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Another Critical Role Actor Joins The Final Fantasy VII Revelation Cast As Shiva (But Not The Shiva You Think)

Hmm, wonder where all this chemistry with Vincent is coming from?

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Oct 8 • 1:10 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Five Things presented by Compass Minerals: Sporting back at home to take on Portland

Sporting Kansas City returns home following a two-game road swing this weekend when the team hosts the Portland Timbers at Sporting Park on Saturday night. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT and will be available to stream on Apple TV, while the game will also be broadcast locally on

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Oct 8 • 12:52 PM EDT • Sports • sportingkc.com
New ASU podcast asks: What if the future of news starts with people?

Andy Pergam has spent his career thinking about journalism not only as an industry, but as a public service that has to keep earning its place in people’s lives.

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Oct 8 • 12:49 PM EDT • Politics • news.asu.edu
Joe Rogan renews multimillion-dollar podcast deal with Spotify

Spotify announced that it has renewed its deal with Joe Rogan, who heads the audio company's most popular podcast.

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Oct 8 • 12:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Atlético v Athletic: Galo's youngsters are in action today!

Atlético vs Athletic– October 8 (Thursday) – 3 PMTournament: Brazil U-20 CupVenue: Arena MRVBroadcast: Mil SportsMatch Guide: Atlético vs Athletic

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Oct 8 • 12:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Inter vs. Parma: where to watch

INTER VS. PARMA, WHERE TO WATCH ON TVInter vs. Parma will be played on Saturday 10 October at 18:00 CEST on Matchday 6 of Serie A 2026/27, and will be broadcast live exclusively on DAZN. Fans can watc...

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Oct 8 • 11:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bleav in Wizards Podcast: Anthony Davis Rumors, Wizards Preseason

On the latest episode of the Bleav in Wizards Podcast, we dissect the latest Anthony Davis rumors and break down everything you need to know from Washington Wizards' training camp and ahead of the preseason opener

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Oct 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
World War II Collection At Weeks Library Book Sale

LANCASTER, N.H. — The Friends of Weeks Memorial Library in Lancaster will be holding their annual Columbus Day weekend book sale Saturday, October 10, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.. This sale

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Oct 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • caledonianrecord.com
\'Ghost Hunters\' star to speak in Millersville Friday night; here\'s how to get tickets

A “Ghost Hunters” personality will visit Millersville this week.

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Oct 8 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
Kentucky Senate budget chair questions whether politics are influencing budget forecast

A Republican leader has raised concerns about whether political games are being played with budget forecasts that show new revenue amid a very uncertain economic forecast.

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Oct 8 • 10:41 AM EDT • Politics • kentuckylantern.com
Official Coventry City injury update ahead of Newcastle United match

Ahead of facing Newcastle United there has been an official Coventry City injury update. The Sky Blues return to Premier League action on Monday night.

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Oct 8 • 10:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cyclones, FOX19 NOW, Rock Entertainment Sports Network announce new TV deal

All Cyclones home games to be broadcast locally in 2026-27

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Oct 8 • 9:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • fox19.com
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion DLC ‘The Siege of Castle Doom’ launches November 10

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion paid downloadable content “The Siege of Castle Doom” will launch on November 10, publisher Dotemu and developer Tribute Games announced.

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Oct 8 • 9:24 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Jonathan Groff gets rave reviews in Royal Shakespeare Theatre debut

A technical glitch with the set may have thrown a wrench into his latest opening night on stage, but that didn’t prevent Jonathan Groff from getting some glowing reviews earlier

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Oct 8 • 9:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
The Carter Center Launches ‘Far Away, Up Close,’ a Podcast Sharing Stories from the Front Lines of Peacebuilding and Global Health

On Oct. 14, The Carter Center will debut “Far Away, Up Close: Global Stories from The Carter Center,” an immersive, behind-the-scenes podcast about Carter Center staff working around the world to advance peace and improve health.

