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How Ken Paxton and James Talarico are framing their closing arguments

Talarico is focusing on Paxton's ties to Elon Musk, while Paxton is doubling down on culture wars and his support from President Donald Trump.

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Oct 20 • 5:03 PM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com
Palmetto Sports Daily: Big tests ahead for Gamecocks, Tigers

PSD returns with plenty from another “Talkin’ Tuesday” as Clemson and South Carolina prep for huge conference matchups this weekend.

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Oct 20 • 4:46 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com
Experts Reveal How MS Can Be Misdiagnosed Amid Christina Applegate’s Surprising Health Update

Christina Applegate is searching for answers after learning that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) five years ago — and medical experts say several conditions can be mistaken for MS, m...

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Oct 20 • 4:45 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
TV5, Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Pistons-Heat game Friday

The Detroit Pistons will play the Miami Heat on Friday, Oct. 23, and there’s some new ways to watch.

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Oct 20 • 4:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • wnem.com
Hackensack Meridian Health signs definitive agreement to acquire Hunterdon Health, commits $230M

Hackensack Meridian Health has signed a definitive agreement to pick up Central New Jersey’s Hunterdon Health, a $230 million deal that would grow the state’s largest health system to 19 total hosp | The announcement did not outline a potential timeline for the merger, which would add a nineteenth hospital to New Jersey's largest health system.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positive

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

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Oct 20 • 4:19 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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October 22 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Sources: Activities

The Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors plays through the weekend at the Bay Area Stage Theatre.

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Oct 20 • 3:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

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Oct 20 • 3:47 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
PHP RCE Zero-Days CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 Leak Early

CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: watchTowr confirms leaked CVSS 10 PHP RCE zero-days. Patches due October 22; only PHP 8 gets fixes.

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Oct 20 • 3:39 PM EDT • Technology • cyberkendra.com
J. Crew's website crashed, leaving an apparent AI backend message

The website of clothing retailer J.Crew crashed Monday, leaving shoppers with a puzzling message: "JCrew generative AI Backend is healthy."

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Oct 20 • 3:30 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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Movie review: 'Wicker' weaves a feisty feminist fable

It’s too bad the title “The Wicker Man” was already taken, as that’s literally what star Alexander Skarsgård is playing in “Wicker,” a randy little ditty of a film from

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Oct 20 • 2:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
TENNESSEE LADY VOLS VOLLEYBALL: Top 10 showdown on the horizon

Food City Center will host a top-10 matchup on Wednesday when the No. 9 Tennessee volleyball team welcomes No. 4 Kentucky. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and will be televised on SEC Network.

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Oct 20 • 2:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Report: Edvinsson and His Agent Finally Met With Horcoff

Edvinsson, his agent and Shawn Horcoff finally sat in the same room this weekend. #RedWings

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Oct 20 • 2:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Robert F Kennedy's granddaughter dies at 42 after years of health struggles

Kyle Kennedy, granddaughter of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, was a Georgetown University graduate and Teach for America alumna who championed for education reform.

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Oct 20 • 2:17 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ film review: A must-see on Black history, arts, and politics

In 1972, Harlem-born documentarian William Greaves filmed a historic gathering of many still-living talents who had experienced the Harlem Renaissance, which had transpired about 50 years earlier. The Harlem Renaissance was a Black awakening in the arts, politics, fashion, etc.

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Oct 20 • 2:10 PM EDT • Politics • peoplesworld.org
On3 Sports Honors Kentucky’s Lance Heard, Coach Will Stein in Midseason National Awards

Kentucky football head coach Will Stein has been named On3 Sports’ Midseason National Coach of the Year and offensive lineman Lance Heard a First Team All-American.

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Oct 20 • 2:07 PM EDT • Sports • ukathletics.com
Hackensack Meridian Health, Hunterdon Health sign definitive merger agreement

RARITAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Hunterdon County) — Hackensack Meridian Health and Hunterdon Health have signed a definitive merger agreement that includes $230 million in planned capital and technology investments, bringing the …

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Oct 20 • 1:58 PM EDT • Health • wrnjradio.com
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

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

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Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com
Westminster AMC theater forced to temporarily close due to ‘imminent health’ hazard posed by mice

“Ratatouille” might have been an endearing movie to watch at the theater, but a real-life mice problem left health officials in Jeffco no choice but to close the curtains this weekend.

