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Two Huge Positives for New England Patriots Training Camp Opens

For New England Patriots fans, it’s been a superb start to training camp 2026. All the news on two key fronts was positive, led by the owner addressing the Christian Gonzalez contract situation early in the morning before the team's first official practice. Gonzalez, as promised by head coach Mike Vrabel in Friday’s opening camp address, was on the field and competing in individual drills with his team.

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Jul 26 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pittsburgh Penguins' 2026-27 Lineup Projections: Goaltenders
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Jul 25 • 11:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Red Sox swap LHP Connelly Early for 3B Curtis Mead in deal with Nationals

MLB trade deadline season is officially here.

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Jul 25 • 11:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Paramount agrees to delay merger with Warner Bros. after legal challenge

The potential $111-billion merger has raised lots of important issues, and tensions are understandably high.

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Jul 25 • 11:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
North Leeward Predators FC, Helenites SC, and Elite Sports Club advance in CFU Club Shield

Three teams moves to Round of 16

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Jul 25 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • concacaf.com
Nike resets struggling China business

The company is slashing online shopping options and working to improve its physical stores and beef up its local connections.

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Jul 25 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • oregonlive.com
At least 35 killed in bus collision on Syria's Deir al-Zor-Damascus road, health ministry says

Thirty-five people were killed ​and 30 injured ‌in a collision between two ​passenger buses ​on the Deir ⁠al-Zor-Damascus road, ​a health ministry ​official told state news agency SANA ​on Saturday.

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Jul 25 • 7:28 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Science Central seeks $150K to bring back iconic high-rail bike

Science Central is working to bring back one of its most recognized attractions — the high-rail bike — with a fundraising campaign aimed at installing a new, updated version of the ride.

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Jul 24 • 5:39 PM EDT • Science • 21alivenews.com
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Steelers named top landing spot for All-Pro wide receiver

Steelers tabbed as landing spot for the former All-Pro

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Jul 24 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Orleans church works to break stigma around maternal mental health

The Franklin Avenue Baptist Church’s annual mental health forum is this weekend. This year, it features a special focus on maternal health.

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Jul 24 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • veritenews.org
Simone Biles brings mental health message to Chicago's Faces of Fitness this weekend

The seven-time Olympic gold medallist was announced as a headliner of the sold-out Chicago event, where she will speak about the importance of prioritising mental health.

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Jul 24 • 3:56 AM EDT • Health • olympics.com
Florida State Lands Talented JUCO Infielder for 2028

Link Jarrett bolsters the Seminoles' future infield with Chipola College standout Tyler Correa, a Tallahassee native whose .372 average brings elite contact hitting back to his hometown.

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Jul 24 • 12:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Billy V Live: The latest in Hawaii entertainment news

Billy shares exclusive interviews with Hawaii entertainers and gives you the latest in entertainment news!

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Jul 23 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • hawaiinewsnow.com
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Agentic coding goes hands free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop

This architecture creates a pair-programming dynamic where developers talk through problems conversationally while agents execute tasks asynchronously.

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Jul 23 • 5:17 PM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com
The unlicensed therapist 8 million kids are seeing, per 1 behavioral health chief

Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults in the U.S. — an estimated 8.2 million people — used an AI chatbot for mental health advice in 2025, according to a study published June 1 in JAMA Pediatrics. The findings are stark: 91.7% rated the guidance as somewhat or very helpful, and 42.8% came back […]

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Jul 23 • 1:12 PM EDT • Health • beckersbehavioralhealth.com
CB South head football coach Tom Hetrick stepping down

Central Bucks South head football coach Tom Hetrick is stepping down. Assistant coaches Bart Szarko and John Cataldo will lead the program

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Jul 23 • 11:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cigna expands chronic care management, projects $200M savings

Cigna Healthcare is broadening its AI-enabled care management programs to reach more customers with emerging, complex and chronic health needs. The expanded approach is expected to support 20% more customers across areas including behavioral health, cancer, heart disease, kidney disease and high-risk pregnancy. The initiative combines predictive analytics with AI-enabled tools to help identify customers […]

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Jul 23 • 10:10 AM EDT • Health • beckersbehavioralhealth.com
New mobile mammography unit aims to address barriers to receiving care in Sussex County, Delaware

TidalHealth Mobile Mammography launched this month. Its goal is to bring screenings to neighborhoods in Sussex County with limited preventive care.

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Jul 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • whyy.org
BP to sell 250-site Austrian c-store business

About 115 of the c-stores are company owned and franchise operated, with others either run by dealers or unstaffed company-owned sites.

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Jul 23 • 5:07 AM EDT • Business • cstoredive.com
House votes to adopt Department of War renaming as part of annual defense bill

The House on Wednesday passed a defense policy bill that incorporates President Donald Trump's request for a historic $1.15 trillion in spending for national security and that would designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War.

