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3 Steps to Support Mental Health for Rural Youth

(Feature Impact) Young people face a growing number of pressures, including academic expectations, social responsibilities, complex family situations and uncertainty about their own futures. Mental health support is important for all – but in many rural areas, those pressures are even greater. TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate for rural youth ages 15-19 is 74% higher than their urban counterparts. Barriers like limited insurance coverage, unreliable internet for telehealth, scarce providers, long drive times and lack of public transportation make it harder to get mental healthcare when it’s needed. Plus, asking for help can feel like opening oneself up to judgment and stigmatization.That’s why Rural Minds, the only nonprofit focused on mental health for rural communities, created the Rural Youth Mental Wellness pilot program supported by Boehringer Ingelheim. It was developed by an advisory committee made up of rural youth to provide their peers with practical, free, accessible mental health resources. Incorporating feedback on the pilot, the updated program sponsored by the Sompo Foundation is now launching its national rollout.“A young person’s ZIP code should never determine whether they can access meaningful mental health support where and when they need it,” said Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D., director, Lab for Scalable Mental Health, Northwestern University. “Our lab is thrilled to partner with Rural Minds as they champion evidence-based, anonymous, freely available support tools designed to overcome barriers to help-seeking faced by rural youth across the country.”If the rural mental health crisis affects you or a loved one, consider these ways to help.Break the Stigma Surrounding Mental HealthIn communities where self-reliance is valued, asking for help can sometimes be viewed as a sign of weakness. Young people who feel unheard and unsupported often struggle with being vulnerable, so they continue carrying their increasingly heavy burdens alone.Parents, educators, healthcare providers, community leaders and peers can work to change that culture by normalizing mental health conversations. This includes helping teenagers feel seen and accepted by educating them on mental health issues and coping strategies, listening to their experiences without judgment, sharing your own stories and reminding them it’s courageous to seek support.Consider Single-Session InterventionsThe first step is always the hardest when it comes to seeking mental health support, and not every struggling young person is ready or able to see a therapist. With access to free, confidential, self-guided materials to begin building mental wellness skills, the first step may be less scary. TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-middle-asset', slot: 1, fold: "span"}); Single-Session Interventions (SSIs) are brief, structured online courses designed to teach youth practical skills for handling stress, low mood, self-image and more. The Rural Youth Mental Wellness Program offers SSIs in partnership with Project YES (Youth Empowerment and Support), a free digital resource developed with Northwestern University’s Lab for Scalable Mental Health at the Feinberg School of Medicine.Anonymous access to SSIs through the partnership provides strategies for:Improving moodRethinking body imageReframing negative thoughtsKnowing your power to changeTaking steps toward goalsProtecting LGBTQ+ prideHandling self-harm urgesStaying safe amid dark thoughtsEach SSI typically takes 5-10 minutes. Although SSIs are not a replacement for therapy, they provide a research-backed source of support for young people experiencing bouts of stress or low-to-moderate distress.Know When to Seek Professional HelpSelf-guided resources and supportive conversations are a valuable starting point, but sometimes young people need qualified professional help. Look for symptoms like worsening mood or behavior, substance use, self-harm or difficulty managing everyday tasks, and take teens seriously when they express dark feelings.Doctors and counselors can provide personalized support for youth in crisis, and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential 24/7 support for mental health by dialing 9-8-8.“I grew up in a small town where mental health was almost taboo,” said committee member Asheton Medlin. “Being part of the committee that built this program let me help make sure rural youth today have the support I didn’t. I’m excited to help bring these resources to them because this generation deserves the chance to grow up and change the world.”Find more information at RuralMinds.org.Photos courtesy of Shutterstock TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-bottom-asset', slot: 1, fold: "below"});

