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Mamdani's business czar targets 'justice' instead

EDC head Anthony Shorris, entrusted with the indispensable, herculean task of promoting citywide business growth, sounds like he’s swallowed Zohran Mandani’s socialistic Kool-Aid.

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Sep 30 • 7:10 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Becomes First Video Game of 2026 to Top List of Titles People Are Most Excited About

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Sep 30 • 7:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Player Availability Report: #SEAvSKC

Player Availability Report is SportingKC.com’s look at the latest status updates around the team ahead of upcoming matches and is presented by Saint Luke's. All details listed are from the league’s official Player Status Report that is submitted the day prior to the match. Sporting Kansas City is set for

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Sep 30 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sportingkc.com
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Limited practice for Dalton Schultz

Texans TE Dalton Schultz listed as limited because of scheduled rest day

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Sep 30 • 6:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Austin nonprofit uses sound baths, yoga to promote mental health during Hispanic Heritage Month

For some Austin residents, finding a moment of peace can be as simple as closing their eyes and listening. At a recent event in southeast Austin, the sounds of singing bowls and other instruments fil...

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Sep 30 • 6:38 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Limited practice for Zay Flowers

Ravens WR Zay Flowers listed as limited Wednesday because of hamstring issue

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Sep 30 • 6:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Evolution, climate change missing from Florida's new K-12 science standards

The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.

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Sep 30 • 6:06 PM EDT • Science • wusf.org
Jan Jarboe Russell Was a Widely Admired Author and Journalist. She Was an Even Better Friend

The long-tenured Texas Monthly staff writer and author of several books has died at the age of 75.

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Sep 30 • 5:41 PM EDT • Politics • texasmonthly.com
Jakobi Meyers listed as limited Wednesday

Jaguars WR Jakobi Meyers remains limited because of lingering thumb injury

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Sep 30 • 5:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bears designate CB Kyler Gordon for return from PUP list

The Chicago Bears have opened the 21-day practice window for cornerback Kyler Gordon to return from the PUP list.

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Sep 30 • 5:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The 49ers have 2 new additions to Wednesday’s injury report

Add KhaDarel Hodge and Keion White to the list

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Sep 30 • 3:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Health care affordability tops survey of Michigan small business owners ahead of midterm elections

Taxes and workforce availability were also high on the list.

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Sep 30 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • michiganpublic.org
Health care affordability tops survey of Michigan small business owners ahead of midterm elections

Taxes and workforce availability were also high on the list.

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Sep 30 • 3:50 PM EDT • Business • michiganpublic.org
Art therapy program targets veterans in Palm Beach County

A 2023 Census Bureau profile for Palm Beach County lists a total of 58,187 Veterans, including 53,744 males and 4,443 females. Many of these veterans suffer from depression, anxiety, antisocial

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Sep 30 • 3:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Panthers list handful of starters as non-participants on Wednesday

The Panthers noted seven players as non-participants at Wednesday's walk-through.

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Sep 30 • 2:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Blizzard Survey Suggests New Classes Coming To WoW: Forever

Warden, Necromancer, and what sounds a lot like a vampire are also on the list

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Sep 30 • 2:02 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
IDEaS & AWS Launch Upskilling Course for Faculty, Research Engineers, and IT Specialists Working in Health Science Research

The fall cohort of 18 researchers will participate in a free, fully remote, 5-week program.

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Sep 30 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • newswise.com
RAYE, Sombr, Troye Sivan, Conan Gray & More Musicians Named to 2026 TIME100 Next

The annual list spotlights 100 emerging leaders making their mark across entertainment, sports, business, science, politics & other fields.

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Sep 30 • 1:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Best Entertainment Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist

Warner Bros. Discovery, Walt Disney, Roblox, Verizon Communications, and Spotify Technology are the five Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in producing, distributing, or deliverin

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Sep 30 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Farm SOS partners with Illinois FFA to promote mental health resources

The mental health specialist with Farm SOS, formerly the Farm Family Resource Initiative, says a partnership with the Illinois FFA Association is helping spread the message of farmer mental health. Rachel Brown says the organization has once again awarded grants to chapters across the state aimed at promoting mental health in agriculture. “We call them Bend […]

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Sep 30 • 12:50 PM EDT • Health • brownfieldagnews.com
Journalists to discuss AI, technology at Drake’s Bucksbaum Business Lecture

Drake University will host journalists Karen Hao and Nicholas Thompson for its fourth annual Bucksbaum Lectureship in Business at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Knapp Center. The lecture, titled “Decoding America’s Tech Moment,” will explore the evolving technology industry and the implications of artificial intelligence. Hao is a bestselling author and award-winning AI reporter…

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Sep 30 • 12:46 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Essentia Health-Northern Pines Clinic welcomes family medicine specialist Dr. Mikaela Lake

Dr. Mikaela Lake, a doctor of osteopathic medicine specializing in family medicine, is thrilled to join the Essentia Health-Northern Pines Clinic.

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Sep 30 • 12:06 PM EDT • Health • essentiahealth.org
Panthers' mounting injuries among most concerning in NFL

The Panthers' growing injury list has been tabbed as one of the most concerning in the NFL.

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Sep 30 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
FOX Sports’ Kevin Burkhardt joins A-list group of winners with prestigious award

Kevin Burkhardt has won a major broadcasting award

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Sep 30 • 11:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Newrez Turns Servicing Data Into Repeat Business For Brokers

Newrez is extending its homeowner-engagement platform to wholesale borrowers, giving brokers a potential path back to clients when another mortgage opportunity emerges.HomeHub is now available to protected wholesale borrowers, allowing homeowners to monitor estimated home values and equity, explore refinance and home equity opportunities, and search local listings.

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Sep 30 • 11:25 AM EDT • Business • nationalmortgageprofessional.com
Hairdressing Is an Art; Let’s Remember It’s Also a Business

Across the country, hair salons are seeing demand for their services grow. And while beauty professionals may have amazing skills as far as their craft, what almost none of them have been taug | L.A. hairstylist, salon owner, and educator Paula Peralta argues that while technical skills may launch a career, business education is what helps stylists build their futures.

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Sep 30 • 11:14 AM EDT • Business • americansalon.com
Jean Arnault, Russell Wilson, and Gordon Ramsey Headline Expanded F1 Business Summit

The F1 Business Summit, announced to be returning to the Las Vegas Strip just over two months ago, finally has a keynote and a full list of panelists to round o

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Sep 30 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • si.com
NPF Names 32 Journalists for October 2026 Local Business Journalism Fellowship

The National Press Foundation has selected 32 journalists from across the country to participate in the October 2026 Local Business Journalism Fellowship in Chicago, Illiniois.