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Jul 22 • 7:45 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
All Wet Sports closing after 24 years in Jacksonville

After more than two decades of introducing Jacksonville residents to the joys of paddling, windsurfing and wakeboarding, All Wet Sports is closing its doors.

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Jul 22 • 7:38 PM EDT • Sports • news4jax.com
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Atlanta Braves Reveal Michael Harris II Change Before Padres Game

The Atlanta Braves are currently taking on the San Diego Padres in a four-game series. After losing to the Padres on Tuesday, the series is now 1-1. For game three of the series, Atlanta has activated pitcher Martin Perez, and the Padres will roll with Michael King. Ahead of the Padres, the Braves revealed their […] The post Atlanta Braves Reveal Michael Harris II Change Before Padres Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 22 • 7:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The New York Times

Sony Pictures Entertainment will reopen Hollywood's iconic Cinerama Dome theater in 2028 after a renovation. The venue closed in 2020 because of the pandemic. https://nyti.ms/4gSfAvH

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Jul 22 • 3:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • facebook.com
‘Marvel’s Wolverine’ star Liam McIntyre explains why he was ‘really scared to go all out’ (exclusive)

‘Marvel’s Wolverine’ star Liam McIntyre says he was ‘really scared to go all out’ with ‘feral Logan,’ but explains how he could ultimately ‘take some really huge swings.’

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Jul 22 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Anabi Oil partners with Accel Entertainment to support 600 gaming terminals at Green Valley Grocery stores

Agreement extends Anabi's existing relationship with Accel across its southern Nevada convenience-store portfolio, including the Rebel brand

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Jul 22 • 11:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • cspdailynews.com
Broncos To Re-Hire Linebackers Coach Despite Off-Field Issue

The Denver Broncos are set to re-hire Michael Wilhoite, who left the team under controversial circumstances.

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Jul 22 • 10:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

VulnCheck says attackers are exploiting Windmill CVE-2026-29059 to read server files, with about 170 vulnerable systems exposed in 24 countries.

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Jul 22 • 8:36 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Saint Joseph’s Athletics and Main Line Health Announce New Affiliation

Saint Joseph's Athletics and Main Line Health have announced a landmark affiliation establishing the System as the exclusive medical provider for the Hawks. Along with serving as a title sponsor for the Hawks' Division I programs, Main Line Health will become the first-ever jersey-patch partner in St. Joe's history.

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Jul 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • sjuhawks.com
The biggest barrier to teen mental health isn’t treatment.

Treatment is critically important, but experience has taught us that another challenge often comes first: ensuring young people are identified, supported and connected to care before a situation becomes a crisis.

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Jul 22 • 6:01 AM EDT • Health • ncnewsline.com
US to spend $5 billion on health, construction research powered by AI

The U.S. will spend $5 billion to tackle long-standing scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on ​Wednesday.

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Jul 22 • 5:05 AM EDT • Science • reuters.com
US to spend $5 billion on health, construction research powered by AI

The U.S. will spend $5 billion to tackle long-standing scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on ​Wednesday.

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Jul 22 • 5:05 AM EDT • Health • reuters.com
New York Yankees news: Max Fried returns, gets start Wednesday

Fried to skip final rehab start; Boone walks back Stanton comments; Domínguez talks trade rumors; Schlittler Cy fave

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Jul 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
ANTHC to get $400 million settlement from feds over unpaid healthcare costs

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in a 2021 lawsuit contended it was owed about $640 million.

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Jul 21 • 9:18 PM EDT • Health • adn.com
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Memorial Health Meadows Hospital temporarily closes most services due to flooding

The hospital said the emergency room, women’s center and The Tommy and Shirley Strickland Cancer Center remain open despite flooding.

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Jul 21 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • wtoc.com
Bat Tests Positive for Rabies in Bloomingdale Area

The Chatham County Health Department is alerting residents that a bat from the Bloomingdale area of Chatham County has tested positive for rabies.

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Jul 21 • 12:25 PM EDT • Health • coastalhealthdistrict.org
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Christal Jordan joins with entertainment headlines

Ed Harris has been disappointed with his role on Dutton Ranch, and ESPN may have major layoffs coming

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Jul 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox5atlanta.com
New Jersey behavioral health company acquires independent medical examination provider

Red Bank, N.J.-based PAX Health acquired Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.-based Makraf IME, a statewide psychology and neuropsychology independent medical examination (IME) provider group operating across 17 counties. Makraf IME provides independent medical examination opinions on causality, need for treatment, maximum medical improvement, permanency and fitness for duty. The practice also provides psychology and neuropsychology IMEs, disability evaluations, […]

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Jul 21 • 10:04 AM EDT • Health • beckersbehavioralhealth.com
Reynolds named science secretary as Dsit abolished

Jonathan Reynolds to lead Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade after Whitehall shakeup

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Jul 21 • 3:12 AM EDT • Science • researchprofessionalnews.com
Stinespring tells RVSC Maroons must stay hungry

The Roanoke College head football coach spoke at the Roanoke Valley Sports Club Monday night.

