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Cleveland Guardians' Formula for an ALDS Game 5 Victory

The Cleveland Guardians have a clear blueprint for winning Game 5 of the ALDS against the Chicago White Sox.

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Oct 10 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Big Tech is betting $700 billion on AI. Healthcare will decide whether the bet pays off

Healthcare has something many industries lack: a clear place to put the productivity gains AI creates.

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Oct 10 • 6:30 AM EDT • Health • fortune.com
Can China’s dancing robots swing some new business partners in Africa?

Performances are about marketing China as a technology partner, analysts say, but it is not clear if they will translate into factory deals.

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Oct 10 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • scmp.com
Iranian Spokesman Slams France’s Nuclear Double Standards

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei criticized France’s contradictory positions on nuclear weapons, saying Western nuclear powers seek to monopolize the power to inspire fear and the perceived legitimacy to intimidate other countries.

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Oct 10 • 2:52 AM EDT • Politics • tasnimnews.ir
Jakobi Meyers cleared for Week 5

Jakobi Meyers will be playing in Week 5 against the Eagles.

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Oct 9 • 7:11 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Arteta's conscience clear over Man City charges

Mikel Arteta says his conscience is clear over Manchester City's rule breaches during a period when he was assistant manager at the club.

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Oct 9 • 5:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Boston Celtics: One Thing Abundantly Clear After Preseason Opener

If there were any doubts about how the Celtics were going to play in 2026-27, you can erase them now.

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Oct 9 • 4:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mike Ditka's cause of death unclear after extended health battle

Chicago Bears great Mike Ditka suffered from two heart attacks and a stroke but his official cause of death at age 86 remains unknown.

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Oct 9 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
D'Andre Swift cleared to play

D'Andre Swift is poised for a massive week.

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Oct 9 • 3:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dominic Cooper says he and ex Amanda Seyfried may ‘come up’ with ‘Mamma Mia 3’ during film festival reunion

Dominic Cooper said he wants to come up with a way to make a third ‘Mamma Mia’ film with ex Amanda Seyfried as plans for a new movie remain unclear.

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Oct 9 • 2:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Healthcare workers at 'tipping point' as union ballots for industrial action

Nipsa has been holding meetings with members working across the health service and said they had given a clear message over their frustrations.

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Oct 9 • 12:55 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
👀¿Deal off? AFA blocks Marcos Rojo's move to Estudiantes

Marcos Rojo's move to Estudiantes de La Plata is on hold following the AFA's decision not to clear the defender to play in the domestic league. Extra registration slot denied and CONMEBOL's stanceArge...

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Oct 9 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Voters Aren't Comfortable With the Most Public-Facing Uses of AI In Politics, Poll Finds

A new national survey commissioned by the AAPC Foundation offers some of the clearest feedback yet on campaigns’ growing AI usage.

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Oct 9 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • campaignsandelections.com
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Trump Administration Announces $6 Billion in Science and Technology Initiatives

Washington — President Donald Trump’s administration has announced more than $6 billion in science and technology initiatives aimed at accelerating research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear-powered space exploration and …

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Oct 9 • 11:16 AM EDT • Science • indianewengland.com
A ‘LaPolitics’ Q&A with House Education Chair Laurie Schlegel

What do you think are the main drivers causing Louisiana student test scores to rise? House Education Chair Laurie Schlegel: A great deal of credit goes to Superintendent Cade Brumley, who was hired in 2020 and built a strong team with a clear vision. He worked with the Legislature to implement reforms focused on the […]

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Oct 9 • 10:58 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Fake scenes, real politics: Republican candidates have embraced AI.

From time-traveling politicians to altered Bible verses, Texas GOP ads depict scenes that never happened. Democrats steer clear.

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Oct 9 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • dallasnews.com
Talarico vowed to back an LGBTQ rights bill. Now, his stance isn’t so clear.

The Texas Democrat pledged during the primary to sponsor the Equality Act. As he moderates in the general election, his campaign won't say if he still intends to.

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Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Goldschmidt Plans To Play In 2027 Despite Yankees’ Crowded Roster

Paul Goldschmidt wants to keep playing in 2027. With a new MLB playoff twist and a shorter season proposed, the veteran first baseman has a clear path.

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Oct 8 • 11:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Warriors unsure when Kristaps Porziņģis will return from lingering health issue

What is clear is that Warriors players and coaches still don't have a good sense on when Porziņģis may be able to return.

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Oct 8 • 9:12 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Bengals Get Positive Injury Update on Ja'Marr Chase

Cincinnati’s star receiver returned to practice in full pads Thursday, a vital step toward clearing concussion protocol as the offense faces mounting injuries before Sunday's matchup.

