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Wall St ends mixed as oil takes a pause

Wall Street closed mixed as US Treasury yields topped 5% and oil prices paused above $100 per barrel, keeping inflation concerns in focus.

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Sep 18 • 4:07 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Broadway composer and singer Duncan Sheik dies at 56

NEW YORK — Duncan Sheik, who composed the Tony Award-winning show “Spring Awakening” and sang the 1996 Grammy-nominated pop music hit “Barely Breathing,” has died. He was 56. His death

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Sep 18 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
From Proselytism to Politics: Bishop Barron Addresses Hot-Button Issues on EWTN

The Word on Fire founder clarifies the call to evangelize, defends his nonpartisan advisory role on religious liberty, and warns of resurgent communism.

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Sep 18 • 3:49 PM EDT • Politics • ncregister.com
A's Add Mason Barnett to Rotation for Stretch Run

After Barnett's struggles in the A's rotation last month he was optioned to Triple-A. In his most recent outing he tossed a gem — then a spot opened up in the rotation.

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Sep 18 • 3:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Last call for former Cheers owner

After seven wild, crazy, entertaining, exhausting and unforgettable years, Cheers Bar & Grill is officially changing hands,. according to the current owner.Chee

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Sep 18 • 3:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • wsbt.com
National Legal and Business Media Cover Arrival of Chicago Partner Andrew Barrios

Law360, Global Legal Chronicle, Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Benchmark Litigation and Pulse 2.0 were among the legal and business news outlets that covered the arrival of McGuireWoods partner Andrew Barrios,...

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Sep 18 • 3:09 PM EDT • Business • mcguirewoods.com
California Gov. Gavin Newsom inks AI oversight executive order to improve safety ‘before it’s too late’

Newsom is the latest Democrat and potential White House contender to call for regulation of AI amid concerns over the rapidly advancing technology.

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Sep 18 • 2:59 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Zidane names first France squad as manager

After 14 years under Didier Deschamps, the France national team embarks on a new era this Friday with Zinédine Zidane at the helm.The newly appointed head coach has named his first squad for the open...

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Sep 18 • 2:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vinicius Junior under pressure to deliver ahead of Madrid derby

Real Madrid will be looking to keep pace with Barcelona at the top of the La Liga standings when they face rivals Atletico Madrid at the Metropolitano Stadium on Sunday.Madrid trail Barcelona with thr...

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Sep 18 • 2:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Barcelona star confirms plans to retire at the club

All of a Barcelona persuasion will no doubt be delighted to learn of the latest comments laid out by Raphinha regarding his future with the club.This comes after the Brazilian revealed his intention t...

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Sep 18 • 2:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Novant Health drives $4.33B in regional economic impact, study says

Novant Health Coastal Region generates an annual overall economic impact of $4.33 billion in the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), according to a new report. Commissioned by Novant Health and conducted by Mouhcine Guettabi, associate professor of economics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the area’s regional economist, the report evaluates population growth in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties and whether the area’s healthcare infrastructure is positioned to meet the region’s demand. According to the study, while healthcare employment has kept pace with population growth in New Hanover and Pender counties, it has not kept up with the rapid population growth in Brunswick County, which is skewed toward an older population. “It points very clearly to Brunswick County being the bottleneck, or being the place where investment is most needed,” Guettabi said to the Business Journal Friday, “because the growth is the fastest, the composition of the growth is older (adults) and demand for healthcare is much higher for the subpopulation.” The Novant Health Coastal Region employs 8,295 full-time equivalent workers, according to the report, and is the region’s largest employer. Overall, through direct, indirect and induced impacts, the Novant Health Coastal Region supports 19,573 jobs, the report said. Using data collected from internal payroll, financial and capital reports, the report estimates that Novant Health Coastal Region pays approximately $1.15 billion in total compensation to its employees. According to the study, the provider’s annual operating expenditures, or direct economic impact, total $2.36 billion. That direct impact ripples through the regional economy through spending at its suppliers, or indirect impact, and household spending by staff and its suppliers’ workers, or induced impact. The report estimates the Novant Health Coastal Region’s indirect economic impact is $786 million, reflecting the multiplying effect of the provider’s operating expenses on expenditures like medical supplies, facilities, food, IT and professional services. Because 86.9% of Novant Health Coastal Region employees live within the tri-county region, the report estimates that wages paid by Novant circulate into the regional economy, creating an induced economic impact of $1.17 billion. “That money just doesn’t go into thin air,” Guettabi said of the wages paid to Novant Health Coastal Region employees. “Some of that money is being re-spent, and therefore it’s supporting grocery stores, hiring, restaurants and bars, and there are a lot of other companies or organizations whose employment, whose activity partially depends on that.” The combination of direct ($2.36 billion), indirect ($786 million), and induced ($1.17 billion) impacts totals an estimated $4.33 billion, according to the report. A study commissioned by Novant Health in 2024 and conducted by FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy found that Novant Health generated nearly $2 billion of direct impact, with $628 million in indirect impact and $857 million in induced impact. Healthcare investments in the pipeline for Brunswick County Additionally, the study found that while healthcare employment has kept pace with population growth in New Hanover and Pender counties, it lags in Brunswick County. “Once you go below the metro level and you decompose the three counties that make up the Wilmington Metro,” Guettabi said, “it becomes fairly clear that Brunswick is the standout. And not only that, but clearly the growth there is fully domestic migration and largely retiree-driven migrants.” Using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on per-capita healthcare spending among age groups, Guettabi estimates that adults aged 65 and older demand 2.44 times the healthcare of working-age adults. “The share of the population in Brunswick County that’s over the age of 65 is 33%,” Guettabi said, “which is so much higher than the average share of people over the age of 65 within the state or within the country.” The report emphasizes that Brunswick County is the “strongest candidate” for new healthcare investment, adding that patient discharge records show Brunswick residents rely heavily on facilities in New Hanover County for inpatient care. “Investments in Brunswick County would not only meet the demand for those residents, but it would also relieve pressure for New Hanover County residents,” Guettabi said. Laurie Whalin, president of the Novant Health Coastal Region, told the Business Journal Friday that the provider plans to expand services at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, in addition to other investments in the area. In April, the state granted conditional approval to both Novant Health and Columbus Regional Healthcare System to build new hospitals, just miles apart, on either side of the Columbus County and Brunswick County borders. Columbus Regional’s $214 million 30-bed hospital would be located at the former Acme-Delco Middle School in Delco, according to the application. The project’s approved timetable has construction slated to finish in May 2029, with the hospital open for service by October 2029. The Whiteville-based provider, which Atrium Health manages, broke ground on an Advanced Care facility in December 2025 and operates four specialty clinics in Leland. Meanwhile, Novant Health’s proposed $251 million 20-bed hospital would be built just miles from Columbus Regional’s proposed hospital, near the Compass Pointe community in Leland. The provider estimates the hospital will open by 2030. State officials also approved Novant Health in March to build a freestanding emergency department in Carolina Shores, near U.S. 17. The project is estimated to cost $24 million, according to the application, and will operate under the Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center license. Additionally, Novant Health’s 16,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center is slated to open in Leland by year’s end, officials said.

