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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.

Oct 23 • 9:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • pillarcatholic.com

50 Cent allegedly bailed out suspect accused of assaulting Rick Ross' son

50 Cent allegedly bailed out a 20-year-old man identified in police filings as Don Roberts, who is accused of pistol-whipping Rick Ross’ son, 21-year-old William Roberts III. The two rappers have been feuding since the late 2000s.

Oct 22 • 8:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Dallas business owner pistol whipped during robbery, police search for suspect

Dallas Police are searching for a robbery suspect who they say pistol whipped a Cedar Crest business owner and sent him to the hospital.

Oct 21 • 7:03 PM EDT • Business • fox4news.com

Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland

The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.

Oct 21 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

Castlevania's Most Iconic Song Should Chain Whip Me To Death, Not Put Me In A Thousand Year Sleep

The Belmont's Curse version of "Bloody Tars" is more restrained than it should be

Oct 16 • 3:30 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

Let's Do Lunch!: Episode 12: Dr. Regan Bailey from ICON Health talks nutrition, makes healthy snack

Tune in to today's episode of Let's Do Lunch!, featuring Dr. Regan Bailey from ICON Health! She discussed food as medicine and whipped up a healthy snack!

Oct 15 • 1:04 PM EDT • Health • wctv.tv

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Review: Worthy of the Whip

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse (Xbox Series X/S) Review – 9.25/10: Castlevania is back, and between Rose Belmont and Evil Empire, it's in great hands. - Game Informer

Oct 12 • 10:01 PM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com

2027 Oscars power rankings: Top 10 best picture contenders right now

With the fall festivals in the books, awards columnist Glenn Whipp surveys the landscape and offers his first bold prediction of the 10 best picture nominees.

Oct 12 • 6:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

'This Week' Transcript 10-11-26: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Majority Whip Tom Emmer & Kansas Democratic Senate Candidate Adam Hamilton

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was on "This Week" Sunday, October 11. This is a rush transcript and may be updated.

Oct 11 • 9:43 AM EDT • Politics • abcnews.com

Whipple Consulting Engineers expands offerings

Driven by recurring requests from custom homebuilders and small developers, Spokane Valley-based Whipple Consulting Engineers Inc. has expanded its offerings in an effort to keep costs manageable for smaller projects.

Oct 8 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • spokanejournal.com

Bosnia votes as pro-Russian politician looms large and ethnic tensions simmer

Bosnia is holding a general election with citizens of all ethnicities focused on everyday problems. But mainstream politicians are whipping up war-era tensions that have kept the country divided since

Oct 4 • 6:14 AM EDT • Politics • 2news.com

Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • wilmingtonbiz.com

Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • wilmingtonbiz.com

Bill Nye whips out the Constitution to make a powerful point about cuts to science research

He read Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 to an audience.

Oct 1 • 5:07 PM EDT • Science • upworthy.com

Pete Davidson details his daily drug use before checking into rehab: ‘It got scary because I didn’t feel high’

Pete Davidson says he was doing acid, whippets, and ketamine while eating pills ‘every day’ at the height of his addiction, before checking into rehab after an emotional confrontation with his mother.

Sep 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Eugene man sentenced in string of nine business burglaries

A man accused of breaking into multiple Eugene businesses over several months has been sentenced to supervised probation after pleading guilty to five burglary

Sep 30 • 2:23 PM EDT • Business • kval.com

LePage calls for federal crackdown on Medicaid fraud

The comments came during a roundtable discussion with House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota), who talked about Medicaid fraud in his state.

Sep 30 • 9:15 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Jonathan Fortney, Dan Costa honored by American Geophysical Union

Astronomy and astrophysics professor Jonathan Fortney receives 2026 Whipple Award and ecology and evolutionary biology professor Dan Costa named 2026 AGU Union Fellow

Sep 24 • 7:36 PM EDT • Science • news.ucsc.edu

2026 Emmys live chat: Our experts break down the big winners, best moments and more

Columnists Mary McNamara and Glenn Whipp discuss the top winners, biggest upsets, most entertaining moments and more from the 2026 Emmy Awards.