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Oct 8 • 8:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Maple Leafs Handed Clear Fight Prediction Before Golden Knights Game

The Toronto Maple Leafs face the Vegas Golden Knights this Thursday, October 8, and the conversation ahead of the game centers not only on possible lineups and outcomes, but also on potential fights.In the latest edition of The Leafs Morning Take, Nick Alberga and Jay Rosehill discussed who could be the first Leafs player to […] The post Maple Leafs Handed Clear Fight Prediction Before Golden Knights Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 8 • 7:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Damn, This GTA 6 Screenshot Looks So Good People Don't Believe It's Real

But look closer and it's clear this isn't magic

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Oct 8 • 5:44 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Marlins Prospect Eliazar Dishmey's Talents are Starting to Gain Notice

Somewhat of a secret weapon in the organization, the pitcher is revealing his shining skills clearly now

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Oct 8 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Jersey Politics (Episode 531)

This week on New Jersey Politics with Laura Jones, Assemblywoman Marisa Sweeney on her bill requiring AI companion apps to clearly and repeatedly tell users

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Oct 8 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • onnj.com
Gerry McNamara vows to restore the Orange to 'national relevance'

The basketball buzz is clearly back in Syracuse, thanks to a familiar face.

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Oct 8 • 3:06 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Harkin Institute introduces digital accessibility initiative

The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Drake University has launched Inclusion by Design, a collaboration with Value Inclusion Inc. and Clear Vision LLC aimed at helping municipalities and other organizations improve digital accessibility. The initiative offers accessibility audits, user testing by people with disabilities, strategic planning, staff training and vendor management…

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Oct 8 • 1:03 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
'The Social Reckoning' is all clicks, but no results

It’s been made quite clear that “The Social Reckoning” is not a sequel to “The Social Network” but more of a “companion piece.”

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Oct 8 • 11:34 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Pompey 'clear underdogs' in derby

Portsmouth head coach John Mousinho tells BBC Radio Solent his team are clear underdogs in the South Coast derby but hopes they can rise to the occasion.

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Oct 8 • 11:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) Could Be 40% Undervalued As Oz Demand Worries Hit Sentiment

Craig-Hallum’s downgrade of Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) after concerns about softening demand for its The Wizard of Oz show has put fresh focus on how this experiential model supports the current valuation. Sphere Entertainment’s latest downgrade comes after a sharp pullback, with the 7-day share price return down 20.98% and the 30-day return down 25.40%. Even though the year-to-date share price return is 12.66% and the 1-year total shareholder return is 79.19%, recent momentum is clearly...

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Oct 8 • 11:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Aaron Judge Just Sent an Obvious Warning to the Yankees

Aaron Judge is making it clear he wants the New York Yankees to make some changes.

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Oct 8 • 9:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Interview: The Fusion Future with Dennis Whyte

MIT nuclear scientist Dennis Whyte on fusion energy and its potential today and tomorrow.

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Oct 8 • 8:01 AM EDT • Science • pbs.org
Concern after Europeans endorse US science agenda

Germany’s biggest research funder has said it is “concerned” after Berlin, plus several other European countries, endorsed a controversial US-led science policy statement. On October 4, the White House announced that 16 countries, including Germany, the UK, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, Japan and South Korea had backed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science.The document, agreed on the margins of the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, which gathers science ministers from across the world, appears uncontroversial at first sight. It’s a one-page statement, without any concrete measures, that touches on reducing administrative burden on scientists, experimenting with new funding models and the use of “super intelligence” in science, the Trump administration’s preferred term for artificial intelligence. However, what’s controversial is that much of the language in the Kyoto Vision reflects Science: A New Golden Age, a major policy document released by the White House in July.That document attracted criticism for deriding universities as “legacy institutions” and suggesting money be diverted to new research labs. In a speech in Kyoto on October 4, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy and the report’s author, said that the US was seeking to “diversify the ways that we support research to meet our best scientists where and when they do their best work.” The worry is that the Trump administration may be using genuine dysfunctions in academia as a pretext to defund and disempower universities, which US vice president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy.” Many in Europe also want more experimentation and reform of how science is organised and funded, and agree with criticisms of academia made by Science: A New Golden Age. But some also fear that if the US pushes for reform partially in bad faith, it could politicise and undermine the whole agenda. Washington is currently trying to change federal funding rules so that political appointees can block and cancel scientific grants. It has cut grants mid-project on topics related to diversity and other politically forbidden areas. And last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create campus “viewpoint diversity.” “Particularly concerned”Because of this wider US political context, the Kyoto Vision’s otherwise innocuous sounding statement that “we encourage experimentation with new institutional models for science that provide varying levels of autonomy, resources and direction” has caused consternation in Europe, particularly from some of Germany’s biggest science organisations. A spokesperson for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the country’s biggest funder, said that it would “closely monitor whether the current US administration uses the Kyoto Vision to restructure research funding to the detriment of research institutions such as universities and their autonomy.” The DFG was “particularly concerned” with the statement’s references to Science: A New Golden Age, they continued. A spokesperson for the German Rectors’ Conference, which represents the country’s universities, said that the reference to “new institutional models” raises “questions on the underlying understanding of academic freedom and autonomy.” Research funding must “guided first and foremost by scientific not political principles,” they went on. Dampen criticismEuropean endorsement of the Kyoto Vision might dampen domestic criticism of the Trump administration’s science policy, some in the US fear, by suggesting international support. “What we saw from Germany, Japan, the UK and other countries, is an impulse that the administration has exploited with our own science reform movement, a belief they can use dialogue to make things better,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science. “In practice, the administration has done the opposite.” Not a binding statementThere’s been so much concern in Germany that the country’s federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space put out a statement defending its endorsement of the Kyoto Vision, which it has posted on its website. Related articlesIs metascience being co-opted?European researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationThe US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know The ministry said that it “should be regarded as a basis for discussion and does not constitute a binding statement.” Backing the statement gives Germany the chance to raise “issues and concerns” with the US during upcoming talks on science and technology scheduled for November. “Although these intentions appear, in principle, to be worthy of support, they will be scrutinised and examined more closely as the process continues,” the statement continues. Super intelligence?A ministry spokesperson confirmed to Science|Business that Germany had broadly endorsed the Kyoto Vision.However, they said Berlin had not agreed to final changes in the statement to refer to AI as super intelligence. In September, facing protests against data centres and polling that suggests US citizens are far more concerned than excited by the technology, Trump issued an executive order that attempts to rebrand AI as super intelligence, following polling on social media.The name change is to “reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the order says. EU askedThe UK and Italian science ministries did not respond to a request for comment on their endorsement of the Kyoto Vision. Although most EU countries did not endorse the statement, it’s not clear which states the US asked. The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy did not return a request for comment. A European Commission official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said that the US had approached the EU, but too late for the EU to quiz all its member states on whether Brussels should endorse the statement.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world’s first nuclear clocks

