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Minnesota's primaries reshaped two major races in one night, deadly ferry disasters exposed safety failures from Indonesia to Zimbabwe, and doctors are sounding the alarm over a vaccine policy they fear could lower childhood immunization rates. Plus, chip stocks surge, AI security heats up, and the NFL finally embraces how replay decisions really get made.

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House Speaker Lisa Demuth beat MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in Minnesota's Republican primary for governor, despite Trump personally endorsing Lindell only last month. Demuth, 59, now faces Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a state Republicans have not won for governor in over two decades.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic Senate primary over centrist Rep. Angie Craig, campaigning on ripping apart ICE and expanding Medicare to cover everyone. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both backed Flanagan, making this the second straight Midwest Senate nomination claimed by a progressive.

Rescuers evacuated 172 people from the burning ferry Putri Yasmin in the Lombok Strait early Wednesday, recovering the body of a 19-year-old Indonesian girl. Officials later conceded the manifest listed only 131 passengers and crew, a chronic undercounting problem on Indonesia's inter-island routes.

Zimbabwean police say a strong wave capsized a boat on Lake Kariba carrying at least 95 people, with 15 bodies recovered so far and 77 survivors pulled from the water. Civil Protection records show 114 adult tickets were sold, plus an unknown number of children too young to need one.

Pediatricians warn that Monday's executive order splitting the MMR shot into three separate vaccines will confuse families and leave children exposed while measles is surging. Michigan pediatrician Molly O'Shea called the timing "really unfortunate and ill-conceived," landing as parents work through back-to-school checklists.

Trump again suggested that the number and timing of childhood shots drives autism rates, a link decades of studies have repeatedly failed to find. Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. already attempted similar schedule changes, which a federal judge blocked earlier this year.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul suspended new firearm permits and gave the Interior Ministry 60 days to draft tougher gun legislation. Two shootings in six days in Nonthaburi province killed at least nine people, including eight at a high school on Friday.

Aid group Plan International says two million Somalis now face emergency levels of food insecurity, more than double last year's figure as international funding shrinks. Luul Mohamed walked more than 300 kilometres from Middle Jubba with her five children to reach the displacement hub of Baidoa.

Excavations began near Zubin Potok after human remains surfaced, and Prime Minister Albin Kurti says the site may hold 23 intellectuals who vanished in April 1999. Roughly 1,600 people are still missing from the war, including about 1,200 ethnic Albanians and 400 ethnic Serbs.

Christopher Luxon survived an urgent caucus vote on Wednesday after a meeting that ran more than three hours, his second challenge in four months. A 1News Verian poll published the same morning put his preferred-prime-minister rating at 17%, with unemployment at an eleven-year high of 5.6%.

Naveed Akram, 25, faced 78 charges in Sydney on Wednesday over the December Hanukkah attack that killed 15 people at Bondi Beach. Prosecutor Danielle New said more than 800 witness statements have been examined, though data from another twelve devices remains unreviewed.

Australian police dropped assault and stalking charges against Ahmed al Ahmed, the man filmed tackling and disarming one of the Bondi gunmen before being shot several times. Al Ahmed, 44, accepted a twelve-month contact order involving his father, then left court calling himself a free man.

South Korea's Kospi surged 3.68% to 6,579 on heavy chipmaker buying, with Samsung Electronics up 7% and SK Hynix up 6.6% on the session. Japan's Nikkei added 0.83% to 67,524 after a holiday, while Hong Kong slipped 0.98% and Europe opened mixed.

Brent touched $90.07 overnight before easing to $89.54, while WTI held near $83.92 following two separate attacks on vessels in as many days. Interactive Brokers economist José Torres said tangible progress on a deal is needed before yields fall and stocks rally meaningfully further.

Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign fund posted a record $184 billion half-year profit, a 9.4% return driven largely by the Asian technology rally. Disclosure included a first-ever SpaceX holding worth $1.2 billion, dwarfed by $61.8 billion of Nvidia and $52.7 billion of Apple.

Gartner expects information security spending to reach $240 billion this year, up 12.5%, after OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each reported models escaping their test environments. Blackpanda's Asia-Pacific incident response caseload doubled year over year, with AI-generated phishing running roughly five times more effective than human attempts.

Koray Kavukcuoglu now reports directly to Sundar Pichai, owning Gemini model development, frontier research, and both the consumer app and developer teams. Forrester analyst Brian Hopkins said the new structure resembles how a company organizes a product group rather than a research lab.

Andy Green, 64, drove JCB's Hydromax to 406mph at Bonneville, more than doubling the previous hydrogen combustion record of 185.5mph set back in 2004. Green, still the only person to break the sound barrier on land, averaged two runs using twin hydrogen engines making 1,600bhp.

Stephanie White, booed during pregame introductions, said everybody else could go to hell before Indiana went out and beat New York 106-92. Indiana's fifteenth 100-point game set a single-season WNBA record, built on 16-of-25 shooting from behind the arc.

Muncy's tenth-inning single beat Kansas City 5-4, scoring Shohei Ohtani from second base in front of 49,958 at Dodger Stadium. Snell, back after three months and elbow surgery, struck out seven of his first ten batters across six innings of three-hit ball.

Rengifo hit a bases-loaded slam off Kyle Harrison as San Diego routed Milwaukee 11-2, seven weeks after the Brewers cut him loose. Fernando Tatis Jr. passed Nate Colbert for sole possession of second on the Padres' all-time home run list with his 164th.

Nicholas Hoult has signed on to play Gilderoy Lockhart in season two of HBO's Harry Potter series, a role Kenneth Branagh made memorable in the "Chamber of Secrets" film. It's a rare comedic pivot for an actor who has spent recent years in cape-and-glower mode.

Stewart, 81, called off eleven concerts including a six-date Las Vegas residency, under doctor's orders to recuperate for four weeks after a coronary stent. Stewart says he is already feeling better and very much on the mend, while apologising for letting his fans down.

Portuguese media report the couple wed Tuesday in Cascais, with all five of their children present at a civil ceremony the country is calling the wedding of the year. Ronaldo's Instagram post of two ringed hands drew more than three million likes inside thirty minutes.

What it is: The NFL changed its rules to allow head coaches to designate someone else to throw the challenge flag, a small procedural tweak that produced one of the more entertaining confessions of the preseason. Bengals head coach Zac Taylor admitted his staff has been doing exactly that, quietly, for the past eight years.

The detail: Under the old rule, only the head coach could physically toss the red flag onto the field to trigger a review. In practice, coordinators, assistants, and analytics staff often made the actual call from the booth and relayed it down. Taylor's frank "we've been breaking that rule for eight years" line captured what most of the league already understood: the flag was ceremonial, while the decision had long been outsourced. By formally recognizing that replay reviews are collaborative, the NFL is also acknowledging how modern coaching staffs actually operate, with analysts, video assistants and technology driving many of the game's most important decisions.

Why it matters: The change is a rare admission by the NFL that a rule was outdated and widely ignored, which is more honesty than the league usually offers on officiating matters. It also reflects how much replay decisions now depend on real-time analytics in the booth rather than gut calls from the sideline. Similar specialization already shapes fourth-down decisions, clock management and timeout strategy, making the update another sign that coaching has become increasingly data-driven.

What to watch: Expect more transparency around who actually makes the call. Some teams may credit their replay assistants publicly, while others will keep the process guarded. The tweak is minor, but it opens the door to broader conversations about how modern coaching structures are colliding with rulebooks written in a different era.

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