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Flight Crew Reveals Dangerous Passenger Behaviors

"The reason they tell you to ask the cabin crew for help if you lose your phone is not to be friendly or show how helpful they are. It's because if your phone is in a seat mechanism and that seat gets moved, the phone will be shredded, the battery may explode, and if it does, it will likely kill everyone onboard."

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Jun 14 • 3:21 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
Stranger Than Heaven Reinvents Yakuza Combat Around the Shoulder Buttons, Replacing Heat Moves With Stamina-Based Counterattacks

Stranger Than Heaven overhauls Yakuza combat, replacing Heat Moves with a stamina-based counterattack system built around shoulder buttons.

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Jun 14 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Seth Rogen recalls first day back on 'The Studio' after Catherine O'Hara died: 'We didn't know what to do'

The series star and co-creator said he hoped she would be able to return to the show amid her cancer battle.

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Jun 14 • 1:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Anbernic Now Has A Store Page Where You Can Buy Replacement Parts For Its Handhelds

Customers can order new joysticks, batteries, screens and more.

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Jun 14 • 12:26 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
BRCC, Ochsner launching mobile healthcare lab to bring new education opportunities to students

A new education tool could open the door to a career in healthcare for more people in the Baton Rouge area.

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Jun 14 • 11:27 AM EDT • Health • wafb.com
Who's Winning Cowboys Backup QB Battle Ahead Of Minicamp?
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Jun 14 • 10:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Emma Raducanu loses Queen's final to Donna Vekic despite battling display by British No 1

Emma Raducanu was beaten by Donna Vekic in the womens singles final of Queens despite a battling display by the British No 1.

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Jun 14 • 10:04 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Windows 11 users say Microsoft account requirements are creeping into everything and they are tired of it

A Reddit discussion about local accounts turns into a bigger debate over privacy, transparency, and user control on Windows 11.

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Jun 14 • 9:18 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
Optimize health to combat cardiovascular disease

The threat of heart disease and stroke is growing substantially among women and girls as rates climb for health factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, with 6

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Jun 14 • 9:02 AM EDT • Health • davisenterprise.com
One that got away - Van Graan rues Bath exit

Bath boss Johann van Graan calls their Prem semi-final defeat by Exeter "one that got away" as they miss out on a return to Twickenham.

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Jun 14 • 7:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Looking ahead at 5 big Steelers training camp position battles

The Steelers will get together for training camp in a month and these five position battles will be the ones to watch.

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Jun 14 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It's not just the anxious generation. Mental health should 'connect, not divide.'

The Wellness Studio, off Highland Road in Baton Rouge, was founded by Dr. Mary Kathryn Gastinel and Dr. Katie Fetzer, both licensed mental health professionals with 31 years of combined

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Pols & Politics: Howie Carr offers GOP gubernatorial candidates on-air debate

Longtime Boston Herald columnist and talk radio host Howie Carr is offering Brian Shortsleeve and Mike Minogue the opportunity to join a live, on-air debate on his radio show.

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Jun 14 • 4:12 AM EDT • Politics • bostonherald.com
NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation

Exclusive: Cancer charity says dispelling falsehoods gleaned from social media is now routine task for clinicians

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Jun 14 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
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Dear Abby: My partner has cancer but refuses to acknowledge my health issues

Dear Abby gives advice to a reader whose significant other doesn't seem to care about her health issues as he battles cancer.

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Jun 14 • 3:00 AM EDT • Health • nypost.com
World Cup scores, results: Brazil and Morocco battle to 1-1 draw while Australia stuns Türkiye in the nightcap
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'Let the candidates mix it up.': Ron DeSantis keeps pressure on Evan Power for GOP gubernatorial debate

'These ridiculous criteria are being used to renege on that promise and to engineer a preferred outcome.'

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Jun 13 • 8:05 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Sunday Preview – Hedonites head into battle along with a new General’s Handbook

Next week’s pre-orders include Hedonites of Slaanesh, Skaven, and a new edition of False Gods.

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Jun 13 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
Kentucky targeting Michigan State AD J Batt, sources say

Kentucky has targeted Michigan State athletic director J Batt to be the school's new athletic director, sources said.