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Oct 8 • 9:11 AM EDT • Health • cartercenter.org
Sami Inkinen, Virta Health CEO: A Fortt Knox Update

Virta Health CEO Sami Inkinen said the company posted its first-ever profitable quarter — Q2 2026, on cash-flow and EBITDA — after a post-2021 down round, part of a "Project Independence" push to self-funding. In conversation with Jon Fortt, he casts GLP-1 drugs as a tailwind: with nutrition, Virta says patients lose a third more weight (20% vs 15%) and sustain 85% of the weight loss a year after stopping, saving ~$5,600 per diabetes patient yearly. Virta serves ~800 employers and plans.

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Oct 8 • 9:04 AM EDT • Health • cnbc.com
Business Beat : New downtown restaurant seeking employees ahead of opening

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Station Coney Island, a new restaurant coming to downtown Coldwater, has officially ann...

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Oct 8 • 8:03 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com
I’m actually going to go for Sandro Tonali

We invited a number of regular/irregular contributors to The Mag to give us their Newcastle United heroes and villains. Our thanks to Aaron Gales for taking up the challenge.

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Oct 8 • 7:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Demba Ba has now made public his Newcastle United dream

Demba Bahas been talking about Newcastle United. He is now aged 41 and is retired from playing but a case of what might have been with NUFC.

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Oct 8 • 6:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
PepsiCo to cut costs as weak N.America business hurts annual core profit forecast

Oct 8 (Reuters) - PepsiCo said on Thursday it would pursue additional cost cuts after lowering its annual core profit forecast due to sluggish demand for its snacks and beverages

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Oct 8 • 6:12 AM EDT • Business • centraloregondaily.com
PepsiCo to cut costs as weak N.America business hurts core profit forecast

Oct 8 (Reuters) - PepsiCo cut its annual core profit forecast on Thursday and said it would pursue additional cost cuts, warning that efforts to revive growth and profitability in its crucial North American business were taking longer than expected.

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Oct 8 • 6:08 AM EDT • Business • kansascity.com
PepsiCo cuts annual core profit forecast as higher costs hurt margins

PepsiCo cut its annual core profit forecast on Thursday, ​as inflation-weary consumers pared ‌spending on its snacks and beverages, particularly in North America, while ​higher input costs continued to ​pressure margins.

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Oct 8 • 6:05 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
PepsiCo to cut costs as weak N.America business hurts annual core profit forecast

PepsiCo said on Thursday it would pursue ​additional cost cuts after lowering its annual core profit forecast due to sluggish ‌demand for its snacks and beverages in North America and ⁠rising input costs.

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Oct 8 • 6:05 AM EDT • Business • ksl.com
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Caregivers need to take care of themselves, too

Nearly one in four adults in the United States provide care to adults or children with medical conditions or disabilities, and that number is on the rise. Such work can

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Oct 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • lancasteronline.com
Chiefs Wire Podcast Interview Series: Chiefs LB Cooper McDonald

Chiefs Wire Podcast Interview Series: @EdEastonJr chats with Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Cooper McDonald

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Oct 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sporticast: Can the Premier League Thrive With Fewer Stars?

On the 593rd Sporticast episode, Lev Akabas, Justin Birnbaum and Jacob Feldman fill in for Scott and Eben to discuss a week’s worth of sports business news. Justin recently published Sportico‘s annual list of the world’s highest-paid soccer players, with Cristiano Ronaldo leading the way with roughly $300 million in earnings. Only one of the …

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Oct 8 • 5:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Math Singularity Is Here, and Science May Be Next

OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Oct 8 • 4:22 AM EDT • Science • douglevin.substack.com
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UK alum brings exercise science to thoroughbred racing

A Kentucky Derby broadcast sparked Carly Schuerger’s passion for horse racing. Now, the UK graduate is combining exercise physiology with hands-on racing experience as one of just 12 people selected for Godolphin Flying Start, a two-year international program preparing future industry leaders.

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Science • uknow.uky.edu
Release | We’ve partnered with a podcast!

The Bundesliga Show (TBS) & Get German Football News (GGFN) are delighted to announce a brand new partnership for the 2026/27 season and beyond!As a result, there will be an alliance to bring you the ...