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Jul 20 • 10:16 PM EDT • Sports • wsls.com
California seeks feedback on psychiatric hospital staffing regulations

The California Department of Public Health will hold a stakeholder meeting July 23 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to gather feedback on emergency regulations establishing nurse-to-patient staffing standards for acute psychiatric hospitals. Here are three things to know: Read more about the questions for stakeholders here.

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Jul 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • beckersbehavioralhealth.com
Shaky political "science": breakdown of the peer review process

[This article is the latest in our “Shaky Political Science” series. In our 38 page report, “Shaky political ‘science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting,” released in December 2025, we examined over 40 studies focused on ranked choice voting (RCV). Many of these studies suffered from puzzling research methodologies, poorly constructed surveys, unrealistic simulated elections, cherry picked data and faulty analyses that often were contradicted by results from real-world elections (a link to our full paper is here). Here are links to the first four articles in our series: the first one summarizing the overall results of our report; the second one analyzed a study co-authored by University of Minnesota academic Larry Jacobs, which was one of the most error-prone of all the research we reviewed in our report; a third article showing an admirable example of two political scientists holding two other political scientists accountable for their flawed, sloppy research; and a fourth article that analyzed seven studies sponsored by New America’s political reform program that deployed flawed methodology based on “simulated” elections instead of real-world elections, which when combined with some basic misunderstandings of RCV, produced odd and misleading results]. In this fifth article in our “Shaky Political Science” series, we examine two flawed studies on the impact of RCV on voter turnout authored by San Francisco State University professor Jason McDaniel. McDaniel’s research in these two papers stands out for its puzzling methodology, inadequate and cherry-picked data, and faulty analyses that not only misunderstands ranked choice voting but reflects a basic misunderstanding of politics in general. The first of the McDaniel studies actually passed through a peer review process and then was subsequently published by the Journal of Urban Affairs, despite its obvious errors. It is perplexing that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the errors and send it back to McDaniel for a rewrite or outright rejection. This calls into question the credibility of the peer review process itself. The peer review process is supposed to represent the intellectual pinnacle of the profession – a way for academics to certify the quality of each other’s work, and to act as a check against sloppy research. In the case of the McDaniel study, the peer review process failed. Yet his flawed study has been cited dozens of times by other political scientists in their own flawed works — an unvirtuous circle of academic research. Here is the first Jason McDaniel study that we analyzed: “Writing the Rules to Rank the Candidates: Examining the Impact of Instant-Runoff Voting on Racial Group Turnout in San Francisco Mayoral Elections,” by Jason McDaniel, 2016, Journal of Urban Affairs. This study covered San Francisco’s use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in mayoral elections, purporting to show that RCV reduces voter turnout overall, increases voter errors, and has a negative impact on “marginal populations,” i.e. racial minorities, mainly as the result of the alleged complexity of RCV asking voters to rank candidates and having to be familiar with multiple candidates and related dynamics. McDaniel reached these conclusions by examining five San Francisco mayoral elections taking place in odd years (i.e. where there are no federal or state races on the ballot) from 1995 to 2011, comparing three earlier non-RCV races (in 1995, 1999 and 2003) with the later two RCV races (in 2007 and 2011). Only two RCV races were studied, and as McDaniel acknowledged, only the contest in 2011 was “competitive” (that contest in 2007 was the first mayoral election using RCV, and incumbent mayor Gavin Newsom won easily in the first round of counting, earning 74% of first choices and far ahead of the second place candidate who had just 6.3% of first choices). Yet even the allegedly competitive contest in 2011was won by an incumbent with a landslide margin of nearly 20 points. No other elections were studied by McDaniel, even though San Francisco elects 17 other offices besides mayor with RCV, including the 11 seats on the Board of Supervisors (the name for the city council) in even years, and six other citywide offices in odd years. Previous academic research has found that competitive elections can stimulate greater voter involvement and higher turnout. For unexplained reasons, this study ignored at least 34 other RCV races between the years 2004 to 2011, many of which were very competitive and had high voter turnout. Instead, McDaniel’s analysis based its conclusions on data from only a single, marginally-competitive mayor’s race using RCV. These 2007 and 2011 mayoral elections were the only two RCV elections that McDaniel used as the sole basis for his small data set to determine the impact of RCV on voter turnout. Despite having no meaningful data to inform his study, McDaniel nonetheless concluded that RCV lowered turnout when compared to the previous three mayoral non-RCV elections using two-round runoffs. Then, using the same inadequate database of San Francisco elections, McDaniel also found that “Instant-runoff voting is associated with a significant decline in Black voter turnout and White voter turnout…On average, Black voter turnout decreases by 18 points and White voter turnout decreases by 16 points …” But how could he credibly arrive at that conclusion when his study was based on voter turnout in two RCV contests that were not even remotely competitive? Beyond that, McDaniel tacitly admits that the key determining factor driving Black voter turnout was not RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable Black candidate. McDaniel wrote, “Black voter turnout was about 17 percentage points higher for the two elections that featured an African