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Megan Lawless & Lili Taylor Among Eight New Additions To STX/Aggregate’s ‘PRƎPPY’

EXCLUSIVE: Obsession‘s Megan Lawless and three-time Emmy nominee Lili Taylor (Outer Range) are among new additions to PRƎPPY, the true-crime flick from STX Entertainment and Aggregate Films that we an...

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Oct 23 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief

End Citizens United has endorsed Democratic challenger Callie Barr for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District. William Lawrence, Democratic nominee for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, has been endorsed by the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union and the Black Economic Alliance. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has formally endorsed state Senator Chedrick Greene (D-Saginaw) in the […]

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Oct 23 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • michiganadvance.com
Bow parents seek swift ruling in transgender athletes case ahead of winter sports

The lawsuit centers on pink “XX” wristbands that the Bow parents wore to a girls’ soccer game in Sept. 2024.

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Oct 23 • 11:47 AM EDT • Sports • nhpr.org
Olivia Wilde's new movie The Invite hits streaming, here's where to watch

Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen serve up marriage drama and dark comedy in The Invite. Here’s how to stream it now with Sling.

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Oct 23 • 11:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • delawareonline.com
Trump administration files lawsuit to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race

This move has sparked concerns about a lengthy battle between the U.S. government and states over election certification.

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Oct 23 • 11:14 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
What does voter suppression have to do with health?

Public health researchers have long examined how societal forces can shape health outcomes. Decades after redlining was outlawed, for example, researchers continue to document its lasting effects on life ...

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Oct 23 • 9:40 AM EDT • Health • phys.org
Pope hope, that’s entertainment, and getting ahead in the CIA