Sep 14 • 7:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Bayer Launches Nationwide Science Delivers Tour to Take Science on the Road

WHIPPANY, N.J., September 10, 2026--Amid growing concerns over misinformation around health and science, Bayer launched a nationwide tour of its Science Delivers mobile interactive experience. The mobile display hits the road at a critical moment: a Harris Poll survey of 2,023 US adults, commissioned by Bayer – Science Under Siege: The Battle Between Viral Misinformation and Shared Belief in the Value of Science (March 2026) – found that 82% worry about their own and their families' wellbeing du

Sep 10 • 3:54 PM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

As the final midterm of Donald Trump's presidency rapidly approaches, the landscape is proving especially volatile, with Trump often stirring the tumult.

Sep 7 • 3:30 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

Democrats are confident they can win the handful of seats they need to regain control of the House.

Sep 6 • 10:46 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Donald Trump holds wild cards

Both parties are stepping up efforts for their candidates in contentious swing states as many consider the vote a referendum on Trump.

Sep 6 • 8:20 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the earliest days of this election cycle, the U.S. wasn't at war with Iran . The East Wing of the White House was still standing and the Ke

Sep 6 • 7:28 AM EDT • Politics • wtop.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

The political landscape in the U.S. is volatile as the final midterm of President Donald Trump's presidency approaches

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • abcnews.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

The political landscape in the U.S. is volatile as the final midterm of President Donald Trump's presidency approaches. Trump often stirs the tumult, with issues such as redrawn congressional...

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

The political landscape in the U.S. is volatile as the final midterm of President Donald Trump's presidency approaches.

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

The political landscape in the U.S. is volatile as the final midterm of President Donald Trump's presidency approaches.

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • clickondetroit.com

A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards

The political landscape in the U.S. is volatile as the final midterm of President Donald Trump's presidency approaches. Trump often stirs the tumult, with issues such as redrawn congressional districts

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • kdhnews.com

A Whiplash Election Year Enters Its Final Stretch as Trump Holds Wild Cards

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the earliest days of this election cycle, the U.S. wasn't at war with Iran. The East Wing of the White House was still standing and the Kennedy Center wasn't threatened with demolition. Artificial intelligence data centers weren't bipartisan shorthand for the tech sector's ...

Sep 6 • 7:23 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com

ESPN Ups Its Tennis Coverage Behind Andy Roddick And RedZone

TNT's "whiparound"-style tennis coverage comes to ESPN as Andy Roddick impresses in the first year of a new 12-year deal to air the U.S. Open

Sep 4 • 2:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Guggenheim’s beaten-down loan whipsaws as lenders digest call

Executives steered clear of details about the wide-ranging probe into Mark Walter’s business empire.

Aug 19 • 4:02 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Astronomers spot the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting our galaxy's monster black hole

A star is whipping around the Milky Way's central black hole incredibly fast, setting a record for the tightest orbit ever observed

Aug 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

A black hole shredded a “super sun” — but something strange may have survived

Astronomers have witnessed a black hole violently shredding a massive star, creating one of the most energetic stellar explosions ever observed. The event, nicknamed “the Whippet,” briefly released about 400 billion times the Sun’s energy and sent a shock wave racing outward at one-fifth the speed of light. Months later, scientists spotted unexpectedly fast-moving helium, suggesting that some structure may have survived the destruction.

Aug 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Feastin' at Musikfest: Vendors whip up delicious treats, offer iconic eats

You have lots of time to check out all of the food because Musikfest runs through Aug. 9.

Aug 4 • 12:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • wfmz.com

16 Weird Facts That'll Stick In Your Brain Forever

Can't wait to whip one of these out at a dinner party 10 years from now.

Aug 3 • 10:16 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

A journey to Snohomish for the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire

Knights on horseback, whip-based comedians and disappointing food options at the village of Merriwick.

Jul 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

Phillies host the Yankees on home losing streak

New York Yankees (59-45, second in the AL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (56-49, second in the NL East) Philadelphia; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Will Warren (7-4, 4.00 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 97 strikeouts); Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (12-4, 2.65 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 151 strikeouts) LINE: Phillies -175, Yankees +143; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies aim to end their four-game home losing streak with a victory over the New York Yankees. Philadelphia has a 27-27 record at home and a 56-49 record overall.

