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Finding his way: Caleb Bonemer adds another route to Chicago

After a 37-homer season, the organization’s No. 2 prospect is learning the outfield to give the White Sox more ways to fit his bat into the lineup

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bayern Munich predicted lineup vs. Arsenal: Projected XI, team news
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Oct 21 • 8:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hoffenheim vs. Lyon preview: Team news & predicted lineups

After a much-needed 2-1 win over fellow Bundesliga strugglers Borussia Mönchengladbach ended their four-game losing streak at the weekend, TSG Hoffenheim will be looking to build on that result when ...

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Oct 21 • 8:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
More needs to be done to support student mental health

When it comes to mental health resources at the University of Miami, numbers to call, sexual assault hotlines, therapy appointments and other resources aren’t hard to find. On paper, UM is doing exactly what it should to provide students with mental health outlets. But this support needs to extend beyond a counseling building and a

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Oct 21 • 8:02 AM EDT • Health • themiamihurricane.com
FEST 24, Boo at the Zoo lead Gainesville events this week

FEST 24 and Boo at the Zoo headline a busy week of entertainment in Gainesville/Alachua County, with plenty more events and activities on the calendar.

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • gainesville.com
Live updates: Trump to rally for Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina

Live updates and the latest news as Trump rallies for Darline Graham in South Carolina and the candidates for Senate in Michigan and Kansas and governor in Wisconsin debate.

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Oct 21 • 7:27 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Three Six Zero Launching Entertainment Biz Under Rebecca Dowell

Three Six Zero is launching a New Media and Entertainment biz under Rebecca Dowell, rep of Amelia Dimoldenberg and Munya Chawawa.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
The Quiet Deadline Addition for the Rockies

The Colorado Rockies made several moves at the trade deadline as their rebuild continues. The pitching prospects the Rockies received in return rightfully got most of the headlines, as several of them landed in the Rockies' top 30. But a quiet addition to the Victor Vodnik trade with the Miami Marlins, infielder Connor Norby, became …

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
7 events in Lancaster County this week, from a Lancaster Fringe Fest show to PA Drum Show

There's entertainment in every nook and cranny of Lancaster County, if you know where to look for it.

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
The day's 5️⃣ headlines: Barça lose; Madrid seek victory

After an action-packed day of Champions League and Copa Sudamericana football, and with today's fixtures in mind, here are the 5 stories to start your day. Barça collapse in ParisFC Barcelona endured...

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Oct 21 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Australia’s Live Industry Feels The Pinch From Escalating Costs

Australia’s concerts industry posted small single-digit declines in 2025, due to rising costs, changing ticket-buying behavior and more.

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Oct 21 • 3:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • billboard.com
Student-led composting business brings sustainability efforts to MSU

Starting a business is not easy. Coming up with a good idea is difficult, and securing funding and resources for it once you have it can be even harder. For Tanner Marlow, one of his startup business struggles came after those two steps. He secured ample space and the resources he needed from the university...