Sep 7 • 1:00 AM EDT • Health • news-shield.com

3 Steps to Support Mental Health for Rural Youth

(Feature Impact) Young people face a growing number of pressures, including academic expectations, social responsibilities, complex family situations and uncertainty about their own futures. Mental health support is important for all – but in many rural areas, those pressures are even greater.#placement_1126603_0_i{width:100%;max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid1126603 = window.pid1126603 || rnd;var plc1126603 = window.plc1126603 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=1126603;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid1126603+';place='+(plc1126603++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate for rural youth ages 15-19 is 74% higher than their urban counterparts. Barriers like limited insurance coverage, unreliable internet for telehealth, scarce providers, long drive times and lack of public transportation make it harder to get mental healthcare when it’s needed. Plus, asking for help can feel like opening oneself up to judgment and stigmatization.That’s why Rural Minds, the only nonprofit focused on mental health for rural communities, created the Rural Youth Mental Wellness pilot program supported by Boehringer Ingelheim. It was developed by an advisory committee made up of rural youth to provide their peers with practical, free, accessible mental health resources. Incorporating feedback on the pilot, the updated program sponsored by the Sompo Foundation is now launching its national rollout.“A young person’s ZIP code should never determine whether they can access meaningful mental health support where and when they need it,” said Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D., director, Lab for Scalable Mental Health, Northwestern University. “Our lab is thrilled to partner with Rural Minds as they champion evidence-based, anonymous, freely available support tools designed to overcome barriers to help-seeking faced by rural youth across the country.”If the rural mental health crisis affects you or a loved one, consider these ways to help.Break the Stigma Surrounding Mental HealthIn communities where self-reliance is valued, asking for help can sometimes be viewed as a sign of weakness. Young people who feel unheard and unsupported often struggle with being vulnerable, so they continue carrying their increasingly heavy burdens alone.Parents, educators, healthcare providers, community leaders and peers can work to change that culture by normalizing mental health conversations. This includes helping teenagers feel seen and accepted by educating them on mental health issues and coping strategies, listening to their experiences without judgment, sharing your own stories and reminding them it’s courageous to seek support.Consider Single-Session InterventionsThe first step is always the hardest when it comes to seeking mental health support, and not every struggling young person is ready or able to see a therapist. With access to free, confidential, self-guided materials to begin building mental wellness skills, the first step may be less scary. Single-Session Interventions (SSIs) are brief, structured online courses designed to teach youth practical skills for handling stress, low mood, self-image and more. The Rural Youth Mental Wellness Program offers SSIs in partnership with Project YES (Youth Empowerment and Support), a free digital resource developed with Northwestern University’s Lab for Scalable Mental Health at the Feinberg School of Medicine.Anonymous access to SSIs through the partnership provides strategies for:Improving moodRethinking body imageReframing negative thoughtsKnowing your power to changeTaking steps toward goalsProtecting LGBTQ+ prideHandling self-harm urgesStaying safe amid dark thoughtsEach SSI typically takes 5-10 minutes. Although SSIs are not a replacement for therapy, they provide a research-backed source of support for young people experiencing bouts of stress or low-to-moderate distress.Know When to Seek Professional HelpSelf-guided resources and supportive conversations are a valuable starting point, but sometimes young people need qualified professional help. Look for symptoms like worsening mood or behavior, substance use, self-harm or difficulty managing everyday tasks, and take teens seriously when they express dark feelings.Doctors and counselors can provide personalized support for youth in crisis, and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential 24/7 support for mental health by dialing 9-8-8.“I grew up in a small town where mental health was almost taboo,” said committee member Asheton Medlin. “Being part of the committee that built this program let me help make sure rural youth today have the support I didn’t. I’m excited to help bring these resources to them because this generation deserves the chance to grow up and change the world.”Find more information at RuralMinds.org.Photos courtesy of Shutterstock

Sep 7 • 1:00 AM EDT • Health • herald-dispatch.com

The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. 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The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. 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[ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??

Sep 6 • 6:05 PM EDT • Technology • theargumentmag.com

Players Ratings As Bournemouth Let Another Lead Slip Late On

Brilliant in spells but another ultimately frustrating finish for the Cherries. Bournemouth looked capable of running riot at St James’ Park but couldn’t find the killer third goal before Newcastle struck late again, but there was a lot to like about Marco Rose's side in this thriller up north.

Sep 6 • 5:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Sinners & Saints: Roma 2, Atalanta 1

Soulé and Hermoso stole the show yesterday, turning a bitter 1-0 defeat into a thrilling 2-1 win.

Sep 6 • 1:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Detroit Pistons' Kevin Huerter talks thrill of horse racing ownership

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Sep 6 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

My new porch is a mess. My grandmother would appreciate the opportunity to make it better.

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Sep 6 • 8:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • theadvocate.com

“Absolutely Robbed”: CFB Fans Feel For Western Michigan as Wolverines Win Low Scoring Thriller on Hail Mary

The Western Michigan Broncos almost pulled off an upset victory over the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday. A low-scoring game in Ann Arbor left fans on the edge of their seats.

