As Reported. Wednesday, the ninth of September.

Iranian missiles were fired at a United States base in Jordan today, hours after the American military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. Brent crude reached one hundred dollars a barrel today, its first time at that level since July, the B B C reported, after strikes by the United States and the Houthis. Justice Brett Kavanaugh yesterday blocked Missouri from using a new congressional map in the November elections, and hours later a federal judge in the state directed Missouri to use that same map anyway, leaving the shape of at least one House seat unsettled while ballots are already in the mail elsewhere, according to Scotusblog, which reported both orders in a single account not independently checked. France has had its hottest summer since records began in nineteen hundred, Environment Minister Monique Barbut said on Thursday. Uganda's health ministry declared its Ebola outbreak over on twenty-eight July, while the outbreak across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to grow.

Now, the world.

Iran.

Iranian missiles were fired at a United States base in Jordan today, hours after the American military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. C E N T C O M said yesterday that it sank or wrecked the five crude carriers because the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had fired ballistic missiles at one of its warships twice in two days. The warship got out of the way, according to the same command, and no American personnel were hurt. The Guard Corps said its missiles hit U S forces at the Al Azraq base and described the strikes as devastating. That is Iran's account. Jordan's state news agency, citing the armed forces, gave a different one. It reported that Jordanian air defences knocked down eighteen of the twenty missiles that came from Iranian territory, and that the other two landed in empty ground without casualties. The exchange follows a pattern set since the United States and Israel struck Iran in February, and since a ceasefire that became a memorandum expired in July. Secretary of State Rubio told Iran yesterday that if it keeps aiming at U S ships, "they're going to lose tankers." Tehran has answered with a threat of its own. The Guard Corps navy told crews of tankers near ports in Kuwait and Bahrain to abandon their ships, and Iranian state television accused both countries of hosting U S forces. The fighting is reaching fuel prices. Brent crude closed near ninety-seven dollars and thirty-one cents a barrel yesterday, a six-week high, a figure that comes from a single report by Global Security and has not been independently checked. On Monday Al Jazeera put the cost to the average U S household at seven hundred sixty-three dollars in extra fuel spending over six months, an estimate it produced itself and again a single report that no one else has confirmed. The President said on Monday that oil prices would drop when the United States wins the war. That is a prediction, not a fact. American military deaths in the conflict stood at eighteen as of yesterday, a count unchanged since it was last given.

The Strait of Hormuz.

Brent crude reached one hundred dollars a barrel today, its first time at that level since July, the B B C reported, after strikes by the United States and the Houthis. The rise follows Monday's climb to six-week highs, which Al Jazeera tied to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz being disrupted by strikes between the United States and Iran. Transits have run far below pre-war levels since the blockade resumed in July. Kpler's count, cited by a single report that has not been independently checked, put traffic through the strait at seventy-seven vessels last week, a drop of twenty-eight percent on the week before. A separate tally from U K M T O said fifty-nine ships had made the passage in the forty-eight hours to Monday, again a figure from one report and not independently verified. United States Central Command said its blockade had redirected ninety-four vessels as of yesterday, a number carried by one source only and not checked elsewhere. Kpler also estimated Iranian crude sitting on ships outside the blockade at about twenty-nine million barrels on Monday, down from about ninety million in mid-July, and that estimate too rests on a single report without independent confirmation. Against those readings, Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered his own figure on Sunday of more than nine million barrels a day still moving, which he described as two thirds or more of the flow before the conflict. That is an official's own number, carried by one report and not independently checked. On the diplomatic side, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said yesterday that an understanding with Oman on a temporary safe route was in its final stage, which is an announcement rather than a completed agreement. Tehran will declare a restricted zone around the strait, Iran's security chief Mohsen Reh-Z A H-ee said, according to Al Jazeera on Monday. Qatar's foreign ministry said yesterday that reopening the strait without conditions is a priority for Doha, a stated position rather than an event. The strait was also on the agenda yesterday when South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung spoke with France's President Macron, the Times of Israel reported, in talks about security contributions rather than sending troops.

Lebanon.

Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon have killed twenty-seven people and wounded sixty-nine over three days, Lebanon's Health Ministry said yesterday, in a count that comes from a single report and has not been independently checked. Of those, twelve died at Kfar Roo-M A H N, where aircraft hit a residential building just after midnight on Monday, and that same lone report puts nine dead inside the building, two of them children. Hezbollah fired on Israeli troops from a building near Beaufort Castle on Monday, lightly injuring two soldiers, a number that also rests on one source and has not been verified elsewhere. The U N Secretary-General's spokesman said yesterday that the Secretary-General condemns the growing civilian toll from Israel's widening operations in the south. The fighting comes as Israel faces new pressure over the West Bank: today the U K placed sanctions on Israeli settlements and accused settlers of ethnic cleansing.

Germany.

Exit polls on Sunday put Germany's AfD well ahead in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, a projection reported by the B B C rather than a counted result. Yesterday the Kathmandu Post reported that the party took nearly forty-four percent of the vote, a figure from a single report that has not been independently checked. The question for the mainstream parties is whether their refusal to govern with the AfD survives a result of that size. The party's national position was already strong. In the Bundestag election on twenty-three February it took twenty point eight percent of second votes, according to the Federal Returning Officer, a figure this programme has from one source only. The same single source gives the C D U twenty-two point six percent and the S P D sixteen point four percent, with one hundred sixty-four, one hundred fifty-two and one hundred twenty seats respectively for the C D U, the AfD and the S P D. The final result was announced on fourteen March.

Ukraine and Russia.

A Russian drone strike at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing in Odesa killed two people today and injured three civilians, according to a single report from Al Jazeera that has not been independently checked. It follows a drone attack on Kyiv yesterday, in which five people died and a Ukrainian television channel's building was struck, a figure the B B C alone has reported and which has not been independently confirmed. The strikes came as a peace push produced envoy visits but no ceasefire. Putin spoke to Trump by telephone yesterday, the Kremlin said, after hosting U S envoy Steve W I T-koff and Jared Kushner on Saturday and again on Sunday, with aide Yury Ushakov commenting afterwards on each occasion. Separately, on twenty-four August the U K and Ukraine signed an agreement on artificial intelligence that gives Britain access to Ukraine's Avengers A I Labs, the British government announced.

Canada.

The United States will bar some Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles from entering the country. Trump put his name yesterday to five proclamations under Section three hundred thirty-eight of the Tariff Act, which impose the bans and alter which Canadian goods face tariffs. Changes to the list of tariffed products start on fifteen September, and the bans themselves begin on twenty-nine September. The White House said in its statement yesterday that Canada had placed fresh retaliatory duties on roughly twenty billion dollars of American exports, among them steel, dairy and farm machinery, and that figure rests on the White House alone and has not been independently checked. The White House also said that on twenty-one August Canada walked away from a pledge to end what Washington calls discrimination against U S goods, which is the White House's account and not an established fact. The Section three hundred thirty-eight tariffs were first put in place on twenty July.

Iran's nuclear file.

The I A E A cannot check what has become of Iran's declared nuclear material and facilities, Director General Rafael Grossi told the agency's Board of Governors on Monday, because Tehran is giving it neither access nor information. "There's no engagement," he said at a briefing the same day. Inspectors have been kept out of the sites struck by the United States and Israel in June of last year, and Grossi said Iran has still not reported the condition of the safeguarded material at them. On one June, according to agency findings relayed in a single report that has not been independently checked, Iran held four hundred forty point nine kilograms of uranium enriched to sixty percent before the strikes. Grossi called the gap in knowledge "a matter of serious proliferation concern". Iran's delegation in Vienna responded on Monday with a statement calling the strikes a breach of the U N Charter, a position rather than a finding. The Board has an open question of referral to the Security Council.

Also in World.

fourteen people went on trial yesterday over the deadliest small boat disaster in the Channel, reported by the B B C alone and not independently checked. The same single report says at least thirty people drowned when their dinghy overturned on twenty-four November twenty twenty-one.

Now, the United States.