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Sep 30 • 10:05 AM EDT • Business • nationalpress.org
We are capitalists: US Democrats push back against communist label ahead of midterms

Sixty national, state and local candidates, including 10 sitting members of Congress, have signed a pledge with a new group, Promise to America

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Sep 30 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • detroitnews.com
F1 Grand Slams, explained

George Russell joined an exclusive F1 list at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix

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Sep 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Astro Digital plans SPAC listing to expand satellite production and defense business

Astro Digital plans SPAC listing to expand satellite production and defense business Astro Digital plans SPAC listing to expand satellite production and defense business

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Sep 30 • 7:16 AM EDT • Business • spacenews.com
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When a Mother Texts at 2 AM: Jay Patel, Jacaranda Health, and an AI That Listens

Jay Patel returned to Kenya and built the AI behind PROMPTS, Jacaranda Health's free text service that answers pregnant women's questions and sends urgent cases to nurses. It now reaches millions of mothers in Kenya and other countries.

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Sep 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • medangel.org
Debt service and the Pentagon. Private equity and the politics of the US housing market. The return of black lung disease & the Franco-Prussian War in color.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. RALPH BALSON. 1890—1964. Oil and enamel, signed. Source: Gavekal This going to hurt - the two 7s in the US: diesel and mortgage rates Source: Gavekal In the US housing market, costs are soaring and the role of corporate, private equity-backed buyers is high on the mid-term election agenda. HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe It is striking how, since 2020, big banks have dropped out of the political spotlight in the US. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Rates of the lung disease pneumoconiosis among working US coal miners have risen to levels not seen in nearly 40 years Source: Bloomberg Chinese Clean Technology Exports For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Ralph Balson (1939) Portrait of Grace Crowley Cole, G. O. & Haseman, S. M., (2023) “‘The Substance of Paint’: Class and Materiality in the Work of Ralph Balson”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2). Ralph Balson (1890–1964) was an English plumber and house painter who emigrated to Australia in 1913 and subsequently became a key member of Sydney’s artistic avant-garde. He is credited with having the first solo exhibition of purely abstract painting in Australia in 1941. Despite his role in developing Australian non-objective painting, Balson remained principally a house painter, working on his art practice at weekends. In 1955 he retired on a state pension and became a full-time artist. Balson’s artistic education and methods were critically shaped by his working-class background. He did not travel abroad until 1960 and was an avid auto-didact. His materials, palette, techniques and compositional strategies were likewise informed by his trade. Balson’s profession as a painter-decorator made him conspicuous within the predominantly middle-class Sydney art scene, though his painting partner Grace Crowley considered it an advantage in their pursuit of constructive painting. This paper explores the impact of Balson’s trade on his trajectory towards pure abstraction. While his art was at odds with the predominantly figurative mode of class-conscious art in Australian Modernism, we argue that it is embedded in the experience of class through its creative adaptation of labour into aesthetics. Source: OLH Svetlana Alexievich, The Art of Oral History No. 1 Paris Review Issue 257, Fall 2026 Interviewed by Elena Kostyuchenko INTERVIEWER How were you able to go to Chernobyl? Did you need special papers? ALEXIEVICH It was a time of chaos. They let me right into the zone. … More than anything, there was confusion. Adamovich [Ales Adamovich, the Soviet Belarusian writer], I remember, persuaded Gorbachev to send in the scientists, who showed up without even bringing their shaving kits. They were told that there had been an explosion at a nuclear power plant, but for some reason they thought that they’d be there for only a day or two. The first time I went was several months later, and people kept telling me about things they didn’t understand—how the fishermen couldn’t find worms, because they’d burrowed deep into the earth, how the milk wouldn’t curdle at the cheese factories. The honeybees wouldn’t come out of their hives. The evacuations started, I think, in the first month. The old women hid, they wouldn’t leave. I mentioned radiation to one of them and she said, “I’ve seen that radiation, all right! It’s yellow with green in it. I saw puddles of it in my garden, and I told the other women, and we ran and looked, and she had it in her garden, and the other one, too!” God, it was wild, the way the mind made sense of it. There was a story going around about Gorbachev telling the scientists to show him the radiation. “We can’t, it’s invisible.” “But I want to see it!” I also ran into the soldiers who’d been flown in on helicopters from Afghanistan. I asked them, “What are you doing here with your machine guns?” They said, “We’re collecting the radiation, that’s what.” So you had some of them running around with their guns, others out in the village washing off firewood or burying soil in the soil. These were the kinds of things that exploded our worldview. They made you realize that culture was just a chest filled with old manuscripts. There were no books in there that could help me. Our philosophers turned out to be useless when faced with the unprecedented. Derrida, Baudrillard—philosophy fell silent. What was happening? How would we live with it? That’s when I decided it simply needed to be witnessed. Which is what I did. INTERVIEWER I wanted to ask about how you talk to people. … ALEXIEVICH Yes, we sit and we talk—about what interests me and about life in general. About love, about everything in the world. That way, what comes out is three-dimensional. If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalists do, it won’t be interesting, and it won’t be the truth, either. Not the whole truth. INTERVIEWER Do people always open up when you ask questions, or can questions get in the way? ALEXIEVICH You have to ask questions, of course. Your job is to scour away the banality and return people to their true selves, to make them face what they rarely tap into. With every new person, you have to find a new way to do it. When you ask an interesting question or you share what happened to you, you help people really think about what they’re saying and not just repeat whatever they’ve picked up from the newspaper. But not everybody is capable of it, not everyone wants to put themselves through that. Either the chemistry starts to kick in or it doesn’t. A person might be wonderful, but you can tell that the conversation just isn’t going to happen. You can try to push it, but it will be a product of your own intellect, rather than of that mysterious connection. Life doesn’t come from the mind. Some people I can call two years after our last conversation, and they’ll say, “Oh, Svetochka! I think of you all the time,” and we’ll start talking again. With others, that won’t happen. That doesn’t mean they’re not extraordinary people, just that you can’t connect with them. They might have some insight, but you don’t have the right antenna to pick up their signal. Source: The Paris Review Colorized Franco-Prussian war … the ruins of Strasbourg with a French photographer and his mobile dark room. Ralph Balson (1961) Matter Painting If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Sep 30 • 6:25 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com
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14 Los Angeles art shows to see this fall off the beaten path

There's a lot to look forward to in the L.A. art scene this fall. So much so that we had to make a second list. Here are our picks for what to check out beyond the typical stomping grounds.

