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Trump wants to paint a White House office building with ‘magic paint.’ Experts advise against it

President Donald Trump privately advocated for painting an ornate federal office building next to the White House with a “magic paint with silicate,” CNN has learned. But ahead of a key vote on exterior changes to the sprawling Gilded Age structure, a panel of experts is warning the so-called magic paint could be incompatible with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s granite exterior.

Apr 11 • 4:46 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Seniors: Carol Watson, 72

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

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

Brice Barnes raises six-figures in first day as candidate

The North Florida seat she seeks will be open in November.

Apr 11 • 12:38 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Randolph Elementary holds annual Science Fair

Here are the Science Fair's fifth grade winners. Pictured, from left to right, are Emma Wernimont, Hunter Bussian, Riley Irrthum, Emmett Endres, Jude Quinnell and Finley Garner. Submitted photo

Apr 11 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • cannonfallsbeacon.com

“AI polls” are fake polls

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

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

Unemployed recent college grad: I've applied to over 1,000 jobs

I studied abroad four times, I earned my master's, and I became a global scholar. But I still can't find a job. All my applications go unanswered.

Apr 11 • 7:07 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Final Carnegie Science Lecture Explores the Hidden Hearts of Distant Worlds

Ever wonder what's inside a planet? Carnegie Science tackles the topic for the fourth and final of its free lectures: "How to Look Inside an Exoplanet" on Monda

Apr 11 • 3:08 AM EDT • Science • coloradoboulevard.net

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.

Apr 10 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

White House warns staff against insider trading on prediction markets

The White House recently warned staff not to engage in insider trading on prediction markets and other platforms, according to a White House official.

Apr 10 • 1:34 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

James Dainard on ‘Million Dollar Zombie Flips’ Season 2, lessons learned

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Apr 10 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

Google’s Gmail Upgrade Decision—2 Billion Users Must Act Now

You have been warned — do not lave this "overwhelming" decision until it's too late.

Apr 10 • 10:23 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

WHO Says Iran Health System Is in Crisis, Commits $800,000 Emergency Funds

The World Health Organization released $800,000 from its emergency contingency fund to support the health response in Iran. Hanan Balkhy, a regional director for the United Nations agency, welcomed the current cease-fire but warned the health crisis in Iran was ongoing. “Humanitarian and health nee

Apr 10 • 8:17 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com

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.

Apr 9 • 8:56 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

A smarter way to build vaccines: Scientists harness AI to target emerging alphaviruses

A team of scientists at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), led by Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D., and Peter McCaffrey, MD, has developed a new computational pipeline that could dramatically accelerate ...

Apr 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

'We got our butts kicked.' Republicans rattled by Democratic momentum ahead of midterms

Simmering discontent could boomerang on Republicans just two years after Trump harnessed voters' anger with his comeback presidential campaign.

Apr 9 • 2:26 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Wellness 360 Pediatrics earns Level 1 Trauma-Informed Care Certification - UT Health San Antonio

UT Health San Antonio's Wellness 360 Pediatrics nursing practice has earned Level 1 Trauma-Informed Care certification from the Ecumenical Center, joining a growing coalition of Bexar County organizations committed to delivering care that heals without causing further harm.

Apr 9 • 12:58 PM EDT • Health • news.uthscsa.edu

3L Rachel Sadler Charts Path in Brain Health, Technology, and Policy Through UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration   - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

