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📚 Librarians are winning

📚 Librarians are winning

Published by Jenni Sidey

B. K. Borison is the author of First-Time Caller, Good Spirits, and more bestselling romance novels. Her newest is Grim Tidings, a grim reaper x guardian angel romance, out today from Avon. Below, she recommends three of her favorite fall romances. ‘Tis the season for strong coffee, cozy sweaters, and delicious romances. These are three of my favorite love stories that are perfect for the -ber months. Die for Me by Shirlene Obuobi: This is a story I wanted to sink my teeth into, quite literally. Sean’s not in the market for love, but when she meets Julian, she’s quickly pulled in by his passion and beauty. What starts as a whirlwind affair quickly turns addictive. A dash of suspense with a healthy dose of romance, this book will keep you warm. No fire needed. The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri: There is something about Tasha Suri’s writing that completely sweeps me away. Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen’s court. When the two women …

The Old Democrat Who Keeps Winning

The Old Democrat Who Keeps Winning

Published by Sam Flores

Many Democrats of a certain age took the same message from the party’s 2024 debacle: Voters are sick of the old guard and craving younger, more aggressive leaders. Better to retire on your own terms than suffer the fate of Joe Biden, forced to stand down from his reelection campaign after a public humiliation. Nancy Pelosi, the 86-year-old former speaker, announced her exit from the House, as did her longtime lieutenant, 87-year-old Steny Hoyer. Senators Dick Durbin (81) and Jeanne Shaheen (79) passed up reelection bids this year, and so, too, did two senators merely in their late 60s. Senator Ed Markey, 80, heeded no such warning, and evidently, he didn’t need to. The Massachusetts Democrat is one of just two current senators whose tenures in Congress date to the presidency of Gerald Ford. But tonight, the oldest Democratic senator on the ballot this year trounced his much younger primary opponent, Representative Seth Moulton. The AP called the race a half hour after polls closed, with Markey leading by nearly 50 points. In a race …

Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone

Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone

Published by Miika Tikkanen

For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That assumption is now being tested at scale, in real production environments — and in a lot of deployments it’s failing. The companies that end up benefiting from agentic AI won’t necessarily be the ones that have given their agents the most flexibility. They’re the ones who create AI agents with specific responsibilities and make sure they operate within clear rules. Two numbers tell you almost everything about where agentic AI stands in mid-2026. By Gartner’s own forecast, more than 40% of the agentic AI projects running today won’t survive to see 2028. Not because the models fall short; because of escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls. McKinsey’s 2026 AI Trust Maturity Survey fits right alongside that prediction: Agentic AI deployment is accelerating across every industry, but average responsible-AI maturity …

Pogacar finds joy in winning and helping teammate Del Toro

Pogacar finds joy in winning and helping teammate Del Toro

Published by Sam Flores

PARIS, July 26 : The Tadej Pogacar who won the Tour de France on Sunday with a record-equalling fifth title, and his third in a row, was a different man to the rider of last year. The grumpy Pogacar of the 2025 Tour’s third week when, he later said, he had knee issues, gave way to a joyful one in this year’s edition, mainly due to his plan to help teammate Isaac del Toro secure third place overall. The sight of Pogacar leaving the press conference room on Saturday singing “Torito”, in reference to Del Toro, highlighted his lightness over the three-week race. Pogacar’s dominance was such a matter of course that he offered the second-stage victory to Del Toro in Barcelona, regardless of the bonus seconds he could have gained with the win. The Slovenian eventually claimed five stage wins on this Tour, taking his tally to 26 in seven editions. He made the difference on the first major high-altitude day, during stage six, which tackled the Col du Tourmalet. WINS IN HARD STAGES “Pogi” …

Winning? Do We Need To Understand UBI

Winning? Do We Need To Understand UBI

Published by Jenni Sidey

Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Winning? Do We Need To Understand UBI Iran (and the potential for a deal) has continued to move markets. As the 30-year bond rose above 5% earlier this week, we got news that we have a new approach to resolving the conflict – a one-page MOU. Markets (ex-oil) rallied around various “deal” headlines all week. Spider, Bret, and I spent some time discussing this on Friday’s Podcast – The U.S. Proposal to End the War (also available on Spotify and iTunes). Information continues to leak out in dribs and drabs about how those negotiations are doing. There continue to be conflicting messages. In the back of my mind, I’m increasingly forced to remember what we mentioned at the start of the conflict – Iran has never won a war but has never lost a negotiation. There was a time when that statement didn’t seem likely to be reflective of this conflict. From “unconditional surrender” to various other metrics (especially surrounding nuclear weapons capabilities) we seem to be drifting …

