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MHSAA girls basketball: Free Press 2026 All-East teams

Here are the Free Press selections for the All-East metro teams for the 2025-26 high school girls basketball season.

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Apr 6 • 5:06 AM EDT • Sports • freep.com
How simple choices boost health after 50

A mostly plant-based diet with healthy proteins and fats can help you thrive as you age.

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Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • ajc.com
A global consensus establishes a basis for measuring and improving gut health

While “gut health” is becoming a popular term, mainly in media and marketing claims but also in the clinical context, researchers have not yet nailed down a definition. Now, a global group of 13 scientists and clinicians updates a consensus definition of gut health and implications from bench to bedside.

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Apr 6 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com
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Dollhouse maker for Taylor Swift and 'The Gilded Age' finds new home in Fall River

Flip This Dollhouse founder Nathaniel Ellis built miniatures for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and Hollywood. Now, he and his collection are settling into a new home of their own.

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Apr 6 • 2:00 AM EDT • Technology • bostonglobe.com
India's Wipro rises after deal to acquire Olam Group’s IT business

Shares of Wipro rose as much as 3.2% on Monday after the Indian IT ​services firm agreed to buy the IT services business ‌of Singapore-based Olam Group for an enterprise value of $375 million.

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Apr 6 • 12:23 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 6, 2026: West Mifflin, Elizabeth Forward to meet in softball

All is quiet on the day after Easter in district baseball as the section series for this week will run Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Apr 6 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • tribhssn.triblive.com
Cenla Diamond Sports Contenders with Spencer Verret

The Louisiana High School Softball and Baseball State Championships and many Cenla teams are in the mix for a Title.

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Apr 5 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • kalb.com
Fayette County Annual Report Highlights Local Public Health Efforts

Article presented by McDonald’s, I’m Lovin’ It! … Fayette County Public Health (FCPH) has released its 2025 Annual Report, showcasing the department’s work to protect health, prevent disease, and promote wellness across the community. The report highlights the impact of public health services delivered throughout the year, including clinical care, environmental health, school-based services, emergency preparedness, and community outreach initiatives. In

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Apr 5 • 10:19 PM EDT • Health • littermedia.com
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Connecticut bars getting business boost from UConn basketball tournament runs

The UConn men’s basketball team run to the national championship is also bringing a lot of customers to local bars across Connecticut for watch parties. “We had the audio running and everything and as soon as the final buzzer hit, everyone was going crazy. We had a nice little UConn chant going at the end,” Yash Ramchandani, whose family owns…

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Apr 5 • 8:41 PM EDT • Business • nbcconnecticut.com
Bruising Bruins dominate South Carolina, win an NCAA national title

UCLA coach Clori Close built on lessons learned from John Wooden and steered the Bruins to a lopsided win over South Carolina to clinch a national title.

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Apr 5 • 7:59 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Marlins' Pete Fairbanks makes 3rd career start before paternity leave

Fairbanks threw 27 pitches in his lone inning, allowing three hits, including a three-run home run by Yankees first baseman Ben Rice that gave New York a 3-1 lead.

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Apr 5 • 7:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Nebraska baseball improves to 11-1 in Big Ten play, sweeps Penn State

Nebraska continued to surge on Easter Sunday, winning the third game of its series against Penn State and earning its third Big Ten sweep of the season.

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Apr 5 • 7:13 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
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Women’s basketball way-too-early 2026-27 power rankings, topped by USC

With JuJu Watkins back and set to team up with Jazzy Davidson and Saniyah Hall, USC tops the way-too-early women's college basketball power rankings.

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Apr 5 • 7:12 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
UCLA beats South Carolina for 1st NCAA women's basketball title

Gabriela Jaquez and UCLA handily defeated South Carolina for its first women's basketball national championship under the governance of NCAA.

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Apr 5 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • arizonasports.com
Who won MOP of NCAA Women's Tournament? UCLA's Lauren Betts wins award

UCLA women's basketball center Lauren Betts was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Women's NCAA Tournament on Sunday after the Bruins beat South Carolina.

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Apr 5 • 5:58 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Boozer recovering physically, emotionally from UConn loss

The Duke forward said Sunday that he suffered a “couple of fractures” during the Blue Devils' loss last week to UConn.

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Apr 5 • 4:18 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Everything to know of 2026 Men's NCAA Tournament championship game

Only one more game remains before March Madness crowns its next basketball champion. Here's what you need to know about the men's title game:

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Apr 5 • 4:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nampa City Council greenlights alcohol sales at two businesses

This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. At its March 30 meeting, Nampa City Council approved sales for each business, though the types of alcohol each can serve differs based on city rules...