Sep 6 • 5:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

US Open: Naomi Osaka takes care of business against Elise Mertens while Iva Jovic edges out good friend Alex Eala in thriller

Naomi Osaka continued to impress with ‌her style and staying power helping her battle past Elise Mertens to ​reach the fourth round; watch the US Open live on Sky Sports Tennis and Sky Sports+, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports app

Sep 6 • 12:50 AM EDT • Business • skysports.com

Tennessee football news: Faizon Brandon turns heads in Volunteers debut

The Tennessee Volunteers took on the Furman Paladins at Neyland Stadium on Saturday in a clash between the FBS and FCS teams. The Paladins came in 1-0 but were quickly outclassed by the Volunteers and their true freshman quarterback Faizon Brandon, who thrilled the Neyland Stadium crowd with stellar play in his college football debut. The game came […] The post Tennessee football news: Faizon Brandon turns heads in Volunteers debut appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Sep 5 • 7:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Padres Announce Manny Machado Move During Yankees Series

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Sep 5 • 6:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Hermoso on Roma’s mentality: “We always believe until the end.”

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Sep 5 • 5:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 5 • 3:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 5 • 1:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 5 • 11:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 5 • 9:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

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Sep 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • duluthnewstribune.com

Williams sisters fall in thrilling return to US Open doubles

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Sep 4 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

MLB thrilled with NBC’s first season of ‘Sunday Night Baseball’

NBC closed out its first season of Sunday Night Baseball on Sunday with Reds-Cubs, which drew 2.8 million viewers across NBC and Peacock. Across the full season, NBC and Peacock averaged 2.7 million viewers over 14 primetime broadcasts, the most-watched Sunday Night Baseball season since 2007, and that average holds even when factoring in NBC’s…

Sep 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How Mark Wahlberg made a mafia hitman’s son cry behind the scenes of ‘By Any Means’

‘By Any Means’ director Elegance Bratton tells EW how he adapted the incredible true story of a mafia hitman who helped the FBI solve the murder of a civil rights leader. Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star in the new thriller.

Sep 4 • 12:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Madison Keys Saves Five Match Points to Survive Anna Bondar

Madison Keys produced the escape act of the US Open so far, clawing back from 5-2 down in the third set and fending off five match points before outlasting Anna Bondar 5-7 6-4 7-6(5) in a second-round thriller that had Court 17 on its feet. The 22nd seed and former Australian Open champion looked in …

Sep 3 • 6:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Giants Take Down Pirates in Extra Innings

Rafael Devers continued his torrid home run streak as the San Francisco Giants edged past the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 10-inning thriller.

Sep 3 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Duke, Tulane clash in season opener following championship runs

Transfer quarterbacks Zeon Chriss-Gremillion and Walker Eget clash in Durham as the reigning ACC champions host the Green Wave in a rematch of last year's 34-27 thriller.

Sep 3 • 1:14 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Home sports competitions kick off at The Nest

Albany High hosted its first home sports competition of the 2026-27 season at The Nest on Tuesday evening as our boys' soccer team faced off against Schalmont! Our Falcons delivered a thrilling win, defeating the Sabres 4-0. Ahadi Wangya, Adam Rouse, Garnett Ngome Ekiti and Rajanie Morgan each scored a goal, with Ngome Ekiti also delivering an assist. Evan Bermejo recorded five saves for Albany to record the shutout. Come to Albany High tonight, Sept. 2, to pack the stands with Falcon fans! Our girls' tennis team will face off against Guilderland at 4:15 p.m. and our girls' soccer team takes on Berne-Knox-Westerlo at 4:30 p.m. Let's go Falcons!

Sep 2 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • albanyschools.org

Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center welcomes hospitalist Dr. Chukwuemeka Umeh

Dr. Chukwuemeka Umeh, a hospitalist, is thrilled to join Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center.