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Jun 13 • 7:09 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Good News: NBA player connects with family of 2 young brothers facing health battles

Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart shared a moment of connection on the court with two young brothers, Kenji and Kobe, after their family was surprised with a trip to a game earlier this season. NBC News' José Díaz-Balart has more on the special moment and what Marcus is doing to raise awareness for the need for more blood stem cell donors.

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Paper or pixel? Science settles divisive debate over best way to read

Here's the word on the best medium for reading

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Jun 13 • 4:19 PM EDT • Science • nypost.com
DJI and Insta360 go to war in the U.S. over its action gimbal cameras

Insta360's Luna Ultra and DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 Pro can't compete among consumers in the U.S. due to the Trump admin. So, they're battling it out over patents instead.

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Jun 13 • 2:37 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Supercomputer illuminates subatomic particle that helps hold matter together

A team of researchers has leveraged a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to reveal the internal structure of a pion in unprecedented detail. The findings ...

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Jun 13 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • phys.org
ENTERTAINMENT: Film tracks four emerging opera stars; MacArthur Museum screens ‘The Forgotten War’

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History screens the documentary “The Forgotten War,” examining the three years of heavy combat in the Korean War from the perspective of soldiers that fought it.

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Jun 13 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
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Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon

MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.

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Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon

MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.

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Jun 13 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Why Paul Skenes, at the center of the MLB's labor battle, believes the players need to dig in

When it comes to negotiations for the MLB’s next collective bargaining agreement, there are some misconceptions that Paul Skenes would like to clear...

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Jun 13 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com
Why Brexit Still Haunts British Politics

A decade on from the referendum that led to Britain's exit from the European Union, the issue continues to divide and drive debate in Westminster.

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Colorado Politics Calendar June 15-21

CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber, […]

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Jun 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
J Batt Year in Review

Today marks the beginning of year two in Batt’s tenure as MSU AD

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Jun 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe

In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Delaware Senate passes key healthcare bills designed to combat rising costs

Three Senate bills, aimed at addressing rising healthcare costs in the state, were passed June 11.

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How Iran's 'Stolen Revolution' failed to live up to its promise

Many supporters of Iran's revolution believed some form of democracy should govern the country. But over the decades, the Islamic Republic's radical religious rulers have launched brutal crackdowns on social justice and political freedom. Compass Points moderator Nick Schifrin discusses how the 1979 revolution failed to live up to its promise with Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.

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Treasure State Top Five: Montana combat sports legends

It’s time for the first ever Treasure State Top Five where SWX Montana’s Josh Dugan will be breaking down his top five rankings for a number of different categories in

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What Genres and Streamers Won 2025? And Who Lost? Plus Six Strategy Thoughts

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Okay, time for the tenth and final article in my ten-part series recapping 2025. As I wrote two articles ago, my barometer for whether these articles are worth writing/publishing is whether they yield strategic insights, and once again, every subsection in this article has a strategic takeaway (or two). Honestly, these are the most important takeaways, since I step back and look holistically at the streaming wars in 2025. After I declare which streamers won and lost the year and which genres won and lost the year, I have six bonus thoughts. If you’d like to review the whole series... You can find the film flops here and here. You can find the TV shows flops here and here. You can find the top films here. You can find the top TV shows here, here and here. Then I declared my winners and losers in various categories here. You can find my 2024 recaps here. You can find the 2023 recaps here and here. And my 2022, 2021 and 2020 are all stored here. Yeah, it’s halfway through the year, and I’m just finishing this series up now. This year, I tried to space things out to not clog up my writing calendar, plus I had to wait for Fallout to (finally) drop off the charts. Well, that ended up pushing this series wayyyyy too far back on the calendar. Oh well. Next year, the goal will be to finish this series in March, but frankly, I just need more staff to make that happen. So please subscribe. Or, if you’re an advertiser (movie studio, FYC firm, or other), please reach out. Subscribe Streamer of the Year: Netflix Honorable Mention: Paramount (and CBS) So, just last week, I wrote about how Netflix has lost seven of its top twelve scripted shows in the last year. And I shared two very dour looks at Netflix’s potential slowdown this year and last. Guess what? They’re still the number one streamer in America. In 2025, they dominated new streaming shows (even if most of those new hit shows aren’t coming back for future seasons), they had the two biggest films, and they had the top returning TV show by a mile. The world is complicated, nuanced and messy. There may be warning signs of a future Netflix slowdown, but in 2025, Netflix was still the number one streamer. Note what I didn’t say? That Netflix has “won” the streaming wars, because obviously the streaming wars are still ongoing and, more importantly, YouTube is still growing—so now YouTube has “won” the streaming wars?—while Netflix’s share of TV consumption has stalled out. Avoid simplistic talking points, especially if they’re constantly repeated and could fit on a bumper sticker. I had trouble picking the second-place streamer this year, because all of the candidates for second place—Prime Video, HBO Max, and Paramount+—had some hits, but no one stood out. Then I saw this update from Nielsen on the top shows on TV in the 2025-206 season. Sure enough, Netflix had five of the top ten shows! And they had ten of the top 31 shows and fifteen of the top fifty. But CBS/Paramount+ actually had more shows in the top thirty and the top fifty. Paramount+/CBS had twelve of the top thirty shows and nineteen of the top fifty. Let me emphasize that: CBS/Paramount+ had more top shows in the 2025-2026 season than Netflix. And this look was just for TV shows, not live sports, an arena Netflix barely plays in. Meanwhile, Paramount-Skydance’s market cap is a fraction of Netflix’s. That’s weird, right? Streaming Loser of the Year, TV… We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...what streamer lost the year in TV... …whether Netflix could win the title for “film” streamer too… …who won the Disney vs Warner Bros. battle for theaters… ...what TV genres won and lost the year... ...what film genres won and lost the year... ...what film genre people think is thriving on streaming but isn’t… …why F-BOSSS TV shows don’t hold the same sway in the 2020s… …what it means to “flop” as a film on streaming… …UK shows underperforming on streaming… And a lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you’d like to read more about why you should subscribe, please read this article about the Streaming Ratings Report, why it matters, why you need it, and why we cover streaming ratings best.

