public health

Nearly $10 million in taxpayer funds spent on Trump ads after private-funding pledge

• NPR's analysis of AdImpact data found that nearly $22 million in taxpayer funds have been spent on ads promoting President Trump since late September, with almost $10 million of that paid out after Trump's Oct. 5 pledge to shift funding to his MAGA Inc. super PAC.
• Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home around 4:30 a.m. on Monday; the Department of Justice told NPR that Homeland Security Investigations agents "executed a judicially authorized search warrant" as part of a multi-year probe focused on allegations of immigration fraud.
• The U.S. has recorded more than 3,600 confirmed measles cases and two deaths as of late September, with almost all cases involving unvaccinated individuals and a herd-immunity vaccination threshold of 95%.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition showcases more than 120 works by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner — 74 Krasner pieces and 48 Pollock pieces — framing Krasner as a titan of Abstract Expressionism.
• NPR's Breakfast Around the World series explored akara, a savory Lagos breakfast staple with deep roots in Nigeria and West Africa that spread around the world during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
• Robert Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was scheduled to hold her first briefing Tuesday.