3L Rachel Sadler studies health law and policy at UC Law SF while researching the legal implications of neurotechnology and other emerging tools that may affect human cognition. 3L student Rachel Sadler shares how UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration prepared her for a career focused on the intersection of brain health, government policy, and technology. Gained a detailed understanding of how U.S. health care is regulated and where policy reform is needed through coursework and research. Interned with state and federal agencies that regulate health care services and worked with a major health care provider’s bioethics department. Plans to pursue a career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy as new technologies reshape healthcare. 3L Rachel Sadler: The Health Law Concentration has given me fluency in one of the most complex regulated industries and the tools to become an effective advocate for better health policy. Before coming to law school, I spent a decade teaching and working with teachers and administrators on high school programming for multilingual learners. Healthcare kept emerging as the most powerful driver of student outcomes. I wanted to understand how to make effective policy change in this area and how to use existing law to defend people’s health rights in California. Through the concentration’s coursework, I gained a sophisticated understanding of how U.S. healthcare is regulated. I also learned where the pressure points for reform exist. The courses gave me space to develop what became my central research interest: how law and policy can be built to protect human cognition and healthy brain development, particularly regarding new technologies such as generative AI and neurotechnology. The health law faculty were instrumental in that process, genuinely invested in helping me and other students define and pursue our own intellectual vision. During law school, I interned at the General Counsel’s Office for Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I also externed at the California Department of Justice’s Health, Education and Welfare Division. Additionally, I externed at Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Bioethics Department. Alongside those placements, I conducted extensive independent research on mental privacy and emerging neurotechnology, working closely with Professors Emily Murphy and George Horvath. That research became the throughline of my law school experience and the foundation of my current policy focus. I must also credit Nicole Ozer of the Center for Constitutional Democracy (CCD), whose deep knowledge of California privacy law and the public-interest privacy landscape deeply informed my work. I currently serve a research assistant with the CCD, where I spearhead the development of K-12 educational resources in partnership with law faculty and students. I’ve found UC Law SF to be an ideal place for second-career, nontraditional students. There is a tremendous diversity of life and career experience here, and I felt fully welcomed into the community, despite returning as a student at a different stage of life. I came to law school wanting to promote equity in California’s healthcare system. I am leaving with a sharper and more specific ambition: to build a policy career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy from technological intrusion. This is both an urgent and underserved area of law, and I want to be part of defining this landscape going forward. Whether as a practicing attorney or a policy advisor, I plan to work on these issues after law school. I strongly recommend UC Law SF and the Health Law Concentration. When I arrived in law school, I worried the concentration would be narrow and that my non-clinical background would be a disadvantage. The opposite was true. The health law faculty thinks about health expansively, encompassing social determinants of health, structural inequity, and emerging technologies alongside the regulatory mechanics of the industry. The faculty are accessible, intellectually generous, and genuinely invested in students’ development. I found my research vision here, and I deeply appreciate the concentration’s role in this. The Evidence of Success series highlights UC Law SF students as they share how the College’s opportunities equip them with the experience, skills, and confidence to excel in the legal profession.

Apr 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • uclawsf.edu

'Fed up': Brice Barnes becomes latest Democrat seeking to flip Neal Dunn's seat

After years of family health care struggles, Barnes plans to take her fight to Washington.

Apr 9 • 4:30 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

What the 'Science of Reading' Movement Has Meant for English Learners (Opinion)

We should think of reading instruction for multilingual learners as a bridge, not a checklist.

Apr 9 • 1:53 AM EDT • Science • edweek.org

Pakistan’s Last-Minute Diplomacy Secures Iran War Ceasefire

Pakistan warned U.S. officials that ongoing Israeli operations risked collapsing the entire diplomatic process.

Apr 9 • 1:16 AM EDT • Politics • politicstoday.org

iOS 26.4.1 Includes These Two Changes for iPhones

Apple today released a minor iOS 26.4.1 update for the iPhone 11 and newer. While the release notes for the update only mention unspecified "bug fixes," we have since learned about two specific changes that are included in it. First, 9to5Mac spotted an Apple Developer Forums thread suggesting that iOS 26.4.1 fixes an iOS 26.4 bug that affected iCloud syncing in some apps.

Apr 8 • 10:17 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Meet Jenny Carnes, president and CEO of San Antonio Sports

KSAT Sports had a sit-down interview with Jenny Carnes, the president and CEO of San Antonio Sports.