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Jun 12 • 6:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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Iconic supermarket in Bath Borough closing after 30 years in business

The decision to close came unexpectedly.

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Jun 12 • 5:15 PM EDT • Business • wfmz.com
“Stop! That! Train! ”stars Jujubee and Symone try to stump each other with lies

The "RuPaul's Drag Race" alums go wig-to-wig in a battle for the truth.

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Jun 12 • 2:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Red Sox disaster of a season, White Sox shockingly in first place, Tarik Skubal set for return & College World Series preview
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Jun 12 • 1:47 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Huawei’s HarmonyOS Can Be Further Optimized To Run On 64KB RAM While Running On A Single Dry Cell Battery For A Year, Says Executive Director

At the Huawei Developer Conference 2026, an executive makes a bold claim stating that the HarmonyOS platform can be optimized to run on 64KB of RAM

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Jun 12 • 12:07 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Abbott turns up heat on Talarico, Soros-backed DAs over Texas crime

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposes statewide prosecutor, bail reforms and measures to remove rogue DAs as crime dominates the political debate in Texas.

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Jun 12 • 10:39 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
EU asylum pact: will it exacerbate UK’s migration woes?

Stricter bloc-wide rules come into force today as worries persist over soft UK-Ireland border

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Jun 12 • 9:40 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
NFL reportedly will not punish Chiefs DB coach Dave Merritt after offseason arrest for domestic battery

Dave Merritt has coached Chiefs' defensive backs since 2019.

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Jun 12 • 8:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Free health and safety event Friday in Baton Rouge

A free health and safety event will be held Friday at The Baton Rouge Clinic. The Power Up Health and Safety Event will take place at 7373 Perkins Road from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Jun 12 • 6:41 AM EDT • Health • wafb.com
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Record-breaker Dunn reflects on Bath journey

From birthday parties at The Rec as a child, to three consecutive Prem Rugby semi-finals at this hometown stadium, Bath hooker Tom Dunn looks back on his incredible career.

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Jun 12 • 3:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A blind Ukrainian veteran turns pottery into a business and mentors others

One is a veteran who lost his sight in combat and now teaches other blind veterans. The instructor, Ivan Shostak, 37, said he has made more than 1,000 such pieces but has never seen a single one. Th...

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Jun 12 • 1:14 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
UFC announces global sports diplomacy partnership with U.S. State Department

In a development that has forever merged the worlds of combat sports and international affairs, UFC CEO Dana White and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding at the State Department headquarters. Dana White doesn't approve of steady growth and instead ...

