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Musicians and music lovers flock to Little River’s Star Tavern

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Apr 11 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • myhorrynews.com

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Apr 11 • 4:20 PM EDT • Science • ca.news.yahoo.com

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Apr 11 • 3:41 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Boom Ball blends baseball, high-energy entertainment for night of family fun in Birmingham

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Apr 11 • 11:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • wbrc.com

“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net

Apple Highlights Photos Shot on iPhone During NASA's Mission to Moon

As we previously reported, astronauts aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft used the iPhone 17 Pro Max to take selfies of themselves with the Earth in the background during the Artemis II mission around the far side of the Moon last week. Now that the crew members have safely returned to Earth, Apple's CEO Tim Cook and marketing chief Greg Joswiak have both turned to social media to congratulate them on their successful mission and highlight the iPhone's involvement.

Apr 11 • 11:17 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Jackson and Josephine County Health Fair returns April 18

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Apr 11 • 10:52 AM EDT • Health • rv-times.com

Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (April 2-9)

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Apr 11 • 10:15 AM EDT • Health • ocregister.com

More business openings than closings in Oregon in last decade, despite economic stigma

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Apr 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • opb.org

OPINION: Gen Z’s political frustrations are causing an analog counterculture

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • statenews.com

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Apr 11 • 7:01 AM EDT • Health • registerguard.com

Game Preview: Washington Capitals @ Pittsburgh Penguins, 4/11/2026

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Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New York Jets Flight Connections 04/11/26

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Apr 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Apr 11 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca

Contract talks planned for key defensive trio at Borussia Dortmund

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Apr 11 • 3:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Arts and entertainment throughout the region

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Apr 11 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • johnsoncitypress.com

Shohei Ohtani passes Ichiro Suzuki for another Japanese MLB record

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Apr 10 • 11:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

In praise of popular science

As a kid, I was enthusiastically and unreservedly in favor of a manned space program. Our destiny lay in the stars, I figured. Get people out there. We need Star Trek here and now. As I got older, I became rather disenchanted with the idea. Humans are expensive, fragile, and inefficient as space cargo. We could flood the solar system with 100 robotic probes for the price of any single manned mission and get back just as useful data. Besides, it turns out space travel is dangerous. Tusk is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe When it came to the recent Artemis II mission, my cynical side didn’t really see the point. Flying around the Moon and back is literally something we did before I was born, and I once owned a Members Only jacket. Apollo 8 circled the Moon ten times and returned to Earth safely the same month that “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was released. What was the point of repeating a feat that far braver people once did with tin foil and slide rules? Yet I’ve surprised myself with how moving I’ve found the Artemis II mission to be. The photos have been stunning. The crew has been professional and engaging. There have been modest but important milestones — the farthest humans have travelled from Earth; the first woman, person of color, and non-American to leave low-Earth orbit; innovations in communication, and more. One thing that really stood out is that this is really NASA at its finest. Not that this is the most important mission they ever pulled off, but they did this in a competent way that celebrated the achievements and kept the crew and the science at the forefront of the project. This wasn’t some billionaire throwing celebrities or cars into orbit as a vanity project — this was a collective effort to send experts in to do a job and come home safely. We don’t see that sort of thing much these days. I’m guessing few people would describe many government agencies as inspiring, but this one counts for me. We’re living through a profoundly anti-science era, in which pathbreaking, lifesaving discoveries like mRNA vaccines are routinely downplayed or even vilified. As I’ve noted previously, this era is something like that of the Red Scare in the 1940s and 50s, in which “egghead” professors were portrayed as out of touch or even hostile to regular Americans. One of the things that helped break that spell was Sputnik — the Soviet communications satellite that demonstrated that the United States was falling behind in crucial scientific research and applications. Its launch triggered a new appreciation for American science and goaded the federal government into supporting research universities and labs. I’m not saying that Artemis is the equivalent of Sputnik, but it potentially reminds people that there’s some value to scientific endeavors and the human faces attached to them. Despite my love for the show “For All Mankind,” I’m far from convinced that there’s any real value to putting colonies on the Moon or Mars that would justify the capital investment and the massive health risks to the astronauts. But sending scientific good will ambassadors on a trip into space once in a while? Bring it. Share

Apr 10 • 9:54 PM EDT • Science • smotus.substack.com

Rachael Rollins claps back at rivals over her Suffolk DA bid

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Apr 10 • 8:18 PM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Delaware County election board member's voter status, candidacy revoked

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Apr 10 • 7:54 PM EDT • Politics • dispatch.com

Will Gibbs Be Injured in the ‘NCIS: Origins’ Season 2 Finale?

