Apr 6 • 9:59 AM EDT • Business • nypost.com

Disparities persist in infant mortality rates despites overall improvements in Mecklenburg County

Mecklenburg County sees improvements in infant mortality rates, yet health disparities endanger Black infants.

Apr 6 • 8:17 AM EDT • Health • wral.com

Top 10 cornerback projected to Oregon Ducks

Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks are working to add on to their 2027 recruiting class, and they are now the favorites for cornerback Ai'King Hall.

Apr 6 • 8:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The Alarming Consequences of Legal Sports Gambling

In his first book, "Everybody Loses," journalist Danny Funt ’15JRN explores the astronomical rise of a high-risk vice.

Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • magazine.columbia.edu

Increased ACA premiums driving some patients to direct primary care

Rising ACA premiums are causing concerns for community health centers while driving some Coloradans into the arms of direct primary care providers.

Apr 6 • 7:01 AM EDT • Health • coloradoan.com

Berrien County health officials warn of increasing tick activity as temperatures warm

As spring gets underway, southwest Michigan officials want to remind residents of the dangers of ticks.Ticks become active when temperatures are around 40 degre

Apr 6 • 6:08 AM EDT • Health • wwmt.com

FCC eyes changes to live sports broadcast rules amid fan frustration

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is opening the door to a rewrite of its rules for local blackout restrictions on live sports, a move that could be the first step in a potential shakeup …

Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • thehill.com

14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" Will Continue to be "Abundantly Available," Says Intel

Intel will continue to ensure production of its 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" desktop processors, 700-series motherboard chipset, and ensure continued availability of the Socket LGA1700 platform. In an interview with Club386, Intel's VP and GM of client segment technical marketing, Robert Hall...

Apr 6 • 5:33 AM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

How the US-Iran conflict impacts political opinion

Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Danielle Pletka discuss the political perception of the U.S.-Iran conflict on 'One Nation.'

Apr 6 • 5:12 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com