July 7, 2026

The 48 foot tall soccer ball

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: A Washington police department found a mother bird nesting with four eggs inside a training motorcycle’s storage compartment at its new headquarters and chose not to disturb it; two eggs have hatched. Researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology that the experimental pancreatic cancer pill D-A-R-A-X-O-N-R-A-S-I-B helped metastatic patients live a median 13.2 months versus 6.7 with chemotherapy, and studies are exploring earlier use. MIT researchers found ranking three options can reveal richer preference information than choosing between two, potentially improving AI recommendations and public services. In Louisiana, a real estate agent encountered an African eland antelope, possibly from a nearby game park. The Massachusetts Sport Authority set a Guinness record with a 47.9-foot soccer ball in East Boston.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories in Washington. One of the motorcycles belonging

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to the Police Department is going to be out of

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commission for a little bit. The PD announced that a

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bird built a nest inside the storage compartment of a

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motorcycle used for traffic officer training. Department personnel had moved

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into a new headquarters and noticed that a mother bird

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had taken up residents inside the motorcycle, officer has found

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a nest containing four eggs. Rather than disturbing the nest,

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officers decided let nature take its course. Latest update we

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have is that two of the eggs have successfully hatched.

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The department said, Mama bird has been doing an incredible

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job taking care of our little ones, giving them warm

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fed and safe inside their very unique nest at our

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new public safety facility. Our officers and staff have been

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carefully watching them from respectful distance as this feathered family

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continues to grow. Good luck to the birds. All right,

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Scientists are getting it done. We've had a lot of

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really good science stories lately. Researchers say a new experimental

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pill may represent one of the most significant advances in

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pancreatic cancer treatments in decades. The drug, Now, I'll spell

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this out in case, for some reason this story affects

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you or someone in your family. The drug is called

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I want to even attempt to pronounce it. It is

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spelled d A r A x O n r a SIB. Right,

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so da r A x O n r asib directs

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un recib. Again, I spelled it. That drug has held

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patients with advanced pancreatic cancer lives substantially longer than those

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receiving standard chemotherapy. According to results presented at the American

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Society of Clinical Oncology, more than fifty two thousand people

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will likely die from the disease this year. The overall

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five year survival rate remains just thirteen percent. The study

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involved five hundred patients whose metastatic pran careatic cancer that

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stopped responding to previous treatments. Patients taking the drug of

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the meeting of thirteen point two months compared with six

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point seven months for those receiving chemotherapy. Doctor Zev Weinberg

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of UCLA said, while not curing the cancer, it is

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a very large step forward. Researchers are now studying where

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the drug cat help patients earlier in the disease process.

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I hope they figure that out. That would be fantastic.

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Researchers at MIT have found a way to better understand

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what people like. The discovery can help make AI recommendations

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and public services work better for everyone. MIT researchers discovered

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when it comes to understanding what people really want, three

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choices maybe better than two choices. The MIT crew found

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that asking people to rank three options instead of simply

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choosing between two, can reveal much richer information about human preferences.

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For decades, most systems have been like would you rather

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watch MOVIEA or movie B? But the MIT team found

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that misses important connections between people's interests and preferences. Meanwhile,

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in Louisiana, woman got a surprise when she went to

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check on a property. She's a real estate agent. She

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spotted what she thought was a large bull standing near

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a head of cattle. However, it wasn't a bull. It

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was an African eland antelope, a species native to Africa

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and not usually seen in Louisiana. She told the local news.

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You stepped out and started walking across the road. I

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stopped and I was looking at him. And he din'

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actually was scared to me at all. It was more

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docile and more kind of confused, like what am I

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supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go? You

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don't belong in this part of the woods. Now, local

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residents aren't sure where this antelope came from. Some think

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it may have wandered away from a nearby game park.

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Are you enjoying World Cup soccer? Well? The Massachusetts Port

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Authority brooke the gidness world record by creating a soccer

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ball measuring forty seven point nine feet in diameter. The

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soccer ball is installed in Pierce Park in East Boston.

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It breaks the previous record held by Cutter. That soccer

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ball was thirty nine point nine to eight feet. Kind

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of fun. I've been enjoying the World Cup. I hope

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you have two in those your five good news stories

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for today. I have a good one.