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California Democrats Rushed to Back Eric Swalwell — and Quickly Abandoned Him

Representative Eric Swalwell, a Washington figure, was largely unknown in the California State Capitol. But influential groups began backing him for governor in the weeks before he was publicly accused of sexual assault.

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Apr 12 • 1:28 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
This Week in Missouri Politics - April 12, 2026

Scott Faughn is joined by Chuck Hatfield and Marc Ellinger. On the panel, Jake Kroesen is joined by State Rep. David Casteel.

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Apr 12 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • themissouritimes.com
Masters 2026: Sergio Garcia gets warning after going nuclear on tee box, breaking driver and ending up carrying Jon Rahm's bag

Sergio Garcia was given a warning just two holes after he erupted on Sunday morning.

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Apr 12 • 11:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Will Aaron Rodgers' potential retirement dash Steelers' 2026 plans?

The Pittsburgh Steelers may be in for a long 2026 season if Aaron Rodgers chooses to retire, leaving the team with Will Howard and Mason Rudolph.

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Apr 12 • 11:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Opinion: The rural health program isn't so transformational

Rural health care systems have been in crisis for decades, a situation that will become more dire when steep cuts to Medicaid kick in next year.

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Apr 12 • 6:30 AM EDT • Health • expressnews.com
Steelers 7-round mock draft: Could Pittsburgh land Garrett Nussmeier?
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Apr 12 • 6:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying

A new estimate puts the cost of dealing with robocalls, hidden fees and customer service chatbots that can’t solve most problems at $165 billion.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Peloton’s Latest Leader Thinks He Can Coach It Back to Health

The fitness company has fallen to a small fraction of its value at its pandemic peak, but Peter Stern says Peloton is headed in the right direction.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Peloton’s Latest Leader Thinks He Can Coach It Back to Health

The fitness company has fallen to a small fraction of its value at its pandemic peak, but Peter Stern says Peloton is headed in the right direction.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
What Now? Vance Leaves Iran Talks Without a Deal.

The lack of a breakthrough after 21 hours of negotiations leaves the Trump administration facing several unpalatable options.

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Apr 12 • 12:09 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame announces Class of 2026

Luzerne County’s arts community will welcome a new group of honorees this fall as the Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame unveils its Class of 2026.The inductees

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Apr 12 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox56.com
Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed

On his way to Florida, President Trump said it did not matter to him if a deal with Iran was reached or not: “We win, regardless,” he said.

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Apr 11 • 11:44 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
2026 Masters tee times, pairings: Complete schedule, groups, field for Round 4 on Sunday at Augusta National

The quest to win the first major championship of 2026 continues on Saturday at Augusta National Golf Club with Rory McIlroy well out in front

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2026 Masters final round tee times, how to watch: Can Rory McIlroy win a second straight green jacket at Augusta National?
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Assessing Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Valuation After A Steep Year To Date Share Price Slide

Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) has been drawing attention after a steep share price slide in the past 3 months, with the stock down about 53% year to date at a recent price of US$102.38. See our latest analysis for Flutter Entertainment. The recent 90 day share price return of 52.45% and 1 year total shareholder return of 55.83% both sit sharply in negative territory, suggesting momentum has been fading rather than building despite earlier gains in recent years. If this kind of reset has...

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Apr 11 • 6:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
High school sports results for Saturday, April 11, 2026

SATURDAY’S RESULTS Baseball NON-SECTION Albert Gallatin 4, Steel Valley 0 Toronto, Ohio 20, Carrick 0 Softball WPIAL CLASS 5A Section 2 Kiski Area...

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Takeaways From the First Big Gathering of Potential 2028 Democratic Candidates

The National Action Network convention showcased similarities and some differences in a wide open field of possible contenders.

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Apr 11 • 3:50 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Americans wait overnight for access to free healthcare as costs soar ‘out of reach’

Some Americans are sleeping in their cars for days to receive free healthcare from Remote Area Medical's volunteer pop-up clinics across the country. CEO Chris Hall shares details.

