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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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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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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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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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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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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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'Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya believed that a society that accepts lies ends up accepting violence as well'

Twenty years ago, the journalist was murdered at the instigation of Russian security services. Documentary filmmaker Eric Bergkraut, who knew her well, recalls in an opinion piece for Le Monde her fight for truth and against Kremlin propaganda – a struggle that is more necessary than ever as Vladimir Putin continues to kill.

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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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“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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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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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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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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US senators urge Trump administration to enforce new Russia sanctions law ahead of Oct. 18 deadline

The senators called for tougher action against Russia's oil revenues and sanctions-evasion networks, urging the administration to match European and U.K. designations of shadow-fleet vessels.

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Russia's largest Yandex data center reportedly hit in drone attack

The Sasovo data center is located on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, a manufacturer of metal-cutting and high-precision CNC metalworking machines used across Russian industry, including t...

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Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.

Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.

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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 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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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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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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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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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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Bankruptcies linked to labor shortages in Japan climb in first half of fiscal year

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Labor-linked bankruptcies reached 240 for the first half of the fiscal year, the highest level since comparable data became available in fiscal 2013.

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My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit – and the benefits are myriad | Adrian Chiles

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South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon

The test follows North Korea's recent hypersonic missile test. Tensions between the Koreas have increased after land mine explosions injured three South Korean soldiers near the border. North Korea denies responsibility.

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Italy open to more oil stock releases if European countries meet pledges

Italy has fully met its commitments under a March oil stocks release plan coordinated by the International Energy Agency and ‌is open to providing more once other European countries meet theirs, an Italian government official told Reuters on Thursday.

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Spain election poll tracker: Who will be the next prime minister?

Spain’s Socialist party hopes to hold on to power but the right leads the polls

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Trump says he’ll award Roger Clemens Presidential Medal of Freedom as former Red Sox pitcher appears at Texas rally - The Boston Globe

“This supersedes anything that obviously I’ve done in my playing career,” Clemens said, standing onstage alongside Trump.

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Russia's Public Health Watchdog Denies A Second Suspected Pneumonic Plague Case

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Darshita, Sarah, and Shivani embrace friendship as a practice of hope - Chicago Reader

Connected through their love for poetry, this trio have created a trusting friendship built on radical acceptance and celebration.

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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris

A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...

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Airline chiefs say can't fully guard against rogue pilots after flydubai attack

Airline executives said safety standards remained high after a flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with an axe last week in an alleged attempt to crash the plane, but acknowledged it was hard to ‌guard against a rogue pilot.

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Ex-Cornell students falsely dragged into the scandal are trying to clear their names

The men, who were graduated members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the time of the alleged gang rape, claim they experienced personal and professional consequences because of the resurfaced case

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L.A.’s comedy mentors teach kids more than how to write a punchline

Across Los Angeles, comedy mentors are using stand-up and improv to help young people find their voices, build confidence and connect with others.

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Munster to mark 10th anniversary of Anthony Foley’s death at Champions Cup meeting with Racing 92

Foley died in Paris in 2016 on the morning that Munster were due to face Racing in that year’s Champions Cup

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‘There don’t seem to be prospects of a negotiated settlement,’ Rubio says of Russia–Ukraine war — Meduza

There is currently no prospect of a peaceful settlement to the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

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Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’

Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billions

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Fed minutes, Pepsi earnings, midterm megadonors and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Burnham in Berlin: What's on the agenda for meeting with Chancellor Merz?

The prime minister has travelled to Germany for a face-to-face meeting with Friedrich Merz.

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British towns could soon look like American food courts. Here are 9 US chains making the move across the Atlantic.

From food-court classics to sit-down casual dining chains like Chili's, these American chains have their eye on the UK.

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Equinor makes gas discovery in North Sea

Norway's ‌Equinor said on Thursday it has discovered gas at the Gullfaks South field in the North Sea, some 190 ⁠kilometres (118 miles) northwest of Bergen.

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At least 30 people feared killed in Russian bus bombing in Ukraine

Images from the scene in eastern Ukraine showed bodies and body parts strewn across a road and the burned carcass of buses.

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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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Federal judge rules RICO case brought by mask maker 3M over coal dust claims can move forward • Kentucky Lantern

A RICO case against a Pike County attorney and two others over allegedly fraudulent black lung cases will move forward after a federal judge denied motions to dismiss this week.

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“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling

Else Went’s new play dares to display some empathy for the troubled denizens of the manosphere.

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The Uprising — the Peasants’ Revolt as angry and kinetic action epic

Andrew Garfield leads the rebellion against onerous taxes in Paul Greengrass’s rousing reimagining of 14th-century English history

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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. Continue reading...

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