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Sep 30 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

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Sep 30 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
How to Listen to Your Favorite Music, Online or Off the Grid

Streaming services can introduce you to a wonderland of nearly unlimited audio, but downloading your digital collection has advantages.

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Sep 30 • 5:03 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Logitech’s Zone Vibe Pro Headset For Business And Pleasure

A new wireless headset FDrom Logitech is designed for clearer calls as well as being suitable for listening to music. The Logitech Zone Vibe Pro is available now.

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Sep 30 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
Hampton Roads’ fastest-growing companies make Inc. 5000 list

This year, 245 Virginia companies, including 24 in Hampton Roads, made the Inc. 5000 list.

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Sep 29 • 11:53 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
NFL Week 4 announcers assignments revealed

The schedule is set for Week 4 of the NFL season when it comes to what announcers will be calling each game.

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Sep 29 • 10:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Building Automation for Good: Energy Efficiency & Business Benefits (VNC Panel Recap)

PANELISTS Emily Lindahl | Oak View Group / Director, Sustainability (moderator)Greg Farley | MD Energy Advisors / Director of Strategic Energy ProgramsOmar

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Sep 29 • 9:00 PM EDT • Business • news.pollstar.com
Hundreds of science communicators explore OSU research during SciWri26 conference

Oregon State University hosted the ScienceWriters2026 conference Sept. 25-28, bringing more than 400 science journalists and communicators to the Corvallis campus to meet OSU researchers and learn about their projects firsthand. “This conference provided an unparalleled opportunity to showcase Oregon State and its researchers to leading science writers from around the country and world,” said Sean Nealon, OSU media relations manager. “Important relationships were built that will pay dividends for years to come.”

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Sep 29 • 8:04 PM EDT • Science • today.oregonstate.edu
Warhammer 40,000

Heretics and Loyalists alike are receiving a suite of updates in time for the release of Codex: Space Marines.

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Sep 29 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
With no FEMA funding, program supporting LA fire victims set to sunset

Since the fires, CORE has helped 904 households, has hundreds of active cases it’s working on, and hundreds more on a wait list

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Sep 29 • 7:53 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
With no FEMA funding, program supporting LA fire victims set to sunset

Since the fires, CORE has helped 904 households, has hundreds of active cases it’s working on, and hundreds more on a wait list

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Gambit's Best of New Orleans 2026: Entertainment

Design by Dora Sison / Gambit Best Bounce Artist googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492300'); }); 1. Big Freedia (Instagram: @bigfreedia)2. Ha Sizzle (Instagram: @hasizzlethevoice)3. Subtweet Shawn (Instagram: @subtweetshawn1) Trixie Minx Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Burlesque Performer1. Trixie Minx (Instagram: @trixienola)2. Bella Blue (Instagram: @bellablueforever)3. Miss Angie Z (Instagram: @missangiez) Best Casino1. Caesars New Orleans (8 Canal St., 800-427-7247; caesars.com/caesars-new-orleans)2. Treasure Chest Casino (4550 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 504-443-8000; treasurechest.com)3. Boomtown Casino (4132 Peters Road., Harvey, 504-366-7711; boomtownneworleans.com) Best Drag Performer1. Debbie with a D (Instagram: @debbiewithad)2. Katrina Waters (Instagram: @katrinawaters504)3. Laveau Contraire (Instagram: @laveaucontraire) Best Festival (that's still around)1. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com)2. French Quarter Festival (frenchquarterfest.org)3. Hogs For The Cause (hogsfest.org) Best Food Festival1. New Orleans Fried Chicken Festival (friedchickenfestival.com)2. Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (poboyfest.com)3. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com) Tipitina's Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Live Music Venue1. Tipitina’s (501 Napoleon Ave., 504-895-8477; tipitinas.com)2. The Broadside (600 N Broad St., 504-766-0871; broadsidenola.com)3. The Fillmore (6 Canal St., 504-881-1555; thefillmorenola.com) Best Live Music Club1. Maple Leaf Bar (8316 Oak St., 504-866-9359; mapleleafbar.com)2. Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro (626 Frenchmen St., 504-949-0696; snugjazz.com)3. Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St., 504-541-2050; chickiewahwah.com)3. Blue Nile (532 Frenchmen St., 504-766-6193; bluenilelive.com) Best Local Blues Artist/Band1. Little Freddie King (littlefreddieking.com)2. Samantha Fish (samanthafish.com)3. Tab Benoit (tabbenoit.com) Best Local Brass Band1. Rebirth Brass Band (rebirthbrassband.com)2. Hot 8 Brass Band (hot8brassband.com)3. The Soul Rebels (thesoulrebels.com) Best Local DJ1. Paul Lakeway (Instagram: @paul_lakeway)2. DJ Soul Sister (Instagram: @djsoulsister)3. ANTWIGADEE! (Instagram: @antwigadee) Best Local Funk Band1. Dumpstaphunk (dumpstaphunk.com)2. Galactic (galacticfunk.com)3. Big Sam's Funky Nation (bigsamsfunkynation.com) Kaye the Beast Provided Photo by Catherine Debuys Best Local Hip-Hop Group/Artist1. Kaye the Beast (Instagram: @kayethebeast)2. La Reezy (Instagram: @lareezymusic)3. Pell (Instagram: @pellyeah) Best Local Movie Theater1. The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad St., 504-218-1008; thebroadtheater.com)2. The Prytania (5339 Prytania St., 504-891-2787; theprytania.com) googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492297'); }); 3. The Prytania Theatre at Canal Place (333 Canal St., 3rd floor, 504-290-2658; theprytania.com) Best Local Music Artist/Band1. Robin Barnes & The Fiya Birds (robinbarnesmusic.com)2. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com)3. Sweet Crude (sweetcrudeband.com) Best Local Rock Band1. The Revivalists (therevivalists.com)2. Better Than Ezra (betterthanezra.com)3. Cowboy Mouth (cowboymouth.com) Best Wedding Band/ DJ1. The Mixed Nuts (themixednuts.com)2. Bucktown All-Stars (bucktownallstars.com)3. Warm Advice (warmadvice.com) Doreen Ketchens Provided photo Best Local Street Performer1. Doreen Ketchens (doreensjazz.org)2. Jourdan Blue (Instagram: @jourblue)3. Sariyah Idan (ariyahidan.com) Best Local Theater Company1. The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (504-264-2580; twtheatrenola.com)2. Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter St., 504-522-2081; lepetittheatre.com)3. The NOLA Project (504-302-9117; nolaproject.com) Best Local Traditional Jazz Group/Artist1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band (preservationhalljazzband.com)2. Kermit Ruffins (@ruffinsbbq)3. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com) Best Marching Band1. St. Augustine High School Marching 100 (Instagram: @staugmarching100)2. Edna Karr High School Marching Band (Instagram: @theofficialkarrband)3. The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders (therootsofmusic.org) Best Mardi Gras Parade1. Muses (kreweofmuses.org)2. Iris (kreweofiris.org)3. Endymion (endymion.org) 610 Stompers Photo by Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune Best Mardi Gras Dance Krewe1. 610 Stompers (610stompers.com)2. Amelia EarHawts (aecabinkrewe.com)3. The Jamettes (Instagram: @thejametteskrewe) Best Place to See Burlesque/Drag1. The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret (2240 St. Claude Ave., 504-218-5778; theallwayslounge.net)2. The Original Nite Cap (1300 St. Bernard Ave., 2nd floor, 504-224-2854; Instagram: @originalnitecap)3. The Country Club (634 Louisa St., 504-945-0742; thecountryclubneworleans.com) Best Place to See Comedy1. Sports Drink (1042 Toledano St.; sportsdrink.org)2. The Howlin' Wolf (907 S. Peters St., 504-529-5844; thehowlinwolf.com)3. Big Couch New Orleans (1045 Desire St.; bigcouchnola.com) Best Local Comedian1. Ryan Rogers (ryanrogerscomedy.com)2. Mark Normand (marknormandcomedy.com)3. Cyrus Cooper (Instagram: @cyrusjcooper) Best Strip Club1. The Penthouse Club (727 Iberville St., 504-524-4354; penthouseclubneworleans.com)2. Rick’s Cabaret (315 Bourbon St., 504-524-4222; rickscabaretneworleans.com)3. Larry Flynt's Hustler Club (225 Bourbon St., 504-524-0010; neworleanshustlerclub.com) Best Performing Arts Center1. Jefferson Performing Arts Center (6400 Airline Dr., 504-731-4700; jeffersonpac.com)2. Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal St., 504-525-1052; saengertheatreneworleans.com)3. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts (1419 Basin St., 504-525-1052; mahaliajacksontheater.com) .donate-gambit-article-module-container { text-align: center; padding: 10px; /* background-color: #24da6d; */ background-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 20px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-title { font-weight: bold; color: #fff; } .donate-gambit-article-module-copy { color: #fff !important; font-size: 16px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-button { background-color: black; width: 50%; border-color: black; font-size: 16px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-button:hover { background-color: black; } @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) { .donate-gambit-article-module-button { font-size: 14px; width: 100%; } .donate-gambit-article-module-copy { font-size: 14px; } } BECOME A GAMBIT MEMBER AND JOIN OUR KREWE TODAY For more than 40 years, Gambit has covered New Orleans, for New Orleans. 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Sep 29 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
Small Business Office Asks EPA Not to Examine Styrene’s Risks

