As of July 29, there’s already been a total of 1,333 confirmed measles cases across 40 jurisdictions, according to CDC data. (Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
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Childhood vaccination rates dropped even further for the 2024-2025…
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How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust
Robin Levinson KingBBC News
Getty ImagesBulleit Bourbon reported a more than 7% sales drop this fiscal year As American as apple pie, Kentucky bourbon was booming after the last Great Recession ended. But as the economy has waned post-Pandemic -…
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Billionaire inheritance battle puts spotlight on India’s messy family succession
Devina GuptaBBC News, Delhi
Sunjay Kapur/XSunjay Kapur suffered a heart attack in June while playing polo in the UK An Indian tycoon’s sudden death in June has triggered a fierce inheritance battle at an Indian automotive giant.
Sunjay Kapur, 53,…
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Jen Pawol becomes first woman to umpire Major League Baseball game
Jen Pawol has made US sporting history by becoming the first female umpire to referee a Major League Baseball (MLB) game during the regular season.
Pawol, 48, oversaw first base during Saturday’s game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
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Zelensky Risks Angering Trump: NYT
Trump will be meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska next Friday in a bid to find a way out of the conflict.
Russia insists that the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson…
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Newsom calls Trump’s $1 billion UCLA settlement offer extortion, says California won’t bow
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Saturday that a $1 billion settlement offer by President Donald Trump’s administration for UCLA amounted to political extortion to which the state will not bow.
WHY…
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France’s last newspaper hawker gets Order of Merit after 50 years
Hugh SchofieldParis correspondent
BBCAli Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.
Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more…
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The village in Peru that lives in the dark next to a massive solar plant
Alejandro Millán ValenciaBBC News Mundo
BBCResidents of Pampa Clemesí, in southern Peru, rely on flashlights to make their way through the darkness Each morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at cardboard scraps in a makeshift stove in her…
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British Police Arrest 474 People At Protest Over Palestine Action Ban In London
On Saturday night, the Metropolitan police announced: “Parliament Square and Whitehall are clear. As of 9pm, 466 people had been arrested for showing support for Palestine Action.
“There were a further eight arrests for other offences…
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The complex question of what it is to be culturally Irish in 2025
BBCHe sang wistfully of the English town that shaped his life.
“Found my heart and broke it here. Made friends and lost them through the years. And I’ve not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I’ve grown. But I can’t wait to go home.”
Ed…
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