One of the scientists said he envisions uses for nuclear clocks in areas such as satellite-based navigation and the synchronization of data transfer.

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Oct 7 • 10:28 PM EDT • Science • japantimes.co.jp
World Health Organization says Russian lab worker’s death has not been clearly linked to plague
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Oct 7 • 10:04 PM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
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Scientists report world’s first working nuclear clocks

In two papers in Nature, scientists from Europe and China have now reported the world’s first working nuclear clocks. While teams from Beijing and Shanghai embedded thorium-229 nuclei in calcium fluoride crystals and fired an ultraviolet laser at them, the effort from Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany realised a similar nuclear clock and used it to look for dark matter.

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Oct 7 • 9:30 PM EDT • Science • thehindu.com
Has Ian Happ Played His Last Game with the Cubs?

Ian Happ's journey with the Chicago Cubs has been an interesting one, to say the least. He has served as one of the key leaders over the past few seasons. However, after a rough 2026 season, the future is unclear. Now, Chicago needs to look ahead to the future after their bats went quiet in …

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Oct 7 • 9:11 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Ben Johnson Makes Honest Admission on Packers QB Jordan Love

One of the biggest debates going on between Chicago Bears fans and Green Bay Packers fans is who has the better franchise quarterback. After years of the Packers having the edge, former No. 1 overall pick Caleb Williams has finally given Chicago something to brag about. However, Bears head coach Ben Johnson made it clear […] The post Ben Johnson Makes Honest Admission on Packers QB Jordan Love appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 7 • 9:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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City Council grills Ishbia and Amtrak over Bridgeport plans

Helping Amtrak move clears the way for Justin Ishbia to take control of prime South Loop real estate where he hopes to build a new White Sox stadium

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The Citadel now has guaranteed admissions agreement with Mass General Brigham University of Health Professions

Students from The Citadel now have clear access to competitive graduate and doctoral programs at Mass General Brigham University of Health Professions.

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The world’s first nuclear clocks are ticking

Nuclear clocks may surpass their atomic forebears and help solve the universe's most difficult mysteries.

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Disney World guests banned after jumping into Epcot boat ride water

Disney World guests were banned after jumping into the Gran Fiesta Tour boat ride’s water at Epcot. ‘This behavior was unsafe and a clear violation of our park rules,’ a Disney World rep tells EW.

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Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon: 'My intention here is clear: bring a championship to Portland'
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Orange County to Take Over Mental Health Campuses, Ends Nonprofit Partnership

It’s unclear what the next steps are for one of the county’s biggest mental health nonprofits after they ceded control of their facilities to the county government.

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Coming to XBOX Game Pass: Battlefield 6, Valor Mortis, Forever Ago, and More

Hope you’ve been having fun digging in with Bravo Squad for Gears of War: E-Day or clearing the dungeons in Minecraft Dungeons II. When you’re ready for your next game, we’ve got more coming soon.

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The age of nuclear clocks is here: A new tool for probing the laws of physics

Chinese and European scientists have unveiled prototypes that usher in a new era of timekeeping, using thorium-229 as their ‘pendulum’

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Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping t...