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Apr 11 • 3:23 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
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Newly discovered fossil challenges idea of ape origins in east Africa

The remains, discovered in 2023 and 2024, are incomplete, and made up of only a few jawbone fragments and worn teeth.

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Apr 11 • 3:01 PM EDT • Science • jpost.com
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Postal Service, Under Pressure, Now Faces Trump’s Mail Ballot Order

President Trump’s executive order, which has been challenged as unconstitutional, would limit the Postal Service to sending only the ballots of voters deemed eligible.

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Apr 11 • 2:40 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Salah, Ngumoha ease Liverpool crisis with Fulham win

Liverpool's rising star and departing legend combined to ease the pressure on Arne Slot as goals from teenager Rio Ngumoha and Mohamed Salah beat Fulham 2-0, snapping the Reds' three-game losing streak on Saturday.Salah failed to get on the pitch at all during Liverpool's chastening 2-0 Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.

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Apr 11 • 2:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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U.S. Moves to Deport Son of Prominent Figure in Iranian Revolution

Federal agents arrested a man whose mother served as a spokeswoman for the Islamist embassy captors during the hostage crisis that began in 1979.

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Apr 11 • 1:56 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Steelers trade proposal sends Nick Herbig to NFC powerhouse

Could the Steelers send Herbig out of Pittsburgh?

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Apr 11 • 12:17 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.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Paul Renner fundraising falls off, with roughly $800k raised to kick off 2026, as burn rate escalates

The conservative is at the crossroads as big donors steer clear.

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Apr 11 • 9:46 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
How Kodak is trying to turn around its business after teetering on bankruptcy

Photography company Eastman Kodak has seen its fair share of financial struggles, but CEO Jim Continenza is determined to fuel its success.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Sisters teen keeping drivers awake with caffeine lollipop business

A Sisters teen teamed up with a Portland businessman to run a caffeine lollipop business, with the goal of ensuring people don’t fall asleep at the wheel. Kale Gardner, the […]

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • bendbulletin.com
This Week in Science: Artemis II Returns, a Chimp 'Civil War', And More!

Our weekly science news roundup.

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Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Texas House committee slaps Democrats with nearly $422K in penalties for 2025 quorum break

The Committee on House Administration voted along party lines to fine 50-plus Democratic members more than $8,000 apiece for fleeing the state to try to block a GOP-led congressional redistricting plan.

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Apr 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
As Election Looms, Will Alito Retire, Giving Trump a New Supreme Court Pick?

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the subject of intense speculation about whether he will retire in the coming months and give President Trump a fourth nominee.

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Apr 11 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Barcelona face major setback in race for teenage midfield sensation

According to SPORT, Barcelona are closely monitoring Kennet Eichhorn, a highly-rated 16-year-old currently developing at Hertha Berlin. The youngster has emerged as one of the most promising midfield...

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Apr 11 • 3:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
From You, Me & Tuscany to Euphoria: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page star in a slinky new romcom, while the dissolute teens of the US drama are back in their 20s

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Apr 11 • 1:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theguardian.com
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Fallout of War Piles Economic Pain Onto Europe’s Political Stress

Europe is finding itself on the outs with Russia, China and the U.S., in what’s amounting to its very own “Mean Girls” moment.

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Apr 11 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Historic live-donor transplant at University Health saves 7 lives

Fourteen people made history at University Health this year, undergoing surgeries that saved seven lives.

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Apr 10 • 10:25 PM EDT • Health • ksat.com
Historic live-donor transplant at University Health saves 7 lives

Fourteen transplant donors and recipients meet for the first time at University Health.

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Democrats denounce Trump’s plan to use foreign steel in White House ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 10:04 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.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

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Temple volunteers prepared local rec centers for spring, summer sports

Students, staff and faculty removed trash and debris from the Dendy and Martin Luther King Recreation Centers in an event organized through the Owls for Philly program.

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Apr 10 • 8:23 PM EDT • Sports • temple-news.com
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World Leaders Push to Save Iran Talks Amid Israel’s Attacks in Lebanon

President Trump’s cease-fire with Iran appears at risk as Vice President JD Vance heads to Pakistan for discussions with Iranian officials.