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Oct 21 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • reflector-online.com
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Student-produced film captures Ireland sports experience | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The documentary created by a UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media team premieres on campus Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. — This story, written by UNC Hussman alumnus Michael Lananna ’14, was originally published at unc.edu. — Carolina senior Anna Laible came up with the idea about a year ago. At the annual UNC Sports and Entertainment Summit, the journalism student walked up to then-athletic director Bubba Cunningham and took a chance. “Hi, Bubba, I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m part of the student broadcast team from the Olympics,” Laible told him. “I have this idea to do an Ireland documentary on the football team.” Encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the proposal, Laible and a team of students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media worked diligently to turn that vision into reality. In August, Laible and seven peers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, with the Carolina football team and women’s soccer team. Equipped with video cameras, the student journalists covered both teams during their international games — both wins — and filmed scenes throughout Dublin, interviewing Irish locals, Tar Heel fans and key Carolina figures who helped make the trip possible. Back home, Laible’s team put the finishing touches on the documentary, with its first screening at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 in Carroll Hall room 111. The project is the latest in a long line of sports documentaries produced under the guidance of C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tuggle and the Hussman school have sent journalism students to cover each of the Summer Games, and Tuggle’s students have also produced documentaries on Carolina teams that win national championships. But this Ireland excursion presented a new kind of opportunity. “This trip is really unique,” Tuggle said. “Bubba liked the idea, so we started working on it, and it’s all because Anna was forward-thinking and assertive.” Laible’s team worked to create a holistic depiction of the Dublin trip, billed as “Much More Than a Game.” The documentary’s 12 chapters cover Irish culture, music, trips to the Guiness Storehouse and the myriad connections between Tar Heels and Ireland. “Our main focus was to make sure we gave a whole encompassing idea of what this experience was like,” Laible said. “We wanted to show not just the student-athletes, but other students, other Carolina fans, Carolina alumni, the music and really incorporate that all in the documentary.” Joining Laible in Dublin were juniors Emily Brietz, Cooper Hall, Eliza Jennings and Katherine McCullough and seniors Molly Malek, May Proctor and Merrily Tew. Those students also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February. Those kinds of opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support of UNC Hussman and, in the case of the Ireland trip, the Carolina athletic department. UNC Hussman students create Ireland trip documentary. (Submitted photo) “Never in a million years did I think I would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics or to the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, and now I’m even being presented with potential opportunities go to the Super Bowl,” said Malek, who served in a leadership role with Laible in Dublin. “I think that Carolina does a terrific job of connecting us to these opportunities that almost no other university does. This is a university where you have the opportunity to have an interdisciplinary education and to learn and experience a lot of things all at once.” With the support of UNC Hussman, Tuggle and fellow students like Malek, Laible turned a spur-of-the-moment idea into a documentary. When the film screens, Laible said she’s not quite sure what emotions to expect. “I’m a little worried that I might cry — not that crying is a bad thing,” Laible said, laughing. “But I’m really grateful for so many people helping, and I’m excited for everyone to see it.”

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Oct 20 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • hussman.unc.edu
Suns-Trail Blazers Injury Report: Pair of Key Players Headline

Wednesday's injury report yields interesting conversations across both teams.

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Oct 20 • 10:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anthony Black Gets Brutally Honest About Contract With Orlando Magic

The former first-round pick reveals his mindset after missing the rookie extension deadline, addressing a mysterious injury and his commitment to winning despite looming free agency questions.

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Oct 20 • 9:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lombardo check rejected as evidence during Fiore hearing

A Nevada judicial discipline panel rejected Gov. Joe Lombardo’s $5,000 check as evidence in proceedings against suspended Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore.

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Oct 20 • 9:12 PM EDT • Politics • reviewjournal.com
Jaguars Urged to Trade for $12M CB at Deadline

One of the biggest takeaways from the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ loss to the Houston Texans in Week 6 is that the team has a serious need at cornerback. As the Jaguars sit at 4-2 during the bye week, they will likely be considering trades to make them buyers. Perhaps the best name the Jaguars could add […] The post Jaguars Urged to Trade for $12M CB at Deadline appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 9:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Knicks celebrate a banner night 53 years in the making — with sights set on another

It was at 6:57 p.m. that Jalen Brunson’s voice delivered the line Knicks fans have long been waiting for.

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Oct 20 • 8:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Officials Work to Improve Boardman River Health

The Traverse City Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and City of TC are working on multiple fronts to improve the Lower Boardman River – including habitat and shoreline improvements, repairs to a deteriorating retaining wall, and public placemaking projects. However, one of the main challenges to the urban river’s health – its proximity to so many …

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • traverseticker.com
New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

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Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com
Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious

People are more likely to mimic — or even surpass — rule breakers than rule followers, a study finds. But real-world consequences may keep people in line.

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Oct 20 • 7:01 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner Vie to Become the Second Biggest Film This Year...