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Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in ​what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping that promises wide-ranging practical applications and offers a new tool to investigate fundamental physics.

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China’s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna’s on stability, studies show

Chinese and European teams in ‘fierce but friendly’ competition to develop the next-generation timepieces.

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Nuclear traces in whales' teeth help scientists reconstruct their life stories

New analysis of traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing trapped in the teeth of stranded whales has helped scientists reconstruct their life stories.

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Can a robot become a real companion? Science is testing the limits

A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons emerging from research on social robots. People can name them, talk to the...

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HEALTH Yeah! Episode 36: Think Midwives Are Just for Birth? Think Again!

Learn what midwives really do as Stony Brook Midwives clear up common misconceptions and explain the benefits of midwife-led care.

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As tech reshapes workplaces, University of Tennessee rethinks education

The Institute for the Future of Business was born out of the growth of artificial intelligence, nuclear energy and quantum computing.

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Op-ed: Utility bills are rising for the sake of scoring political points

When the cheaper option is also the cleaner one and some leaders still fight for the expensive one, affordability clearly isn't their priority.

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Chelsea co-sporting director Laurence Stewart set to leave: What is his legacy at the club?

Stewart joined Chelsea following the Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital-led takeover in May 2022.

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Former Olympian asks watchdogs to investigate Reflecting Pool vandalism case

Lawyers for David Hearn, who was cleared of charges of vandalizing the pool, are asking government watchdogs to investigate the conduct of senior officials.

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Celtics’ Jayson Tatum Makes Feelings on Mitchell Robinson Clear

Mitchell Robinson has been getting to know his new Boston Celtics teammates over the past few weeks.The veteran big man joined the Celtics earlier this summer, signing a three-year, $47.3 million deal. Robinson is well known for being a big personality, and it would appear that he’s already endearing himself to the rest of the […] The post Celtics’ Jayson Tatum Makes Feelings on Mitchell Robinson Clear appeared first on HEAVY.

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Central Florida students ‘scout’ out coveted nuclear science merit bad

With the help of dedicated Airmen from the Air Force Technical Applications Center here, 89 inspired scouts from across Central Florida traveled to Patrick SFB Sept. 19 to earn the coveted Nuclear

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How combining science and community knowledge could shape coral reef conservation in Indonesia

Coral reefs in Indonesia’s Spermonde Archipelago are under pressure from both natural and anthropogenic activities. Researchers from Hasanuddin University assessed reef conditions across three islands using underwater photography and drone surveys, while also gathering local perspectives on reef conditions and restoration. They found greater live coral cover in clearer waters but limited community readiness to participate in conservation efforts, suggesting that training and institutional support could strengthen local communities’ role in protecting these natural treasures.

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River Market businesses, residents call for action on homelessness and parking concerns

The city says it recently cleared the largest homeless encampment in Kansas City history, located in the River Market, but some say they're continuing to see threatening behavior.

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Trump admin struggles to get answers from Russia on potential plague death

The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode.

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ASU national security expert explains missteps since 9/11 attacks

The war against terror immediately after the 9/11 attacks had clear goals that were quickly accomplished, but has been followed by many missteps in the 25 years since, according to an Arizona State University national security expert.Peter Bergen, a professor of practice at ASU, recently released the book, “All the President’s Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror.”

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Orioles laying off members of business operations

The exact number of employees affected wasn’t immediately clear.

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Warship Game Steals Nonsensical Aircraft Design And Then Tries To Sell It In-Game For $700

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The Jets should change their running back approach

Over the last couple of years, one thing that has frustrated me with the Jets’ approach to offense has been their insistence on using Breece Hall as a do it all back. Hall is a very talented player, but I think it’s clear that he isn’t a complete back. He is an explosive play threat […]

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Red Sox already have clear 2027 plan for Curtis Mead

The Red Sox know how they want to integrate Mead into the lineup.

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Scientists Finally Tested Whether Leftovers Actually Taste Better the Next Day

In a blind taste test, butter chicken was the only dish people clearly preferred the next day. Lasagna, sadly, was basically a wash.

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Brazil: Lessons from a Disaster