Apr 8 • 9:33 PM EDT • Sports • ksat.com

BladderShield Claims Evaluated: Potent Bladder Leak Trick Supports Men's Health

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Apr 8 • 3:07 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

IT’S SCIENCE. IT’S SURREAL. IT’S THE SIBILANCE OF KIM SALMON

KIM SALMON APPEARS on my screen intact, in motion, but not, I assure him, infected by any filters adding bunny ears, cat whiskers or fish scales. Dignity is appropriate for the man who emerged from the most isolated punk scene of all in late ‘70s Perth to become a force of nature, and whose early swamp-rock take on life after punk was to spawn a decade and a half later – for better and worse – the more earnest, less thrilling grunge movement.Yes, somehow that mega selling, decade-defining scene

Apr 8 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • bernardzuel.net

Jamie Dimon warned high taxes would push business out of New York, but the city is honing its edge over Miami in attracting top talent, report finds

More skilled professionals are moving to New York than Florida, according to a white paper from real estate firm JLL shared exclusively with Fortune.

Apr 8 • 12:23 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com

‘Stop Texting’—Apple Changes iPhone After 15 Years

The FBI warned smartphone users to stop sending texts — here's what happens now.

Apr 8 • 12:21 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

If Vermont is going to scale up primary care, health advocates say this one funding priority is crucial

The House-approved budget for next fiscal year gives scholarship and loan repayment programs more money than the governor originally proposed, but many worry it will not be enough.

Apr 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • vtdigger.org

J.T. Realmuto hurt — and what we learned in Phillies' sloppy loss

J.T. Realmuto exited early, Cristopher Sánchez battled through defensive miscues and the Phillies’ struggles vs. lefties continued in San Francisco.

Apr 8 • 12:26 AM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com

Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran ahead of deadline

The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts has turned to the language of annihilation as he struggles to find a resolution to his war of choice in Iran.

