Thursday, October 15, 2026

A man killed by a tiger at a wildlife park in England died of his injuries, an inquest heard Thursday, the BBC and the Guardian reported. William Chapman, 24, had schizophrenia and past bouts of psychosis, the hearing…

Simon has weakened to a tropical storm, EFE and El Universal reported. Early Thursday it sat nearly still about 270 miles south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas with top winds of 60 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center…

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 4.9% on Thursday, and South Korea's Kospi dropped 7.5%, The Japan Times reported. Chip stocks led the fall after a sell-off on Wall Street. CNBC said 20 of the biggest AI and chip stocks have…

On Oct. 15, 1969, huge crowds across the United States joined the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, BBC News and The Harvard Crimson reported. People marched, prayed and held candlelit vigils. It was called the…

On Oct. 15, 1946, top Nazi Hermann Göring killed himself in his Nuremberg prison cell, The Guardian and HISTORY reported. He swallowed hidden cyanide about two hours before he was set to be hanged. Ten other Nazi…

On Oct. 15, 1951, the sitcom I Love Lucy first aired on CBS, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, The Hollywood Reporter and HISTORY reported. The Hollywood Reporter called it a comic triumph the day after. The show's…

Federal investigators are trying to build a case to revoke Rep. Ilhan Omar's U.S. citizenship and deport her, people familiar with the probe told USA Today and the New York Post. A key question is her age when she…

The U.S. is sending hundreds of Army soldiers to Latin America to train with local forces, The New York Times and Fox News reported. The Times said the first troops from a 600-soldier unit had begun going to Panama…

Some Republicans in close House races are running ads that show where they disagree with President Trump, Fox News reported. Trump's White House aides see almost no path to keeping control of the House, WIRED reported…

Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Mike Collins held their last Georgia Senate debate on Tuesday night, Fox News and CBS News reported. Ossoff pressed Collins over neo-Nazi posts tied to his son-in-law. Collins hit back over…

Elon Musk has given at least $276 million to Republican causes since July, making him the top known donor of the midterms, CNN and the New York Post reported. Most of it, $158 million, went to the Senate Leadership…

A watchdog group asked California's State Bar to investigate whether White House press secretary Katie Zacharia illegally called herself a lawyer. The State Bar says it has no record of her being licensed in the state…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.1%, to 52,177.69 on Thursday, the AP reported. Investors moved out of AI stocks and into health care and consumer names, Reuters reported. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%…

Wholesale prices rose 1.3% in September, the biggest monthly jump since March 2022, the Labor Department said. Prices were up 6.3% from a year earlier, led by a surge in gas prices, the AP and Reuters reported. The…

Japan will put up to $21 billion into two new chip plants in Malta, New York, Kyodo News reported. GlobalFoundries will run the plants, and the first one is due to start making chips in 2029. The deal is part of a…

On Oct. 15, 1932, JRD Tata flew a small plane carrying mail from Karachi to Bombay, now Mumbai. The flight launched the air service that later became Air India. Tata was 28 and used only goggles and a slide rule to…

The head of the IMF said the United States cannot grow its way out of its debt, CNBC and Reuters reported. Kristalina Georgieva said some tax or spending steps are needed. She also urged China to rely less on exports…

China's exports rose 36.3% in September from a year earlier, beating forecasts, AP, CNBC and Reuters reported. Imports climbed 31%. China is on track to top last year's record trade surplus, AP reported, and Reuters…

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts will miss Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers because of a blood clot in his calf, the team said Thursday. A follow-up ultrasound Wednesday night "revealed movement in the small…

Petey Halpin hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning as the Cleveland Guardians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Thursday, USA Today and WKYC reported. Cleveland now leads the American League Championship Series 2-1…

Aston Villa beat Fenerbahce 6-0 at home in the Champions League on Wednesday. It was the biggest win in the club's European history, BBC Sport reported. Nicolas Jackson and Ross Barkley each scored twice, and Villa…

The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in NLCS Game 3 on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, ESPN, AP and FOX Sports reported. Milwaukee leads the best-of-seven series 3-0, AP reported. Game 4 is Thursday at 8…

Ukraine has started hitting Russian oil plants again after a three-day pause, Reuters and NBC News reported. Hours after Zelenskyy said "We're done," the FT reported, according to Reuters, a fire hit a refinery in…

