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NASA’s Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets

A cauldron of cosmic creation is being revealed in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb has unveiled numerous stars formerly hidden by

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Oct 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
McClean hits out at 'incomprehensible' Derry treatment

Derry City player James McClean hits out at his treatment by Derry City amid an ongoing contract dispute with the club.

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Oct 6 • 8:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chemistry professor Grinias elected ACS division chair-elect, earns national honors

Rowan chemistry professor James Grinias earns national recognition with an ACS leadership role and honors from two Under 40 lists.

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Oct 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • today.rowan.edu
Carragher: Manchester City should face three-to-five-year punishment

Manchester City should face a multi-year punishment for their financial misdemeanours, according to former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher. An independent commission found City guilty of breaking Premier League rules in a strongly-worded report released last week, which the club have appealed against.

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Oct 6 • 6:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Beaver Brown Waters of Rupert Bay

Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.

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Oct 6 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
LeBron James Gets Major Perk While Playing for Sixers

LeBron James won’t have to foot the bill for his unusual Sixers commute — but fans hoping to see him Monday night got different news. The post LeBron James Gets Major Perk While Playing for Sixers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 5 • 10:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Texas voters get ‘Are you white?' political texts targeting James Talarico

Texas voters received political texts asking, “Are you white?” NBC 5 traced the website targeting James Talarico to political group AMERIPAC.

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Oct 5 • 7:34 PM EDT • Politics • nbcdfw.com
Answer Man: Misleading political ads? What’s up with water alerts?

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: The ads against Jamie Ager that are airing on TV now are false. They say that Ager voted against this or that and supported this or that. He is not an elected official and could not support or oppose any legislation. These are the ads paid for by No Going Back PAC. What am I missing? My answer: Well, I’d like to say, “The good old days of American politics where opponents politely disagreed with one another in their advertising.” But honestly, these campaigns have always been uglier than a closeup of my belly button.

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Oct 5 • 5:02 PM EDT • Politics • avlwatchdog.org
Jameson Electric Builds a Family Business Rooted in Prescott Community

Jameson Electric is more than a local electrical company. Jameson Electric Builds a Family Business Rooted in Prescott Community

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Oct 5 • 5:00 PM EDT • Business • signalsaz.com
Send us your questions for Texas Senate candidate James Talarico

Calling all Texas Republicans, Democrats, and Independents! Are you a registered voter in Texas? Then submit questions for CNN & Jubilee’s Town Hall with James Talarico on Wednesday, October 14 and engage in a direct conversation with the Texas Democratic Senate candidate on the issues that matter most to you.

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Oct 5 • 4:20 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
James Gunn dispels Wonder Woman casting rumors while roasting Frank Grillo

James Gunn addressed the Adria Arjona-Wonder Woman casting rumors by roasting DC star Frank Grillo. ‘You don’t believe he doesn’t know anything? Exhibit A.’

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Oct 5 • 3:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Viral Dallas mansion gets political with this year's Halloween display

A Preston Hollow mansion known for viral holiday displays has unveiled a political Halloween display that backs Ken Paxton, targets James Talarico and calls out Dallas Councilwoman Gay Donnell Willis.

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Oct 5 • 2:32 PM EDT • Politics • fox4news.com
Roundtable Ravens Episode 42 - Breaking Down Week 4 Win

Roundtable Ravens crew James Brizuela and Billie Melissa break down the Baltimore Ravens' Week 4 win against the Tennessee Titans.

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Oct 5 • 1:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Review: Metallica lives the dream on opening weekend of Sphere residency

LAS VEGAS — “I had a dream last night,” Metallica singer James Hetfield said. “We were playing the Sphere. “So cool.” Indeed, it was, James. Yet, it wasn’t a dream.

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Oct 5 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Jamie Foxx opens up 3 years after health scare, talks new standup special

Actor, comedian and singer Jamie Foxx opens up to ABC News three years after a health scare nearly ended his life.

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Oct 5 • 11:26 AM EDT • Health • abcnews.com
George L․ Kumar: Six Biology Breakthroughs Stockholm Missed

George L․ Kumar: Six Biology Breakthroughs Stockholm Missed / Ben Barres, cancer, Colin MacLeod, Ernest McCulloch, George L. Kumar, James Till, Kavli Prize,

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Oct 5 • 8:22 AM EDT • Science • oncodaily.com
NBA executive: 'There's definitely interest' in Bronny James

If the Lakers are willing to listen to offers, they could get back some value in a trade for Bronny James.