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Apr 10 • 7:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

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Apr 10 • 6:20 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com

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Apr 10 • 6:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • wistv.com

Business Leaders Contribute More Than $200,000 to Heart of Oregon’s Legacy 25 Campaign

Heart of Oregon Corps, in collaboration with Central Oregon Builders Association, invited local businesses to “Make Your Mark” by investing in Central Oregon’s first youth workforce development campus at a special campus breakfast on April 1 that raised more than $200,000 from the corporate community, including a $100,000 gift from BASX. “We are so pleased to […]

Apr 10 • 5:10 PM EDT • Business • bendsource.com

The cast of 'Juno': See the stars of the 2007 Oscar winner, then and now

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Apr 10 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Nevada reports 8,099 new business registrations in March, nearly $21M in revenue

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Apr 10 • 4:18 PM EDT • Business • news3lv.com

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Apr 10 • 3:28 PM EDT • Health • news3lv.com

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Apr 10 • 3:02 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com

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Apr 10 • 2:47 PM EDT • Health • multicare.org

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Apr 10 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

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Apr 10 • 1:08 PM EDT • Business • fox59.com

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Apr 10 • 1:04 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

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Apr 10 • 12:40 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com

Citizen Science Opportunities in Oregon

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Apr 10 • 12:33 PM EDT • Science • oregonwild.org

WesternU College of Pharmacy’s Ray Symposium examines keys to regain trust in science

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Apr 10 • 12:16 PM EDT • Science • news.westernu.edu

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Apr 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • opb.org

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

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Apr 10 • 8:53 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com

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Apr 10 • 8:17 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com

Regional business leaders share their perspectives on business advice

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Apr 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • grandforksherald.com

UGA SBDC Business Summit in Savannah returns May 5, 2026

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Apr 10 • 7:45 AM EDT • Business • griceconnect.com

Maine GOP candidate for governor drops

The report cited “missing or unsigned documentation, failure to provide proof that some contributors were registered to vote, signatures on paperwork that do not appear to be authentic.”

Apr 10 • 7:43 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Horne misses Toulon clash through injury

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Apr 10 • 7:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Opinion | With straight faces, GOP accuses regents of playing politics

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Apr 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • captimes.com

Washtenaw Business Lens: Challenging times for businesses and the banking industry

Interest rates, loans and investment strategies—it all plays into the health of individual businesses and the Washtenaw County business community as a whole. How are we doing right now? WEMU's David Fair and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber Executive Vice President Andy LaBarre check in with Erik Bakker from Bank of Ann Arbor for a better perspective on well-being of our local business community, now and in the near-term future.

Apr 10 • 2:14 AM EDT • Business • wemu.org

Umatilla to celebrate grand opening of new business center

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Apr 10 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • eastoregonian.com

How Soccer Assisted Viktor Orbán’s Rise — and Maybe His Fall

Hungary’s strongman has built his regime on a fusion of football and politics. Can it carry him to another term?

Apr 10 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com

LeBron James dunks right behind KTVU sports reporter Bailey O'Carroll

It's all eyes on Lakers LeBron James ahead of the Warriors final home game of the regular season. While warming up with some free throws ahead of their game with the Warriors, LeBron James decides to dunk, nearly taking out our sports reporter!

Apr 9 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • ktvu.com

IT rules: India proposes new digital rules to regulate news and political posts on social media

The changes will give government more power over news-related posts shared by podcasters and influencers.

