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Asking Eric: My brother and I are estranged due to political disagreements

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure they can repair their broken relationship with their brother.

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Apr 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • cleveland.com
Cavaliers vs. Raptors injury report and preview entering NBA playoffs

Injury news will be worth watching as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors meet in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

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Apr 15 • 5:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kent State football coach Mark Carney receives Josh Cribbs' approval

Former Cleveland Browns star Josh Cribbs visited Kent State University and shared thoughts on the state of his college team under coach Mark Carney.

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Apr 15 • 5:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers - Live Score

View the Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers game played on May 03, 2026. Box score, stats, play-by-play timeline, highlights, odds & more

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Apr 15 • 2:06 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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How mental health and addiction services in Cuyahoga County could get funded – or cut

A Cuyahoga County agency will require mental health and addiction providers to compete for funding under a new proposal. Here's why.

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Apr 15 • 12:03 AM EDT • Health • signalcleveland.org
JJ Wetherholt Homers Twice as Cardinals Rally to Beat Guardians

Tuesday night’s game at Busch Stadium was a parade of solo home runs for both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Guardians. JJ Wetherholt homered twice and made some epic plays in the field as the Cardinals showed their come-from-behind heart yet again to walk off the Guardians in extra innings. Michael McGreevy gave […]

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Apr 14 • 10:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Roundup: Business optimism / Cleveland’s housing answer / America at 250

Slipping further: U.S. small business optimism fell for a third straight month in March, hitting its lowest level in nearly a year as the Iran conflict drove up energy costs and uncertainty. Owners reported weaker expectations for profits, sales and economic conditions, while plans for capital spending dropped sharply. Rising input costs are also prompting […]

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Apr 14 • 4:05 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
/dev: Leveling Up Arena

A rundown of all the changes coming to Arena in Season 2.

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Apr 14 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • leagueoflegends.com
Trans athlete participation measure up for debate

Supporters say the initiated bill seeks to ensure that female high school athletes have a level playing field and private spaces. Opponents say the measure is unnecessary and harmful for transgender students and would burden public schools.

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Apr 14 • 12:38 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Zuckerberg moved his desk and is coding again, says Meta president

"I think he feels so strongly that he has to understand it at that level," Meta's president said about Zuckerberg's work with the AI team.

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Apr 14 • 11:33 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Viking Sports Weekly {April 14}

This Week's Events

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Apr 14 • 11:12 AM EDT • Sports • csuvikings.com
Virginia Health Officials Issue Fish Consumption Advisory for Occoquan Watershed

April 14, 2026 Media Contact: Brookie Crawford, brookie.crawford@vdh.virginia.gov Virginia Health Officials Issue Fish Consumption Advisory for Occoquan Watershed Contaminants Identified in Bluegill Sunfish, Largemouth Bass RICHMOND, Va. – Effective immediately, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is issuing a fish consumption advisory for the Occoquan watershed due to elevated perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) levels in specific […]

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Apr 14 • 9:40 AM EDT • Health • vdh.virginia.gov
VA announces intent to reorganize the Veterans Health Administration

The Department of Veterans Affairs is restructuring the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to eliminate administrative hurdles and grant local hospital directors greater autonomy, the VA said in an announcement on Dec. 15, 2025. The shift aims to modernize the system, ensuring veterans receive consistent, high-quality care regardless of the VA facility they visit. The VA said this isn’t a reduction in force or an attempt to reduce VHA staffing levels. The department said the goal is to improve veteran health outcomes and ensure policies are applied consistently throughout all facilities. As part of the reorganization, the VHA Central Office will have responsibility for setting policy goals and conducting financial management, oversight and compliance, and operation centers and Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) will take policy direction from the VHA Central Office to develop operational, quality and performance standards. The changes aim to provide clearer guidance for delivering health care throughout the VA. For DAV’s statement on VHA reorganization, scan the code or visit qrs.ly/q9h7shd. For DAV’s statement on VHA reorganization, visit dav.org/learn-more/news/2025/dav-statement-on-vha-reorganization/.