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Jun 11 • 11:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Saints blank Mud Hens for second-straight win

Five pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout as St. Paul made it two wins in a row at Toledo with a 1-0 victory Thursday night. Austin Voth made his second start for the Saints. He didn’t qualify for the win, but struck out eight batters while allowing three hits and four walks over 4 2/3 innings of work. Drew Smith relieved him with two on and two out in the fifth and extinguished the Mud ...

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Jun 11 • 10:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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One analyst bullish on highly-criticized 49ers draft pick

The 49ers RB2 battle is going to heat up this summer in San Francisco.

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Jun 11 • 10:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Chuck Schumer is ready for redemption

The embattled Senate minority leader isn’t popular with the base of his own party. But he says he has laid the groundwork for a Democratic resurgence.

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Jun 11 • 8:29 PM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company update Palworld lawsuit, limited to older versions only

There’s been another development involving Nintendo and The Pokemon Company’s lawsuit against Palworld. When all is said and done, the legal battle will only involve the current version of the game. It’s now been discovered that Nintendo and The Pokemon Company amended the scope of their claims. Originally, they were going after all versions of Palworld. However, things have changed...

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Jun 11 • 8:27 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
“The Last of Us” season 3 adds wholly original character as filming goes on planned hiatus

Peter Sarsgaard of "The Batman" and "The Bride!" will play a character not featured in the video games.

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Jun 11 • 6:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Nashville businesses join growing Safe Place program to combat hate crimes

Around 130 businesses across Nashville have registered to be a Safe Place to combat hate crimes, and more businesses are signing on every day.

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Jun 11 • 6:04 PM EDT • Business • wkrn.com
5 great action movies on Netflix that are perfect for the summer

From globe-trotting spy thrillers and futuristic battles to inspiring underdog stories, these Netflix action movies deliver the kind of excitement, spectacle, and entertainment that summer was made fo...

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Jun 11 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Owner of Dayton-based dog training business sentenced to nearly 20 years after probation violation

The owner of a Dayton-based dog training business has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after violating the terms of his probation, according to Miamisburg police.

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Jun 11 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • wlwt.com
Controversial Battle Ground business owners buy community’s only newspaper

Brothers Camden and Mac Spiller announced Wednesday they have purchased the Battle Ground Reflector.

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Jun 11 • 1:23 PM EDT • Business • opb.org
A first look at ‘The Love Hypothesis,’ a new rom-com coming to Prime Video September 23

The adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's bestselling novel stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman.

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Jun 11 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • aboutamazon.com
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Hands-On With Stranger Than Heaven's Unique New Combat

We went hands-on with Sega's upcoming action-adventure at Summer Game Fest

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Jun 11 • 11:25 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
One of fall's coolest games has been delayed to October to avoid a September crush

Last Sunday, a trailer that aired during an online Xbox event showed Valor Mortis, an upcoming action game that re-imagines the age of Napoleonic wars as a conflict with the plague-ridden undead. It’s a first-person game that mixes Dark Souls-style combat with parkour—it’s from the developers of the acclaimed, fast-paced cyberpunk wall-running Ghostrunner games—and a setting like nothing else that’s out there. Valor Mortis’ trailer concluded with a release date: September 24. But by the time it aired, the teams behind the game knew that was no longer Valor Mortis’ release date. Days ago, they’d learned the hard way that September 24 would be untenable and that they’d have to change it. Today, they’ve announced a new one, October 13, after speaking to Game File about getting out of the bind they recently found themselves in. “When we picked September 24th, it looked like a very, very clear date,” Blake Rochkind, head of publisher Lyrical Games, told me during an impromptu interview on Monday in Los Angeles. “Very quickly it became not such a clear date.” Lyrical and development studio One More Level had a feeling the deate might need to change, Rochkind recalled. But they had to lock in September 24 “many, many weeks” ago. Really, though, who could know if that was the right call when they made it? “There were so many unknowns,” Rochkind said. “This was before Sony State of Play, before Xbox Showcase, before Nintendo Direct, before Summer Games Fest.” Then on Tuesday, June 2, during a PlayStation showcase held just five days before their planned release date reveal, things changed. “As soon as Control announced September 24th, we knew we were moving the date.” It wasn’t just the PlayStation showcase reveal of the release date for Remedy’s upcoming third-person thriller. There were others. And changing their own trailer this close to its airing, Rochkind would later tell me, wasn’t possible.

