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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries 10/07/2025 11:02pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in Analysis: Shutdown strains US national security as weak links start to fail 10/07/2025 08:40pm • While the government shutdown continues, core national security missions are still operating. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases continue to be processed. Border security, airport screening, the Coast Guard and other front-line Homeland Security units remain on duty. But the structur Bet365 Bonus Code WEEK365: Claim $200 Promo for MLB Playoffs, NHL This Week 10/07/2025 08:04pm • Will the Blue Jays eliminate the Yankees or can Aaron Judge and company stay alive tonight? 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Taillon tossed four scoreless, two-hit innings agai Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump's power 10/07/2025 05:32pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The midterm elections might be a year away, but the fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California. Voting opened statewide Monday on whether to dramatically reshape California's congressional districts to add as many as five Democrat-held seats in Congress — a Dogs kill 2-year-old boy at Georgia daycare center 10/07/2025 05:00pm • VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — A 2-year-old boy in south Georgia was attacked by two Rottweiler dogs and died at an unlicensed daycare center while the owner napped, according to police. Stacy Wheeler Cobb, the 48-year-old owner who held the daycare at her home in Valdosta, 228 miles (367 km) south of Atlan Purrfect ending: Missing Virginia store cat found after hitching a ride to another state 10/07/2025 04:55pm • Francine the calico cat is back home at a Lowe's store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks, hitching a ride on a truck that turned up at a sister facility in another state. Two employees from a Lowe’s in Richmond made the 90-minute drive early Monday to pick up Francine, who disappe Gold futures rise above $4,000 per ounce for the first time 10/07/2025 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gold futures soared above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time Tuesday, as many investors seek a safe place to park their money during the continuing U.S. government shutdown. The going price for New York spot gold had previously closed at $3,960.60 per troy ounce — the stand EU proposes steel industry protections, rattling UK manufacturers 10/07/2025 02:04pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday proposed cutting by almost half its tariff-free quota on steel and steel products, effectively adding large tariffs on imports from countries including China, India, Turkey and the United Kingdom, which said the measures would wreck the British steel i Championship window hasn't closed on the talented Tampa Bay Lightning 10/07/2025 01:38pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When a boat parade is the standard for an organization, anything less than hoisting the Stanley Cup is a disappointment. The Tampa Bay Lightning haven’t come close to those lofty expectations since falling two wins shy of a threepeat in 2022. They’ve been eliminated in the f Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum has a new job: chief basketball officer for his former Duke program 10/07/2025 10:29am • Duke is getting help from former Blue Devils player and Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum. The school announced Tuesday that the six-time NBA all-star would serve in a volunteer advisory role for the program as “chief basketball officer.” Tatum is currently recovering from a ruptured right Achill Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek advances in the Wuhan Open 10/07/2025 09:56am • WUHAN, China (AP) — Iga Swiatek powered her way to the third round of the WTA’s 1,000-level Wuhan Open on Tuesday with a straight sets win against Marie Bouzkova. Wimbledon champion Swiatek bounced back impressively after her fourth round exit at the China Open last week, winning 6-1, 6-1 agains UFL changes 3 cities as new investor shares bullish vision for spring football 10/07/2025 08:31am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Mike Repole isn't daunted or discouraged by the long odds facing pro spring football as a business model. The sports business entrepreneur is simply wired a bit differently, and wants to show it as the newest investor in the young United Football League. “If you tol RFK: A look back at a stadium's ecstatic, disappointing, odd, historic and stomach-turning moments 10/07/2025 06:15am • Trying to choose "the most memorable moment in RFK Stadium history," since it opened in 1961, is as fruitless as trying to choose the best meal ever. Rather than an attempt an impossibly subjective task, WTOP is breaking down some of the memories into four more manageable groups, and talking abou