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Google to pull back the curtain on Thompson Center transformation

In an exclusive Crain's event, Google execs will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the high-profile revamp.

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Oct 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Russia's public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case

Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person as global concerns swirled about suspected pneumonic plague.

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Oct 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
Russia's public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case

Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person as global concerns swirled about suspected pneumonic plague.

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Oct 8 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • clickorlando.com
Detroit Free Press

District 142 is expanding in downtown Wyandotte with District Sound Lounge, a music-themed space with food, drinks, memorabilia and entertainment. See link below ⬇️ 📸 Provided by District 142

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Oct 7 • 9:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • facebook.com
Don’t let politics influence school closings, Pinellas civic group says

A Black student advocacy group criticized the school board for walking back a proposal to shutter Sexton Elementary

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Oct 7 • 4:53 PM EDT • Politics • tampabay.com
Rose Brand Acquires IWEISS, Bringing Together Complementary Expertise For The Future Of Live Entertainment

Two major companies have joined forces: Rose Brand and IWEISS have spent more than a centu | Rose Brand has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire IWEISS, bringing together two highly respected companies with decades of experience serving the entertainment, performing arts, event, and architectural markets.

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Oct 7 • 10:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • livedesignonline.com
VA awards $114K in grants for adaptive sports programs in Virginia

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded $114,455 in grants to two adaptive sports programs in Virginia, including one in Roanoke.

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Oct 7 • 10:28 AM EDT • Sports • wsls.com
Did you know Uranus has rings? The story of how scientists made a huge discovery by accident – and triggered an emergency response in the process | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The story of how astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus, as told by one of the team on a long-haul flight that day.

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Oct 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
AS Monaco’s Oumar Konaté set for Laval loan

AS Monaco centre-forward Oumar Konaté (19) is set to join Stade Lavallois on a season-long loan, as per a report from L’Équipe. The Ivory Coast U20 international has appeared for the Principality ...

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Oct 7 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Politics shouldn’t be dirty

Somewhere along the way, politics became less about what we can accomplish and more about what we can say about one another. Thatu2019s a shame. Running for public office should be about putting your experience, record, ideas and vision in front of the public and allowing voters to make their own decision. Candidates should absolutely be questioned. Records should be […]

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Oct 7 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • moabtimes.com
Teladoc unveils remote monitoring, ambient AI features

The company’s virtual care platform has integrated artificial intelligence scribing and camera-based vitals monitoring as it works to recover from significant financial setbacks.

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Oct 7 • 2:02 AM EDT • Health • healthcaredive.com
Central Florida students ‘scout’ out coveted nuclear science merit bad

With the help of dedicated Airmen from the Air Force Technical Applications Center here, 89 inspired scouts from across Central Florida traveled to Patrick SFB Sept. 19 to earn the coveted Nuclear

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Oct 6 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • 16af.af.mil
Jackson Olson apologizes for taking a shot at Guillermo Rodriguez’s ‘DWTS’ dancing skills

Jackson Olson is making peace with ‘DWTS’ season 35 fan favorite Guillermo Rodriguez, after criticizing the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ cohost’s dancing skills on social media.

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Oct 6 • 4:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Confirmed Lineups: Germany U21 vs. Georgia U21

Antonio Di Salvo’s Germany U21 side entertain Georgia in Bielefeld in the final day of the group stage in the U21 Euros qualifiers. The hosts will secure their place for the tournament in Albania an...

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Oct 6 • 10:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Is Earth in danger if Betelgeuse goes supernova? | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Betelgeuse, the red giant that form's Orion's shoulder, could go supernova soon. But what will happen and is Earth in danger when it does?

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Oct 6 • 5:44 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
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Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products

Atlassian fixes a critical path traversal in 8 Data Center products that lets unauthenticated attackers read files if exact paths are known.

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Oct 6 • 2:58 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Jumbo $5.8B freight brokerage deal will ripple through Chicago

C.H. Robinson is buying RXO, the parent company of Coyote Logistics.

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Oct 5 • 2:16 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Final Family Health Festival of the year comes to Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center Pavilion

The final Family Health Festival of the year takes place Thursday, Oct. 8.

