Today's five.

She started her career at 11 months old, which means acting was basically the only life Hayden Panettiere ever had. The *Heroes* and *Nashville* star died Sunday, according to a statement from her father — warm, grief-soaked, and entirely without a cause of death. Her publicist confirmed an investigation is ongoing. Earlier this year, Panettiere had published a memoir and spoken openly about postpartum depression, addiction, and giving up custody of her daughter in 2018. She was 36. Most outlets ran the family statement. Nobody has the rest of the story yet.

The surgery outlived the pitcher who made it necessary — and that's not a knock, it's the whole point. Tommy John died Saturday at his home in Florida, surrounded by family, after a period in hospice care. He won 288 games over 26 seasons, made four All-Star teams, posted back-to-back 20-win years with the Yankees. None of that is what anyone remembers. What they remember is that he let a surgeon try something nobody had tried, came back, and accidentally saved about half the pitchers currently on a major league roster. He said goodbye publicly in August. The Yankees called him a bedrock. He was.

The Hampton Grocer found out its granola had a salmonella problem the same way most of us find out bad news: from someone else. The Montauk-based company recalled its Lacnola Lactation Granola after its ingredient supplier, Food to Live, flagged that one of their products tested positive for the bacteria. Two lots are affected — both sold nationwide through Amazon and other online retailers between October 2025 and August 2026. The product is specifically marketed to breastfeeding mothers, a group that shares food with someone who cannot, under any circumstances, get salmonella. Fox Business led with the Amazon distribution; Business Insider led with the supplier chain.

Joint military exercises with South Korea were already starting Monday when Trump posted on Truth Social that he'd told Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" them — which is not the typical way military policy gets made. The stated reasons are doing a lot of work: North Korea has been "unthreatening," the drills send "hostile signals," and also South Korea wouldn't help denuclearize Iran. Bloomberg led with the Iran frustration angle; Axios led with the Kim relationship. Both are true, which is somehow more confusing than if only one were. The exercises, called Ulchi Freedom Shield, have run annually since 2022.

Florida has spent more on applied behavior analysis therapy for children with special needs than any other state in the country — $6.57 billion in just two years. For context, that's not a rounding error. ABA is a legitimate, widely-used therapy for autism, but the number is large enough that Florida's own deputy Medicaid secretary had to present it to legislators, which is usually a sign that someone in the building started asking uncomfortable questions. The Florida Phoenix surfaced the figure from that briefing. What drove the bill that high — provider rates, enrollment growth, or something else — is the actual story still unfolding.