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Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have...

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Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system

"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said in a press release announcing the deal with Kyiv.

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Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine

"Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

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Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.

A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to de...

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Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11. The order Thursday from U.S.

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Kushner Phone Hack Reveals How Middle East Dictators Bought Him Off

Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner.

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Trump’s Education Department Scaled Back Investigations Into Discrimination and Sexual Assault on Campus, New Data Shows

ProPublica sued the federal government for records that show which schools are facing civil rights investigations — data that was public before Trump’s second term. Now you can use our database to fin...

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Anna Paulina Luna’s husband owns 10 percent of drone startup that got $37 million in Pentagon deals

“Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios,” the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in.

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Finnish PM visits Kyiv as Russia steps up attacks despite peace push

"The main purpose of the visit is to show Finland's strong support for Ukraine as the war of aggression continues and the country prepares for the winter," the Finnish government said.

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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine denounces Ramaswamy ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has denounced a controversial ad featuring the estranged mother of Dr.

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Supreme Court says New Hampshire student IDs can’t be used to vote in November

The high court said a federal judge should not have changed the rules so close to the Nov. 3 election by blocking guidance issued by New Hampshire’ secretary of state.

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Trump says he asked Google CEO to rename Atlantic Ocean on Maps

Tech company previously complied with president’s demand to rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America Donald Trump said Google rejected his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean after himself or America. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, the president said he had called Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, to ask whether the company could “handle” his proposal. Continue reading...

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US judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in $10bn lawsuit against BBC

Judge threatens to dismiss Trump’s BBC lawsuit unless he cooperates with discovery process and sits for deposition Donald Trump has been ordered by a US judge to cooperate with the discovery process mandated for his lawsuit against the BBC and to sit for a deposition by 11 December – or else he could be subject to sanctions, including the possible dismissal of the $10bn lawsuit. The lawsuit stems from a Panorama documentary aired by the BBC that spliced together comments made by Trump during a rally on 6 January 2021, before the US Capitol riot. While the broadcast was not readily available to view in Florida, Trump’s team has argued that he was personally damaged by the broadcast under Florida’s Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Continue reading...

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Actor Tom Skerritt, who played dads, cops and commanding officers, has died

Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences.

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Will Elon Musk be the October surprise?

The world's first trillionaire is also a disinformation super-spreader.

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Pete Hegseth’s staff break priceless historic globe he requested for office

Hegseth’s aides, who attempted to move Eisenhower globe themselves, dropped it during relocation, army officials say

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Democrats demand “unredacted log” of attendees at $TRUMP meme coin dinner

Senators seem to be signaling a probe of the president's crypto empire.

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Trump administration again shuts down evidence sharing in Good, Pretti killings

The federal government’s reversal raises questions about potential criminal charges against federal agents.

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How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party

Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

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'Beyond the cost of living, what was at stake on October 17 was the unraveling of our democracy'

This day of protest reflects an anger that has built up through the last 10 years over the lack of listening from those in power, writes Le Monde economic journalist Aline Leclerc, in her column.

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Federal judge restricts DHS field operations looking for noncitizen voters

The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation.

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Jared Kushner Blasts ‘Outrageous’ Vanity Fair Over Report On Alleged Undisclosed Foreign Bank Accounts

The report claims Kushner’s phone was hacked and showed transfers from multi-million-dollar slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Rejected Ballots Skyrocketed in Five States Thanks to USPS

A new report reveals that the U.S. Postal Service is threatening the integrity of mail-in voting in rural areas.

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New human data hints at psychedelics' potential to combat inflammation

Lab studies have shown that psychedelics like psilocybin can lower inflammation and may be protective for a range of illnesses. Now, researchers are publishing some of the first data in humans that signals this holds potential for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.

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'Protesting is no longer a right, but a risk we have to take': French protestors weigh whether to return to the streets

They took part in the nationwide protests on October 17 and remain stunned by the looting of shops, damage to public buildings and the large amounts of tear gas deployed against peaceful marches. Some will march again this Saturday. Others will not.

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China's foreign minister urges stronger governance of deep sea and outer space

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for ‌stronger governance of the deep sea, polar regions and outer space as he addressed the opening of the country's Global Governance Forum ⁠in Xiongan on Friday.

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The Most Important Divide in America Isn’t Republican vs. Democratic

Making unions stronger and corporations and billionaires weaker is an essential step to strengthening American democracy, says author Hamilton Nolan.