Sep 2 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org

LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter

Key Takeaways Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for the vast majority of matter in our universe. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a world-leading dark matter detector and specializes in searching for WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. A new LZ study found one particle interaction that is difficult to explain with known background processes and could potentially have been caused by a WIMP. LZ continues to run to see if additional data strengthens or weakens the hint of a dark matter interaction. For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected. Determining exactly what it is remains one of the biggest questions about our world. Now, a new analysis from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has recorded a single particle interaction that researchers have great difficulty explaining with known background signals from normal matter. The result does not yet meet the statistical threshold required to claim a discovery, but is the most compelling hint of dark matter reported by the experiment to date. LZ is an international collaboration of 250 scientists and engineers from 39 institutions. The detector is managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and operates nearly one mile below ground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The experiment uses 10 tonnes of ultrapure liquid xenon to search for dark matter and is optimized to look for WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. The results were presented in a scientific talk at the 2026 TeV Particle Astrophysics conference in Japan. The paper will be released on the online repository arXiv and submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters. “We’re very intrigued to see this event in the data, in the region where we expect dark matter to show up and the competing backgrounds are very low,” said Rick Gaitskell, a professor at Brown University and the spokesperson for LZ. “With only one event, we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. We are not claiming to have seen dark matter. But we have seen something interesting that we want to share with the scientific community for their input.” The LZ collaboration studies experimental data in batches. In the new result, researchers analyzed 220 live days of data collected between March 2023 and April 2024. The collaboration had previously searched this dataset for faint signals from the simplest kinds of WIMP interactions. The new analysis searched for a broader range of possible WIMP interactions that could deposit more energy in the detector. LZ is particularly sensitive to such signals while also minimizing false positives. “This was a detailed study in a region we hadn’t explored within this dataset, and we spent months of additional effort to understand all the possible causes of background events,” said Sam Eriksen, a senior research associate at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and lead author of the study. “We understand our detector and the backgrounds so well that even a single outstanding event, like the one we found, is important. We expect dark matter events to be extremely rare, so only a handful could mark the first detection of WIMP dark matter.” If the anomalous event was caused by dark matter, the WIMP that generated it would likely have a mass of at least 200 GeV/c2 (gigaelectronvolts), or more than 200 times the mass of a proton. It would also suggest a specific type of interaction between WIMPs and ordinary matter beyond the simplest model. The LZ results have not reached “5-sigma” significance, the statistical threshold considered a discovery in physics. The new analysis is 2.6 sigma, meaning there is approximately a 0.5% chance that the event could be explained by known backgrounds. With additional data, researchers can test whether the finding continues to grow in significance or fades away. LZ has already accumulated the world’s largest dark matter dataset and will continue to accrue WIMP search data at SURF, substantially improving their search statistics. LZ searches for dark matter by looking for signature flashes of light from energy deposited in the detector. The collaboration leverages multiple methods to prevent or account for particle interactions caused by normal matter. This includes the mile of rock that shields the detector from cosmic rays from space, a water tank and outer detectors that protect the central detector from background neutrons, and a suite of computational tools that disentangle particle interactions and reject dark matter mimics. “Outlier events in the data are not unexpected, but they usually stand out as a background of some kind when you look at them deeper,” said Aaron Manalaysay, a physicist at Berkeley Lab and the chair of LZ’s Institutional Board. “This is the first example in any experiment I’ve worked on of an outlier that appears valid in every way. Of course, we’re still twisting our brains trying to think if there’s a rare background mechanism we could’ve missed, but it’s thrilling to wonder if this could be the first hint of a dark-matter observation.” LZ is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science user facility. LZ is also supported by the Science & Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics; and the Institute for Basic Science, Korea. Thirty-nine institutions of higher education and advanced research provided support to LZ. The LZ collaboration acknowledges the assistance of the Sanford Underground Research Facility. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

Sep 1 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov

Netflix’s #1 Movie Has Viewers Raving About the Cast—and Criticizing This One Thing

Netflix’s latest number one movie has viewers seriously divided. While the star-studded cast is earning plenty of praise, some viewers are calling out one major issue with the thriller.

Aug 31 • 12:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • purewow.com

Italian American Powerhouse AGBO Unveils New Hit Thriller ‘The Whisper Man’ on Netflix

AGBO's latest feature film, The Whisper Man, premiered Friday on Netflix and surged to the platform's no. 1 spot, marking another major release for the independent studio founded by Italian American filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo. Based on Alex North's bestselling 2019 novel, the psychological crime thriller brings together an acclaimed cast led by Robert…

Aug 30 • 2:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • orderisda.org

Alonso warns Chelsea after thriller: “We sat too deep” after blazing start vs Brighton

Xabi Alonso has said Chelsea were punished for sitting too deep after almost blowing a three-goal lead against Brighton.Chelsea claimed their second straight win of the newPremier League season after ...