The Small Business Administration asked the EPA to drop styrene from its list of chemicals the agency could evaluate for possible regulation.

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Sep 29 • 4:57 PM EDT • Business • news.bloomberglaw.com
NBA reportedly close to selecting winning bid for Las Vegas expansion team, has 3 finalist groups
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Sep 29 • 4:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
From Windmills To Ballrooms: Trump’s ‘National Security’ Playbook

Banning journalists from the White House, justifying a triumphal arch, rejecting restrictions on artificial intelligence technology – the positions may be far afield of each other, but they have some commonalities. In addition to being publicly unpopular and legally uncertain, President Donald ...

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Sep 29 • 4:13 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
Memorial Health highlights balance training, physical therapy for Fall Prevention Month

With September marking Fall Prevention Month, health care specialists at Memorial Health are urging older adults to take proactive steps to reduce balance-related accidents.

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Sep 29 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • wtoc.com
Glorious voices cut through Village Theatre’s cluttered ‘Ragtime’

A maximalist staging of this American dream musical offers much to celebrate and even more to debate.

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Sep 29 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
RWJBarnabas Health Shares 10 Facts Everyone Should Know about Addiction and Recovery

RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery’s Peer Recovery Program shares insights into addiction and recovery from its peer recovery specialists.

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The Family Business Advantage: Third Quarterly Power Breakfast of 2026 explores how family businesses balance legacy and innovation

Photo by GFBJAnother successful Power Breakfast is in the books. The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal hosted its third quarterly Power Breakfast of 2026 on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Local leaders and decision-makers gathered to network and learn from the panel about how established principles drive long-term stability while allowing for operational evolution. The panel featured Managing Partner of Luigi’s Italian Chophouse & Bar, Nate Ernst; Inside Sales at Hubbard Supplyhouse, Mary Grace Hurley; Chief Operations Officer for Copiers Plus, Drew Smith; and CEO of Holmes Security Systems, Stephen Wheeler. The panel was moderated by Lauren Willets, director of the Family Enterprise Center at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Throughout the discussion, the panelists returned to a common idea: family businesses thrive when they preserve the relationships and values at their core while remaining open to change.Each panelist shared personal stories that carried practical lessons. Stephen Wheeler emphasized the role of relationships with customers and employees, saying, “What makes a family business successful today is relationships.” Mary Grace Hurley echoed Wheeler’s sentiment, describing relationships as a lasting inheritance, including a customer connection that began when she was young and continued into her working life. “If something’s given to you, that’s going to cost you too,” added Nate Ernst. He explained this philosophy by sharing that, in his view, earning responsibility builds credibility and confidence.Another hot topic was the idea of tradition versus change. For these businesses that have been around for a century or even more, it can be difficult to escape the “we’ve always done it this way” caveat, but these speakers emphasized how change has been an integral part of their growth and longevity. A family business can honor its history without being bound by it.“Innovation and tradition–they don’t have to be competing with one another,” shared Hurley. She pointed to changes in how businesses operate, including the adoption of computers and new management practices. Ernst stressed that adaptation is essential, while Wheeler described how his family’s electrical contracting business had evolved into a security-focused company. The details of the work may change, but identifying and upholding core values is key to embracing change while maintaining the character of a business. “I think it’s just important to remember why you started in the first place. What was your mission? What are your core values? And to reevaluate those,” shared Drew Smith.In addition to the first-hand accounts and wisdom shared by panelists, Moderator Lauren Willets recommended two novels during the panel for those seeking additional educational resources. Those two novels are “Hug of War: How to Lead a Family Business with both Love and Logic”by Cathy Carroll and “In the Company of Family: How to Thrive When Business Is Personal” by Melissa Mitchell-Blitch. Preparing the next generation requires more than handing over a title or company. Wheeler argued that future leaders need genuine passion and a vested interest in the business. The panelists were in agreement that succession is a process, and there is not one clear answer for how to perfectly prepare for it. Leaders must cultivate readiness, keep communication open and make room for the next generation to earn responsibility while being sure not to neglect the business in the here and now. “Today’s Power Breakfast was one of our best events yet! Between the passion and in-depth knowledge of the panelists, the great audience questions and the guidance and expertise of Mrs. Willets, the conversation was both engaging and informative,” shared GFBJ Publisher Faith Hatton. “A lot of small businesses in Fayetteville are family-owned and grown, and it’s great to be able to spotlight some of the businesses that have stood the test of time by strengthening the next generation of leadership and preparing them for ownership. I hope everyone received some inspiration and ideas that they can bring back to their own businesses and organizations!”We thank everyone who attended this Power Breakfast and hope you’ll all join us for the next Power Breakfast on Dec. 8. Details about the event will be shared on our social media and in future email updates. To learn about becoming a Power Breakfast sponsor, contact the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal at 910.240.9697 or marketing@bizfayetteville.com.