Apr 7 • 5:20 PM EDT • Politics • click2houston.com

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes

Pantheon Review by Walter Cummins The image of Alfred Tennyson I’ve carried for decades goes back to the childhood card game of Authors that depicts him with a stately continence sharpened by a jutting black beard. He’s formidable, his aura superior. Holmes opens his biography of the youthful Tennyson by describing the similar formality of the imposing Tennyson statue at Trinty College Cambridge, sharing the honor with other Trinity greats, including Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. Holmes doesn’t want to chip away at that statue but rather reveal its inner youthful core of the man—tall, handsome, and talented but unformed, emerging from a disturbed family of addicted or insane male siblings and four unusual sisters struggling under a violent alcoholic clergyman father. Alfred was certainly statuesque, but would he end up a block of unformed stone like his equally promising brothers? He was youngest of three equally regarded Tennyson brothers at Cambridge, all bright, handsome, and talented, in fact Alfred regarded by some as less promising than his elders who also wrote poetry. Yet Alfred wrote one of his major poems, “The Kraken,” at twenty, revealing both his talent, his interest in geological forces, and the haunting creature that embodied his anxieties. While Holmes focuses on Tennyson of the 1830s and 1840s, he can’t tell his story without exploring his involvement with the Victorian intellectual upheaval. Tennyson was fascinated by new scientific perspectives, following the latest findings as soon as books and articles were published. He was especially taken with Charles Lyell’s deep studies of geology and the discovery of fossils and a timeline of the planet’s development that did much to question fundamental religious assumptions. The impact of these discoveries is reflected in Tennyson’s poetry and led to the crisis in belief he shared with so many contemporaries. He was especially taken by the cycles of destruction and renewal that informed the struggles he confronted in In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Tennyson was only one of the eventual major figures at Cambridge at the same time, young men just beginning to realize their potential. Charles Darwin was at Christ College, although there is no evidence that he and Tennyson even met as students or later in life. Yet evolution became significant in Tennyson’s thinking and the issues of his poetry. One of Tennyson’s best and most important Cambridge friends was Edward FitzGerald, who became the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and in their on and off relationship served as Tennyson’s harshest critic. FitzGerald was also a friend of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, the two of them partying in Paris as undergraduates. That connection led to a friendship between Thackeray and Tennyson. Others who came to play significant roles in Tennyson’s life were Thomas Carlyle, the Brownings, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Tennyson’s deepest friend at college was Arthur Hallam, who at twenty wrote a glowing review of Tennyson’s first poetry collection, travelled on European adventures with him, and fell in love with his sister Emily. Hallam was also regarded as one more very promising Cambridge student. His sudden death at twenty-two in Vienna from a stroke while travelling with his father devastated many friends, but perhaps Tennyson most of all. He did not write immediate poems of grief but took years to compile those collected in In Memoriam A.H.H., published in 1850, almost twenty years after Hallam’s death For all of Tennyson’s early poetic successes and successes, Holmes reveals him as an often troubled young man suffering periods of depression, fearing planetary upheaval, concerned about supporting himself, disappointed in romances, and worried that he would inherit the family’s mental illness tendencies. Yet despite his seeming withdrawals, he was always writing poetry that he kept private and would not let go, constantly revising. 1850 became a transformative year for Tennyson. He finally consented to publishing In Memoriam with a last-minute prologue that acknowledged God and perhaps convinced the religious Emily Sellwood to marry him after years of pursuit.. He opened up to Emily, revealing his struggles with fears of depression and “weird seizures.” The devastating event of that time was the stillborn death of his unnamed first son. It shook him, but Emily’s faith brought them closer and convinced him to believe in an afterlife. Two later sons survived. With the death of William Wordworth in April of 1950, Tennyson was named poet laureate at age forty-one, reluctantly accepting. It’s as if Tennyson’s life split in half in that year. He lived another forty years, now a recognized success, with the prestige of being an official poet writing patriotic verse, wealthy and revered, no longer the insecure young man seeking an outlet for his immense talent. He earned a place in the Authors deck, now dignified and in 1884 elevated to the peerage as Arthur, Lord Tennyson. Richard Holmes is the author of twenty previous books on the Romantics and Victorians, several of which received awards. The Boundless Deep was shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He captures the complex vicissitudes of Tennyson’s youth, illustrated by frequent excerpts from the poetry, placing that life in the full context of the shattering discoveries that led to an upheaval of thought in the Victorian age.

Apr 7 • 12:35 PM EDT • Science • calirb.com

Elephant Rumblings: The Caray Call

It’ll exist in my mind as simply iconic. Though after an intense scouring of the internet, I’ve come to realize that Chris Caray’s walk-off home run call from Sunday has garnered mixed reviews. Personally, I loved the in-the-moment nature of him screaming along with the ball as it slammed off of Brent Rooker’s bat and […]

Apr 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

USF Health posts broad gains in new U.S. News rankings, led by Tier 1 designation for medicine

In a sweep of strong results, every USF Health graduate program either rose in the rankings or held its position, with eight ranked in the Top 50 nationally and five recognized as No. 1 in Florida. The Morsani College of Medicine earned the highest possible Tier 1 rating for research for the second consecutive year.

Apr 7 • 8:22 AM EDT • Health • usf.edu

Ella Duggan Promoted to Branch & Business Development Manager at The Merrimack

Merrimack County Savings Bank (The Merrimack) congratulates Ella Duggan on her promotion to Branch & Business Development Manager. In this role, Duggan will oversee branch operations while continuing to serve Contoocook and its small business community. “Ella’s promotion is well-earned and reflects her consistent growth over the years,” said Michelle Olivier, RVP Branch Manager at The Merrimack. “I’m […]

Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • themerrimack.com

U.S. News & World Report Recognizes CofC MBA Programs

The College of Charleston MBA and EMBA programs have earned national recognition in U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • today.charleston.edu

Carnegie Science cuts 100-year bond with Johns Hopkins

The nonprofit Carnegie Science will close its operations at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University this summer, ending a 100-year cooperation between the school and one of the largest private funders of...

