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us health 6 16m ago 4 min read

Nearly 1 in 3 Lyme-Positive Patients Also Carry Antibodies to Other Tick-Borne Diseases, Quest Diagnostics Study Finds

A study of over 193,000 Americans found that people who tested positive for Lyme disease antibodies were more than four times as likely to also carry antibodies for babesiosis, anaplasmosis, or ehrlichiosis, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. Doctors say the overlap matters because one of those diseases, babesiosis, doesn't respond to the antibiotics that treat Lyme.

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us tech 8 21m ago 4 min read

Trump Calls It 'Superintelligence,' Rejects Global AI Controls as 22 Nations Push for Oversight

At the UN General Assembly and Security Council this week, Trump rejected international AI oversight as a 'globalist scheme' while Guterres and a 22-nation coalition pushed for binding controls. The declaration has no enforcement teeth and neither the U.S. nor China signed it, so this is a fight over who writes the rules, not a done deal.

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us health 7 26m ago 4 min read

Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Tops 750 Cases as Nurses Vaccinate Amish Families Door to Door

Since the outbreak took hold in late April, Pennsylvania has confirmed four measles deaths, the worst toll the state has seen in more than three decades, while health workers vaccinate Amish families at their kitchen tables. The CDC still hasn't added a single 2026 measles death to its official national count, and Gov. Josh Shapiro and RFK Jr. are still fighting over why.

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us economy 8 33m ago 4 min read

UN Food Agencies Warn 274 Million Could Face Acute Hunger by End of 2027 as Washington's Aid Retreat and El Niño Collide

The UN World Food Programme says a historic El Niño peaking between November 2026 and January 2027 could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, on top of funding cuts that have already forced WFP to halve food aid in the West Bank and slash Gaza cash assistance 40%. Humanitarian funding is down nearly 60% since 2022, and the frontrunner to lead the UN's food agency says other nations now have to cover what Washington stopped paying for.

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eu energy 6 39m ago 5 min read

EU Renewables Share Slips to 54.1% in Q2 2026 as Drought Drags Down Hydropower and Gas Use Ticks Up

Solar output in the EU jumped sharply in the second quarter of 2026, but a historic drought gutted Alpine hydropower and renewables' overall share of EU electricity actually fell slightly year-on-year, according to Eurostat. Gas generation grew faster than renewable generation, proving that one clean-energy source booming doesn't mean the grid is secure.

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us economy 9 1h ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Sit Down in Washington as US Extends China Tariff Truce to January 10, Cuts Duties to 7.5%

Since Xi landed at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday evening for his first U.S. state visit in 11 years, Washington has quietly extended the tariff truce with China through January 10 and cut duties to 7.5%, according to CNN and the Epoch Times. Meanwhile a White House report flags nine Latin American nations for helping China dodge tariffs, Vietnam denies doing the same, and GOP senators are already fighting over how much red-carpet treatment Xi deserves.

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us tech 6 1h ago 4 min read

Anthropic Says Claude AI Flagged a Possible New CRISPR-Like System, But Couldn't Reproduce Its Own Find in 10 Reruns

Anthropic says its Claude AI autonomously spotted an unknown enzyme system in virus DNA that structurally resembles CRISPR, using nearly 950 AI agents over 21 hours. The catch: nobody knows what it does, the work hasn't been peer-reviewed, and when Anthropic reran the same search ten more times, not one rerun found it again.

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eu energy 8 1h ago 4 min read

European Oil Stocks Jump Up to 87% and Tanker Rates Top $1 Million a Day as Macron Asks Brussels to Loosen Fuel Rules

While European drivers pay record prices at the pump, the companies producing and shipping fuel are having their best year in a decade, with oil stocks up as much as 87% and supertanker charter rates passing $1 million a day. France's Emmanuel Macron is now asking the European Commission to relax fuel-quality standards to squeeze more diesel out of refineries, as Germany pushes a separate fight over taxing the industry's windfall.

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us defense 9 2h ago 4 min read

Trump Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran at the UN, Then Sends Envoys Into Surprise Talks as GOP Support Cracks

Nearly seven months into the Iran war, Trump told the UN General Assembly he'd soon decide whether to annihilate the Islamic Republic, then had his envoys hold three hours of talks with Iran's foreign minister that briefly knocked oil under $100 a barrel. Back home, a Congressional Budget Office report tying the war to a spike in inflation and $4.48 gas is peeling off Republican candidates ahead of November, while Brazil's Lula used the same UN podium to blast American power projection.