A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday, Yonhap and Seoul Economic Daily reported. About 7,000 workers at a nearby site left the area. No one was reported hurt, and the fire was put out…

Japan's farm minister, Kazuo Yana, quit on Wednesday after a string of scandals, The Japan Times and NHK reported. He had been in the job for only about one month. He is the first minister to leave Prime Minister Sanae…

A 62-year-old man died on the Greek island of Rhodes on Wednesday after floodwaters swept his car away, Reuters and Proto Thema reported. Four cars were washed away near Stegna beach. Rhodes was put under a state of…

Tesla showed its next-generation Roadster near Waco, Texas, on Thursday night, and the car drove upside down on a ramp and used thrusters to briefly lift off, The Verge and TechCrunch reported. Elon Musk said Tesla…

On Oct. 15, 2003, China launched astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit on Shenzhou 5, BBC News and the AP reported. That made China the third country to send a person into space. He circled Earth 14 times and landed about 21…

YouTube Music has started putting labels on songs made mainly with generative AI, The Verge, TechCrunch and Music Business Worldwide reported. The label shows up on the player page. YouTube says it will use music…

On this day in 1997, British driver Andy Green drove the jet-powered ThrustSSC faster than sound across a Nevada desert, The Independent and Reuters reported. His average speed over two runs was 763.035 mph. It was the…

Microsoft and a health care security group took over the web domains of three Chinese-language scam services, SecurityWeek and CyberScoop reported. A U.S. court order allowed the move. Microsoft said the services were…

Hackers took control of fridges at about 700 French supermarkets, spoiling food and sparking some fires, CNN and CBC News reported. Experts say the hackers likely got in through control systems left open online. No…

A federal appeals court will let Florida enforce its law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, the AP and the News Service of Florida reported. The three judges agreed on the ruling. A tech industry group…

Apple ended a trading day worth more than $5 trillion for the first time on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal and The Herald Business reported. It is only the second company to do that, after Nvidia. Apple had passed…

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Nano, a small $49.99 game controller that fits in a pocket, The Verge and Engadget reported. It works with Xbox consoles, PCs, phones and some smart TVs. Pre-orders are open, and it…

Epic Games released a preview of its rebuilt game launcher for Windows, Mac and, for the first time, Linux, The Verge and PC Gamer reported. Epic says the new app was "vibe coded" with help from AI. The company claims…

Sachin Katti, who leads OpenAI's computing infrastructure, is leaving the company after about a year, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal reported. His last day is Nov. 15. He will stay on as an adviser, and another…

Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, saying the company misled parents about how safe ChatGPT is for kids, NBC News and CNBC reported. The states filed separate suits under their own consumer protection laws. OpenAI…

Rockstar Games released a launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI on Thursday, The Verge and IGN reported. The 90-second trailer shows the game's two leads, Jason and Lucia, and features a new song that Rockstar credits…

Netflix will show all 104 matches of the 2030 World Cup in Spain and Andorra, Reuters reported. One match each day will be free to watch in Spain. A free TV channel, not yet named, will also show every Spain game, both…

Netflix's film La Bola Negra opens Friday on four screens in Los Angeles and New York, IndieWire reported. It is the first Netflix movie whose ticket sales the company will share in public, IndieWire and TheWrap…

Actress Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant with her third child, ABC News and Page Six reported. She shared the news on Wednesday in an Instagram video with her husband and their 3-year-old twins. Her caption hinted that…

Three women in Colorado had numbness, weakness and blurred vision after shots at a medical spa, Healio and Medscape reported. The spa used a botulinum toxin product that is not approved in the United States. All three…

Health insurer Centene will start a national "gold card" program in November, Healthcare Dive and Modern Healthcare reported. More than 160,000 doctors and other providers with good track records will not have to wait…

A once-a-day pill from Johnson & Johnson kept working for many people with ulcerative colitis through 76 weeks, Medscape and HCPLive reported. The drug, icotrokinra, is already approved to treat the skin disease…

A new pill from Verastem Oncology shrank tumors in 41% of 22 people with pancreatic cancer that had spread, Fierce Biotech reported. The study was small and early, BioPharma Dive noted. Verastem plans to start a large…

Health insurer Alignment Healthcare has sued the federal Medicare agency over its 2027 star ratings, Healthcare Dive and Fierce Healthcare reported. The insurer says the agency used rules that were never put through…