Happy Friday friends, I want to start by just breathing for all of us a big long collective sigh of relief at the news this week that the pope’s doctors have basically blown the all clear for Leo’s health. Going from knowing nothing to him declaring to the world he needed surgery, to a cancer diagnosis, to bouncing out of the hospital in barely even days, to ringing the bell in less than two weeks is whiplash inducing. But in the best possible way. We are living in a world in which the Roman pontiff, by dint of history, biography and circumstance, is once more at the epicenter of global affairs. Not just conversations about religion, or Christian and post-Christian values, but the bleeding edge of the most pressing issues of human affairs. Think I am exaggerating a touch? Consider the images of the crowds who greeted Leo in Paris just weeks ago, and juxtapose them with the absolute photo negative scenes unfolding there recently. Ask yourself how many world leaders are talking about AI right now and directly citing the pope as they do so. Try to name a country who has had as many top-ranked diplomats in and out of both Russia and Ukraine in the last three years as the Vatican has in the last three months. It has been fascinating to watch Leo XIV emerge as not just a kind of pop culture reference point or totem to be cited (Francis was often name-checked this way) but as a kinetic force in global conversation. Given the state of things, we need global figures of gravitas and values, even better if they have real wisdom behind what they are saying. So news of Leo’s illness was, it seemed to me, a tremor with potentially Richter Scale implications. That not only has the worst not come to pass but instead we’ve had the best of outcomes announced is something to really be grateful for. Humanity, it seems to me, is entering one of its irregular but cyclical phases where the pace of change — technological, social, and geopolitical — outstrips the ability of previously settled norms and received wisdom to cope. Such periods – and I think the first decades of the last century were a similar such time – throw into question the viability of all kinds of institutions. And many of ours have been straining to breaking point for a few years now. The papacy has the power and the potential to be a steadying pole in all of this. That’s my hope, anyway. It’s a lot to freight the office with, though it is arguably its ultimate purpose from its founding, to be a steadying rock on which all that matters can be anchored. It’s also, of course, an intolerable weight of responsibility to place on a single man. But I am encouraged to have hope in – and for – Leo. The apostle whom he succeeds, after all, was famously unequal to some moments, failed some tests of faith, and resiled from taking the road which led ultimately to the circus on Vatican hill. Human frailty and limitations, of health, of character, of temper, can open us to Christ, whose strength is greatest in our weakness, so St. Paul learned. That gives me hope, and I am sure it consoles Leo, too. And so I will continue to pray for him. Because we need apostles of rock right now. Here’s the news. Subscribe The News The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued yesterday a new document “Venite ad me: Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change.” It’s not a short document, and it is at pains to stress this isn’t a doctrinal note from the dicastery, either. Rather, it brings together reflections on an important issue from the Church around the world. Some of it I actually found really rather powerful. It is, however, 25,000, which is a lot for a busy reader to get through on a weekday. So, you can read our busy reader’s summary right here. — News broke yesterday of an Oct. 22 meeting of U.S. bishops with President Donald Trump. The meeting was organized by an official at the Heritage Foundation, according to several sources close to the meeting. Video of several U.S. bishops praying in the Oval Office over President Trump was posted on social media Thursday afternoon, first by White House Communications Advisor Margo Martin, and then by the official twitter.com account of the Archdiocese of Denver. The meeting has drawn sharp criticism because of its proximity to the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, in which Democrats are widely expected to win control of the House of Representatives, while control of the Senate remains closely contested. Sources close to the bishops’ conference told The Pillar that some USCCB senior officials were surprised by the existence of the meeting when video of it first emerged online. And a source close to conference president Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City told The Pillar that the archbishop was “deeply frustrated” by the occasion of the meeting. An official conference spokesperson told The Pillar that the meeting was “not organized with or by the USCCB” and was “not affiliated with the conference.” You can read the whole story here. — The next National Eucharistic Congress will be held in Indianapolis in 2029, a return to the city that hosted the last gathering in 2024. You read it here first. By here, I don’t mean this newsletter, I mean at The Pillar. We broke the story this week. It’s a big deal, in as much as the last congress was a roaring success and the next installment has the potential to be a real focal point for evangelizing efforts in the coming years. Read all about it here. — As Pope Leo prepares for the longest trip of his pontificate, Church leaders in Uruguay say the pontiff will encounter a highly secularized culture, in a country with a very different Catholic history than many of its South American neighbors. The nation has not had a papal visit since 1988, and leaders who spoke with The Pillar say it has a dire need for evangelization, even amid the prospect of a small revival in faith. This is real reporting on the Church in the country, and frankly a story you simply are not going to be able to read anywhere else. Read the whole thing. — The Archdiocese of Detroit announced this week a plan that would see the vast majority of its parish priests reassigned next summer, amid a restructuring process expected to dramatically shrink the number of parishes in the archdiocese. Archbishop Edward Weisenburger said this week that the plan “asks much of our priests,” but is a “sacrifice they are making as brothers of one, unified presbyterate.” The thing is, as JD pointed out in an analysis yesterday, pastors of parishes have a legal right to stability in office, so the only way this kind of wholesale reassignment goes ahead is if all of the archdiocesan clergy agree to resign. That creates its own kind of legal issues, though, and re-raises longstanding questions about the effectiveness of canonical due process protections for priests when dealing with coercive exercises in authority. Read the whole thing here. — More than three months after the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its decree declaring the excommunication of the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X, questions remain about the full effects of the society’s schism. Specifically, the DDF’s July claim that marriages witnessed and confessions heard by SSPX priests are now invalid remains contested — and it emerged this week it appears that the Vatican’s own legal experts don’t agree. You can read my whole analysis of the situation and what it means here. All I would add is that the DDF’s undeveloped, some would say unsubstantiated, claim about the invalidity of some SSPX sacraments came in their July Explanatory Note on the schismatic consecrations by the society that month. It touches directly on both papal acts of governance — indeed it purports to nullify them — and the most intimate pastoral encounters possible in a parish setting. If there is one aspect of the Francis-era style of governance I would like the curia to finally cut out, root and branch, it would be these attempts to try to effect extraordinarily sensitive legislative acts via a note. — At least a dozen French bishops have spoken out following an eruption of violence on the country’s streets Oct. 17. Not surprisingly, they unanimously condemned the violence, but the length and content of their interventions varied significantly. Several sought to distinguish between the actions of rioters and what they suggested were the legitimate concerns of peaceful young protesters. Many also evoked Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 25-28 visit to France, suggesting it offered a powerful counter-image to the scenes of looting and destruction. A number of bishops also stressed their solidarity with law enforcement officials who struggled to contain the disorder, as well as the owners of the roughly 3,000 damaged or looted businesses. What’s the background to the nationwide unrest that the French media calls “les violences du 17 octobre”? And what exactly are the bishops saying? Read all about it here. — A Polish bishop called for the firm defense of unborn children as well as compassion for their mothers this week, as the lower house of Poland’s parliament passed two bills seeking to liberalize the country’s abortion laws. The bill on decriminalizing assistance in an abortion passed by 217 votes to 213, while the abortion in cases of fetal abnormality bill passed by 233 to 203, thanks to the government’s majority in the lower house. Both bills will now move to the Polish Senate, the upper house of parliament, where the ruling coalition has a larger majority. The fetal abnormality bill is symbolically significant because if it became law, it would effectively overturn a 2020 ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal that a 1993 law permitting abortion for a severe and irreversible disability or a life-threatening incurable disease was unconstitutional. Read the whole story here. Subscribe **[The St. Paul Center App | Bible Study On-The-Go Read and understand the Bible with St. Paul Center’s new app! With today’s leading Catholic Scripture scholars as your guides, the St. Paul Center app empowers you to read the Bible](https://stpaulcenter.com/app?utm_source=pillar&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=applaunch)** from the heart of the Church. Download the app for free at either the Apple or the Google app stores. https://stpaulcenter.com/app That’s entertainment I have written before about my deep and sincere reservations about the celebrity exorcist subculture which has taken root in American Catholicism. And, because I am very ill at ease with the entire thing, I try to keep a weather eye on the phenomenon without being drawn into the kind of online back-and-forth which these figures sometimes generate. Earlier this week, JD noted that one such celebrity exorcist type, Fr. Chad Ripperger, has undertaken, on the request of his bishop, a year’s fast from interviews and public speaking. I’m sure that will be salutary for him, if for no other reason than that receiving with docility requests from one’s rightful ecclesiastical superiors always comes with graces. Then a second thing happened this week which caught my eye. Apparently, another fixture in the celebrity exorcist world, Fr. Carlos Martins, has initiated a lawsuit against two lay men — apparently associates of Rippenger, though I am unclear in what way, exactly — for allegedly defaming him and his ministry on a podcast. It seems the suit was initiated nearly a year ago and is now pending. At issue, I read, is that the two men described Martins on a podcast as “not who he says he is” with regard to his exorcism ministry and that he “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” These statements Martins considers to be false and defamatory and, his suit claims, “directly affected the sale and reception of [his] The Exorcist Files book that was newly released at the time these episodes aired.” I don’t want to get too into the weeds of the details here, but a couple of things struck me about all this.