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Sep 18 • 2:16 PM EDT • Health • wilmingtonbiz.com
Trump administration begins building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region

The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration's $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump to finish the wall.

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Sep 18 • 2:10 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Bills' decision to play Canadian anthem is "all about the business"

The Bills christened their new stadium with both the American and Canadian national anthems, with the quartet known as Barenaked Ladies singing O Canada before kickoff.

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Sep 18 • 1:11 PM EDT • Business • nbcsports.com
FC Cincinnati sign Dutch defender Tyrell Malacia

By Jaime UribarriTRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: SigningFC Cincinnati have signed defender Tyrell Malacia, the club announced Friday. The 27-year-old Netherlands international is under contract through Jun...

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Sep 18 • 1:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What is your favorite Barcelona team of all time?

Time for good memories

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Sep 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It’s not personal: US Supreme Court justices focus on law, not politics

Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a UVA audience justices get along even in disagreement, but the job can be lonely.

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Sep 18 • 12:56 PM EDT • Politics • news.virginia.edu
Gabriel Rajkovic: Man United battling Barcelona for Norwegian gem

1Manchester United have shown renewed desire to sign some of the best young talents in the world in recent years. The Red Devils have invested equally in the first team and the academy of late, and no...

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Sep 18 • 12:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Broadway composer and singer Duncan Sheik dies at 56

NEW YORK — Duncan Sheik, who composed the Tony Award-winning show “Spring Awakening” and sang the 1996 Grammy-nominated pop music hit “Barely Breathing,” has died. He was 56. His death

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Sep 18 • 12:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Ibrahim Mbaye has given Unai Emery a Tottenham selection dilemma

Ibrahim Mbaye strengthened his case for a Premier League start against Coventry and Dan Bardell believes the teenager has done enough to claim one of the two remaining places alongside John McGinn behind Nicolas Jackson as Unai Emery considers his attacking options for Tottenham.

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Sep 18 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
​UM’s Erb Institute lands $4.9M gift to widen access to sustainability degrees​

The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation has made a $4.9 million grant to the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan to spur sustainability graduates.

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Sep 18 • 11:55 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Former PlayStation Execs Recreate Iconic Disc-Sharing Xbox Diss — Without the Physical Games This Time

Former PlayStation executives Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes have recreated their iconic game-sharing instructional video as Sony helps the industry barrel toward a discless future.

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Sep 18 • 11:50 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Anthropic and the golden rules of business

Shifts in technology and geopolitics mean the ideal of the perfect company is changing

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Sep 18 • 11:40 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
Ministers explore limiting political party spending outside UK elections

Concerns over political donations grow after two cryptocurrency billionaires pledged £72mn to Reform UK

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Sep 18 • 11:31 AM EDT • Politics • ft.com
Duncan Sheik, 'Spring Awakening' composer and pop star, dies at 56

Sheik had been best known for his lasting radio hit "Barely Breathing" when he turned his sights on Broadway

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Sep 18 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Duncan Sheik, 'Spring Awakening' composer and pop star, dies at 56

Sheik had been best known for his lasting radio hit "Barely Breathing" when he turned his sights on Broadway

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Sep 18 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Duncan Sheik, 'Spring Awakening' composer and pop star, dies at 56

Sheik had been best known for his lasting radio hit "Barely Breathing" when he turned his sights on Broadway

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Sep 18 • 11:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Gabriel, 15, in Barcelona amid speculation over future

Man Utd youngster JJ Gabriel travels to Barcelona as some of Europe's biggest clubs continue to vie for his signature.

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Sep 18 • 11:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Duncan Sheik, 'Spring Awakening' composer known for '90s hit 'Barely Breathing,' dies at 56

The Tony Award-winning musician died of organ failure on Thursday after being hospitalized, his family said.

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Sep 18 • 11:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Trump’s Open Claims That He Directs Super PAC Spending Draw Watchdog Complaint

Federal law bars those holding federal office from directing spending decisions for a political organization with no contribution limits.

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Sep 18 • 11:04 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Duncan Sheik, Tony- and Grammy-winning ‘Spring Awakening’ composer and pop star, dies at 56

Tony- and Grammy-winning musician Duncan Sheik has died at 56. Before Broadway's “Spring Awakening,” he had been best known for the hit “Barely Breathing.”

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Sep 18 • 10:47 AM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Bark and Mane cuts ribbon to celebrate new business

THOMPSON'S STATION — Husband and wife duo Chelsea and Mike Rushworth celebrated the official launch of their new venture, Bark and Mane, with a Williamson Inc. ribbon cutting ceremony on

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Sep 18 • 10:41 AM EDT • Business • williamsonherald.com
“Rain Man” Director Barry Levinson’s New Doc Shows How Politics Tore Apart an ‘Idyllic’ Pennsylvania Town (Exclusive)

“You wanna be a Republican, you wanna be a Democrat. Okay. But does that mean we can’t communicate?,” Levinson tells PEOPLE while discussing ‘Bucks County, USA’

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Sep 18 • 10:15 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Duncan Sheik, Tony Award-winning composer, dies at 56