The courts.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh yesterday blocked Missouri from using a new congressional map in the November elections, and hours later a federal judge in the state directed Missouri to use that same map anyway, leaving the shape of at least one House seat unsettled while ballots are already in the mail elsewhere, according to Scotusblog, which reported both orders in a single account not independently checked. The map fight is one of several election cases reaching the justices. On Thursday the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to set aside an order from Judge Indira Talwani that stops the Postal Service from enforcing a new rule on mail ballots. Talwani had barred the administration on one June from carrying out the president's executive order for November, and the Supreme Court ruled on one August that her order came too early because the Postal Service had not yet issued its regulations. She is now weighing whether to extend a temporary order through ten September. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave the plaintiffs until eight September to file, and a reply to the administration's latest request is due today by four p.m. Eastern. John Sauer, the solicitor general, wrote in the filing that states "cannot choose to use the federal mails to carry out their elections" and then claim their election mail sits outside Postal Service rules. P B S reports that none of the twelve states that joined the case on the administration's side have said they have signed up for the online portal themselves. A whistleblower report made public on one September, which is a claim and not a confirmed finding, warns that the postal requirements could stop millions of mail ballots from being sent. The timing matters because voting has started. North Carolina and Delaware have begun mailing ballots, and Scotusblog, in a single report not independently checked, says sixteen more states will send theirs within two weeks. Separately yesterday, the Court of Appeals for the D C Circuit refused to pause a lower court ruling on the S A V E citizenship database, another case that touches who can register and vote.

The economy.

Treasury's larger buybacks of longer-dated government debt start today. The department said on nineteen August that each operation, capped until now at two billion dollars, will be at least four billion dollars through four November, figures that rest on a single Treasury notice and are not independently checked. Treasury expects to say more about later buyback sizes at its Quarterly Refunding on four November. Drivers paid four dollars and fifteen cents a gallon on average for regular gasoline on Monday, according to A A A data that comes from one report and has not been independently confirmed. Factories took in six hundred sixty-three point six billion dollars of new orders in July, up zero point nine percent, the Census Bureau said on thirty-one July, a figure from a single release without independent confirmation. In an announcement yesterday, the White House said Rolls-Royce has finished putting one billion dollars into an Indiana plant and Octapharma is spending one point five billion dollars on a South Carolina site, both figures single sourced and unchecked.

Tariffs.

The U S trade gap widened to eighty-eight point six billion dollars in July from seventy-one point two billion dollars in June, a figure that rests on a single Census Bureau release and has not been independently checked. The duties behind much of that import bill remain in force under a law the administration turned to after a court ruling, and their cost lands in shop prices. On twenty-three July the U S Trade Representative announced Section three hundred one actions against Brazil and against sixty economies it says have failed to bar goods made with forced labour. On twenty-one July Ambassador Greer signed a reciprocal trade agreement with Jordan, and on seventeen July U S and Mexican negotiators met in Mexico City for a third round on the review of the U S M C A. The White House said yesterday that over the past year and a half only China and Canada had answered the tariffs with retaliation rather than talks. That is the administration's own account.

The Fed.

The Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee meets in seven days, and Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday that raising the policy rate there may be appropriate. He spoke after futures moved to price a rise following a strong jobs report. On Monday the effective federal funds rate stood at three point six three percent, a figure from a single Fed data release not checked elsewhere. The bank prime loan rate, the benchmark behind card balances and some mortgages, was six point seven five percent on Monday, again from that one release, and that is a description, not advice. Core P C E inflation ran at three point three percent over the twelve months to July, with headline P C E at three point seven percent, both figures cited in Waller's speech alone and not independently checked. He also expects real G D P to grow a bit more than two percent this year, a forecast from one speaker. Today the Board holds a closed meeting on discount rates, fifty-five days before the midterms.

The midterms.

Republicans open their first midterm convention today in Dallas, a gathering the party has never staged in a non-presidential year, according to N P R. The event arrives as the rules on money in the campaign are being tested. The Federal Election Commission set out on twenty-four August that one hundred dollars is the most any political committee may take in cash from a single giver, a figure that comes from a lone F E C posting and has not been checked against another source. The commission is also facing a challenge in court. On twenty-two June, Peter Bernegger sued in the U S District Court for the District of Columbia, saying the F E C had let his administrative complaint sit without action. That case is his allegation, not a finding, and the convention itself is an announcement of intent rather than a result.

Congress.

The Senate passed H.R. six thousand five hundred on eight August by ninety votes to six, a tally drawn from the Senate's own vote record alone and not independently checked. On the same day senators tabled S.Amdt. six thousand seven hundred forty-seven to that bill by sixty-one to thirty-two, again a count resting on that single record. A cloture motion to proceed to S. five thousand two hundred seventy-one fell short at fifty-two to forty-six, another figure from one source only. Senators also voted fifty to forty-nine to end debate on nomination P N one zero seven eight and then fifty to forty-nine to confirm it, both tallies reported by the Senate record alone and not verified elsewhere. The war-powers clock has run out and Congress is back, and no vote on that question appears among these recorded tallies. Separately, Congress.gov on Sunday listed H.R.six thousand five hundred nine, the S A F E Drugs Act of twenty twenty-five, as its most-viewed bill of the week.