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Sep 29 • 3:42 PM EDT • Business • bizfayetteville.com
Building that houses Mexican restaurant up for sale

The owner of the building that houses a Mexican restaurant on South Minnesota Avenue has listed the property for sale.

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Sep 29 • 3:39 PM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business
Tyler Perry lists $57M Beverly Hills mansion where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hid after fleeing the palace
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Lunchbreak: Myles Price Continues Vikings Streak on FOX Sports’ All-Star List

Minnesota Vikings Latest News

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Sep 29 • 2:26 PM EDT • Sports • vikings.com
Prominent Journalists to Discuss Tech, AI Evolution at Bucksbaum Business Lecture

Drake University announced today the 4thAnnual Bucksbaum Lectureship in Business. Speakers Karen Hao and Nicholas Thompson will headline the lecture: “Decoding America’s Tech Moment.” Hao is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter covering artificial intelligence and Thompson is CEO of The Atlantic. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at...

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Sep 29 • 1:35 PM EDT • Business • news.drake.edu
The MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius’ fellows: The full 2026 class list

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation unveiled its 2026 class of fellows Tuesday. It's an interdisciplinary list of 20 individuals ranging from artists to scientists. The recipients will

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Jasmine Crockett’s PAC released new endorsements. Talarico is still not on the list.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett has stepped back from Texas’s high-profile Senate race since losing the Democratic primary in March.

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Sep 29 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
5 things to do this week in Greenville

See our curated list of upcoming and ongoing arts, culture and entertainment events in the Greenville area. Send us your events at greenville@postandcourier.com.

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Sep 29 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • postandcourier.com
A political veto over NIH grants could leave East Palestine in the dark

The research that serves us is exactly the kind of work that could land on a veto list.

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Sep 29 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Understanding American Healthcare: A Deep Dive for Reporters

Christy Ford Chapin of the University of Maryland Baltimore County presented findings from her 2015 book to provide journalists with historical context for their healthcare reporting.

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Sep 29 • 10:02 AM EDT • Health • nationalpress.org
Nominate a leader for the 2027 CNBC Changemakers list of women transforming business

CNBC is now accepting nominations for our fourth annual Changemakers list. Julia Boorstin reports.

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Sep 29 • 9:45 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
What’s In Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing

The artificial intelligence giant reportedly believes that it’s on track for a record-breaking stock market listing, according to a prospectus seen by Reuters.

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Sep 29 • 7:58 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Victoria Coates discusses US foreign policy on Iran, Taiwan

Heritage Foundation VP of National Security Victoria Coates and panelist Mike Lee discuss the latest U.S. foreign policy updates, focusing on indirect peace talks with Iran, military funding for Taiwan and ongoing economic pressure on Cuba.

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Sep 29 • 7:54 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Smart ring maker Oura postpones public listing due to 'uncertainty in the IPO market'

The digital health IPO window may be closing, at least for now. | Smart ring maker and health tracking company Oura is postponing its previously announced initial public offering on Nasdaq due to "uncertainty in the IPO market," the company announced Tuesday morning.

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Sep 29 • 7:30 AM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
b.well Connected Health Awarded on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 List

/PRNewswire/ -- b.well Connected Health, the infrastructure powering AI-driven consumer health experiences, today announced it has been named to TIME's World's...

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Sep 29 • 7:30 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
💰 First Clásico tickets now on sale at extortionate prices

Barça has opened the exclusive presale for Clásico tickets against Real Madrid for its members, and the prices are prohibitive. Tickets range from 649 to 1,149 euros, according to the prices listed ...

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Sep 29 • 7:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lesbian Bar Project Co-Founder: Purity Politics Could Destroy Our Remaining Spaces