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Apr 14 • 8:21 AM EDT • Health • dav.org
Virginia Health Officials Issue Fish Consumption Advisory for Chickahominy River

April 14, 2026 Media Contact: Brookie Crawford, brookie.crawford@vdh.virginia.gov Virginia Health Officials Issue Fish Consumption Advisory for Chickahominy River Contaminants Identified in Black Crappie RICHMOND, Va. – Effective immediately, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is issuing a fish consumption advisory for the Chickahominy River due to elevated perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) levels in black crappie. Fish […]

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Apr 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • vdh.virginia.gov
Scientists finally know where the Colorado River’s missing water is going

For years, water managers have been puzzled as the Colorado River kept delivering less water than expected—even when snowpack levels looked promising. New research reveals the missing piece: spring rain, or rather, the lack of it. Warmer, drier springs mean plants are soaking up more snowmelt before it can reach rivers, fueled by sunny skies that boost growth and evaporation. In fact, this shift explains nearly 70% of the shortfall, tying the mystery directly to the long-running Millennium drought.

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Apr 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Cleveland Browns NFL Draft Profile: CB Mansoor Delane, LSU

The Browns could use another cornerback. But is a first-round pick too high a price to pay this year?

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Apr 13 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says

Stephen Doughty says US withdrawal of support means bill cannot complete passage through parliament

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Apr 13 • 3:58 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Cleveland County Commissioners approve up to $50 million bond sale for Rock Creek Entertainment District arena

The Cleveland County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved the sale of an up to $50 million bond anticipation note for OU’s planned arena in the Rock Creek Entertainment District

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Apr 13 • 3:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • oudaily.com
Former Naughty Dog Dev Recalls Crunch Culture for Games Like The Last of Us and Uncharted

Former Naughty Dog designer Benson Russell has explained how the developer eventually began to believe workplace crunch was necessary to make games like The Last of Us at its "level."

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Apr 13 • 2:45 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
'We knew we had to act': Great Salt Lake gets $30M boost from business community

Three prominent families with Utah ties pledged a combined $30 million toward efforts to boost Great Salt Lake levels, as the lake faces impacts from a record-low snowpack.

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Apr 13 • 2:40 PM EDT • Business • ksl.com
Cleveland Clinic Launches ‘Good Science’ Video Series

The series of short videos is aimed at helping people better understand research and health information.

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Apr 13 • 1:36 PM EDT • Science • newsroom.clevelandclinic.org
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Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage

Some U.S. water utilities are reporting that the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking water.

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Apr 13 • 11:36 AM EDT • Health • click2houston.com
Last Of Us Team Believed Crunch Necessary For Games At Its ‘Level’

The team is reportedly crunching again for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

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Apr 13 • 10:39 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Naughty Dog Embraced Crunch Culture After The Last of Us, as It's 'What It Takes to Make Games at Our Level'

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Apr 13 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
Guardians start fresh against Cards after disappointing weekend

The Cleveland Guardians and host St. Louis Cardinals will continue the interleague-heavy start to their respective schedules, opening a three-game series Monday night.

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Apr 13 • 9:41 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Men and women with obesity face very different hidden health risks

New research reveals that obesity affects men and women in surprisingly different ways. Men are more likely to develop harmful abdominal fat and signs of liver stress, while women show higher inflammation and cholesterol levels. These differences could help explain why health risks vary between sexes. Scientists say this could lead to more tailored treatments for obesity.

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Apr 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • sciencedaily.com
Paxton Lynch discusses time with Broncos, arena football comeback

Paxton Lynch is still playing pro football in Denver, now at the arena level.

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Apr 13 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UConn Health Offers New Level of Precision in Cancer Care

High-tech radiation therapy machine enhances accuracy, safety

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Apr 13 • 7:15 AM EDT • Health • today.uconn.edu
FanDuel Sports Network, Cavaliers' local TV home, is gone. It's no surprise

FanDuel Sports Network ended locally with the close of the Cleveland Cavaliers' regular season. It's a sign of a more expensive viewing reality.

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Apr 13 • 5:54 AM EDT • Sports • beaconjournal.com
Turning car battery acid into clean energy: A surprising breakthrough in plastic recycling

Science News: Plastic waste on a global level amounts to hundreds of millions of tonnes annually, although very little of that is recycled. On the other hand, corro.