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Often, people blame “data” for ruining Hollywood, when I’d argue that hype (which can often be debunked by data) is often worse, as you can see in these two headlines. To use a common meme, here’s how it started: and how it’s going: Earlier this year, I read countless (and I mean countless) articles (in almost every mainstream media outlet) about how Heated Rivalry was a huge hit and that it “heated” interest in hockey. But Heated Rivalry wasn’t a huge viewership hit compared to the hype: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) [ You Can’t Eat Buzz…Did Heated Rivalry’s Buzz Translate into Actual Viewership? ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) Entertainment Strategy Guy · Jan 22 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) In this case, the hype (Heated Rivalry is really popular) belied the data (It didn’t make the top ten charts, meaning it wasn’t a huge hit.1) Even worse, every time I write about this, I get a lot of negative feedback, hence why I only sparingly mention the show these days or add lots of caveats when I write about it, but this just further cements the hype. But companies, and the executives leading them, have to determine strategy based on reality, not media coverage. The NHL committed real marketing dollars to a campaign that didn’t work. Sure enough, the latest NHL season opened to under a million viewers. At some point, you have to focus on what the data says, because real dollars are at stake. And that’s why we have the Streaming Ratings Report! To provide and analyze cold, hard data. Luckily, this week, I can be positive and take a look at a huge opening on streaming, along with a very buzzy horror film that customers kind of like, but don’t really love. And a comedy that tried to rebound on streaming. Today, I’m covering two weeks—21-Sep and 28-Sep—so we have a lot to discuss (nearly 5,000 words worth), including a series of film misses for Netflix, another argument for weekly-released TV shows on streaming, another sitcom tries to avoid the comedy curse, Netflix has two new game shows (one powered by AI), Reacher falling off the charts after a huge run, Prime Video tries its hands at the romcom game**,** a look at the WNBA’s big season, a big night for the VMAs on CBS and MTV, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to October 4th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - Two Hits and a Miss Come to Streaming… Three very interesting films came to streaming in one week, and I like comparing them since they show the range of theatrical films. One was a huge blockbuster, one was popular, and one was neither. One is a horror film, a buzzy genre; one is a comedy, a struggling genre; and one is an animated family film, the king of the box office. One went to a tiny streamer (HBO Max), one went to a second-tier streamer (Disney+), and one went to the biggest (Netflix). So… If you just went by box office, you’d expect Backrooms—the $197 million grosser, and partner of Obsession for “YouTube Horror Summer”—to dominate on streaming. If you read this report, though, you know that horror films don’t do great on streaming, and that’s the case again. Backrooms opened at 3.8 million hours according to Nielsen, and had 3.9 million hours in its second week. Here’s how that stacks up to other HBO Max films: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...why I don’t buy Backrooms budget… …two new games shows arrive on streaming… …another sitcom struggles… ...another argument for putting out shows weekly on Netflix... ...and a whole lot more, nearly 5,000 words more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, I’ll be taking a look at the eighth season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, answering the question: will this show ever make the charts? If Mormon wives can make it, surely one of social media’s most popular families can as well. Also, Prime Video has a new horror show based on popular IP, Carrie, Netflix has a horror show starring Josh Hartnett, Below, and Apple TV has a UK import, Small Prophets. Plus a bunch of movies like Disclosure Day heading to Peacock, The Housemaid coming to HBO Max, Ben Affleck’s latest on Apple TV, Animals, and Matchbox the Movie on Apple TV, a John Cena action comedy inspired by Hasbro’s toy cars. The week after is even busier! I’ll look at another IP-based horror show, Crystal Lake, a new MCU show on Disney+, VisionQuest, season two of The Lowdown on FX/Hulu, the fourth seasons of The Diplomat on Netflix and Tulsa King on Paramount+, another season of Love is Blind, and four straight-to-streaming films: Netflix’s Sacrifice (starring Chris Evens, Anya-Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek. Charlie XCX), Apple TV’s Tenzing (starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Defoe), Prime Video’s Love of Your Life (Margaret Qualley) and Masterplan (Stanley Tucci) and a whole lot more, somehow. Long term, here’s some huge IP news: a Game of Thrones movie is coming to theaters, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest in 2029, while Jon Watts (who helmed three of the most recent Spider-Man movies) is directing the next Star Wars trilogy, to be written by Simon Kinberg. I’m cautiously optimistic for both. It feels obvious to say that making good movies matters, but for bets this big (Star Wars is on a swoon, Game of Thrones hasn’t been to theaters yet), the quality has to be there.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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How to Vote in the 2026 Midterms: A State-by-State Guide

Early voting is underway in many states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While the general election is on Tuesday, Nov. 3, millions of people have already cast their ballots. Because states run the federal elections, voter registration deadlines, early voting schedules and absentee ballot rules ...