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Apr 5 • 3:52 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Bridging Political Divides: How faith can help find common ground

About 80% of American adults believe our political divides run so deep that we cannot even agree on basic facts, according to the Pew Research Center. But some Utah leaders say faith is helping them to find the common ground needed to bridge those political divides and find a new path forward.

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Apr 5 • 3:00 PM EDT • Politics • kslnewsradio.com
🚨 Thuram, Soulé, Bastoni... confirmed XIs for Inter v Roma

Serie A Easter Sunday concludes with one of the two big matches of Matchday 31.Chivu’s Inter, in search of a win that has slipped away from them over the last 3 rounds to put their doubts behind the...

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Apr 5 • 1:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vivo X300 Ultra vs Sony Alpha A7 full-frame camera: Who wins?

200MP photos from what is currently probably the best camera flagship phone on the market go up against 24MP shots from a Sony Alpha A7 III setup with a Sony 24-70 lens. Which one comes out ahead in which areas can be judged by anyone based on the available original images.

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Apr 5 • 1:12 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

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Apr 5 • 1:01 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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College Notes: Athletes with Upper Valley ties compete in winter sports

Discover the achievements of Upper Valley residents in collegiate varsity sports this winter, from basketball to skiing.

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Apr 5 • 12:54 PM EDT • Sports • vnews.com
South Carolina vs. UCLA live updates: Where to watch March Madness women’s NCAA championship, time, channel

Get live updates from the NCAA women’s basketball championship as South Carolina and UCLA meet in the tournament finale. Follow the latest March Madness coverage.

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Apr 5 • 12:39 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Mesa-based Copa Health files lawsuit against former CEO

Mesa-based Copa Health Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing former CEO Sharareh Najafi-Piper of misusing the nonprofit's resources and funds.

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Apr 5 • 10:32 AM EDT • Health • ktar.com
Casual Is Out: State Department Adds First-Ever Business Formal Dress Code

The State Department added business formal dress code guidance to its policy manual for the first time, setting attire standards for diplomats and staff in official settings.

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Apr 5 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • dallasexpress.com
'Little belief remaining for Slot's side at present'

A year ago today, Liverpool fans were still basking in the glow of a Merseyside derby win that took them to the brink of the Premier League title. Nobody that day would have believed that less than 12 months on, a fanbase so united behind its team and its manager would be, at best, apathetic as to whether Arne Slot remains in the job. Saturday's harrowing 4-0 defeat at Manchester City in the FA Cup quarter-finals was just the latest in an ever-growing list of dismal days for Liverpool and their supporters in a season most cannot wait to see the back of.

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Apr 5 • 7:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Auto industry trade group urges feds to scrap gas tax and replace it with a vehicle weight fee

Alliance for Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella proposed replacing the federal gas tax with a weight-based vehicle fee for road infrastructure spending.

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Apr 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Wisconsin basketball adds SEC opponent to 2026-27 schedule

The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team wasted no time scheduling an SEC opponent for the 2026-27 season.

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Apr 5 • 6:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump is trying to build a massive voter database. Election officials are afraid of what he’ll do with it

The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against alleged voter fraud, taking new steps toward building a national citizen database and ramping up its hunt for suspected noncitizen voters — all under the banner of “election integrity.”

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Apr 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
From representation to results: Women coaches define NCAA championship matchup

The two teams playing in the women's basketball national championship will once again be coached by two women, a trend in recent seasons.

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Apr 5 • 5:57 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Iran Executes Two Over Political Protests

Iran executed two men linked to recent anti-regime protests, according to a government statement. Authorities in the country have carried out death sentences for at least 13 political prisoners since the war’s start, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based group that mo

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Apr 5 • 5:14 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Michigan is a monster with little use for UConn’s pursuit of history

Michigan dominated Arizona in what was expected to be a showdown between the two best teams in college basketball this season.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
A Grip on Sports: A Hall of Fame weekend has unfolded in Spokane, though neither NCAA men's semifinal games reached that level

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Where were we? Oh, yes. Celebrating an incredible spring weekend with the thought basketball rocks. And “Roundball Rocks” as the soundtrack.

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Apr 5 • 4:24 AM EDT • Sports • spokesman.com
Donald Trump: trouble in the heartlands

The president’s absence from the annual Conservative conference has caused dissent amongst Maga support base

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Apr 5 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
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Hiryu no Ken Collection announced for PC

NihonGame has announced Hiryu no Ken Collection, a collection of four early games from the Hiryu no Ken series. It includes Hiryu no Ken, Hiryu no Ken II: Dragon no Tsubasa, Hiryu no Ken III: Gonin…

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Apr 4 • 9:40 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
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4 Takeaways From the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four

From UConn's status as a modern-day dynasty to Michigan looking like a team of destiny, here are four takeaways from the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four.