American candidate compared to the three elections that did not” — but one of those three elections did not use RCV. The same dynamic was present for White voter turnout, in which higher turnout was not correlated with RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable White candidate. Beyond that, McDaniel’s voter turnout results, whether correlated with the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections, showed no clear patterns. In his Figure 1, he shows low Asian voter turnout in the non-RCV elections in 1999 and 2003 when there was no viable Asian candidate running, but in the 2007 mayoral election using RCV, there is still no viable Asian candidate, yet Asian turnout increases dramatically. For Latinos, voter turnout is virtually the same in 1999 (no viable Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2003 (leading Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2007 (no viable Latino candidate, RCV elections) and 2011 (leading Latino candidate, RCV elections). Meanwhile White voter turnout increased dramatically from a low in the 2007 mayoral election, in which the leading candidate was a white incumbent, to the 2011 election in which there were no leading white candidates that finished any higher than sixth place with 5.6% of the vote. Clearly other factors were determining voter turnout than either the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections. Despite these inconsistent findings, McDaniel boldly marches forth to render conclusions about the impact of RCV on different groups of racial voters, even though his conclusions are not remotely supported by his data. This looks like the worst kind of “data cherry picking” to cover up a puzzling conclusion based on a poor data set involving only two RCV elections, neither of which were remotely competitive. McDaniel’s cherry picking didn’t stop there. In calculating voter turnout for the three non-RCV mayoral elections in 1995, 1999 and 2003, he failed to mention that in each of these years there was a two-round runoff election, with a first round election in November in which no candidate garnered a winning majority of the vote, followed by the decisive runoff in December. So there were two non-RCV elections in each election year. But McDaniel only decided to include one of the two elections in his data set, apparently the December runoff in each year (which had higher turnout in two out of the three mayor’s races, and lower turnout in the third). So he ignored the November 1995 election, the November 1999 election when turnout was only 45 percent, and the November 2003 election when turnout was only 45.7 percent. This is flawed methodology based on blatant cherry picking, since McDaniel simply omitted three elections worth of data that did not fit within his frame. His study should never have made it through a peer review process, and it is an embarrassment to political science that not only was it approved for publication, but it has been uncritically cited by dozens of other political scientists. Share A “study” without wider context or credible data Lacking a data set that included even a single competitive RCV mayoral race, McDaniel declared that RCV lowered voter turnout in 2011, when turnout was 42.5 percent. But he also ignored -- or did not realize -- that voter turnout in mayoral elections during 2011 had sharply declined in all big cities, including far more steeply in nearby Los Angeles and other cities. In fact, San Francisco’s election in 2011 had the second highest turnout of any mayoral election in the nation’s 22 largest cities from 2008-2011. Was 2011 just a particularly low turnout year all across the country, perhaps because the country was still reeling from the aftermath of the housing market collapse in 2008-2010? McDaniel ignored this factor and did not search for alternative explanations beyond his flawed thesis. Furthermore, while McDaniel suggested that RCV leads to more “overvotes” – which is an invalidated ballot in which a voter, in either a non-RCV or RCV race, makes a mistake and selects two candidates for a single choice – he failed to address that in the June 2012 US Senate primary contest, which used the typical “one-choice” plurality method and did not use RCV, there was more than five times as many overvotes in San Francisco and Oakland than in the RCV mayoral elections in those cities. Additionally, turnout had been significantly higher and more representative in RCV elections for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors races -- that McDaniel didn’t even bother to study -- as compared to previous “delayed two-round runoffs” for those offices, often higher by as much as 40% in the RCV races. Perhaps the most surprising irony was that an earlier study co-authored by McDaniel (Overvoting and the Equality of Voice under Instant-Runoff Voting in San Francisco by Francis Neely and Jason McDaniel, 2015, California Journal of Politics and Policy) found that overvotes are often more common in lower-income precincts, but that the pattern of overvoting is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. Wrote Neely and McDaniel: “[Overvote] errors appear to be a function of complexity in general and not IRV per se…. the pattern of overvoting is similar in both IRV and non-IRV contests…Even among votes cast in a top-of-the-ticket race like U.S. Senate, overvoting occurs in an uneven fashion” (IRV, or ‘instant runoff voting,’ is another name for ranked choice voting in single-winner contests). So McDaniel not only contradicted his own conclusion in his earlier study with Neely, but the earlier study had been an important corrective for one of the most frequently made mistakes made by anti-RCV political scientists – a continual failure to provide crucial context by pairing a comparative analysis of real world RCV elections with an analysis of real world plurality or other electoral methods. Unfortunately McDaniel’s earlier study does not get cited much by other researchers, and McDaniel did not even cite it in his own flawed study analyzed above. Incredibly, McDaniel cherrypicked McDaniel, even as his flawed study has been cited dozens of times. Despite being a textbook example of poor political “science,” featuring both inadequate as well as cherrypicked data, the shelf life of McDaniel’s study has been extended endlessly by other political scientists and media outlets who have cited it uncritically. Equally troubling, the Journal of Urban Affairs put this paper through its peer review process and published it