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Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rubio refuses to comment on Guilfoyle allegations

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct

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Oct 8 • 2:25 AM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com
Trump says ‘we protect our cities’ after saying Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego

The president recast his earlier incendiary statements at a San Antonio rally meant to galvanize voters behind Texas Republicans ahead of the midterms.

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Oct 7 • 10:08 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Trump to award National Medal of Science to Elon Musk

President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives on Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.&…

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Oct 7 • 8:47 PM EDT • Science • thehill.com
What Are We Missing About Student Mental Health?

Harvard’s Alexis Redding discusses how the entire college experience shapes student well-being and what it takes to build a culture of care.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • insidehighered.com
The First Review For Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Is In

What did the critics think?

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Oct 7 • 7:25 PM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

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

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Oct 7 • 6:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Stock 12‑Month Price Target Cut to $20.79, Implies 72% Upside

Explore more price target data and ratings for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in the dedicated News Flow.Select reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactSet R…

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Oct 7 • 6:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
CBS News to launch election night "nerd show" for politics junkies

The special streaming show will begin at 5pm ET, a few hours before CBS News' official election broadcast.

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Oct 7 • 5:32 PM EDT • Politics • axios.com
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Lancaster General Health serves Amish families with special outreach programs

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health meets regularly with Amish bishops to help provide culturally-appropriate care to the Amish community.

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Oct 7 • 5:21 PM EDT • Health • aha.org
‘The Social Reckoning’ review: A pale shadow of ‘The Social Network’

“The Social Reckoning,” while never less than watchable and occasionally mesmerizing, feels a bit miscast and misdirected, writes Moira Macdonald.

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Oct 7 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
WATCH LIVE: Shapiro, Garrity to engage in Pa. governor\'s debate

The two major-party candidates for governor of Pennsylvania will meet in Harrisburg tonight for the only scheduled debate in this year's general election.

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Oct 7 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com
DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law

The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president. Its lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the ads are government-sponsored propaganda that runs afoul of

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Oct 7 • 4:12 PM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com
Flutter Entertainment plc Stock 12‑Month Price Target Cut to $131.5, Implies 72% Upside

Explore more price target data and ratings for Flutter Entertainment plc on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for Flutter Entertainment plc in the dedicated News Flow.Select reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactSet Research Systems Inc…

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Accel Entertainment, Inc. Stock 12‑Month Price Target Raised to $16.12, Implies 47% Upside

Explore more price target data and ratings for Accel Entertainment, Inc. on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for Accel Entertainment, Inc. in the dedicated News Flow.Select reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactSet Research Systems Inc…

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Forecasting the Next Five Years of Business Jet Deliveries – Part 2

Image: Bombardier Global 7500/8000 Factory Part 1 (https://lnkd.in/ebQSmHXb) laid out the raw material behind this forecast: a six-OEM market where 1Q26 backlog growth ranges from 43% at Bombardier to roughly …

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ESPN's 2027 Super Bowl telecast will stream on Disney+

The Super Bowl is coming to Disney+. The Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday that ESPN's telecast of the NFL's marquee event on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California,

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‘He Has a Bigger Problem,’ ‘Embarrassed The Business’ — NFL Legend Terrell Owens Has No Sympathy For Tony Romo After Controversial CBS Exit

Terrell Owens has little sympathy for Tony Romo following the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback’s sudden departure from CBS Sports. The network announced on Friday that it had mutually agreed to part ways with Romo after nine years in the broadcast booth, bringing an unexpected end to one of the biggest analyst careers in recent NFL history.

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Oct 7 • 12:42 PM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
ESPN's Super Bowl 61 broadcast to also stream on Disney+

ESPN announced on Tuesday that its broadcast of Super Bowl 61 will also be streamed on Disney+. Disney+ will stream the ESPN/ABC broadcast as well as the Spanish-language telecast on

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Oct 7 • 12:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
ESPN's Super Bowl 61 broadcast to also stream on Disney+

ESPN announced on Tuesday that its broadcast of Super Bowl 61 will also be streamed on Disney+. Disney+ will stream the ESPN/ABC broadcast as well as the Spanish-language telecast on

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ESPN's Super Bowl 61 broadcast to also stream on Disney+

(AP) — ESPN announced on Tuesday that its broadcast of Super Bowl 61 will also be streamed on Disney+.Disney+ will stream the ESPN/ABC broadcast as well as the Spanish-language telecast on ESPN Deportes in the United States.