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Oct 23 • 9:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • pillarcatholic.com
With Climate-Resilient Crops in Mind, Scientists Tackle a Flaw in Photosynthesis

Rising temperatures and increasing drought are shortening crop growing seasons in many parts of the world. Now scientists in Sweden report new advances toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis, work that could eventually contribute to efforts to adapt crops for climate change

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Oct 23 • 8:15 AM EDT • Science • newswise.com
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SHANE BROWN: If my house is haunted, I hope it's just my ghost cats

If my house is haunted, I hope it’s one of my cats, but if I hear something sharpening its claws on my couch at 3 a.m., I won’t get up

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Oct 23 • 7:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • qconline.com
SHANE BROWN: If my house is haunted, I hope it's just my ghost cats

If my house is haunted, I hope it’s one of my cats, but if I hear something sharpening its claws on my couch at 3 a.m., I won’t get up

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Oct 23 • 7:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • qctimes.com
Community college program looks to next generation of police supervisors

Driven by a need for specially educated supervisors at police departments, Great Bay Community College has introduced a certificate program to help create the next generation of law enforcement supervisors

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Oct 23 • 6:55 AM EDT • Business • nhbr.com
Why I started DE Gameday high school sports show

The weekly interview show hosted by Brandon Holveck features top athletes from across all Delaware high school sports.