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Apr 4 • 9:11 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Students, fans pack Ann Arbor bars to watch Michigan in Final Four

Fans on University of Michigan's campus spent Saturday evening anticipating the Final Four men's basketball game against Arizona.

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Apr 4 • 8:49 PM EDT • Sports • freep.com
Truckloads of food are being wasted because computers won’t approve them

Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold, or even released, meaning that if systems go down, food can effectively become unusable—even when it’s physically available.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Chinese Scientists Bioengineering Plants With Firefly Genes to Glow, in Effort to Light Cities at Night

Night lighting may be due for a plant-based glow-up.

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Apr 4 • 7:30 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Claire Calahan (8) runs to first base

Claire Calahan (8) runs to first base at Mizzou softball’s game against LSU on Saturday, April 4, 2026, at Mizzou Softball Stadium in Columbia. Mizzou scored 1-0, winning one out

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Apr 4 • 7:10 PM EDT • Sports • columbiamissourian.com
Saturday Sports: Lacrosse, baseball, and more from around the North Country

Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.

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Apr 4 • 6:19 PM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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The FT’s AI optimism rests on shaky science

Last weekend, the Financial Times published an article about the broader social impacts of AI. Studying, managing, and mitigating the negative impacts of the technological transition is supremely important, and doing so requires both the electorate and policymakers to be informed by good, impartial science. Unfortunately, for anyone with even basic training in social science [...]Read More...

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Apr 4 • 4:04 PM EDT • Science • unherd.com
Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and 1996 US Olympic women's basketball team set for Hall of Fame enshrinement

The 2026 Hall of Fame class also includes Amar’e Stoudemire, Mike D’Antoni, Joey Crawford, Doc Rivers and Mark Few.

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Apr 4 • 3:16 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Doc Rivers, Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Amar'e Stoudemire, Mark Few among 9-member Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026
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Apr 4 • 1:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Letters to Sports: Dodgers off to a roller-coaster start

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on the Dodgers, MVP candidates, UCLA basketball and more.

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Apr 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Gabe Lazo to be UCF head coach instead of assistant under Kim Mulkey

Gabe Lazo will be the next coach of the women's basketball team at UCF. The former Tennessee assistant had initially agreed to work for Kim Mulkey.

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Apr 4 • 12:42 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
2026 College Basketball Crown Semifinals Live Updates, Scores: OU-Baylor, More

Here are the highlights from the semifinal round of the 2026 College Basketball Crown on FOX!

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Apr 4 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Apr 4 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Apr 4 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Judge halts requirement that colleges show race isn't considered in admissions

The states argue the data collection effort threats student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities

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Apr 4 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Quincy sports bars gear up for big rush during Illinois basketball’s historic postseason run

For the first time since 2005, the University of Illinois men’s basketball team is still playing in April.

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De La Salle, Sacred Heart girls selected to LSWA all-state teams

De La Salle freshman Ya’Myri Brown and Sacred Heart senior Leah Varisco earned spots on the Class 3A all-state girls basketball team for the second year in a row, as

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Apr 4 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com
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Apple CarPlay Just Got Three Popular iPhone Apps

Apple's CarPlay system for accessing iPhone apps on a vehicle's dashboard screen received three popular apps this week: ChatGPT, Google Meet, and Audiomack. CarPlay Ultra in an Aston Martin In addition, WhatsApp is beta testing a revamped CarPlay app that will improve upon the basic Siri-based functionality that was previously available. Make sure you have the latest version of each app and they will automatically appear on CarPlay.

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Apr 4 • 9:22 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Another Eden Begins launches September 17

Time-traveling, turn-based RPG Another Eden Begins will launch for Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam on September 17, publisher WFS and developer Studio Prisma announced.

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Apr 4 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
These women had their breasts removed to thwart cancer. Then came the pain.

Post-mastectomy pain syndrome, or PMPS, is estimated to afflict tens of thousands of U.S. women each year. It is not well understood.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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2026 Fantasy Baseball Team Names Featuring Shohei Ohtani and More

Shohei Ohtani headlines some of the best baseball players to take a swing on

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Baseball can be a home run for good brain health

Play ball, seniors. The spring sport, which officially ramps up in Toledo on Tuesday with the Mud Hens’ home opener, can stimulate the brain and create ...

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • toledoblade.com
The Future of Brain Health Is Architecture

We’ve long recognized the importance of buildings in meeting a basic human need: shelter. Now, research shows how buildings can improve our overall brain health.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • psychologytoday.com
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions

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Apr 4 • 7:36 AM EDT • Technology • phoronix.com
Cleveland High baseball team surging with nine-game winning streak

Joshua Pearlstein has been leading the way for the Cavaliers with his hitting and pitching.