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Oct 5 • 8:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Orioles news: How will the O’s solve their infield logjam?

With Jordan Westburg returning next year, how will the O’s make room in the infield for him?

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Oct 5 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Choosing Between Good And Evil: The Omega Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond And Spectre Collection

✓ Introducing the Omega Seamaster 300M James Bond And Spectre Collection ✓ A tough choice between good and evil ✓ Check it out ✓

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • fratellowatches.com
Introducing: The New Omega Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond & Spectre Editions (Live Pics)

The brand commemorates this year's James Bond Day with some special new Seamasters.

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Oct 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • hodinkee.com
jamie-davis-louisiana-democrat-us-senate-race

Jamie Davis is campaigning to become something Louisiana has not seen in more than 100 years: a farmer in the U.S. Senate.

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Oct 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
First look: Metallica opens Sphere Las Vegas residency in epic fashion

LAS VEGAS — James Hetfield had one question for fans:

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Oct 5 • 3:52 AM EDT • Entertainment • havasunews.com
Experienced signings will help captain James

Cesar Azpilicueta backs Chelsea's decision to sign experienced players this summer and believes it will help captain Reece James grow as a leader.

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Oct 5 • 3:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Where to watch Sixers vs. Knicks today: Channel, live stream, time, TV schedule for NBA preseason game

It's Philadelphia vs. New York to open the preseason, with LeBron James taking center stage.

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Oct 5 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jameson Williams leads Detroit in receiving on SNF

Jameson Williams had a team-high 102 yards versus the Carolina Panthers in Week 4, more than doubling his previous season high.

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Oct 5 • 12:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
That Wild Lanterns Finale Twist Upends the DCU’s Future

And James Gunn may have spoiled the whole thing two years ago.

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Oct 4 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • esquire.com
“Dawson’s Creek” creator Kevin Williamson says star James Van Der Beek ‘started out as a brat’

Williamson poignantly reflected that his dynamic with the late star was like “Dawson talking to Dawson.”

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Oct 4 • 9:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Three Rivers Corporation promotes Jamie Crockett

Three Rivers Corporation has promoted Jamie Crockett to chief operating officer, placing him in charge of construction and specialty trade operations.

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Oct 4 • 3:54 PM EDT • Business • ourmidland.com
Los Angeles Chargers rule former FSU All-American inactive

Former FSU safety and Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James is inactive for their game against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Oct 4 • 3:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
James campaign scrubs some online elements of Trump support

Images of President Donald Trump were prominent on the campaign pages of Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate John James before the Aug. 4 primary election, but afterward some of them have

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Oct 4 • 3:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Chargers S Derwin James, Seahawks S Ty Okada are inactive
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Oct 4 • 3:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bronny James Speaks on Reuniting With Ziaire Williams on Lakers

James says it is great to have his old high school teammate back in the building, and he thinks Los Angeles is the right stage for him.

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Oct 4 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Packers fans could take over Raymond James Stadium on Sunday
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Oct 4 • 12:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Giants’ 2-1 start cannot hide Jameis Winston’s touchdown drought

The Giants beat Tennessee 12-7 last week. Every point came from a field goal. It counts as a win, and […]

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Oct 4 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
LeBron James’ 76ers situation just took an unexpected turn

LeBron James’ move to the Philadelphia 76ers has taken another unexpected turn after his unique New York commute became reality. The NBA superstar plans to split his time between New York and Philadelphia, using a helicopter when necessary. Meanwhile, his championship expectations remain high entering his 24th NBA season.

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Oct 4 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Packers vs. Buccaneers: Game Time, TV Channel, Injury Report, Betting Odds, Prediction and Key Matchup

The Green Bay Packers face a high-stakes crossroads against a winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad starting a rookie quarterback. Survival hinges on a battle of struggling offensive lines at Raymond James Stadium.

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Oct 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Newcastle United heroes and villains of the 2020s

Here at The Mag we invited a number of regular/irregular contributors to give us their Newcastle United heroes and villains. Our thanks to David Hutchinson (you can hear Hutch every week on The Mag Podcast, along with Simon and Jamie, discussing all things NUFC) for taking up the challenge.

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Oct 4 • 3:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Ken Paxton could lose a Texas GOP Senate seat to James Talarico

Plagued by ethics allegations, the Senate candidate is unusually vulnerable for a red state Republican.

