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White House officials fear a post-midterms Trump rampage

President Donald Trump still has two weeks to salvage his Republican congressional majorities and defy expectations of a midterm wipeout. But all around him, aides and allies are bracing for what happens if he fails. CNN’s Kristen Holmes reports.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.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. 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Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com
Natasha Lyonne sparks controversy with 'prefer Trump' social media post

Natasha Lyonne's recent social media activity has upset some fans, who are accusing her of supporting President Donald Trump.

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Oct 20 • 7:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Brewers President of Business Operations sides with Timeless Ticket holders: 'We did not live up to the spirit of the program'
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Oct 20 • 7:21 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Sacramento news roundup: ICE incident, seized business and energy rank

From a congressman's call for ICE accountability to a State Bar raid that hauled off 14 boxes of files, here's what's driving Sacramento conversation.

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Oct 20 • 7:07 PM EDT • Business • sacbee.com
A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.

Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Oct 20 • 6:45 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Midway Physics Day brings science to life for nearly 2,000 students at the State Fair

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Oct 20 • 6:43 PM EDT • Science • wach.com
New measles case confirmed in Wisconsin, health officials say

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and Richland County Health and Human Services are working together to identity and directly notify people who may have been exposed to the virus after the case was confirmed on Tuesday.

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Oct 20 • 6:35 PM EDT • Health • kcrg.com
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MAGA Inc. Unleashes Millions to Turn Out Republicans At the Polls

MAGA Inc. is now flooding the social media platforms with targeted ads as it seeks to turn out Republicans amid the president’s historically low approval ratings.

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Oct 20 • 6:28 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Fears of a post-midterms Trump rampage spur ‘brutal’ internal jockeying

President Donald Trump still has two weeks to salvage his Republican congressional majorities and defy expectations of a midterm wipeout. But all around him, aides and allies are bracing for what happens if he fails.

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Oct 20 • 6:21 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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30 residents of Massachusetts assisted living facility hospitalized in weeks after woman's death, health director says

Hopkinton's health director says 30 residents of Golden Pond Assisted Living Facility have been transported to the hospital in recent weeks as an investigation is ongoing at the facility.

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Oct 20 • 6:18 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Even Mike Lindell is worried about Trump’s health
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Oct 20 • 6:05 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
From fun to fear: How harsh coaching affects mental health for student athletes

Research shows 1 in 4 athletes face abusive coaching. Metro Detroit teens and psychologists share how harsh tactics affect mental health and performance.

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Oct 20 • 5:43 PM EDT • Health • planetdetroit.org
Athens High School students pitch business ideas in Shark Tank competition

Students are putting their sales skills to the test with Athens High School’s annual Shark Tank competition.

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Oct 20 • 5:32 PM EDT • Business • waff.com
Rioting in France gives Trump a new talking point as he tries to stave off GOP midterm losses

As Kansans were waiting for President Donald Trump to arrive at his rally in Wichita this week, they were treated to a new addition to the pre-show program: footage of this weekend’s violent protests in France, most of it clipped from Fox News, aired on large screens.

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Oct 20 • 5:25 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
How Ken Paxton and James Talarico are framing their closing arguments

Talarico is focusing on Paxton's ties to Elon Musk, while Paxton is doubling down on culture wars and his support from President Donald Trump.

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Oct 20 • 5:03 PM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com
Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector's entire

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Oct 20 • 4:44 PM EDT • Health • bhbusiness.com
Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector's entire

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Oct 20 • 4:44 PM EDT • Business • bhbusiness.com
How the Trump administration’s crackdown on international students could affect the economy

A new proposed $70,000 fee for international students who are seeking to work in the U.S. after graduation is the latest Trump administration policy targeting scholars from abroad.

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Oct 20 • 4:43 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Which Greater Boston business do you miss the most?

Several longtime businesses have shuttered this year, marking the end of an era for its employees and customers. Share your memories.

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Oct 20 • 4:40 PM EDT • Business • boston.com
Creator Economy Minor Builds the Business Skills Behind the Content

The first academic pathway into the creator economy pairs Newhouse and Whitman expertise to help students master both the creative and business sides of digital content.

