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Rupert Murdoch, the 94-year-old media baron whose fortunes have risen in tandem with Trump’s political ascent,
has turned into an unlikely foe.
Trump has bristled over a Wall Street Journal report that he allegedly sent a suggestive letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.
Trump denied sending the message, calling it a “fake,”
and last month he filed a $10-billion defamation suit against Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., Murdoch and …

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: Inside their tangled relationship
Trump sued Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. for $10 billion over the Wall Street Journal's report that Trump allegedly sent a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday decades ago.

Decomposition of the connection in affine models of gravity: Can the connection tell us something about the metric?
Oscar Castillo-Felisola, Bastian Grez, Aureliano Skirzewski, Jefferson Vaca-Santana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03659

Decomposition of the connection in affine models of gravity: Can the connection tell us something about the metric?
In physics geometrical connections are the mean to create models with local symmetries (gauge connections), as well as general diffeomorphisms invariance (affine connections). Here we study the irreducible tensor decomposition of connections on the tangent bundle of an affine manifold as used in the polynomial affine model of gravity. This connection is the most general linear connection, which allows us to build metric independent, diffeomorphism invariant models. This set up includes parts of…

The High Level Trigger and Express Data Production at STAR
Wayne Betts, Jinhui Chen, Yuri Fisyak, Hongwei Ke, Ivan Kisel, Pavel Kisel, Grigory Kozlov, Jeffery Landgraf, Jerome Lauret, Tonko Ljubicic, Yugang Ma, Spyridon Margetis, Hao Qiu, Diyu Shen, Qiye Shou, Xiangming Sun, Aihong Tang, Gene Van Buren, Iouri Vassiliev, Baoshan Xi, Zhenyu Ye, Zhengqiao Zhang, Maksym Zyzak

The High Level Trigger and Express Data Production at STAR
The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has developed and deployed a high-performance High Level Trigger (HLT) and Express Data Production system to enable real-time event processing during the Beam Energy Scan phase-II (BES-II) program. Designed to meet the demands of high event rates and complex final states, the HLT performs online tracking, event reconstruction, and physics object selection using parallelized algorithms including the Cellular Automaton Track Finder…

Toric Geometry of Generalized K\"ahler-Ricci Solitons
Vestislav Apostolov, Giuseppe Barbaro, Jeffrey Streets, Yury Ustinovskiy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01639 https://

Toric Geometry of Generalized Kähler-Ricci Solitons
We establish a local equivalence between toric steady Kähler-Ricci solitons and $A$-type toric generalized Kähler-Ricci solitons (GKRS). Under natural global conditions we show this equivalence extends to complete GKRS, yielding a general construction of new examples in all dimensions. We show that in four dimensions, all GKRS are either described by the generalized Kähler Gibbons-Hawking ansatz, or have split tangent bundle, or are $A$-type toric. This yields a local classification in four …

Stratification of the half-density quantization of the Jeffrey-Weitsman-Witten invariants
Adrian Chitan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17656 https://arxiv.org/…

Stratification of the half-density quantization of the Jeffrey-Weitsman-Witten invariants
In this paper we review the quantization procedure employed by Jeffrey and Weitsman in their formalization of Witten's three manifold invariants. In so doing, we formalize the stratification of the Lagrangian leaf which corresponds to the flat connections of a bounding surface which extend into the handlebody. The smooth structure of this space motivates a procedure for a stratified quantization: use volumes and corresponding half-densities on the stratified tangent bundle. The pairing is then …

AI Knows Best? The Paradox of Expertise, AI-Reliance, and Performance in Educational Tutoring Decision-Making Tasks
Eason Chen, Jeffrey Li, Scarlett Huang, Xinyi Tang, Jionghao Lin, Paulo Carvalho, Kenneth Koedinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16772

AI Knows Best? The Paradox of Expertise, AI-Reliance, and Performance in Educational Tutoring Decision-Making Tasks
We present an empirical study of how both experienced tutors and non-tutors judge the correctness of tutor praise responses under different Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted interfaces, types of explanation (textual explanations vs. inline highlighting). We first fine-tuned several Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce binary correctness labels and explanations, achieving up to 88% accuracy and 0.92 F1 score with GPT-4. We then let the GPT-4 models assist 95 participants in tutoring decis…

Dynamical signatures and control of time-reversal breaking in twisted nodal superconductors
Jefferson Tang, Pavel A. Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22495 https://

Dynamical signatures and control of time-reversal breaking in twisted nodal superconductors
Recent observations of time-reversal breaking superconductivity at twisted cuprate interfaces motivate the development of new approaches to better characterize this emergent phenomenon. Here we study the dynamical properties of the order parameters at the twisted unconventional superconductor interfaces. We reveal the emergence of a soft collective mode (Josephson plasmon) at the time-reversal breaking transition, which can be tuned by temperature, twist angle or magnetic field. Furthermore, no…