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Health officials in Pennsylvania have reported 74 new measles cases, according to ABC News. The outbreak is drawing attention as measles, once largely controlled through vaccination, continues to resurface in the United States. Officials are expected to urge residents to check their immunisation status, while public health watchers are monitoring how quickly the outbreak spreads and how authorities respond.

An employee of a Russian anti-plague institute has been diagnosed with pneumonia, ABC News reports. The case is drawing attention because of the institute's role in handling dangerous pathogens, and observers are questioning what illness the worker actually has and whether there is any broader risk to public health.

A Chinese court has sentenced the former mayor of Wuhan to 14 years in prison after convicting him of bribery. The case was picked up by major international outlets including ABC News and The Washington Post. Wuhan's former leadership has drawn attention internationally because the city was the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global banks are warning that Australia's superannuation system may be approaching a tipping point as interest rates continue to rise. According to ABC News reporting, the alert highlights growing concern about how higher rates could affect retirement savings funds, which manage trillions of dollars. Analysts are watching closely for stress on fund liquidity and returns, and the story is drawing wide attention across Australia's financial community.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is deliberately slowing the economy through interest rate policy, and business commentator Ian Verrender examines what that means for households and the wider economy. His analysis, aired on the ABC's The Business, weighs the bank's fight against inflation against the mounting costs of higher borrowing, slower growth and pressure on mortgage holders.

News outlets including AP and ABC News are running a timeline of AI safety developments following an attack on Hugging Face, the open-source machine learning platform. The piece recounts how the incident unfolded and the safety measures and policy responses that have followed across the AI industry since.

Retail marijuana is back on the ballot in Massachusetts as Ballot Question 8, according to Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB. The measure puts the state's approach to legal retail marijuana sales before voters once again, reopening a debate that has followed the state since it first legalized recreational cannabis. Details of what exactly Question 8 would change have not been laid out in the available coverage.