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Oct 20 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • news.syr.edu
WATCH: Trump doesn't commit to endorsing Vance for president in 2028 yet
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Oct 20 • 4:33 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Political science, history student connects hometown roots to DC policy work

Dawson Glogau gained hands-on experience in policy research and advocacy during a summer internship in Washington, D.C., through the Liberal Arts Semester in Washington Program.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Science • psu.edu
Political science, history student connects hometown roots to DC policy work

Dawson Glogau gained hands-on experience in policy research and advocacy during a summer internship in Washington, D.C., through the Liberal Arts Semester in Washington Program.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Politics • psu.edu
Trump to rally in North Carolina, even as GOP pulls its money

Michael Whatley, the state’s Republican Senate candidate, owes his nomination to Trump; the president continues to invest time, if not cash, on his behalf.

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Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi invites Maui students to explore health care careers

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi is helping inspire the next generation of health care professionals through its upcoming Career Exploration Day on Saturday, Nov. 14, in partnership with Maui Economic Development Board’s STEMworks program.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • mauinow.com
University of Maryland expands key reproductive health program

The school is using more than $16 million in state grant funds over five years to build on previous work that already trained more than 100 clinicians, students and other health professionals in abortion care.

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Oct 20 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • wypr.org
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

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Oct 20 • 3:47 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Massanutten operator announces leadership shifts

Charlottesville-based The Resorts Companies names Matthias Smith president as Steve Krohn moves to board vice-chairman

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Oct 20 • 3:40 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Press Release: Protect Yourself and Your Community from COVID and Flu

Rowan County Public Health Encourages Residents to Protect Yourself and Your Community from Flu and COVID-19FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESalisbury, NC- Rowan County Public Health is encouraging simple st

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Oct 20 • 3:35 PM EDT • Health • rowancountync.gov
An Unexpected Iran War Opponent: The President’s Son

In private conversations, including with his father, Donald Trump Jr. has raised concerns.

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Oct 20 • 3:25 PM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com
Riots leave France divided and shadowed by debt as Macron enters his final run

The tensions are festering in the street but also in a presidential race that will determine Emmanuel Macron’s successor.

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Oct 20 • 2:49 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Transfer student finds home at St. Mary’s University

Tabby Lawson finds a welcoming community at St. Mary’s University, discovering a passion for education and personalized support.

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Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Science • stmarytx.edu
Larry Gies Pledges Another $100 Million To His Namesake Business School

The matching commitment could generate $200M for scholarships, student experiences & faculty support, bringing Gies’ B-school giving to $250M

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Oct 20 • 2:15 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquants.com
Trump returning to Georgia as political heavyweights flood state ahead of election

Just over a week after rallying supporters in northwest Georgia, President Donald Trump will return to Georgia on Saturday for an appearance in Macon.

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Oct 20 • 2:12 PM EDT • Politics • walb.com
Business Briefcase: County asks for input on parks, recreation, open space

Schuylkill County is inviting residents to share ideas and help shape the future of parks, recreation, and open spaces throughout the county, according to a Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce update. Two upcoming public open houses “will p…

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Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • republicanherald.com
Genesee Health Plan celebrates 25 years after serving thousands of county residents

Genesee Health Plan celebrated a huge milestone Tuesday morning.

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Oct 20 • 1:59 PM EDT • Health • midmichigannow.com
WHS Students Create Women in Science and Engineering Club

Two students have founded the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Club at Westfield High School.

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Oct 20 • 1:48 PM EDT • Science • tapinto.net
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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Romanian Prime Minister Luca Niculescu walks during a swearing in ceremony for the new government at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romania Politics Government

Romanian Prime Minister Luca Niculescu, left, smiles standing next to Romanian President Nicusor Dan after a swearing in ceremony for the new government at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest,

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Romania Politics Government

Ministers of the Luca Niculescu cabinet stand during a swearing in ceremony at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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Voters in pre-election poll mixed on state of Massachusetts

Many respondents to a new poll believe Massachusetts has become a worse place to live over the past four years and they still favor keeping incumbent Gov. Maura Healey in

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Local student wins photo contest with apropos shot

Heritage Days itself is a Rogersville tradition dating back to the late 1970s. Care NET’s photo contest for Hawkins County high school students is only in its third year, but

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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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NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens Public Library Expand Partnership to Bring Health Education and Library Resources to Queens Residents

Elmhurst, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens Public Library (QPL) today announced an expanded series of collaborative programs designed to

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UC Davis Experts Share Worries, Hopes for 2026 Midterm Elections

The 2026 U.S. midterm election is among the most contentious elections ever without a candidate running for president. This year voters will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, potentially reshaping the nation’s political landscape.

