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High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday. About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital…

Difficult-to-treat infections caused by dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria are on an alarming upward climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned in a recent health alert.Known colloquially as “nightmare bacteria” or “superbugs,” bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) have become significantly more common since 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC researchers found in a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Sept. 23.These bacteria are resistant to even some of the strongest antibiotics, making the nearly 70% increase in infections caused by them a potential public health issue, the CDC said.”This sharp rise in NDM-CRE means…

Jennifer Choate’s pregnancy was uncomplicated — until it wasn’t. Two and a half weeks before her March 6, 2025 due date, the 27-year-old went to the emergency room at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center after experiencing headaches and high blood pressure.Doctors thought Choate might be suffering from preeclampsia and induced labor. Her fiancée rushed to her side. Choate chatted with him and her care team as her labor progressed normally. Suddenly, she was struck with an excruciating pressure in her chest and head.”It was not painful but it felt like someone was squeezing me as hard as…

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters lit flares and waved flags as they marched to the stadium ahead of Norway’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Israel on Saturday.Public broadcaster NRK said around 1,000 protesters arrived at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.A banner about the war in Gaza was carried by the protesters in what appeared to be a peaceful march.A police line formed close to the stadium but at a measured distance from the protesters, some of whom chanted “Shut down the embassy”, while others carried red cards and one woman held up a small sign saying “Game Over…

A’ja Wilson’s numbers in 2025 were like none other.Nobody in the history of the WNBA — or the NBA, for that matter — has put together a season like the one Wilson did for the Las Vegas Aces this year.She won the WNBA’s MVP award. Won the scoring title. Helped her team win a championship. Was the WNBA Finals MVP.All that has been done in the same season before on the NBA level, most recently when Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pulled off the feat this past season. Michael Jordan did all that four times, while Shaquille O’Neal and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…

This “as-told-to” essay is based on a conversation with Vivian Chu, 38, cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer of Diligent Robotics. Diligent builds robots that can automate tasks within a hospital. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I wanted to start a company. That was a road that I actually thought more about than kids, actually.I ended up starting Diligent Robotics first, then doing the next step — starting a family.My wife and I have two little ones at home. Our oldest is two years and seven months, and our youngest just turned 10 months.My wife gave birth to…

Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die nine years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more.That’s the conclusion of a new analysis that shows a strong connection between longevity and later in life earnings.”These findings suggest that the more financial resources older adults have, the longer they live,” study authors wrote in the report by the National Council on Aging and the University of Massachusetts Boston’s LeadingAge Long-Term Services and Supports Center.The report looked at data from the national Health and Retirement Study to assess the financial stability of Americans over the age of…

Peyton Perry heard a rumor that delivery robots would be coming to campus when she was a student at Fairfield University.Soon after, she saw her first robot at a campus Starbucks. She ordered food delivered by the robots multiple times during her junior year before her initial excitement wore off. By her senior year, she said, the robots had become a regular part of campus life.”Every single day, I’d see multiple robots,” she told Business Insider. She said Starbucks and cafeteria workers were “constantly loading up the robots.”A few years ago, food delivery robots were infamous for being kicked and…

Sam Altman’s breakneck pace has some tech leaders awed and others uneasy.In the past few weeks alone, the OpenAI cofounder and CEO signed blockbuster computing deals with AMD and Nvidia, bringing his startup’s total dealmaking this year to about $1 trillion.The company launched Sora, an AI video app that gained more than 1 million users in its first five days, as well as Instant Checkout, a shopping feature for its ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI also unveiled new AI-powered workplace tools that its employees are using internally, signaling a potential move into the enterprise software market.And that’s just a sampling of the…

Week 7 of college football features marquee matchups from coast to coast, with playoff hopes and conference races at stake. A number of matchups could bring more chaos to the AP Top 25 poll after two wild weekends.Alabama heads to Missouri in a ranked matchup headlining SEC play. The Crimson Tide hopes to keep momentum rolling against Missouri and the nation’s top rusher, Ahmad Hardy.In the Big Ten, Oregon hosts Indiana in an electric quarterback matchup featuring Dante Moore and Fernando Mendoza. Ohio State will face its biggest test in weeks at Illinois. Top games to watch— No. 1 Ohio…