Apr 6 • 6:13 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Clemson business students land elite finance programs, build path to Wall Street

Through Clemson’s emphasis on mentorship, hands-on learning and professional development, Ava Hester and Morgan Harvey have earned spots in prestigious programs like Girls Who Invest and the Wharton School’s Fundamentals of Corporate Finance and Valuation program.

Apr 6 • 12:28 PM EDT • Business • news.clemson.edu

Behind the Scenes with the Bachelor of Business Administration

Attracting students from a range of backgrounds, Empire State University’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) helps students certify the knowledge they’ve gained through work experience, gain foundational skills that are applicable industry-wide, and specialize in their areas of interest to pursue their dream careers. Whether learners are looking for an entry point into further education, […]

Apr 6 • 11:08 AM EDT • Business • news.sunyempire.edu

Makai Lemon or Carnell Tate? | Prospect Pendulum With NBC Sports' Connor Rogers

NBC Sports' Connor Rogers compares several of the 2026 NFL Draft's top prospects in this week's Prospect Pendulum. Hear his thoughts on USC WR Makai Lemon and several of the classes top pass catchers.

Apr 6 • 8:05 AM EDT • Sports • newyorkjets.com

Warning issued after fire at derelict Surrey sports pavilion

The public is being warned to stay away from Weston Green Sports Club after the blaze.

Apr 6 • 5:27 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com

What farmers can learn from other family business owners

Family farm businesses can adopt strategies learned from enterprises of all sizes to strengthen governance, leadership and succession planning.

Apr 6 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • farmprogress.com

‘Stop Texting’—Apple Changes iPhone After 15 Years

The FBI warned smartphone users to stop sending texts — here's what happens now.

Apr 6 • 3:10 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com

AI That Forecasts Hurricanes Years Ahead: Inside BU Research

At Boston University, research is the driving force behind innovation that spans industries and shapes the future. BU empowers faculty and students to tackle complex global challenges, producing thousands of publications each year and fueling breakthroughs that extend far beyond campus. Learn more about the innovators whose work powers discoveries on and off campus. Boston […]

Apr 5 • 9:41 PM EDT • Science • bu.edu

Bruising Bruins dominate South Carolina, win an NCAA national title

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

Apr 5 • 7:59 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com

Android and iPhone users warned by FBI that certain apps are a security risk

The FBI alerted iOS and Android users what to watch for and what to do if they install an app considered to be a security risk.

Apr 5 • 4:05 PM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com

The revolution in dinosaur science started 50 years ago—here's what we have learned

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

Apr 5 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

'Little belief remaining for Slot's side at present'

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

Apr 5 • 7:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD CAPS PACESETTER SPORTS INVITATIONAL

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The IU Indianapolis women's track and field squad closed out the two-day Pacesetter Sports Invitational, hosted by Indiana State on Saturday (Apr. 4). Freshman Sarah Madi-Bouabre earned a runner-up finish in the long jump while Paige Schulte finished fifth in the 200m event and sixth in the 400m.

Apr 4 • 7:18 PM EDT • Sports • iuindyjags.com

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

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

Apr 4 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com

Woman, 41, Admits She Feels ‘Like a Ticking Time Bomb’ After Learning She’s a Carrier for Fatal Huntington’s Disease

A woman said she feels like a 'ticking time bomb' after she learned she carries a gene mutation for Huntington's disease, a rare illness affects an individual's ability to move and think, as well as their mental health.

Apr 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • people.com

UNK to name Health Science Education Center II atrium for Carey and Brian Hamilton

A major new space at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will soon carry the names of two longtime supporters as the university works to expand health educati

Apr 3 • 9:22 PM EDT • Science • nebraska.tv

UNK to name Health Science Education Center II atrium for Carey and Brian Hamilton

A major new space at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will soon carry the names of two longtime supporters as the university works to expand health educati

Apr 3 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • nebraska.tv

COLCLESSER COLLECTS STEEPLE WIN AT PACESETTER SPORTS INVITE

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - IU Indianapolis women's track sophomore Ella Colclesser earned an individual win in the 3,000m steeplechase as the Jaguars opened competition in the two-day Pacesetter Sports Invitational on Friday night (Apr. 3). Colclesser topped the 10-runner field, competing primarily against runners from across the state.