despite its numerous flaws. McDaniel gets it wrong, Part II Not content with producing one shoddy, confused paper, McDaniel produced another one a few years later, here is the link: Electoral Rules and Voter Turnout in Mayoral Elections: An Analysis of Ranked-Choice Voting by Jason McDaniel. San Francisco State Univ. (McDaniel, 2019). In this paper, McDaniel extended his previous flawed research focused on San Francisco, about voter turnout and voter impact, to multiple RCV cities through the 2018 elections. In his data set he included San Francisco, Minneapolis, St Paul, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro and Santa Fe. He then compared their turnout in mayoral elections to non-RCV cities, and to mayoral elections in those cities held before first RCV usage, and concluded “a significant decrease in voter turnout of approximately 3–5 percentage points in RCV cities after the implementation of RCV.” But he replicated many of the same mistakes as his first study presented above. While in this study McDaniel attempted to distinguish between various factors, such as odd year vs. even year elections, competitive races vs. noncompetitive, contests with open seats and other factors, the analysis is superficial and inadequate. He attempts to incorporate so many often-conflicting variables that his conclusions are once again unsupported by the actual data, and ultimately unconvincing (this second study never underwent a peer review process). For example, McDaniel declared that for RCV cities “in elections that are more competitive than average (margin of victory less than 20%), there is no significant RCV effect on voter turnout.” Yet McDaniel is a professor in a city, San Francisco, in which the 2018 special election using RCV to fill a mayoral vacancy was exceedingly close, decided by a margin of only one percentage point, and resulted in the second highest turnout in San Francisco history for a mayoral election. Illustrating the complexity involved in assessing the critical factors in turnout, that special election was held on the same election day as federal and state offices, which tends to boost turnout. Yet more voters participated in that RCV mayoral election than voted on the same day in the non-RCV primary for governor in which former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom was running. Even more puzzling, in this study McDaniel inaccurately cited his own previous study from 2015 with Neely. McDaniel wrote, “Neely and McDaniel (2015) examine individual ballot image files within a natural experiment, and find higher rates of ballot errors in RCV elections compared to non-RCV elections” (emphasis added). However, we quoted from that 2015 study several paragraphs above, and in actual fact Neely and McDaniel actually concluded the opposite -- that the pattern of overvoting – which is the most common form of ballot error – is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. McDaniel also ignored the fact that in Bay Area RCV elections held in even years – at the same time as federal and state elections, when turnout is highest -- the “undervote” (that is, the dropoff in ballots cast for governor or mayor) has declined, which contradicts his thesis that the act of ranking ballots in RCV elections is too complex and presents a barrier for certain demographics of voters. To his credit, McDaniel actually acknowledged another contradiction in his own paper, which found a negative RCV turnout effect in some odd-year elections but not others, admitting that “may present a challenge to the theory that increased complexity [from RCV] will have a marginal negative effect on voter turnout.” But he tried to wallpaper over that contradiction by blaming it on an unlikely source -- bad election administration. McDaniels wrote, “This would suggest that the negative impact of RCV on voter participation may be alleviated by high quality election administration,” without presenting any data or even anecdotes to support such an unfounded theory. While competent election administration of any election, whether RCV or non-RCV, is crucially important, there is no credible research that supports the far-fetched notion that the quality of election administration has much of an impact on voter turnout in US elections, whether using RCV or otherwise. Upgrade to a $5 subscription The unvirtuous circle of academic research It is puzzling how McDaniel’s first study could have survived the peer review process for the Journal of Urban Affairs. The mistakes in McDaniel’s first study above should have been obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of ranked choice voting as well as elections in general, and elections in San Francisco specifically. It undermines faith in the credibility of the peer review process to think that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the egregious errors and reject McDaniel’s sloppy research and paper. And it remains a black mark on political science that this thoroughly discredited study has been cited dozens of times by other researchers. Indeed, in our research paper it became apparent that many political scientists cite each other’s flawed research to pad their list of citations and to legitimize their own flawed research, creating an unvirtuous circle of political science. More broadly, McDaniel’s voter turnout studies, like other studies evaluating RCV’s impact on turnout, lacked a recognition that no credible opinion or research can claim that RCV increases voter turnout merely because so many voters are excited to vote for their favorite candidates instead of “lesser evil” candidates without worrying about spoilers. Instead, with respect to turnout, the advantage of RCV has always been that, in most places where it has been used, it has eliminated a pre-November primary or post-November runoff, which usually saw about half the turnout of the November general election. This is especially true during even years when there are state and federal elections on the ballot which substantially drive turnout more than local contests. Any study that does not adequately account for this non-November primary/runoff vs November general election dynamic, or odd year vs even year election factors, is simply not credible. Both of McDaniel’s studies largely failed on those grounds. Steven Hill and Paul Haughey Share Upgrade to a $5 subscription Thanks for reading DemocracySOS…your digital portal for the pro-democracy movement. Subscribe for only $5 per month to receive full benefits and to support our work. Subscribe