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Oct 20 • 6:27 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
United misses estimates, squeezed by soaring jet fuel costs

High fuel costs threaten to overwhelm the benefits for U.S. airlines of higher fares and robust spending by wealthier travelers.

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Oct 20 • 6:06 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Bank OZK posts quarterly declines in income and revenue

Little Rock-based Bank OZK on Tuesday (Oct. 20) announced declines in quarterly net income and revenue, and in its management comments noted that some of the bank’s commercial real estate...

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Oct 20 • 6:05 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Rapid City area, business leaders break ground on Northline Business Park

City and business leaders broke ground on Northline Business Park in Rapid City, launching infrastructure work to create shovel-ready commercial sites for growth.

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Oct 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • kotatv.com
76ers vs. Knicks live updates, lineups, where to watch: LeBron James, Jaylen Brown make regular-season debuts with Philadelphia against defending champs
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Oct 20 • 5:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What to stream: 'Yaga' joins coven of witchy murder mysteries

The highly anticipated Crave series “Yaga” finally arrives on AMC+ this week, a witchy, sexy murder mystery that’s a perfect autumnal watch. The series, based on the play by Kat

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Oct 20 • 5:47 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
October 22 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Faces and Places

“Building APAPA with you has been one of the greatest honors of our lives. We are proud of these past 25 years, and we are excited to see what this generation and future generations will do next,” C.C. Yin proudly said.

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Oct 20 • 5:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com
Cam Heyward Once Again Elected to Esteemed Post for Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers have elected Cam Heyward as their NFL Players Association player representative, per source. Outside linebacker Alex Highsmith, […]

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Oct 20 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Peyton Watson Sends Clear Message Before Cavaliers Face LeBron James, 76ers

Cleveland opens the 2026-27 season against LeBron James and the 76ers, with injuries and a new starting lineup among the storylines.

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Oct 20 • 4:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hackensack Meridian Health signs definitive agreement to acquire Hunterdon Health, commits $230M

Hackensack Meridian Health has signed a definitive agreement to pick up Central New Jersey’s Hunterdon Health, a $230 million deal that would grow the state’s largest health system to 19 total hosp | The announcement did not outline a potential timeline for the merger, which would add a nineteenth hospital to New Jersey's largest health system.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Edinburg Veterans Day Parade Entry Deadline is Oct. 29th

The City of Edinburg is proud to announce the upcoming Veterans Day Parade, honoring past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The parade will take place along Closner Boulevard—affectionately known as the "Boulevard of Heroes"—on Saturday, November 7, 2026, beginning at 10 a.m.

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Oct 20 • 4:12 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
SpaceX quarterly revenue jumps, beats estimates as AI business surges

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday said its third-quarter revenue more than doubled, beating estimates as AI and Starlink grew, while capital spending nearly tripled as it invested in compute infrastructure, sending its shares up about 3%...

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Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
October 22 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Sources: Activities

The Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors plays through the weekend at the Bay Area Stage Theatre.

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Oct 20 • 3:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com
‘Call Her Daddy’ host Alex Cooper gives birth to first child

NEW YORK — “Call Her Daddy’s” Alex Cooper is officially a mom. The 32-year-old podcast host and her husband, Hollywood producer Matthew Kaplan, have welcomed their first child together, a

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Oct 20 • 3:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Nonpartisan coalition of religious leaders plans to counter voter intimidation on Election Day

The diverse, multifaith group is training all the way through the end of October online and in person learning de-escalation techniques and equipping themselves with knowledge of local laws and resources.

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Oct 20 • 3:55 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Yankees 'balance and lengthen' lineup with this 1 offseason move

The Yankees could use another slugger alongside Aaron Judge.

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Oct 20 • 3:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Birth centers are linked to better health outcomes, research shows, but 10 states have none

Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but 10 states do not have any birth centers at all, and more could be built with certain state policy solutions and different models of care, a new report suggests.

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Oct 20 • 3:14 PM EDT • Health • stateline.org
Online Communities Rarely Focus on Politics, and Many Say It Should Stay That Way

Most people in online communities see little to no politics in their go-to space, and 54% say it doesn't belong there.

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Oct 20 • 3:13 PM EDT • Politics • pewresearch.org
Centene, Oscar Health outline 2027 ACA marketplace plans

Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces opens on Nov. 1, and with more turbulence on deck, insurers are offering a look at their plans for the coming year. | Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces begins on Nov. 1, and with more turbulence on deck, insurers are offering a look at their plans for the coming year.