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Oct 23 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Public health experts warn lawmakers may politicize spending of opioid settlement funds

Public health experts warn that future opioid-related settlement dollars could go to waste following a decision by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey in 2026 to give lawmakers the power to distribute most of those funds.

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Oct 23 • 6:15 AM EDT • Politics • wvgazettemail.com
Why young men are losing faith in Trump’s economy

On a recent crisp college football Saturday, Michigan State senior Zach Larson sat in a lawn chair sipping a can of Modelo that he said cost nearly twice as much as it did when he was a freshman.

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Oct 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
School board candidates support more mental health care, differ on approach

Candidates for school boards around the state generally agreed with a new law that will require the hiring of more mental health counselors, but those responding to a survey said more resources will be needed, while some called for more parental involvement.

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Oct 23 • 2:22 AM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org
Justice Department asks appeals court to intervene in California ballot case

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department asked an appeals court to intervene on Thursday in its lawsuit seeking to temporarily block California from counting more than 20,000

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Oct 22 • 8:19 PM EDT • Politics • centraloregondaily.com
The business case for pro bono: indirect benefits with social impact

Pro bono work has evolved into a driving force within Argentina’s legal profession, expanding access to justice while strengthening law firms, lawyers and civil society organisations. Through collaboration and institutional commitment, it has become a powerful tool for talent development, reputation building and long-term impact.

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Oct 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • latinlawyer.com
Refusal of Care Laws: A Threat to Both Patient Health and States’ Protection of Abortion Access

What You Can Do To Put Patients First In Your State Across the country, people are being denied the health care they want or need, not for medical or professional reasons, but because of the personal beliefs of the health care provider or the institution’s affiliation. Denials range from abortion care (including miscarriage care), to […]

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Oct 22 • 6:10 PM EDT • Health • nwlc.org
How construction impacts can underpin racial inequities for Lawrence business owners

When construction starts, businesses owned by Black and Brown people in Lawrence can face a tougher climb toward recovery. One city commissioner says we must “do the work” to keep building opportunities for local establishments.

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Oct 22 • 5:14 PM EDT • Business • lawrencekstimes.com
Most Catholic health institutions in Illinois temporarily protected from assisted suicide law

A significant number of Catholic health workers in Illinois are now covered by a temporary restraining order on the state's new physician assisted suicide law that took effect Sept. 12.

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Oct 22 • 4:50 PM EDT • Health • osvnews.com
Crowell & Moring Adds Veteran DOJ Health Care Litigator Jeff McSorley in Washington, D.C.

Jeff McSorley, a first-chair trial lawyer with 20 years of litigation experience including a decade as senior trial counsel in the DOJ Civil Division's Fraud Section, has joined Crowell & Moring's Health Care Group in Washington, D.C. He led more than 70 FCA investigations at DOJ, securing more than $500 million in recoveries for the United States.

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Oct 22 • 4:15 PM EDT • Health • crowell.com
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Lawsuit accuses Trump of illegally profiting from UAE crypto investments

The lawsuit claims the investments violate the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause

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Oct 22 • 2:45 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Lawsuit accuses Trump of illegally profiting from UAE crypto investments

The lawsuit claims the investments violate the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause

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Oct 22 • 2:12 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Opinion | Should We Shut Down Business Schools?

Readers discuss a professor’s Opinion essay that suggested doing so. Also: Children without lawyers at deportation hearings; legal rights for robots?

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Oct 22 • 1:42 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Judge insists Trump must be deposed in his $10B lawsuit against the BBC, warns it could be tossed in fight over records

A federal judge warned President Donald Trump could see his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC dismissed if he does not work harder to produce information the news outlet it is entitled to in the case, including sitting for a deposition.

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Oct 22 • 1:08 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

Two CVSS 9.0 flaws in Linux KSMBD could enable remote code execution; one needs no authentication, and neither has a mainline fix.