Duncan Sheik attends 'The Broadway Legacy Foundation Launch' at the Broadway Museum on November 11, 2025 in New York City. (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer behind Spring Awakening and more, has died, according to his Instagram. He was 56.The Friday morning Instagram post said the "father, husband, son, brother, and friend" died on Thursday night "surrounded by love."A message shared on Sheik's Instagram earlier this week by his family said he was "receiving medical care" and was "in critical but stable condition.""The world has a lost a singular talent, and deeply influential voice in music and theater," Friday's statement said. "From his Grammy-nominated hit “Barely Breathing” to his groundbreaking, Tony and Grammy Award-winning work on Spring Awakening, Duncan’s artistry touched many and leaves an indelible mark on the cultural landscape."Born on Nov. 18, 1969, in Montclair, New Jersey, Sheik rose to fame in 1996 when he released his self-titled debut album, which included his hit song, "Barely Breathing."The song peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned him a Grammy nomination for best male pop vocal performance.Following his debut album, he released Humming in 1998, Phantom Moon in 2001 and Daylight in 2002.While "Barely Breathing" established Sheik as a singer-songwriter, his career later expanded into musical theater, where he found success as a composer.Sheik collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater and composed the music for Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006.He told Broadcast Music, Inc. in 2015 that around the time he was making the music for Spring Awakening, he wasn't "a huge fan" of music that was happening on Broadway and he wanted to make the music for an audience "beyond the normal crowd that would go to a Broadway musical."The rock musical, based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play and starring Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, John Gallagher and Skylar Astin, became a major success. It won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including best musical, best original score and best orchestrations.He went on to compose music for several other stage productions, including American Psycho and Because of Winn-Dixie. He also collaborated with Sater again on Alice by Heart and The Secret Life of Bees.In his interview with Broadcast Music, Inc., he added that working on musical theater has "helped broaden my palette."Sheik went on to release several more albums throughout his career, including White Limousine, Whisper House, Covers 80s, Legerdemain and Claptrap.In May, it was announced that Sheik's new musical, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, would make its off-Broadway debut this fall. The musical is based on Moyoco Anno's manga graphic novel of the same name.An off-Broadway revival of Spring Awakening is also set to open this fall. Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Sep 18 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken.

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Sep 18 • 9:41 AM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
DOH-Miami-Dade Lifts Water Quality Health Advisory - Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County

Bark Beach at Miami Beach tests below unsafe level.

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Sep 18 • 9:39 AM EDT • Health • miamidade.floridahealth.gov
Hendrix Genetics acquires full ownership of swine business

Hendrix Genetics Swine will move forward as the Swine Business Unit of Hendrix Genetics with a dedicated focus on serving swine producers worldwide.

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Sep 18 • 9:38 AM EDT • Business • feedstuffs.com
Business and unions clash over how to fix UK’s youth jobs shortage

TUC calls for £1bn expansion of jobs guarantee while employers push for tax cuts

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Sep 18 • 9:32 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
Sports brand On signs Kylian Mbappé from Nike to lead new football push

Swiss group targets long-term partnership with French star, similar to relationship with tennis great Roger Federer

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Sep 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • ft.com
Scientists Have Uncovered Previously Hidden Microbial Activity on Human Skin

The most abundant microbes on your skin may not be the ones doing most of the work. Human skin supports vast communities of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that can influence its protective barrier, immune defenses, and overall health. Yet simply cataloging these organisms cannot reveal which ones are active, how they respond to their surroundings,

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Sep 18 • 6:38 AM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Ocasio-Cortez Donates to N.Y. Democrats, Will Barnstorm State Ahead of Midterms

The news has reignited speculation about whether the progressive representative from the Bronx is considering a run for senator or president.

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Sep 18 • 5:04 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
FC Barcelona News: 18 September 2026

A round-up of the latest Barcelona news and rumors

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Oklahoma Health Care Authority improves access to medication to treat opioid use disorder

Oklahoma Medicaid recipients can now access a long-acting medication to treat opioid use disorder with fewer barriers.

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Sep 18 • 4:53 AM EDT • Health • kgou.org
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Andoni Iraola favourite to make Liverpool audition this weekend

Liverpool enjoyed another busy transfer window this summer, adding several top talents to Andoni Iraola's squad.The arrivals of Jeremy Jacquet, Victor Munoz and Bradley Barcola were instant boosts to ...

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Sep 18 • 3:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How will Barcelona line up against Sevilla?

Hansi Flick’s possible XI for Saturday’s clash

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Sep 18 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lions Defense Gets Exposed in Embarrassing Loss to Bills

The Lions just got exposed. Detroit’s defense allowed 41 points, couldn’t stop Josh Allen or James Cook, and looked completely overmatched against a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

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Sep 18 • 2:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Chris Simms’ Unbuttoned Approach Has Made Him a Sports Media Mainstay

"Simms is calculating, and I mean that in a good way. He knows what he is going to say and the reaction he is going to get. He is an intelligent commentator who wants whatever airtime he has to be valuable and memorable." The post Why Chris Simms’ Unbuttoned Approach Has Made Him a Sports Media Mainstay appeared first on Barrett Media.

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Sep 18 • 12:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The real risk of private credit’s involvement in the annuity business

The critical issue is liquidity and ensuring that long-term promises to pay retirement benefits are met

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Sep 18 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
Sponsored: From Belfast to Lakewood Ranch

Darren Shore turned a passion for the bar business into a growing restaurant career built on hard work, resilience and relationships.

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Sep 18 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • businessobserverfl.com
Conner Leavitt says people are using “DWTS” elimination to ‘poke fun’ at his ‘past mistakes’ and ‘embarrass’ him

Leavitt and his wife, Whitney Leavitt, have now both competed on “Dancing With the Stars.” Whitney placed sixth last season with her pro partner, Mark Ballas.

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Sep 17 • 10:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Buzz on Business: Low Key Cocktail Bar to Stay Closed

Above: Low Key in 2021, shortly after it opened. And Savor EG is happening next week! With additional reporting by Elizabeth McNamara Do you have an update you’d like to see included here regarding an 02818 business? Whether it’s small or big news, we’d like to hear from you! Share the buzz: editor@eastgreenwichnews.com. Low Key […]

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Sep 17 • 10:30 PM EDT • Business • eastgreenwichnews.com
Jalen Duren’s Camp Set Max Contract Bar For Detroit Pistons

Despite overtures from the Detroit Pistons, 22-year old All-Star center Jalen Duren remains an unsigned restricted free agent

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Sep 17 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RFK Jr.’s Bold Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers

“You have friends in the White House,” he said at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he founded.