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Apr 13 • 5:30 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Rob Marsh to be featured on national TV series 'Next Level CEO'

Rob Marsh, CEO of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, will be featured on the upcoming season of the business TV series “Next Level CEO.”

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Apr 13 • 4:47 AM EDT • Sports • news-leader.com
Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers - Live Score

View the Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers game played on April 18, 2026. Box score, stats, play-by-play timeline, highlights, odds & more

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Apr 12 • 11:59 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Working at the Grassroots Level: A Qualitative Exploration of Frontline Health Workers’ Experiences in Tribal Maternal and Reproductive Health Services

Background Frontline health workers play a crucial role in bridging gaps between health systems and marginalized communities. However, there is limited evidence of their experiences within tr...

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • cureus.com
Infantino’s FIFA: Ten years of power, politics, and so-called ethics

Gianni Infantino promised reform, transparency, accountability, and a “new FIFA.” Ten years on, Infantino’s FIFA is instead defined by political proximity, weakened scrutiny, and an increasing alignment with state power at the highest levels.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • playthegame.org
Cavs score vs Wizards. Injury report, regular-season finale highlights

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards end the 2025-26 NBA regular season season with a matchup at Rocket Arena. The playoffs await the Cavs.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bay Area business owner re-dumps mountain of trash on customer driveway after broken promises on payment. Was he right?

This dumpster dispute really dumped things on a whole new level turning one missed payment into a trashy pile of fines, fees and chaos.

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Apr 12 • 2:30 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Times Opinion: Let’s expel toxic right-wing politics from the Hamilton County Board of Education

Within national politics, we are living in a world dominated by a toxic political environment. While that is severely toned down at the local level, it does seep through into one realm: our schools.

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Apr 12 • 12:01 PM EDT • Politics • timesfreepress.com
Health expert explains link between women's hormones, stress - and what to do about it

In honor of National Stress Awareness Month, health experts are drawing attention to the internal physiological shifts that contribute to rising stress levels in women, specifically menopause and perimenopause.

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Apr 12 • 11:32 AM EDT • Health • ktvu.com
Braves vs. Guardians prediction, odds, time: 2026 MLB picks for Sunday Night Baseball from advanced model

SportsLine's model reveals Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Guardians picks, MLB best bets for Sunday Night Baseball

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Apr 12 • 10:23 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Why Ozempic doesn’t work for everyone: Scientists just found a hidden reason

A new study reveals that popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may not work as effectively for about 10% of people due to specific genetic variants. These individuals appear to have a puzzling condition called “GLP-1 resistance,” where their bodies produce higher levels of the hormone targeted by these drugs—but don’t respond to it properly.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
BGHS students earn multiple honors at science competitions - Sent-trib

Bowling Green High School students demonstrated their scientific knowledge, teamwork, and problem-solving skills at two regional science competitions held on March 14, earning multiple top finishes and one student advancing to the state level.

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Apr 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sent-trib.com
Pokemon Champions next Battle Pass contents leak

The Pokemon Company is no stranger to leaks what with the massive Gigaleak and the Terraleak. Now on a far smaller scale dataminer, ChicoEevee, has discovered all 50 levels of Pokemon Champions Battle…

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Apr 12 • 7:29 AM EDT • Technology • mynintendonews.com
How to Limit The Health Risks Posed by Polluted Air

By Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay ReporterSUNDAY, April 12, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Air pollution just isn’t what it used to be. While levels of lead and sulfur dioxide have dropped due to environmental regulations, other threats to air quality persist. Particle pollution, ozone and wildfire smoke ...

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Apr 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Ballon d'Or Favorite? England, Bayern Munich Star Harry Kane Tabbed As Frontrunner

Harry Kane is currently playing at a level that few are able to match, cementing his status as the premier marksman in European football.

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Apr 11 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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Hundreds come out to "Politics in the Park" candidate forum in Pine Level

Many local and state officials gathered in Pine Level to campaign and talk with eligible voters Saturday.

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Cleveland Browns NFL Draft Profile: RB Cash Jones, Georgia

Are the Browns considering this Bulldog as the newest member of the Dawg Pound?

