A 4-year-old Lake Orion girl is facing a long and difficult recovery after losing part of her leg in a lawn mower accident while on a family vacation in Minnesota.

Brielle Thompson was injured during the trip and was airlifted to a hospital, where she has undergone multiple surgeries, according to her aunt, Abigail Thompson.

"Right now, it's just a waiting game of how well she's able to heal," Abigail Thompson said.

The family's current focus is on preserving Brielle's knee.

"If she's able to keep her knee, that would be optimal just because it provides better prosthetic options, better mobility," Abigail Thompson said.

Brielle's uncle, Jonathan Thompson, said doctors are still determining what her long-term recovery will look like.

"I think we're still really in the early stages to know exactly what that looks like," Jonathan Thompson added.

The accident has forced Brielle's parents and siblings to remain in Minnesota while she receives treatment. Family members say the situation has created significant financial and logistical challenges.

"Evan, he's the sole provider for their family and he's now far from home and his workshop, so that's going to be impacted a lot," Jonathan Thompson said. "Every meal, out-of-state housing."

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To help cover medical expenses and other costs, the Thompson family has started a GoFundMe campaign.

Relatives say they have been overwhelmed by support from the community.

"Thank you so much. It has been so amazing just to see the support of the community," Abigail Thompson said.

Family members say their faith has helped them navigate the uncertainty surrounding Brielle's recovery.

"They're trusting God through it all," Abigail Thompson said. "They're really relying on Him. They know God has a plan for their daughter."

The PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships are underway in Milford, Michigan, marking the fourth time the event has been held in the state and the tournament's 44th edition overall.

Nearly 300 athletes representing 26 countries are competing at Kensington Metro Park this weekend, with tournament organizers expecting close to 10,000 spectators. Nearly one-third of the field is made up of women, with about 92 female competitors taking part. More information about the event is available at detroit26.com.

Among the athletes is 15-year-old Grand Rapids native Kaidin Bell, a three-time junior world champion.

"The ability to meet new people from all over the world, traveling to different states and sometimes new countries too. It just, it's crazy," Bell said.

Bell said competing close to home carries its own significance.

"It feels great that a tournament this huge is like in Michigan, like in an area so close to my city. It's crazy how our state's being represented in a way like this," Bell said.

Seven-time world putting champion Jay Reading points to the sport's rapid growth as the driving force behind events of this scale.

"There was only 700 courses in the entire world when I became a PDGA member in 1999. There are well over 15,000 courses, including 13,000 right here in the United States," Reading said.

Reading, a former physical education teacher, is now working to bring disc golf into schools through his foundation, the Educational Disc Golf Experience, which introduces the sport to young athletes through programs across the country.

"So we've started a foundation for disc golf into schools. We're celebrating 25 years next year. We've introduced this great lifetime activity to over five million kids and over 325 permanent courses actually on school campuses," Reading said.

Reading said the sport's accessibility is a key part of its appeal.

"Disc golf, everybody can be successful at it. So what I saw was a lot of kids that actually had athletic ability but really didn't understand individual sports," Reading said.

More information about the Educational Disc Golf Experience is available at edgediscgolf.org.

Tournament Director Nate Heinold said events like the World Championships offer young players a rare and meaningful opportunity.

"This is the disc golfers' one event a year that's their Olympics. They get to come here, compete in front of 10,000 people, and be crowned a world champion. It's life-changing," Heinold said.

Heinold also addressed how disc golf differs from traditional golf.

"Disc golf takes less time, it's better exercise, it's cheaper, it's easier to learn. And so they're very different sports, but the goal is still get an object, in this case a flying disc, into the target, which is not a hole, it's a basket with chains and as few throws as possible," Heinold said.

Reading echoed the state's deep connection to the sport.

"Michigan's always been a strong state for disc golf. You guys love your outdoor recreation. Winters are harsh, but we play disc golf in the winter as well," Reading said.

Bell said the sport's momentum shows no signs of slowing.

"Just keep teaching new people. I mean, eventually, the sport's going to keep on growing. I mean, we're already at 300,000 PDGA numbers so far, and it's still growing. Like, who knows? It's crazy," Bell said.

The PDGA Pro World Championships wrap up Sunday at Kensington Metro Park in Milford.

British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration authorities, U.S. officials said Saturday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos was returned to his home country on Friday after being accused of overstaying after entering the U.S. legally in May 2019. A immigration judge had issued a final order of removal on July 22 after he failed to show up for an immigration hearing, a Homeland Security spokesperson said.

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Yiannopoulos was arrested Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nations laws, a Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement.

Yiannopoulos and his representatives did not respond to requests for comment. He has not posted on his X social media account since Thursday.

Yiannopoulos is a well-known champion of conservative causes and has frequently taken provocative public positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been especially supportive of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts, Yiannopoulos wrote on X last year.

The British national has most recently worked for the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who performed in New Orleans on Friday evening.

Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the early 2010s as an incendiary writer for the conservative website Breitbart News. He resigned from the company in 2017 after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online. He later apologized for the remarks and said he himself was a victim of sexual assault as a minor.

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Yiannopoulos arrest on Thursday comes amid a nationwide uptick in detentions as part of Trumps immigration crackdown.

Far-right conservative activist Laura Loomer swiftly took to social media to applaud Yiannopoulos arrest after years of public feuding between the two personalities.

I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene, Loomer wrote on X.

