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Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. And we begin with peanut allergies plummeting and credit may belong to a landmark 2015 study.

It showed that introducing peanut products to babies as early as four months old could prevent the onset of an allergy, which was a complete reversal of decades of advice.

Now, 10 years later, there's evidence this approach is working in a big

way. As published in the journal Pediatrics, as many as 60,000 children have avoided developing

peanut allergies since the guidelines were updated. Author of the study, Dr. David Hill,

calls the findings remarkable and told the Associated Press,

I can actually come to you today and say there are less kids with food allergy today than

there would have been if we hadn't implemented this public health effort.

What's rarer than a comet in the night sky? How about two? Tonight, a fireball named Lemon and another name Swan should both be visible right after sunset. Lemon may be bright enough to be seen without visual aids, but for Swan, you'll definitely need binoculars or a small telescope. Both will be easiest to spot away from light pollution.

And if you can't make tonight's double header, all is not lost. Lemon is sticking around,

and the best viewing dates will be next Saturday to next Tuesday, October 25th to the 28th.

It was lights out yesterday for many websites that rely on Amazon's cloud services.

From early in the morning, stretching into the afternoon, users reported issues with

Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Venmo, McDonald's, and Delta.

According to CBS News, even Amazon's own sites weren't immune. Down Detector

noted problems with ring doorbells and Alexa-powered smart speakers. Amazon said the problem

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