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Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over measles — a US first since the 2025 surge. New York has 108 cases this year, 92 since July in under-immunized rural areas, as the US logs nearly 3,900 cases and Pennsylvania tops 1,000 with five deaths.
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A 28-year-old technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after reporting she had broken a test tube of live bacteria. Russia calls it pneumonia of unknown origin — but quarantined nearly 200 contacts and cordoned off hospital wards.
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Trump said a 'threat' forced the withdrawal of all US bombers from RAF Fairford after the Pentagon confirmed the aircraft — B-1s, B-2s and B-52s used for strikes on Iran — had been flown back to the United States, following a suspected terror plot against the English base.
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With petrol at $4.36 a gallon and diesel at a record $6.32, Donald Trump insisted on Monday that the Strait of Hormuz is flowing again and blamed Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries and Democratic-run states for the pain at the pump.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that Mexico has asked the US for evidence that gunfire came from the Mexican side of the border, after the ambassador's claim triggered the deployment of hundreds of troops on both sides of the Rio Grande.
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Outside the White House, Donald Trump announced a coming 'decision' on Iran — 'the easy way or the hard way' — while boasting that Tehran has been 'decimated' and promising oil prices will 'drop like a rock' when it ends. Ultimatums are not strategy; they are the theatre of an empire that prices...
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Frank Strada's resignation changes nothing. A system that jabs a shackled woman seven times, bends a needle inside her arm and calls it protocol does not need a new commissioner. It needs to be dismantled.
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Governor Bill Lee announced Commissioner Frank Strada's resignation after Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30. Her lawyers say IV lines were misplaced and veins blown; it was the second execution disaster in Tennessee this year.
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US District Judge Haywood Gilliam blocked the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling agencies skipped required rule-making steps. The fee has already been blocked by a Boston judge; Indians, 71% of H-1B recipients, are the most affected.
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