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Sep 17 • 7:33 PM EDT • Health • theatlantic.com
Matt Barnes crowns LeBron above Jordan, Ronaldo and Ali: "The greatest superstar we've ever seen in any...

Matt Barnes explains why LeBron James has separated himself from Jordan, Ronaldo and other sports icons.

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Sep 17 • 6:09 PM EDT • Sports • thenewstribune.com
Control Resonant review leaks before release date, praising performance and combat

One site broke Remedy Entertainment's review embargo ahead of the Control Resonant release date. The article gives a positive evaluation of the revamped melee combat. Performance in the open-world-like maps also impressed, but the storytelling may not enthrall players.

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Sep 17 • 5:39 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
RWJBarnabas Health Running with the Devils 5K Run & Walk Celebrates 10th Anniversary

RWJBarnabas Health Running with the Devils 5K Run & Walk Celebrates 10th Anniversary on November 1st at Essex County’s South Mountain Recreation Complex.

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Sep 17 • 5:16 PM EDT • Health • nhl.com
Big 10 Pick 6: Learning Process

Last week was a bloodbath for pickers and projection systems. Oregon lost to Oklahoma State, the Huskies barely squeaked out a win over Utah St, Michigan bounced back from their disastrous Week 1, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA! All that considered, I will live with a 4-2 record (2-4 ATS). As […]

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Sep 17 • 4:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Barely Breathing’ singer Duncan Sheik, 56, hospitalized in critical condition

NEW YORK — Duncan Sheik, the voice behind the 1996 single “Barely Breathing” and Tony Award-winning composer of “Spring Awakening,” is currently hospitalized. Sheik’s family offered a health update in

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Sep 17 • 3:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Nevada: Golden Entertainment connects casino bar tops for jackpots up to $500K

A $1 bet at a Golden Entertainment casino can now give gamblers a shot at a jackpot worth as much as $500,000. Golden has launched a new progressive jackpot sys

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Sep 17 • 3:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • cdcgaming.com
Communication, parking are common concerns for Annapolis businesses

“Bar none, the biggest issue out there is the parking,” an Annapolis business owner said at a roundtable with Mayor Jared Littmann.

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Sep 17 • 1:54 PM EDT • Business • capitalgazette.com
Barcelona release Joan García injury statement

La Liga giants Barcelona have on Thursday unveiled a statement, regarding the wellbeing of star goalkeeper Joan García. This comes after the former Espanyol man sparked concern in Catalunya’s capit...

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Sep 17 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers and AWS launch innovation hub

The new center gives students access to mentors from the New Jersey health system and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, powered by Amazon's cloud and artificial intelligence technologies.

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Sep 17 • 12:09 PM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
How Our Health Care May Be at Stake if We Don't Fight

If you care about keeping the affordable health care CSU faculty enjoy, one of management’s bargaining proposals should alarm you and spur you to join our

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Sep 17 • 11:50 AM EDT • Health • calfac.org
Struggling French Quarter businesses threatened with fines over unpermitted chairs, signs

The New Orleans Office of Safety and Permits recently warned a number of small businesses and bars in the French Quarter they must remove unpermitted chairs and A-frame signs from

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Sep 17 • 11:42 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Between Potatoes and Barley | Los Angeles Review of Books

An uncertain political pamphlet for uncertain times.

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Sep 17 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • lareviewofbooks.org
Economist says jobs still out there despite regional health care cuts

Vermont labor economist Mathew Barewicz says despite the cuts, health care workers are still needed and jobs are out there.

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Sep 17 • 10:57 AM EDT • Health • wcax.com
MDI Health Celebrates Community at 2026 Annual Meeting

BAR HARBOR—MDI Health celebrated the people and partnerships strengthening local healthcare during its 2026 Annual Meeting and Community Celebration, held September 15 at the Bar Harbor Club. The gathering brought together patients, medical staff, employees, trustees, volunteers, supporters, and community partners to recognize the year’s accomplishments and honor those whose contributions make a meaningful difference across the organization and the communities it serves. “This celebration is an opportunity to recognize the extraordinary people who make our work possible,” said Chrissi Maguire, president and CEO of MDI Health. “Their compassion, dedication, and belief in strong local healthcare can be felt throughout our hospital, health centers, Birch Bay Village, and the communities we serve.” During the celebration, MDI Health presented its 2026 Impact Award to Mount Desert Nursing Association (MDNA), recognizing the organization as Community Partner of the Year for providing compassionate, skilled in-home nursing care across Mount Desert Island, Trenton, and Lamoine. “MDNA extends care beyond our walls, helping people remain safely at home, surrounded by the people and places they know and love,” Maguire said. “Its work lies at the intersection of healthcare and community and strengthens our entire healthcare system.” “For 77 years, MDNA has helped our neighbors recover and remain safely at home,” said Amy McVety, MDNA Executive Director. “Our longstanding partnership with MDI Health helps ensure a seamless transition from hospital to home and the continued care patients need. We are grateful for this recognition and especially proud of our talented, hardworking team.” The evening marked a transition in Board leadership. Martha Wagner, PhD, was recognized as she concluded her term as chair of the MDI Health Board of Trustees. Madeleine Braun, PhD, MBA, was introduced as incoming chair. “It is an honor to build on Martha’s leadership and serve an organization so deeply connected to this community,” Braun said. Individual honorees recognized during the evening’s program included Nancy D’Agostino, MDI Health Volunteer of the Year; George Rossi, Birch Bay Village Volunteer of the Year; Marc Woolfolk, Birch Bay Village Employee of the Year; and Beth Applebee, MDI Hospital Employee of the Year. “These honorees represent the very best of who we are,” Maguire said. The program also highlighted new initiatives and honors from the past year. MDI Health launched a free Screening Mammogram Scholarship Program to remove financial barriers to early detection, supported by a generous grant from the Maine Cancer Foundation. An in-hospital food pantry has been opened to meet rising community need and address the link between nutrition and health. MDI Health earned CMS five-star ratings for Patient Experience and Nurse Communication, top marks in the 2026–2027 Lown Institute Hospitals Index, recognition from the American Hospital Association and American Heart Association, and a third consecutive Best Places to Work in Maine designation. The hospital will open its new Main Entrance this fall, as work advances on the expanded Emergency Department and other patient-care spaces. The Building Our Future Campaign has raised more than $56 million in capital and programmatic support to date. “Everything we have accomplished reflects the strength of this community,” Maguire said. “We are grateful to everyone who has contributed their time, talent, leadership, and support to help MDI Health continue meeting the evolving needs of the region.” Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Sep 17 • 10:46 AM EDT • Health • barharborstory.substack.com
How Is Warner Bros. Discovery's Stock Performance Compared to Other Entertainment Stocks

Warner Bros. Discovery has rallied other entertainment stocks, yet analysts remain skeptical about the stock’s outlook.