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Oct 4 • 3:01 AM EDT • Politics • patriotledger.com
Why Ken Paxton could lose a Texas GOP Senate seat to James Talarico

Plagued by ethics allegations, the Senate candidate is unusually vulnerable for a red state Republican.

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Oct 4 • 3:01 AM EDT • Politics • northjersey.com
Sources: Dan James could push to quit Leeds in January

Dan James in action for Leeds

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Oct 4 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ken Paxton’s estranged wife urges voters to back him in new ad

The ad hit the airwaves as Republican Ken Paxton is lagging behind Democratic candidate James Talarico in polls on the Texas Senate race.

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Oct 3 • 10:00 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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RODRIGUEZ: Nebraska football prevails over Maryland, shows promise ahead of Indiana

Anthony Colandrea led Nebraska to a 48-23 victory over Maryland (2-3, 0-3) on a perfect fall Oct. 3 night at Memorial Stadium. In freshman running back Jamal Rule’s absence, the senior quarterback had a game-high 108 rushing yards, including a 51-yard burst in the third quarter.

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Oct 3 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
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LeBron James makes Philadelphia debut in 76ers scrimmage

PHILADELPHIA, PA - For the first time in eight years, LeBron James wore something other than a Lakers jersey on a NBA court.

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Oct 3 • 4:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
ENTERTAINMENT: Pianist-composer joins ASO musicians for chamber concert; Monster Jam celebrates 35 years in February

From fine art and film to comedy and monster trucks, there's entertainment for everyone at these upcoming events.

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Oct 3 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nwaonline.com
Obituaries: Dolores Sibonga, Dennis Haskins, Benjamin Satterley and more

Notable deaths also include Angela Stribling and "Mighty Sparrow" Slinger Francisco.

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Oct 3 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
ENTERTAINMENT: Pianist-composer joins ASO musicians for chamber concert; Monster Jam celebrates 35 years in February

From fine art and film to comedy and monster trucks, there's entertainment for everyone at these upcoming events.

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Oct 3 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
The Blazers are betting on a Ja Morant comeback
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Ike Perlmutter helps James Uthmeier stretch fundraising lead in AG race

The business titan and his wife combined to give half a million dollars to the AG's PC.

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Oct 3 • 11:59 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Trump says Cornell 7 'won't get fair shake' because NY AG Letitia James

President Donald Trump's perceived political foe, the New York attorney general who won a $454 million judgement against him, is looking into Cornell.

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Oct 3 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
Eagles legend Don Henley puts big money into turning Texas blue

The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com
Japan's impact on Mississippi takes center stage with 18,000 jobs

Mississippi leaders and Japanese officials discussed trade, jobs and the future of a key international partnership at Millsaps.

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Oct 3 • 5:59 AM EDT • Business • clarionledger.com
Blitz on 2: Week 7

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (WCBD): Hanahan 21 – Oceanside 31 Fort Dorchester 0 – James Island 56 Wando 3 – Berkeley 52 Socastee 19 – Cane Bay 14 Hilton Head 14 – Lucy Beckham 0 Stratford 3 – West Ashley 16 Stall 0 – Ashley Ridge 73 Goose Creek 6 – Carolina Forst 41 Bishop […]

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Oct 3 • 12:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Friday Scoreboard

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Here are scores from around the area: College Volleyball:Sioux Falls 3, UMary 0Jamestown 3, Augustana 2 High School Football:#2 Brandon Valley, 38, #3 Harrisburg 12Roosevelt 40, Rapid City Central 0#4 O’Gorman 35, Washington 13#1 Jefferson 62, Omaha Westview (NE) 25#5 Lincoln 55, Rapid City Stevens 0#2 Tea Area 42, Brookings […]

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Trump Suggests Cornell Defendants Won’t Get a ‘Fair Shake’ From Letitia James

President Trump weighed in on the case when asked about Ms. James, who has become a target of his second-term retribution campaign.

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Hochul puts support behind closing 'voluntary intoxication loophole'

The State Senate has passed the bill multiple times.

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Oct 2 • 7:18 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
IRS takes up whistleblower claim of Hope Florida money that flowed to Uthmeier’s political committee

The Internal Revenue Service is reviewing a whistleblower claim about $10 million in Medicaid settlement money that moved through the Hope Florida Foundation and, within weeks, into a political committee chaired by James Uthmeier, now Florida’s attorney general, according to new records obtained by the Florida Trident.