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Oct 20 • 1:39 PM EDT • Health • denver7.com
OU looking 'at adversity as an opportunity' heading into Mississippi State

Off the heels of a devastating loss to No. 12 Kentucky, head coach Brent Venables and offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle will look to rebound as they hit the road to

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Oct 20 • 1:32 PM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com
Week 7 fantasy running back rankings: Top RB streamers, starts

Leading the NFL with 133 rushing yards per game, Kansas City's Kenneth Walker has delivered RB1 stats at a discount. How high does he rank in Week 7?

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Oct 20 • 1:28 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kenny Atkinson Makes Candid Admission About Mario Hezonja’s Cavaliers Role

Kenny Atkinson says Cleveland is still learning how Mario Hezonja fits and does not want to put the returning NBA veteran in a box.

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Oct 20 • 1:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hackensack Meridian Health, Hunterdon Health to merge

Hackensack Meridian plans to invest $200 million into capital projects that support Hunterdon facilities and programs.

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Oct 20 • 1:10 PM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Candidates for Texas agriculture commissioner spar over eligibility for office

The legal qualifications for agriculture commissioner — and whether either candidate meets them — have taken a front seat in the race between Republican Nate Sheets and Democrat Clayton Tucker.

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Oct 20 • 12:49 PM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Kenya confirms new Ebola case, bringing total infections to 9, health ministry says

Kenya’s Ebola outbreak has risen to nine confirmed cases

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Oct 20 • 12:19 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Kenya confirms new Ebola case, bringing total infections to 9, health ministry says

Kenya’s Ebola outbreak has risen to nine confirmed cases.

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Oct 20 • 12:16 PM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
People Using AI to Make Smart TVs Dumb Again Is the Most 2026 Thing Ever

That's not to say it's not a noble cause, though.

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Oct 20 • 12:15 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
New on DVD: Behold the monstrous beauty of 'Frankenstein'

Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 27. "Frankenstein": Released on Netflix last year, Oscar Isaac stars as mad

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Oct 20 • 11:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier

A Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges.

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Oct 20 • 11:48 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Kenya Confirms New Ebola Case, Total at Nine, Health Ministry Says

NAIROBI, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Kenya ⁠has ⁠confirmed a new ⁠Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections to nine, the health ministry ‌said on Tuesday. The ministry ‌said the latest case was ⁠a close ⁠family member of the first patient and had already been placed in quarantine. "All nine cases ...

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Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
OU's goal remains the same: 'Make the playoffs'

Following the 21-13 loss to No. 12 Kentucky on Saturday night, OU defensive backs Omarion Robinson and Reggie Powers and tight end Hayden Hansen recapped the game.

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Oct 20 • 11:28 AM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com
Kyle Kennedy, RFK’s granddaughter and Kathie Lee Gifford’s step-granddaughter, dead at 42

Kyle Kennedy, the granddaughter of Robert F. ‘Bobby’ Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, died last month, years after suffering a spinal cord injury.

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Oct 20 • 11:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
France could face even worse destruction with second weekend of planned riots, State Dept warns

An internal State Department document warns antifascist protests near Marine Le Pen's National Rally congress in Orléans could spark new unrest.

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Oct 20 • 11:14 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Evolution of women’s healthcare focus of URI’s annual Youngken Clinic

KINGSTON, R.I. — Oct. 20, 2026 — Women’s healthcare is evolving rapidly, and while greater emphasis has been placed on comprehensive care, women still face more barriers to healthcare than men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Pharmacists are key players in helping break down those barriers, playing an increasingly important role in improving […]

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Paxton campaign showing ‘desperation’ with manufactured story: Political commentator

In the final days until election, President Trump is set to hold another rally in Texas for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. MS NOW National Reporter Rosa Flores shares what she is hearing from voters there. MediasTouch Journalist Adam Mockler, Democratic Strategist Basil Smikle, Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin, and Rolling Stone Magazine Politics Reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez join the Group Chat with Stephanie Ruhle to share their analysis.

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Bush family royalty backs Democrat in battle to flip Texas blue

Barbara Bush donated $2,500 to a PAC supporting James Talarico's Texas Senate race against Ken Paxton, using her real name in public FEC filings.