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Sep 17 • 10:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • barchart.com
JJ Gabriel transfer news: Man Utd wonderkid attracting interest from Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG, Bayern Munich and Premier League clubs

JJ Gabriel wants to leave Manchester United; the 15-year-old has requested that his registration be cancelled to become a free agent; Gabriel wanted to be involved in first-team squads; Uniteds hierarchy will keep trying to convince Gabriel to stay while he is still registered with them

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Sep 17 • 9:40 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
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The Champions League cloud that casts a long, dark shadow

More than a year on from one of their most embarrassing European exits, Celtic are struggling to escape from a groundhog day entirely of their own making. Amid buzz phrases like "learning lessons" and "wake-up calls" following last weekend's derby drubbing at Ibrox, an interesting yet awkward question emerges: have Celtic learned anything at all from last year's costly mistakes? Going out of the Champions League to Kairat Almaty cast a cloud over huge swathes of last season.

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CLIVE BARKER'S HELLRAISER: REVIVAL Takes Us To The Scarlet Church With NSFW New Trailer

A hellish new demo for the upcoming horror action video game is now playable.

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Sep 17 • 9:29 AM EDT • Technology • fangoria.com
Barcelona make major decision regarding teenage defender’s playing position

Pau Cubarsi’s technical ability is useful to Barcelona, but Hansi Flick’s coaching staff appear to have drawn a fairly firm line over where they want the teenager playing.According to RAC1 (h/t FC...

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Sep 17 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
🚨 Joan García suffers knee injury, out for several weeks!

The lull at home.The only downside to FC Barcelona’s spectacular 7-2 victory over Santander on Wednesday night was the injury to Joan García, who went off at half-time and whose issue is a tiny bit...

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Sep 17 • 8:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alphabet’s Core Business Is Printing Cash Faster Than Regulators Can Write Fines

Regulators keep throwing billion-dollar fines at Alphabet and the company barely notices, which raises a more interesting question about how you value a business that outgrows its own penalties every few weeks.

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Sep 17 • 8:11 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
The Strange New Politics of AI. Plus. . .

It’s Thursday, September 17. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Douglas Murray asks, why do we allow terrorists to die of old age? The American nonprofits backing Hamas. A conversation with Dara Horn and Coleman Hughes. And much more. But first: inside the unlikely coalition warning that AI may kill us all. Last week, an AI researcher named Jacob Coxon made headlines around the world after saying that he had resigned from Anthropic because he believes AI might cause human extinction—and his co-workers do, too. Unlike the rest of us, potentially, the story just won’t die. The Pro-Human Assembly, a conference held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., about the existential dangers of artificial intelligence, couldn’t have come at a better time—or with a more eclectic coalition. The Archbishop of San Francisco was there. So was Steve Bannon, screaming about the Chinese. Bernie Sanders did a quasi-dramatic reading of messages posted to an online forum by rogue AI agents. Ashley Judd paraphrased a graphic Andrea Dworkin quote for reasons that remain a mystery to me still. It was odd. People in the AI industry have talked openly about the possibility of this technology causing human extinction for years, but it hits differently in the wake of the Hugging Face incident. If you don’t know what that is, all the more reason to read my dispatch today. As the doomers see it, the best-case scenario is a future in which humans are basically kept as pets: well cared for, but with zero autonomy. The worst-case scenario, obviously, is the everyone dies thing. What should be done? I heard lots of ideas but no easy answers. There are currently zero federal regulations on AI, which is sort of strange even to think about. After all, we regulate microwaves, and the people running the microwave industry have never once refused to rule out the possibility that their products will end all human life on Earth. What I saw in D.C. left me even more convinced that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes nothing should be done. You know, except for President Trump. — River Page River Page • Tech and Business [ The AI Doomers Have a Plan to Save Us. I Went to Find Out What It Is. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-ai-doomers-have-plan-save-bernie-sanders-bannon) Read story How Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr—and How to Better Fight Antisemitism On Monday, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a group of other NFL owners banned Macklemore from performing at their stadiums after the rapper delivered a “Free Palestine” speech while opening for Ed Sheeran. Kraft cited the rapper’s “broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.” Once multiple venues refused to host shows with Macklemore on the lineup, the tour’s promoter officially dropped him. Today, Josh Kaplan says that the move was counterproductive, arguing that though well-intentioned, Kraft’s decision turned an irrelevant footnote into a martyr. “You cannot cancel people into liking you,” Josh writes. Read his column on what a better response to Macklemore would have looked like. Read [ Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr ](https://www.thefp.com/p/robert-kraft-made-macklemore-martyr-antisemitism-palestine) This raises the question: What actually works against antisemitism? On the latest episode of Conversations with Coleman, recorded in front of a live audience in New York, Dara Horn joins Coleman Hughes to talk about her new book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question. She argues that antisemitism is a script that has repeated itself across countries and ideologies, and that most people don’t understand that well enough to fight it. Don’t miss their conversation. Watch [ The Lie at the Center of Antisemitism, with Dara Horn ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-lie-at-the-center-of-antisemitism-coleman-hughes-dana-horn) Listen now Douglas Murray • U.S. Politics [ Douglas Murray: The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America ](https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-911-failure-justice-terrorist-guantanamo-bay) Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the men who planned them have still not faced trial. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and most of the accused have been locked up in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Judges have retired, and plea deals have collapsed. Today, Douglas Murray examines how this happened and argues that a justice system that allows terrorists to die of old age in an interminable pretrial process is one that has failed. Read his latest column on what that failure says about our unpreparedness for the era we are now living in. Read story The Editors • U.S. Politics [ When Nonprofits Support Terrorists ](https://www.thefp.com/p/when-nonprofits-support-terrorists) A newly declassified CIA brief from 1998 found that Osama bin Laden used nonprofit shell organizations—including U.S.-based Islamic groups—to fund his terror plots. Today, a similar story is unfolding as multiple organizations on American soil present themselves as nonprofits, taking advantage of tax-exempt status while seeking to advance the ideological mission of terrorist groups like Hamas. Read our editorial on the latest evidence of this dangerous trend—and why there’s no excuse for making the same mistake the CIA revealed 28 years ago. Read story Simon Sebag Montefiore and Bari Weiss Live in New York For decades, the Middle East has shaped American foreign policy and loomed large in the public consciousness. Few understand its influence on our politics better than Simon Sebag Montefiore, who argues that America’s quagmires in the Middle East stem from a deep misunderstanding of the region—on both the left and the right. Join him October 1 as he sits down with Bari Weiss live in New York City to kick off his U.S. book tour for The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East. Get Tickets Now MORE FROM THE FREE PRESS [ Sydney Sweeney’s Naked Truth ](https://www.thefp.com/p/sydney-sweeneys-naked-truth-caitlin-flanagan) Caitlin Flanagan Read story [ I Thought Ukraine Was Losing. Then I Was Almost Hit by a Russian Drone. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/elliot-ackerman-ukraine-drone-gas-station-train) Elliot Ackerman Read story [ The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings ](https://www.thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideology-effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence) Shyam Sankar Read story [ Amanda Knox: Patrick Clancy Can’t Win ](https://www.thefp.com/p/amanda-knox-patrick-clancy-grief-internet-crime) Amanda Knox Read story THE NEWS The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point, its first hike since 2023, signaling that another increase could follow as the central bank tries to bring inflation under control. President Donald Trump fired back by demanding that rates be cut sharply, though he stopped short of criticizing Fed Chair Kevin Warsh by name. The Houthis fired drones and missiles at Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, including a major oil port on the Red Sea, and Saudi jets struck back with air strikes across Yemen in an escalating front of the Middle East war. (For more on the Houthis, read Zineb Riboua’s column from earlier this week.) A sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill passed the House in a 262–159 vote and is now heading to Trump for his signature. Named after the late senator Lindsey Graham, the legislation would hit countries that purchase large volumes of Russian oil and gas with tariffs of up to 100 percent, and is aimed at cutting off revenue that funds Russia’s war in Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member,” drawing a standing ovation from European lawmakers. The proposal, framed as a response to a world grown more hostile, faces an uncertain path as EU member states would have to approve it, and one diplomat said that “nobody really ​knows what it means.” The House voted unanimously to send billionaire Leon Black a criminal contempt referral after he defied a congressional subpoena to testify and hand over documents related to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Black chose to fight the subpoena in court rather than comply. Charlie Kirk’s family filed a wrongful death notice Wednesday against Utah Valley University, alleging that a series of security failures left him exposed to a rooftop sniper. The notice is a required legal step before the family can sue. Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, vibe coding, and cuffing season. The publisher said the new entries offer “a window into the world today.” The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article.