Apr 9 • 8:23 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com

North Dakotans can learn about resources to grow healthy habits on April 18 at Gateway to Health event | Health and Human Services North Dakota

Individuals and families are invited to the fourth annual Gateway to Health community event, which includes activities for all ages on Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. at North Dakota’s Gateway to Science in Bismarck. Participants will enjoy free access to the science center during their registered two-hour time slot, along with access to interactive booths and exhibits promoting health and wellbeing through hands-on activities, games and prizes.

Apr 9 • 8:15 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov

Jonesboro offers E-911 Business Registry for emergency response

The City of Jonesboro has an E-911 Business Registry available for local businesses to sign up for.

Apr 9 • 5:58 PM EDT • Business • kait8.com

Dawand Jones' Health Update - 04.09.26

On today's episode of Cleveland Browns Daily, Tackle Dawand Jones stops by to give us an update on his health and his recovery from last season's injury. The guys hear from our great friend Greg Cosell as he breaks down this year's wide receiver class and

Apr 9 • 5:48 PM EDT • Health • clevelandbrowns.com

Pulaski County business raises funds for Taylor Regional staff amid delayed paychecks

HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. — Concerns continue to grow surrounding Taylor Regional Hospital, as employees deal with delayed paychecks and ongoing uncertainty. Now, a loc

Apr 9 • 5:28 PM EDT • Business • wgxa.tv

Andy’s Produce’s Josh Skikos named to North Bay Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 of 2026

“We prioritize sourcing from regional growers whenever possible and actively support the farming community through partnerships with local producers and organizations like the Sonoma County Farm Bureau.”

Apr 9 • 3:33 PM EDT • Business • pressdemocrat.com

Automatic military draft registration takes effect in December. Here’s how it would work

Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last year.

Apr 9 • 3:25 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

What to know about changes to US military draft registration

The US Selective Service registration process is changing to automatic enrollment. The agency says the move aims to streamline registration.

Apr 9 • 2:50 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

African American Health Symposium highlights support for those impacted by Alzheimer's

This year's theme: "It Takes a Village: Faith, Family and Community in Caregiving."

Apr 9 • 2:25 PM EDT • Health • 13wham.com

Judge strikes down DEC regulation over definition of 'freshwater wetland'

Business groups and landowners argued the rules would make it much harder to get new development projects off the ground like housing.

Apr 9 • 12:03 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

3L Rachel Sadler Charts Path in Brain Health, Technology, and Policy Through UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration   - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