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Oct 7 • 12:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
1 Smart Business Story: How Founders Use PR To Dominate

Media is a minefield. From Substacks and livestreams to podcasts and newspapers (where they still exist), it’s a lot for founders to juggle. Fortunately,

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Oct 7 • 12:21 PM EDT • Business • inc.com
Accel Entertainment, Inc. to Report Third Quarter 2026 Results, Host Conference Call and Webcast on November 3

CHICAGO, Oct. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: ACEL) (“Accel” or “the Company”), a leading locals-focused gaming op...

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ESPN's 2027 Super Bowl telecast will stream on Disney+

The streaming service will carry the NFL's marquee event along with two "Monday Night Football" games this season.

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Oct 7 • 11:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Global Science Market Entering High-Growth Phase According To Latest Research By The Business Research

The Business Research Company's Science Market Report 2026 – Market Size, Trends, And Global Forecast 2026-2035

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Oct 7 • 10:45 AM EDT • Science • einnews.com
Packers vs. Bears Week 5 TV Broadcast Map

Most of the Eastern Time Zone is out of luck when it comes to watching the Packers on local TV this week.

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Oct 7 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Accel Entertainment Announces Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

Accel Entertainment will announce third-quarter financial results on November 3, 2026, followed by a conference call and webcast.Quiver AI SummaryAccel Entertainment, Inc. announced that it will release its financial and operating results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2026, on November 3, 2026, after market close. The Company will hold a conference call and webcast at 4:30 PM ET to discuss the results, featuring CEO Mark Phelan and o

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Accel Entertainment, Inc. to Report Third Quarter 2026 Results, Host Conference Call and Webcast on November 3

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Can $1 billion power Republicans to victory in the midterms?

Republicans are facing anxiety as they enter the final month of the midterm campaign. They have $1 billion at their disposal but worry it may not be enough to counter

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Oct 7 • 9:22 AM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com
Latinx Voces Expands Grassroots Health Equity Across the Valley

A podcast with Dr. Paulina Sosa Quintanilla, founder and CEO of Latinx Voces.

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Oct 7 • 8:42 AM EDT • Health • riograndeguardian.com
Lower US Treasury yield view persists despite biggest quarterly surge since 1994

US Treasury yields are forecast to fall over coming months, according to fixed income strategists in a Reuters poll who clung to their long-held view despite the benchmark 10-year yield recording its biggest quarterly jump since 1994.

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Oct 7 • 8:11 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Business Beat : Tunnel of Terror opens Saturday at Stickley Family Farms in Colon

COLON, Mich. - A longtime Michigan Halloween tradition returns this weekend when the Tunnel of Terror opens Sa...

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Date for Ligue 1 broadcasting rights auction revealed

A call for offers for the broadcasting rights for Ligue 1 will be launched next month, as per a report from L’Équipe. Unlike in more recent bidding processes, there is more optimism this time aroun...

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Oct 7 • 6:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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‘Crystal Ball’ – Sports Media Analyst Predicts Fox Will Lose Greg Olsen, Prompting a Drew Brees Promotion and ESPN Star Getting Poached

With the NFL season well underway, it appears the broadcasting world could see a couple of shakeups. With Tony Romo’s exit from CBS, attention is also turning to other player-turned analysts, including Greg Olsen’s situation at Fox, which is expected to create a ripple effect in sports broadcasting.

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Oct 7 • 5:23 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
8 Halloween parades to check out in Lancaster County in 2026

From Columbia to Ephrata, there are more than a half dozen ways to watch Halloween parades and maybe get some candy along the way, too.

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Oct 7 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
7 Halloween parades to check out in Lancaster County in 2026

From Columbia to Ephrata, there are more than a half dozen ways to watch Halloween parades and maybe get some candy along the way, too.