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Islanders Training Camp News: Barzal health watch

The Islanders open training camp — which are now shorter than past camps per the new CBA — with news that Mathew Barzal will not skate for all of it “due to aggravation of a prior injury that has caused some inflammation.” So we are starting the season with Barzal out, and on Health Watch. […]

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Sep 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Is Live Nation Entertainment’s Stock Performance Compared to Other Entertainment Stocks

Live Nation Entertainment has considerably outperformed its sector peers recently, and analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

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Sep 17 • 5:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • barchart.com
Oklahoma Health Care Authority improves access to medication to treat opioid use disorder

Oklahoma Medicaid recipients can now access a long-acting medication to treat opioid use disorder with fewer barriers.

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Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kosu.org
FC Barcelona News: 17 September 2026

A round-up of the latest Barcelona news and rumors

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Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hansi Flick makes Barcelona history in 7-2 Racing win

Barcelona thrashed Racing Santander 7-2 at Camp Nou on Wednesday, with Raphinha scoring a hat-trick to lead the rout. The result made Hansi Flick the first Barcelona manager to win the club’s openin...

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Personnel note: Alex Barrera joins Ballard Partners’ Miami, Tallahassee offices

' … few people understand as well as he does how priorities move through the Legislature and how state and local government works.'

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Sep 17 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire early Tuesday morning. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire early Tuesday morning. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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A former Australian miner spotted a ripple on Saturn from his backyard in 2024; two years later, he co-authored a world-first discovery of a 10-sided atmospheric wave

A mysterious ripple spotted on Saturn from an amateur astronomer's backyard in Australia has helped lead to the identification of a giant, 10-sided atmospheric wave around the planet's south pole. Trevor Barry, a former miner from Broken Hill, New South Wales, had been observing Saturn from his homemade backyard observatory when he noticed an unusual feature in 2024.

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Sep 17 • 1:30 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Real estate firm Goodwin & Thyne Properties closing business - Santa Barbara News-Press

The partnership will officially dissolve on Sept. 30. Employees were notified this week. Thyne called the split a "conscientious decoupling."

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Sep 17 • 12:46 AM EDT • Business • newspress.com
As demographics shift, downtown Anchorage businesses adjust to attract younger customers

Forgoing a spontaneous trip to the bar, Gen Z seems to prefer a more curated experience with social media buzz.

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10 Years, 10 Milestones: A Decade of Peer Recovery at RWJBarnabas Health

The RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery celebrates 10 years of its Peer Recovery Program with a lookback at the last decade of transforming substance use disorder care and services for patients across the RWJBarnabas Health system.

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Sep 16 • 7:45 PM EDT • Health • newswise.com
Barnstable freshman Logan Anderson leads boys golf win over Falmouth

Recapping Wednesday's Cape Cod and Islands high school sports action.

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Sep 16 • 7:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Carrick accepts blame for Manchester United's League Cup exit

Michael Carrick took responsibility for Manchester United's embarrassing League Cup collapse to Brighton and demanded a reaction after his side were booed off the pitch at Old Trafford. An evening that began with teenager Shea Lacey marking his first senior start with a dream goal and Mason Mount adding a second in the 10th minute ended in furious fans unloading at full-time.