Controversy around Yiannopoulos ballooned in 2017 when he carried out what he called his Troll Academy Tour across college campuses nationwide. Fights broke out when some students protested Yiannopoulos appearances and accused him of hate speech, while others celebrated him as a champion of free speech. Around that time, Buzzfeed reported on Yiannopoulos cozy relationships with self-proclaimed white nationalists.

In recent years, Yiannopoulos continued to work in the orbit of conservative activism. In 2022, he was an intern for former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to the Washington Post. He subsequently ran the short-lived 2024 presidential campaign for Ye.

Most recently, Yiannopoulos has worked as a spokesperson for Ye, who has been beset by controversy of his own following antisemitic comments that the rapper has since apologized for.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a sign along the banks of Lake Ontario that reads Lake Ontario, now and always, in direct response to President Donald Trumps executive order renaming the Great Lake Lake America.

The order directs the secretary of the Interior to take steps within the next 30 days to remove all references to Lake Ontario across the U.S. government.

Last week, Trump ordered additional tariffs on Canadian goods. Days later, the Canadian government announced it would match the tariffs dollar for dollar, with rates of up to 50%, in response to tariffs imposed by the United States.

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Well, it's always going to be Lake Ontario now and forever. President Trump can call it whatever he wants, but I can tell you the rest of the world will always call it Lake Ontario, Ford said.

Ford has long been a vocal critic of Trump. While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken a more measured approach to the trade war initiated by Trump, Ford has escalated his rhetoric by suggesting Canada should cut off electricity exports to the U.S.

We're resilient and we're strong Canadians and we're always going to protect our sovereignty, always. And will never ever back down from a bully ever, Ford said.

The U.S. and Canada have deeply integrated supply chains, with automobiles and other goods frequently crossing the border multiple times during production.

Ontario is Canadas most populous province and is home to about 16.1 million people.

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Carney also rejected the move and referenced the historical origin of the name Lake Ontario.

This is not the first time Trump has changed the name of a body of water. Shortly after taking office again in 2025, he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Some companies, including Google and Apple, updated the name on their maps, though most entities outside the U.S. still refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials struggled for years to curb high-speed crashes along a residential corridor cutting through Albuquerque, New Mexico, but simply punishing the lead-footed drivers didnt seem to work.

What ultimately did was rewarding the law-abiding ones with fewer red lights.

The solution, which the city credits for a dramatic drop in crashes and injuries along one busy stretch of road, is a relatively novel version of a longstanding traffic safety concept commonly known as rest in red," in which traffic signals default to red until a vehicle approaches. But Albuquerque and Portland, Oregon, took it a step further by adding speed sensors that grant a much earlier green light to drivers traveling at or below the posted limit.

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Were finding that the technology itself is kind of its best advertisement, Jennifer Turner, Albuquerques director of municipal development, said of the strategy the city deployed on Lead and Coal avenues, parallel one-way streets. "If you come to Albuquerque right now and youre driving that corridor, you will learn pretty quickly that if you are speeding, you stop.

Isaac Romero, who lives along the corridor, said he has noticed a big difference. Before rest in red, he would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of drivers racing to beat the traffic lights or one another. He saw cars that had crashed and flipped, including one that ended up in his neighbor's yard.

We had one accident where its even shaken the whole house because some guy slammed into a tree, Romero said. It's a lot of change because now you don't get as many people flying through there.

Portland credits its virtual speed bumps

Portland recently rolled out the concept during the late-night hours on Southeast Powell Boulevard, a busy state highway with a long history of crashes, including fatal ones.

Peter Koonce, who manages signals and street lighting for the city, calls the new approach a virtual speed bump and said the early results are promising. At the first intersection tested, rest in red was able to lower the average speed from 39 mph (63 kph) to 30 mph (48 kph), which is the speed limit, he said.

Oregon State University researchers helped Portland choose its vehicle detection system for monitoring speeds, and now they're assessing its performance. David Hurwitz, a professor of transportation engineering who leads the study, said it's too early to draw sweeping conclusions.

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This choice that we are making to try to increase speed compliance seems like its working really well seems like it has potential, said Hurwitz, who stressed that further research is needed to ensure those gains aren't offset by more drivers running red lights or other negative consequences.

Cities try to change driver behavior but avoid other problems

Potential negative consequences are also a primary concern of Jay Beeber, chief government affairs and policy officer for the National Motorists Association, a drivers advocacy group. Although he acknowledges that rest in red could be effective in certain places at specific times, he questions whether driver behavior can really change without a broad education campaign and believes there are simpler, less-intrusive solutions.

I think it's wishful thinking that drivers are aware enough and pay attention enough to really learn to change their speeds based on whether the light is gonna be red or not, Beeber said. I think people are going to end up at the light and just be frustrated. I dont think theyre gonna know why.

Many U.S. cities, including Albuquerque and Portland, have long used speed cameras to successfully prevent speeding. In fact, Albuquerque set up three near where it also deploys the rest in red approach, which has made that approach even stronger, according to officials.

LA briefly tried rest in red, but most cities haven't

A few other cities including Boulder, Colorado, and Long Beach, California, implemented smaller targeted efforts to use the threat of more red lights to force speeders to slow down.

Rebecca Sanders, a national safety practice leader at the transportation consulting firm Fehr & Peers, led a 2019 report at Arizona State University and Toole Design looking at various strategies used across the country to manage speed. Of the cities surveyed, only Los Angeles was trying rest in red at the time, and it briefly experimented with using feedback signs to trigger a red light when a driver traveling too fast was detected.