The F T C.

Humboldt Merchant Services agreed yesterday to pay twelve million dollars to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations, a sum the agency gave in its own press release and that has not been independently checked. The payment processor is also barred for good from handling payments for merchants the agency regards as carrying a heightened fraud risk. In its complaint, the F T C alleges that Humboldt moved money for more than one thousand merchants that were shells for companies running unauthorised billing schemes, and that count is an allegation resting on the agency's release alone. The agency ties the case to Legion Media, which it shut down on one January. The proposed order was filed in federal district court in Michigan's Eastern District. Commissioners approved the filing by a vote of two to zero, according to the same single release. The order would become binding only if the court accepts it.

Now, A I and technology.

Frontier models.

OpenAI introduced G P T-six Astra on Thursday, the fourth frontier model to ship inside one week. Anthropic, the company whose model writes and reads this programme, announced Claude Fable five point one and Claude Mythos five point one on one September, an announcement pitched at coding and knowledge work. Google released Gemini three point eight Flash on two September, its fourth Flash model this year. Today the benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis placed Claude Fable five point one at the top of its Intelligence Index with a score of fifty-three point three seven, a figure from that single report and not independently checked. OpenAI's own blog put Astra at ninety-eight percent on FrontierMath Tier four, a company figure from one source that nobody outside has verified. Astra reaches a limited set of organisations today, OpenAI said, with wider release to follow in coming days.

Data centres.

At least seventy-four gas-fired power plants are planned to supply data centres, the Environmental Integrity Project said yesterday, a count that rests on a single report and has not been independently checked, and Al Jazeera reports the group's estimate that the plants could release more than six hundred sixty million tonnes of greenhouse gas a year. An estimate carried by Al Jazeera, drawn from one report and not independently verified, put A I data centres at about one point five percent of the world's electricity use in twenty twenty-four, as of thirty-one December. Al Jazeera reports a projection that this use will double by twenty thirty. On thirty-one July, according to Al Jazeera, The Guardian reported that emissions from Microsoft, Amazon and Google together rose by close to twenty percent over a year, a claim from a single report that has not been independently confirmed. Amazon's own sustainability report, a company figure, acknowledged on thirty-one December that its emissions grew in twenty twenty-five.

A I policy.

Three U S agencies, the N S A, C I S A and the F B I, said yesterday in a joint advisory that Chinese A I companies have been running distillation campaigns against American A I developers. The advisory names six China-based firms, among them DeepSeek, Moonshot A I, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.A I, and alleges they drew billions of tokens from U S frontier models including Claude. Claude, made by Anthropic, is the model that writes and reads this programme. These are the agencies' allegations, not independently verified findings. The advisory puts DeepSeek's publicly stated training cost at five point six million dollars, a figure it says leaves out the price of distilled data, and that number rests on this one report alone, not checked independently. It also alleges MiniMax switched its requests to a new Claude model within twenty-four hours of launch, again a single report with no independent confirmation.

A I at work.

Between thirty and fifty percent of robotic process automation projects fall short of their goals, according to an estimate in a framework paper posted yesterday on arxiv, a single report whose figure has not been independently checked. The paper blames the shortfall on firms picking which tasks to automate without a formal method. That is a claim in one academic paper, not a measured result. On twenty-six March the U K A I Security Institute released a study of how A I agents are actually being used, drawing on one hundred seventy-seven thousand agent tools, a count that also rests on that one report and has not been verified elsewhere. And on twenty-one July Meta published a blog post describing how its A I models are being used in the first Genesis Mission projects, an announcement made by the company itself.

Robotics.

Anthropic, the company whose model writes and reads this programme, said on twenty-seven August that it had opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard to an initial set of research labs and advanced manufacturers. The company describes the standard as a specification meant to let A I agents control physical equipment. That is Anthropic's own announcement, not an independent assessment. Separately, a paper posted to arXiv yesterday on a system called DeCAL reports a seventy-one percent average success rate on dexterous manipulation tasks, a figure that comes from that single paper and has not been independently checked. And on twenty-seven July, Meta published a blog post on its assistive robotics work with the University of Pittsburgh.

Chips.