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Sep 16 • 7:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hubbard Homestead Park Sports Court Opens

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is happy to announce the new sports court at Hubbard Homestead Park is complete! We are celebrating with the community and our partners, One Roof Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Seattle Kraken and Climate Pledge Arena, on Thursday, September 17 from 3 to 5 pm. Please join us at […]

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Barre schools eye cuts to sports and other activities after budget fails on third attempt

Voters in Barre Town and the city of Barre shot down the district's proposed $57.1 million budget at the polls Tuesday.

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Sep 16 • 6:56 PM EDT • Sports • vtdigger.org
N.Y. lawmakers renew push for rural suicide prevention council after Hochul veto

The council would be tasked with identifying barriers to mental health and substance use treatment in rural New York.

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Sep 16 • 6:42 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Packers’ Super Bowl stock tumbles after Week 1 disaster

The Packers entered the 2026 season, as one of the teams executives and coaches across the league believed could make a Super Bowl run and bring the Lombardi back to Green Bay. Sunday’s come from ahead disastrous loss to the Minnesota Vikings was a disastrous wakeup call for head coach Matt LaFleur, Jordan Love, and [...]

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Sep 16 • 6:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Barre school board weighs cuts to sports, extracurriculars after third budget defeat

The budget fight is raising broader questions about whether Vermont’s school funding system is broken.

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Sep 16 • 5:56 PM EDT • Sports • wcax.com
Save the Children | Yemen: Latest Violence Threatens to Shatter an Already Threadbare Health System for Children

The latest violence in Yemen threatens to shatter the already threadbare health system for children.

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Sep 16 • 5:41 PM EDT • Health • savethechildren.org
Matthew Lillard regrets 'Scream 7' return after Melissa Barrera firing

Matthew Lillard has some regrets about his "Scream" return.

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Sep 16 • 5:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
OutKick Adds Former Seattle Times Sports Columnist Matt Calkins

"While my decision to leave The Seattle Times wasn’t easy, I’m beyond excited to start this new chapter at OutKick." The post OutKick Adds Former Seattle Times Sports Columnist Matt Calkins appeared first on Barrett Media.

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Sep 16 • 5:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
World News in Brief: Shipping alert from IMO, democracy vanishing in Nicaragua, alert over political ‘denialism’

Amid a rising number of attacks on shipping in key waterways in the Middle East linked to the US-Iran war, the head of UN maritime agency, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez, has insisted that the conflict is not a “pretext” to target “innocent seafarers”.

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UCF Has Had Terrible QB Injury Luck Since 2021 Season

From Alonza Barnett III to Dillon Gabriel, recurring late-game injuries have derailed the Knights' momentum, forcing coach Scott Frost to navigate another season behind backup arms.