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Romanian lawmakers back a minority government to end monthslong stalemate

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian lawmakers sought Tuesday to end a monthslong political impasse by voting for a minority government led by an independent diplomat, who now faces the challenge of securing support in a fragmented Parliament while tackling a large budget deficit. Prime Minister Luca Niculescu won 280 votes for his proposed Cabinet in

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Health District reports first clade I mpox case in Clark County resident

Health officials are reporting the first case ofclade I mpox in a Clark County resident.

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More Than Athletes: How UT Health Sciences Is Preparing the Next Generation of Sports Pharmacists

As the sports pharmacy field grows, UT Health Sciences College of Pharmacy students are learning to explore this career path.

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More Than Athletes: How UT Health Sciences Is Preparing the Next Generation of Sports Pharmacists

As the sports pharmacy field grows, UT Health Sciences College of Pharmacy students are learning to explore this career path.

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Political Pulse: Independent candidate Rep. Peri Pourier runs on public safety for District 27 Senate

Independent candidate Peri Pourier is running for South Dakota's District 27 Senate seat on a platform of public safety and improving state and tribal relationships.

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First Clade I Mpox case reported in Clark County resident

The Southern Nevada Health District announced Tuesday the first confirmed case of Clade I Mpox in a Clark County resident.

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Oct 20 • 11:57 AM EDT • Health • fox5vegas.com
Hemp business hoped to sell from home. What Lexington had to say

A resident applied to start a home business selling hemp products. Here’s what the Midlands town decided.

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Buzz of the Week: Do you feel like you have a political home in Utah?

Republican, Democrat, Democratic Socialist, Libertarian, Independent, something else entirely — do you feel like you have a political home in Utah? Let us know what you think.

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Sioux Falls native finds rewarding role connecting students to higher education

This week's Up-and-Comer is Regen Wiederrich, SDSU Connect coordinator at South Dakota State University.

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Gimmick or giveback? Even some Trump supporters don't expect to get $5,000 checks after midterms

The offering of government checks has become a go-to tactic for President Donald Trump when he faces a political jam.

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Head of the class: URI quantum physics students work as teaching assistants for Brookhaven National Laboratory

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 20, 2026 – As a sophomore at the University of Rhode Island three years ago, Morgan Beck ’26 began diving deep into the world of quantum physics, wanting to learn more about the branch of science that studies matter and energy at the most fundamental level. At that time, Beck—a 2025 […]

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Oct 20 • 11:23 AM EDT • Science • uri.edu
New comet accidentally discovered by space telescope

The ‘happy coincidence’ is currently more than 807 million miles from Earth.

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MSU celebrates 25 Years of Imaging Sciences excellence

Morehead State University marks 25 years of undergraduate imaging sciences education, celebrating student success, faculty support and healthcare impact.

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The Tenacious Collective leads independent artists to New York Comic Con success

Deep within the chaos of the 20th New York Comic Con’s Exhibit Hall sits one of the convention’s largest and most unique booths: the Tenacious Collective.

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Bridging the gap: Western student earns Fulbright to study wildfire science in Australia

“The goal is to identify the drivers behind intense wildfire activity and the ecosystems and communities they could impact” When Dalton Robberson finally got to the point of choosing …

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Macron jets out of riot-torn France for Gulf trip as political pressure mounts

French President Emmanuel Macron left for Kuwait energy talks as riots raged, drawing sharp criticism from Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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Titans release veteran defender after 'incident' at team facility

The Titans have released Jordan Elliott, a veteran defensive tackle, after an 'incident' at the team facility. Here's what we know.

