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Major bill to set standards for college athletes’ pay passes US Senate

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan measure to overhaul the college sports landscape got a step closer to becoming law Monday after passing the U.S. Senate. The bill — which sailed through on a 77-22 vote — would set a national framework for college athletes’ compensation, provide certain antitrust protections to the NCAA, establish a five-year eligibility […]
Shauneen Miranda

Citizen

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17 years into an impressive career, Citizen still feel like underdogs who have never quite fit in. The band’s persistent sonic evolution and refusal to make the same record twice […]

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Myranda Levins

Alton Man In Custody Facing Defaced Firearm, Assault Charges

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ALTON – A convicted felon from Alton accused of armed assault and possessing defaced firearms has been detained on his latest criminal charges. Don A. Miller, 20, of Alton, was charged on Sept. 24, 2026 with three Class 3 felony counts of felon in possession of a weapon, two Class 3 felony counts of defacing identification marks of a firearm, and one count each of aggravated unlawful possession of weapons (a Class 4 felony) and aggravated assault (a Class A misdemeanor). Two days prior

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When The Maps Became The Territory

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The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around […]
Konstantinos Komaitis