By Antonio Martins (Outras Palavras) Defeats become deeper and more prolonged when we misunderstand what caused them, avoid correcting course, and embrace “solutions” that only compound our mistakes. Lula’s government and the Brazilian left suffered a disaster in Sunday’s election. Contrary to every poll, the president finished the first round 2.2 million votes behind Flávio Bolsonaro—and, more significantly, 3.4 million votes below his total four years ago, when the machinery of the state was working against him and in favor of his opponent. His vote share declined in 98 percent of Brazil’s municipalities. The PL, the main party of the far right, elected 121 deputies and 28 senators, becoming the largest caucus in both houses of Congress. The parties aligned with the Centrão—Brazil’s bloc of transactional center-right parties—were somewhat diminished, but will still hold roughly 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 35 in the Senate. That will make it easier to assemble the majorities needed to amend the Constitution or impeach Supreme Federal Court justices. If elected, Flávio Bolsonaro could appoint four members of the Court, substantially altering its internal balance of power. What produced these results? How can the far right be prevented from consolidating them into a prolonged political hegemony? And what is the essential change of direction the left now needs? Explaining the Disaster Across the commercial media and the exuberant chaos of digital platforms, interpretations are multiplying. Some focus on specific episodes: Lula’s absence from the Globo debate, his very close relationship with Alexandre de Moraes, or his emphasis on issues supposedly remote from most people’s everyday concerns, such as rare earth minerals. Among the more systemic interpretations, three seem especially questionable. One argues that the principal defeat was not the left’s, since its congressional representation declined only slightly. The decisive movement captured at the ballot box, according to this view, was a shift within the right itself—from the more moderate and transactional forces of the Centrão toward the more ideological and radicalized forces of the PL and Novo. A second interpretation holds that the nature of electoral and political processes has changed. The material interests and aspirations of society, it argues, no longer play the central role they once did; they have given way to forms of subjective self-identification that the left has yet to understand. And a third concludes that, because of these two developments, we should expect a political winter: a prolonged period in which the far right and the broader right dominate Brazilian political life. There are important elements in all three interpretations. The problem lies in what they deny or leave out: Lula’s third government was a small-bore government. It offered the majorities that elected it neither a clearly better life nor reasons to believe again in politics and its power to transform society. These failures flowed from two fatal accommodations, which I will examine below. As a result, the government suffered a slow but steady erosion of support. And, as has happened in so many Western countries, it gave the far right the opportunity to present itself as anti-system and to benefit from popular frustration and distress. The interpretation that emphasizes the migration of votes from the center-right and traditional right toward the far right has been advanced, among others, by the courageous journalist Leonardo Sakamoto. In his UOL column on Monday, October 5, he highlights the miserable behavior of the traditional conservative parties. Over the past four years, they repeatedly joined forces with the “neo”-fascists, helping to “normalize” them—a criticism that could equally be directed at almost the entire corporate media. Believing they could use the far right as a stepping stone, they instead ended up partly devoured by it. This was especially true in the Senate, where the PL’s gain of 13 senators and Novo’s gain of two came at the expense of the PSD, which lost nine; the MDB, which lost two; the PSDB, which lost two; and the PP, which lost one. Sakamoto’s observation is accurate and necessary, but it leaves uncomfortable questions unanswered. Why did the erosion of the Centrão benefit the far right rather than, for example, producing growth for the left—as has happened so many times before, both in Brazil and elsewhere? The answer is not difficult. Throughout its four years in office, Lula’s third government was almost invariably associated with the Centrão. Here lies its first accommodation: accepting the limits imposed by conservative institutions; avoiding, as much as possible, any attempt to strain those limits through popular pressure; and believing only in the modest changes that could be squeezed through openings in Congress. The failure of the campaign to end the six-day workweek is emblematic. Lula could have electrified the presidential race by pairing it with a popular campaign for passage of the measure. Instead, he chose to place his hopes in the hands of Senate president Rodrigo Alcolumbre. He generated no mass mobilization, did not force his opponents onto an uncomfortable defensive, and won no victory. In September 2025, the government squandered the greatest of its many opportunities to shake up conservative power in Congress. Popular opposition to the so-called Shielding Amendment—which, if approved, would have restricted criminal proceedings against members of Congress—brought crowds into the streets, mobilized primarily by artists and social movements. This opened the possibility for a broader political education: a campaign that could begin exposing the limits and dysfunctions of Brazil’s political system while putting Bolsonaro’s movement on the defensive for its predictable support of political privilege. The amendment was defeated. But the executive branch then backed away from the fight. It remained associated with an institutional world widely seen as corrupt, elitist, and indifferent to ordinary people’s struggles. In doing so, it forfeited its credibility as a vehicle for the protest vote. On Sunday, it reaped the bitter fruits. Are We Doomed? Taking a different approach from Sakamoto, the philosopher Moysés Pinto Neto and other writers have drawn attention, in their first analyses of October 4, to the fragmentation of the public sphere produced by Big Tech platforms. Through their algorithms, these platforms present each person with a different view of social reality. As a consequence, it becomes much harder to identify common material problems and demands—for example, the fight for labor rights or for a properly funded public health system. Voters no longer embrace such demands, these authors argue, because they no longer see themselves as part of a collective. Instead, they tend to value the identities assigned to them by neoliberal