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Without USAID, Guatemala’s Maya Reserve Must Stand on Its Own

USAID cuts threaten decades of forest conservation in Guatemala, forcing communities to find new ways to fund their work and protect the forest

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What slim margins from B.C.’s last election can tell us about the coming vote

Many of those close calls in 2024 are still ridings to watch this weekend

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Kushima briefed by industry ministry officials on nuclear waste site survey

The survey would take about two years and examine potential risks from volcanoes and faults based on geological maps and other documents.

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How a 24-year-old turned advice from rich people into a $37 million business

School of Hard Knocks cofounder James Dumoulin uses staged drama to hook viewers and sells consulting services and memberships.

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EU prosecutor probes EPP over consultant contracts

The European Parliament refused to refund some of the conservative party’s pre-election spending.

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Citizenship comes with an asterisk for Puerto Ricans. It shouldn't

The roughly 3.2 million Americans who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president, and the island has no senators and no voting representative in the House. “Citizenship without equal political voice is an uncomfortable concept,” write José Massó III and Imari Paris Jeffries. “It should be.”

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: AT&T, SpaceX, Moderna, Deckers, Bloom Energy and more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in early trading.

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The mega-Maga contender in deep-red Florida who doesn’t want to talk about Trump

Byron Donalds removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name – will his ploy prove successful in a tight governor’s race? It took Byron Donalds, addressing a wildly supportive crowd at a rally in Florida’s bluest county, some time to list those he blamed for any “affordability” issues they might be experiencing. Joe Biden, and the radical policies of the Democrats, were at fault, the Republican nominee for Florida governor insisted in his stump speech at Broward county’s Green Glades West ranch, even though neither has wielded power in Washington for almost two years. Continue reading...

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Trump to rally in Florida after stoking Ramaswamy ad furor – US politics live

Trump to campaign for gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, who has distanced himself from president; Trump doubled down on support for Ramaswamy Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Donald Trump is travelling to Florida today to speak at another rally as midterm election day races nearer. The president will stump for gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds. Whether Donalds regards this as helpful remains to be seen after he removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name during the race for governor. Continue reading...

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Bolt, Stellantis plan autonomous driving experiment in Greater Paris from 2028

Estonian ride-hailing firm Bolt and the Greater Paris region are planning to launch an autonomous driving ‌programme in the French capital in 2028, using vehicles from Franco-Italian Stellantis, they said in a joint statement on Friday.

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NFL puts $750,000 in head coach fines on hold, with a catch: Behave the rest of the season

Three NFL head coaches were each fined $250,000 Wednesday for their conduct toward game officials.

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Ukraine Says Starlink Isn’t Working, Despite Trump’s Promise to Restore It

Soldiers and government officials say connections continued to fail if drones fly at high speeds.

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Oil hits five-month high amid fears US will renew strikes on Iran

Brent crude rises to $114.72 a barrel after Tehran threatens retaliatory attacks on Gulf oil and tech facilities * Business live – latest updates Oil has hit its highest level in more than five months as fears of fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict grip the energy markets. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, rose by 1% on Friday morning to $114.72 a barrel – its highest level since May. Continue reading...

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Ukraine strikes town in Russia that houses a Federal Tax Service data center — Meduza

A data processing center belonging to Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FNS) was attacked overnight on October 23 in Gorodets, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+…

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Author Hanif Kureishi: ‘The urge to write came back strongly’

The novelist and playwright on remaining creative after the fall that left him tetraplegic, the politics of multicultural London — and when Elton John turned up at his wedding

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From aristocracy to ‘assetocracy’ – how wealth has transformed the House of Lords

Hundreds of peers enjoy extraordinary wealth, new research has found.

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UK tells public to keep three days' emergency supplies at home

The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by ‌this week's PHP software glitch, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires.

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Top ICC official urges EU to act ‘as soon as possible’ on US sanctions

Osvaldo Zavala Giler said a “lack of clarity” from Brussels was leaving companies and NGOs in the dark after the White House imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

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More than 650 drivers caught speeding in last 24 hours

A motorist driving at nearly 40km/h over the speed limit was among 650 people detected speeding during the first day of a garda roads operation.

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Trump aides and Musk pass the buck over Starshield curbs on Ukraine military — AP

Trump administration officials and Elon Musk traded blame over who throttled Starshield satellite access for Ukraine's military, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Oct. 23.

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What will you do with your one precious wildlife?

The midterms are packed with ballot measures that could dramatically affect natural spaces.

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The foundation of the next housing crisis is already being laid

The temporary glut of unsold condo units masks a long-term supply shortage

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Drone hits another ship in Black Sea near Romania, killing at least 1 sailor

President Nicușor Dan said the incident was part of Russia’s “escalation” of the war in Ukraine.

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