Sanders said the concept seems to work best on roads built for high-capacity traffic during the day but much less congested and therefore more conducive to speeding at night.

A 2023 study on five rural and urban roads in North Carolina found a 43% reduction in total crashes after rest in red was implemented around the clock, said Aaron Moody, spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Unlike the systems being used in Albuquerque and Portland, this and other versions of the rest in red approach didnt use speed sensors to turn lights green for law-abiding drivers, but instead kept lights red by default until vehicles approached, slowing them.

Despite their apparent effectiveness at deterring speeding, cities have been slow to embrace rest in red.

Romero said he's visited enough neighborhoods through his home security business to know that the approach could work in many other places in Albuquerque and beyond. But it'll take all drivers buying in, as the presence of just one speeder can trigger a red light.

If everybody cruises to 30 calmly, I can promise you, you can get every single green light all the way down, Romero said. But the moment that one person is there, it changes that whole route for everybody.

A Russian drone struck a warehouse west of Kyiv that may have been illegally storing munitions in a residential area, according to Ukrainian officials, sparking explosions and fires that damaged dozens of nearby homes and buildings and killing 37 people in one of the war's deadliest attacks this year.

The Friday night attack on the warehouse in Myla, a village in the Bucha district, came on the second of three days of nearly round-the-clock Russian strikes that have severely disrupted life in and around the Ukrainian capital. Kyiv officials said an unmanned vehicle hit the building, though they didn't specify whether it was one of the jet-powered drones that Russia has increasingly been using to pierce Ukraine's defenses.

The warehouse strike sparked a fire that swept through homes and damaged at least 50 residential buildings, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the local regional military administration. Local media later cited him as saying 34 of the people killed were residents of a care home for the elderly and disabled. More than 370 people were evacuated.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described it as a terrible situation and said it appeared to be the result of terrible negligence on the part of those who stored explosives right next to people.

Kyiv investigates warehouse targeted in attack

The warehouse strike was followed by a detonation, Zelenskyy said in a statement. He didn't specify what was kept at the site, but he pointed out that Ukrainian law forbids the storage of ammunition close to people's homes and said criminal proceedings have been opened.

Those who allowed this to happen must be held accountable for their decisions, he said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi also didn't offer information on the warehouse, but he referenced a July attack on the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve that struck an ammunition depot, killing 22 people and triggering large detonations and fires that tore through nearby homes.

Unfortunately, we can already see that the terrible tragedy in Vyshneve did not become a lesson, Koretskyi said. In the fifth year of a full-scale invasion, making the same mistakes is criminal negligence. And all those guilty, without exception, must be severely punished so that such situations do not happen again.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it hit a warehouse in Myla that was storing components and launch boosters for long-range drones. It also said it attacked the ports of Mykolaiv and Izmail, and a logistics center and warehouse facilities storing parts for Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles in the Kyiv region.

Russia bombards Kyiv for a third day

Drone attacks on the capital and, to a lesser extent, the rest of Ukraine have been nearly constant since Thursday. Kyiv officials say Russia builds up missile stocks and launches major attacks every few days, hoping to exhaust Ukrainian defenses through the sheer weight of numbers.

Russian strikes damaged homes and apartment blocks in the southern Kherson region on Saturday, killing two people and wounding 27 more, including a child, Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the region administration, said in a statement.

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Prokudin said earlier in the week that Russia had intensified its attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, which is about 70% under Russian control. He also urged tens of thousands of residents to move to safer regions because of the possibility of prolonged power and heating outages this winter.

Russia has significantly increased its use of jet-powered drones, and their numbers will keep growing as Moscow sees their effectiveness, Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of Ukraines presidential office, told reporters Friday.

Means of attack always outpace means of defense. We will certainly need to adapt. It will take time, Palisa said. He said interceptor drones currently available to Ukraine, which could theoretically intercept jet-powered drones, have not yet demonstrated the expected effectiveness, though Ukraine is working on solutions.

Ukraine vows to increase long-range strikes on Russia

Meanwhile, Ukraine has stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months. The attacks, which use domestically made drones, are meant to cut into a source of Moscows war funding and make Russians feel the consequences.

In his evening statement to the nation Friday, Zelenskyy said Kyiv hoped to increase its long-range strikes to reach 1000 drone launches every day.

Right now, we average over 300 of our long-range sanctions, Zelenskyy said, his preferred term for Kyivs long-range attacks that have also lately targeted Russian large-scale online retailers. There must be more. We have a very specific goal, and we will achieve it.

Moscows forces destroyed 313 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russias Defense Ministry said Saturday.

Ukrainian drone attacks wounded 11 people in Russias Rostov region, Gov. Yuri Slyusar said. Writing on social media, he said that nine people were hospitalized, including four children.

Netflix has released the first gameplay preview of Grand Theft Auto 6, offering a 25-minute look at the highly anticipated title ahead of its planned November release.

The teaser, released Thursday, shows gameplay fans and gamers can expect when the title launches.

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GTA 6 is the first new installment in the action-packed cars and crime simulation game series in over a decade. The previous entry, GTA V, was released in 2013.

The new game was originally planned for release last year, although a specific release date was never announced.

The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of evolving recruitment standards within federal law enforcement and at the buttoned-up bureau, which several years ago relaxed its approach to candidates past marijuana use and has drawn more recent concern among some current and former agents about a perceived loosening of recruitment requirements as it seeks to replenish its ranks.