subjectivity—the role of the entrepreneur, for example. On this interpretation, the left’s possible error lies in clinging to outdated illusions. Moysés’s warning is highly relevant and resonates with arguments such as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s “Apocalyptic Fascism and the Billionaires’ Bet.” Unlike a century ago, the far right no longer promises a radiant future. It concentrates instead on resentment—especially that of young men. “They belong to a generation that fears it may never own a home, but compensates with the pleasure it gets from constantly provoking progressives online. Convinced their future has been stolen, they share memes romanticizing historical authoritarian regimes,” the authors write. But Moysés seems to confuse this danger with inevitability. He fails to see that the left’s answer cannot be adaptation. On the contrary, it must strengthen the possibility of politics as collective action. Nor does he recognize that precisely such a reversal is already becoming possible in some of the most promising mobilizations of the twenty-first century: the election, at the end of 2025, of the young Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, on a platform centered on the intensely material fight for an affordable city; the Left Party’s victory in Berlin two weeks ago, built around the demand to expropriate private real-estate corporations; and the very recent wave of demonstrations in Spain—including an occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol—in which tens of thousands of young people mobilized by the Tenants’ Union have demanded limits on rents. By putting itself in the straitjacket of the “fiscal framework” in the first months of 2022, Lula’s third government adopted the second fatal accommodation of its term. Faced with conservative institutions and a country devastated by four years of Bolsonaro, increased public investment was the government’s remaining weapon for offering a more dignified life to the majority and forging an anti-conservative pact with them. The same state that disburses 1 trillion reais a year to enrich a small class of rentiers could instead spend money to extend the Family Health Strategy to every Brazilian, at a cost of 30 billion reais; provide full-day public schooling and childcare to all adolescents and children—and, especially, relief to their mothers; achieve universal sanitation while cleaning up polluted urban rivers; multiply metro systems; begin transforming the urban peripheries; and undertake many other urgently needed projects. In April 2023, an article in Outras Palavras warned that the fiscal framework could “shrink the Lula government and preserve the forces that condemn the country to inequality and regression.” A year later, another article showed that restraints on public spending were strangling policies vital to ordinary people and undermining the president’s popularity. In November 2024 came a reality check, in the form of the government’s humiliating defeat in the municipal elections. Even then, the fiscal lock was neither removed nor loosened. On the contrary: throughout the government’s four years, fiscal restraint remained central to its political narrative. The administration proudly proclaimed that it had “put the state’s accounts in order,” without grasping either how misleading that phrase was—given the payment of 1 trillion reais in interest—or how badly the message was hurting it politically. Lula finally woke up in September 2026. The increase in Bolsa Família benefits, after four years of being frozen; the announcement that anti-obesity drugs would be offered through Brazil’s public health system; and the ban on online betting showed that the state has the power to act decisively on behalf of the majority when those in government are willing to confront obstacles. The huge marches that closed the campaign in Fortaleza, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo on the eve of October 4 showed how such initiatives can mobilize activists and the broader public. But it was too late—and too little to change the outcome of the first round. History has not ended The possibility of a turnaround in the three weeks leading up to November 25 cannot be ruled out. It will not be simple or easy. Lula must not only make up a deficit of 2.2 million votes; he must also offset the movement of voters who backed other right-wing candidates in the first round, most of whom are likely to move toward Flávio Bolsonaro. Pulling that off will require a broad, grassroots effort to win over voters, potentially reinforced by new initiatives from Lula. The coming hours and days will be decisive. If Bolsonaro’s movement also wins the presidency, the result will create a high-risk situation for Brazilian sovereignty and democracy. The enormous challenges posed by such an outcome would require the left to reexamine, in depth and with a genuine willingness to engage in self-criticism, its political projects—or its lack of them—and its practices. But would that mean we are condemned to the long winter of far-right hegemony that some analyses are beginning to forecast? It is far too early to say, suggests a recent text by Álvaro García Linera, the thinker who served as vice president of Bolivia under Evo Morales. His central hypothesis is that this political current will prove short-lived. At a moment when the entire world is once again talking about sovereignty and protecting national economies, the far right offers a stale, recolonizing neoliberalism. Its submission to the United States is as blatant and pathetic as Flávio and Eduardo Bolsonaro’s overtures to Donald Trump. Its project amounts to something like every man for himself: greater inequality, capitalism without limits, devastation, and supremacism. Will it work? In the United States, just two years into his second term, Trump himself is reaching record levels of unpopularity and may be on the verge of losing Republican control of both the House and Senate in November. Every new beginning is difficult. Whatever the outcome of the second round, the defeats of October 4 show how profoundly the Brazilian left will have to rethink and rebuild. But just as it would be foolish to underestimate the seriousness of its mistakes, it would be equally foolish to conclude that rebuilding a political project is no longer possible. History has not ended. The times are moving faster than ever. Originally published in Portuguese by Outras Palavras. English translation by Eric Blanc; I’ve added the subtitles. More We can’t stop the far right at home or abroad without a revitalized labor movement, which is yet another reason why you should become a sustaining supporter of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) — one of US labor’s pivotal bright spots. Relatedly, Jacobin published a short piece of mine reflecting on a decade of Bernie Sanders inspiring a whole new generation of young worker organizers.