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Apr 11 • 4:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Cavaliers conclude regular season vs. last-place Wizards

The playoff-bound Cleveland Cavaliers and last-place Washington Wizards are locked into their spots in the standings, leaving nothing tangible for either team to play for -- except pride -- in their regular season finale Sunday.

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“AI polls” are fake polls

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

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Apple’s Biggest Camera Jump Ever: The iPhone 18 Pro Max Brings Pro-Level Glass to Your Pocket

Everything you need to know about the iPhone 18 Pro Max camera jump. From Pro-level glass to the 35% smaller Dynamic Island.

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Apr 11 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • geeky-gadgets.com
Russian Memorial human rights NGO labeled 'extremist'

Russia's Supreme Court has labeled the human rights organization Memorial as "extremist." Experts say this represents a new level of repression in Russia.

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Apr 11 • 10:55 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com
Ahead of fishing opener, health officials update fish consumption guidelines

The new fish consumption guidelines include warnings about eating too much fish caught in northeastern Minnesota lakes and rivers, where fish tend to have higher mercury levels. And the state warns against consuming fish from the Vermillion River, south of the Twin Cities, because of PFAS contamination.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • mprnews.org
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Hawks make the playoffs with rout of Cavs

CJ McCollum scored 29 points and the Atlanta Hawks used a big third quarter to blow out the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-102 on Friday night, clinching a playoff spot and the Southeast Division title.

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How are North Bay alums doing in college sports?

Checking in on athletes competing at the next level around the U.S.

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Round Up: Everything Announced In The Level-5 Vision 2026 April Showcase

Layton! Inazuma! Snack World??

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Level-5 Release Dates Still Up In The Air For Some Potential 2026 Titles

Plus, Decapolice might just be coming to Switch 2 now

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Apr 10 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Browns may have officially won the Travis Hunter trade

Cleveland did well in this deal.

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Apr 10 • 9:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam Adds PC and PS5 Release to 2026 Global Simultaneous Launch — but There’s No Xbox Version

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is coming to PC via Steam and PlayStation 5 as well as Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, developer Level 5 has confirmed.

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Apr 10 • 9:06 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
When and why political leaders polarise rhetoric: Evidence from Twitter/X

Standard theories of electoral competition predict that politicians should converge toward the centre as elections approach. This column challenges this prediction, using 3.4 million tweets from 367 political leaders across 21 Western democracies. Rhetorical polarisation between populist and non-populist leaders rises sharply in the two quarters before an election and reverts to average levels once it is over. Both groups adopt a more emotionally direct communication style as elections near, but they increasingly talk about different topics. The findings suggest that social media turns electoral campaigns into an engine of political polarisation.

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Dawand Jones' Health Update - 04.09.26

On today's episode of Cleveland Browns Daily, Tackle Dawand Jones stops by to give us an update on his health and his recovery from last season's injury. The guys hear from our great friend Greg Cosell as he breaks down this year's wide receiver class and

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Apr 9 • 5:48 PM EDT • Health • clevelandbrowns.com
Pulaski County Sports & Entertainment Announces Inaugural Pulaski MTN-X Gravel Bike Race

Top Professional Cameron Jones to Compete Pulaski County, Virginia (April 9, 2026) – Pulaski County Sports & Entertainment today announced the first annual Pulaski MTN-X, a premier gravel cycling event set for Saturday, September 26, 2026, in Pulaski County, Virginia. Designed for riders of all skill levels—from beginners to elite competitors—the event will feature […]

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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.

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Apr 9 • 12:58 PM EDT • Health • news.uthscsa.edu
Health Physicists: The Quiet Experts Keeping Radiation Risks in Check

When radioactive materials are involved, whether at a former nuclear weapons site, a decommissioned reactor, or a legacy industrial facility, the goal is simple: protect workers, safeguard communities and reduce potential radiation risks to levels that are demonstrably safe. At the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), health physicists are the professionals responsible for making that happen. Their work is often behind the scenes but always with consequences that matter deeply to the public.

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Apr 9 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net
Why Cleveland Clinic Chose This AI Startup To Rewire Key Healthcare Operations

The challenge for health systems now is finding an AI partner that can scale across use cases. That is the backdrop for Cleveland Clinic’s partnership with Luminai.