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Oct 2 • 5:12 PM EDT • Politics • wlrn.org
Tigerlily Foundation's Pajama Glam Empowers Girls and Families Through Health Literacy, Self-Advocacy and Connection

/PRNewswire/ -- What began with a young girl imagining a different kind of breast cancer gathering has grown into a joyful, multigenerational health and...

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Oct 2 • 3:25 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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Victor Wembanyama Slams Door On Sports Betting As LeBron James, Kevin Durant Cash In

Victor Wembanyama is entering a different part of his NBA career now. Wembanyama's spotlight has grown, and his influence has expanded well beyond the basketball court after three seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Victor Wembanyama Slams Door On Sports Betting As LeBron James, Kevin Durant Cash In At 22, Wembanyama already has a Defensive …

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First look: Metallica opens Sphere Las Vegas residency in epic fashion

LAS VEGAS — James Hetfield had one question for fans: “Do you want heavy, Vegas?” the Metallica frontman asked the capacity crowd assembled before him and his fellow bandmates —

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Last redistricting hearing comes to Jackson, MS. What happens next?

The statewide tour of redistricting hearings ended in Jackson with boos, accusations of racism and calls to delay redistricting until the 2030 census.

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Nick Nurse Reveals LeBron James' Role in 76ers' Offense

Nick Nurse feels LeBron James is going to be huge for the team offensively. But, his impact will matter more as the season goes on.

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Friday Open Thread

This is a slow time of year for baseball news, if your team isn’t in the playoffs. MLB doesn’t like teams to make news during the playoffs, because they want the focus to be on the playoff teams, which is fair. Jameson Taillon is going to have elbow surgery next week. He’s had Tommy John […]

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Kathy Hochul doesn't have a political home in NY: Erin Maguire

Former Trump 2020 press director Erin Maguire reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's warning over the Islamist Marxist alliance, Hasan Piker's political influence and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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In brief: 'Reacher' spinoff gets a second season and more

We’ve got an official trailer for NBC’s Newlyweds, the new sitcom starring real-life married couple Tim Daly and Téa Leoni. The show, co-created by Jamie Lee Curtis, follows a later-in-life love story between a free-spirited woman and a professor who marry after a quick courtship. It premieres on Oct. 23 …The Reacher spinoff Neagley is getting a second season, just two weeks after the first season debuted on Prime Video. Maria Sten stars as the fan-favorite character Frances Neagley, a private investigator from Chicago and the former protégé of Jack Reacher, in the action series. The original Reacher series, starring Alan Ritchson, was picked up for a sixth season earlier this week … TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Bradley Cooper is gearing up to star in Paramount’s new G.I. Joe film. He’ll be playing Duke, the leader of the Joes. Danny McBride is on board to direct. Further details on the project have not yet been revealed …Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.

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NFL Predictions: Buccaneers vs. Packers Week 4 Picks and Scores

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are still searching for their first win of the season as they prepare to host the Green Bay Packers Sunday afternoon at Raymond James Stadium. Tampa Bay enters Week 4 at 0-3 following last week’s 23-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. The Buccaneers will also be without starting quarterback Baker Mayfield, […]

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AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game full of utterly cursed faces slapped with Bethesda cease and desist, its slop prompter claims

Bethesda have seemingly slapped an AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game with cease and desist order.

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How to watch Benjamin Russell vs Wetumpka high school football

You can watch Benjamin Russell football all season long with NFHS Network, including this week’s game against Wetumpka.

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Is James Talarico about to flip Texas for the Democrats?

Jonathan Freedland speaks to James Henson, founder and executive director of the Texas Politics Project, about why a blue wave in the Lone Star state would be seismic

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Hochul to address Cornell University case after appointing Leticia James to investigate alleged gang-rape

Kathy Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case, which has restarted a national conversation about sexual assault on college campuses

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One Jackson area restaurant fails three health inspections in two weeks

Four Jackson area facilities including a high school and a theater failed health inspections in September 2026.

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Oct 2 • 6:08 AM EDT • Health • clarionledger.com
How Julia Letlow, Jamie Davis are running for Senate in Louisiana — and how their styles differ

Why are Jamie Davis and Julia Letlow running different types of campaigns for the Senate?

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LeBron James Makes Strong Statement About 76ers' Expectations

LeBron James is ready to start the season, and knows they have the talent to be one of the best in the league.

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J.D. Vance visits Florida to rally the Republican base. Skeptics remain

One attendee said he’s considering leaving the governor’s race option blank after backing James Fishback in the Republican primary.