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Jul 20 • 9:29 AM EDT • Science • democracysos.substack.com
‘Super Movers’ Might Have a Leg Up on Brain Health

A recent study suggests that how quickly you walk in your 80s is a powerful indicator of your brain’s resilience.

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Jul 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • health.com
Gossip: Arbeloa eyes two Real Madrid names

New Fulham manager Alvaro Arbeloa wants to sign two players from former club Real Madrid, including 18-year-old Argentina winger Franco Mastantuono and 22-year-old Spain forward Gonzalo Garcia. (Sun)

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Jul 20 • 2:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cleveland Cavaliers Receive Positive Update Amid LeBron James Pursuit

The Cleveland Cavaliers have received a positive update about their pursuit of LeBron James.

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Jul 20 • 2:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Britain Politics Burnham

The statue of Winston Chruchill is silhouetted against the sky with the backdrop of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, as Labour Party leader Andy Burnham is set

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Jul 20 • 2:13 AM EDT • Politics • goskagit.com
Spain keep their cool, as Argentina's disgraceful tactics tarnish legacy
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Jul 19 • 9:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Baddest Bad Moon is coming to Warhammer 40,000 AND Total War

Nazdreg's triumphant return

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Jul 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
Arsenal planning short-term move for free agent John Stones following William Saliba's World Cup injury

Plus: Tottenhams Djed Spence is keen on a move to Inter Milan; Chelseas stance on Joao Pedro has been revealed amid interest from Barcelona; Fulham boss Alvaro Arbeloa plans a raid on former club Real Madrid

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Jul 19 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Forgotten White Sox Pieces Could Soon Help the Team Win
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The Air India First Class Lounge Delhi Is Delightful... What A Treat!

The first class section of the Air India Maharaja Lounge Delhi is incredible, and the airline knocked it out of the park. Well done!

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Jul 19 • 3:15 PM EDT • Technology • onemileatatime.com
Why I Agreed to Lead the UAP Science Advisory Council for the U.S. Government

A month and a half ago, I was visited by a representative from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He raised a…

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Jul 19 • 12:50 PM EDT • Science • avi-loeb.medium.com
What Do The World Cup Final Winners Get?

It's not just the winners of the World Cup getting paid at the end of the tournament, but the champions will get that and much, much more.

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Jul 19 • 11:57 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Windows 11's big 2026 update is almost here, and these 10 things you need to know before upgrading could save you time and frustration

Windows 11 2026 (26H2) Update looks like a new version, but it follows Microsoft's newer approach of smaller, faster upgrades.

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Jul 19 • 9:43 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever

Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.

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Jul 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
49ers News: (Officially) welcome to the Bay, Jack Bouwmeester!

Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Sunday, July 19th, 2026

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Jul 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Knicks bring NBA trophy to Fanatics Fest, a Justin Bieber sighting and more. 5 takeaways

Fanatics Fest brought sports stars and the 2026 champion Knicks to New York for a massive weekend of fan experiences.

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Jul 19 • 1:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Tempo coach Sandy Brondello suspended 1 game by WNBA for 'protected species' remark about Angel Reese
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Jul 18 • 6:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Where Was ‘The Odyssey’ Filmed? All About the Surprising Destinations Featured in Christopher Nolan’s Movie

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ was shot across five European countries. Here’s everything to know about where ‘The Odyssey’ movie was filmed.

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Jul 18 • 9:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • people.com
‘I don't want you on my team' – Dak Prescott makes the Dallas Cowboys' mindset very clear going into the 2026 NFL season

The Dallas Cowboys quarterback knows what the 2026 NFL season is all about. And he isn't willing to hide it. Instead, he's embracing it.

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Jul 18 • 1:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CritterFest 2026 continues through the weekend at Science Spectrum

CritterFest 2026 is underway at the Science Spectrum Museum, running Thursday through Sunday, July 16–19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

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Jul 17 • 8:06 PM EDT • Science • kcbd.com
WATCH: House Dems dodge questions on socialist agenda that threatens to abolish key institutions

House Democrats dodged questions about the DSA's new platform calling to abolish the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court for a parliamentary system.