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Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • forbes.com
Amazon Rises Toward Key Level; CEO Says This Is 'On Fire'

Andy Jassy touted growth for the tech giant's custom AI chips.

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Apr 9 • 8:19 AM EDT • Business • investors.com
Sports Daily: Royals’ bullpen continues to haunt them; transfer portal dominates offseason basketball news

The Royals bullpen continues to haunt them as KC drops two straight in Cleveland.

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Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • kwch.com
Leaders Across Sports, Business and Higher Education Affirm the Value of Academics in College Football

IRVING, Texas (April 9, 2026) – As the National Football Foundation marks 20 years of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society and a record-setting 2026 class, leaders from the highest levels of sports, business and higher education are praising the organization's role in elevating academic achievement as a core part of the game. Their perspectives reinforce the Foundation's long-standing commitment to ensuring education remains central to the student-athlete experience.

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Leaders Across Sports, Business and Higher Education Affirm the Value of Academics in College Football

IRVING, Texas (April 9, 2026) – As the National Football Foundation marks 20 years of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society and a record-setting 2026 class, leaders from the highest levels of sports, business and higher education are praising the organization's role in elevating academic achievement as a core part of the game. Their perspectives reinforce the Foundation's long-standing commitment to ensuring education remains central to the student-athlete experience.

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The danger of when government goes rogue

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

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Apr 9 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Workday CTO trades title for 'member of technical staff' at Anthropic

Some high-level employees are ditching their posts at large outfits to take on the blurrier title of "member of technical staff" at frontier AI labs.

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Apr 9 • 1:54 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Browns address massive offensive holes in new mock draft

In a new mock draft, the Browns fixed two of their biggest leaks on the roster with their two picks.

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Apr 8 • 7:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Browns hosting dynamic tight end for pre-draft visit

Could the Browns go a different route to improve the pass game? Drafting Kenyon Sadiq sure would be a shock

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Apr 8 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Browns veteran cornerback has high praise for reigning DROY

The veteran had a strong statement on how good he thinks the young linebacker is.

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Apr 8 • 6:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cleveland Browns NFL Draft Profile: DE Keldric Faulk, Auburn

A young player with room to reach his potential is catnip to Browns GM Andrew Berry.

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Apr 8 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Illegal SNAP usage lands Cleveland business owner behind bars

The Ohio Investigative Unit says its agency busted the owner of a Cleveland home décor store for abusing federal benefits.

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Apr 8 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • cleveland19.com
How to watch Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Atlanta Hawks on Rock Entertainment Sports Network

The Cleveland Cavaliers are back on the Rock Entertainment Sports Network as they take on the Atlanta Hawks at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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Apr 8 • 1:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • cleveland19.com
How to watch Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Atlanta Hawks on Rock Entertainment Sports Network

The Cleveland Cavaliers are back on the Rock Entertainment Sports Network as they take on the Atlanta Hawks at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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How does mitochondrial DNA affect your health? - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Highlights Salk scientists have created a platform to study mitochondrial DNA mutations that lead or contribute to human disease They generated a library of 155 mitochondrial DNA mutant cells, nearly the human level of mitochondrial DNA mutant diversity The platform and library will accelerate innovation in the mitochondrial disease therapeutic space LA JOLLA—Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but mitochondria brought some baggage. Mitochondria brought their own DNA with them when they joined with the bigger, more complex cells so long ago, and today that mitochondrial DNA influences human health.

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Apr 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • salk.edu
Ringling Bros. brings reimagined circus to Cleveland this fall

Ringling Bros. brings a revamped, high-energy circus to Cleveland in October, featuring stunts, acrobats, and interactive pre-show events.

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Apr 8 • 10:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • cleveland.com
The results are in: New Edition tops Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote

They were followed by Phil Collins, P!NK, Shakira, Luther Vandross, INXS, SADE and others.

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Apr 8 • 10:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
Forza Horizon 6 Preview: Collectibles, Seamless Races and Open World Design Make for the Most Explorable Adventure Yet

Forza Horizon 6 takes interconnectivity to a new level with seamless races and events, collectibles, and much more, all accessible from the game's stunning open world.

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Apr 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Research Week events continue through April 10

Join WVU as it continues to celebrate its renewed status as a top-tier, R1-level research institution through Friday (April 10).