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Oct 20 • 9:36 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Fall 2026 Update on Vaccine Views

The latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds about half of parents mistakenly believe spacing out vaccines is healthier for children, while confidence in many long-standing childhood vaccines is high across partisans. These findings take on new relevance following President Trump's recent executive order calling for changes in U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations, including splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine—currently given as a single combined shot—into three separate vaccines across multiple visits.

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks

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Oct 20 • 8:14 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
JFK’s mistresses recall their ‘irresistible’ and ‘solicitous’ affairs with the president in new book

Laurence Leamer’s latest book, “Ladies Man: The Careless Heart of John F. Kennedy,” is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

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Green Bay Packers add former first-round pick amid defensive line injury concerns

The Green Bay Packers are searching for defensive line help after injuries weakened their options up front. With starting nose tackle Javon Hargrave out, veteran Chris McClellan is expected to fill the role, but Green Bay has limited depth behind him. To strengthen the rotation, the Packers have signed a former first round pick to [...]

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‘Iolani bowler Ezra Bentkowski is a student of the sport’s science

Back in the day, black-and-white films would play in darkened class rooms at Washington Intermediate School.

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Oct 20 • 6:05 AM EDT • Science • staradvertiser.com
'They’ve awakened him’: How a wealth tax fight made Brin a political force

After years of sporadic giving, the Google co-founder has unleashed spending that spans from the billionaire tax to housing and environmental policy.

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A bouquet of experience

Queer Voices to perform at Vaudeville Revue this weekend

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Oct 20 • 4:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • aspendailynews.com
Guided search helps Kentuckians navigate treatment, mental health and recovery resources

A new guided search feature from FindHelpNow.org makes it easier for Kentuckians to find substance use disorder treatment, mental health care and recovery resources that fit their needs.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • uknow.uky.edu
In Kansas, Trump says a pastor running as a Democrat ‘mocks Jesus’

At a rally, the president likened Democrats to rioters in France, whom he said “hate Christianity” and “Western civilization.”

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Oct 20 • 12:54 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science

The board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s research hospital has publicly rebuked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voting

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Things to do: These are the best entertainment events in Brevard for Oct. 16-22

Find your weekend adventure! Film festival, Oktoberfest and Reggae top our list of Brevard's best entertainment events.

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Oct 19 • 10:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • floridatoday.com
Panthers Land Just Outside Top-10 of NFL Power Rankings

The Carolina Panthers got another win over the weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Oct 19 • 9:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Watch: Science Sunday With Kenrich

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Oct 19 • 8:35 PM EDT • Science • nba.com
Toppenish School District receives $7.5 million federal grant to expand mental health services for students

The BriefThe Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for students.District officials say the funding will help address identified gaps in services, particularly drug and alcohol counseling at the high school level, and will allow the district to build capacity for long-term mental health support.TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON — The Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to expand mental health services and substance use prevention for students.District officials said access to mental health resources has been limited, making it difficult for some students and families to get the support they need. The federal Project AWARE grant will help address those challenges by bringing schools and local healthcare providers together to better support students.The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for Toppenish students. Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jeff Camero said the district is focused on coordinating with service providers in the area to work as a unified team."We made the awareness with the grant. But looking at all the service providers in the area and how can we all together work as a team?" Camero said.Camero said the district wants to use those resources to reach students earlier and provide more support for those struggling with their mental health. The district plans to address a range of mental health challenges, from anxiety and depression to youth suicide risk. Camero emphasized the importance of supporting students in grades eight through twelve, where suicide rates are a particular concern."Making sure from anxiety to depression, making sure that we can help support our students at those levels, but also the youth suicide risk, looking at that as a top in this area, in our grades, you know, eight, for example, eight through 12, looking at suicide rate and looking at how whether we look at the ACES or whatever program we're looking at, that's federal, how that connects and how we can better serve our students with this extra funding," Camero said.The funding will allow the district to bring in additional staff, including mental health and substance use specialists, to work directly with students and connect families with community resources. The district is already posting positions, including a director role, with additional positions expected to follow.District officials are also thinking beyond the grant's five-year timeline. Brittany Kaple, Director of Public Relations for the Toppenish School District, said the intent is to build capacity and establish connections that will sustain mental health services even after the grant funding ends."We do have the director position already posted, with some of our other positions following really close behind that. But the intent is to, you know, it's a five-year grant, so those positions would be funded for that five years. But there's also the intent to build capacity and make those connections so that at the end of the grant, when that money, you know, if that money is not renewed," Kaple said.As student mental health needs continue to evolve, access to drug and alcohol counseling has become an important priority for the district. Kaple said teachers and staff have been raising concerns about the need for more support, especially at the high school level."And that was something that was also an identified need by our high school staff when the superintendent met with them last school year. They said that that was a really great need, something that they felt was a gap in services that we were providing for our students. And so this is going to be one way to help support that need," Kaple said.The Toppenish School District says its goal is to ensure students and families have access to the support they need, both now and in the years ahead. Additional positions, including drug and alcohol counselors and family engagement specialists, are expected to be posted in the coming weeks. News Sunnyside City Council navigates 2027 budget planning Monique Garcia News "Dancing with the Stars" champion J.R. Martinez shares message of resilience during Central Washington visit Tyler Wargo News Toppenish, Mattawa educators honored at state Educator of the Year Awards Erin Wencl News Kennewick educator named 2027 Washington Teacher of the Year Erin Wencl News Voters to decide the next Yakima County Sheriff Monique Garcia ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