Subscribe As a professional lesbian and Massachusetts native, I’ve recently been asked by a lot of folks what I think about the saga unfolding at Last Ditch. The now-viral story, first reported by The Boston Globe, centers on a Western Massachusetts lesbian bar that lifted its mask requirement for one night a week to help drum up business. The decision ignited an intra-queer controversy that has been feasted on by media outlets across the political spectrum—from the New York Post to LGBTQ Nation—and is even reportedly being eyed for a Hollywood adaptation. Apparently nothing is more entertaining than a bunch of lesbians and queers fighting with each other over KN-95s. What has been lost in all of the chatter and media coverage is the very real possibility that Last Ditch, which just opened in April 2025, will have to close its doors. The venue’s one remaining founder, Jackie Matellian, revealed in a community Zoom meeting that she’s working four jobs, is now solely responsible for the bar’s $50,000 business loan and is struggling to keep up with the bills. So as we laugh about the controversy’s similarity to a “Portlandia” skit and how one of the bar’s founders left to enroll in clown school, we forget that yet another lesbian bar is facing an existential crisis—and this time the call is coming from inside the house. In 2020, my friend Elina Street and I created The Lesbian Bar Project, an Emmy-, Webby- and GLAAD Media Award-winning docuseries and initiative that tells the stories of lesbian queer bars around the world. We were moved to act because at the time there were only an estimated 16 lesbian bars in the United States, and the pandemic threatened to bring that number down even further. There are now more sapphic bars than there were just before the pandemic—about 36 of them in total—but this is down from approximately 200 in 1980. Maybe that doesn’t mean much to you, but for the millions of sapphics living in the U.S., this number is calamitous. As the world laughs at lesbians and sapphics, I want to take a second and tell you what I feel when I walk into one of these bars, which are all unique and irreplaceable in their own way: I feel seen. Sometimes I think Cubbyhole in New York City’s West Village neighborhood knew I was gay before I did. When I walked in there for the first time, before I was even out, I was transfixed by the colorful array of tchotchkes hanging from the ceiling and how the women standing next to me were completely unafraid to express their desire for one another. I knew the minute I was ready to come out, I had a home. I also felt the joy of a new couple falling in love at Seattle’s Wildrose, the quiet confidence of a short king lining up her shot at the pool table at Ginger’s in Brooklyn and the kick of cayenne pepper in Julie Mabry’s crawfish at Houston’s Pearl Bar. Subscribe Lesbian bars don’t just serve lesbians; they serve queer folks across the spectrum, including bisexual, pansexual and trans people. As Elina and I traveled across the U.S. and Europe and to parts of Latin America to document the bar owners, staff and patrons that make up the ecosystems of these spaces, we also became uniquely acquainted with the factors that threaten their existence: gentrification, wage gaps, sexism, environmental disasters, gun violence, rising insurance premiums and political administrations working to annihilate queer people and their families. Lesbian bar owners, like all leaders and entrepreneurs, are imperfect. There have been significant issues over the years at lesbian bars: employee harassment, racism, lack of accessibility, sexual assault and transphobia. All bar owners should be held accountable and should listen to their communities to evolve into safer and more equitable spaces. I also acknowledge my privilege: I am able-bodied, white, cis and from a family system that loves me for who I am. Not everyone has that. Queer people, especially trans and bisexual people, are suffering from disproportionately high levels of depression, and our mental health system isn’t equipped to support them. Immunocompromised people and long COVID are real, and many of my friends are suffering to this day. The people with the least safety net are often the ones for whom a bar closing costs the most. And yet, as we’re seeing with Last Ditch, the queer community often lashes out at each other. It’s also the mainstream media taking the internal conflict and making a mockery out of it, distracting from the real possibility that this bar could close due to financial pressures. A bar that many people loved and needed is facing extinction. Perhaps it’s safer to dissent with one another than with the larger forces trying to eradicate us, but in doing so, we risk destroying the few spaces we have left. Due to the constraints of purity politics—some in good faith, some not so much—lesbian bar owners, almost all of whom are queer women themselves, are forced to be everything for everyone, similarly to how women are forced to be everything for everyone. By asking these bars to uphold impossible standards—standards very few other third spaces are asked to consider—we all end up losing. I want to move as a community toward dialogue, compassionate dissent and collaboration to make our spaces better with the goal of keeping them OPEN and thriving, rather than destroying them from the inside with expectations that are arguably unattainable. Subscribe While I have your attention—for this fleeting second of the news cycle—may I urge us to spearhead a way to keep these small businesses afloat without attacking our own community along the way? Bar owners are left with an impasse: They want to be community-centered, but they also have to make money to keep their doors open. Sometimes they might make business decisions that don’t work for everyone—and that’s partly because different patrons have different priorities and want different things—but these owners deserve the opportunity for productive dialogue**.** We have to work with them and with each other to keep our spaces open, to keep them growing. Lesbian bars raised me into the queer woman I am today. One thing I think about as I reflect on the six years of work we’ve done to document these spaces is that shared, unspoken language I have with a stranger the moment we both walk into one of these bars: the nod, the ease, the not having to explain ourselves. I don’t want to lose that, and neither should you. If objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, LGBTQ-focused journalism is important to you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Resource Impact, by clicking this button: Donate

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Sep 29 • 7:01 AM EDT • Politics • unclosetedmedia.com
Sports on TV/radio listings: Sept. 29

Where to watch and/or listen to today's sporting events that will be televised or broadcast on the radio.

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Sep 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
34 video game Lego sets are retiring at the end of the year, including Animal Crossing, Horizon and Sonic sets

Here’s the full list of video game themed Lego sets retiring at the end of 2026…

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Sep 29 • 6:17 AM EDT • Technology • videogameschronicle.com
Nominate a leader for the 2027 CNBC Changemakers list of women transforming business

CNBC is now accepting nominations for its annual Changemakers list of women leading and disrupting in business, from the S&P 500 to sports and philanthropy.

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Sep 29 • 5:59 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
List of DVD release dates for Sept. 29 and beyond

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: SEPTEMBER 29: Affection 29: Happy's Place: Season Two 29: Law & Order: Special Victims

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Sep 29 • 5:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • lodinews.com
List of DVD release dates for Sept. 29 and beyond

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: SEPTEMBER 29: Affection 29: Happy's Place: Season Two 29: Law & Order: Special Victims

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Commentary: Never heard 'Choosin' Texas'? Consider that a wake-up call

Music fans and journalists who spent the last few months looking for the song of the summer faced a plot twist fit for Hollywood: The winner was a single released

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Sep 29 • 5:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
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AMLO Son Poses Political Problems for Mexico’s President Sheinbaum

Andrés Manuel López Beltrán has joined the list of figures who, critics say, may end up harming the left-wing movement his father founded, as well as the president who succeeded him.

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Sep 29 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole

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A TV journalist is set to be crowned as king of a traditional monarchy in Uganda

A journalist is set to be crowned as the king of a traditional monarchy that lost its onetime “boy king” last month | 830 WCCO

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Sep 29 • 3:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
A TV journalist is set to be crowned as king of a traditional monarchy in Uganda

A journalist is set to be crowned as the king of a traditional monarchy that lost its onetime “boy king” last month | WWL

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How an obscure government code unlocks opportunity for businesses

What rhymes with "snakes" and helps the government classify economic activity? NAICS — or the North American Industry Classification System. These codes categorize every industry from artificial turf installation to zucchini farming. But they’re not exactly easy to get. Today we look at one business’ quest for a NAICS code and what makes them so valuable. Fact checking by Leyla Doss. Your Next Listen — How to take the temperature of the US consumer Connect with The Indicator — Sign up for The Indicator’s weekly newsletter! — Buy the Planet Money book — Find our socials, YouTube and more! — For sponsor-free episodes, subscribe to NPR+ Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

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Meet Jordic: The Unlikely Voice of a Heart-Health Warning Men Need to Hear

/PRNewswire/ -- What if an early warning sign of heart disease was not in your chest, but in your pants? That is the provocative question behind 'Listen to...

