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Loading... For hours, bullets tore through the home, hitting neighboring houses and cars. Inside, a man wanted by police for allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend was holed up with his new girlfriend. As the SWAT team prepared to enter, Kevin Fennessy with the Ocean County Sheriff's Office tried something new first. He sent in a tiny assistant: a small drone equipped with a camera.

Updated October 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM AKDT Sign up for the Planet Money newsletter. The world is confusing. Economics can help Two Americans have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit inflation and unemployment.

NEW DELHI — India's opposition parties marched to the Supreme Court on Monday to protest a purge of voter lists they say favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, after police detained thousands of activists over the weekend in a sweeping crackdown in New Delhi. Several opposition lawmakers and thousands of supporters marched through the capital and submitted a petition to the chief justice alleging irregularities in the nationwide revision of voter lists.

Updated October 12, 2026 at 2:52 AM AKDT Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation. The work of Robert E.

Measles is the most contagious disease known. It can rip through a population without immunity like wildfire. Just look at what's happening in Pennsylvania, says Patsy Stinchfield, executive director of the Measles Collaborative, a public health effort led by the National Infectious Diseases Foundation. "In January in Pennsylvania, they had 12 cases. Now we're seeing 100 plus cases per week and over 1,000 cases in Pennsylvania," she says.

At almost exactly the midpoint of our conversation about the fifth album made by his band, Fontaines D.C., Grian Chatten said to me, "It's an interesting time to be a self." We'd been talking about the themes on Dopamine Chamber, which comes out on Friday, Oct.

Loading... For hours, bullets tore through the home, hitting neighboring houses and cars. Inside, a man wanted by police for allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend was holed up with his new girlfriend. As the SWAT team prepared to enter, Kevin Fennessy with the Ocean County Sheriff's Office tried something new first. He sent in a tiny assistant: a small drone equipped with a camera.

Ali plays a devout Muslim family man, who also happens to be an assassin in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. After decades in the business and two Oscars, he says he has less fear as an actor. Copyright 2026 NPR

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire" in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but he offered no details on it and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement. Trump's brief social media post said only that the ceasefire took effect immediately, adding: "Do not break it!" Moscow did not immediately comment.

Updated October 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM AKDT PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Hurricane Simon pounded Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm on Sunday, its eye remaining just offshore as its most powerful winds and rain slammed people living between the Sierra Madre and the ocean. The hurricane's center swirled parallel to the coast, closing in on the Puerto Vallarta area, where its most damaging winds and rain were expected to hit around midnight and continue through Monday morning.