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Oct 19 • 7:59 PM EDT • Health • applevalleynewsnow.com
Deputies: Pickens Co. business owner holds intoxicated burglary suspect at gunpoint

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested someone in connection with a burglary at the Sip n’ Ride on Tuesday evening.

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Oct 19 • 7:28 PM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com
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World Stage, the venue previously known as World Cafe Live, will close at the end of October

The West Philly music venue which has been wracked with tension and labor issues since being taken over by new management last year, will shut down after two Halloween shows.

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Oct 19 • 6:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • inquirer.com
How will the riots in France affect the country’s politics?

For weeks, people in France have been protesting over the cost of living and school conditions. But this weekend, many protests turned violent -- and now French officials have implemented a curfew to quell the violence. The country’s far-right is seizing the moment to make a case for their policies.This episode was produced by Sophia Paliza-Carre and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Damian Herring. Our director is Kathryn Fink.It was edited by Mallory Yu and Tinbete Ermyas.Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

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Oct 19 • 5:42 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Charli XCX brings 'Music, Fashion, Film' to the Kia Forum

The English pop star brought her tour behind this year's 'Music, Fashion, Film' to Inglewood's Kia Forum for two shows over the weekend.

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Oct 19 • 5:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
RJ Mitte’s mom says there were ‘struggles’ between ‘Breaking Bad’ star and fiancée before his death

RJ Mitte’s mother, Dyna Mitte, says there were ‘struggles’ between the ‘Breaking Bad’ star and his fiancée, Kennedy Suarez, before his death.

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Oct 19 • 5:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Academy Museum Gala: 10 best-dressed stars on the red carpet

Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner, Jessica Biel and Teyana Taylor were among the best-dressed stars at the Academy Museum Gala.

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Oct 19 • 5:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Live music, haunted trails offer weekend entertainment

Whether you’re in the mood for spooky adventures or ready to put on your dancing boots, Saturday, Oct. 24, offers two ways to enjoy the fall season.

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Oct 19 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • southtexasnews.com
Why the Muslim Brotherhood has become a flashpoint in the Michigan Senate race

The Muslim Brotherhood has become a flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate race, with Republicans trying to cast Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed as sympathetic to interests connected to Islamic terror and El-Sayed arguing that he is being unfairly accused of the same “dual loyalties” that former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama once were.

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Oct 19 • 4:50 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Elizabeth Holmes doc ‘You Can See Everything’ has huge opening weekend

NEW YORK — Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes opened to box office numbers not seen in more than 20 years for a narrative documentary.

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Oct 19 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Miley Cyrus: Godmother Dolly Parton sent her message from beyond

The late Dolly Parton sent grieving goddaughter Miley Cyrus a sign from beyond, the singer told fans during her debut weekend at the Hollywood Bowl. “I’ll tell you something that

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PHOTO GALLERY: Via Arte chalks up another fun event

Via Arte returned to The Marketplace over the weekend for a two-day event showcasing the talent of mostly local artists.

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Oct 19 • 3:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • bakersfield.com
Sounds Like GTA 6 Will Be Full of Details Like Red Dead's Infamous Horse Balls

A decade of silence, finally broken

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Oct 19 • 1:54 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Arc Raiders player numbers hit a six-month high following the release of the extraction shooter's huge Frozen Trails update

Embark's Studios' PvEvP phenomenon Arc Raiders is still going strong, and it's all thanks to the game's recent free weekend and huge Frozen Trails update.