Bosch has agreed to pay B I S a penalty of thirty-six million dollars over shipments connected to Huawei, a figure that comes from a single B I S report dated seventeen June and has not been independently checked. The same agency has pushed back its cutoff for firms applying as approved chip designers to thirty-one December twenty twenty-six, a date it set on seven April that likewise rests on one report alone. Together the two decisions bear on who may design and ship the processors that everything else in this section runs on. Tracking of those processors is continuing. Epoch A I refreshed its record of who owns A I chips on twelve May, its record of chip components on twenty-three July, and its record of chip sales on twenty-seven August.

Now, nature and climate.

Europe's summer.

France has had its hottest summer since records began in nineteen hundred, Environment Minister Monique Barbut said on Thursday. She called it "the hottest summer ever recorded since measurements began in nineteen hundred". July alone averaged twenty-four point nine degrees Celsius across the country, the warmest month France has ever measured, and sixty-five percent of the territory faced a drought without precedent, with ninety-five departments under water restrictions and seventy-nine of them at crisis level. Meteo France put the average temperature for the whole summer at twenty-four degrees Celsius, a figure that rests on a single report and has not been independently checked. The same single report, not independently verified, gives a rainfall shortfall of nearly forty percent, which would make it the second driest summer in the record. A single report that has not been independently checked also counts two thousand twenty-five excess deaths in France during the heat, and one heatwave running from late July into August that lasted twenty-three days, a length reached before only in nineteen eighty-three and reported by one outlet alone. The heat reached across the continent. Copernicus, the European Union's climate service, says Europe has warmed at twice the global rate since the nineteen eighties. On six August Slovakia measured forty-two point two degrees Celsius at Dolne Plachtince, and on five August Austria measured forty-one point two degrees Celsius at Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, each an all-time national figure carried by a single unverified report. In Britain, twenty-seven million people were under water-use restrictions on ten August, according to one report that has not been independently confirmed. Farmers have taken the losses. Yield losses averaged fifty percent in many parts of France, the agriculture ministry said on Friday, when it announced a support package of more than one billion euros, an announcement of intent rather than money yet paid. Barbut expects to present conclusions on France's climate adaptation plan, including a funding plan, by the end of September.

Nepal.

More than one thousand three hundred people are dead in Nepal's flash floods and thousands are still missing, Al Jazeera reported yesterday, a toll from one report that has not been independently checked. The glacial flood struck in late August, and the accounting has begun. Chandika Shrestha, sixty-four, was found alive on Sunday after more than ten days in her half-buried house, the B B C said, one unverified account. Two workers lived nine days in an air pocket under a hydropower tunnel before rescue, the Kathmandu Post said yesterday, also from one source only. The same paper counted forty-one bridges destroyed between Rasuwa and Chitwan, a figure not independently confirmed. It reported yesterday that officials forecast the needs assessment will lift losses about thirty percent above the first estimate, again a single report. Today, the Post also said more than a dozen Loss and Damage Fund members want an emergency board meeting on Nepal's request.

Wildfires.

The U S Small Business Administration, S B A, declared an administrative disaster for California on Friday over the Foster City Sea Spray Fire, according to a notice in the Federal Register. In Europe, fire has already reached homes this summer. A fire in France's Gironde department had consumed close to forty-two thousand hectares by thirty-one July and pushed more than two hundred twenty thousand residents from their homes, a figure that rests on a single Al Jazeera report and is not independently checked. By ten August a blaze in Spain's Avila province had reached almost forty-four thousand hectares, the country's largest in recent memory, again from one Al Jazeera report without independent confirmation. On two August, two people died when Greek firefighting helicopters collided in the air near Athens, a toll Al Jazeera alone has reported and not independently verified. Across the E U, at least one million hectares burned last year, as recorded on thirty-one December, a total drawn from one Al Jazeera report and not independently checked.

el N E E N-yo.

The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that el N E E N-yo is firmly in place and expects it to grow into a very strong event, the top of its four grades, in the coming months, raising the risk of floods, drought and extreme heat. The agency puts the chance of it lasting through February at nearly one hundred percent, a figure carried by a single Al Jazeera report and not independently checked. As of thirty-one July the index sat one point five degrees Celsius above normal for May to July, and by fifteen August weekly readings ran two point two to two point six degrees above average, both from that one report only. Below the surface, water in some areas was more than eight degrees above average in July and early August, again a single report. Saulo said on Thursday the event "may be stronger than anything since our monitoring began". Guterres said "el N E E N-yo is being supersized before our eyes".

Now, health and longevity.

Ebola.

