David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy

The nation eliminated the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but those rates have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks.

Ride-hailing giant Lyft is set to pay a historic $272.5 million settlement to resolve allegations around misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said it was “the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history.” “Every worker deserves to be paid fully and fairly,” Chiu wrote in a statement. “Misclassification exploits workers, fuels inequality, and creates an unfair economy.” The vast majority of the settlement, 87 percent, will go back to drivers. The restitution amount will be set in the future and based on “the number of hours and miles driven between April 5, 2016, through Dec. 15, 2020,” the period covered by the agreement. That’s a time before voters approved Proposition 22, an Uber- and Lyft-funded ballot measure that classified ride-hail drivers as independent contractors, meaning they would not receive the benefits and wage protections afforded to other workers. The gig companies spent more than $200 million on the measure.

Suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he has not abandoned his campaign, nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him, even after his arrest on child sex abuse charges.

In September 2018, he wrote on Twitter, now X: “Hot take: I’ve never found Norm Macdonald funny and was pretty sure all my comedy friends who did were either nuts or screwing with me."

Brazil’s pivotal presidential election is headed to a runoff after incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ideological opposite, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, failed to win a majority vote Sunday.

Apple trees planted by Central Oregon's first homesteaders 130 years ago are still producing fruit, and some varieties are so rare that DNA tests came back as unique.

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was ridiculed en masse Saturday after nearly dropping a child at a GOP rally in Vandalia, Ohio. Video of the rally, at which President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak later Saturday night, showed Ramaswamy peering into the crowd and zeroing in on a young attendee holding a sign. According to Ramaswamy, the sign read, “My dad is deployed — proud military kid for Trump.” Ramaswamy is then seen asking the young attendee, who identified themself as being 10 years old, to join him on stage. “You want to come up here? Are you okay? You want to just come up here? Bring that… is it possible to get this young man up here or no?” Ramaswamy is heard saying. After the child joined Ramaswamy on stage, the gubernatorial candidate is then seen attempting to pick him up. “I’ll pick you up. There you go — whoa!” Ramaswamy said as he appeared to lose his grip on the child. “Big guy!” The moment was instantly met with ridicule by countless critics.

The parent company that owns the Kentucky Castle says it has removed Wes Henderson as CEO after court filings revealed Henderson is accused of filming people having sex without their knowledge, including at the Kentucky Castle, the company confirmed Saturday. The board and leadership of TKC Distilling, the parent company of the castle as well as True Story Whiskey, removed him as CEO effective immediately, TKC attorney Charity Bird said Saturday. Court filings say Henderson is accused by family members of secretly filming them and others at a vacation home in Florida as well as other locations, including the Kentucky Castle, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this year in Kentucky. Some of those recordings include people having sex, including at the Kentucky Castle, a court filing says.

Recent city reports show L.A. resurfacing small streets to avoid multimodal and accessibility mandates. This practice has steered street resources to wealthier neighborhoods. L.A. City resumed resurfacing streets after a hiatus, but right now the work completed appears unfair and inequitable. The city’s own reporting shows that most L.A. City council districts have seen no repaving at all since July 1. Some districts haven’t had a single block resurfaced since mid-2025. Some Recent History Affecting City Repaving In March 2024, L.A. City voters approved Measure HLA, designed to install planned walk/bus/bike improvements when the city repaves or reconfigures streets. The city has implemented relatively few walk/bus/bike improvements since HLA became law. In order to avoid multimodal improvements, the city repeatedly changed which streets it repaves. As soon as HLA took effect in April 2024, the city essentially paused repaving streets where improvements were planned. In July 2025, the city paused all repaving, instead shifting to costly partial resurfacing termed “large asphalt repair”

In what promises to be one of the most interesting new comics of 2027, Oni Press is rebooting Golden Age superhero Stardust the Super Wizard in the surrealist adventure Citizen: Stardust.

”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”

Katy Inzer was apparently feeling frisky. So the 46-year-old Maryland bartender allegedly did what comes naturally and took off her pants and began masturbating on an American Airlines flight en route to Miami. According to The Smoking Gun, about 20 minutes into the night flight, flight attendant Gabriel Barrero said he was approached by 61-year-old male passenger Alexander Pichado, who made a shocking report. The passenger told Barrero that the woman in Seat 9D had allegedly removed her pants and “began to actively masturbate while making inappropriate sounds.”

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts

For more than 30 years, a Scottish fossil named “Lizzie” was considered one of the earliest known reptiles. Now, a new look inside the 345-million-year-old fossil is revealing a very different story. Discovered in Scotland in 1984, Westlothiana lizziae—nicknamed “Lizzie” for its lizard-like appearance—was described in 1990 as the earliest land-adapted amniote, the group that includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. Though the fossil was crushed and difficult to interpret, its four limbs and claw-like digits made it an important reference point in studies of early amniote evolution. “Lizzie has been an icon for the early evolution of amniotes for decades,” said Xavier Jenkins, a postdoctoral fellow in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology and co-lead author of the study. “But when we were finally able to see inside the fossil, we found an animal that looked very different from what we expected.”

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited people from secretly record others using smart glasses in certain spaces. Those would have included changing rooms and doctors' offices, as the Associated Press notes. In addition, SB-1130 would have forced the manufacturers of wearables to include an indicator that's on when the devices are recording video or audio (many already do). It would also have banned the sale of tech designed to mask a recording light or sound.

Scientists are piecing together why elephants make these low calls and what they might mean

A look into the Portuguese whistleblower who played a key role in the Premier League's probe into City's inquiry.

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.