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Oct 5 • 1:25 PM EDT • Health • kolotv.com
Justin Bibb’s new Blue Cities/Red States coalition seeks the ‘radical center’

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb is launching Blue Cities/Red States, a 15-mayor coalition aimed at showing Democrats can govern effectively even when Republicans control their statehouses.

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Oct 5 • 12:16 PM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
RYOBI Cleans Up Local Politics with Unlikely Mayoral Candidate 'Swifty'

McCann Birmingham and RYOBI unveil the first trailer for a documentary following the spot cleaner’s unlikely bid to become mayor of Staines

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Oct 5 • 11:18 AM EDT • Politics • lbbonline.com
Search for life on Mars takes major leap forward. Scientists detect longest organic molecules on planet to date | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Scientists make discovery analysing rock pulverised for study by Curiosity rover. Largest organic compounds found on the Red Planet to date.

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Oct 5 • 5:02 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
Bulgaria U21 v Scotland U21

Follow live text commentary, score updates and match stats from Bulgaria U21 vs Scotland U21 in the UEFA U21 Championship Qualification

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Oct 5 • 4:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds speaks to FAMU for first townhall

The FAMU community gathered at Lee Hall to ask questions and hear from Byron Donalds, republican candidate for governor.

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Oct 4 • 5:06 PM EDT • Politics • wusf.org
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Kevin O'Connell Speaks With FOX Sports' Allison Williams

Hear from Head Coach Kevin O'Connell after the first quarter of Sunday's game vs. Miami...

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Oct 4 • 4:50 PM EDT • Sports • vikings.com
What do Baldini’s Italy U21 need to qualify for Euros?

Silvio Baldini’s Italy U21 side head into their final Group E fixture knowing one match decides everything.Italy sit second on 24 points, three behind Poland, after Cisse’s late winner in Armenia....

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Oct 4 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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How a patient advocate could help you navigate your family's next health crisis

Here’s what you need to know to work with one most effectively.

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Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Inside the DC 'Power to the People' festival headlined by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and other music legends delivered a powerful message at the “Power to the People” protest festival in Maryland.

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Oct 4 • 1:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com
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The surprising real cause of prediabetes (and how to reverse it)

You can reverse the slide towards type 2 diabetes if you catch it early enough and make the right lifestyle changes

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Oct 3 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
An invisible force could be changing your lifespan, study suggests

New research in fruit flies suggests Earth’s magnetic field could influence ageing, lifespan and mitochondrial function.

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Oct 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
Massive Entertainment: The Next Chapter Begins

Ubisoft’s Creative House 2 is named Massive Entertainment, becoming the global label for Tom Clancy's The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, alongside new original IP including March of Giants.

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Oct 3 • 6:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • ubisoft.com
EAST TEXAS POLITICS: U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran talks AI guardrails, affordability and reelection bid

U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Tyler, joins Blake Holland on this week’s edition of East Texas Politics on East Texas Now.

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Oct 2 • 10:41 PM EDT • Politics • kltv.com
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Health officials alarmed by increased measles cases amid proposals to lower vaccine mandates in Florida

Health officials in Florida are ringing the alarm as confirmed measles cases continue to explode across the state.

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Oct 2 • 6:05 PM EDT • Health • wctv.tv
Ed Sheeran, Macklemore fallout shouldn't be personalized, Bono says

U2 frontman Bono has weighed in on the ongoing controversy involving Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was removed from the singer's tour when venues objected to the rapper's pro-Palestinian remarks.

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Oct 2 • 4:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
OG ‘Hocus Pocus’ cast reunites in Salem, recreates iconic scene 33 years later

Original ‘Hocus Pocus’ stars Omri Katz, Larry Bagby, and ‘Monster’ actor Tobias Jelinek reunited in Salem to recreate an iconic scene in a cemetery: ‘Did we get most of the lines?’

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Oct 2 • 1:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Steve Hilton faces steep odds in bid for California governor after 20-year GOP drought

Republican Steve Hilton's biggest obstacle to becoming California's next governor is simple math.