Uganda's health ministry declared its Ebola outbreak over on twenty-eight July, while the outbreak across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to grow. The Congolese government declared the outbreak on fifteen May. It is caused by Bundibugyo virus, one of the Ebola viruses, and the W H O said today that no vaccine or specific treatment exists for that species. By twenty-one August the country had reported five thousand four hundred fifty-eight confirmed cases and two thousand six hundred six confirmed deaths, a case fatality proportion of forty-eight percent, figures that come from a single C D C report and have not been independently checked. On thirty July the W H O said the outbreak had passed the three thousand three hundred seventeen confirmed cases of the twenty eighteen to two thousand twenty outbreak to become the largest ever recorded in that country, a comparison that rests on one report and is not independently verified. It is the second-largest outbreak recorded anywhere. Ituri province held eighty-four percent of reported cases on twenty-one August, a share that also comes from one report and is unchecked. Uganda's exit was reached the slow way. Its last confirmed case left care on sixteen June, and the country counted twenty-one confirmed and probable cases and three deaths, a tally from one report not independently checked. On six June the W H O assessed the risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as very high, which is the agency's judgement rather than a measured outcome. On twenty August the W H O and Africa C D C announced that Ebola vaccines had been allocated to the country, and on thirty-one August the W H O published emergency guidance on using the licensed vaccine Ervebo in Bundibugyo outbreaks, an announcement rather than evidence that the vaccine works against this species. About five hundred C D C staff are working on the response, more than one hundred twenty of them in the affected countries, a staffing figure from the agency itself and not checked elsewhere. As of Friday, South Kivu had recorded no confirmed cases since twenty-nine May.

Longevity.

T B deaths in the W H O South-East Asia Region have fallen twenty-three percent since twenty fifteen, the agency says today in a single report that has not been independently checked. New cases fell sixteen percent over the same period, against a global decline of twelve percent, and those two figures rest on that one unchecked report as well. Treatment now reaches more than eighty-five percent of patients, again on the agency's word alone. The burden remains large. On one January the agency put new cases in twenty twenty-four at three point six eight million and deaths at four hundred thirty-three thousand, numbers from a single source with no outside check. Nearly forty-four percent of affected households face costs the agency calls catastrophic, one report only. The agency's modelling expects a vaccine from twenty twenty-eight could avert one point four five million cases by twenty thirty, a forecast from that same uncorroborated report. This slot asks whether the evidence moved. It did, in years, not days.

The F D A.

The F D A on Thursday approved the first drug for Alexander disease, a decision the trade outlet Biopharma Dive reported on Friday makes Zan-V A S-tro the only approved medicine for that condition. The same agency on Friday gave accelerated approval to a new treatment for breast cancer, a route that means the drug reached the market on early evidence with confirmatory data still to come. The run of approvals began on twenty-five August, when the F D A authorized the first wearable device that tracks both ketone levels and blood sugar without interruption. On twenty-six August it cleared a first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer. On twenty-seven August it approved the first oral drug for adults with dermatomyositis, and on twenty-eight August a first of its kind drug for polycythemia vera, a rare blood disorder. Separately, the agency issued emergency use authorizations for drugs against New World Screwworm, in cattle on twenty-seven August and in dogs and cats on Thursday.

Measles.

The United States has recorded three thousand one hundred thirty-four confirmed measles cases so far in twenty twenty-six, according to a Thursday tally from the C D C that is a single report and has not been independently checked. That makes two thousand twenty-six the worst year since nineteen ninety-one by case count. The C D C also counted thirty-eight new outbreaks this year, and it says ninety-five percent of confirmed cases are tied to an outbreak, figures that rest on the agency's report alone and have not been checked by anyone else. three thousand one hundred eighteen of the cases came from forty-seven jurisdictions, again on the agency's word only. For comparison, the C D C counted two thousand two hundred eighty-nine cases across the whole of twenty twenty-five as of thirty-one December, and two hundred eighty-five in all of twenty twenty-four, both from that one source and not independently verified. The disease was declared eliminated in the country in two thousand.

The planet tracker.

Nepal: the number stands at one thousand three hundred dead. Europe's summer: the number stands at three injured, unchanged for one week. Europe's summer: the number stands at five hundred people evacuated, unchanged for four weeks. Europe's summer: the number stands at four dead, unchanged for four weeks. Wildfires: the number stands at two dead, unchanged for five weeks.

That was As Reported, written and read by A I. Every source named.