Aug 30 • 12:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Miami Heat's Klay Thompson Already Thrilled About New Playing Environment

Klay Thompson is enjoying the competitive nature of the Miami Heat organization

Aug 29 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Packers Preseason Game 3: Some statistical nuggets vs. the Cardinals

Digging into some early numbers on the Packers thrilling preseason win over the Cardinals

Aug 29 • 2:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

This month’s options include an adaptation of an early Stephen King novel, jungle dinosaur battles and atmospheric thrillers.

Aug 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com

New Irvine hospital is a dream fulfilled | UCI Health

Dr. Thomas Cesario was a practicing UC Irvine School of Medicine physician even before the University of California bought the old Orange County medical center in 1976. After decades of pushing to get a modern hospital built on Irvine campus, he has finally seen that dream fulfilled. "We fought to have this hospital built for over 50 years, and a lot of sweat and anxiety went into that effort,” says the 86-year-old former medical school dean. “I'm thrilled that it’s now finally here."

Aug 28 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • ucihealth.org

Apple TV’s sci-fi thriller Dark Matter gets even trippier in season 2

Embrace the confusion.

Aug 28 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theverge.com

Need a new Netflix mystery? Korean thriller 'Mousetrap' will ensnare you.

'Mousetrap' will ensnare you.

Aug 28 • 6:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

Countdown to the Bundesliga opener against HSV

Exciting facts about the matchThere have been 117 meetings between BVB (47 wins) and HSV (41), including the 1957 German championship final (4-1), the 1963 DFB Cup final (0-3), and 104 mostly thrillin...

Aug 26 • 6:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Round out your summer reading with these 4 thrillers and mysteries

In these four darkly funny and deeply unsettling novels, obsession loosens buried secrets and accountability rarely lands where it should.

Aug 26 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

Two new Nintendo Switch 2 bundles deliver sun-soaked sports, high-speed thrills and extra value - News

Power up your play with two exciting Nintendo Switch 2 bundles, arriving in the coming months and bringing even more fun to players! Gather friends and family together, whether in the same room¹ or miles away², for some high-energy races across a sp…

Aug 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • nintendo.com

Iowa author’s debut book ‘Hacked By You’ a romance-thriller

Shellsburg author Emily Scheer combined high-stakes cybercrime and suspense in her debut novel, “Hacked by You.” Learn how she brought Natasha and Zade's story to life and check out her upcoming events.

Aug 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com

You Don’t Need Speed To Feel A Thrill, Science Explains Why

Castrol research with Brainbox tracks brain waves, heart rate, skin response and eye movement to pinpoint when driving feels thrilling instead of scary.

Aug 24 • 7:44 AM EDT • Science • motor1.com

Newcastle and Liverpool crank up the entertainment for emotional send-off

While the teams produced more promise than polish, this thrilling encounter seemed fitting tribute to a true legend

Aug 23 • 4:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • theguardian.com

Cowboys news: Brian Schottenheimer fired up over rare preseason moment

The Dallas Cowboys looked incredible during their latest preseason game. Dallas thumped Arizona 34-13 in a game that was decided in the first quarter. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer was thrilled with his team’s performance after another tough week of training camp practices. Schottenheimer was extremely excited during his postgame remarks […] The post Cowboys news: Brian Schottenheimer fired up over rare preseason moment appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Aug 23 • 2:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Universal roller coaster sends thrills and noise into nearby neighborhood

They say the noise coming from the new ride is disturbing and disruptive

Aug 23 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com

Orioles news: O’s within one game of WC after walkoff

The Orioles continued their dominance of the Rays with a thrilling comeback.

Aug 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Brooks hits hat-trick as Crues win five-goal thriller

Crusaders make it back-to-back wins as they come out on top against 10-man Portadown in a five-goal thriller at Seaview.

Aug 22 • 3:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Pre-match thoughts: Jaka Bijol

With kick off at the City Ground just around the corner in today’s Premier League opener, defender Jaka Bijol is thrilled at the prospect of competitive football returning.Ahead of starting in a bac...

Aug 22 • 8:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'It Ends' review: Gen Z's disillusionment is distilled in a mind-snapping road trip thriller

Alexander Ullom's directorial debut is here to mess you up.