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us health 7 2h ago 4 min read

El Niño Ocean Temperatures Smash 170-Year Record as California Declares State of Emergency

The Pacific's El Niño, declared back in June, has blown past every prior benchmark, with a Sept. 21 reading hitting 3.11°C above average according to an analysis of NOAA data. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency the same day, and NOAA says there's a 75% chance this becomes the strongest El Niño since records began in 1950.

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us sports 3 2h ago 3 min read

White Sox Pitching Coach Don Cooper, Architect of the 2005 World Series Rotation, Dies at 70

Don Cooper, the pitching coach behind the Chicago White Sox's 2005 World Series title, died Tuesday at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee, at age 70. He spent 33 seasons with the organization and built the last rotation to throw four straight complete games in a single MLB postseason. No cause of death has been released.

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us sports 4 2h ago 3 min read

Advocacy Group Says Trans Athletes Have Won Over 2,293 Girls' and Women's Golds, Report Unverified

Concerned Women for America released a report claiming transgender athletes have won more than 2,293 gold medals in U.S. women's and girls' sports since the mid-1980s, timed to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on female athletes. The figures come from an advocacy-run tracking site and have not been independently verified.

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us defense 7 2h ago 4 min read

DOJ Indictment Details Russian Plot to Kill a Dissident in Washington, All Five Suspects Remain in Russia

A week after the Justice Department unsealed charges against five alleged Russian intelligence operatives, the indictment's details show a Kremlin network that tried to hire a Brooklyn recruit to kill a dissident for $40,000 and offered a Lithuania-based recruit $25,000 for a similar hit. All five defendants are believed to be in Russia, and none has been arrested.

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ca economy 7 2h ago 4 min read

Carney Tells NYT He Studied Risk of U.S.-Led Military Action Against Canada

In a New York Times interview published Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed his government examined the 'extreme tail risk' of a U.S.-led military move against Canada, though he wouldn't say what that study involved. The disclosure lands the same week Ottawa unveiled a transport bill designed to route trade around the United States entirely, and it's a striking new data point in a relationship that's already cratered over tariffs and the failed August trade talks.

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us defense 9 2h ago 4 min read

Xi Arrives for Trump Summit as Customs Data Show China Still Supplying Iran's Military

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Washington for a Trump summit set for Wednesday, September 24, just as customs records show Beijing shipped roughly 1,300 dual-use components to Iran's Defense Ministry this year and satellite imagery tied to Chinese entities was linked to a strike that killed three U.S. troops. China remains Iran's only major oil buyer and its top diplomatic backer, even as Trump keeps the summit focused on trade.

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us defense 8 3h ago 4 min read

DOJ Charges Oxygen Forensics CEO and Russian Co-Founder With Hiding Russian Ownership From US Secret Service Contract

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Davydov with wire fraud conspiracy for allegedly hiding the company's Russian ownership while it sold digital forensics software to the Secret Service and other US agencies. Prosecutors say Reiber falsely certified no foreign ownership for years, but they stopped short of claiming the software was compromised or that anyone accessed Secret Service data.

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us economy 8 3h ago 5 min read

AI Data Center Spending Overtook US Housing Investment in Q2, and the Real Bill Could Hit $10.3 Trillion by 2032

New figures show data center and computing hardware investment hit $752 billion in Q2 2026, edging past residential housing for the first time, while a Columbia University and Brookings Institution analysis pegs the full AI buildout at $10.3 trillion through 2032. Wall Street is now asking whether hyperscalers can actually generate the cash to pay for it, and whether Washington's fight over AI is really about the economy having nowhere else to turn for growth.

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us economy 8 3h ago 4 min read

Bessent Says US and China Extend Busan Trade Truce to January 10, Not the Two Years Beijing Wanted

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the Busan trade truce with China, set to expire November 10, has been pushed to January 10 instead. China wanted two years. The extension buys time on tariffs and rare earths but leaves the bigger fight over Beijing's unmet commitments unresolved.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Putin's Envoy Dmitriev Returns to New York for Fresh Round of Ukraine Talks With Witkoff and Kushner

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev is in New York this week for follow-up talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, according to Reuters, three weeks after Putin hosted the two Americans at the Kremlin for a three-hour session Ushakov called 'highly useful.' Rubio says both sides want a limited ceasefire on grain and energy strikes, but four and a half years into the war, nobody's announced an actual deal.

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us energy 8 3h ago 4 min read

Pentagon Adds Virginia Officer to Iran War Death Toll, Disputes Washington Post's Count of Four More

The Pentagon put its official Iran war death toll at 19 after adding Maj. Bianca Wilkerson, who died Sept. 18 in a non-combat incident while flying to the Middle East. The Washington Post says the real number is at least 23, a gap Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls a lie, while gas prices and oil markets keep swinging seven months into a war Trump says won't end before the midterms.

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