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Today — 20 October 2026Main stream

Russian Satellite Makes a Menacing Approach to Another Craft in Orbit

✇NYT - Home Page
By: Kenneth Chang
20 October 2026 at 00:24
Although Kosmos 2612 is now backing away, the maneuver raised alarm bells for analysts who see it as part of a pattern of Russian aggression.

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An artist’s concept of a satellite made by ICEYE, a multinational company that provides three-dimensional images of Earth’s surface.

Bend Residents Want Accountability. Oregon’s Gun Laws Make It Hard.

✇NYT - Home Page
By: Anna Griffin and Aaron West
19 October 2026 at 23:31
After a school shooting in which the 16-year-old attacker died, there are few ways to pin official blame.

© Jordan Gale for The New York Times

Silver Rail Elementary has become a place of pilgrimage for Bend, Ore., residents.

Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decades

✇Ars Technica
By: Beth Mole
19 October 2026 at 22:44

Pennsylvania's health department issued a health alert Monday as cases of measles in pregnancy and, in turn, cases of congenital measles have continued to increase. Before the current outbreak—which continues to rage across the state—congenital measles cases hadn't been seen in decades, the department noted in its advisory.

The alert included detailed clinical guidance for managing measles exposures and cases during pregnancy as well as cases in newborns. Many doctors have never seen such cases in their careers given the decades of successful use of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. But now, with vaccination rates slipping nationwide, the highly infectious virus is better able to get footholds in communities and spread rapidly through under-vaccinated pockets, as is happening in Pennsylvania.

As of October 19, Pennsylvania had reported 1,286 measles cases this year across 42 counties. Of those, 247 have been hospitalized, and six people have reportedly died (though the latest reported death is still pending an investigation by the state health department before it is added to the state tally).

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