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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the...

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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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Canadian writer Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in literature

The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

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Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’

Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California

ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.

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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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Why people don’t want to have children any more

Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap

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Pete Hegseth says public can watch Fort Hood shooter's execution

Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is "gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be."

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Trump calls on AI to speed up science—while continuing to defund it

Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH.

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US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart

At this point, there appears to be no prospect of a negotiated settlement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city

Two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. Officials later clarified the execution will be livestreamed and that more details would follow, the Associated Press reported. In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the Pentagon secretary said the firing squad would carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, Texas, at 1pm on Thursday, 3 December. This would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years. Continue reading...

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At least 12 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop

"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.

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Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families

In an interview with Fox News, the Amazon founder said he disagreed with the assessment that AI will lead to large-scale job losses.

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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten

The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Pennsylvania.

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Lithuania calls for EU sanctions against Russian grain

Russia being able to trade grain while it blockades Ukraine from doing likewise "is an unacceptable situation," said Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius.

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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.

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High school protests draw tens of thousands across France for second time in a week

While turnout did not reach the levels seen on October 6, the 'Act IV' of the high school student movement continued on October 8, drawing large crowds from Paris to Marseille and Lyon. Though the atmosphere was mostly positive, there were also clashes at the end of marches.

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How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic

A trove of documents and interviews with people close to tech billionaire Elon Musk reveal a damning picture of his rise as one of the world's richest and most powerful men.

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim news for the climate.

Like Donald Trump, he favors maximizing profits for extractive industries, environment be damned.

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Data centres emerge as bipartisan concern in US midterms

While US Republicans and Democrats remain deeply divided on most issues, there is one issue where they appear to be increasingly aligned - data centres.

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Alcohol makers in Japan tap into U.S. ready-to-drink market

As the popularity of ready-to-drink products grows in the U.S., Japanese companies have introduced U.S. versions of such products in Japan.

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Joy as USS Lincoln back home after troubled Gulf deployment

Thousands of emotional reunions unfolded Thursday as the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose lengthy deployment in the Gulf supporting President Donald Trump's war on Iran sparked fears for its crew's welfare, arrived back in its home port.

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Morocco and Senegal await AFCON final verdict after arbitration hearing

Thursday saw the Court of Arbitration for Sport hold a long-awaited hearing in Lausanne, as sport's highest court considered Senegal's appeal over the decision to award Morocco this year's Africa Cup of Nations title. While Senegal won the match on the pitch in Rabat ten months ago, the Confederation of African Football latter overturned the result because the Teranga Lions had left the pitch in protest mid-game before coming back on. The three-judge panel is expected to issue a verdict soon.

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'Small income gains' for people in Budget 2027 - ESRI

Changes to direct taxes, welfare measures, and childcare supports in this week's Budget will result in "small income gains" for people, according to the ESRI.

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HSE deducted €100,000 from autism charity after governance concerns raised

Autism a Chara, which previously traded as Autism Initiatives Ireland, provides specialist care and support for adults with autism

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Zelensky expects European team at peace talks in US

Ukraine's negotiators will hold talks with US President Donald Trump's envoys, and a "European team" in the United States today and tomorrow, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

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Man hit with angle grinder during attempted e-bike robbery

Stephen Hoy said he was left covered in blood after he confronted an offender allegedly trying to steal his e-bike.

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Starbucks reportedly exploring Chipotle takeover

Move would reunite chief executive Brian Niccol with chain he led before joining coffee company two years ago

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Squirrels in the roof, curlews in the front yard: true stories of creatures in our homes | First Dog on the Moon

Guardian readers reveal their own tales of cross species cohabitation * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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New evidence in Hawke murders could lead to coronial inquest

The WA premier says details released in a statement by the WA Ombudsman could lead to a coronial inquest into the deaths of the three Hawke children in 2022.

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‘We knew we weren’t being rescued’: Irish survivor of Mozambique massacre gives evidence at inquest

Philip Mawer was killed during a 2021 jihadist attack on the TotalEnergies gas project

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Sister of 13yo critically injured in alleged arson pleads with other teens

The sister of the Melbourne boy clinging to life after an apparent botched firebombing has urged other Victorian children not to accept cash for committing crimes.

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MP Luke Gosling vows to seek Labor preselection despite pending assault case

Member for Solomon Luke Gosling has vowed to recontest his seat at the next federal election, saying future Territorians will "shake their head" at his prosecution for an alleged assault on the Northern Territory administrator.

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Ice agent shoots and wounds man in New York City with five-year-old reportedly in car

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says child unharmed as he condemns ‘unconscionable’ situation amid angry protests in Bronx neighbourhood

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Isaias strengthens into Category 2 hurricane on collision course with the Gulf Coast

The first hurricane of the Atlantic season was forecast to intensify rapidly and cause dangerous conditions in the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.

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IRGC targets ‘violating' ships nightly, Trump says no attack before vote

Iranian media reported massive explosions in the southern Strait of Hormuz, with Fars citing unnamed military sources.

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U.S. military to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

Nidal Hasan’s execution will be the first by the U.S. military since 1961, and the first it has carried out by firing squad since World War II.

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Three of the UK’s four nations are led by parties advocating a split. Which is most likely to go?

New prime minister Andy Burnham is facing renewed calls for independence votes.

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Dublin City Council proposes tree preservation order at Kenilworth Square

Owner of south Dublin square, St Mary’s College in Rathmines, plans expansion of sports grounds

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China's tax crackdown piles pressure on luxury brands as US spending falters

China's tax crackdown on wealthy individuals has become the latest headache for luxury brands, already grappling with the fallout from the Iran war and signs of slowing consumer spending ‌in the United States.

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Could The Celebrity Traitors tempt workers back to the office?

The ‘unhinged uncle’ energy of actor Richard E Grant may yet achieve what free coffee and other perks have not

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A Starbucks-Chipotle merger offers the wrong kind of synergy

The overlap between the two brands is unlikely to be enough to justify a takeover premium

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Colin Hunt’s AIB share awards, and AI’s impact on the labour market

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

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Meet the German spymaster turned treason suspect

The former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service built a lucrative second career trading on his security expertise. Now prosecutors accuse him of profiting from secrets belonging to the state.

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