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Apr 4 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Why Can’t Politics Be More Like March Madness?

In sports we accept the rules and the outcome. Democracy depends on the same spirit.

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Apr 4 • 6:14 AM EDT • Politics • thefulcrum.us
Arizona Final Four appearances: Wildcats' deepest March Madness runs

How many Final Four appearances does Arizona men's basketball have? Here's a look at the Wildcats' March Madness history:

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Apr 4 • 6:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The night Geno Auriemma snapped — and Dawn Staley showed the game has changed

A power dynamic shift is happening at the top of women's basketball. And Auriemma knows it.

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Apr 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Frescoes, bird-feeding lawsuit, judicial politics. Our top stories

Other popular reads: URI introduces new women's basketball coach; and Newport Creamery sold to Cape Cod developer.

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Apr 4 • 5:05 AM EDT • Politics • providencejournal.com
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How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Experts Weigh In

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.

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Apr 4 • 5:01 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Mastery of sex offender registry attracts major investment in Mandeville small business

Mandeville-based Watch Systems makes OffenderWatch and other software solutions to track the sex offender registry and help law enforcement agencies ensure compliance with evolving state laws.

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Apr 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Women's March Madness games today: Schedule, times, how to watch for April 4

Here's the full NCAA women's basketball schedule, for April 4, including game times, TV channels, scores and how to stream.

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Apr 4 • 4:25 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Roma tracking Alajbegovic and Arribas ahead of summer

Roma are also looking to the future, with just eight games remaining before the end of the season. If, as seems likely, Paulo Dybala will say goodbye after four years, the Giallorossi have already ide...

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Apr 4 • 3:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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LinkedIn Hidden Code Secretly Searches Your Browser for Installed Extensions

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, hidden JavaScript silently scans your computer for installed software without your knowledge, without your consent, and without a single word in LinkedIn's privacy policy.

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Apr 4 • 12:15 AM EDT • Technology • cybersecuritynews.com
Arkansas baseball rallies to even series at Auburn

The Razorbacks got a great pitching performance from Hunter Dietz and Ethan McElvain, and two big swings from Ryder Helfrick.

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Apr 3 • 10:34 PM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com
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Geno Auriemma rants about South Carolina fouls: 'Been beating the (expletive) out of our guys'

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma ranted about fouling disparity between his team and South Carolina in their Final Four game. What he said

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Apr 3 • 8:49 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
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Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector database and RAG pipeline.

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Apr 3 • 7:30 PM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com
Cory Mills meets with Syrian President in Damascus

Ahmed Al-Sharaa , a former Al-Qaeda fighter, came to power after overthrowing Bashar Assad.

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Apr 3 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran

The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.

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Apr 3 • 4:17 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Samsung releases the 2026 The Frame Pro and 3 OLED TVs (and one is basically an OLED The Frame)

Samsung's version of an OLED art TV is here. Meanwhile, the LG G6 Wallpaper doesn't even have a release date yet.

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Apr 3 • 3:47 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Basketball members honored with CUSA post-season accolades

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Missouri State University had multiple players honored in Conference USA’s postseason accolades, with one player named to the first team, two players

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Apr 3 • 3:39 PM EDT • Sports • the-standard.org
Duke freshman forward Cameron Boozer named AP men's national player of the year

Boozer received 59 of 61 votes from AP Top 25 voters in results released Friday.

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Apr 3 • 3:15 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Former U.S. ambassador speaks about Iran at UMaine

Nicholas Burns, who served as ambassador to China, NATO and Greece, shared his thoughts on the Trump presidency, U.S. relations with China and the war in Iran: “When you conduct a war, the whole reputation and future of the country is on the line."

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Apr 3 • 1:52 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
We the People: Truman Library scores with new sports exhibit

The highlights include Lamar Hunt’s ticket to the first game at Arrowhead Stadium, a football signed by Len Dawson and a baseball bat gifted to President Ronald Reagan after the Royals won the 1985 World Series.

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Apr 3 • 1:34 PM EDT • Sports • kctv5.com
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Former Big 12 foes Baylor, Oklahoma clash in Crown semifinals

Former Big 12 rivals Oklahoma and Baylor will square off in the College Basketball Crown semifinals on Saturday in Las Vegas.

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Apr 3 • 1:28 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Here's how United's new 'basic business class' will work

United's new premium fare structure is meant to make business class cheaper by unbundling things you may not need, like lounge access or seat choice.

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Apr 3 • 1:21 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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