Jul 26 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘The Odyssey’ storms the globe in record-breaking $264 million box office premiere

Christopher Nolan whipped up a serious squall at the box office this weekend, with his ‘Odyssey’ adaptation shattering a ‘Dark Knight’ record with $264 million in its global premiere.

Jul 19 • 10:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

United Airlines lifts outlook as travel demand buffers higher costs

The Chicago-based carrier's forecast reflects the whiplash airlines have endured after the Iran conflict sent jet-fuel prices surging earlier this year.

Jul 15 • 4:21 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Trying store-bought mayonnaise to find best one: ranking, taste test

I compared Miracle Whip and different Kraft, Kewpie, Duke's, Hellmann's mayonnaises, tasting them on their own and in chicken salad to find the best.

Jul 9 • 10:06 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Mets play the Braves looking to end road slide

New York Mets (36-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (52-35, first in the NL East) Atlanta; Sunday, 12:30 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Nolan McLean (5-5, 3.78 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 113 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez (6-5, 3.27 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 61 strikeouts) LINE: Braves -198, Mets +161; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets will attempt to end their three-game road slide in a matchup with the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta has a 27-16 record in home games and a 52-35 record overall.

Jul 5 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI

TV Time, the popular TV tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise AI products.

Jul 2 • 11:14 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Netflix and Superheroes Are Having a Rough Stretch on Streaming....

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) I have a quick prediction before we start today’s article: You might see this data in future news articles. Not my specific charts or analysis, but the core trend I’ve been monitoring—Netflix is having a lackluster Q2—will become inescapable. Often, folks want to know “What does the data say?” Well, that’s what it says. I haven’t seen this analysis hit the trades really yet, but I have a feeling some other outlets are going to start making this case soon. Remember, you read it here first. You probably have read about the problems facing superhero films at the box office this weekend. Well, this week, I explore whether superheroes are dying on TV as well! And the data says: definitely maybe! We have a lot to cover in today’s Streaming Ratings Report, which covers the two weeks of 18-May and 25-May. Today, I’m just looking at TV, like Netflix’s disappointing Q2, superhero shows underwhelming, a few TV shows dropping off the charts, The Pitt finally ending its epic run on the viewership charts (and whether “view counts” change its status as one of the biggest shows of all time), all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Tomorrow, I’ve got a great rundown of the film side of things. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, Showlabs, TV Time trend data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of May 18th to May 31st, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - Netflix’s Q2 Slump Continues Having analyzed streaming ratings for going on half a decade, I have learned to trust my gut, but I’m always relieved when I can find actual data to back it up. For example, after a string of very popular shows like Stranger Things, Bridgerton, The Lincoln Lawyer and The Night Agent came out, week after week, in January and February, my gut wondered if Netflix had enough new and returning TV shows to sustain them throughout the year. Since then, Netflix’s post-March slate of shows has not impressed me. This week seemed to feature a potential new hit, but then, like a classic Duffer Bros. TV show, there was a twist. I speak of The Boroughs, Netflix’s latest (and last) Duffer Bros. produced show. The pitch is “Stranger Things with older actors”. And it topped the Nielsen charts: With just two weeks of viewership, The Boroughs would have been a top 25 debut show last year: But here’s the twist: Netflix has already cancelled The Boroughs! What happened? Likely a few things. First, the show didn’t do as well globally as it did in the US. As What’s on Netflix showed, it lagged behind several other shows that got cancelled. Second, its completion rate was likely low; after an initial burst of interest, it quickly dropped off on the Samba TV and Luminate charts. Third, the Duffer Bros. left Netflix for Paramount, and that may have factored into Netflix’s decision here. (Though I tend to believe that if a show is doing well, Netflix would have kept greenlighting seasons.) Still, just because I can explain why Netflix may have cancelled this show doesn’t mean I’m justifying it. In particular, as I’ve noted before, Netflix is losing a lot of their bigger shows as they reach their natural ends, and they need to replace those shows. This show had the hallmarks of a big new genre show, and it’s their biggest hit of the last few months (in the US at least), but now it’s done. Netflix’s other show this week—The Four Seasons, the second season of the “hit” show from last year—definitely disappointed. Its sophomore season had about half the viewership of the first, only 12.7 million hours. It also only had a two week run on Samba TV, and its numbers were all down on Luminate too. In other words, even with two successes, the Q2 slump for Netflix looks real: I could add to the list of disappointments: Both Lord of the Files and Man on Fire had short runs on the Nielsen charts. Running Point’s sophomore season also opened to about half its viewership, similar to The Four Seasons. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’s second season—see below—didn’t even make any of the three viewership charts I track, unlike the first season. Netflix is absolutely having a dismal second three months of 2026. If this Nielsen data is any indication, and I think it is, I think this will show up in Netflix’s engagement report, and maybe even their financial outcomes. And the rest of June doesn’t look much better. We have two hit shows coming back—Sweet Magnolias, one of their quietest big shows, and Avatar: The Last Airbender, a big hit for them in 2024—but the other big swings are limited series crime thrillers i.e. no future season potential. Like I said above, sometimes when I uncover a juicy nugget like this, other outlets end up writing very similar articles mimicking the data without credit. We’ll see if that happens this time! Share Television - The State of Superhero Shows on Streaming When I first heard the pitch for Spider-Noir—a Sony TV show on Prime Video that binge-released eight episodes first on MGM+ then on Prime Video two days later—I had my doubts. It’s a live-action Spider-Man show set in the 1930s, starring Nicholas Cage, based on a cameo of a character in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. No, seriously, that’s the pitch. That could either go terrifically well or horribly wrong. Great because, Spider-Man. He’s the biggest superhero we have. I’ve seen tracking numbers that put the new _Spider-Man: Brand New Da_y as the blockbuster of the year and initial pre-sales back that up. And yet this Spider-Noir pitch feels very esoteric. (Also, the eight-episode binge release feels very “Amazon copying Netflix” again.) So what’s the data say? And what does this say about the future of superhero shows?