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Sep 29 • 2:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Bucket List Provides an Experiential Introduction into a World of Electronic Musical Entertainment

Bucket List, an experimental music band conceived at Stanford University, performed in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall a little over a week ago. The band consists of Mark Applebaum on keyboard and guitar, Andy Meyerson on percussion, and Travis Andrews on guitar. All members perform vocals. Their performance was titled “Achievement: Presented by the Achievement […]

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Sep 28 • 11:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • wesleyanargus.com
Zach Charbonnet might return to practice soon

Seattle Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet, on the PUP list, is eligible to return to practice

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Sep 28 • 8:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Check out the Brewers’ All-MLB nominees

Seven Brewers are amongst the finalists for All-MLB

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Sep 28 • 7:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bears-Eagles Inactives: Ozzy Trapilo, Caleb Williams out

Here are the inactive lists for the Bears and the Eagles from @wiltfongjr.

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Sep 28 • 6:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Monday practice report for Browns

Browns list six players on Monday's estimated practice report

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Sep 28 • 6:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Monday practice report for Steelers

Steelers list three cornerbacks on first practice report of week

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AI is everywhere. Should you use it for health advice?

The following expert commentary can be used by journalists and media organizations in their own publications and news coverage. Please attribute all quotes to Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, chair of the Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

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Floridians can give input on the state's new science ed standards during a listening tour this week

Some education advocates worry the subject of climate change will be phased out of Florida's science standards during the updating process.

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Iowa businesses recognized as top 100 US small businesses

Three Iowa businesses were named to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 CO—100: America’s Top 100 Small Businesses list. The CO—100 recognizes small businesses for their growth, innovation and commitment to their customers, according to a news release. Original Group Holdings, a woodworking equipment manufacturer in Britt, was recognized as a community champion. The company…

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Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