Roche will license an experimental obesity drug from China's Rona Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $1.16 billion, Fierce Biotech and the Wall Street Journal reported. The drug targets a protein called ALK7. It aims…

A new drug from Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals cut levels of tau, a brain protein tied to Alzheimer's, by 73% on average at the top dose, BioPharma Dive and Clinical Trials Arena reported. The test was in healthy people…

An experimental mRNA cancer treatment from BioNTech failed to slow tumor growth in a key head and neck cancer trial, BioPharma Dive and Reuters reported. The trial will go on to test whether the treatment helps…

The CDC is sending a "disease detective" to help Pennsylvania fight measles, the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Independent reported. The state says 1,222 people there have caught the virus this year, the Inquirer…

TV presenter Davina McCall said memory loss after surgery to remove a benign brain tumor felt like "advanced Alzheimer's," the BBC and the Evening Standard reported. She could not follow a movie for six months. She…

More than 112,000 bottles of Amazon's brand of Extra Strength Acetaminophen are being recalled, USA Today and UPI reported. Buyers had found tablets that changed color. The drug maker, Aurobindo Pharma USA, began the…

Helen Branswell, an infectious disease reporter known for her COVID coverage, died Tuesday at 69, STAT and CBC News reported. Her sister said the cause was complications from cancer. The head of the World Health…

On Oct. 15, 1928, the German airship Graf Zeppelin landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, after flying across the Atlantic. The Guardian reported that the trip took 111 hours and carried 20 passengers. TIME magazine called…

On Oct. 15, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier rose into the air in a hot-air balloon held by ropes in a Paris garden. He was the first person known to go up in a balloon. About a month later, he made the first free…

A study that has not yet been peer-reviewed found cells from mothers in the brains of 26 of 37 children, New Scientist and Live Science reported. The cells had turned into several kinds of brain cells, including…

On the night of Oct. 15, 1991, a detector in the Utah desert caught a single particle from space with huge energy, Quanta Magazine reported. Scientists called it the Oh-My-God particle. It is still the most powerful…

About 50 critically endangered eels died in a Bristol brook after a nearby factory fire, BBC News reported. England's Environment Agency says chemicals from the water used on the fire flowed into the stream. A local…

NASA's Perseverance rover has driven farther than any rover on another world, NPR and Space.com reported. It beat the old record of the Opportunity rover on Oct. 11. Opportunity took about 14 years to go that far, but…

Archaeologists say a shipwreck found off Turkey's Kekova Island is the oldest known in the world, BBC News and CNN reported. They date it to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago. Some clay jars from the ship still have traces of…

On Oct. 15, 1997, the Cassini probe lifted off from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn, CNN and the Los Angeles Times reported. It carried Europe's Huygens probe for Saturn's moon Titan. The launch drew protests…

On the night of Oct. 15-16, 1987, a fierce storm swept over southern England, BBC News and The Guardian reported. It killed 18 people in the UK and four in France, the BBC said. The Guardian said it felled 15 million…

Tiny bits of plastic can make harmful molecules when they touch water, a new study in Nature found. New Scientist and Scientific American reported on the lab work, which was led in part by Wei Min of Columbia…

Bleached coral recovered fast after it touched a healthy piece from the same colony, Science and ABC News reported. The two pieces fused and passed helpful algae across. The Stanford lab study appeared in Science…

Scientists used AI tools to design new enzymes that snip chosen proteins, Ars Technica and GeekWire reported. The work came from David Baker's lab at the University of Washington. Some of the enzymes cut proteins tied…

On Oct. 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano asked people who had been harassed or assaulted to reply "me too" on Twitter, CNN and The Guardian reported. Within days, millions of people shared their own stories online. The…

Delta is updating its top business-class cabin with new food, drinks, dishes and pillows, CNBC and Fortune reported. The changes start on long flights from Los Angeles. Delta is also growing its fleet of Porsches that…

Porsche plans to show a new supercar concept called the Mission S on Thursday, Road & Track and Paul Tan reported. Paul Tan said the reveal is set for 4:30 p.m. ET in New York. The car will have its engine behind the…

Actress Kaley Cuoco and her fiancé, actor Tom Pelphrey, had their second daughter on Oct. 12, USA Today and TODAY reported. They named her Philomena Carmine Bobby Pelphrey. Cuoco shared the happy news on Instagram on…