The bureau still intends to dismiss applicants who are revealed during the vetting process to have engaged in prostitution within the last 10 years, three or more times overall or while in a position of trust such as public safety, according to guidance issued this past spring and described by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss internal decision-making and spoke on condition of anonymity. For others, it will allow for consideration of the context of the conduct rather than treat it as grounds for an automatic rejection from the FBIs hiring process.

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The practical impact is not immediately clear since many who have engaged in prostitution may still be either immediately disqualified or weeded out upon further scrutiny from FBI polygraphers and security officials.

The FBI said the change was meant to account for the fact that some otherwise suitable candidates, including service members, may have engaged in the practice in places where it is legal and to accommodate applicants who may done so as a young child or have themselves been victims of sexual abuse.

It is false to suggest criminal behavior like this is no longer disqualifying at the FBI. Any applicant who has engaged in criminal sexual acts like those referenced would of course not be eligible for employment, and it is ridiculous to suggest otherwise, the FBI said in a statement that described the background check process as wide-ranging and extensive.

The FBI has and always will maintain some of the highest suitability standards for its applicants and employees in the US Government, the statement added.

Justice Department is easing recruitment requirements in general

Even so, the shift is being made at a time when current and former officials worry that the FBI, and the Justice Department more generally, have eased recruitment requirements while facing a mass personnel exodus brought on by retirements, voluntary resignations and firings. The bureau, for instance, has taken steps to make it easier for its own professional staff to become agents and has offered a truncated training academy for applicants from other federal law enforcement agencies.

If theyre moving the bar for sexual encounters to include prostitution, what is that saying about the applicant pool? Theyre trying to bring in more people, which to me indicates that the applicant pool is extremely shallow right now, said Daniel Brunner, a retired FBI agent who spent two decades in the bureau.

In 2015, then-Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo reiterating that all Justice Department employees were prohibited from soliciting or accepting prostitution, including in places where it was legal. But both before and since that directive, the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies have confronted periodic episodes in which agents serving abroad have been accused of sexual encounters with prostitutes.

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As recently as last year, for instance, the Justice Department inspector general substantiated allegations that a supervisory special agent solicited and used prostitutes on multiple occasions while overseas and used a bureau-issued cellphone for the transactions.

Chris Piehota, a retired top FBI executive, said he would be more troubled if the bureau were to loosen its standards for current employees who require periodic renewals of their security clearances. But he said he could understand the FBI leaning toward leniency for actions taken as a teenager or college student.

I dont think you get a better or worse candidate from something you did in your college years, Piehota said. Thats why they have the screening process, thats why they have the vetting process. And the people who do the recruiting and hiring, they look at all those things.

Background checks, polygraph tests and more

Applicants to the FBI undergo a multistep application and vetting process that includes, among other things, a background check, a detailed questionnaire, credit checks, interviews with neighbors and colleagues and a polygraph test. The comprehensive regimen is meant to uncover any prior criminal conduct in an applicants past as well as embarrassing personal information that could make an employee vulnerable to blackmail.

Felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, failure of a urinalysis and the bureaus drug policies are among factors treated as automatic disqualifiers.

Though the new guidance will allow for a broader and more contextual evaluation of applicants who disclose past experience with prostitution during their polygraph admission, such an admission has historically been typically regarded as a death knell for potential employees at agencies including the FBI, CIA and NSA, said Daniel Meyer, a Washington lawyer with the Tully Rinckey law firm who specializes in the background check and the security clearance process.

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The recent announcement of Pennsylvanias first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities.

Independent experts say the conflict is a symptom of a social and political debate over how to frame a national surge in measles cases, the worst seen in more than three decades.

Pennsylvania officials this week reported that two unvaccinated residents died after being infected with measles, with Gov. Josh Shapiro stressing that vaccinations could have averted the deaths.

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But the announcement quickly came under fire, as a clash erupted between Shapiro, a vaccine-promoting Democrat, and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Trump administration appointee with a history of raising alarms about established vaccines. Kennedy said in a social post the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated.

Kennedys attack echoed statements he made last year, when three measles-related deaths were recorded. Kennedy questioned whether one of the children who died was killed by measles.

Medical experts say the brouhaha has diverted focus from an exploding public health threat.

Now it's turned political, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease doctor in the Pittsburgh area and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It's no longer about getting answers and figuring this out.

The challenges of tallying measles deaths

The U.S. eliminated the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but they have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks. In November, international health officials will meet to determine if the U.S. and Mexico have lost their measles-free status.

Complicating the situation in Pennsylvania are questions about what counts as a measles death, which is rare in the United States. The World Health Organization counts a death when a person has tested positive for measles and when the death occurs within a month from when a rash appears and the death is not obviously due to another cause such as trauma.

State health officials are the ones who report measles cases and measles-associated deaths. The question of defining a measles death hasn't come up much in recent decades because vaccination rates were high and measles illnesses and deaths had become rare.

Recent trends are driving conversations among health officials about how to better track the consequences of a surging problem.

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As measles infections increase, we also need to prepare for more of the tragic complications we have largely avoided in this country for decades," including not only deaths but also hospitalizations and brain injuries, said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, in a statement.

What's known and not known about the measles deaths

In Pennsylvania, what's not disputed is that both people who died had been infected with measles and they were unvaccinated. The unresolved question is whether measles was the main cause, or a contributing cause, of their deaths.