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Jul 17 • 7:48 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Daily Dawg Chow: Speculating on possible trade values

The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the July 17 edition of the Daily Dawg Chow.

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Jul 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Russian blogger who criticised Putin and the war has been detained, TASS reports

Russian blogger Ilya ​Remeslo, who criticised ‌President Vladimir Putin and the ​war in ​Ukraine, has been detained ⁠on suspicion ​of spreading false information ​about the armed forces, state news ​agency TASS ​reported on Friday.

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Jul 17 • 4:24 AM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
Jon Jones Reacts to Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 Loss

UFC legend Jon Jones shared his reaction after Conor McGregor lost in the first round of his UFC 329 fight against Max Holloway.McGregor lost via first-round TKO when he buckled his knee against Holloway in the UFC 329 main event. Following the event, many fighters have shared their thoughts on what is arguably the most […] The post Jon Jones Reacts to Conor McGregor’s UFC 329 Loss appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 17 • 3:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Billy V Live: An update on the latest in Hawaii entertainment and beyond

Billy V goes live to share the latest in Hawaii entertainment. Stay tuned for his weekly entertainment report and a live interview with a special guest!

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Jul 16 • 6:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • hawaiinewsnow.com
Zendaya goes full Greek goddess on 'The Odyssey' press tour: An otherworldly winged gown, a gilded Zuhair Murad look and more

Zendaya's recent dresses, with their ethereal silhouettes, shield-like details and nods to classic Greek sculpture, have been nothing short of divine.

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Jul 16 • 6:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Earth-like exoplanet could have life-supporting water on its surface

Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere in habitable zone outside our solar system on LHS 1140b

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Jul 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
Madison Symphony names Laura Jackson as new director

Jackson also leads the Reno Philharmonic. She will spend the upcoming season in Overture Hall as music director designate.

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Jul 16 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
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UnitedHealth blasts health care providers’ ‘egregious’ awards under No Surprises Act

Eden-Prairie based health care giant highlights alleged arbitration abuses while reporting success on financial turnaround.

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Jul 16 • 9:40 AM EDT • Health • startribune.com
Lake leads Wales against South Africa after injury scare

Hooker Dewi Lake recovers from injury to captain Wales against South Africa for the Nations Championship match in Durban on Saturday.

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Jul 16 • 3:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Conor McGregor Says Max Holloway Fight Should Be No Contest

UFC superstar Conor McGregor says that the result of his fight against Max Holloway at UFC 329 should be overturned to a No Contest.McGregor was stopped just 69 seconds into the main event of UFC 329 when his knee gave out on him, and referee Mike Beltran stepped in and called an end to the […] The post Conor McGregor Says Max Holloway Fight Should Be No Contest appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jul 16 • 1:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2026 Mets Draft profile: Marcus Ward

With their 18th round pick in the 2026 Draft, the Mets selected Marcus Ward, an OF/LHP from King's Ridge High (Georgia).

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Jul 15 • 8:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Two Key Oklahoma Baseball Players to Return for 2027 Season

The Oklahoma Sooners received much-needed news for their 2027 lineup, as they will return two major hitters from the 2026 national championship team

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Jul 15 • 7:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Miguel Vargas is the Turnaround

Once the face of the South Side’s darkest days, he has become the symbol of its improbable revival

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Jul 15 • 6:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Southwest Virginia schools lose on-campus health clinics as funding cuts suspend program
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Jul 15 • 6:32 PM EDT • Health • wcyb.com
CBS Sports says Colts have some work to do among NFL’s best ranked triplets

It’s not quite Manning, Harrison, and James these days, as the Colts have some considerable room for improvement.

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Jul 15 • 4:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Baker Mayfield addresses epic trash talking on Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’

Baker Mayfield addresses epic trash talking on Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’: ‘None of that is for the camera’

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Jul 15 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Watch Eternal Founder Goyal Bets on Health Tech, Aerospace

India's quick commerce billionaire Deepinder Goyal is planning to launch his first product after stepping back from the empire he led for 18 years. Goyal says Temple, a wearable device worn on the side of the forehead, will retail for about one-thousand U-S dollars. The founder of Eternal Limited, which counts quick delivery apps Zomato and Blinkit under its umbrella, spoke with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin in an exclusive interview at his private residence in New Delhi.

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Jul 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • bloomberg.com
Matt Damon recalls George Clooney stealing his identify to prank Amy Poehler and Tina Fey: ‘I was so bewildered’

Matt Damon recalls feeling ‘bewildered’ after getting a fruit basket from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey — but after one phone call, he realized it was all part of a prank orchestrated by George Clooney.