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Oct 2 • 6:29 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
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PSG’s Senny Mayulu out for several weeks

Senny Mayulu (20) will miss several weeks of action, Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed. The player sustained an injury while on France U21 duty earlier this week.Mayulu was forced off just before hal...

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Oct 2 • 4:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Newcastle 'working on' deal to sign Tyler Morton

Tyler Morton in action for England U21s, with Matthias Jaissle in a circular inset

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Oct 2 • 1:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Scientists have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our Solar System | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Discovery marks the first time a radio signal has been confirmed as coming from a single planet rather than an entire system.

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Oct 2 • 1:30 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
$10 million political check is not aimed at any particular Oregon race this year, union says

The union representing Oregon carpenters says the money is meant for long-term political giving, not just the 2026 elections.

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Oct 1 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • opb.org
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Wilson Sonsini Advises SpyGlass Pharma on Acquisition of Advanced Vision Science

On October 1, 2026, SpyGlass Pharma, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the treatment paradigm for patients living with chronic eye conditions, announced the acquisition…

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Oct 1 • 4:47 PM EDT • Science • wsgr.com
👊Over 10 GOALS: La Rojita tore San Marino apart

The Spain U21 national team delivered a true rout after crushing San Marino 0-13 at the San Marino Stadium, emphatically putting their qualification for the final phase of the European Championship in...

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Oct 1 • 4:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
U2’s Bono Exposes Ed Sheeran’s Fear of Getting ‘Political’

Bono revealed what happened when Sheeran collaborated with the band on its EP, “Days of Ash.”

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Oct 1 • 3:32 PM EDT • Politics • thedailybeast.com
Ed Sheeran told Bono he didn’t want to get into politics when collaborating on song about Ukraine war

The U2 singer said that Sheeran told him: “I just want to keep my thing free.”

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Oct 1 • 2:42 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
GA Sec. State Nominee, NJ-7 & Aviation Politics

GA Sec. State GOP nominee Tim Fleming, the battle for NJ-7 and how aviation is shaping politics—and could be impacted by the midterms.

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Oct 1 • 2:39 PM EDT • Politics • fox7austin.com
Ed Sheeran Told U2 He Didn’t Want to ‘Get Into Politics’ While Making Track About Ukraine’s War With Russia, Says Bono

The pop star was featured on U2’s track “Yours Eternally” earlier this year

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Oct 1 • 1:09 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
The 5 absolute best space images of 2026 (so far)

A dark, shark-shaped nebula 650 light-years away has won Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026. See the overall winner and the best category images.

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Oct 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
Bono Says Ed Sheeran Worried About Getting 'Into Politics' on Their Song About the War in Ukraine

Sheeran and U2 collaborated on "Yours Eternally" earlier this year before his Free Palestine fallout with Macklemore

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Oct 1 • 11:51 AM EDT • Politics • thewrap.com
Bono on Singing with Ed Sheeran: "He Said, 'You're Not Going to Get Me into Politics, Are You?'"

Bono of U2 has opened up about collaborating with Ed Sheeran on the song "Yours Eternally," noting the younger star did not want to get political.

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Oct 1 • 10:55 AM EDT • Politics • consequence.net
Ed Sheeran Told U2 He Didn't Want to Get Political on Ukraine Song

Ed Sheeran collaborated with U2 on the song 'Yours Eternally,' but he told Bono that he didn't want to get political on the track about Ukraine war.

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Oct 1 • 9:44 AM EDT • Politics • variety.com
Ed Sheeran Told U2 He Didn’t Want to ‘Get Into Politics’ on Song About Ukraine’s War With Russia, Says Bono

U2 and Ed Sheeran collaborated earlier this year on the song “Yours Eternally” off the band’s “Days of Ash” EP, which dropped in February. Bono told Rolling Stone UK in a new interview that Sheeran ex...

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Oct 1 • 9:44 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Bono Said When U2 Worked With Ed Sheeran on ‘Yours Eternally,’ Singer Asked, ‘You’re Not Going To Get Me Into Politics, Are You?’

The Rock Hall of Famer said he didn't want to "personalize" the recent fallout between Sheeran and Macklemore over the rapper's pro-Palestine statements.