Aug 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

Hot Ticket: From the Big Top to the beach

Double the thrills: Landry’s Select Club members can get twice the amusement for the price of one this weekend during a special promotion at the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

Aug 20 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • galvnews.com

Anya Taylor-Joy abducts Chris Evans’ movie star in first look at Netflix’s provocative thriller ‘Sacrifice’ (exclusive)

See the debut images of Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Malkovich, and Charli XCX in the new film from acclaimed music video director Romain Gavras.

Aug 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Eric Dane’s daughter lands first movie role opposite mom Rebecca Gayheart

Georgia Dane, Eric Dane’s youngest daughter with Rebecca Gayheart, has landed her first acting role (opposite her mom) in ‘The Ocean Between Them,’ a real-life survival thriller coming to Lifetime.

Aug 18 • 7:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Williams sisters lose on doubles return

Serena and Venus Williams lose a thriller at the Cincinnati Open in their first doubles match together for four years.

Aug 18 • 2:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The hidden politics of time: How clocks, calendars — and now-contentious time zones

NEW YORK (AP) — It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it’s lost. […]

Aug 17 • 11:05 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Caitlin Clark leads Fever past Dream in overtime thriller

Aug 16 • 7:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Spain beat Ireland in five-goal thriller at World Cup

Ireland miss an opportunity to seize control of their World Cup future after losing 3-2 to Spain in a thrilling opening World Cup Pool C game in Wavre.

Aug 16 • 5:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘The End of Oak Street’: A complete mess

This misfire could be the year’s worst mainstream thriller

Aug 16 • 5:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • davisenterprise.com

This Serial Killer Thriller Is My Favorite New Show Right Now

There are a ton of great shows and movies to watch right now, but my current favorite series is a serial killer thriller on Hulu, 'Furious'. The must-watch show stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent out to stop a killer. Here's my 'Furious' review.

Aug 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • purewow.com

Panthers fall 29-14 to Bills on the road

ORCHARD PARK, NY (CAROLINA SPORTS LIVE) — Panthers starters got their reps in Saturday afternoon with their second preseason game of the season. Unfortunately, the team fell 29-14 against the Buffalo Bills on the road. After a thrilling Hall of Fame game against the Cardinals last week, the Black & Blue were looking to bring […]

Aug 15 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Los Angeles Dodgers Announce Max Muncy News During Brewers Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers were involved in a thriller Thursday night in their series opener against the NL-leading Milwaukee Brewers.Despite leading 4-2 entering the ninth inning, the Dodgers’ bullpen, headlined by Edwin Díaz, blew the lead. Milwaukee rallied for a 5-4 road victory, with three games still remaining in the series over the weekend.Even with […] The post Los Angeles Dodgers Announce Max Muncy News During Brewers Series appeared first on HEAVY.

Aug 14 • 12:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The hidden politics of time: How clocks, calendars — and now-contentious time zones

It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it’s lost.

Aug 14 • 8:41 AM EDT • Politics • wsmv.com

The hidden politics of time: How clocks, calendars — and now-contentious time zones

NEW YORK (AP) — It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it’s lost. […]

Aug 14 • 3:19 AM EDT • Politics • dailyjournal.net

The Thrilla at Unadilla is Back!

Thousands of people will be coming to Unadilla for some of the best motocross racing in the world.