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Jul 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
All-Star Game 2026, Preview and Discussion

The American and National League’s best, er, most available square off in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Yes, it’s All-Star week, which means tonight is the All-Star game, which means this is the final MLB-endorsed event until games restart on Friday. For some, especially Mariners fans, that might sound like a blessing. Those fans will be heartened […]

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Jul 14 • 7:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lakers’ Austin Reaves gives insight into Luka Doncic friendship

Austin Reaves says Luka Doncic is one of his best friends and constantly sends golf swing videos as the Lakers enter a new era without LeBron James.

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Jul 14 • 5:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Savannah State University business school earns continued prestigious AACSB accreditation

Savannah State University's College of Business Administration has extended its prestigious AACSB accreditation, remaining the only public HBCU in Georgia with the globally recognized business distinction.

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Jul 14 • 2:49 PM EDT • Business • wtoc.com
James Cook Highlights "New Energy" In Buffalo Bills Locker Room

As Joe Brady takes the reins, star running back James Cook details the revitalized atmosphere fueling Buffalo's high-stakes pursuit of a Super Bowl title following major coaching changes.

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Jul 14 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Corewell Health performs world's first documented single-port robotic mitral valve repair

Corewell Health™ has successfully performed the world’s first documented single-port robotic mitral valve repair, marking a major milestone in the evolution...

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Jul 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • newsroom.corewellhealth.org
Thomson Reuters to sell 51% stake in Global Print business to KKR for $500 million

Thomson Reuters said it would sell ​a 51% stake in its Global ‌Print business to KKR for about $500 million and form a venture with the private equity firm ​that would hold exclusive license to ​distribute its content in print and digital ⁠books.

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Jul 14 • 7:07 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Cincinnati Bengals Have Breakout Candidate on 2026 Roster

ESPN's latest poll wasn't kind to Cincinnati's tight ends, but one young player could be ready to prove everyone wrong.

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Jul 13 • 11:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Christian Pulisic's Endorsements At 'Serious Risk' After World Cup

Christian Pulisic had a World Cup to forget. The U.S. men's national team star had to leave his team's 4-1 loss to Belgium in the Round of 16 last Monday with a leg injury. Pulisic was later diagnosed with a bone bruise and a microfracture in his leg. He was disappointed by the result, while much ...

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Jul 13 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The policy gaps in behavioral health coverage — and what it’ll take to close them, per 1 exec

Nearly four years after the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launched, states, payers and county systems still define behavioral health crisis care inconsistently, and Medicare offers limited coverage for community-based crisis stabilization services — leaving safety-net funding, Medicaid, federal block grants, and state and local dollars to carry the cost for nearly 200 million Americans. […]

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Jul 13 • 7:28 PM EDT • Health • beckersbehavioralhealth.com
RMC Health System to Become 'Baptist Health Calhoun Hospital' October 2026

RMC Health System to Become Baptist Health Calhoun Hospital in OctoberRMC Health System will officially become Baptist Health Calhoun Hospital on Oct. 1, markin

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Jul 13 • 5:59 PM EDT • Health • abc3340.com
New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email

A single crafted email can plant a false, lasting memory in AI agents like OpenClaw, hide it from the user, and slip past the defenses built to catch

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Jul 13 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Denver considers 4am nightclub proposal

The change would mark a significant shift for Denver's nightlife.

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Jul 13 • 8:16 AM EDT • Entertainment • axios.com
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Tom Holland apologizes to name-twin Tom Holland for making his name impossible to google

It takes two Tom Hollands to unpack Christopher Nolan’s epic take on ‘The Odyssey’: see the name twins meet face-to-face and recreate a certain Spider-Man meme.

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Jul 12 • 4:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Second season a challenge

John McGlynn believes Falkirk will be given "more respect" in the coming campaign and matching last season will be "a challenge".

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Jul 12 • 10:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
World Sailing measures the environmental impact of the sport's Olympic equipment for the first time

The governing body for sailing is looking at how the sport’s Olympic-class equipment is made, used and discarded, to eventually make changes that will reduce its environmental impact.

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Jul 12 • 9:12 AM EDT • Sports • ksat.com
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The Return of the Democratic Manly Man

The party has a new campaign strategy: masculinity.

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Jul 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com
Back in court: St. Luke’s sues private Idaho prison health contractor

Corizon, now called Tehum, faces a $31 million lawsuit from St. Luke’s, which stems from the settlement of a previous suit.

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Jul 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • idahostatesman.com
Commanders' defender makes recruiting pitch to Stefon Diggs

Washington defender trying to recruit Stefon Diggs to Commanders.

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Jul 12 • 5:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71

The staunch ally of President Donald Trump died after a sudden illness, his office said.

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Jul 12 • 2:17 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Citizen Science In Action: Monomoy Students Help HCT Nestbox Project

It's a mystery that might keep you up at night: what the heck is going on inside the nestboxes at the Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve?A...

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Jul 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • capecodchronicle.com
Cowboys 2026 roster rundown: S Caleb Downs

It is still crazy to remember that the Cowboys drafted Caleb Downs.

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Jul 11 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com