In one of the deaths, an official has reached a conclusion. The Lancaster County Coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, said he is aware of only one death with evidence of measles infection. It was a newborn baby boy who died August 14 someone too young to get a recommended measles vaccination.

Because one of the boy's family members had measles, investigators tested the boy's lung tissue and found evidence of measles infection, Diamantoni said.

But investigators did not see signs of a swollen spleen or other ravages from a measles infection that would have contributed to the death. The cause is being attributed to a tear in the spleen, but the coroner's office says the virus did not play a role.

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The baby did not die as a result of measles, Diamantoni said.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health initially refused to disclose any details about the two people who died. But on Wednesday night, state health officials posted on social media that one of the deaths is under investigation by the coroner's office. No information has been released about the second death.

The department said it stands by its announcement, adding that it relies on two questions to determine if a death was measles-related: Did the person have measles and did they die?

As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not updated the latest national tally of measles cases and deaths. The agency said on its website that the scheduled update was delayed, but did not disclose why.

Dr. Paul Offit said hes worried that two measles-related deaths are an unusually high number in a county that reportedly has about 400 cases. The expected death rate for measles is 1 in 1,000 cases.

That suggests there are a large number of other unreported infections in the Lancaster County area, said Offit, a Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine researcher.

Thats worrisome, given that this is the time of year when kids go back to school, which could increase the spread of an extremely transmissible disease. Vaccination efforts need to be stepped up to prevent what I think is a coming disaster, Offit said.

Adalja faulted Pennsylvania officials for how they announced the deaths earlier this week. It should have only been health and medical officials, stating what is known and not yet known.

They should learn to keep the politicians out of it, he said.

Most arrive with nothing except the clothes they are wearing.

As rescue efforts in communities buried by catastrophic flash floods along the border between Nepal and China entered their fourth day Saturday, authorities continued finding survivors and transporting them to safety. At relief centers, as some arrive, families wait anxiously for news of their loved ones as the death toll and the number of people unaccounted for continued to rise.

After Nepali authorities updated their figures Saturday, the combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 633 dead and nearly 3,000 people missing. Chinese authorities have reported seven deaths and more than 550 missing.

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In Nuwakot, one of the Nepali districts devastated by the floods, helicopters resumed operations before noon Saturday after poor weather temporarily hampered aerial rescue activities.

Some helicopters were loaded with boxes and bags of aid, including clothes, instant noodles, crackers and rice. Others returned from the flood-hit areas carrying survivors.

An older man was carefully helped off one helicopter, while a soldier carried an older woman on his back to a medical tent. There, medics checked her blood pressure, breathing and heartbeat, as well as her teeth and gums.

About a dozen people emerged from another helicopter. Soldiers carried several babies who had been evacuated.

The evacuees had been brought from the nearby community of Trishuli.

Villagers return to devastated homes

As people were still leaving Trishuli, some village residents were returning to see what could be salvaged from their decimated homes.

One boy walked out of the village carrying muddy sandals from his house. Another woman, Shoba Shretha, returned to find her dog, Sweetie, who she was forced to leave behind when the floods came. Shretha sat on the ground petting her and feeding her water from a bottle.

At some point, relief coordinators cleared villagers, reporters and volunteers from the entrance to Trishuli, as excavation equipment drove into the flooded village to dig.

Families begin to lose hope

In Kathmandu, Nepals capital, relatives and friends gathered outside the main government hospital from early morning, desperately searching for news of missing loved ones.

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Many shuffled between the help desk and the hospital notice board, clutching photographs and scanning injured patients lists in the hope of finding them.

Dil Maya Lama stood weeping outside the help desk at the hospital, searching for information about her missing 26-year-old brother, a driver for a hydropower company in Rasuwa. She had traveled from Ramechhap, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) away.

I came here with the hope that I might find him, she said. There is no information about him.

Nelza Moktan anxiously sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa.

I feel hopeless. It has already been four days, she said.

Families covered hospital walls with posters showing missing relatives, photographs and contact numbers in a desperate appeal for any clue that could bring them home.

Nearby were photographs of unidentified bodies which officials put up in hopes they could be recognized by families or friends.

Gajendra Rawat, a security official at the hospital help desk, said families had so far registered around 1,600 missing persons since the disaster struck. People are coming from all parts of Nepal, he said.

Families search paper lists for any clue

Back in Nuwakot, military personnel taped sheets of paper listing dozens of missing people to a wall at a relief center, prompting families to crowd around them.

Some scanned lists of the missing and dead, took photos and wiped away tears as they looked through the names.

Rajesh Kumar Ram, who is searching for his son, desperately searched a list for his son's name.

Im hopeful, by chance that my son is somewhere," he said, crying as he spoke. "Maybe they find him stuck somewhere. Im waiting for that moment only.

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Outside, people walked along mud-covered streets past signs of the disaster. On one street, a truck was stuck in the mud with its bed raised in the air.

As the day passed, more people gathered at the army barracks hoping to be reunited with missing loved ones or to find out information about them.

Priti Kharel stood outside the entrance to the barracks, holding a poster with a picture of her brother, Milan Kharel, who works as an engineering geologist at Doosan Enerbility. His family hasnt heard from him since the floods.

Its already four days, said Kharel, who believes his brother could be one of the people trapped inside the tunnel of a hydropower construction site, where authorities have rescued some people. She said friends who were there told the family that Milan might still be there.

We want the government to rescue him as soon as possible, she added.