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Oct 20 • 3:13 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
$5 Million in Maternal Health Research Funding to Support Projects Aimed at Improving Outcomes for Native Mothers

Overview: The University of Oklahoma has received more than $5 million in federal funding for maternal health research, including projects focused on improving outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native mothers through culturally responsive care, technology and traditional food systems. The University of Oklahoma’s Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing has received more than […]

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Oct 20 • 3:12 PM EDT • Health • nativenewsonline.net
$5 Million in Maternal Health Research Funding to Support Projects Aimed at Improving Outcomes for Native Mothers

The University of Oklahoma’s Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing has received more than $5 million for maternal health research, including work aimed at improving outcomes for American Indian and...

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Oct 20 • 3:12 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
‘Wicker’ review: Colman, Skarsgård shine in twisted but well-woven tale

You may find yourself involuntarily smiling several times throughout the course of “Wicker,” a delightfully dark, often humorous and, well, downright horny fable about a man who’s seemingly such a

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Oct 20 • 3:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Movie review: 'Wicker' weaves a feisty feminist fable

It’s too bad the title “The Wicker Man” was already taken, as that’s literally what star Alexander Skarsgård is playing in “Wicker,” a randy little ditty of a film from

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Oct 20 • 2:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Phillies Mentioned as Possible Landing Spot for Teruaki Sato

The Philadelphia Phillies could look to add a power hitter to the lineup.

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Oct 20 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jay-Z Rumored to Headline Super Bowl 2027 Halftime Show

Jay-Z is reportedly set to headline the 2027 Super Bowl LXI halftime show at SoFi Stadium, though the NFL and Roc Nation have yet to confirm.

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Oct 20 • 2:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • lamag.com
Roper Mountain Science Center star returns to Greenville skyline

The Roper Mountain Science Center star has returned to its pedestal.

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Oct 20 • 2:31 PM EDT • Science • wyff4.com
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Dan Campbell Delivers Encouraging Kerby Joseph Injury Update

Dan Campbell says he expects Kerby Joseph to play for the Detroit Lions this season, but the All-Pro safety still has no return timeline.

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Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds

In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.

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On3 Sports Honors Kentucky’s Lance Heard, Coach Will Stein in Midseason National Awards

Kentucky football head coach Will Stein has been named On3 Sports’ Midseason National Coach of the Year and offensive lineman Lance Heard a First Team All-American.

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Oct 20 • 2:07 PM EDT • Sports • ukathletics.com
U2 to headline NFL’s first Thanksgiving Eve gameday

U2 performs at Suncorp Stadium on November 12, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

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Jay-Z, U2 and ‘Star Wars' headline NFL's next big entertainment events

U2 will headline the NFL's first Thanksgiving Eve halftime show, while Jay-Z is reportedly set for Super Bowl LXI and a "Star Wars" alternate broadcast will recreate the game in animation.

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How to watch the 2026-2027 NBA season: What streaming services do you need?

The national streaming lineup remains the same, but local broadcasts are a hot mess.

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Oct 20 • 1:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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Minnesota Vikings Trade Steam Picking Up Early

The Minnesota Vikings are 5-0 with three weeks until the trade deadline, and the trade chatter continues to grow louder.

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Democrats Outline Priorities for Next Congress’ House Science Committee

Eying victory in November, Dems on the House Science Committee hope to reverse the ‘damage’ the Trump White House has caused to science while still pursuing bipartisan priorities.

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Haley Friedman Joins Linden Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Haley Friedman has joined Linden Entertainment as Senior Digital Talent Manager after nearly four years at digital talent management firm Made By All.

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Haley Friedman Joins Linden Entertainment As Senior Digital Talent Manager

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Friedman has joined Linden Entertainment as Senior Digital Talent Manager. Brought in to help Linden build out its digital division, Friedman will target new brand opportunities for t...

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New Family Business Alliance leader looks to expand footprint

Family Business Alliance taps Mary Cline as its new leader, succeeding former executive director Robin Burns.

