Scary Islanders Facts

Fact or Fiction: The NBA needs more 3-point specialists

Should sharpshooters be getting more opportunities in the NBA?

Sports - Yahoo Sports - 6 days ago

Fact Checking RFK Jr.’s Claims About Food and Nutrition

We fact checked five of his most repeated claims.

Top stories - The New York Times - 6 days ago

Facts vs. Feelings: Stars to trust and under-the-radar plays for Week 12

The formula for success in fantasy involves weighing facts versus feelings to make those Week 12 decisions.

Sports - ESPN - Yesterday

ESPN Football Island opens in Fortnite Creative

Check out ESPN Football Island in Fortnite Creative, the part of Epic Games' blockbuster title that lets people create their own games.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 29

Sabres Have Perfect Trade Target In Islanders Star

The Sabres should keep an eye on this Islanders forward during this season.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 1

Barzal leaves Islanders road trip due to injury

Mathew Barzal has left the Islanders' road trip with an upper-body injury.

Sports - ESPN - November 1

Whitehouse wins Rhode Island Senate race

Incumbent Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) is projected to win his reelection bid against Republican state Rep. Patricia Morgan in Rhode Island. An aggregate of polling from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ ...

Politics - The Hill - November 6

Is this tiny Mauritian island a confidential spy station?

India has built a 3km-long runway on Agalega and no-one has fully explained why, angering residents.

World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands

Gigantic multicoloured organism is visible from space and has grown for between 300 and 500 years. The world’s largest known coral, visible from space, has been discovered in the waters of the ...

World - The Guardian - November 14

Why Whoopi Goldberg Is Feuding With a Staten Island Bakery

The left-leaning host of “The View” said the business in a Republican stronghold declined to take an order under her name. The bakery said politics had nothing to do with it.

Top stories - The New York Times - 4 days ago

Tesco row shows Sundays are still sacred on Hebridean islands

The first Sunday opening of a Tesco has sparked a row and put a part of island culture under the spotlight.

Horror Game Sale Features Scary Good Deals On Silent Hill 2, Cult Of The Lamb, And More

Ahead of Halloween, Fanatical has kicked off a big sale with some scary good deals on horror hits as well as games with tropes from the genre such as zombies, vampires, and ghosts. Marvel's ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 28

It's spooky season. Here are some scary stories from around the world you probably haven't heard

The scary legends are many and varied

Entertainment - ABC News - October 31

Real-estate agents on how they handle haunted homes in an already-scary housing market

This Halloween, real-estate agents reflect on some of the creepiest, spookiest homes they’ve helped buy or sell — or lived in themselves.

Business - MarketWatch - November 2

Former Saints WR Michael Thomas rips Derek Carr during Panthers game; veteran QB responds after upset loss

Thomas clearly has an axe to grind

Sports - CBS Sports - November 3

The Suns are off to a red-hot start. The scary part? Their offense isn't even humming yet

Eight games into the 2024-25 NBA season, Phoenix is atop the West and beginning to look a lot like a Coach Bud team.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 8

$Chet Holmgren injury update: Thunder center out at least 8-10 weeks with hip fracture$

Chet Holmgren injury update: Thunder center out at least 8-10 weeks with hip fracture

Holmgren's injury took place after a hard fall while trying to contest a layup

Sports - CBS Sports - November 11

So Human It's Scary: My Day Alone Talking to Bots That Sound Like Us

Joanna Stern strapped chatbots from Meta, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft to a tripod and took them to the woods to uncover the secrets of AI friendship.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - November 13

Musk shares fake image of The Atlantic, bringing fact-checking and condemnation from the magazine

The Atlantic magazine has found itself in the crosshairs of Elon Musk after it fact-checked a fake image shared by the tech billionaire.

My mother was told I’d died in a house fire at 10 days old. In fact, I was kidnapped

Delimar Vera spent her early years with the woman who snatched her. Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party .... When Delimar Vera was six years old, the woman she ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

Leonardo DiCaprio backs Harris, says Trump 'continues to deny the facts' about climate change

Leonardo DiCaprio says he's voting for Vice President Harris in the White House race because "we need a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet and ourselves," while former President ...

Politics - The Hill - October 25

Musk's election falsehoods travel hundreds of times further on X than fact-checks from officials

As Elon Musk continues to aggressively share conspiracy theories and misinformation about elections on X, election officials are fighting back.

Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: Now that dust has settled from 3 big WR trades, who's winning?

Amari Cooper, DeAndre Hopkins and Davante Adams all went to different teams the past few weeks. Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller investigates the fallout now that recency ...

Sports - Yahoo Sports - October 29

Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation

X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform

Tech - ABC News - October 30

Fact Checking False Voter Fraud Claims About Votes Exceeding Eligible Voters

The number of votes cast in presidential elections has always been less than the number of eligible voters.

Business - The New York Times - October 31

Election fact check: How voting machines work and why they're hard to hack

While election officials use technology for voter registration, tallying and in some cases vote-casting, the system is largely centered around paper ballots.

Fact or Fiction: Under the rise of Evan Mobley, the Cavaliers are contenders again post-LeBron

Let's take a deeper dive into Cleveland's undefeated start to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 1

Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: These offenses have been up and down all season — which can you trust?

What do we make of these NFL offenses 10 weeks into the season? Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller investigates.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 12

FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories

False posts circulating on social media claim that billionaire Elon Musk facilitated alleged election fraud through his internet service provider Starlink, manipulating the vote count, particularly ...

Tech - ABC News - November 12

Lions' Jahmyr Gibbs 'knew for a fact' Cowboys were going to take him 26th overall if on board in 2023 draft

Gibbs also mentioned the Bengals were interested in trading up for him if he was around in the late teen's or early 20's

Sports - CBS Sports - 6 days ago

Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: What to make of Anthony Richardson's bounce-back week

Fantasy football analyst and neuroscientist Renee Miller parses through the biggest booms from Week 11 to suss out which breakouts were the real deal.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - 2 days ago

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