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Apr 8 • 8:04 AM EDT • Science • enews.wvu.edu
SPORTS TALK: 17-time Masters participant, analyst joins Sports Talk tonight

From the fairway to the mic! ⛳🎙️ 17-time Masters veteran Jeff Sluman joins Sports Talk—get ready for some pro-level insights!

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Apr 8 • 7:33 AM EDT • Sports • walb.com
How smoking fell to lowest level ever and other public health wins

High tobacco taxes and comprehensive smoke-free laws that made smoking expensive to start and disruptive to continue. But federal cuts may make that progress difficult to sustain.

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Apr 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • healthbeat.org
This simple springtime activity may help keep you mentally sharp

Gardening isn’t just a hobby: It can challenge your brain and help reduce your stress levels, two factors that may help stave off cognitive decline.

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Apr 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Google finally adds a long-requested gaming feature to Android 17

You can now try system-level controller remapping in Android 17 Beta.

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Apr 7 • 10:13 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
3 Big Questions New Browns' HC Todd Monken Must Answer

As the Cleveland Browns open up their offseason program this week, new head coach Todd Monken faces several pivotal questions that he must answer

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Apr 7 • 9:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dimensity 9600 Pro To Bring Desktop-Level Performance To Smartphones With New Architecture & 5GHz Target Speed, At A Significant Trade-Off

A tipster states that MediaTek is bringing incredible performance gains with its Dimensity 9600 Pro, but there will be one major drawback to this move

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Apr 7 • 6:54 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Cleveland Browns NFL Draft Profile: DE David Bailey, Texas Tech

Could the Browns add a high-impact DE in the draft to pair with Myles Garrett? Should they?

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Apr 7 • 6:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable

Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them

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Apr 7 • 6:30 PM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Donovan Mitchell reveals how Cavaliers changed to accommodate James Harden

The Cleveland Cavaliers led by Kenny Atkinson and Donovan Mitchell had a specific change implemented when James Harden came along.

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Apr 7 • 6:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Twelve Georgia State Graduate Business Programs in 2026 U.S. News Rankings - Georgia State University News - Press Releases, Robinson College of Business -

Twelve master’s-level programs offered by Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business are ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 “Best Graduate Schools"

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Apr 7 • 4:16 PM EDT • Business • news.gsu.edu
Small Business Bankruptcies Surge 67 Percent in First Quarter

A sharp rise in small business reorganizations and consumer filings signals mounting financial pressure as debt levels and interest rates remain high.

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Apr 7 • 3:40 PM EDT • Business • acainternational.org
Public health alert for frozen dino chicken nuggets retracted

FSIS retracted the public health alert for frozen, dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets after follow up testing found no elevated levels of lead.

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Apr 7 • 10:14 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
Business economics teams advance in statewide competition

Two SUNY Cortland teams won the first round to bring their business startup ideas to the statewide level.

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Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • www2.cortland.edu
Stressed Out? How Leaders Can Look After Their Health

High levels of physical and mental resilience are critical to leadership success. Here are four ways leaders can better look after themselves.

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Apr 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • forbes.com
State’s first Health Learning Lab opens at Waianae High School

The lab provides students with hands-on clinical skills training in a modern setting and supports certificate programs designed to lead directly to entry-level healthcare jobs.

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Apr 7 • 1:53 AM EDT • Health • hawaiinewsnow.com
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José Ramírez becomes Cleveland Guardians' all-time leader in games played, with his sights set on Hall of Fame and postseason glory
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Apr 6 • 11:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Guardians add 24-year old infielder, signaling injury concern

Cleveland might need a replacement.

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Apr 6 • 11:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Youth sports training partnership expands with new downtown facility

Young athletes are training at an entirely new level these days with weight training and speed training, which means more injuries can happen.

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Apr 6 • 10:02 PM EDT • Sports • wvlt.tv
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Jose Ramirez's record shows why he's face of Cleveland sports. Opinion

Guardians All-Star third baseman Jose Ramirez set the record for the most games played in Cleveland baseball’s 125-year history with 1,620.

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Apr 6 • 7:37 PM EDT • Sports • beaconjournal.com
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