Apr 3 • 2:51 PM EDT • Sports • iuindyjags.com

Latest peek into pika science written by CMU student during senior year

Karli Weatherill was a Colorado Mesa University sophomore when she showed up at the office of Johanna Varner and voiced an interest in doing scientific research in the mountains.

Apr 3 • 1:22 PM EDT • Science • gjsentinel.com

Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

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

Apr 3 • 12:57 PM EDT • Technology • interconnects.ai

Kevin Garnett to make Timberwolves return April 12, will have jersey number retired by team next season

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

Liverpool striker Alexander Isak has returned from long lay-off stronger and fitter, says Arne Slot

Apr 3 • 8:43 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com

The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be “superionic”

Sophisticated models predict that a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride exists under the extreme pressures and temperatures found deep inside Neptune and Uranus.

Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • carnegiescience.edu

The startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem

Insight Health has raised an $11 million Series A, Fortune has exclusively learned. The round features an unexpected lead investor, the newly formed Standard Capital.

Apr 3 • 7:28 AM EDT • Health • fortune.com

Chaos Over Bondi’s Ouster Has Only Begun | WSJ Politics Newsletter for April 3

Plus, the attorney general learned she was out during a limo ride with Trump, and Hegseth removed the Army’s top general

Apr 3 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com

The newest entertainment facility in central Nebraska is now open in Kearney

Drop Zone features an 18-hole putt-putt course, 32 top tracer bays and four pickleball courts.

Apr 3 • 6:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox8live.com

Southeastern Regional students shine at Region V science fair

Southeastern Regional students earned top awards at the Region V Science and Engineering Fair at Bridgewater State University.

Apr 3 • 5:06 AM EDT • Science • tauntongazette.com

Southeastern Regional students shine at Region V science fair

Southeastern Regional students earned top awards at the Region V Science and Engineering Fair at Bridgewater State University.

Apr 3 • 5:06 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Southeastern Regional students shine at Region V science fair

Southeastern Regional students earned top awards at the Region V Science and Engineering Fair at Bridgewater State University.

Apr 3 • 5:06 AM EDT • Science • patriotledger.com

💸 Goalkeeper joins the attack! La Liga's top earners

L'Équipe recently published numerous player salaries from Europe's top leagues. Of course, La Liga was included too. Here’s how much the top 5 in Spain earn per month (gross).5. Jude Bellingham (Re...

Apr 3 • 1:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ryan Gosling drops out of the Daniels' follow-up to Oscar-winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

The reasons pertain purely to scheduling, EW has learned.

Apr 3 • 1:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Found: Most pristine star in the universe

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This groundbreaking find connects the work of two telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory—the du Pont, where spectra for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V are taken, and the state-of-the-art Magellan Clay.

Apr 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • carnegiescience.edu

Political appointments surging, career SES workforce shrinking under Trump 2.0

The Partnership for Public Service warned that the large political workforce, coupled with a smaller career SES, will lead to a loss of institutional knowledge.

Apr 2 • 6:35 PM EDT • Politics • federalnewsnetwork.com

April Carney among new appointees to FSCJ Board of Trustees

4 new members and 4 reappointments were announced Thursday.

Apr 2 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Entertainment and California regulators push back against Warner-Paramount merger

California officials and Hollywood figures are pushing back on a proposed $111 billion Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, citing antitrust concerns, job risks, and media consolidation.

Apr 2 • 5:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • kuow.org

New Mexico health officials warn about salmonella risks in Easter chicks, ducklings

New Mexico health officials warned handling live chicks and ducklings, often given as gifts during Easter, can lead to salmonella infections.