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Oct 22 • 1:01 PM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Indoor golf facilities a booming business across the state

Indoor golf is booming in Delaware as Flight Indoor Golf and Back Nine Golf open, expand, and draw year-round players.

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Oct 22 • 12:23 PM EDT • Business • delawarebusinesstimes.com
WATCH: Blanche and Patel announce charges for Democratic Virginia lawmaker Lucas
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Oct 22 • 12:11 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Political Pulse: Don Haggar runs for Public Utilities Commission as a Republican

Former state lawmaker Don Haggar is running as a Republican for the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, pledging to be an impartial voice in quasi-judicial role.

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Oct 22 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • kotatv.com
Judge directs President Trump to sit for deposition in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC

Trump had agreed to sit for a deposition on Oct. 16, but it was cancelled for what was described as a “matter of national importance.”

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Oct 22 • 11:53 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Witkoff faces backlash for praising Putin as a ‘humanitarian’

The comments were swiftly condemned by U.S. lawmakers who view Russian President Vladimir Putin as responsible for the brutal war in Ukraine.

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Oct 22 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Powerful Virginia Lawmaker Indicted Over Marijuana Business

L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat from Portsmouth, was the focus of F.B.I. searches earlier this year.

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Oct 22 • 10:53 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Tunisia proposes 50% insurance subsidy for Africa exports

Tunisia plans to cover 50% of the insurance premiums for business exports to African markets under its proposed 2027 budget bill, with the provisions applying for 12 months after the law takes effect…

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Oct 22 • 10:17 AM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com
How a Legal Backlash Against Big Tech Is Forcing Big Changes

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.

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Oct 22 • 9:53 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Judge blocks DHS investigations of noncitizen voting, citing flawed data

The judge put her order on hold until 5 p.m. Friday, giving the Trump administration time to appeal.

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Oct 22 • 9:47 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Call for Abstracts — 2027 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Generative AI in Healthcare: Law & Regulation - Petrie-Flom Center

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2027 Annual Conference, Generative AI in Healthcare: Law and Regulation. Generative AI –- artificial intelligence designed to produce output, such as text or images, that normally require human intelligence — has become a…

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Oct 22 • 9:07 AM EDT • Health • petrieflom.law.harvard.edu
Atrium and State Health Plan are clashing over NC benefits. Get up to speed.

A tiered network fight escalated into a lawsuit and an out-of-network move — all while 750,000 members were trying to pick a plan.

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Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • newsobserver.com
Lawmakers eye micro-hospitals as part of New Jersey's healthcare future

A new bill would allow NJ hospitals to create micro-hospitals, smaller facilities with lower costs that are a growing trend nationwide.

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Oct 22 • 6:48 AM EDT • Health • newjerseymonitor.com
This election ‘may break our campaign finance laws,’ warns Idaho secretary of state

Opponents of Proposition 1 have been particularly noncompliant, the secretary of state says.

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Oct 22 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • idahostatesman.com
Michigan bet big on EV batteries. Here’s what happened.

Four years after Michigan pledged more than $1 billion in incentives to build an electric vehicle battery industry, the state has clawed back millions of dollars after companies have drastically changed their plans.

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Oct 22 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws

The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.

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Oct 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org
Fortnite returns to iOS in Australia after court rules Apple violated competition law

Federal Court of Australia found Apple to have restricted alternative app stores and payment methods to limit competition

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Oct 22 • 4:08 AM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz
Stephen Hubbard in ‘fragile’ health but ‘excited to see family’ after Russia release, lawyer says
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Oct 21 • 6:44 PM EDT • Health • cnn.com
Amazon employee files explosive lawsuit claiming senior executive raped her on NYC business trip
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Oct 21 • 6:37 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
Florida GOP pulls lawsuit over TV ad tying Uthmeier to Hope Florida scandal

The GOP claimed its lawsuit achieved its aim because Democrats pulled the ad, but the ad ran its scheduled run, and Democrats this week launched a new online ad on the same topic.