Rescuers battle to find survivors at disaster-hit areas

Search and rescue efforts continued at several locations in Nepal and Chinas Tibet, including the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Nepals Rasuwa district and the severely damaged Gyirong border crossing on the Chinese side.

Nepali Army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet said rescue efforts would continue at the hydropower construction site, where authorities believe more than 100 people are trapped in a tunnel filled with thick mud.

Basnet said rescuers had used baskets and ropes to reach some people, but the operation remained difficult because of 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) of mud and the limited number of places where helicopters could land.

He said rescue teams had also been forced to relocate temporarily when authorities issued warnings about possible further flooding.

Rescuers have been on high alert for more flooding from a new lake that formed high up in the Himalayan mountains after the initial floods Wednesday. Experts warned that the lake, created after a glacier collapse that triggered the floods, was starting to overflow.

Monitoring data from the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources showed late Friday that the lake had dwindled in size. The water level dropped by 10 meters (32 feet) from the high point on Thursday morning, Chinese broadcaster CCTV said.

Aid trucks could be seen traveling from Kathmandu, Nepals capital, toward the affected areas.

Search continues at devastated China-Nepal border crossing

The Chinese broadcaster showed images Saturday of rescuers arriving at Gyirong Port, the hard-hit border crossing with Nepal. Some reached the area by foot or via rafts, while others dropped down from drones flown to the area. Anyone, anyone? rescuers yelled.

It was not immediately known how many people were at the border checkpoint building when the floods hit.

On Saturday, Nepals disaster agency said the death toll had climbed to 626 with 2,426 people missing in the country. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.

The death toll in China rose to seven Friday as state media showed evacuations of villages and leaders efforts to direct the relief response. China's state media said 554 people were missing on the Chinese side. Hundreds of the missing are foreigners who were in the area to work, trek or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak.

A new state report released Friday evaluates how well Michigan is maintaining its voter rolls.

The Michigan Office of the Auditor General looked at different factors like how many dead voters or non-U.S. citizens were registered.

In both cases, the number was exceptionally low compared to the 8 million total registered voters in Michiganders.

Deputy Secretary of State Aghogho Edevbie said that’s a sign the system is working.

“When we look at those individual categories, that is a demonstration that we are finding people who are not eligible and keeping track of them through our systems and protocols,” he said.

However, a small fraction of a percent of those registered voters still appeared to be dead or noncitizens at first glance.

Edevbie said even those numbers can be misleading, especially because of a lag in data catching up when people become citizens.

“Those people, over the course of those four years, will come into the Secretary of States office, update their driver’s license, update their state ID and give us new documentation demonstrating that they are now a citizen. But there’s a lag time because they don’t automatically send it in,” he said.

According to the report, the state canceled over 300 noncitizen registrations during the observation period. That’s part of a broader set of nearly 1 million defunct registrations that got pulled during that same span.

Regarding dead voters, the report found a little over 2,500 Michigan voters cast a ballot within the past four years despite dying by Election Day.

That was around 0.01% of total votes over that period. The vast majority appear to be absentee voters who died before the election and didn’t have their ballots pulled.

Edevbie said some of the issues stem from when the records were transferred to a new file in the late 1990s.

“Every administration since then has done a lot of work to get our voter rolls into a great place, and this administration continues to do that. We’ve updated 95% of the voter records,” he said.

Election integrity activists have often criticized the state for not doing more on the front end to check citizenship when registering voters. They’ve also argued the state hasn’t done enough to remove dead voters from the files.

A brewery in Ann Arbor is turning a viral joke into a charitable statement.

HOMES Brewery began jokingly calling itself "Shame Brewery" in response to President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America." Now, the brewery is selling T-shirts bearing the word "Shame" above its logo flipping the familiar grade-school mnemonic "HOMES" on its head.

Trump signed the executive order Thursday, directing U.S. federal agencies to use the new name amid escalating trade tensions with Canada following failed trade talks between the U.S. and Canada.

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Beatriz Bargas, manager at HOMES Brewery, said the response was about finding a constructive outlet.

"We believe it's a silly situation, and we're just trying to make light of it while also trying to stay positive and proactive. Therefore, we chose a non-profit organization to donate partial proceeds of the t-shirt," Bargas said.

That organization is Great Lakes, Great Responsibility, a nonprofit founded in 2020 dedicated to removing and preventing plastic pollution in the Great Lakes watershed.

Customers at the brewery said the shirts resonated with them. Ryan Jasper, who came out to the brewery on his anniversary after seeing the buzz, said the concept landed.

"I think it's hilarious. It obviously brought a lot of people out here. Tonight, it brought us out here," Jasper said.

Lorin Burgess said the charitable component made the purchase feel worthwhile.

"I don't mind that someone is making money off of it, and that it's going to the right causes versus somebody's pockets. So I like it, I'm going to get one," Burgess said.

One customer, Judy Power, said the name change hit close to home. She made it her goal this summer to swim in every Great Lake with her granddaughter.

"We just finished last weekend. We did a southern leg of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and then we did the northern loop. That was our HOMES tour, and now our HOMES tour is a SHAME tour, so it's really sad," Power said.

The back of the shirts read "Ontario Forever," and once they're made, staff members will be wearing them around the restaurant for a little while. Bargas reflected on why the brewery's original name carries meaning beyond just an acronym.

"I think the way they chose the organization and it goes back to being proud, blessed and lucky we are to be surrounded by so much clean water," Bargas said.

Lorin Burgess summed up the moment with a smile.