Aug 13 • 5:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • wktv.com

BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios

Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games. The streaming giant is closing Los Angeles-based Night School studio, which it acquired in 2021 and plans to close Helsinki-based Moonloot, which was founded in 2022. Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users. The game was hailed by Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters in a call with investors. Six weeks later, Night School is closing. Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree. A second Oxenfree game followed after the purchase, as well as a mobile game designed to tie in to an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror. Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game. “We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” a Netflix spokesperson told Game File. Netflix is also cutting jobs from its internal games team. A rep declined to say how many jobs were being lost by these cutbacks. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best,” the rep said. Netflix started releasing video games, initially on mobile as a free bonus to subscribers, in 2021. By 2023, Mike Verdu, then the head of Netflix’s game operations, was telling me that the company was committed to growing carefully, as it offered more games and built up internal game studios. At the time, it hadn’t made any gaming job cuts. Since then, Netflix has altered its approach. In 2024, it shut down Team Blue, a start-up studio led by ex-Call of Duty and Halo developers that was exploring making a high-end first-person game for the service. Last October, Netflix shut down another studio, Boss Fight, shortly after Peters praised the team’s Squid Game game to investors. (One of Boss Fight’s main developers now works on the Netflix FIFA game for outside studio Delphi.) And in December, Netflix sold cozy game studio Spry Fox back to its founders. Amid all of this, Netflix has shifted from emphasizing mobile games to offering games through TVs and PCs, via streamed connections, with phones used as controllers. That’s how Night School’s Unhinged worked, along with games such as Boggle and Party Crashers that have collectively helped the Netflix game controller app chart well on mobile app stores. The studio cuts leave Netflix with a central gaming team that works with external developers, and a dedicated first party studio in, Helsinki-based Next Games, which produced many of the company’s couch-centric party games. The move away from having a roster of internal game studios aligns with Netflix’s own approach to shows and movies, which are largely produced externally. The company owns few TV/film production studios of its own. The gaming industry overall is seeing large holders of multiple studios cut back, with Sony, Ubisoft, Embracer, Microsoft and other giants closing or selling off studios. Cuts in California-based studios, where costs often run relatively high, have been particularly acute. Netflix has faced skepticism about its gaming plans for years. The moves today are likely to fuel them, and the company has few upcoming projects to counter the narrative. Among the few hinted, acclaimed independent studio Don’t Nod said last year it was working on a game tied to a major Netflix franchise.

Aug 13 • 2:47 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news

Matthew McConaughey on his sweet return to the big screen

Matthew McConaughey had plenty of reasons to select "The Rivals of Amziah King," a honey-themed thriller set in the American Southwest, for his return to the big screen after more than five years away...

Aug 12 • 9:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Ben Affleck is running for mayor of L.A. when his son is kidnapped in ‘Animals’ teaser

Ben Affleck plays a man running for Los Angeles mayor whose son is kidnapped in the first teaser for ‘Animals.’ The thriller also stars Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, and more.

Aug 12 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Palmetto Sports Daily: Checking in with Jaycee Horn at training camp

The crew recaps a thrilling win for the Panthers in Canton and dishes more on the start of fall camp for Gamecock football.

Aug 10 • 7:32 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com

Boone County Fair opens Tuesday in Belvidere for six days of entertainment

The Boone County Fair will open its gates at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in Belvidere for a six-day event featuring entertainment, thrill rides and food.

Aug 10 • 5:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • mystateline.com

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2

Aug 10 • 1:56 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com

Evening concerts bring crowds to Douglas County Fair

After thrill rides, carnival games and livestock shows, attendees of the Douglas County Fair on Thursday, Friday and Saturday were treated to one last attraction as the sun set over

Aug 9 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nrtoday.com

New 76ers Guard Is Thrilled To Reunite With LeBron James

KCP is back with The King. As Pope looks to contribute to the Philadelphia 76ers, James will be helping lead the charge.

Aug 9 • 7:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Palmetto Sports Daily: Panthers win preseason thriller, Gamecocks kick off fall camp

The crew recaps a thrilling win for the Panthers in Canton and dishes more on the start of fall camp for Gamecock football.

Aug 7 • 5:57 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com

WATCH: Attica Rodeo brings thrills and entertainment

ATTICA — The Attica Rodeo returned in force Thursday with world-class thrills, competition and entertainment.

Aug 7 • 2:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • thedailynewsonline.com

Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic welcomes family medicine specialist Dr. Nicholas Woessner

Dr. Nicholas Woessner, a doctor of osteopathic medicine specializing family medicine, is thrilled to join the Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic.

Aug 7 • 11:29 AM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org

Netflix stuck a guy in a billboard to promote a new movie

The stunt is meant to hype “The Last House,” a sci-fi thriller about a family trapped inside their residence with dwindling resources.

Aug 6 • 6:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Netflix stuck a guy in a billboard to promote a new movie

Thirty feet above Sunset Boulevard, Netflix put a guy inside a billboard made up like a living room to promote the new sci-fi thriller ‘The Last House.’

Aug 6 • 6:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Farhan Akhtar's Excel Boards Toronto Malayalam Vampire Thriller ‘Half’

Toronto Midnight Madness selection, Malayalam vampire thriller 'Half,' has been boarded by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment.

Aug 6 • 10:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com

From Westwood to the Valley: How ‘The Shards’ recreates 1981 L.A.