The message I had received was unsettling—for a moment. Then it was just really confusing. Back on January 20 of this year, at 5:15pm ET, I received an email with the subject line “Legal Correspondence re Bobby Kotick.” It was from the law firm Clare Locke, a firm I’d heard had been emailing reporters in recent years about their coverage of Kotick, the former, longtime CEO of Activision Blizzard. The letter was threatening. A lawyer from the firm introduced themselves as “defamation counsel to Bobby Kotick.” They issued a “demand” that I “correct” a Game File article I’d published a week prior. The article that had irked them had been a scoop of sorts. I’d written about a a 2022 lawsuit brought by a Swedish pension fund, AP7, over Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard. The suit wasn’t news, but I was first to review and report about Kotick’s extensive pushback to the fund’s claims. The pension fund’s core contention was that the sale had been rushed by Kotick to avoid the consequences of sexual misconduct scandals swirling around the company in 2021. (He’d not been accused of misconduct himself in those suits, to be clear.) As I wrote at the time, Kotick had denied the allegations of the rushed sale. Beyond that, Kotick used a December 2025 reply to the Swedish fund’s lawsuit to assign blame for those workplace scandals, the bad press and even for the AP7 lawsuit. I’d found Kotick’s arguments novel and newsworthy. Across nearly 3,000 words, I explained Kotick’s take: that a Swedish gaming company was behind the Swedish fund’s lawsuit (the Embracer group; they denied it); that the Microsoft-Activision deal was not rushed and was secured at what Kotick felt history had proven to be an optimal price for shareholders; that he believed a conspiracy of people at unions government agencies, PR firms and the media had spun up claims of widespread workplace misconduct at Activision Blizzard in 2021. The article gave context for all of this, letting readers assess the claims and weigh their credibility. As I’d later write to Kotick’s lawyers: I would be surprised if you could point to any news article about Bobby Kotick in the last five years that has spent more of its wordcount articulating his point of view. He is welcome to do an interview with Game File any time. Nonetheless, there they were in my inbox that Tuesday evening: Clare Locke, the law firm that secured a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over false statements about voting machines. They were emailing me, threatening that failure to comply with their demand could support a claim of “actual malice,” a legal standard for libel. Unless… Unless, they said, I added a key paragraph to my article. This was a paragraph that I already knew Kotick’s lawyers had been emailing reporters about for at least a year, and it was a paragraph that was already in my article. The paragraph they wanted is from a 2023 settlement that California’s Civil Rights Department struck with Activision Blizzard. The settlement had closed a two-year-old lawsuit over alleged sexual discrimination at the game maker. The paragraph basically said that claims of systemic or widespread sexual harassment—or of execs like Kotick tolerating such behavior—had never been proven. I’d already seen proof that Kotick’s lawyers had pushed for the settlement’s language to be added to reports about 2021 sexual discrimination and misconduct lawsuits brought against Activision Blizzard by California and, separately, by the U.S. federal government (both suits were since settled). I knew that Kotick and his lawyers felt that the California settlement language should be mentioned in the same breath as references to an article he hated and denied, a November 2021 Wall Street Journal article claiming Kotick knew “for years” of sexual misconduct at Activision Blizzard. So, in the Game File article that Clare Locke emailed me about, in the interest of ensuring I was being fair and balanced regarding the person I was covering, I had already included the following excerpt from the California settlement [emphasis added in bold]: (Kotick has repeatedly pushed back against that November article in the Wall Street Journal, citing among other things, language from a court-approved consent decree as part of Activision’s 2023 $54 million settlement over the California suit. It states: “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations that: there has been systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard [or] that Activision Blizzard senior executives ignored, condoned, or tolerated a culture of systemic harassment, retaliation, or discrimination.”) On the evening of January 20, I was incredulous. How do you write a four page legal threat about a week-old article and miss this? While scrambling to also make my kids dinner, I wrote a lengthy reply to Clare Locke’s lawyers, basically asking them to cool it with the threats and to start making sense. In part, I wrote: I hope you can understand why I am having trouble understanding what you’re asking for, when the statement you’re demanding to see in Game File’s article already appears in Game File’s article. Actual malice, as you know, refers to a reckless disregard for the truth. I’m not sure what your argument is when my article already states your client’s position. Here is where I should remind you, the reader, that I am an independent journalist. I publish on Substack, and have availed myself of the Substack Defender program that provides writers on the platform with legal support. But I’m no Wall Street Journal or New York Times, nor even IGN or GameSpot when it comes to such things as, well, having a legal department. There are more fun things for me to do as an independent journalist than writing back to a powerful law firm representing a very rich person. On the evening of January 20th, I was just trying to cook some pasta, broccoli and chicken nuggets for hungry twins. Nevertheless, I wrote back to them. Two hours later, I got a reply. Summarizing: A lawyer for Clare Locke said they’d “reviewed an incomplete version” of my article and they “apologize for the confusion.” (My guess: Someone didn’t read past the piece’s paywall, even though they’d had a full week to scrounge up the funds to do so. What I’d published above the paywall was balanced, as was what came after.)1 That was almost that, but something about the situation bothered me. The letter had been marked “confidential.” I hadn’t agreed to that, and I disliked the idea that powerful people on the beat that I cover would act like they could unilaterally control what I might tell my readers about. On the morning of the 21st, having already gotten the powerful law firm to back off, I oh-so-wisely re-approached them with just one more thing. I thanked them for clearing things up the night before but noted that I’d never agreed to keep their letter confidential. I’m all for agreeing with a source to keep things off the record, but that’s the thing. We have to agree. You can’t just declare it. I’m not bound by that. I wrote to Clare Locke’s lawyer and said, in part: I trust the matter is resolved. It was disappointing to have to spend less time with my kids last night in order to address your legal letter. Family time’s precious. I will add, for clarity’s sake, that, while your letter stipulated that it was confidential, I did not agree to those terms. In the future, should you wish to communicate with me confidentially, I am happy to agree to classifying our communication as “off the record” prior to the actual communication—as is standard with any professional journalist. The firm’s lawyer replied, not directly addressing the confidentiality issue but asserting that the matter was resolved. Why I didn’t write about this until now In May, I told this story on an episode of Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console, but I held off on sharing it directly with Game File readers. I held off to avoid stepping on the toes of another reporter, the journalist Mikhail Klimentov. He’d interviewed me in the spring of 2025 about an investigation he was working on regarding Bobby Kotick lawyers pressing the media to add the California settlement language to stories referencing the 2021 lawsuits. And about how some outlets had changed their stories and how some simply deleted them. Initially, I was a third-party source for Klimentov’s reporting, providing on-the-record context about the state of the games media. I’d heard about the letters but hadn’t put the time into pursuing the story. I thought it was interesting, and I was glad he was covering it. When the outlet that Klimentov was going to run his reporting in dropped the story, I began talking to him about potentially publishing his reporting on Game File. This was tentative. Then, in January, when I got my own Clare Locke letter, I told Klimentov that I didn’t think it would make sense for me to publish him, not with me now being part of the story. I had my own version of this situation to tell. But I wished him well and said I’d refrain from telling my tale until he could get his reporting out there. Last Friday, Klimentov finally ran his investigation, in a nearly 48-minute video report for People Make Games. It covers various Clare Locke letters, how media outlets reacted to them and what to make of all this. His video weighs the merits of Kotick’s request and looks at some of the articles that were changed (one of which had a glaring error). I highly recommend watching it: (Note, I did some editorial consulting for a People Make Games video last year but nothing to do with this report.) While many outlets haven’t left any public evidence that they updated their Kotick coverage at Kotick’s counsel’s request, at least one has. Back in October 2025, the mainstream outlet Reuters applied the most transparent article update I’ve seen. On the 3rd of the month, they published an article about the state of the Swedish pension fund’s lawsuit. Days later, they added this: In an October 7 letter sent after publication of this article, Kotick’s defamation counsel disputed claims of widespread harassment at Activision. “Not a single investigation, court finding, verdict, or ruling ever concluded that there was any merit” to the allegations of widespread harassment at Activision, Tom Clare and Nick Brechbill of Clare Locke wrote. I’ve never added a statement to my article on Game File, because none was needed. Not for fairness’ sake, nor to meet any demands of Kotick’s lawyers. I’ve nevertheless wanted to be transparent with Game File readers. If someone powerful is questioning my reporting, is threatening a lawsuit over it… if that threat is part of a pattern involving other games media outlets and if, in my case, the whole thing ran into a ridiculous ditch, I want you to know about it. I also share this as a real example of how I handle threats to Game File. I stand up for my own reporting, even when it’s not comfortable to do so. (In that same category of standing up for the work I do, I’ll point to an incident in late August. Asocial media post I published to X/Twitter regarding reporting I did about Take Two and GTA VI was hit by bogus copyright claim by a firm working for the publisher. I pushed back and got it reversed; even while a bigger games media outlet let themselves be censored. This is the other reason I’m sharing this story: To emphasize that dealing with threats from powerful people is one of the costs of covering the video game industry independently and as fearlessly as possible. This is where you come in. Your support, through free and paid subscriptions (sign up here!), can help me keep doing that. It can ensure that I’ve got the back-up I need. And it can help make fiascoes like this even less of a worry, so I can spend my evenings dealing with more important things, such as making sure I steam the kids’ broccoli just right. 1 That pension fund lawsuit I wrote about in January has all but gone away. In May, the fund and Activision Blizzard owner Microsoft agreed to settle. Lawyers for the fund brokered a $250 million settlement for former Activision Blizzard shareholders. In the settlement, the fund’s lawyers changed their rhetoric. Where once they’d questioned the meaning of the California settlement language, they adopted a version of it for themselves. Several weeks ago, while seeking to get a court to sign off on the terms of the settlement, they proposed their fee for their work in the case: $60 million.

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Sep 28 • 4:13 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
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Sep 28 • 4:04 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
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Sep 28 • 3:44 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Ms. Rachel faces criticism for talking politics and the situation in Gaza

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Sep 28 • 3:00 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Utica International Church to host third annual Gospel Hymn Sing

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Sep 28 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com
A.I., data centers, health care among top concerns for Common Ground Fair attendees

Monitor Editor Kate Cough gave a talk about local news and the Maine news landscape. Listeners lamented the loss of local news in their communities.

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Sep 28 • 1:53 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Reimagining the treatment of mental health: Maria Carolina Bittencourt Gonçalves

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Sep 28 • 1:17 PM EDT • Health • wyss.harvard.edu
How Taxing AI Could Save Jobs

Advice for policymakers and large employers, who will be enlisted in minimizing job losses.

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What to Expect as Raptors Training Camp Opens

Toronto's most anticipated offseason in years turns into actual basketball on Tuesday, when Raptors training camp opens at Université Laval in Quebec City. The roster is set, Kawhi Leonard is back in a Raptors uniform for the first time since 2019, and training camp opens with a longer list of real storylines than this franchise …

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Sep 28 • 12:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Veteran sports journalists aim to build Marquette’s sports communication legacy

New faculty members Glenn Geffner and Kevin Robbins are teaching students lessons from lived experience.

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Sep 28 • 12:05 PM EDT • Sports • today.marquette.edu