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Oct 19 • 1:22 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
STEM Center brings science and scares to S&T’s Haunted Mine

STEM in the Shadows at Missouri S&T’s Haunted Mine for K-12 students and their families will be Oct. 23. Photo by Photo by Blaine Falkena/Missouri S&T. The Missouri S&T Kummer Center for STEM Education is teaming up with the university’s Haunted Mine for STEM in the Shadows, a free STEM-themed Halloween event for K-12 students...Continue Reading STEM Center brings science and scares to S&T’s Haunted Mine

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Oct 19 • 12:28 PM EDT • Science • news.mst.edu
PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

The founder of PlayStation has weighed in on Sony's decision to end game discs, saying it isn't "economically reasonable" to continue supporting them.

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Oct 19 • 12:07 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
S.C. business owner holds drunk burglar at gunpoint

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested someone in connection with a burglary at the Sip ’n’ Ride.

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Oct 19 • 11:16 AM EDT • Business • wrdw.com
🎥 The screamers you (might have) missed this weekend!

Yamal and Kylian Mbappé’s individual heroics have gone around the world, but other, less talked-about goals are well worth a look too. Here’s a roundup of the bangers you might have missed around...

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Oct 19 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eagles announce Jalen Hurts diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis

The Eagles gave an update on Jalen Hurts, who went on injured reserve over the weekend.

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Oct 19 • 10:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Political Economy of Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive dissonance helps explain why people often turn away from problems they feel powerless to change: denial takes hold. That denial can weaken the solidarity required to change the conditions that leave people feeling powerless.

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Oct 19 • 10:10 AM EDT • Politics • jacobin.com
Deputies: Pickens Co. business owner holds intoxicated burglary suspect at gunpoint

The Pickens County Sheriff's Office said a business owner held an intoxicated burglary suspect at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

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Oct 19 • 10:08 AM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com
Mountain West Connection Players of the Week: Week 7

Who were the top performers from this past weekend?

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Oct 19 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Amid renovations uncertainty, donors fear worst for Kenney Center’s art
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Oct 19 • 9:56 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Beyond Aero Signs Commitments for Hydrogen Business Airplane

French start-up says eight-seater will attract green private flyers

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Oct 19 • 9:33 AM EDT • Business • ainonline.com
eMazzanti Technologies Named NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Finalist

eMazzanti Technologies, a leading Hoboken, NJ-based Cybersecurity, managed services, and digital transformation provider with a national footprint, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Awards program. The recognition highlights organizations that demonstrate sustained growth, innovation, leadership, and a positive impact on New Jersey's business community. An independent panel of judges comprised of previous program honorees selected the

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Oct 19 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Pierre Sage to remain Crystal Palace manager, but…

Despite being thrashed 5-0 by Brighton & Hove Albion at the weekend, Pierre Sage is nevertheless expected to be given more time to prove himself as Crystal Palace manager, according to reports in The ...

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Oct 19 • 9:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AirComp: U.S. Business Aviation Pay Climbs 8% in U.S.

Analysis shows industry salary gains are outpacing national rate of 3.4%

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Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • ainonline.com
Four questions with ThinkTennessee President Erin Hafkenschiel

Over the next several weeks, Tennesseans will head the polls to elect the state’s next governor. Meanwhile, Tennessee continues to face exponential growth and development — an issue the state’s

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Oct 19 • 8:45 AM EDT • Politics • nashvillepost.com
TENNESSEE LADY VOLS SOCCER: Offensive woes continue in scoreless draw

Tennessee soccer snapped a four-match losing streak with a 0-0 draw against Kentucky at Regal Soccer Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

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Oct 19 • 8:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business owner holds 'grossly intoxicated' burglary suspect at gunpoint, deputies say

A business owner in Pickens County, South Carolina, held a 'grossly intoxicated' burglary suspect at gunpoint, according to the sheriff's office.

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Oct 19 • 8:21 AM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
Scientists discover why some people still can’t taste food after COVID-19

Scientists have uncovered a possible explanation for why some people struggle to taste food more than a year after recovering from COVID-19. By examining taste buds from patients with lingering symptoms, researchers discovered molecular abnormalities that weaken the signals responsible for detecting sweet, bitter, and savory flavors.