Apr 2 • 2:02 PM EDT • Health • sourcenm.com

2025-26 CBS Sports college basketball individual awards: Duke's Cameron Boozer is Player, Freshman of Year

Arizona's Tommy Lloyd is the Coach of the Year and Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg earned Transfer of the Year honors from CBS Sports experts

Apr 2 • 1:44 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Sunrisers beat KKR for first win of this year's IPL

Sunrisers Hyderabad earned their first win of this year's Indian Premier League by comfortably beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 65 runs at Eden Gardens. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma put on 82 for the first wicket in just 5.4 overs and even though Australia's Head fell for 46 and India opener Abhishek 48, the visitors still posted 226-8 with South Africa's Heinrich Klaasen adding 52 from 35 balls. Gloucestershire left-armer David Payne conceded 25 from the first over of the chase as New Zealand opener Finn Allen flogged three fours and two sixes but the innings soon fell away.

Apr 2 • 1:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

TOP DAWG ENTERTAINMENT AND WARNER RECORDS PRESENT: NATIONAL AWFUL DAY

Warner Records helps spotlight #NationalAwfulDay, launching April 6, 2026, a first-of-its-kind cultural moment encouraging people across the country to openly acknowledge life's challenges without judgement. To commemorate the holiday and drop the pressure to pretend everything's OK, supporters can download and share an official National Awful Day graphic HERE.

Apr 2 • 1:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Business Brief: Wellspire Financial earns Ameriprise Client Experience Award

Wellspire Financial Group, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Inc. has earned the Ameriprise Client Experience Award for 2025.

Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • cdispatch.com

How did this get made? Giant planet orbits small star

New observations of "forbidden" planet TOI5205-b reveal surprising details about it its atmospheric chemistry.

Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • carnegiescience.edu

LA Chargers help high school athletes learn lifesaving CPR

More than 250 high school student-athletes from across the Los Angeles Unified School District spent a day learning about heart health alongside Los Angeles Chargers players.Students learned hands-only CPR, met Chargers players Elijah Molden and RJ Mickens in UCLA Health Sports Performance Training, Powered by Exos, and enjoyed lunch on the patio at Huddle for Heart Health, held March 19 at The Bolt, the Chargers’ official practice facility in El Segundo. RJ Mickens, left, and Elijah Molden joined more than 250 LAUSD high school students at the Huddle for Heart Health event. (Photo courtesy of Joaquin Torre/Los Angeles Chargers) Along with learning CPR techniques, students practiced performance training on the LA Chargers practice field in El Segundo. (Photo courtesy of Joaquin Torre/Los Angeles Chargers) LA Chargers defensive back RJ Mickens visits with high school students at the Huddle for Heart Health event. (Photo courtesy of Joaquin Torre/Los Angeles Chargers) The event was presented by UCLA Health, the American Heart Association, the Los Angeles Chargers and LAUSD.Hands-only CPR is a lifesaving skill, said David Sato, MD, board president of the American Heart Association Los Angeles.“We save more lives when we work together,” said Dr. Sato. “This collaboration with UCLA Health and the Los Angeles Chargers to teach students how to perform hands-only CPR helps ensure more families in Los Angeles have someone ready to act in a cardiac emergency when seconds count.”Hands-only CPR is a lifesaving procedure for cardiac emergencies that doesn’t involve rescue breaths. It involves pressing hard and fast in the center of the chest of a teen or adult who has collapsed. Pressing can be done to the beat of the Bee Gee’s hit “Stayin' Alive, which, at 100 beats per minute, is the minimum rate at which to push during hands-only CPR, according to the American Heart Association. LA Chargers defensive back Elijah Molden, standing, helps high school students learn CPR skills. (Photo courtesy of Joaquin Torre/Los Angeles Chargers) Most cardiac arrests that don’t happen in the hospital happen at home, and hands-only CPR is as effective as CPR with breaths in the first minutes following a cardiac emergency.

Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • uclahealth.org

MHA Team Wins Prestigious Case Competition | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

MHA students Hallie Smith, Delaney Brooks, and Beth Bleil earned first place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health Administration Case Competition, the most prestigious health care administration competitions in the country.

Apr 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • publichealth.jhu.edu

Presidio landman Brett Barnes: 'This business is in my blood'

Brett Barnes is general counsel for Presidio Production, a Fort Worth upstream oil & gas company. But Barnes is a landman.

Apr 2 • 7:31 AM EDT • Business • dallasnews.com

Doctors blamed her symptoms on motherhood. She actually had mold illness.

Kate Ames spent years battling chronic symptoms like fatigue and joint pain. She later learned there was mold in her home that was making her sick.

Apr 2 • 6:31 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

Inspectors warned about Miami senior homes. The state sent at-risk elders anyway

Even as one state agency was fining Miami ALFs for poor care, another was filling their beds with vulnerable people in state care.

Apr 2 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • miamiherald.com

ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned

The Democratic fund-raising group is facing investigations from the Justice Department and congressional Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Apr 2 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Puttin' on the glitz, and reveling in beauty

A gala at the NorthRiver Yacht Club offered many reminders of how power and wealth can enrich the lives of others.

Apr 2 • 4:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • montgomeryadvertiser.com

Sports paper reveals figures! These are the Bundesliga top earners

French sports newspaper L'Équipe today estimated the gross salaries of the highest-paid Bundesliga players and coaches. Who do you think makes the most money per month? Coaches2. Kasper Hjulmand (Le...

Apr 2 • 4:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Slot issues major Salah update ahead of Man City clash

It’s not often we get a clear injury picture heading into a huge game, but Arne Slot has now given us exactly that ahead of Manchester City, and there’s a mix of relief and concern across the squa...

Apr 2 • 2:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Faced with Trump's attacks on research, French scientists urge vigilance

On Thursday, March 26, the Stand Up for Science collective condemned the Trump administration's attacks on research and academic freedom. They also warned of the risks of these actions spreading to Europe and France.

Apr 1 • 11:00 PM EDT • Science • lemonde.fr

Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts

Fusion scientists have solved a long-standing mystery inside tokamaks, the donut-shaped machines designed to harness fusion energy. For years, experiments showed that escaping plasma particles hit one side of the exhaust system far more than the other, but simulations couldn’t explain why. Now, researchers have discovered that the rotation of the plasma itself plays a crucial role—working together with sideways particle drift to create the imbalance.

Apr 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

4 Takeaways From NFL Owners Meeting

From the latest on star wide receivers to what the Cowboys are doing next, here's what we learned from the NFL owners meeting.

Apr 1 • 7:02 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

Pepperdine University Hosts Thomas Vozzo, Former CEO of Homeboy Industries, for a Lecture on Faith and Business

Pepperdine University’s Faith and Business Initiative hosted Thomas Vozzo, the former CEO and current senior advisor of Homeboy Industries, for a lecture on faith, service, and lessons learned as a C-suite executive in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

Apr 1 • 5:29 PM EDT • Business • pepperdine.edu

Crooked Letter Sports: A smorgasbord of sports

So much to talk about: Mo Williams to Kentucky, Mississippi State’s baseball excellence, Tiger Woods’ errant drives, Warner Alford, the Final Fours, some Saints news, and Rick’s gumbo.

Apr 1 • 12:53 PM EDT • Sports • mississippitoday.org

Brian Ballard testifies he previously warned David Rivera's firm about disclosure concerns with Venezuela work

The prominent lobbyist testified against the ex-Congressman in a trial in South Florida.

Apr 1 • 12:50 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Alumni Spotlight: Caroline Doherty, MHS ’22 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Caroline Doherty, MHS ’22, uses the strong foundation she earned while at the Bloomberg School to make a lasting impact in the field of health policy.

Apr 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • publichealth.jhu.edu