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Oct 21 • 6:21 PM EDT • Politics • orlandosentinel.com
New Mexico health councils seek recurring funds from lawmakers

New Mexico's county and tribal health councils seek recurring funding ahead of the next legislative session.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • sourcenm.com
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on DOJ voter rolls lawsuit

The midterm elections are less than two weeks away

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Oct 21 • 3:10 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Video: How Title IX Became a Political Tool

After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.

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Oct 21 • 3:06 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Davenport University hosts sports event safety and security training

Recent security incidents at Michigan universities and at events around the country have reinforced the need for public safety and law enforcement teams to be prepared and proactive, especially in situations where large groups gather. As part of an ongoing effort to improve response protocol in the region, Davenport University’s Public Safety team, in partnership with

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Oct 21 • 3:03 PM EDT • Sports • post.davenport.edu
Critical GitLab Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Could Allow Unauthenticated RCE Across 12 Years of Releases

GitLab fixes CVE-2026-110264, a critical flaw that could allow unauthenticated code execution on self-managed versions dating back to 7.0.

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Oct 21 • 2:57 PM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Top Democrats join California immigrant, Nevada group to sue over federal election probes

The lawsuit accuses Trump and his administration of using “shoddily compiled lists of supposed noncitizens” and “coercive threats" against state officials to assert federal control over the midterms.

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Oct 21 • 1:18 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Jefferson County Health Department Pays $2.25M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

Jefferson County Health Department, a public health agency for Jefferson County in Hillsboro, Missouri, has agreed to settle class action litigation that Jefferson County Health Department in Missouri has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2022 data breach affecting almost 116,000 individuals.

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Oct 21 • 12:35 PM EDT • Health • hipaajournal.com
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Kerry Kennedy remembers niece Kyle Kennedy after her death at 42: ‘A bright light’

The lawyer and author wrote that “our family is heartbroken” following the late educator’s death.

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Oct 21 • 12:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Lawyers for Rozier also said in the letter that "NBA …

Lawyers for Rozier also said in the letter that "NBA …

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Oct 21 • 11:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
These Americans make a living scooping poop for other people's pets: 'I truly love it'

Poop scooping is still a lesser-known service compared to the likes of lawn care and housekeeping. But these entrepreneurs are raking it in while picking it up.

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Oct 21 • 10:35 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Midterm Election Update: Medicaid Changes

Major federal changes to Medicaid eligibility and financing from the 2025 reconciliation law are coming, including new work requirements that will affect millions of Medicaid enrollees. KFF’s fact sheet provides an overview of what has changed, what is still ahead, and what the public thinks about Medicaid heading into the midterms.

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Oct 21 • 10:20 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
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Oct 21 • 8:55 AM EDT • Science • tradingview.com
Australian politician who was intentionally hit by car loses both her legs

Australian lawmaker Helen Haines, who was intentionally hit by a car in an apparent political attack, has lost both of her legs, her husband said.

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Oct 21 • 8:10 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Honda’s engine business goes from lawnmowers to jets

Honda’s reach stretches from everyday equipment to business jets, with endurance racing revealing the challenges behind dependable power.

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Oct 21 • 7:01 AM EDT • Business • kxan.com
Honda’s engine business goes from lawnmowers to jets

Honda’s reach stretches from everyday equipment to business jets, with endurance racing revealing the challenges behind dependable power.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • wavy.com
ChristianaCare opens Health Center, completing next phase of Aston campus

Plus, Ridley’s Goodwill store to reopen, Delaware County Down Syndrome Interest Group merges with The Down Syndrome Association of Delaware, library book sale, Christmas bazaar, Birding Club walk, and enough events to keep you busy…

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • delcotimes.com
Pulpit Politics: Johnson Amendment Rarely Enforced

Oklahoma religious leaders are navigating a murky legal landscape around the Johnson Amendment, which bars tax-exempt churches from endorsing candidates but is rarely enforced. With a recent Texas lawsuit failing and Congress considering changes, some pastors endorse candidates without consequences while others see political neutrality as a theological obligation, not just a legal one.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • oklahomawatch.org
Organizations look to consultants for help with tax law

A Modern Healthcare survey found demand for healthcare-related consulting services has increased compared with a year ago.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Will a Chance to Reshape Business Models Help Law Firms Compete With Silicon Valley For Tech Talent?