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Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Bluey's Happy Snaps launches with an unobtainable Xbox achievement

After launching into Xbox Game Pass last week, players have found a broken achievement in Bluey's Happy Snaps that prevents them from earning the Mythic.

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Oct 19 • 7:46 AM EDT • Technology • trueachievements.com
Former NFL offensive lineman, Ashland native Damien Woody shares health scare: 'Get your checkups'

Former NFL offensive lineman and Ashland native Damien Woody took to social media over the weekend to let fans know about a recent health scare.

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Oct 19 • 7:31 AM EDT • Health • wtvr.com
Kenilworth/AmRev250 to Present Doo-Wop & Sock Hop

KENILWORTH, NJ – The Kenilworth/AmRev250 Committee invites everyone to step back in time at a fun-filled “Doo-Wop and Sock Hop” that is planned for Fri., October 23, 2026 (7 p.m.-11 p.m.) at the...

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Oct 19 • 7:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • tapinto.net
Central Illinois Flea Market vendors explain why they’re in business

The Central Illinois Flea Market wrapped up its season at Peoria Speedway this weekend, giving shoppers one last chance to browse a variety of unique finds.

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Oct 19 • 7:13 AM EDT • Business • 25newsnow.com
Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns entertainment industry with $15 million opening weekend

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on the latest news.

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Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cnbc.com
Affordability, immigration and a referendum on Trump: Listeners weigh in on the U.S. Senate race in Texas

Houston Public Media conducted a survey of what issues listeners considered the most significant in helping decide their votes between Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

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Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Exclusive: Donors fear the worst for Kennedy Center’s art amid renovations uncertainty

At the height of legal and political tumult at the Kennedy Center last summer, board members discussed moving the iconic eight-foot, 3,000-pound bronze bust of President John F. Kennedy from the Grand Foyer while the main building closed for renovations.

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Oct 19 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Business - French retailers reel after weekend of riots, looting
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Oct 19 • 6:29 AM EDT • Business • france24.com
Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon show Florida business range

Eight months ago, billionaires Stephen Ross and Ken Griffin spoke to a group of business executives gathered at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. The February event was billed as a global finance and policy discussion, but at times speakers talked about South Florida's growing economy.

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Oct 19 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • miamiherald.com
Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon show Florida business range

Eight months ago, billionaires Stephen Ross and Ken Griffin spoke to a group of business executives gathered at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. The February event was billed as a global finance and policy discussion, but at times speakers talked about South Florida's growing economy.

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Oct 19 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • bradenton.com
The Iran war, inflation and ICE: Talarico and Paxton on the issues

Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Rep. James Talarico both said affordability is a top priority, but have different ideas for how to lower the cost of living.

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Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com
Market Open: Primary Health Properties JV, Serica Growth

FTSE 100 and European stocks decline as Primary Health Properties announces a £700m joint venture, Serica reports growth and Brent crude weakens. Market OverviewThe FTSE 100 opened lower on Monday, falling 0.

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Oct 19 • 4:45 AM EDT • Health • uk.finance.yahoo.com
Kentucky Geological Survey to host annual earth science open house

The Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) at the University of Kentucky will host its 26th annual open house 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in and around the Mining and Mineral Resources Building on the UK campus, 310 Columbia Ave.

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Oct 19 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • uknow.uky.edu
🎥 Pitch completely flooded! Referee still considers kicking off

This has to be satire. Or so you might think when you watch the following clip from Spain’s fourth division. A match there was called off last weekend due to severe flooding in the region. But that ...

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Oct 19 • 3:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
🗞️ Today's front pages: Madrid's controversial win, Barça-PSG preview

After a weekend of truly thrilling matches, a new week packed with news begins. So let's take a look at the front pages of the sports newspapers...***MARCAASSPORTMundo DeportivoSuperdeporteEstadio De...

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Oct 19 • 3:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
France's riots highlight a growing risk for its battered bond market

Mass protests over living costs and school conditions swept across France over the weekend, with violence and looting breaking out in several cities.

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Oct 19 • 2:11 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
George Pickens good for 73 yards on Sunday night

George Pickens was held in check for much of Week 6 but did make a few plays in the closing moments to finish with a 6-73-0 line.

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Oct 19 • 1:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Europe is fed up with rising living costs

Cost-of-living protests swept Europe over the weekend, with demonstrators taking to the streets from Lisbon and Brussels to Milan.

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Oct 19 • 12:43 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com