Ryan Murphy's FX adaptation of 'The Shards' brings Bret Easton Ellis' coming-of-age thriller to life with meticulous production design, costumes and iconic L.A. locations.

Aug 5 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Viola Davis to star in and executive produce new series, 'Ascent'

Viola Davis is returning to TV.The EGOT-winning actress will star in a new Paramount+ thriller series from acclaimed writer John Logan called Ascent. She’ll play a corporate fixer who must use her ski...

Aug 4 • 4:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center welcomes emergency medicine specialist Dr. Breanna Nowak

Dr. Breanna Nowak, an emergency medicine specialist, is thrilled to join Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center.

Aug 4 • 12:15 PM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org

The Thrill Returns! MLV Is Back In Vegas

Major League Volleyball is back in Las Vegas, as the Vegas Thrill has officially announced it will return to the court in 2027.

Aug 3 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • provolleyball.com

Acoustirats and Jordan Lauterbach to Perform at LI Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame on Aug 23rd

As part of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Soundtrack to Summer Series, the band Acoustirats will perform LIVE music and Comedian Jordan Lauterbach will open with comedy set at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on Aug. 23th from 3-4pm. The event is free for members or with general admission ticket purchase or $10 at the door concert ticket purchase. For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.... About AcoustiRats AcoustiRats is an acoustic duo dedicated to stripping Good Rats classics down to their raw, essential form. Fronted by Stefan Marchello, lead singer and 36-year veteran of the Good Rats, alongside guitarist Matt McCarthy, who also did a run on guitar with the band. Between them, they've got decades of Good Rats DNA in their blood. After years of playing these songs loud and electric, Stefan and Matt are thrilled to break them down to the bare bones. No frills, no amps cranked to 11 — just voice, acoustic guitar, and the songwriting that made the Good Rats legendary. It's the same attitude and stories fans know, delivered in a raw, intimate format. For diehard Good Rats fans, it's a new way to hear the classics. For first-timers, it's proof that great songwriting doesn't need to be loud to hit hard. About Jordan Lauterbach Jordan Lauterbach is a fast-rising comedian who features prominently in clubs around the country. His autobiographical style and supreme wit keep audiences laughing for hours after they leave the club. Lauterbach is likable, relatable, and tremendously funny. He has opened for some of comedy's best and is quickly carving out an audience of his own.

Aug 3 • 3:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • iloveny.com

The top theme parks in California and beyond for 2026

Maybe you love theme parks and are willing to cross state lines just to ride the most thrilling roller coaster. Or maybe you want to know where they are so

Aug 3 • 4:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Town and Country Fair returns to Napa Valley Expo starting Thursday

Starting Thursday, Aug. 6 the Town & Country Fair will take over the Napa Valley Expo, with live music, livestock exhibits, carnival thrills and lots more family friendly activities included with admission.

Aug 2 • 3:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • pressdemocrat.com

Saturday night Orioles game thread, vs. Phillies, 7:05 ET

After last night’s thrilling win, the Orioles face a monumental task in solving lefty Christopher Sánchez.

Aug 1 • 6:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘Jaws on the Water’ brings families and community together at Sara J’s

Approximately 300 people gathered at Sara J's on July 31 for the 2026 "Jaws on the Water" event, floating in the water on kayaks and inflatable tubes or watching from the lawn as the classic shark thriller played.

Aug 1 • 5:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • myhorrynews.com

Apple TV’s Cape Fear remake turns it into a paranoid tech thriller

A remake fit for 2026.

Jul 31 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theverge.com

Backrooms perfectly captures the lost art of '90s boredom

The hit thriller is making younger viewers unexpectedly nostalgic for an era they never actually experienced.

Jul 30 • 3:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office

The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delive...

Jul 30 • 2:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Taylor Sheridan returns to movies after five years with NASA thriller, political drama

Taylor Sheridan's "Capture the Flag" follows a NASA engineer racing to build the first reusable spacecraft for a moon mission.

Jul 28 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com

Voices In Science Lecture Aug. 13: Learn About New Mexico 250 Years Ago By State Historian Rob Martínez

NMDCA News: As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) is thrilled to welcome State Historian of New Mexico Rob Martínez for a lecture discussing what the Land of Enchantment looked like in 1776. Voices in Science: New Mexico 1776. Celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary […]

Jul 28 • 9:29 AM EDT • Science • ladailypost.com