Many IRS workers are furloughed due to the government shutdown, but taxpayers are still required to file their extensions this week.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-irs-furlough-tax-extension-filing-deadline-october-15/
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-recommendations-measure-obesity-bmi/
Former NFL star meets with a Cisco engineer and NFL's Chief Information Security Officer to discuss how the tech giant defended the big game from cyberattacks.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cisco-teams-up-with-the-nfl-to-defend-super-bowl-paid-content/
The section protects equal opportunity for racial minorities in redistricting.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-appears-ready-limit-key-part-voting/story?id=126556613
She was just visiting her family, who remain in Indianapolis, and to help her husband recover following surgery for prostate cancer, friends said.https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-theater-professor-fatally-shot-georgia-residence-speaks/story?id=126560303
When President Javier Milei of Argentina faced an economic meltdown, President Trump vowed to come to his aid. But that lifeline is coming at a cost.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/americas/argentina-trump-javier-milei.html
Unions representing federal workers said they expected the result would halt many of the layoffs that the administration had ordered or contemplated in recent days.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/government-shutdown-trump-layoffs-unions.html
Representative Kevin Kiley of California has criticized his own party for keeping the House out of session during the shutdown. He is battling boredom and disaffection as the stalemate drags on.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/kevin-kiley-shutdown.html
Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html
The Palestinian militant group said it needed special equipment to locate and extract the remaining remains.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/middleeast/hamas-gaza-hostages-remains-israel.html
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered unusually strong criticism of Russia, just as Ukraine seeks American Tomahawk missiles.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/hegseth-russia-ukraine.html
The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/arts/music/dangelo-vocals-apollo-concert.html
Who would have imagined I’d ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/israel-gaza-trump.html
The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-eliezer-yudkowsky.html
‘Gray divorce’ is becoming more common. We want to hear about yours.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/well/family/gray-divorce-callout.html
The Times is looking for examples of interactions between federal immigration agents and residents across the country.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/videos-ice-interactions.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed bills that would have provided tangible benefits to descendants of slavery, though he approved a state agency to determine who qualifies for potential reparations.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/california-reparations-newsom-veto.html
Representative Mikie Sherrill has a six-point edge over her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/nyregion/ciattarelli-sherrill-new-jersey-governor-poll.html
Some stores are rounding transactions to the nearest nickel and encouraging customers to pay with plastic, citing the Treasury Department’s decision to phase out the penny.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/business/penny-circulation-retailers-change.html
The experiments offer new insights one of the “biggest unknowns” in how the climate will change in the years to comehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-resurrected-40000-year-old-microbes-from-alaskan-permafrost-180987509/