Technologists without law degrees can't secure equity when working at a law firm. But some observers say that firms offer more rewarding opportunities to build tech infrastructure from the ground up.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • law.com
Nancy Pelosi isn't sitting out the fight to replace her

The San Francisco lawmaker has dived into the intraparty fight to succeed her in Congress. Is it personal, or her prerogative to have a say in her replacement?

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States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working.

Oregon passed a law to require hospitals to proactively screen patients to see if they qualify for financial aid. Patients got immediate relief. Hospitals pushed to roll back the law following federal cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

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Australian Politician Who Was Hit by Car Has Lost Both Legs

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Doctors have amputated both of Australian federal lawmaker Helen Haines ' legs as she remains in critical condition after being repeatedly hit by a car in an apparent act of political violence, her husband said Wednesday. The 65-year-old independent politician is ...

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Billionaire Mark Cuban’s 5-step plan to make healthcare affordable targets drug middlemen’s ‘contractual terrorism’

The Cost Plus Drugs cofounder told Texas lawmakers that insured patients are often better off paying cash—and laid out five fixes built around price transparency.

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States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working.

Oregon passed a law to require hospitals to proactively screen patients to see if they qualify for financial aid. Patients got immediate relief. Hospitals pushed to roll back the law following federal cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

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Jalen Duren Has Message After Pistons Comeback Win vs. Celtics

Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren had a clear message to send after the Pistons came back and beat the Boston Celtics on opening day.Despite going down by 22 points in the game, the Pistons clawed their way back into the game against Boston and ended up winning it 121-113.It was an incredible comeback by a […] The post Jalen Duren Has Message After Pistons Comeback Win vs. Celtics appeared first on HEAVY.

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PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert

PHP2Shell involves two critical PHP RCE flaws rated CVSS 9.2, with emergency fixes scheduled following a disclosure leak.

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Republican lawmaker vows ‘consequences’ for Musk over Ukraine’s Starlink access
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Glendale store owner sues federal government over cash, computers seized in raid 20 months ago

A Glendale convenience store owner filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday demanding the return of cash, computers and phones agents seized from his money services business in February 2025.

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Oct 20 • 8:56 PM EDT • Business • abc15.com
‘Borders on the absurd.’ California fights Trump lawsuit to set aside 20,000 ballots

California is trying to block the Trump administration's voter lawsuit. Here’s what the attorney general said in a court filing.

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Oct 20 • 8:21 PM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
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Powder mailed to Arizona officials reflects surge in political threats

Suspicious letters containing white powder have targeted Arizona lawmakers and the state’s elections chief, as experts warn that threats and intimidation against public officials are rising.

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Oct 20 • 8:12 PM EDT • Politics • cronkitenews.azpbs.org
Feds claim 17,000 other potential noncitizen voters in California

Filings in the Justice Department's lawsuit accusing California officials of facilitating election fraud reveal new details about the underlying investigations.

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Oct 20 • 7:39 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.

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

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Oct 20 • 6:45 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Hundreds of Mainers lost their health insurance due to Medicaid eligibility changes

The federal government will no longer reimburse states for Medicaid coverage provided to lawful noncitizens

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Oct 20 • 6:16 PM EDT • Health • wmtw.com
New org weighs AI's impact on mental health

Psychologists, lawyers, parents and advocacy groups have gathered for the first ever annual conference of AI and its impact on human psychology.

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Oct 20 • 5:23 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure.

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Oct 20 • 4:56 PM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
Nonpartisan coalition of religious leaders plans to counter voter intimidation on Election Day

The diverse, multifaith group is training all the way through the end of October online and in person learning de-escalation techniques and equipping themselves with knowledge of local laws and resources.