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Jun 11 • 11:01 AM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Haiti has to change its World Cup jersey after being deemed too political

The jersey, by Colombian sportswear manufacturer Saeta, originally included a depiction of the final battle of the Haitian War of Independence in 1803 on its front.

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Jun 11 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Senate map tightens as top forecaster moves 3 races toward Democrats

Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts three Senate races toward Democrats, saying they have a clearer path to winning the majority in the midterm elections.

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Jun 11 • 10:35 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Roundup: BREC millage / New gas pipeline / Screwworm in pets

Partnership backing: The Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership supports renewing BREC’s parks and recreation millage on the June 27 ballot, saying parks and trails are key to quality of life and economic growth. Leaders say the renewal will help maintain a valuable community asset while BREC undergoes a leadership transition. They emphasize the importance of […]

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Today on ARC PDX | June 11, 2026 | Diving into how politics and policy shape the World Cup

ARC PDX AM digs into World Cup politics and global tensions, from Iran conflict to US immigration policy. Plus, Portland council debates turning the River District Navigation Center from 24-hour to overnight-only.

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Jun 11 • 9:41 AM EDT • Politics • katu.com
Brad Pitt and a dog take on wolves and the Alaskan wilderness in 'Heart of the Beast' trailer

In David Ayer's 'Heart of the Beast,' Brad Pitt stars as a former soldier who is fighting for survival in Alaska alongside his combat dog.

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Jun 11 • 9:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Inside America’s Ugly Birthday Battle

Trump advisers broke an agreement to fund the bipartisan semiquincentennial celebrations, saying they will not “light taxpayer money on fire.”

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Rare or Unverified Outcomes Shape Vaccine Safety and Gender Care Debates

Two recent federal actions, including a memo about alleged COVID-19 vaccine deaths and settlements creating a “detransition clinic,” show how official actions can present uncertain or uncommon outcomes as representative and lend credibility to narratives that go beyond what evidence supports.

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Jun 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel

Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that essentially regulates itself, eliminating the need for batteries used in many current designs. The key innovation is an electrolyzer that automatically adapts to changing sunlight by altering its electrical properties as it heats up. This keeps solar fuel production more stable while reducing cost and complexity.

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Jun 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
After political standoff, Wisconsin closed fish hatcheries. Anglers say it's a huge mistake.

A battle over funding for the state's fish and wildlife account and a lack spending authority forced the closure of Brule and Osceola fish hatcheries and deep cuts to fish stocking statewide.

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Jun 11 • 6:02 AM EDT • Politics • wpr.org
A Newer Approach to Editing Embryos Ignites Debate

Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement.

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Jun 11 • 5:05 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Seven GOP US House candidates talk federal spending, energy rules, inflation at Casper’s Politics in the Park

CASPER, Wyo. — Seven Republican candidates vying for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House of Representatives seat faced a blustery Casper wind on Wednesday to debate

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Jun 10 • 11:23 PM EDT • Politics • oilcity.news
UF trustees advance President-elect Stuart Bell to final state board vote

The vote advances Bell, the former University of Alabama president, to the final stage of a hiring process that has become entangled in culture-war battles over diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Jun 10 • 4:47 PM EDT • Politics • miamiherald.com
Nevada is set to have one of nation’s premier races for governor as Democrats seek to reclaim seat

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, will face Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford in a battle to hold onto his seat in November, setting up what is considered one of the most competitive governor's races in the country.

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Jun 10 • 4:28 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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OpenAI suspects China-linked campaign tried to sway data center debate

OpenAI said the effort "sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development."

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Jun 10 • 4:02 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was the size of a baseball bat

Scientists describe a baseball bat-size scorpion — the world’s largest — and suggest that the 400 million-year-old creature was also amphibious.

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Jun 10 • 4:00 PM EDT • Science • cnn.com
‘Toy Story 5’ stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen reveal biggest AI fears

As “Toy Story 5” reunites the franchise’s original stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, they weigh in on one of Hollywood’s most urgent debates.

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Jun 10 • 3:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • sfchronicle.com
'If you want to go to battle': Texas Tech warns Big 12 over potential Brendan Sorsby sanctions
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Tickets are now on sale for Business Report's Excellence in Health Care Awards

Tickets are on sale now for the inaugural Excellence in Health Care Awards, where Business Report will honor the leaders, clinicians and organizations strengthening care delivery across the Capital Region. Finalists and honorees will be celebrated at an awards dinner on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Crowne Plaza in Baton Rouge. The evening will bring […]

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PlayStation Plus Drops 8 More Free Games For June

PlayStation is dropping a fresh batch of new games for you to play this month!