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From Promises to Pulse: Parliamentary Power for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health

At the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly, PMNCH is calling on parliamentarians to turn commitments into measurable results for women, children and adolescents through stronger laws, protected financing, effective accountability and meaningful participation. The goal is clear: institutions that listen, respond and deliver better health and rights for all.

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Knowtion Health Names Steven Huddleston Chief Executive Officer

Knowtion Health, a healthcare company specializing in complex revenue recovery for providers, today named Steven Huddleston chief executive officer. Huddleston brings more than 25 years of experience in healthcare finance, strategy and revenue cycle leadership, including time spent as a health system finance executive. He has also built and led technology-enabled revenue cycle services companies, giving him a clear view of what health systems need from a partner.

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Manchester United remain interested in Barcelona outcast

The new season has not been kind to Alejandro Balde, who has quickly slumped from a regular starter to a backup option under Hansi Flick.Since pre-season, the manager has made it clear that he needs t...

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3 science-backed ways to help your brain clear out waste

If the brain’s plumbing doesn’t work properly, research shows, cellular garbage accumulates, and a cleaner brain may be a healthier one.

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KFF Health Tracking Poll: Health Care Issues in the Lead-Up to the 2026 Midterm Election

With the 2026 midterms about a month away, health care costs remain tied with gas as voters’ top midterm concerns and the Democrats hold a clear edge over the Republicans Party on who voters trust to handle many top electoral issues, including the cost of health care and the cost of living. Two-thirds of U.S. adults now favor Medicare-for-all, a new high in KFF Polling, but support shifts when competing claims from critics and proponents are heard.

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Nuclear power and waste on Inside West Virginia Politics

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, our guests join Rick Johnson to discuss nuclear interest in West Virginia and the school aid formula. In Segment …

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St. Louis Cardinals Biggest 2027 Challenge? Managing Expectations

I have been a St. Louis Cardinals fan for more than five decades and I have lived through many different eras of losing seasons, championships and everything in between. I can’t recall any of them being more unclear about what the expectations should be for an upcoming season than the one that will hopefully begin […]

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RFK Jr. moves to reveal health care costs

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new initiative requiring the health care industry to publish clear pricing data for consumers.

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Luis Silberwasser out at TNT Sports as CBS’s David Berson takes over Skydance’s combined sports group

The long-anticipated marriage of CBS Sports and TNT Sports now has a clear head of household, and it won’t be Luis Silberwasser. According to CNBC’s Alex Sherman, Silberwasser, chairman and CEO of TNT Sports, is exiting the soon-to-be combined Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, he told his staff in an email on Monday. CBS…

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Rice: Southern Baptist pastors should be involved in the political process

CLEARWATER, Fla. (BP) – Southern Baptist pastors should “absolutely” be a part of the political process in order to press on issues that speak to theological and moral clarity, SBC President Willy Rice told Fox News in a weekend interview.

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NFL Star Tyreek Hill Gets Big Update After Eagles Suggestion

A top NFL free-agent wide receiver, Tyreek Hill, is expected to find a new team soon, according to ESPN. As Hill fully recovers from the setback he suffered last season, the speedy wide receiver’s agent made it clear that he will likely find a new team in the coming days. Recently, the Eagles were pegged […] The post NFL Star Tyreek Hill Gets Big Update After Eagles Suggestion appeared first on HEAVY.

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How a controversial camera system is monitoring mental health patients

The Lampard Inquiry started back in September 2024 and I remember going to the first hearing in Chelmsford. Subscribe The bereaved families made placards of their loved ones, they stood outside in silence and then laid flowers to mark the moment. Now, two years on, in a process meant to last another two years, there’s been a development. Last week, we were told the chair, Baroness Lampard, pictured below, could be looking at making interim recommendations. Throughout the process, she has remarked that although this inquiry is looking at almost 2,000 people who were under the care of Essex mental health services from 2000-2023 when they died, the findings could have national implications for other trusts. ‘Records 24 hours a day in patient’s bedroom’ So why has this happened? One system that the inquiry is going to take a closer look at is a controversial monitoring system called Oxevision. It monitors some vital signs of patients remotely by using a camera placed in a room. It’s used by 40% of NHS mental health trusts. But campaigners, particularly the group Stop Oxevision, have asked for this technology to be removed from mental health wards as soon as possible. I spoke to a member, Hat Porter, today and they described to me what they thought this technology did and explained their concerns: “It records 24 hours a day and it’s located in a patient’s bedroom, which is obviously somewhere you’d usually expect to be a private place. “Our concerns are that the use of the technology has been has been kind of implemented as a substitute for proper in-person support, that it’s kind of over relied on and that there’s a lot of misunderstandings and that the presence of a camera, which has often been used without people’s consent, sometimes without even their knowledge, that that has a really big impact on privacy, dignity and human rights.” ‘Not sufficient’ I put it to them that the company behind Oxevision would dispute their claims about consent and in videos I’ve seen online from NHS trusts, they make it clear that the technology is complementary to trained staff and not a replacement. [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/the-nottingham-inquiry-what-lessons) [ How the Nottingham inquiry shines a spotlight on other key mental health care failings ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/the-nottingham-inquiry-what-lessons) Victoria Macdonald · Feb 12 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/the-nottingham-inquiry-what-lessons) A team of lawyers has been working on the inquiry and with bereaved family members who have concerns about this technology. I spoke to solicitor Priya Singh, from Hodge Jones & Allen, who made the point that questions usually asked by nurses would be missing from using devices like this. “It’s not sufficient to say, oh, the patient is moving around. Somebody must go in and say, are you okay? Are you distressed? Do you want help? Is there anything I can do? Share Channel 4 News “How are you spending your time? So I think a lot of our families cannot see the function of it when ultimately the patient should only really be observed when they’ve been prescribed to be observed, they can be observed more, but that more should really be happening face to face.” The Chair will hear evidence over the next two weeks and then a decision made after that, which could have national impact if she does decide this technology should be investigated or even removed. The Department of Health and Social Care said: “The Government is committed to ensuring that lessons are learned from the Lampard Inquiry to improve patient safety. “We are confident that the Inquiry will play an important role in identifying wider learnings for the health system following the tragic events in Essex and will contribute to improvements in patient safety.” We approached LIO Health, which runs Oxevision, for comment. Subscribe Share Channel 4 News Leave a comment