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Masters 2026 3rd round tee times, how to watch: Can Rory McIlroy hold his historic lead at Augusta National on Moving Day?

Rory McIlroy holds a six-shot lead entering the weekend at Augusta National.

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Apr 10 • 7:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Delaware County election board member's voter status, candidacy revoked

Delaware County elections board voted 2-1 to cancel Melanie Leneghan's voter registration and candidacy for an Ohio GOP State Central Committee seat.

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Local business owner weighs in as Louisiana blocks state minimum wage bill

For the latest session in a years-long debate, the Louisiana House Labor Committee has voted to kill a bill that would have established a $12 state minimum wage.

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Apr 10 • 7:05 PM EDT • Business • katc.com
Iran Unable to Find Mines in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says

The lost mines have prevented Iran from quickly complying with President Trump’s demand to allow more ships to pass through the waterway.

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Trump Moves Top Aide James Blair to Political Operation Ahead of Midterms

Mr. Blair will “lead the charge from the outside,” the president said on social media. The move comes as Republicans are bracing for a potentially difficult November election.

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Apr 10 • 6:07 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Trump Moves Top Aide James Blair to Political Operation Ahead of Midterm

Mr. Blair will “lead the charge from the outside,” the president said on social media. The move comes as Republicans are bracing for a potentially difficult November election.

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Apr 10 • 6:07 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Possible Democratic 2028 Candidates Are Already Fighting for Black Voters’ Support

Possible presidential candidates are already courting a crucial Democratic constituency.

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Thomas S. Langner, Who Linked Social Ills to Mental Illness, Dies at 102

He helped lead what became known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, which showed that mental impairment is highly correlated with low socioeconomic status.

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Apr 10 • 5:30 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine panel rules may help sidestep court order, experts say

Kennedy signed a new charter for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, adding more focus on vaccine injuries.

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Apr 10 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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The cast of 'Juno': See the stars of the 2007 Oscar winner, then and now

‘Juno’ put teen pregnancy in the spotlight and made a splash at the Academy Awards in 2007. Find out what the cast is doing now.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
What’s at stake as Michigan voters weigh constitutional convention question

Conservatives could try to repeal the state constitution's guarantee of the right to an abortion.

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Apr 10 • 4:02 PM EDT • Politics • michiganindependent.com
Democrats turn to strikers to talk politics under GOP majority

With only a handful of their bills getting a chance to be heard in committee, legislative Democrats have turned to striker amendments to generate attention.

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Apr 10 • 3:42 PM EDT • Politics • azcapitoltimes.com
BAFTA apologizes again for racial slur scandal amid review results

BAFTA Board of Trustees says it is 'determined to learn from what happened' in the racial slur scandal that overshadowed its annual awards celebration in February.

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Apr 10 • 3:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Burned Before, Democrats Abruptly Revive the Idea of Impeaching Trump

Democrats in Congress have assiduously avoided talk of a third impeachment of President Trump, concerned that it would distract from their midterm campaign message. That tide seems to have turned.

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Apr 10 • 3:08 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Homeland Security Workers Get Paid, but the Next Check Is Uncertain

The lack of clarity has frustrated employees as Congress battles over how to fund the department.

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Apr 10 • 2:43 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Democrats Denounce Trump’s Plan to Use Foreign Steel in White House Ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 1:03 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
House Ethics Committee to consider sanctions for Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on April 21

The meeting on punishment, up to expulsion, will happen as Florida lawmakers consider a map that already could end her career.

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Apr 10 • 12:50 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
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Have You Used A.I. Chatbots for Nutrition Advice?

Whether you’re looking to manage a health condition, lose weight or simply eat better, we want to hear from you.

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Apr 10 • 12:41 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
NFL teams with the most picks in the 2026 draft: Steelers set to dominate, Seahawks have only four picks

A look at which teams have the most picks and which are working with the fewest

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Apr 10 • 12:40 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
MSU transparency proposal for sports nonprofit gets pulled over dissent

The resolution would require that materials from any entity the university's administration created could be accessed by the public and the trustees.