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Sep 16 • 4:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on how the Right should think about environmental and climate policy. Read Chris Barnard on Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left. More than a decade ago, the world’s governments negotiated and signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the following years, climate had immense cultural power. Greta Thunberg emerged. Fortune 500 companies established net-zero plans. The U.S. got the Inflation Reduction Act. Then the pendulum swung back. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, speaking of green energy as a “scam” and carbon footprints as a “hoax” and on all matters of international policy emphasizing bilateral engagement and power over globalism and cooperation. The technology companies that had been at the forefront of net-zero pledges and green leadership discovered the importance of all-of-the-above power to their visions for artificial intelligence and began quietly postponing or removing their targets. On the left side of the political spectrum, rising concerns about inflation and cost pushed climate lower down in the stated priorities of voters and stump speeches of politicians. The moment is ripe for a reset on the politics of climate change and for conservatives especially to chart a course that acknowledges and addresses the real challenges in plausible ways. So what should we think about climate change as we enter a post-peak climate era? If it is neither an apocalypse nor a hoax, what will hold up as a durable view of climate change? And how does it project onto the concerns and priorities of the right-of-center’s emerging coalition? New to Commonplace_? Subscribe below to get the magazine in your inbox._ Subscribe A Solid Foundation As the politics and economics of climate careened over the past ten years, the physics carried on regardless. In 2015, the year the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted, the world emitted 41.2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. By 2025, emissions had risen only 2.4%, to 42.2 gigatonnes, because falling emissions from land use offset increasing emissions from fossil fuels. But slow growth in annual emissions is not rapid decline, let alone net-zero, so carbon dioxide kept accumulating in the atmosphere, going from 399 to 426 parts per million. Global temperature kept rising too, from about 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 1850–1900 average in 2015, to 1.4 degrees above it in 2025. None of this should surprise anyone. Even most prominent skeptics, like the authors of the 2025 report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, accept the basic physics. Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere at industrial volumes accumulates and traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. That heat warms the upper ocean and increases temperatures at the surface. Increased ocean heat and melting of land ice cause sea levels to rise. Changes in the climate become noticeable to us as subtle shifts in temperature and precipitation, seasons arriving early or late, changes in the surrounding ecosystem, and weather extremes. The much more meaningful debate is not about whether these things are happening, but about what it all means for human societies. (While it is a proxy measure of overall risk, no one experiences global surface temperature.) This debate invokes at least three interesting questions: how much today’s warming is showing up in regional climate trends, how much more warming we should anticipate, and how extreme weather events can be understood in the context of climate change. Recent scientific advances give us new insights into each of these, but there is still much to learn. This is the context in which the next generation of conservative leaders will be the first to deal with significant climate change as a fact, not a forecast. It will be with them for their entire careers. Our evolving scientific picture of climate change will come from weather and climate records stretching further into the past, new kinds of observations in the present, better modeling tools for the future, and simply more time to observe the emergence of climate signals and their tangible effects on ecosystems and communities in the United States and around the world. The policy landscape will be shaped by not only the impacts of changes in the climate, but also by the ways in which societies respond and by the emergence of new technologies for both altering the trajectory of emissions and adapting to new climate realities. Global climate records now show the fingerprints of warming in different phenomena around much of the world. The IPCC, in its most recent assessment report, documents warming trends over all land regions, even as natural variability adds substantial variance to local trends. And the highest temperature extremes have become more intense and frequent, almost everywhere, since the 1950s. Scientists are highly confident that these changes are attributable to human influence. But confidence in detecting trends and attributing them to human influence degrades across heavy precipitation events; drought trends are heterogeneous and not attributable to human activity with great confidence. For hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms there is even less confidence in trends or their relationship to climate change. In general, a fair summary of the evidence is that for well-observed phenomena, like surface temperature or heavy rainfall, with a clear relationship to warming, our multidecadal observations are consistent with human influence overcoming natural variability over long time periods and extremes increasing. For regions that are sampled more sparsely, or phenomena with a higher noise-to-signal ratio, we will need to observe them longer to understand the magnitude of the climate signal or improve dynamical understanding using models and observations together. But for Climate For those who can’t wait, we also have new techniques that attempt to understand the role climate change has in influencing particular extreme events. When the climate is changing and disaster strikes, it is natural to ask whether that disaster was somehow “caused” by climate change. For scientists and policymakers acting in good faith, answering that question helps develop a more accurate picture of the problem, how it may be getting worse, and what preparations we should be making to respond to it. It may, at some point, give some weight to how liability is assigned by courts or adaptation funding is distributed by society. But how we ask this question is extremely important. It is easy to get the analysis wrong by discounting the role that meteorology plays. As meteorologist Theodore Shepherd explained in a clear 2016 review of climate attribution methods, “if a weather or climate event is truly extreme in the present climate, then perforce it requires unusual meteorological conditions, which means that climate change is at most a contributing factor.” Share Scientists have two ways to probe climate as a contributing factor, both of which have entered media coverage of extreme weather events. One asks a probabilistic question: How much more likely is a particular event (e.g., a temperature record over a particular area) amid global warming? The answer involves using historical records and computer simulations to estimate the likelihood of such an event in both a changed and a preindustrial climate. The findings are less about the specific event, and more about events of that nature. The other question is: How has the changed climate affected the specific event in question? Here, scientists try to understand what a similar event would have looked like in the preindustrial climate. This is sometimes called the storyline approach, where the story is the specific meteorological details of the event. These methods offer ways to test the intuition of scientists about real weather extremes. In late June and early July of 2021, a persistent high-pressure ridge, or heat dome, set up over the Pacific Northwest and an extraordinary heat wave affected the area from Oregon to British Columbia. For six days, it shattered temperature records across the region and hundreds died from heat-related causes, in an area where such high, and persistently high, temperatures were well outside of experience and many live without air conditioning. Scientists have studied its connection to climate change using multiple approaches. This specific event was created by a rare combination of meteorological factors, a strong high-pressure ridge created the conditions for extreme heat, which occurred on top of higher average temperatures in the region from global warming. Probabilistic analyses showed that climate change increased the likelihood of such an event by at least 8-fold to more than 100-fold. One standout example found that such an event had effectively zero probability of occurring in the preindustrial climate. The enormous range in these assessments reflects how hard it is to estimate probabilities of events at the tail of the historical record. Estimates of the effect on the temperature of the event are more clustered. A recent review paper documents how multiple methodologies have found a positive influence, roughly 1-2 degrees Celsius of an anomaly that exceeded 15 degrees, of climate change on the temperature magnitude of the event. Multiple studies have investigated and found some positive influence of climate change in other extreme events. Attribution studies found climate likely increased the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and surrounding regions in 2024. The extensive fires that struck Los Angeles in 2025 illustrate how the causal chain can become messy, though. Studies do detect a positive influence of climate on the event’s likelihood, but while climate change likely contributed to underlying aridity, it would not have played a role in the heavy winds or land practices that preceded disaster. These event attribution studies will become more common for extreme, or damaging, weather events. They can be produced quickly, and often are reported before peer review. As the Pacific Northwest heatwave example shows, when multiple methods converge on a positive attribution, the finding should probably carry some weight even if you have to be careful about accepting the results from a single study. I expect that as climate change proceeds and the climate thus departs further from a preindustrial counterfactual, the influence will become more detectable across a variety of extreme events and more easily identified. This will be used to cast blame, but can also be used to inform how communities and society adapt to ongoing change. We May Still Be Surprised One positive development, insofar as less climate change is better, has been that our central estimates for future climate change should probably be revised downward. Mostly, that is because the high-end warmings that scientists regularly analyzed about ten to 20 years ago, driven by high emissions throughout the twenty-first century, now appear to be somewhere between unlikely and impossible. At one time, the upper end of mainstream climate projections extended well into 4 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of this century, which, models suggest, would have wrought enormous real-world damage. Current energy and policy trends now point toward 2.5 or 3 degrees. Damages and risks are commonly modeled as increasing steeply with more warming, so this is already a better-than-previously-expected outcome for the climate (which is independent of the physical response to emissions). But we should maintain a wide range for plausible outcomes and prepare for the possibility of being surprised. Emissions trajectories are subject to deep uncertainty, the physical climate response is still developing, and whatever change occurs in the climate will then be mediated through unpredictable economic, social, and political institutions. Over the past decade, the pace of warming surprised some keen observers and appeared to accelerate, though not yet outside the range of expectation provided by climate models. The reasons for that apparent acceleration are being actively studied (as was the apparent pause in warming from 1998 to 2012), but no single driver has emerged. Some blame it on the El Niño, variability which would have no bearing on climate. Some think it is a result of factories in East Asia and global shipping fleets cutting aerosol emissions, which in the strongest version of the argument would indicate higher climate sensitivity to carbon-dioxide emissions. Others are more measured, not yet ready to draw solid conclusions as to whether climate projections require revision. We will have to see. Long-Term Thinking Climate change asks us to think over long time scales. But the pace of human-driven warming is compressing a large global change into a century. Changing weather patterns and extreme events are already causing adjustment costs and damages and will do more. Adaptation will help, but it is not free. For some communities, these costs will erode livelihoods and well-being, and may force migration. Are we prepared for large-scale managed retreats in the United States? Thankfully, American wealth, geographical diversity, and moderate climates may leave us better prepared than many around the world. But wealthy countries can still suffer serious disruption from narrowly concentrated costs, even if they appear entirely manageable in aggregate. Readers of Commonplace are familiar with the challenges of rapidly adapting to economic forces. The displacement that came from the China Shock is barely perceptible in aggregate GDP and employment data, but it affected millions of people and those people were far less mobile than economic models tended to assume. Deindustrialization rippled through the nation with enormous effects for not only our economic vitality, but also our national security. The forces surrounding climate change may not be so different; the world gets richer and must accept some diffuse costs. Those may be modest overall, but cause all manner of unpredictable effects with which policymakers must cope. In the case of the China Shock, our faith in a growing pie served us poorly. We’ll need to do better on climate. Leave a comment

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