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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas this year has been the center of the nation’s largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children who were unvaccinated.But even as the outbreak slows, a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would make it significantly easier for parents to enroll their children in school without standard vaccinations for diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and hepatitis A and B.Supporters say the bill…

May 27, 2025, 09:06 AM ETPope Leo XIV welcomed Italy’s newly crowned Serie A champions Napoli to the Vatican on Tuesday, joking about his own football allegiances.Napoli won their fourth “Scudetto” on Friday with a 2-0 home victory over Cagliari, edging out Inter Milan by one point in a nail-biting end to the season.The team, captained by Italy international Giovanni Di Lorenzo, arrived for their papal audience a day after a triumphant open-top bus parade through central Naples.”The press says I am an AS Roma fan, but you are welcome! This is what the press says. Not everything you read…

Dr. Priti Patel, CMIO at John Muir Health, uses Ambience before starting a patient encounter.Courtesy of Ambience HealthcareArtificial intelligence startup Ambience Healthcare on Tuesday announced a new medical coding model that outperforms doctors by 27%.Ambience uses AI to draft clinical notes in real-time as doctors consensually record their visits with patients. The company used tools from OpenAI to build the new model.The startup is part of a fiercely competitive market that has taken off as health-care executives search for solutions to help reduce staff burnout and daunting administrative workloads. The company’s new model can listen to patient encounters and identify ICD-10…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Only two of the 10 New Orleans jail escapees remain on the run Tuesday after police captured two men Monday following a high-speed pursuit in Texas and another man they found sitting on a bench in Louisiana thanks to an anonymous tip.Police dashboard and body camera footage, obtained by The Associated Press, appears to show two escapees — Leo Tate, 31, and Jermaine Donald, 42 — fleeing from police, reaching speeds up to 80 mph (129 kph), in a white SUV in Walker County, Texas.The vehicle zoomed past police cars, made a U-turn and headed…

A living space in the new J.P. Morgan financial center branch format in Palm Beach.Courtesy: JP MorganJPMorgan Chase thinks it has cracked the code on managing more money for America’s millionaires.It’s not a new financial product, a novel software program or an enticing sign-up bonus. Instead, it’s a refurbished take on an old concept — the brick-and-mortar bank branch — along with new standards for service that are at the heart of its aspirations.The bank is unveiling 14 of these new format branches — each acquired when JPMorgan took over First Republic in 2023 — in tony ZIP codes in…

Jeff KassoufMay 27, 2025, 09:00 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.Angie and Chris Long ushered in a new era of the National Women’s Soccer League last year when, as primary owners of the Kansas City Current, they opened the league’s first purpose-built stadium. Now, the Longs are expanding their empire.The Longs, through their family investment company Ballard Capital, have purchased Danish club HB Køge, they have revealed exclusively to…

My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, May 27 1. The S & P 500 was indicated up more than 1% today after President Donald Trump delayed 50% tariffs on the EU until July 9. The 10-year Treasury yield slipped under 4.5% on trade optimism. As I wrote in my weekly column , there are suddenly many reasons to be bullish. 2. Friday is the last trading day of the month — and despite last week’s downturn, investors did not, as the old Wall Street adage goes, “sell in May and go away.” For the month so far, the S…

A young girl with a short ponytail steps over shattered rubble, flames around her, trying to escape. The five-year-old child in the viral footage, which showed the aftermath of an Israeli strikes on a Gaza City school sheltering displaced Palestinians, was Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil. Ward, who has spent nearly half her life surviving Israel’s war on Gaza, was fleeing the bombed classroom at the Fahmi al-Jerjawi school after witnessing her mother and four siblings burn to death. “I received a phone call after midnight telling me the school where my brother and his family had taken shelter was bombed,”…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by several public health experts.In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.No other details were released, and HHS officials…

Manchester United will invest in new players this summer, but without Champions League football next season, the club does not need a big squad, says Ruben Amorim.United recorded their worst-ever Premier League campaign after finishing 15th in the table, losing 18 games in the process, and defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League final means no European football next season. As a result of having fewer matches to play next season, Amorim – who is hoping to bring Wolves forward Matheus Cunha to the club – wants to operate with a smaller squad that will be easier to manage…