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Jun 10 • 11:32 AM EDT • Technology • gamingbible.com
General Motors follows Ford's lead into the battery business

Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian joins Julie Hyman on Market Catalysts to discuss General Motors' (GM) partnership with Peak Energy, placing a big bet on sodium-ion batteries. This comes one month after Ford (F) launched Ford Energy to develop energy storage batteries.

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Jun 10 • 11:25 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
5 takeaways from the latest midterm primaries, with Platner's win and mixed results for Trump support

Tuesday marked an especially significant moment for Graham Platner, the embattled veteran and oyster farmer, who is fighting to rebuild his credibility in a campaign rocked by controversy.

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Jun 10 • 10:50 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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GM bets on energy storage business, following rival Ford in EV battery pivot

GM announced a new stationary battery initiative for grid-scale energy storage, following rival Ford in a pivot of its battery outlays meant for EVs.

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Jun 10 • 10:37 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Lenovo’s new rugged Android tablet has a removable battery, now on sale for $499

Announced earlier this year at MWC 2026, the Lenovo ThinkTab X11 is now available in the US as a rugged...

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Valve Is Killing Physical Steam Gift Cards In A Bid To Combat 'Scammers'

According to Valve, Steam gift card scams have become such an issue for the platform that its made the 'difficult' decision to discontinue their physical sales altogether

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Everyone wants a piece of Tesla's battery business

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

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What The Karmelo Anthony Case Reveals About Bullying, Adolescent Mental Health, And The Conflicts We Ignore Until It's Too Late

The conviction of Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony has sparked national debate about race, justice, and accountability. But what happens when bullying, adolescent mental health struggles, and unresolved conflict are ignored

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Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

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Business Restructuring Review Vol. 25 No. 3 May-June 2026