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Apr 10 • 12:37 PM EDT • Sports • detroitnews.com
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Citizen Science Opportunities in Oregon

Adventure Scientists is currently seeking conservation-minded volunteers who want to contribute their skills and time to citizen science.

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Apr 10 • 12:33 PM EDT • Science • oregonwild.org
The Trump administration just updated rules for CDC's vaccine advisory panel, allowing inclusion of RFK Jr. allies

The changes published Thursday come after a recent legal defeat that has at least temporarily halted meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which for decades has recommended how best to use the nation’s vaccines.

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Apr 10 • 12:20 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org
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Tinkaton with Gigaton Hammer: PvE Performance & Raid Use Explained

April 2026 community day features Tinatink. Its final evolution Tinkaton breaks into the steel meta with Gigaton Hammer.

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Apr 10 • 12:11 PM EDT • Technology • pokemongohub.net
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

This month’s picks will have you seeing double, including a film in which Vince Vaughn plays current and future versions of a character.

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Apr 10 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Students 2 Science Names New Trustees to the Board

Students 2 Science (S2S), a New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that inspires and empowers students with transformative STEM opportunities, is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Trustees.

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Students 2 Science Names New Trustees to the Board

/PRNewswire/ -- Students 2 Science (S2S), a New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that inspires and empowers students with transformative STEM...

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Apr 10 • 10:01 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Ford Athletic Trainer Compact Passes House Business Committee

Welcome to Oklahoma's House of Representatives website!

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Apr 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • okhouse.gov
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.

A study found that traffic fatalities increased in the United States by nearly 15 percent on the same days as the biggest album releases.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
How Airlines Turned First-Class Seats From Freebies to a Profit Engine

Airlines used to give away most of their nicest seats, but they have increasingly found ways to persuade people to pay a lot for them.

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Apr 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
St. Petersburg Council advances $600M infrastructure bond proposal to Committee

Council took up the item without debate, reflecting desire to at least advance the conversation through the process despite likely debate.

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Apr 10 • 4:30 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
49ers land Steelers’ 16-sack edge rusher in trade proposal

The 49ers could use their draft capital to upgrade positions of need with veterans instead of rookies.

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Apr 10 • 12:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anderson Twp. business is warning others after teens’ coordinated theft

Security cameras inside Anderson Grab and Go captured video of several teens distracting a store clerk last Friday.

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Apr 9 • 10:36 PM EDT • Business • fox19.com
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White House Warned Staff Not to Engage in Insider Trading Amid War With Iran

The directive came amid a surge of suspiciously well-timed trades on oil and prediction markets just ahead of crucial moments in the conflict.

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Apr 9 • 8:56 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
China South Korea Entertainment Ban

Chinese fans of K-Pop group Seventeen line up outside a pop up booth in Beijing, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Apr 9 • 8:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • gazettextra.com
Trump Attacks Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly Over Iran War Criticism

In a lengthy social media post, the president attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others in starkly personal terms. He also criticized the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.

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Apr 9 • 8:30 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
RFK Jr.’s HHS rewrites rules governing key CDC vaccine committee

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved changes to rules that govern an expert group that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations.

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Apr 9 • 8:25 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com
Politics Chat, April 9, 2026

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Apr 9 • 7:46 PM EDT • Politics • heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Candidate security costs up in era of political violence: Research

Federal campaigns and committees have spent more than $100 million on security measures over the past decade amid an uptick in threats of political violence, including bomb threats and doxxing, acc…

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Apr 9 • 7:36 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
West Ninth Street Black business district aims to echo the past, but with a modern twist

The new Black business district blocked off part of the street, which will remain that way until Juneteenth, with the project aiming to realize the historical significance and hopeful revitalization of the area.

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Apr 9 • 7:04 PM EDT • Business • arktimes.com
Oklahoma Governor’s Vote Steered $2 Billion Advisory Role to Former Business Partner’s Firm

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt voted to award a multibillion-dollar investment advisory contract to a firm run by his former chief of staff and one-time business partner, without any board discussion of their prior relationship. The contract positions the firm to earn fees from successful investments it brings before the state board.