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Online student expands domain from sports blogosphere to city hall

Grand Canyon University online student Jon Zaghloul learned about communications from the blogosphere. He started "Sports Talk Chicago," a popular sports blog, and that was […]

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Oregon State expert to lead soil health workshop

Oct. 29 event free for farmers; Registration deadline Oct. 22 The registration deadline is fast approaching for a free soil health training in Aumsville, Ore. The event, held by Oregon […]

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Three Tigers Hitters Detroit Should Move on From This Offseason

Detroit must prioritize offensive consistency by cutting ties with underperforming veterans to clear paths for rising prospects and revitalize a lineup stagnant from injuries and regression.

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Dortmund headline early UCL action; PSG-Barça blockbuster to come

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Ted Danson ‘almost didn’t forgive’ Larry David over this ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ plotline

Ted Danson ‘almost didn’t forgive’ Larry David over a ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ plotline that involved Danson’s IRL wife, Mary Steenburgen.

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New on DVD: Behold the monstrous beauty of 'Frankenstein'

Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 27. "Frankenstein": Released on Netflix last year, Oscar Isaac stars as mad

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Arkansas’ September nonfarm job numbers hit a record high

A 1% gain in the number of nonfarm payroll jobs and a more than 8% decline in the number of unemployed helped push Arkansas’ jobless rate to 3.9% in September,...

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Jauan Jennings Trade: Raiders, Vikings Connected In Rumor

Jauan Jennings has not lived up to expectations with the Minnesota Vikings, and the team could part ways with the veteran receiver before the trade deadline. A seventh-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Tennessee product spent his early years in a supporting role before earning more snaps later in his career. He first …

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Smucker, Mannion to go head to head in debate this Friday

Republican Congressman Lloyd Smucker and Democratic challenger Nancy Mannion will debate Friday afternoon at a forum hosted by the Lancaster Chamber and York County Economic Alliance.

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Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender

The Los Angeles Chargers are sitting at 0-6 and likely to be sellers at the trade deadline. After Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press suggested the team call the Chargers for cornerback Tarheeb Still or Donte Jackson, Mike Payton of A to Z Sports suggests the Chargers’ other cornerback is the best fit of […] The post Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 10:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Giants release veteran linebacker after just 2 games

Giants quickly move on from Jihad Ward after two unimpressive games.

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Oct 20 • 10:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Amazon plans more than 2,000 holiday hires in Tampa Bay

The online retailer’s nationwide hiring target includes roughly 21,000 employees from Florida, with more than 300,000 nationwide.

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Oct 20 • 10:24 AM EDT • Business • businessobserverfl.com
Who is Tommy Tuberville? Auburn coach turned governor candidate

From the Auburn sidelines to the U.S. Senate, Tommy Tuberville is now seeking Alabama's top office. Here's what voters should know.

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Oct 20 • 10:22 AM EDT • Politics • montgomeryadvertiser.com
Understanding Intelligence Across Artificial and Biological Systems

Recently I started a new peer-reviewed journal at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition research. The journal, titled "AI and Brain", is published by Scilight Press, a young

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Oct 20 • 10:15 AM EDT • Science • science20.com
JD Vance declines to endorse Netanyahu for reelection, says he's focusing on midterms

“I endorse American candidates, and that’s where I’m focused on the midterms,” Vice President JD Vance said.

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Oct 20 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Hartford names wholesale, financial lines leaders

The Hartford on Tuesday named Charles Chin head of wholesale casualty for its Navigators unit and Anthony Dolce head of financial lines, U.S. and global practice for its global specialty business unit.

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Oct 20 • 9:43 AM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com
Houston voters welcome long lines as early voting begins

For some voters, participating in the election also meant encouraging others to do the same.

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Oct 20 • 9:30 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Looted French goods are popping up on resale site Vinted

The second-hand online marketplace Vinted has removed listings of looted French goods and stepped up checks on “suspicious” adverts, as the country’s authorities seek to prevent goods stolen during riots from being sold online.

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Oct 20 • 9:28 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Echo Electric opens Sioux Falls facility

Echo Electric, a Sonepar company and full-line electrical distributor, has opened a location in Sioux Falls.

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Oct 20 • 9:28 AM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business
Christina Applegate Says She Was Misdiagnosed With MS After Yearslong Battle

Years after Christina Applegate shared that she was battling multiple sclerosis, the actress said she is "back at square one" after learning she had been misdiagnosed.

