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Two cases of measles have been reported in New York City, officials have warned.   The Manhattan borough president, Mark Levine, said on Monday that two cases of measles have been identified in the Lower East Side and SoHo areas of Manhattan.  No details have been released on the patients, and it’s unclear if they were NYC residents or traveled from …

TOKYO (AP) — Olympic champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from the semifinals of the 1,500 meters at world championships Monday after judges ruled he jostled other runners while making a late move on the inside. Hocker was running near the inside edge of the track when he got boxed in and turned semi-sideways to squeeze past Germany’s Robert Farken. Hocker …

TOKYO (AP) — Armand “Mondo” Duplantis traded handshakes and hugs with the pole vaulters he’d just beaten to capture his third world championship. He took a leisurely walk toward the stands to talk to his parents, his brother, his fiancee. Then, like any great performer in a jam-packed stadium, he turned around, walked back onstage and delivered the encore the …

Topline Five worlds — Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will arc across the pre-dawn sky all week in a spectacular “planet parade” that is now in its final phase. This week, a crescent moon will join, shining close to Jupiter before featuring in a rare close conjunction with Venus and bright star Regulus. With Saturn’s opposition on Sept. …

Elon Musk was briefly surpassed in the week by another entrepreneur who once held ‘advanced talks’ about owning a Premier League club. Musk is best known for being the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla and also acquiring social media giant Twitter back in 2022, which he later rebranded as X. The 54-year-old was also the senior advisor to US …

Pull up a chair, have some braciole, and see how much you know about one of the greatest shows ever The Sopranos is the most influential scripted TV show of this century, and only I Love Lucy and The Twilight Zone have a better argument for the top spot overall. The drama, starring the late James Gandolfini as a New …

Five years after filming War of the Worlds, the pandemic era reboot has finally seen the light of day. Ice Cube, who plays government computer analyst Will Radford in the Rich Lee-helmed screenlife flick, recently recalled how he shot his scenes while social-distancing and why it “took a minute” for the movie to get a release. “This is a movie …

Japanese car giant Toyota will build more of its vehicles at American plants.  Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, said two new EVs will be made in Georgetown, Kentucky.  Both SUVs — based on the best-selling RAV4 and the boxier Land Cruiser — will have three rows of seating. The move comes as part of Toyota’s ongoing effort to shift manufacturing to the …

Ice Cube is shedding some light on the turbulent production of “War of the Worlds.” During a recent interview with Kai Cenat, the “Friday” star said that the viral “War of the Worlds” remake was shot in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, and that his scenes were completed in 15 days without the director or any of his co-stars. “[‘War …

A groundbreaking discovery has stunned paleontologists: a complete fossil of Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, an ancient lepidosaur species from the Triassic period. Unearthed in the Helsby Sandstone Formation in Devon, UK, this 242-million-year-old fossil challenges previously held beliefs about the early ancestors of modern reptiles. Published in Nature on September 10, 2025, this fossil forces a reevaluation of what we know about …