3L Rachel Sadler studies health law and policy at UC Law SF while researching the legal implications of neurotechnology and other emerging tools that may affect human cognition. 3L student Rachel Sadler shares how UC Law SF’s Health Law Concentration prepared her for a career focused on the intersection of brain health, government policy, and technology. Gained a detailed understanding of how U.S. health care is regulated and where policy reform is needed through coursework and research. Interned with state and federal agencies that regulate health care services and worked with a major health care provider’s bioethics department. Plans to pursue a career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy as new technologies reshape healthcare. 3L Rachel Sadler: The Health Law Concentration has given me fluency in one of the most complex regulated industries and the tools to become an effective advocate for better health policy. Before coming to law school, I spent a decade teaching and working with teachers and administrators on high school programming for multilingual learners. Healthcare kept emerging as the most powerful driver of student outcomes. I wanted to understand how to make effective policy change in this area and how to use existing law to defend people’s health rights in California. Through the concentration’s coursework, I gained a sophisticated understanding of how U.S. healthcare is regulated. I also learned where the pressure points for reform exist. The courses gave me space to develop what became my central research interest: how law and policy can be built to protect human cognition and healthy brain development, particularly regarding new technologies such as generative AI and neurotechnology. The health law faculty were instrumental in that process, genuinely invested in helping me and other students define and pursue our own intellectual vision. During law school, I interned at the General Counsel’s Office for Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I also externed at the California Department of Justice’s Health, Education and Welfare Division. Additionally, I externed at Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Bioethics Department. Alongside those placements, I conducted extensive independent research on mental privacy and emerging neurotechnology, working closely with Professors Emily Murphy and George Horvath. That research became the throughline of my law school experience and the foundation of my current policy focus. I must also credit Nicole Ozer of the Center for Constitutional Democracy (CCD), whose deep knowledge of California privacy law and the public-interest privacy landscape deeply informed my work. I currently serve a research assistant with the CCD, where I spearhead the development of K-12 educational resources in partnership with law faculty and students. I’ve found UC Law SF to be an ideal place for second-career, nontraditional students. There is a tremendous diversity of life and career experience here, and I felt fully welcomed into the community, despite returning as a student at a different stage of life. I came to law school wanting to promote equity in California’s healthcare system. I am leaving with a sharper and more specific ambition: to build a policy career focused on protecting cognitive liberty and mental privacy from technological intrusion. This is both an urgent and underserved area of law, and I want to be part of defining this landscape going forward. Whether as a practicing attorney or a policy advisor, I plan to work on these issues after law school. I strongly recommend UC Law SF and the Health Law Concentration. When I arrived in law school, I worried the concentration would be narrow and that my non-clinical background would be a disadvantage. The opposite was true. The health law faculty thinks about health expansively, encompassing social determinants of health, structural inequity, and emerging technologies alongside the regulatory mechanics of the industry. The faculty are accessible, intellectually generous, and genuinely invested in students’ development. I found my research vision here, and I deeply appreciate the concentration’s role in this. The Evidence of Success series highlights UC Law SF students as they share how the College’s opportunities equip them with the experience, skills, and confidence to excel in the legal profession.

Apr 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • uclawsf.edu

NC builders chase billions in defense deals at Wilmington conference

A big federal construction conference takes place next week at the convention center in Wilmington. It is the Southeast Region Construction, Infrastructure and Environmental Summit, held by the North Carolina Military Business Center. Courtney Smedick at the NCMBC says that the conference is about to sell out, so if you want to attend, you should […]

Apr 9 • 10:37 AM EDT • Business • businessnc.com

FDA rejects an industry proposal to deregulate some AI devices

In this edition of Health Tech: FDA rejects a proposal to deregulate certain types of AI devices, pharma invests $50 million in DTx, and more.

Apr 9 • 10:22 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

AI micro-dramas are shaking up Chinese entertainment

Regulators threaten to spoil the fun

Apr 9 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • economist.com

AI-generated micro-dramas are shaking up entertainment in China

Regulators threaten to spoil the fun

Apr 9 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • economist.com

Guitar & Pen: 575 Brewery and Alamogordo's growing entertainment scene

I always applaud when a local business does something outside their normal cup of tea. Local watering hole, 575 Brewery has stepped up and is now offering a worship service at 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings, three hours before they open for business. Everyone who knows the owners of this establishment – Bill and Vicky Arnold – know how visionary the couple is. Regardless of your views on the Lord, this is the non-denominational place to be. The five disciples of the square table at the 99th Church of Christ applaud the innovation of these two great Alamogordians.

Apr 9 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • alamogordonews.com

Registration open for 2026 Mayor’s Small Business Conference

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Registration officially opened Thursday for the annual Savannah 2026 Mayor’s Small Business Conference. This one-day conference is hosted by the City’s Economic …

Apr 9 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • wsav.com

Eurobites: DT beams up Starlink for business broadband

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: lenders take control of Gigaclear; Liquid C2 offers Google Cloud experience; Ofcom replaces a Lord with a Knight.

Apr 9 • 7:25 AM EDT • Business • lightreading.com

Virginia Democrats Go All-In on Gerrymandering (With Some Regrets)

They’re asking voters to ruthlessly gerrymander Virginia.

Apr 9 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com

I'm one of 48 million unpaid caregivers. Health care collapses without us.

Caring for my mother isn't just physical. It's emotional, relentless and often invisible. I constantly anticipate risk while trying to save dignity.