Jun 29 • 5:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

How to judge Trump’s claims he’s ended the Iran war

The world whiplashed Thursday between an apparently imminent, dangerous escalation of the war in Iran and a claim of peace in our time.

Jun 12 • 12:11 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Orioles host the Mariners to begin 4-game series

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Jun 8 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Dodgers host the Angels, look to extend home win streak

Los Angeles Angels (24-41, fifth in the AL West) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (42-23, first in the NL West) Los Angeles; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano (6-4, 2.72 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 85 strikeouts); Dodgers: Emmet Sheehan (3-2, 4.50 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 62 strikeouts) LINE: Dodgers -365, Angels +285; over/under is 8 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers, on a three-game home winning streak, host the Los Angeles Angels. Los Angeles has a 22-11 record in home games and a 42-23 record overall.

Jun 7 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Arteta Seeks Immortality, and We’re Having Big Feelings…

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May 30 • 1:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Dodgers vs. Phillies game I chat

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May 29 • 10:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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May 18 • 2:22 PM EDT • Business • 9news.com

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May 16 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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May 15 • 6:55 PM EDT • Business • turnto10.com

Feature: Moore ’26 Keeps Busy with Double Science Major and Music

Luke Moore ’26 came to Kansas Wesleyan on a music scholarship. He’s graduating this weekend (May 16) with a double major in Chemistry and Physics. He’s as active on the music side as he is with his science activities — he’s played the cello for 10 years, including four years at Kansas Wesleyan. It’s common, he said, for scientists and musicians to share those interests. “I’ve spoken to plenty of musicians who would have done science if they weren’t musicians, and I’ve talked to plenty of scientists who would have done music if they weren’t scientists,” Mooresaid. He played the cello in the string orchestra, which he’s done since his first year, and as a junior and senior, sang in the Philharmonic Choir as a bass. He hadn’t sung in a choir since middle schoolin Garden City, but he found he really enjoys that aspect of his college career. Also as a junior, Moore helped re-activate the STEM Club as vice president. For two years, he helped build the club’s battlebot. Last year the bot came home from battles in Kansas City in pieces, lots of pieces. This year it came home with the first-place trophy. He’s helped make frozen nitrogen ice cream at Homecoming and other events and helped organize the STEM Club’s first gingerbread house competition for the holidays. Willing to get his hands – and face – dirty for science, he encouraged fellow musicians and scientists to smash him in the face with whipped cream pies on Pi Day (March 14) as a fundraiser for the STEM Club. His capstone project involved developing a metallic organic framework (MOF) that takes a methylene blue dye out of water. “I’m proud that I was able to design this project, and I was proud that I did end up making the MOF,” Moore said. The professors and attitudes at KWU have made all this possible. “I don’t actually have time for everything,” Moore said. “I have to prioritize things. Things inevitably fall through the cracks, but it’s hard for me to choose one over the other, because I like a lot of things. And I don’t want to not do music, and I don’t want to not do science.” Moore said that Kansas Wesleyan, as a smaller university, gives students the opportunity to try things. “If I were to want to be in a music ensemble, it would probably be a bit harder in a larger school. One nice thing about this school is that everyone’s involved in something,” he said. “Professors know that you have other things going on, and they are flexible and understanding.” Moore has applied to grad schools, with an goal of earning his Ph.D. and landing at a university big enough to allow for a small research team that also gives him an opportunity to teach. He’s off to a good start. Moore is receiving the award for Outstanding Research in the Math, Physics and Computer Studies Department at Commencement this year. Story by Jean Kozubowski