In This Issue Texas Bankruptcy Court Adopts Barnet Rule Requiring Foreign Debtor to Have U.S. Assets to Be Eligible for Chapter 15 Relief In In re Siu-Fung Ceramics Holdings Limited, No. 24-33299, 2026 WL 382424 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. Feb. 10, 2026), the court denied petitions for chapter 15 recognition of Hong Kong bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings commenced on behalf of an individual debtor and a group of companies that he owned or controlled. According to the court: (i) the corporate debtors' Hong Kong liquidation proceeding was not eligible for chapter 15 recognition because the attorney retainer upon which such relief was based was not funded until nine months after the chapter 15 petition date; and (ii) the individual debtor's Hong Kong bankruptcy case could not be recognized because the debtor's "center of main interests" on the chapter 15 petition date was not in Hong Kong, and he did not even maintain an "establishment" there. [read more …] Southern District of Texas Clarifies Post-Purdue Course for Consensual Third-Party Releases and Gatekeeping Provisions In In re Container Store Group, Inc., 676 B.R. 356 (S.D. Tex. 2026), appeal filed, No. 26-20166 (5th Cir. Apr. 14, 2026), cross appeal filed, No. 26-20166 (5th Cir. Apr. 24, 2026), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas addressed consensual third-party releases and gatekeeping provisions in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., 603 U.S. 204 (2024). Consistent with existing Fifth Circuit precedent, the court confirmed that, in appropriate circumstances, consent for third-party releases may be obtained through a creditor's failure to opt out of granting that consent. But, the court ruled, consent through an opt-out mechanism essentially can never be inferred for creditor classes that stand to receive no recovery under a chapter 11 plan and that are deemed to reject the plan by operation of applicable bankruptcy law. Instead, those classes must affirmatively opt in to any release. The court also narrowed and remanded the bankruptcy court's acceptance of a broad gatekeeping provision, ruling that such provisions must correspond to the restrictions established by Fifth Circuit precedent. [read more …] Delaware Bankruptcy Court: Initial Transferee Need Not Be Defendant in Fraudulent Transfer Avoidance and Recovery Litigation The Bankruptcy Code gives a bankruptcy trustee the power to avoid asset transfers that are either made with the intent to defraud creditors or that are "constructively" fraudulent because an insolvent debtor did not receive adequate value in exchange. The Bankruptcy Code also permits recovery of an avoided transfer from not only the initial recipient, but also from subsequent transferees. Courts disagree over whether a transfer must actually be avoided before the trustee can seek recovery from a subsequent transferee and whether the initial transferee must also be a defendant in the recovery litigation against a subsequent transferee. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware weighed in on this debate in Phillips v. SS Associates LLC (In re ONH AFC CS Investors, LLC), No. 23-10931 (CTG), 2026 WL 312892 (Bankr. D. Del. Feb. 4, 2026). The court adopted the majority view, ruling that the initial transferee need not be a defendant in avoidance and recovery litigation against a subsequent transferee, but that the trustee must establish the elements necessary to avoid the initial transfer as part of the recovery litigation. [read more …] New York Bankruptcy Court Weighs In on Adequate Assurance of Future Performance under Assigned Leases and Chapter 11 Plan Exculpation Provisions In order to assume and assign an executory contract or unexpired lease, a bankruptcy trustee must cure most defaults under the agreement and provide "adequate assurance" of the assignee's future performance. However, the Bankruptcy Code provides no guidance as to the meaning of "adequate assurance" other than with respect to shopping center leases. In In re Broadway Realty I Co. LLC, No. 25-11050, 2026 WL 147505 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Jan. 19, 2026), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York examined this issue in connection with a proposed assignment of thousands of residential leases as part of a free-and-clear sale of debtors' properties. The court held that "adequate assurance" does not mean a guarantee of the assignee's future performance, but merely demonstration that the assignee has the ability to satisfy the underlying obligations. The bankruptcy court also ruled that an exculpation provision in the debtors' chapter 11 plan exonerating non-estate fiduciaries from liability for actions taken in connection with the chapter 11 case was unobjectionable, provided it was limited in scope to postpetition conduct and actions taken in connection with implementation of the plan after its effective date. [read more …] Newsworthy Corinne Ball (New York) (Hall of Fame), Bruce Bennett (Los Angeles), Carl E. Black (Cleveland), Jeffrey B. Ellman (Atlanta), Brad B. Erens (Chicago), Gregory M. Gordon (Dallas), Heather Lennox (Cleveland/New York), Joshua M. Mester (Los Angeles), and Kevyn D. Orr (Washington) were included in the 2026 edition of Lawdragon 500 Leading Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers. The Daily Business Review selected Isel M. Perez (Miami) as an "On the Rise" winner for the Florida Legal Awards. The Florida Legal Awards annually recognize those who have made significant contributions to the legal industry in Florida. Dan T. Moss (Washington/New York) was inducted as a Fellow in the 37th Class of the American College of Bankruptcy at its Annual Meeting in March 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. Christine Borries (Munich) was ranked in the practice area Restructuring/Insolvency in the 2026 edition of Chambers Germany. The 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in Singapore™ recognized Sushma Jobanputra (Singapore) in the practice area Insolvency & Reorganization. The restructuring transaction involving Eissmann Automotive North America, Inc. received the "2025 Turnaround of the Year (Large Company)" at the Turnaround Management Association (Detroit) Annual Awards Reception. T. Daniel Reynolds (Cleveland) and Nick Buchta (Cleveland) represented subsidiaries of Eissmann Group Automotive in connection with the parent company's German insolvency proceedings. Roger Dobson (Sydney) is among 40 Jones Day lawyers recognized by The Best Lawyers in Australia 2027 for his contributions in Banking and Finance Law; Distressed Investing & Debt Trading; Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation. An article written by Corinne Ball (New York) titled "Ard Finance—A Global Enterprise Combining an LME With a Foreign Insolvency Proceeding and Chapter 15" was published in the April 21, 2026, edition of the New York Law Journal. An article written by Alex Sapp (New York) titled "Recent Developments in Section 510—Subordination" was published in the 2025 edition of the Norton Annual Survey on Bankruptcy Law. An article written by Brad B. Erens (Chicago) titled "New York Bankruptcy Court Approves Insider DIP Litigation Financing" was published on April 6, 2026, by Lexis Practical Guidance. An article written by Corinne Ball (New York), Dan T. Moss (Washington/New York), David S. Torborg (Washington), and Isel M. Perez (Miami) titled "New York District Court Affirms Narrow Scope of 'Public Policy Exception' in Chapter 15 Cases" was published on April 6, 2026, by Lexis Practical Guidance. An article written by Jeffrey B. Ellman (Atlanta) titled "Statutory Cap on Lease Rejection Damage Claims in Bankruptcy Applies to Solvent Debtors" was published on April 6, 2026, by Lexis Practical Guidance. An article written by Trisha L. Mowbray (Real Estate; Chicago) and Ryan Sims (Washington) titled "Chapter 11 Plan that Abridged Non-Debtor Lessee's Rights to Remain in Possession After Rejection Unconfirmable as Having Been Proposed in Bad Faith" was published on April 6, 2026, by Lexis Practical Guidance. Lawyer Spotlight: Ben Rosenblum Ben Rosenblum, a partner in the New York Office, represents debtors, creditors, and other parties in out-of-court restructurings and court-supervised proceedings, including chapter 11 cases, municipal bankruptcies, international insolvency matters, and stockbroker liquidations. His experience spans industries such as manufacturing, shipping, mining, aviation, energy, real estate, and telecommunications. Ben's notable debtor representations include Peabody Energy, the City of Detroit, Chrysler LLC, Spansion Japan, and Dana Corporation. Significant creditor representations include General Maritime Corporation, Calpine Corporation, American Home Mortgage, and Murray Energy. He currently represents creditors in Puerto Rico's restructuring. He also has extensive experience advising financial institutions on bankruptcy law as applied to derivatives.