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Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid, LeBron James, Jaylen Brown, …

Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid, LeBron James, Jaylen Brown, …

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Victor Wembanyama slams players promoting sports betting weeks after LeBron James announces Polymarket deal

Victor Wembanyama made his stance on sports betting very clear. On Thursday, the Spurs superstar spoke to reporters at training camp and answered whether he’d ever sign a deal with...

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Ms. Rachel mixes politics with preschool fame as toy expert weighs whether controversy could impact sales

James Zahn, editor-in-chief of "The Toy Book," weighs in on Ms. Rachel’s political statements and explains why controversy may not have much impact on her booming children’s brand.

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Stopping the Bills Rush Attack: Patriots Defense vs. James Cook

The Buffalo Bills seem to be a very run-heavy team now under Joe Brady, but can the Patriots slow their role on Sunday?

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Oct 1 • 3:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ballard wants secretary of state office 'out of politics.' His opponents see a problem

The Independent running to be Indiana's next secretary of state said he wants to see the office banned from endorsing other candidates or donating to a political party.

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Jamal Shead, Raptors agree to 3-year, $24 million contract extension: report
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N.C.'s only open House race is a toss-up

Jennifer Balkcom is a former Democrat who said she first voted for a Republican in 2016. Jamie Ager is the Democratic candidate and is the CEO of a sustainable meat family farm in Fairview.

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Israeli Politicians Trade Barbs Over FlyDubai Attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for a coming election was already dominated by discussion of the policy, military and intelligence failures leading up to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.

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Committee led by Rep. James Comer seeks brain health study of naval aviators

The House Oversight Committee says the Navy isn’t doing enough to ensure it's protecting the long-term wellbeing of naval aviators.

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Kid Rock launches Christian era with new single 'James 1:17'

DETROIT — Kid Rock has launched his new Christian era. Overnight on Thursday, the Detroit rocker released his new single, the praise-heavy "James 1:17 (Jesus is King)," to streaming services.

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Letter: Politics shouldn’t be dirty

Letter: Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins, a candidate for re-election, calls for local campaigns built on accountability, not personal attacks.

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Oct 1 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • moabsunnews.com
Pieces of History

Chapter 5 of “The American Plague,” the acclaimed 2006 book about the yellow fever epidemic that decimated Memphis in the 1870s, details the life, work, and death of Dr. William James Armstrong as he attempted to care for the stricken.

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Report: Jamal Shead, Raptors agree to three-year, $24 million contract extension

The former second-round pick turned critical reserve has earned a spot in Toronto's plans for years to come.

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How Washington Funded the Politicization of Science

Over the last half-decade, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects designed to influence academic policies, both in the sciences and other disciplines. The aim was to foster a progressive conception of social justice in these fields. In pursuit of this end, the foundation earmarked nearly a million dollars for a project titled “Creating Inclusive Scientific Societies through Policies and Practices,” over a million for a project on “Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity,” and over $2 million to foster “racial equity focused departmental change.” Through a public records request, I’ve obtained the proposals and progress reports for dozens of NSF grants designed to promote social justice. Although funding for these grants was eventually halted by the Trump administration, the projects illustrate an important facet of recent higher-education policy. Many of the university policies that promised “social transformation” didn’t arise in a vacuum. They were actively encouraged by outside funders—often by the federal government itself. Subscribe Accreditation—the peer-review process which enables universities to receive federal grants and student loans—has recently become a policy battleground, with accreditors wielding significant power over both universities and academic disciplines. In 2020, when Oregon Health and Science University’s medical school issued an extensive diversity action plan—which promised “consequences” for employees who failed to support “DEI, anti-racism and social justice”—it specifically pointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the medical-school accrediting body, to justify the overhaul. The NSF actively promoted DEI-focused accreditation policies. The proposal for a $1.2 million program on promoting “community engagement” in STEM, which I obtained through a records request, notes that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology was exploring changes to its criteria “that would incorporate JEDI [justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion].” The proposal promised to “support broader JEDI efforts in the general criteria for engineering.” Another grant funded a conference designed to “identify and share best practices and strategies to integrate IDEA principles in accreditation criteria”—referring to an acronym that stands for “inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.” Scholarly societies have become another flashpoint in debates over higher education. Critics argue that many of these societies, which have the power to shape entire disciplines, have become increasingly politicized. Again, through its giving, the NSF played a role in promoting this politicization. In one million-dollar grant that received funding in 2024, a group of psychologists proposed a series of social-justice reforms to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The proposal, which I obtained via a records request, asserts that “[r]edistributing resources (such as moving different people into leadership roles) is not enough” and that the society’s “governance structures do not yet reflect its stated values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Its solution: review and rework the society’s criteria for leadership development, academic awards, conferences, and publications. Adjusting review criteria informed by “intersectionality” designed to fight “epistemic exclusion” is an easy way to introduce de facto ideological litmus tests into the peer-review process. For many of the grants I obtained, such litmus tests seem to be the point. “Academic departments are racialized social systems that produce and sustain the byproducts of systemic racism,” a proposal for a $2.7 million project funded in 2024 asserts, promising to develop “departmentally-focused change efforts that cultivate values, assumptions, and behaviors that advance racial equity.” The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s million-dollar “I-ADVANCE” project, which effectively created a small DEI bureaucracy on campus, promised to Embed 28 ADVANCE faculty fellows in STEM departments” to amplify its equity goals. Another $1.2 million project promised to create “faculty online learning communities,” made up of scientists at universities around the country, that would eventually build department-level diversity action plans. “Ultimately,” the proposal asserts, perhaps more perceptively than its authors realized, “both organizational change and intersectionality frameworks deal with power.” Indeed, such grants confer a great deal of power to administrators and scholar-activists, who can even use the mere availability of funding as a tool to advance their causes. That history is worth remembering amid today’s debate over federal involvement in higher education: Washington has been shaping university priorities for years, including by financing efforts to instill progressive ideas about race, gender, and equity into academic institutions—and many of the policies those grants encouraged remain embedded within universities long after the federal money has stopped flowing. John D. 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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: “A Glorious Enterprise” comes to a sad end