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Oct 1 • 8:55 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Bono Said Ed Sheeran Wanted to Avoid Politics While Working on U2 Collab

Bono avoided weighing in on the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore dust-up, noting Sheeran told U2 he preferred to avoid politics on their "Yours Eternally" collab.

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Oct 1 • 8:55 AM EDT • Politics • billboard.com
I never thought I’d say this, but Firefly’s new All Road makes me want a rim-brake bike again

Firefly's new full-custom titanium go-anywhere All Road bike comes with rim brakes and clearance for 40mm tyres.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • bikeradar.com
Bugsy Steel on the Politics of Directing

The Airfoil Media director on embracing new filmmaking technologies, celebrities on set, and what fuels his creative drive, as part of LBB’s The Directors series

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Sep 30 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • lbbonline.com
Pasha Pashkov gives update after that ‘DWTS’ injury that left Amber Glenn in tears

‘Dancing With the Stars’ pro Pasha Pashkov gives an update after that brutal injury he sustained while rehearsing the foxtrot with Amber Glenn for Yacht Rock Night.

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Sep 30 • 11:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Morningstar joining Google at Thompson Center

The financial services firm will anchor the building alongside Google with the largest downtown office lease inked this year.

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Sep 30 • 8:52 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
There's an enormous black hole pointing its jet at Earth – and scientists only found it because of a strange flash in deep space | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Hidden away behind vast clouds of dust, IRAS 18293-0941 is a binary system with a black hole orbiting a massive, hot star.

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Sep 30 • 5:26 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
Amber Glenn sobs after giving partner Pasha Pashkov brutal bloody injury in rehearsal

Amber Glenn broke down after giving partner Pasha Pashkov a brutal and bloody injury in ‘Dancing With the Stars’ rehearsal for ‘Yacht Rock’ night.

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Sep 29 • 8:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
This surprising factor could reveal how compatible you and your partner really are, says science

According to a new study, scientists found that couples in romantic relationships share a taste in music more than they do personality traits and values.

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Sep 29 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
Rock group to bring acoustic tour to Hershey: How to get tickets

"The intimate format brings fans closer to the lyrics and stories," the website reads, "connecting the catalog that built the band with the heavier, more emotionally exposed music defining them today.”

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Sep 29 • 11:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
Amazon Discounting New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Alongside Early Prime Day Deals on Monitors

Amazon has brought back a few discounts on Apple's brand new Mac mini and Mac Studio, with up to $50 off select models. These deals are returning alongside early Prime Big Deal Days discounts on Samsung monitors that make nice pairings with a new Mac. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

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Sep 29 • 10:42 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
UnityPoint Health-Finley Hospital nurses speak out against cutting hours for cardiac procedures

Nurses say they’re frustrated over UnityPoint Health-Finley’s decision to cut hours at its cardiac procedure lab.

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Sep 29 • 10:30 AM EDT • Health • kcrg.com
ITG Appointed Global Content Partner for Merlin Entertainments

Under the partnership, ITG provides Merlin with global client services teams, content production facilities, film and photography capabilities and access to its proprietary Storyteq platform

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Sep 29 • 8:34 AM EDT • Entertainment • lbbonline.com
GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center

The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

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Sep 29 • 7:15 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
'Black dust covered my bed' – the day alien science smashed through a New Jersey roof | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The story of the Hillsborough meteorite and how scientists analysing the space rock have found it contains life-supporting chemistry.

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Sep 29 • 4:34 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com
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Canada Goose Teams Up with Elixir Films and Lief Entertainment on Documentary Series Starring Ewan McGregor

The performance brand brings its legacy in exploration to the open ocean, setting sail with Ewan McGregor and his crew on their journey across the Atlantic Ocean

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Sep 29 • 4:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • lbbonline.com
U2 Helped Prove The Sphere’s Business Model — And Still Holds A Record At The Venue

Three years after 'U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere' began, U2 still holds Sphere’s highest per-show residency average at roughly $6.1 million.

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Sep 28 • 8:36 PM EDT • Business • forbes.com
Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

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

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