Arizona Lottery .8M winning ticket dispute: Circle K fights deadline as ownership battle intensifies

Arizona Lottery $12.8M winning ticket dispute: Circle K fights deadline as ownership battle intensifies

Published by Miika Tikkanen

A $12.8 million Arizona Lottery prize is at risk of slipping away as a court fight ramps up over who actually owns the winning ticket. Circle K seeks to pause looming lottery deadline Circle K has gone to court asking a judge to freeze the clock before a May 23 deadline that would otherwise wipe out the winnings under lottery rules. The company is not asking for an immediate ruling on ownership. Instead, it wants time to sort out a lawsuit that now involves the store, a clerk, and the Arizona Lottery. Disputed ticket traced back to Scottsdale store The ticket in question came from a November drawing of “The Pick” and was sold at a Circle K near Bell Road and 56th Street in Scottsdale. According to court filings, a customer asked for $85 in tickets but only paid $60, leaving 25 tickets behind at the counter. One of those tickets later hit all six numbers, triggering the $12.8 million win. Circle K’s lawsuit argues that those leftover tickets were never legally purchased and …

For Dodgers, the goal is simple: ‘They want to keep winning’

For Dodgers, the goal is simple: ‘They want to keep winning’

Published by Sam Flores

Dave Roberts doesn’t get the same butterflies before opening day that fluttered in his stomach early in his managerial career. He’s been through the transition from spring training to regular season plenty of times over the course of a 10-year playing career and 10 previous seasons at the helm. “The game’s slowed down more,” Roberts said before leaving Camelback Ranch for the Freeway Series, “but my joy for opening day or the start of the season hasn’t changed.” The Dodgers open the season Thursday at Dodger Stadium against the Arizona Diamondbacks, in pursuit of a third straight World Series title. On paper, they’re the clear favorite. There have been just four three-peats in MLB history, three by the Yankees (1936-39, 1949-53, 1998-2000) and one by the A’s (1972-74). But because of the starpower and payroll of this team, if the Dodgers miss the mark, the season will be branded a failure. Roberts has gotten used to that kind of outside pressure. “Every single year, if we don’t win the World Series, it’s a ‘failure,’” Roberts …

The Winning Audiobooks of 2025

The Winning Audiobooks of 2025

Published by José Betancourt

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. The Big Audiobook Winners of 2025 The big audiobook awards event of the year in the U.S. took place last night when the 2026 Audie Awards® winners were announced. The awards recognizing audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment is conducted by the Audio Publishers Association. The Audiobook of the Year winner was none other than Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, narrated by Jefferson White, and the Fiction winner was Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, and Taylor Jenkins Reid. The Autobiography/Memoir winner was Matriarch by Tina Knowles, and who could compete with this narration team: Tina Knowles, Beyoncé, Solange, Kelly Rowland, and Angie Beyincé. Horror went to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, and Owen Teale, and I can personally attest to the excellence of that audiobook. Explore the full list of 2026 Audie …

How Art Dealers Are Doubling Down on LA—and Winning

How Art Dealers Are Doubling Down on LA—and Winning

Published by Sam Flores

But for all the gossip, if you’re actually on the ground, it’s a mad dash, a spree of great gallery openings and spare-no-expense dinners to follow. Gladstone isn’t the only dealer to double down on the city. Other extremely successful bicoastal enterprises—galleries that make New York and LA their primary home bases—include David Kordansky Gallery, Karma, Matthew Brown, Jeffrey Deitch, Hoffman Donahue, François Ghebaly, and James Fuentes. They all have big shows on both coasts, and that’s not even mentioning the LA-operating mega-galleries that also have outposts in Europe (Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Lisson, Marian Goodman, Pace, Perrotin) and decided to stage their major shows in LA while everyone’s in town for Frieze. Another data point: As I mentioned in my profile of the artist Paul McCarthy, The Journal Gallery is staging possibly its most important show in over two decades of existence, not in New York—where it started—but in LA, where they opened an outpost in 2024. Gallery dinners for The Journal in the past have been nice affairs at Dan Tana’s, …