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Oct 7 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
Pellegrini favored to start in Como-Roma

Gian Piero Gasperini is ready to welcome back the remaining players who have been on international duty, preparing for the trip to Como, scheduled for Sunday at 12:30 PM. Mora, Castro, Soulé, and Bal...

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Kobel reflects on Newcastle interest and his Borussia Dortmund future

Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel has consistently been linked with a transfer over the past few years.Last summer, Newcastle United were reportedly interested in the Swiss shot-stopper, but h...

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Lewis Hall Helps England To A Third Consecutive Clean Sheet

The Newcastle youngster solidified his international standing with a disciplined display, providing technical flair and defensive steel to help Thomas Tuchel’s side maintain their formidable defensive momentum.

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Oct 7 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why ‘Wives’ is relevant to the times

Parvesh Cheena, actor in Jaclyn Backhaus’ play WIVES, at East West Players, co-produced with Hypokrit Live Arts. Photo by Daniel Antonio Vallejo. At a time when marginalized voices are changing the national conversation, Jaclyn Backhaus’ play Wives, featuring a South Asian American cast, is both relevant and funny. “This play offers its actors the opportunity to time travel, to play many…

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Tom Cruise digs into uncharted territory in ‘Digger’

Don’t look now, but Tom Cruise’s latest movie, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, is not your typical Tom Cruise film. The charming, boyish-looking star of Mission: Impossible fame is shedding his familiar action-superstar image. Wearing a fat suit, cowboy boots and disheveled hair, and at one point carrying a dying cat, Cruise portrays Digger Rockwell, an egocentric, fast-talking octogenarian oil billionaire whose irresponsible drilling…

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Konami Announces The Composer For Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

"A new composition of Bloody Tears fills the night air"

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ABC and Trump's FCC battle in federal court over free speech and jurisdiction issues

A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network’s editorial decisions just weeks before the U.S. midterm elections.

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We Are Iowa Local 5 News

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reVolver Podcasts’ Contacto XIII Ranks Among Spotify Mexico’s Top 50 Science Podcasts

DALLAS, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Contacto XIII , the Spanish-language podcast produced and hosted by Garbanzo for Dallas-based reVolver...

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Whit Fosburgh Misstates Menhaden Science on Qualified Captain Podcast and Overlooks American Fishing Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2026 / The Qualified Captain is a North Carolina-based boating and maritime interview podcast hosted by Aaron Stasiak. On the podcast, Stasiak

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Whit Fosburgh Misstates Menhaden Science on Qualified Captain Podcast and Overlooks American Fishing Families

The Qualified Captain is a North Carolina-based boating and maritime interview podcast hosted by Aaron Stasiak. On the podcast, Stasiak interviews ...

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WGAL to host 36th District debate with candidates Malone, Jones

Democrat James Malone and Republican Tom Jones will meet for a televised debate next week on WGAL, less than a month before their highly anticipated showdown in Lancaster County’s 36th

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The Emmys are leaving broadcast TV for Amazon’s Prime Video

(CNN) — The Emmy Awards are headed to Amazon Prime Video, ending the ceremony’s decades-long rotation among the broadcast television networks.

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A hearing on Kilmar Ábrego Garcia’s deportation case is abruptly canceled

Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's deportation saga continues as a federal court hearing in Maryland has been abruptly canceled. The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to deport him, initially sending him to

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North Carolina Forecast to Struggle Against Pittsburgh This Week

The North Carolina Tar Heels are being given a low chance to take down Pittsburgh this week.

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‘The Science Doesn’t Back It Up’ — Controversy Erupts As Chris Nowinski’s Guardian Cap Critique Divides Fans

Chris Nowinski is not sold on the Guardian Cap. On Pablo Torre Finds Out, Pablo Torre’s podcast, posted Tuesday, the co-founder of Boston University’s CTE Center told Torre the story behind the padded helmet cover looks like something of a scam.

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Stephen Wacker outlines his ‘new mandate’ for every Marvel comic

New Marvel EIC Stephen Wacker wants every Marvel comic to give readers enough context and excitement to keep reading, regardless of where they jump aboard.