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Oct 20 • 3:55 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
WA leaders push back as federal health cuts threaten millions

Washington lawmakers warn that federal health cuts could cost hospitals billions and hike premiums, drawing debate ahead of the midterms.

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Trump sued over Canadian tariffs in latest legal challenge

The lawsuit argues the White House exceeded its authority in imposing the latest tariffs on the country and caused "immediate harm to American businesses".

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Transfer student finds home at St. Mary’s University

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

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Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Science • stmarytx.edu
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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Can U.S. Rep. Don Davis beat a gerrymander?

A year ago, Republican state lawmakers redrew North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District to make it more conservative. But as Election Day draws near, incumbent Congressman Don Davis appears to have an increasingly strong shot at keeping his seat.

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Oct 20 • 12:51 PM EDT • Politics • wunc.org
Romanian lawmakers back a minority government to end monthslong stalemate

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

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Oct 20 • 12:13 PM EDT • Politics • mymotherlode.com
Glendale Small Business Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Seizure of Money by Federal Agents During Raid

PHOENIX—Today, the owner of a Glendale money services business (MSB) teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a federal lawsuit after his […]

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Oct 20 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • ij.org
Investigators interview Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister

Investigators have interviewed Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the matter.

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Oct 20 • 11:50 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Investigators interview Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister

(CNN) — Investigators have interviewed Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the matter.

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Oct 20 • 11:50 AM EDT • Politics • kten.com
Man arrested after unlawfully entering Alabama School of Math and Science Property, police say

A 44-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after unlawfully entering the grounds and a building at the Alabama School of Math and Science, according to the Mobile Police Department.

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Oct 20 • 11:44 AM EDT • Science • fox10tv.com
Jane Muir: Champion of Community and Leader in Business Law

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Setting the standard for efficiency and community engagement, while blending professional acumen with altruism Jane Muir is a leader in the Miami legal landscape. She founded J. Muir & Associates in 2018 and has spent over 15 years building a business law practice, a strong team and a sterling […]

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Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Business • communitynewspapers.com
Ban ‘intrusive’ cameras on mental health wards in England, say bereaved families

Lawyers tell inquiry ‘patients’ lives are at stake’ through improper use of Oxevision system for most vulnerable

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Oct 20 • 11:32 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Elon Musk, Terafab Tax Breaks Take Center Stage In Texas Politics

A new lawsuit seeks access to correspondence between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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Oct 20 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • investors.com
Engling plans to sue Bayh for defamation in secretary of state race over 'reckless' claim

After the Bayh campaign rebuffed Engling's call to retract and correct a campaign attack ad, the Republican says he's filing a defamation lawsuit.

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Oct 20 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • indystar.com
Romanian lawmakers back government led by independent Luca Niculescu as country seeks to end monthslong political crisis

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

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Oct 20 • 9:43 AM EDT • Politics • union-bulletin.com
Silicon Valley GTM and Business Development Veteran Dylan Gittleman Joins Dialogica's Founding Sales Team

/PRNewswire/ -- Dialogica ("Dia"), the voice-first AI secretary for the world's top law firms, today announced that Silicon Valley go-to-market business...

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Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Law & Order: College Basketball — How the NCAA's eligibility rules have created chaos before the season's even begun

As the college basketball season quickly approaches, many schools are still trying to fill out their rosters as they navigate legal challenges to NCAA eligibility rules.

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Oct 20 • 8:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Beyond Moneyball: What the Milwaukee Brewers Can Teach Businesses About Teamwork

The Milwaukee Brewers’ sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers stunned the baseball world. But the series also showed that assembling the biggest collection of stars isn’t the only path to success, says University of Delaware researcher Kyle Emich. The Brewers' run to the World Series – which continues this week against the Tampa Bay Rays – demonstrates how a team can combine its strengths, adapt to an opponent and operate as a system, Emich says. That same p

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • newswise.com
Scientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic error

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.

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Oct 20 • 8:11 AM EDT • Science • thebulletin.org