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Oct 5 • 2:03 PM EDT • Health • channel4news.substack.com
Senate clears bipartisan bills on aviation worker mental health

Sen. Tammy Duckworth says pilots and other workers need to be able “to take care of themselves without fearing for their job security.”

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Oct 5 • 12:55 PM EDT • Health • safetyandhealthmagazine.com
Trump is clearly trying to buy votes with taxpayer money

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Oct 5 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Mary McNamara: As David Ellison names his new empire Skydance, the message is clear: He owns Hollywood

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Oct 5 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
After a legal battle, Marylanders will vote on future redist...

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Oct 5 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • afro.com
Collective Ethics in an Autocratic Climate: M. Gessen Discusses the “Politics of the Past and Politics of the Future”

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Oct 5 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • haverfordclerk.com
Supreme Court declines First Amendment case of students forced to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts

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Oct 5 • 9:47 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Apple Releases MagSafe 3 Charging Cable Firmware Update

For the first time since February 2023, Apple has released a firmware update for the MagSafe 3 charging cable for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Specifically, Apple last week released firmware version 3.2.0 for the USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable. The previous firmware version for the cable was 3.1.12. It is unclear what is included in the latest firmware, as Apple does not publish release notes for this.

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Oct 5 • 8:59 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
ACSH in the Media: Yahoo News, RealClear, Science & Culture, and More

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Oct 5 • 8:15 AM EDT • Science • acsh.org
'Clearly not working': Sam Altman hits AI industry over political spending

In a wide-ranging interview, the OpenAI CEO criticized the flood of AI dollars swamping the midterm elections and suggested a new liability framework is needed for autonomous hacks.

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Oct 5 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
‘Clearly not working’: Sam Altman hits AI industry over political spending

In a wide-ranging interview, the OpenAI CEO criticized the flood of AI dollars swamping the midterm elections and suggested a new liability framework is needed for autonomous hacks.

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Oct 5 • 6:56 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Wilmington selected as national host for Nuclear Science Week 2026

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Oct 5 • 6:49 AM EDT • Science • wwaytv3.com
Democratic socialists scored big primary wins. But that’s not the whole story.

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Oct 5 • 6:22 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org
TendedBar installs countertop beverage system at Clearwater entertainment center

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Oct 5 • 6:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • vendingtimes.com
49ers Handed Intriguing Take on Vita Vea After Defeating Broncos

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Oct 5 • 5:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Small Business Alliances Signal Competitive Positioning by 18+ IT and Consulting Leaders Across FedCiv, FedHealth, and DoD

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Oct 5 • 4:32 AM EDT • Business • orangeslices.ai
Seven-goal Clásico keeps Barcelona five points clear

Barcelona beat Real Madrid 7-0 in Liga F on Sunday, with Clàudia Pina scoring four goals to extend the Blaugrana’s perfect start and open a five-point lead at the top. The Guardian reported that mo...

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Oct 5 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pub owner next to Jeff Daniels' new bistro says his business damaged

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Oct 5 • 12:02 AM EDT • Business • detroitnews.com
Eagles: Brandon Graham Makes Curious Retirement Comment on Lane Johnson

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Oct 4 • 11:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Caterpillar is a Great Business. But is CAT Stock a Great Buy?

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Oct 4 • 7:04 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Jalen Duren Has Clear Message for Pistons’ Fans

Jalen Duren delivered a strong message about his future in Detroit after signing a five-year, $200 million contract with the Pistons.

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Oct 4 • 1:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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