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Advito Adds New Service To Help Organizations Prepare Emissions Data

Tool is said to provide an independent assessment of processes and methodologies

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Retired Missouri S&T faculty members contribute $1 million to establish graduate fellowship in psychology

Retired Missouri S&T faculty members Dr. Robert L. Montgomery and Dr. Frances M. “Dee” Haemmerlie Montgomery have donated $1 million to establish a graduate fellowship in the department where they mentored hundreds of students throughout their careers. The Robert L. Montgomery and Frances M. Haemmerlie Graduate Fellowship in Psychology will support graduate student research in...Continue Reading Retired Missouri S&T faculty members contribute $1 million to establish graduate fellowship in psychology

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Trump administration announces $8 billion farm relief plan as fuel, fertilizer costs bite

(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced at a Kansas rally on Monday that his administration is introducing an $8 billion aid package for farmers in the face of high diesel

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Abbott, Big 10 Conference, Rutgers Athletics, and RWJBarnabas Health Seek to Boost National Blood Supplies

Diego Orozco knows firsthand that every blood donation offers new hope for blood cancer patients like him. After battling leukemia and enduring three stem cell transplants, the 34-year-old North Plainfield resident has relied on countless blood transfusions to survive some of the most difficult moments of his cancer journey.

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Too Lost to acquire Australian indie distributor Xelon Entertainment, three months after GYRO.Group deal

Xelon founder Ashley Gay will continue to lead the business as President of Xelon, and will join Too Lost’s leadership team.

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Texas native Matthew McConaughey urges independent voters to impact U.S. elections
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Paxton campaign showing ‘desperation’ with manufactured story: Political commentator

In the final days until election, President Trump is set to hold another rally in Texas for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. MS NOW National Reporter Rosa Flores shares what she is hearing from voters there. MediasTouch Journalist Adam Mockler, Democratic Strategist Basil Smikle, Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin, and Rolling Stone Magazine Politics Reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez join the Group Chat with Stephanie Ruhle to share their analysis.

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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
Iain Armitage was ‘very insulted’ when “Young Sheldon ”costar Wendie Malick accidentally compared him to Ted Cruz

“I was like, ‘Did my face look that melty that day?’ What does that mean?”

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Romanian lawmakers back government led by independent Luca Niculescu as country seeks to end monthslong political crisis

Romanian lawmakers back government led by independent Luca Niculescu as country seeks to end monthslong political crisis.

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AP Business Students

Westhampton Beach High School students spoke about their experience in the new AP Business with Personal Finance course.

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Oct 20 • 9:38 AM EDT • Business • 27east.com
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College students use AI to solve business problems

Students at the Harrison County campus are learning ways to solve real-world problems using artificial intelligence.

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Expanding Iowa State students' poultry knowledge

Dawn Koltes wants to increase Iowa State students’ awareness of the many opportunities available within the poultry industry in Iowa and beyond.

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HOMETOWN HEALTH: Researchers identify new clues for treating type 2 diabetes

The study's authors say this could be developed into new treatments that could help people regulate their blood sugar.

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Police trying to identify man in connection with UTV stolen from business

Harrisburg Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man in connection with a theft investigation.

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Oct 20 • 9:26 AM EDT • Business • kfvs12.com
29,000 Granite Staters Could Lose Their Health Coverage, New Study Says

A new study by the NH Fiscal Policy Institute indicates from 23,000 to 29,000 New Hampshire residents will lose their Medicaid health insurance coverage by 2028 under new federal and state regulations and requirements set to begin Jan. 1.

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Oct 20 • 9:15 AM EDT • Health • indepthnh.org
Hampton Beach businesses want free trash pickup; residents say it’s time to pay

Should businesses pay for trash collection at Hampton Beach? A packed hearing showed a division between residents and business owners.

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Oct 20 • 9:13 AM EDT • Business • seacoastonline.com
How voters feel about trans rights and abortion access will soon be put to the test

How do voters feel about trans students participating in school sports teams? Or abortion access? The U.S. is about to find out.