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Emmy Awards to move from traditional TV to Prime Video in 2027

The Emmy Awards are moving from traditional television to streaming for the first time in their history, with Amazon's Prime Video set to broadcast the ceremony from 2027, the Television Academy said ...

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‘Vampire Diaries’ star makes first major public appearance in 7 years

Steven R. McQueen, who starred as Jeremy Gilbert across six seasons of ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ reunited with his former castmates at a Paris fan convention.

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Vitalize secures $31M to scale AI-powered operating system for hospital staffing and scheduling

Hospital staffing and scheduling is unglamorous, complex and tedious work, and Veeraj Shah, Vitalize CEO and co-founder, believes it's the most valuable healthcare task to tackle. | Vitalize positions its software as an "air traffic control" system for healthcare operations, helping health systems automate staffing, forecast demand, manage capacity and reduce reliance on overtime and agency labor.

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The Emmys are leaving broadcast TV for Amazon’s Prime Video

The Emmy Awards are headed to Amazon Prime Video, ending the ceremony’s decades-long rotation among the broadcast television networks.

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What Nathan Gallagher said in final 'Below Deck' episode before arrest

"Below Deck Mediterranean" cast member Nathan Gallagher talked about his young family's future and overcoming challenges in his final episode before he was arrested and convicted on domestic violence-

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Paramount-WBD deal closes; here are top quant-rated entertainment stocks

Paramount Skydance–WBD merger reshapes entertainment—see 20 top quant-rated movies & broadcasting stocks (AMC, DIS, NFLX, ROKU).

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And the Emmy Awards go to Amazon Prime Video

LOS ANGELES — Breaking with more than 70 years of tradition, the Emmy Awards show will move to Amazon Prime Video from broadcast TV beginning next year. The Television Academy

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Brazil: Lessons from a Disaster

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

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Oct 6 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • laborpolitics.com
Manchester aerospace company expands casting business with new overseas acquisition

Pursuit announced it closed on the deal to buy Creasey Castings in August, the company’s sixth acquisition since 2023.

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How ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ found the perfect voice for Audrey II

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ casting director Margery Simkin shares the story of how she found the perfect voice for Audrey II.

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Joe Rogan Says Money Is So Deeply Entangled In Politics That Removing It Entirely 'Seems Ridiculous To People'

Money has become such an accepted part of U.S. politics that the idea of removing it altogether sounds almost absurd, according to comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan. He argues that if the political sys...

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Catalytic confessions and a quest for Matt Damon: PodCAT puts science on mic

PodCAT, hosted by researchers from Rice, the University of Rochester and Penn State University, is a podcast devoted to the science of catalysis, academic careers and the surprisingly personal stories of the researchers themselves.

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FT and Standard Chartered Book of the Year Award 2026

Contenders include titles on weight-loss drugs, AI weaponry and forecasting

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FT and Standard Chartered Book of the Year Award 2026

Contenders include titles on weight-loss drugs, AI weaponry and forecasting

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Masterclass Launches Podcast With Martha Stewart as First Guest

Masterclass has launched its first-ever podcast "Other People's Business," with Martha Stewart and Jeffrey Pfeffer set as first guests.

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Podcast: Wizards Training Camp, Alex Sarr Update, Preseason Nears

On the latest episode of the DC Roundtable Podcast covering the Washington Wizards, we dive into the training camp storylines, update on Alex Sarr and what to watch in game one of the preseason

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Oct 6 • 6:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Netflix's 'East of Eden' cast explain 'poetic' final scene, 'Timshel' meaning

Spoiler alert! The following story contains major details about the "Timshel," the seventh and final episode of Netflix’s limited series “East of Eden” (now streaming).

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Oct 6 • 5:47 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Manchester United remain interested in Barcelona outcast

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

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Oct 6 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dan Cox and Wes Moore face off in a governor debate Tuesday. Here’s what to know.

The hourlong debate will be prerecorded and broadcast on local news channels and radio stations and streamed online at The Banner at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Oct 6 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • thebanner.com
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