📌 World Series, Spain’s Floods, More

The Los Angeles Dodgers came from behind to win 7–6 over the New York Yankees and clinch the World Series.

The Dodgers clinched their eighth title in franchise history, their first since the Covid-shortened 2020 season and their first in a full season since 1988. The Dodgers became the first team to clinch a championship with more than seven pitchers.

The tide turned in the fifth inning. Aaron Judge had a flare hit directly at him ricochet off his glove. Anthony Volpe threw wide of third base on an attempted force out. Anthony Rizzo fielded a slow roller but had nobody to flip to at first base.

With two outs and the bases loaded, Freddie Freeman followed with a two-run single, and Teoscar Hernandez added a two-run double, tying the score at 5–5. The Yankees re-took the lead on Giancarlo Stanton's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth.

The Dodgers broke through again in the eighth. With the bases loaded, sacrifice flies gave the Dodgers their first lead — one they would not give up. The 2020–2024 Dodgers became the first team since the 1953–1957 Yankees with multiple World Series titles to record a winning percentage of .640 or better over a five-season span.

Rescue efforts are continuing as Spain endures its worst flooding disaster in decades, with at least 95 people confirmed dead.

Dozens more are missing after rain swept the eastern province of Valencia and beyond. Flash floods swept away bridges and buildings and forced people to climb onto roofs or trees to survive.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has declared three days of national mourning as the extreme conditions continue, restricting some rescue efforts.

One of the first towns affected near Valencia, Chiva, reported one year's rainfall in just eight hours on Tuesday, according to national weather agency Aemet.

Former President Trump took to the cab of a garbage truck in Wisconsin to highlight President Biden’s misstep on Tuesday.

Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage” during a video call with Voto Latino on Tuesday. The remark outraged conservatives, even as the White House disputed the interpretation of what the president meant.

Trump’s stunt went viral, making it harder for Vice President Harris’s campaign to move past the controversy. Harris had earlier tried to distance herself from Biden’s comment. The vice president told reporters that she did not go along with “any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”

Some momentum in the race for the White House had appeared to shift back to the vice president earlier this week after Trump’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday backfired when a comedian described Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

White House efforts to neutralize the effect of Biden’s remarks continued Wednesday, having begun the previous night with the argument that the president had been misinterpreted.

An academic study finds how harsh and warm parenting during early, middle and late childhood impacts brain development.

Researchers used a statistical method to identify “sensitive periods” in childhood when the brain is particularly susceptible to external influences and whether experiences during these sensitive periods would predict mental health during a stressful period like the Covid pandemic.

Data came from a 21-year longitudinal birth cohort study of 173 low-income youths and families from Detroit, Chicago and Toledo.

Parents reported their harsh behavior — psychological and physical aggression — and observers recorded warm parenting (responsiveness) for children at ages 3, 5 and 9. A follow-up substudy with neuroimaging was done for youths at age 15. Six years later, during the pandemic, participants reported their symptoms of anxiety and depression.

The findings indicated parents’ harsh parenting during early childhood affected the overall organization of the brain in adolescence. Harsh parenting in late childhood affected the processing and regulation of emotion. Parenting warmth reduced anxiety and depression during the pandemic.

The federal government has been asked to pause low-orbit internet satellite launches until a review is conducted.

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission Space Bureau (FCC), over 100 researchers expressed concern. “The environmental harms of launching and burning up so many satellites aren’t clear. … The federal government hasn’t conducted an environmental review to understand the impacts.”

The researchers continued: “We shouldn’t rush forward with launching satellites at this scale without making sure the benefits justify the potential consequences of these new mega-constellations being launched and then re-entering our atmosphere to burn up or create debris.”

The researchers noted that, in just over five years, tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink service launched more than 6,000 units that now comprise 60% of all satellites — the picture above shows a trail of a group of SpaceX's Starlink satellites passing over Uruguay.

The researchers critized the FCC for granting licenses on a “first-come, first-served basis,” noting orbital space and the broadcast spectrum are not limitless, and they require an “unprecedented system of cooperation” with international regulators “to share the commons of our final frontier.”

The researchers encouraged the FCC to end the “categorical exclusion of satellites” from environmental review, writing “that launching 30,000 to 500,000 satellites into low earth orbit [without] an environmental review offends common sense.”

Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights and one of the most important events in the Hindu calendar.

The annual festival tends to fall between October and November, but the exact date varies each year as the Hindu calendar is based on the Moon. Diwali is being celebrated today this year, but some parts of the country will observe the festival on Friday.

In the lead-up to Diwali, people clean and organize their homes. They buy new clothes and exchange gifts with friends, family and neighbors. Many draw traditional designs using colorful powders outside their doors to welcome luck and positivity.

Families worship Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. Lamps are lit, and windows and doors are left open to help the goddess find her way into people's homes.

Fireworks are also a big part of the celebrations, but in recent years, several state governments have imposed curbs or banned the practice as states grapple with severe air pollution.

Two New Orleans students who solved the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry have had their discovery confirmed.

Ne'Kiya Jackson (left) and Calcea Johnson, former St. Mary's Academy students, presented their discovery to the American Mathematical Society in Atlanta in March 2023. This October, their solutions were confirmed: Trigonometry could solve the theorem.

Their findings were published in the American Mathematical Monthly and if solving Pythagoras' theorem wasn't challenging enough, the young women, now first-year college students, discovered nine more solutions to the problem.

The 2,000-year-old theorem states that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equivalent to the square on the hypotenuse or the longest side of a right triangle.

Jackson and Johnson found the first proof of the equation during their senior year of high school while working tirelessly over their holiday break to solve a bonus question in a math contest.

A year later, the students are in their first year of college. Jackson attends Xavier University of Louisiana and studies pharmacology, while Johnson studies environmental engineering at Louisiana State University.