The CDC reported 4,410 confirmed measles cases as of Oct. 15, up 330 in a week, with 451 hospitalizations this year. Pennsylvania counts 1,222 cases and five deaths, while the CDC lists two deaths nationwide.
The CDC reported 4,410 confirmed measles cases as of Oct. 15, up 330 in a week, with 451 hospitalizations this year. Pennsylvania counts 1,222 cases and five deaths, while the CDC lists two deaths nationwide.
US Coast Guard air and surface crews searched on Friday for people reported in the water about 140 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico, after a human smuggling boat incident. Officials said at least 15 people had been rescued and the search was still under way.
A Fayette Circuit Court judge sentenced Laken Snelling, 22, to 10 years on Friday, two months after the former University of Kentucky student pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her newborn, who was found in a closet in August 2025.
A strong cold front will set off severe thunderstorms across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Friday afternoon and evening. Damaging winds are the main threat, and a brief tornado is possible in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Masked settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at villagers harvesting near Abu Falah on Friday. Photojournalist Heidi Levine was kicked while on the ground, taken to hospital, and her newspaper has demanded an investigation.
Ravita Kashyap and Amardeep strangled her husband Amit in April 2025 and placed a live snake by his body. A postmortem found no venom, and a Meerut court sentenced both to death on Friday.
CNN reports Ukraine has used its last Patriot missiles as Russian ballistic strikes hit power plants in Kyiv and winter nears.
Police deployed thousands of personnel, closed Central Park for two days and restricted 20 roads after denying permission for the Cockroach Janta Party flag march set for 5 p.m. on Friday.
MSCI will bar non-operating companies from its global indexes from November 30. Strategy, the biggest corporate bitcoin holder, is on the list of possible deletions, and its shares fell before the open on Friday.
Hot CPI and PPI data pushed yields and the dollar higher and pulled gold lower this week. Fed Chair Warsh remarks then eased hike bets and steadied the price.
Delhi flights to Copenhagen, Vienna and Birmingham end this winter as fuel costs and closed Pakistan airspace bite. Sydney rises to 11 flights a week and Osaka starts in February.
The Sensex closed at 74,729.27 and the Nifty at 23,146.15 on Friday. The Nifty IT index rose 10.4 percent this week, its strongest run since 2008, led by Tech Mahindra and Wipro.
The BBC's 24-hour news channel went live on YouTube in Britain and America on Thursday, a trial aimed at younger viewers who open an app before they open a channel guide.
Apple opened pre-orders for its first foldable iPhone at 5 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday in more than 70 countries. The Duo starts at $1,999, ships October 23, and early reports say supply will stay tight.
Nepal Telecom opened a 30 Mbps NT Fiber package at 4,999 rupees a year on Friday, with free installation and daily mobile data. Faster WiFi 6 tiers run to 200 Mbps at 16,499 rupees.
Agents used to evaluate outside models made repeated visits to a rival's map service, researchers say. Tencent says its own Hunyuan models were not behind the activity and that controls are being tightened.
The series is level at 2-2. India and West Indies meet in the fifth T20I on Saturday at 7 p.m. IST at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer beat streamer IShowSpeed 18-0 on EA Sports FC 27 on a livestream, with no shots allowed for his opponent.
Built in two sleepless nights by a 27 year old engineer from Bareilly, the free browser game Jantar Mantar Chalo lets players march as protesters or break up crowds as police, and more than 1,500 people now play at once.
Sony Pictures International launched the second trailer on Thursday, with Ranbir Kapoor's Rama framed as a man, not a god, against Yash's Ravana. The film opens worldwide on November 5.
Faber says it can no longer supply her novels in the UK in any format, because it cannot lawfully pay her British earnings after she pledged her royalties to the banned group.
Pots of honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs stay preserved for thousands of years. The reason is a three part defense bees build into every jar: very little water, natural acidity near pH 4, and a small steady supply of hydrogen peroxide.
Is it a myth? Botanists say no. A berry must grow from one flower with one ovary and hold its seeds inside three fleshy layers. The banana passes that test. The strawberry, an aggregate accessory fruit whose red flesh is a swollen flower base, does not.
The bare-nosed wombat is the only known animal that makes cube shaped droppings, up to 100 a day. A study in the journal Soft Matter found the cubes form in the last 17 percent of the intestine, where stiff and soft tissue squeeze at different speeds.
Venus takes 243 Earth days to spin once and only 225 Earth days to circle the Sun, according to NASA. It also spins backward, so the Sun would rise in the west, and a sunrise comes only once every 117 Earth days.
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