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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that it has confirmed 1,645 cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in the U.S. since May 1. Among the cases of the gastrointestinal disease confirmed by federal health officials, 141 patients needed hospitalization, with no deaths. The median onset date for the illness among the cases is June 22, the CDC said. The agency said several states reported having more cyclosporiasis cases than the same timeframe in 2025 and that state health officials reported a higher number of cases overall. The CDC is working with state agencies to analyze another 5,100 cases to…

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s governor was pulled over by a Las Vegas police officer in May for allegedly failing to stop at a red light before making a right turn in his pickup truck. He wasn’t ticketed after identifying himself. “I’m Joe Lombardo,” he said as the officer arrived at the passenger-side window, police body camera video obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov. Lombardo was pulled over May 15 by an officer from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the agency Lombardo led as sheriff for eight years. The officer walks up to the passenger side of a light-gray…

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations. A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St. Clair County criminal court, the county prosecutor’s office said. Five people were killed and two more were wounded, primarily on Sunday, in a “targeted mass shooting” in East St. Louis, a city across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, police said. Troopers stopped…

NEW YORK — A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in a New York City neighborhood now counts 60 cases, but new diagnoses are slowing, health officials said Tuesday. They reported progress on inspections for the disease-causing bacteria but still haven’t pinpointed a source. No one has died in the outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, but 49 patients have required hospitalization, though 34 so far have gone home, city Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin said. City data show two new cases were diagnosed from samples taken Thursday through Saturday, compared to as many as 11 per day from earlier samples. “All of…

NEW YORK — The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount’s $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the merger on the grounds it would cause “specific harm” to movie and TV writers working across the U.S. A Paramount-Warner merger “threatens the economic and creative health of the American entertainment industry,” reads Tuesday’s federal complaint, which was filed by both the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly the WGA). The union argued that the merger would create less competitors and give…

MADRID — Thousands of people who travel every day between the southern tip of Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar will no longer have to cross a physical border beginning Wednesday. The official opening at midnight, after a border fence was fully removed, allows a new freedom of movement under a historic European Union-U.K. treaty that came after years of post-Brexit wrangling. The contested British Overseas Territory of 38,000 people is perched at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, strategically located mere miles from Morocco at a point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea. When Britain…

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents at a gas station in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday, authorities said. The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of the gas station and convenience store in St. Augustine before 7 a.m. During an encounter with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot, with one darting across a busy road into the path of the semi, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt.…

CNBC’s newly released “quality of life” rankings placed 10 Republican-led states at the bottom of its annual list of best places to live, drawing mockery from conservatives who contend the methodology penalizes red-state policy rather than reflecting where Americans are actually choosing to move. The financial news outlet’s 2026 America’s Top States for Business study ranked the worst 10 states, from last to best of the bunch, as Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma and Arkansas, according to a full accounting of the rankings published by Nashville’s WSMV. Tennessee finished with a quality-of-life score of just 64…

Sotheby’s sold a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $50 million Tuesday, setting a record for the most money ever paid at auction for a fossil. The $50.13 million paid for the fossil, called Gus, outstripped the pre-auction estimate, which was between $20 million and $30 million. It beat the $44.6 million record set by the Stegosaurus skeleton Apex, which was sold by Sotheby’s to billionaire Ken Griffin in 2024. Sotheby’s has not disclosed the identity of Tuesday’s buyer. The fossilized dinosaur’s remains date back 67 million years and were found in the Hell Creek fossil formation in South Dakota between…

OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates ′ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He will donate about $6 billion to four foundations connected to his own family, but did not mention Gates in his announcement Tuesday. Buffett also said in his statement that he wants all of his remaining Berkshire Hathaway stock worth more than $140 billion donated to charity by the end of 2034. Previously, the plan was for his three children to distribute his remaining fortune within 10 years of the…