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Oct 20 • 9:26 AM EDT • Health • eonline.com
Today’s Papers: Juventus faith in Spalletti, Milan in Krösche talks

La Gazzetta dello SportSpalletti on the edgeThe coach has lost his way at Juve: Faith for the time beingDisastrous start, no lifelines left. A nervous coach asks for clarifications from Bremer. The su...

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Oct 20 • 9:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Oct 20 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
PSG predicted lineup vs. Barcelona: Projected XI, team news
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Oct 20 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alexa Tablet 12 Pro Review: Amazon Comes Out Swinging At The iPad

Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is an entirely different beast than the Fire tablet lineup, and its more premium build and specs make it a legit iPad competitor.

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Barcelona predicted lineup vs. PSG: Projected XI, team news
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Oct 20 • 8:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Planning TB prevention: Considerations for an evolving toolkit

Explore our TB prevention toolkit: today’s tools, the pipeline of new options, and the open questions ahead.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • clintonhealthaccess.org
Tailored to Your Trade: Inside the New Small Business Credit Card Lineup on the Amex Network

Tailored to Your Trade: Inside the New Small Business Credit Card Lineup on the Amex Network

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Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • americanexpress.com
Study links rise in online sports betting to mental health issues

The study’s authors said gambling and sports betting have never been more accessible.

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Oct 20 • 7:52 AM EDT • Health • wbay.com
JD Vance declines to endorse Netanyahu
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Oct 20 • 7:20 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
United CEO Scott Kirby calls for wealth tax and a near-100% inheritance tax

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says wealth inequality threatens society and calls for a national wealth tax and steep inheritance taxes.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
'The Simpsons' resurrects Apu after nearly a decade of silence

The Halloween-themed episodes of “The Simpsons” have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines. On Sunday, the show surprised viewers with the resurrection of Apu. The beloved Indian Kwik-E-Mart

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Oct 20 • 6:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • messenger-inquirer.com
‘The Simpsons’ revives Apu following years of controversy

Across 38 seasons of “The Simpsons,” the Halloween-themed “Treehouse of Horror” episodes have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines. On Sunday, the show surprised viewers with a majo…

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Oct 20 • 6:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • ktla.com
Green Bay Packers add former first-round pick amid defensive line injury concerns

The Green Bay Packers are searching for defensive line help after injuries weakened their options up front. With starting nose tackle Javon Hargrave out, veteran Chris McClellan is expected to fill the role, but Green Bay has limited depth behind him. To strengthen the rotation, the Packers have signed a former first round pick to [...]

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Oct 20 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Uzbekistan's $12bn business drive gathers pace during Rubio visit

The package covers railways, critical minerals, finance and technology, with major US firms involved. Uzbek President Mirziyoyev outlined measures to attract investors, while business executives told Euronews that commercial activity is growing.

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Oct 20 • 6:17 AM EDT • Business • euronews.com
What to know about the two candidates in Wisconsin's 7th District

Republican Michael Alfonso and Democrat Fred Clark are squaring off in the 7th Congressional District. The winner will succeed Tom Tiffany.

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Oct 20 • 6:01 AM EDT • Politics • jsonline.com
LACMA, Perrotin, the new Metro and now the Brick: Todd Gray is having a banner year

Todd Gray has a solo show opening at the Brick on Oct. 18 — the cap on a banner year including a LACMA commission, a solo show at Perrotin and a public art piece for the Wilshire/La Cienega station for the D line.

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Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
List of DVD release dates for Oct. 20 and beyond

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: OCTOBER 20: Masters of the Universe 20: Hadestown: The Musical 20: One Night Only

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Oct 20 • 5:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Why Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So Troubling

It’s a familiar line in the midterms: Anti-trans attacks are a “distraction” from “kitchen-table” issues. That sends a chilling message about whose rights are worth fighting for.

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Oct 20 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.com
JCPS paid $292K for an online mental health service. Six kids used it.

The company is one of hundreds of ed tech providers that have contracted with JCPS

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Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • lpm.org
Threats of political violence soar in Australia’s ‘online echo chamber’

Independent lawmaker Helen Haines was in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car.

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Oct 20 • 4:46 AM EDT • Politics • japantimes.co.jp