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Oct 20 • 8:55 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
Indian scientists identify Martian analogue sites

Kerala researchers identify Martian analogue sites in Tamil Nadu and Atacama Desert via hydrous sulfates, aiding Mars paleoenvironments study.

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Oct 20 • 8:46 AM EDT • Science • thehindu.com
New Book Includes Previously Unreleased Interviews By Edward Gorey

For ardent Edward Gorey fans there’s a new book available, “Memento Gorey: The Last Interviews with Edward Gorey” by Chatham filmmaker and documentarian Christopher Seufert, published by Schiffer Publishing with

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KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Fall 2026 Update on Vaccine Views

The latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds about half of parents mistakenly believe spacing out vaccines is healthier for children, while confidence in many long-standing childhood vaccines is high across partisans. These findings take on new relevance following President Trump's recent executive order calling for changes in U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations, including splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine—currently given as a single combined shot—into three separate vaccines across multiple visits.

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Dejan Kulusevski shares heartbreaking admission after making ‘impossible’ injury comeback

Surgery on his right patella in May last year was followed by multiple setbacks

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Trump continues midterm campaign blitz in North Carolina

President to stump for Michael Whatley, who is facing an uphill battle against Democrat Roy Cooper for the Senate, as elections are just two weeks away

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Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of helium formed in the first five minutes after the Big Bang with unprecedented precision. Using one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team studied 15 remarkably pristine galaxies that act as cosmic time capsules, preserving clues from nearly 13.8 billion years ago.

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Sponsored Content: HMG Health Matters: A Surgeon's Perspective on Breast Cancer

Dr. Cheryl Stanski, General Surgeon and Vice President of Holston Medical Group tells us what she wants every woman to know about breast cancer. She talks about the success rate, the hope, and the options now available for women. For more information and to read more please visit the Health Matters blog at HolstonMedicalGroup.com.

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Woman Indicted In Alleged $612,000 Theft Scheme From Great Mills Business

GREAT MILLS, Md. — An Odenton woman has been indicted on six theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole approximately $612,758.92 from a Great Mills business through unauthorized payments and credit card transactions spanning several years. Heather Lynne Payton, 50, was indicted by a St. Mary’s County grand jury on September 28, 2026, in connection […]

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Australian Visitor Grateful to Holy Cross Health for Saving Her Life During Fort Lauderdale Visit - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report

Nearly 10 months after receiving emergency treatment at Holy Cross Health for a ruptured brain aneurysm, Australian resident Sarah Frost is reflecting on her recovery and the care that helped […]

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Nearly 2-In-3 Small-Business Owners Sacrifice Their Pay As Costs Soar

The survey, conducted by Small Business for America’s Future, found that 72% of respondents believe running a business has become more difficult over the past year,

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JFK’s mistresses recall their ‘irresistible’ and ‘solicitous’ affairs with the president in new book

Laurence Leamer’s latest book, “Ladies Man: The Careless Heart of John F. Kennedy,” is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

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Oct 20 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • anniedance.substack.com
Disney Names Carol Choi Asia Pacific President as Luke Kang Retires

Disney names Carol Choi Asia Pacific president as Luke Kang retires after 16 years, effective Dec. 1.

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Oct 20 • 6:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.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
Westland puts $50K grants on the table to attract new restaurants

Westland officials say residents are leaving town to dine out. Now they're hoping to change that – and breathe new life into aging buildings.

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Oct 20 • 6:07 AM EDT • Business • freep.com
‘Iolani bowler Ezra Bentkowski is a student of the sport’s science

Back in the day, black-and-white films would play in darkened class rooms at Washington Intermediate School.

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Oct 20 • 6:05 AM EDT • Science • staradvertiser.com
‘A huge need’: Free healthcare day event draws hundreds to Charleston clinic

More than 400 people got medical, dental or vision care at a one-day free health care event in Charleston, West Virginia on Saturday.

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Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • westvirginiawatch.com
Would Trump accept GOP midterm losses? 7 in 10 Americans doubt it.

A Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finds broad confidence that votes will be counted accurately, but deep doubt that the president would accept the results if Republicans lost.

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Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com