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Minnesota politicians promised to soften their tone after Hortman killing. It didn’t last.

Amid contentious debates about public safety and immigration, many elected officials returned to the same sharp rhetoric that defined politics before last June 14.

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Medicaid cuts reignite clash between health worker unions, hospitals

The looming impact of federal Medicaid cuts has reignited a costly battle between California’s medical industry and one of its largest health worker unions.

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Jun 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • latimes.com
The Battle for the Senate Could Come Down to Hopes and Fears in Maine

Graham Platner’s primary victory in Maine sets up a high-stakes contest between an insurgent progressive with political baggage and a battle-tested but vulnerable Republican senator.

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Jun 10 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
A fiery five-way debate for Manhattan congressional seat

The candidates traded blows in a NY1 debate.

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Jun 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Are Republicans turning against medications for treating opioid addiction?

Federal actions and proposals have reignited debate over methadone and buprenorphine, worrying addiction experts and patient groups.

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Jun 10 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Lakers' LeBron James makes bold claim regarding NBA GOAT debate

James' take is sure to generate some controversy.

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Jun 10 • 2:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Baton Rouge General's Health Tip of the Week: How health overconfidence is hurting men

Sponsored by Baton Rouge General A recent poll found that 65% of men believe they’re healthier than other men. Statistically, that can’t be true, but it may explain why so many skip preventive care. The reality is that conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers can develop without obvious symptoms. That’s […]

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Jun 10 • 2:01 AM EDT • Health • businessreport.com
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Top takeaways from the primary elections in Maine and South Carolina: 'Movement about us'

Graham Platner cruises to Maine Democratic Senate nomination despite mounting controversies, setting up a key midterm battle against Sen. Susan Collins.

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Jun 10 • 1:37 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Stephen A. Smith challenges Trump to debate after ‘low IQ’ attack
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Jun 10 • 12:37 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Falcons QB battle takes curious pause

The Atlanta Falcons are passing their quarterback battle. Will the delay hurt the eventual starting quarterback?

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Jun 10 • 12:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UMass Chan research finds Medicaid-funded nutrition, housing programs linked to improved health outcomes, lower costs

New research finds Medicaid-funded nutrition and housing programs are linked to improved health outcomes and lower healthcare costs in Massachusetts.

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Jun 10 • 12:13 AM EDT • Health • umassmed.edu
Fire would love to be part of the battle for Chicago’s sporting soul

Sporting director Gregg Broughton has big ambitions for the Chicago Fire to be a major player in the Windy City.

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Jun 9 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
How 'undone science' shaped Chile's glacier protection battle

What is "undone science," and how does it affect environmental policy and regulation around the world? In a recent study published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, Javiera Barandiarán, ...

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Jun 9 • 8:20 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
New Iowa law first step in efforts to combat fraudulent businesses, Iowa secretary of state says

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said he is working with organizations like the Better Business Bureau to help address fraud in the state.

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