by Greg Mayer The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the oldest natural history museum in the United States, is closing. Drexel University, with which the Academy became affiliated in 201…

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Giants-Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy Trade Sparks Candid Jameis Winston Take

The Minnesota Vikings decided to cut ties with J.J. McCarthy on Sept. 28, trading the former first-round pick to the New York Giants for a 2027 fifth-round pick after three seasons and only a handful of regular-season appearances. Moreover, the move gives McCarthy a fresh start in New York.For now, McCarthy will back up Jameis […] The post Giants-Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy Trade Sparks Candid Jameis Winston Take appeared first on HEAVY.

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A CT business elicits giggling and sometimes screams. It’s all ages and nothing you’re ‘allowed to do at home’

“A lot of people say it’s like a rage room only artistic,” the COO said.

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How Trump’s AI-Generated Memes Impact Political Authority and Masculinity

A new article by sociologists Tristan Bridges (University of California-Santa Barbara) and James W. Messerschmidt (University of Southern Maine) examines how AI–generated memes circulated on social media by President Donald Trump represent a significant transformation in the visual politics of masculinity

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AG Letitia James comments on Cornell gang rape case, her Republican challenger

James and Komatireddy will debate on Spectrum News 1 on Thursday, Oct. 8.

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Flick sets Oct. 5 Capitol events for custody bill

Rep. Jamie Flick (R-Lycoming/Union) announced Oct. 5 Capitol press conference, Judiciary hearing and panel on House Bill 1499 child custody reform.

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The Daily Roundup: Montana EMS Agencies Receive First Funds from Federal Health Program

The results are in: this year’s Great Fish Community Challenge was a record-breaking one, with 4,000 donors accounting for a total of $8.6 million going to nonprofits across the Flathead Valley.

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How accurate is Netflix's 'Unabomber' movie?

Retired FBI profiler James R. Fitzgerald tells Business Insider what's fact and fiction in the Netflix movie.

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James Madison Leading The Sun Belt

James Madison came into this season with expectations of winning the Sun Belt again. But the road to repeating would face some more challenges. Last season they handled the conference with ease, and it was clear they were the best team. The biggest question surrounding the Dukes this season was how they would handle all …

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Election 2026: Rookie political candidate releases 1st ad, jabs ‘politicians’

(The Center Square) – Jamie Ager’s quest to return North Carolina’s U.S. House of Representatives seat in the southwestern mountains to Democrats goes through Republican state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom.

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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn unpack the band’s ‘bold’ doc ‘Unshatter’

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn tell Entertainment Weekly about the process of creating their new documentary ‘Unshatter,’ which details the band’s reunion after Chester Bennington’s death.

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The Hyde Amendment's 50th Anniversary: Enough is Enough

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, a budget rider that bars federal insurance programs from covering abortion care. Physicians for Reproductive Health President and CEO, Dr. Jamila Perritt, shares reflections.

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