"There's kind of a delicious irony to it that I like," Burgess said.

The brewery says pre-orders are available through September 1st.

The field at Livonia Franklin High School now bears the names of two of its most celebrated figures. The Lovich-Vigna Field at Claude Snarey Stadium was dedicated in honor of George Lovich and the late Armand Vigna, two coaches who spent decades shaping the Franklin athletic program.

The two were honored at the first game of the 2026 season against Berkley, surrounded by loved ones and former players.

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Vigna passed away in 2020, but his legacy endures through his dedication. Vigna coached the Patriots varsity football team for 18 seasons and served as a beloved guidance counselor.

Watch: Franklin Football Legends Honored with Field Dedication

Lovich began coaching in the late 1960s and went on to serve as athletic director.

"It's amazing, I mean you never expect something like this when you're coaching," Lovich said.

Together, the two made history when they led the 1975 Patriots to win the Class A title in the first-ever MHSAA state playoffs.

Lovich reflected on the bond the two shared.

"We were like brothers," Lovich said.

Nancy Vigna-Bramlatt, Armand Vigna's daughter, said the connection between the two coaches made the honor especially meaningful.

"To have their names connected, these two coaches, George and my dad were like brothers and they coached together for so many years here," Vigna-Bramlett said.

Katie Haggitt, Lovich's daughter, said the field naming captures everything the two men stood for.

"I can't think of an honor that would be better suited to the time and energy and love that Armand and my dad put into these kids, these men behind me that were kids through the years," Haggitt said.

Haggitt said she is proud to see her father recognized.

"I'm so glad that people get to see that he is so special and that he ya know validates that he meant so much to so many people," Haggitt said.

Haggitt also reflected on the broader impact the two coaches had.

"They helped people become better people," Haggitt said.

Vigna-Bramlett echoed that sentiment.

"They did so much with Franklin, they believed in this school, and the kids, they loved the kids and they love football. And they love each other," Vigna-Bramlett said.

An inspection contractor found a chemical tank at a Washington state paper mill not fit for continued service 10 months before it failed in May, killing 11 in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace disasters in recent decades, according to a federal report released Friday.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Boards update about the May 26 failure in Longview, which expelled enough caustic liquid to blow out building walls, is part of an ongoing investigation. The federal agency said it is still determining the cause of the failure.

The board found that the contractor provided Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company with recommendations for internal inspections and shell repairs, but the company did none between a July 2025 inspection and the May 2026 failure.

Because the investigation remains ongoing, we will not comment on individual findings or documents at this time, an emailed statement from Nippon spokesperson Sam Jefferies said Friday. Our focus remains on supporting affected families and employees and taking the necessary steps toward fully reopening the Longview facility.

Jefferies said the company will continue to cooperate fully with the board.

The Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers released a statement on Friday saying the board's findings were deeply troubling.

The update raises urgent questions about how technical findings and recommendations concerning the tank were communicated, evaluated and incorporated into decisions about its continued operation, the statement said. The families and workforce deserve a complete accounting of that process.

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Lawyer for family of 2 brothers who died says accountability is needed

A lawyer representing the family of two brothers who were killed, Tyler and Bradley Covington, said the board's findings are nothing short of alarming.

When safety inspections and recommendations dont lead to action, danger becomes a reality that causes devastation to human life, lawyer Kyle Findley said in a statement Friday. We will continue to work tirelessly to ensure those responsible for this horrific accident are held accountable and their families receive justice.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said in a statement that the community deserves answers and every worker has the right to come home safely at the end of the day.

Multiple inspections found safety problems before tank failure

In July 2025, the contractor found significant thinning below the minimum safe thickness in the lower regions of the tank after an external inspection, according to the board's report. The minimum safe thickness is a threshold that measures a tanks ability to contain the pressure of the liquid and support the tanks weight, the report said.

The same contractor inspected the exterior of the tank in October 2025 and February 2026 and both times identified that large portions of the tank remained thinner than the calculated minimum safe wall thickness.

The company also did not remove the tank from operation or derate the tank for reduced service, the board said.

The tank failure released roughly 900,000 gallons (3.4 million liters) of a liquid known as white liquor that is used to break down wood for making paper products and is capable of causing severe burns. In addition to the workers killed, several others and one firefighter were injured.

Official questions why paper company didn't act

The board's Chairperson Steve Owens said in a statement we are greatly concerned that the tank was not promptly removed from service or properly repaired after the clear findings in the inspection report.

In an excerpt of the July 2025 inspection included in the board's update, the recommendations were noted as Priority 1: Not fit for continued service unless corrected, with a high likelihood/consequence of failure (or) critical code/standard deficiency.

Owner should plan to have an internal inspection performed in order to determine the extent of the required repairs. Its likely that the entire shell course should be replaced, the inspection excerpt says.

The inspection was completed by Applied Technical Services LLC. The federal report did not specify why the company was conducting the inspections.

A message was left seeking comment from Applied Technical Services.

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Tank failure occurred as employees started to arrive to work

The catastrophic failure hit just minutes after employees began arriving around 7 a.m., the boards report said.

Shortly before 2 a.m., a vessel at the facility called a digestor was removed from service for repairs. As a result, the tank stopped sending white liquor into the digestor. But more white liquor continued to flow into the tank, causing it to approach full capacity around 6:20 a.m. It failed less than an hour later, the report said.

After flooding the courtyard, crushing vehicles and destroying part of one of the surrounding buildings, the liquid flowed into the buildings lower floors, where workers were holding morning meetings.