Apr 9 • 6:02 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com

'It should have been five or six'

Jamie Carragher says the gulf between Liverpool and Paris St.Germain in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final was "absolutely startling". The Reds, who failed to register a shot on target at Parc des Princes, have a two-goal deficit to overturn in next week's second leg.

Apr 9 • 3:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The danger of when government goes rogue

It’s dangerous, even fatal, when government goes rogue whether in a democracy or autocracy. Government officials who ignore or taunt laws that constrain bad acts should be given the heave ho. We’re witnessing these egregious scenarios now at the federal and the Douglas County level. Scorn of basic rules of governance at the federal level […]

Apr 9 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Village Caregiving Lewisburg recognized as “New Business of the Year” for 2025

LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Village Caregiving Lewisburg was awarded “New Business of the Year” by the Greater Greenbrier Chamber of Commerce for 2025. Village Caregiving serves all 55 counties in West Vir...

Apr 8 • 8:50 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

City of Independence bans synthetic 7-OH, regulates kratom sold in businesses

The City of Independence voted to ban synthetic 7-OH and regulate its parent product, kratom, at Wednesday night's city council meeting.

Apr 8 • 8:47 PM EDT • Business • kshb.com

Policy mitigation, human drivers and health risks of antibiotics in global aquatic environments

Communications Earth & Environment - Antibiotic contamination in global aquatic environment exhibits significant regional disparities with low-and-middle income countries experiencing higher...

Apr 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com

North Bay athletes of the week: Top performers in prep sports around region

Did you catch these standout performances?

Apr 8 • 7:07 PM EDT • Sports • pressdemocrat.com

Greg Gutfeld: Democrats deemed health and fitness ‘problematic’

‘The Five’ co-hosts analyze HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s midterm travel push to boost support for the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ initiative.

Apr 8 • 6:19 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

New York Small Businesses Win Legal Challenge to Onerous New Wetlands Regulations

NFIB joined a lawsuit in 2025 challenging a harmful, vague wetlands mandate in New York.

Apr 8 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • nfib.com

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

Apr 8 • 5:50 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

'No one knows what they are': Researchers discover new type of cell that's seen only during pregnancy

A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be affected in conditions like preeclampsia.

Apr 8 • 5:01 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Oregonians tell Governor Kotek high costs, taxes are holding back business growth

A new statewide survey of Oregonians sends a clear and message: high costs, taxes and regulations are making it harder for businesses.

Apr 8 • 3:22 PM EDT • Business • kval.com

Oregonians tell Governor Kotek high costs, taxes are holding back business growth

A new statewide survey of Oregonians sends a clear and message: high costs, taxes and regulations are making it harder for businesses.

Apr 8 • 3:22 PM EDT • Business • katu.com

Comptroller Review Finds City's Small Business Forward Program Failed to Cut Red Tape or Limit Fines

New York, NY — A new review conducted by auditors of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine found the Small Business Forward program, aimed at easing regulatory and financial burdens on small businesses across the five boroughs, failed to achieve meaningful change for small businesses in New York City. Vague definitions, a lack...

Apr 8 • 2:56 PM EDT • Business • comptroller.nyc.gov

Nevada regulators approve Golden Entertainment going private

The CEO of Golden Entertainment told Nevada regulators that a lagging stock price and investors not properly valuing the casino operator caused them to take the company private. The Nevada Gamin...

Apr 8 • 2:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • cdcgaming.com

Sen. Cory Booker shouts out an Oregon high school science teacher

The New Jersey Democrat recorded a selfie video during his visit to a Southeast Portland high school.

Apr 8 • 2:49 PM EDT • Science • oregonlive.com

Jacksonville Bold for 4.8.26: Learning from mistakes

Republicans regroup for Jacksonville Mayor race as campaign season intensifies.

Apr 8 • 2:05 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

Washington State Ousted This Health Insurance Lookalike. In Oregon, It Carries On.

From one vantage, the story of Zion HealthShare shows Washington to be an overzealous nanny state. From another perspective, Oregon might stand to learn from its consumer-protection-minded neighbor to the north.

Apr 8 • 1:30 PM EDT • Health • wweek.com