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Wisconsin health officials reported Thursday that an infant died from measles, marking the state's first measles fatality in 35 years. The death occurred amid an outbreak that has sickened more than 430 people across 13 counties in 2025, and follows two other measles deaths reported this week in New York and Pennsylvania.
New York health officials announced late Monday that a child in the state has died from measles, the first such death there in more than three decades. It is the seventh measles-linked death nationwide this year, following six deaths in Pennsylvania, which has recorded over 1,430 cases in its own outbreak. New York has logged 170 measles cases across more than a dozen counties this year.
Kim Myles, former HGTV Design Star winner, and her husband Scott bought the 35-year-old Gadzooks salon in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania a year ago. Her first decision was to avoid operational changes for six months while only updating the interior, listening to staff and retaining existing customers before gradually introducing new offerings. The salon now provides benefits uncommon in the industry, including 401(k)s, maternity leave and mental health leave, and the owners plan to convert it to an employee-owned company.
Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, requiring ads that are significantly modified or generated by AI to carry a disclosure label matching the ad's format. The rule covers any medium—video, audio, images or text—and applies to any ad expected to air in Pennsylvania, regardless of where it was produced. Exemptions exist for parody, satire, commentary and content that is 'evidently fictional.'
University of Pennsylvania scientists analyzed roughly 150,000 Reddit posts from about 40,000 users to study self-reported effects of retatrutide, an experimental GLP-1 weight-loss drug not yet approved by regulators but obtained by some people in unapproved forms online. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that increased appetite was the most commonly reported symptom among classifiable complaints—contrary to the drug's hunger-suppressing design and the digestive issues emphasized in Phase 2 trials.
Voters in Pennsylvania's competitive 7th Congressional District, including 2024 Trump voter Jenny Escolastico, say rising childcare expenses are influencing their midterm voting decisions. Escolastico, an Air Force veteran, says childcare for her two young children would cost more than she could earn working full-time, keeping her out of the workforce. The district is seen as pivotal to control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.
Pennsylvania's health department issued an alert Monday after seeing rising numbers of measles infections among pregnant women, including cases of congenital measles not documented in the US for decades. As of October 19, the state had logged 1,286 measles cases across 42 counties this year, with 247 hospitalizations and six reported deaths. Separate reporting has put measles-in-pregnancy cases at 53, including one newborn death linked to congenital infection.
Progressive group Swing Left has spent the past year using an AI-based system during door-to-door canvassing, aiming to counter perceptions that Democratic politicians are out-of-touch elites. The effort has included campus outreach, such as canvassing at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, where organizers engage students directly at their dorms.
Franklin County Coroner Jordan Conner confirmed that a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman with underlying health conditions died October 10 after testing positive for measles, becoming the sixth fatality in Pennsylvania's ongoing outbreak. The coroner's office listed the cause as a probable acute cardiac event linked to possible measles complications. State health officials reported 1,136 cases since January, with 218 hospitalizations across 41 counties.
Edward Dubrovsky, a veteran cybersecurity executive known for negotiating with ransomware gangs, was arrested in Pennsylvania last week. He faces a federal charge of conspiracy to extort money.
Pennsylvania has experienced a surge in measles cases, totaling 1,078 so far in 2026, making it the largest outbreak in the US since 1991. The majority of cases have emerged since April, with 207 hospitalizations and five deaths, all among unvaccinated individuals. The outbreak continues to grow, with 34 new cases reported since Monday, and experts are now questioning whether the US has lost its measles elimination status.
Pennsylvania's health department confirmed a fifth death from measles, an unvaccinated Lancaster County resident, as the state's outbreak grew to 943 cases across 39 counties. At least 176 people have been hospitalized, with 119 new cases reported in the past week alone. All five deaths this year—two infants, an 18-year-old, a 40-year-old woman, and this latest case—were unvaccinated, and no measles deaths had occurred in the state in the previous 35 years.