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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Thousands march ahead of Brazil election runoff: 'Never Again Bolsonaro'

Students spilled into downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, calling for votes for incumbent leftist president Lula.

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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French government suspends use of stun grenades at student protests after teen loses hand

France's interior minister said stun grenades would be temporarily withdrawn from use at protests organized by high school students 'just long enough to understand what happened.'

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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.

Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...

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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

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The 87-year-old evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies

Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalized with exhaustion after her eviction, which triggered national demonstrations over Spain's chronic housing crisis.

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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law

The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.

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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

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Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 15 dead

Explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on Oct. 7 as Moscow launched its latest mass missile and drone attack on the capital, coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 74th birthday.

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“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account.

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way

The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.

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'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills

Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.

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Norway's 2027 budget includes almost $9 billion in new Ukraine support

The money would be funneled into Norway's Nansen Support Program, named after humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, who led famine relief efforts in Ukraine in the early 1920s.

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...

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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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The truth about Trump’s plan to bring back execution by firing squad

A veteran death penalty lawyer says it is part of the administration’s “brutality trip.”

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Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say

Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid ‌a bigger export push by Gulf producers.

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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers

► For more, visit Mother Jones: America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That's a stubborn fact, we're told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike…

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House Democrat Introduces Bill To Preserve Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ In Smithsonian Museum

A House Democrat introduced a bill that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve banners bearing President Donald Trump’s face that hang outside federal agency buildings for display in an exhibit on Trump’s “authoritarian narcissism.”

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USS Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment supporting Iran war

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

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Drones hit Yandex data centre in first major attack on Russian data hub

Drones hit a major data centre in Russia's Ryazan region owned by the country's ‌leading AI and technology company Yandex, the company said on Thursday.

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US Oil Producers Ramp Down Gulf Output 25% on Storm Isaias

Hurricane Isaias has formed in the US Gulf, marking the first such cyclone in the Atlantic this year, with oil and gas producers shutting in wells and evacuating personnel as the storm tracks toward the coast.

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Russian plague scare: an expert explains what we know so far – and why there’s no need to panic

The availability of treatment, rapid testing and contact tracing mean the outlook of plague is very different today.

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Apple's age-verification feature welcomed by Pornhub owners

The world's most popular porn site has returned to Australia after Apple introduced a new age-verification process targeted at eliminating minors' exposure to explicit content.

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How von der Leyen’s people are rising through the ranks

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Using ambulances and corridors as 'treatment rooms' unacceptable, says union

Long delays in handing over patients from ambulances to hospitals are causing their condition to worsen, with some dying as a result, according to a new report.

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Why wildlife populations have declined by 73 per cent in just 50 years

“Biodiversity continues to be degraded at an alarming pace, yet amid these steep declines there are grounds for hope.”

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‘Curious and circumspect creatures’: the artist making sculptures for the rats of New York City

For his latest project, Asad Raza made ‘public art’ for rats with pieces designed to appeal to the city’s maligned rodents

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission

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CNBC Daily Open: The blame game — Brussels vs Beijing

The scene is set for tough talks in Beijing as European and Chinese officials seek to avoid stoking trade tensions.

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Material on everything from the moon to vape shops: Welcome to the world of competitive poetry

The All Ireland Poetry Slam Championship has been ongoing for nearly two decades, and has its roots in events in Chicago that began in the 1980s.

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Sales in Tesco’s Irish business rise

Retailer raises group profit outlook floor after first-half rise

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Nurses' union labels Taoiseach's strike remarks as ‘a little glib’ ahead of nationwide protests today

Lunchtime protests are planned at hospitals across Ireland today ahead of next Wednesday’s public sector work stoppages.

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Japan tells China to show ‘respect’ in addressing PM

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun referred to the prime minister only as “Sanae Takaichi” at a news conference last month.

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Bollywood actor Nana Patekar dies at 75

Nana Patekar, a veteran Indian actor known for his fiery performances in Bollywood films and theatre, died on Thursday aged 75, local media reported.

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Another NASA crew is coming home. Here's what to expect from their splashdown

NASA's Crew-12 astronauts are set to parachute back to Earth in a SpaceX capsule, after 237 days of conducting orbital research and lab maintenance on the International Space Station.

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Kai Allen shines as Ford gets engine change for Bathurst

Kai Allen has fired the first warning shot ahead of Sunday's Bathurst 1000 with the fastest time across today's two practice sessions.

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Lecornu tente le coup de pompe

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AI startup Manus raises $500 million in first funding round since Meta breakup

The deal is handing the AI agent developer fresh capital after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.

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Germany is right to rearm. But Europe has well-founded fears about that | Paul Taylor

Berlin’s allies are right to be wary of a sudden surge in German military spending that shuns cooperation with them, says the European Policy Centre’s Paul Taylor

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Melbourne man accused of spreading Islamic State material granted bail

A Melbourne magistrate has granted bail to 65-year-old Mohamed Bakit, telling a court he has a significant neurological disability.

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ANALYSIS: Angus Taylor tries to find his place on the migration middle road

As the three-cornered migration battle continues, Angus Taylor is trying to position his party in the middle of the government and One Nation.

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Ministers urge ATO to reverse credit card ban amid growing backlash from small businesses

Business owners who use credit card payments as cashflow tool need ‘clear, consistent approach’, chamber of commerce says Labor is putting pressure on the tax office to reverse its decision not to accept credit card payments amid a growing backlash, insisting the ATO help small business operators manage critical cashflow after a ban on surcharges. Government ministers took credit for a decision by the Reserve Bank to ban surcharges for credit card payments from the start of this month, a move the central bank estimated would save consumers about $1.6bn. Card surcharges had been used to cover the cost charged by banks and credit card companies for processing payments. Continue reading...

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Protesters in Colombia rally against ties with Israel

Hundreds took to the streets of Bogota to protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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China's funding of development institutions is up sharply, but its power still lags, study shows

China, the world's second-largest economy, has boosted funding of multilateral development institutions tenfold since 2010, but its voting power and presence in international bodies still lag its economic weight, a ‌new study released on Thursday said.

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