All eight workers in the electrical maintenance shop as well as a worker in the courtyard were killed. In the mechanical maintenance shop, five employees and the foreman escaped, but two were killed from exposure to the chemical, the report said. Two of the people who escaped were seriously injured due to chemical burns.

The company radioed for its medical emergency response team but didnt explain that white liquor had been released, according to the report. A member of the team waded into a pool of white liquor to try to rescue an employee, thinking it was water, and was seriously injured from chemical burns.

Earlier this week, the Washington Department of Ecology issued notice of 35 environmental violations to Nippon Dynawave. The state agency oversees the facilitys air and water quality permits and compliance with environmental waste laws.

The board said its investigation is ongoing and that its complete findings will be included in its final investigation report.

Tarik Skubal was welcomed with cheers and a smattering of boos in his return to Detroit, where he pitched Friday for the Los Angeles Dodgers against his former team for the first time since the middling franchise traded him to the two-time defending World Series champions.

When the visitors' lineup and Skubal were shown on the videoboard and his name was announced before the first pitch, most of the crowd at Comerica Park clapped for the two-time Cy Young Award winner while some jeered him.

The Tigers showed a video montage from his seven-season career with the team and posted a message at the end: Thank you, Tarik.

Skubal turned his head to the right a few times to watch the video as he walked from the bullpen beyond the left-field wall and toward the Dodgers' dugout with a white towel draped around his neck.

He extended his right arm, holding his glove, toward his former teammates and used his left hand to pat his chest.

Skubal did not appear to react to, or acknowledge, the fans before or during the game and didn't get a chance to do so as he exited the game because a pitching change was made after the sixth inning in a 1-all game. He gave up one run on four hits and struck out seven over six innings with 83 pitches, the fewest since he threw 74 in the season-opening game in March.

In a crowd that had mixed emotions about Skubals return, a couple young fans had fitting outfits sporting white Tigers jerseys with 29 and Skubal on the back and a blue Dodgers hat.

When the left-hander jogged to the mound to pitch for the first time as a visitor in the Motor City, booing fans were heard first followed by more cheers from fans in the stands.

His first pitch was delayed because he appeared to have trouble with his communication device.

After throwing a 96-mph fastball for a ball, Gleyber Torres hit Skubal's second pitch to center for a double and the crowd roared in unison.

Skubal settled in, striking out Hao-Yu Lee and All-Star Kevin McGonigle and getting All-Star Dillon Dingler to fly out.

Its weird to see him on the other side, McGonigle said before the game.

Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said the team's familiarity with Skubal might not be helpful at the plate.

If anybody knows him, its us, Hinch said. You can know everything about a pitcher, that doesnt make it easy to hit.

That was evident when Skubal retired 12 straight batters, including striking out the side in the third, before Eduardo Valencia led off the fifth with a double. Max Clark followed with a two-out triple in the inning to break a scoreless tie.

The 29-year-old Skubal was drafted by Detroit out of Seattle University in the ninth round of the 2018 draft and spent his entire career with the Tigers until they dealt him earlier this month.

Skubal said in July that it was his preference to finish the season with the Tigers and to compete for a World Series championship, which has eluded the franchise since 1984. The Tigers, though, thought it was wise to trade him before the deadline to acquire three minor league prospects instead of likely losing him in free agency.

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On this week's episode of Catch me Up, we dig into how the rapid rise of AI is reshaping the classroom experience.

Plus, Jon Leiberman remembers legendary entertainer and philanthropist Dolly Parton, lays out the latest in the Lindsay Clancy trial, and explains how tariffs and trade wars are affecting everyday consumers.

Congress returns to Washington Monday for the first time in a month with a busy and condensed agenda as lawmakers make their final push to pass bills before the midterm elections.

On the top of the agenda is a short-term government funding bill to avert a pre-election government shutdown. Members of the House of Representatives, all up for re-election, are expected to act quickly on the stopgap funding bill.

The timeline is tight. Lawmakers have less than 4 weeks to get the bill across the finish line by the annual government funding deadline of September 30th.

If enacted, the bill would fund the government till mid December, punting most major government funding negotiations until after the midterm elections.

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After last year's record-long government shutdown, which saw air travel disrupted, concerns about SNAP food assistance benefits running dry, and government employees and members of the military going without pay, it is unlikely a similar fight will unfold this year.

Part of the reason for last year's shutdown was Democrats' demands to rein in the Trump administration's aggressive immigration actions and ICE enforcement. Those likely will play a big part in Democrats' midterm messaging as they look to take back one or both chambers of Congress.

President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. would take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves in Venezuela.

In a social media post, the president claimed administration officials were working with Venezuelan leadership.

"At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, and, through a partnership with private business, have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer."

Further details from the administration were not immediately available. Venezuelan officials did not immediately comment.

It's not clear how readily the oil in question may be extracted, or what private businesses may be involved.

President Trump claimed the agreement would help reduce strain on U.S. domestic oil reserves and lower gas prices.

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently stands at more than 289 million barrels of oil, down from more than 413 million barrels at the beginning of the year. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. consumes a little more than 20 million barrels of oil per day.

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The administration has tapped the stockpile in the SPR in an effort to keep gas prices low as the war in Iran continues and energy shipments the Strait of Hormuz remain cut off.

A deal to reopen the strait has stalled in recent weeks.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier in August the U.S. can hold the Strait of Hormuz "indefinitely."