May 15 • 4:27 PM EDT • Science • kwu.edu

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May 11 • 2:00 AM EDT • Technology • mlive.com

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May 6 • 1:09 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com

Cardinals start 3-game series with the Brewers

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May 4 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

United Q1 earnings top estimates as premium business partly offsets fuel price surge

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Apr 21 • 4:09 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Dodgers vs. Rockies game I chat

The Dodgers (14-4) open a four-game series against the Colorado Rockies (7-12) starting Friday night at in Denver. Tyler Glasnow (1-0, 4.00 ERA, 0.94 WHIP) makes his first career start at Coors Field in the series opener. Right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano (1-0, 2.16 ERA, 0.78 WHIP) will counter for Colorado. Lineups Friday game info

Apr 17 • 8:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Astros Place SP Hunter Brown on 15-Day IL

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Apr 5 • 1:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Energy markets start tuning Trump out after repeated Iran war whiplash

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Apr 2 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

The Politics Hour: Fairfax County Board Chair Jeff McKay and 'Crossover Day' in Maryland

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Mar 27 • 8:08 AM EDT • Politics • wamu.org

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Mar 24 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • statnews.com

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Mar 14 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

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Mar 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Resident Evil Requiem Is Suffering an Idenitiy Crisis

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Mar 6 • 8:00 AM EST • Technology • ign.com

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Feb 27 • 11:35 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

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Feb 27 • 8:45 AM EST • Science • thetimes.com

Oblivion, Skyrim And Fallout Switch 2 Physicals Will All Be Code-In-A-Box, Bethesda Confirms

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Feb 5 • 1:15 PM EST • Technology • nintendolife.com

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Feb 4 • 6:35 PM EST • Politics • nytimes.com

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Feb 3 • 8:05 AM EST • Politics • floridapolitics.com

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Jan 27 • 11:39 PM EST • Sports • anchorofgold.com

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Jan 24 • 3:19 PM EST • Health • washingtonpost.com

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Trump gave defaulted student-loan borrowers a major break on wage garnishment and tax refund seizure. Still, thousands are waiting for debt relief.

Jan 24 • 3:11 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com

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Jan 17 • 6:00 AM EST • Health • theguardian.com

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Jan 15 • 4:40 PM EST • Health • newsday.com

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Jan 2 • 9:00 AM EST • Entertainment • latimes.com

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Dec 30, 2025 • 3:08 PM EST • Politics • foxnews.com

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Dec 29, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Entertainment • facebook.com

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Dec 23, 2025 • 4:48 AM EST • Health • wbur.org

‘The time for excuses has ended.’ Rep. Katherine Clark on the slow release of heavily redacted Epstein files

Dec 22, 2025 • 9:33 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com