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Apr 9 • 6:23 PM EDT • Business • oklahomawatch.org
Small business, big questions

What does it take to run a small business in a San Francisco boom cycle? We'll discuss at Chat Room: Money

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Apr 9 • 6:07 PM EDT • Business • sf.gazetteer.co
New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling

The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.

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Apr 9 • 5:29 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Scientists Announce The First Clear Evidence of a Chimpanzee 'Civil War'

It's exceedingly rare.

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Apr 9 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
David B. Cornstein, Envoy Who Built U.S. Ties to Orban, Dies at 87

A former jewelry-counter magnate, he served in Hungary under his friend President Trump, strengthening relations between the two countries as Orban tilted rightward.

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Apr 9 • 12:26 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Masters 2026 leaderboard, tee times, how to watch: 60-year-old Jose Maria Olazabal turning back the clock
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Apr 9 • 12:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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6 Things Men Need to Know About Mental Health

It can be difficult for some men to know when they’re struggling — and when to seek help.

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Apr 9 • 12:16 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
America’s Furniture Stores Struggle to Survive a Frozen Housing Market

Retailers are going bankrupt and liquidating as record-low housing turnover leaves fewer customers looking to furnish homes.

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Apr 9 • 11:01 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot’s Effectiveness

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya objected to the study’s methodology, saying it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccine’s benefits.

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Apr 9 • 10:54 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
San Quentin Uses Sports as Rehabilitation. It Could Soon Be a Model Elsewhere.

Eli Tan, who covered the San Quentin Giants last year, shares how the story inspired one effort to expand prison sports in California.

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Apr 9 • 10:51 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Rep. Seth Moulton picks: Josh Shapiro or Gavin Newsrom?

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, who launched a primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, answered rapid-fire questions on his decision to return money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), his past comments about trans athletes and his stance on ICE. With the 2026 elections underway, The Post's Anna Liss-Roy is grilling candidates in races across the country, pressing Democrats and Republicans to share their takes at high-speed.

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Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Masters leaderboard, tee times, how to watch: Keep up with Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler at Augusta National
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Apr 9 • 7:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A shooting shattered their family. Annapolis is playing politics with their grief.

Legislative bumps and political infighting in Annapolis shroud passage of a NyKayla Strawder memorial bill, a teen killed by a 9-year-old with access to his grandmother's gun.

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Apr 9 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • thebanner.com
On Social Media, Democratic Politicians Are Letting the F-Word Fly

In person, on social media and in campaign ads, Democratic politicians are swearing with glee. It is usually aimed at President Trump.

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Apr 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Hungry mosquitoes, a student volunteer and a mesh suit. All for science

“Four minutes is too long. ” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare skin.

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Apr 9 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
A teetering ceasefire bodes ill for treacherous US-Iran talks ahead

The sad truth is that Middle East ceasefires don’t always stop the shooting.

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Apr 9 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Harding University appoints leaders to business college

Following a national search conducted by an internal search committee and CarterBaldwin Executive Search, Harding University President Mike Williams announced Tuesday the appointment of two distinguished leaders to pivotal roles within the institution.

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Apr 8 • 11:26 PM EDT • Business • kait8.com
No Charges for Wisconsin Mayor Who Removed Ballot Drop Box in 2024

A special prosecutor said a review of the incident found there was not sufficient evidence to charge Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau.

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Apr 8 • 10:14 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Teen takeover concerns grow in Columbus as business tightens security

Concerns over so-called teen takeovers are growing in Columbus as flyers circulating on social media suggest March gatherings could happen locally.

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Apr 8 • 9:16 PM EDT • Business • abc6onyourside.com
Steelers pre-draft visits and meetings tracker: News and updates

Here is a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers' top-30 visits and pre-draft meetings ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.

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Apr 8 • 8:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Consider Kids’ Sports Gear as a Source of Contact Dermatitis

Modifications and alternative products can help manage sports-related allergens in children with allergic contact dermatitis.

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Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • medscape.com
Bondi won't appear for House deposition next week in the Epstein investigation

A spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee says that the department has signaled that Bondi won’t appear on April 14 “since she is no longer attorney general and was subpoenaed in her capacity as attorney general.”

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