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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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Russian Plague Lab Researcher Dies As Nearly 200 Monitored—Here’s What We Know

Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”

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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall

Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.

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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions

LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for optogenetics work

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears

The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.

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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.

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Polish man who provided Famine relief to be honoured

A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today.

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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places

Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.

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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Lutnick Ties—What To Know

Lutnick denied to Congress that he had any knowledge of him and Epstein being invested in the same company.

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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

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Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests

Prime minister orders ministers to tackle students’ five major demands, including organising replacement teachers and school repairs Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years. A 15-year-old protesting against what the demonstrators say are France’s dilapidated ⁠and understaffed schools ‌had his hand ‌blown off on ‌Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch ‌said. Continue reading...

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'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations

"When you would see what Ukraine's budget was and how small it was relative to ours and how, despite that, they had better weapons of war, it was a wake-up call," former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Drisco...

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US removes bombers from British airbase involved in suspicious incident

Police were called to the Fairford military base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in 'suspicious' activity. Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans, but 'a quantity of petrol was recovered.'

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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether commanders underestimated the threat and saying the military medical system failed them.

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New automatic gun turrets successfully down first Russian jet-powered drones, Air Force says

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that twelve such turrets had been installed where Russian jet-powered drones have been particularly active, including around Kyiv.

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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?

Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.

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Singapore refers 8 civil servants to police after investigating report alleging privileged information was used for home purchases

The Singapore government has referred eight civil servants to the police for further investigation after reviewing a study that claimed some officials had used privileged planning information for housing transactions, a minister told parliament on Tuesday.

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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb

The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking

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'We are sorry': OpenAI apologises to Australia for hacking government health service data

OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September.

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Cornell Faculty Members Signal Deep Anger With University Leaders

The faculty senate plans to vote on a rare resolution of no confidence over administrators’ handling of allegations of sexual assault by fraternity members in 2024.

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'Last straw': Remote clinic shut down amid unrest, staff threats

The Northern Territory government is being pressured to reopen a remote police station after the community's only health clinic was shut down amid alleged unrest and threats.

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Where property sales are down by a quarter and where they're growing, mapped

While parts of the UK are seeing a struggling housing market, Scotland is bucking the trend, and sales are increasing in many areas

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Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers Fuel is being shipped from South Korea to Russia via sanctioned tankers as Moscow scrambles for supplies amid the war in Ukraine, a move one expert said “undermines” Seoul’s public backing for Kyiv. Guardian analysis of port records and ship-tracking data found that in July and August over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded at several South Korean ports on to seven tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia’s far east. Continue reading...

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Data on 130,000 students and teachers possibly exposed, Osaka university says

Data that may have been exposed includes the names, addresses and email addresses of people linked to the institution, it said.

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How AI could scupper the dollar

Things are fine until they’re not

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Budget 2027; absurdity of Drumcree; US coverage of Cornell case; and oesophageal cancer survival rates

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

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The US has seen a spike in executions — how often are they botched?

As death row inmate Christa Pike remains in hospital following a failed lethal injection, we take a closer look at the track record for botched executions in the US.

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Trump Calls Russia Plague Case a ‘Big Problem’ as Questions Mount

CNN experts raised questions over the Siberian lab, FSB involvement and the scale of quarantine measures after a researcher’s death.

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Tackling child poverty demands policies geared to ‘keep parents at work’

States must also provide adequate income support and accessible, high-quality services, says OECD report

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Republican Caller Goes Scorched-Earth On His Own Party Live On C-SPAN

Ronald from West Virginia offered a damning assessment of his fellow Republicans and said President Donald Trump should be in jail.

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Parents, signs and ageism: Hobart's council race turns ugly as voting begins

Accusations of ageism, fury over sign placement, ongoing debate over town hall snacks, and a fiery confrontation involving a lord mayor hopeful's parents are just some of the incidents to have unfolded.

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Budget 2027 tax cuts to benefit middle income earners by up to €1,500

Tax-free threshold for inheritance tax from parents to children is expected to increase by €20,000 to €420,000

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Unusual senses: the secret superpowers of amphibians and reptiles

Sometimes, the most extraordinary things in nature are the things we cannot see.

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Reliance sues India's food regulator over 'energy drink' label ban

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has sued India's food regulator for ‌barring it from marketing its Campa-brand products as "energy drinks", non-public court filings show, the latest beverage maker to challenge the labelling crackdown.

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‘I don’t know how I cooked without it!’: 15 everyday items that make your life a teeny bit better

Breathable bedding, slanted tweezers and an indispensable garlic press … here are the buys you wish you’d discovered sooner. Plus, the best walking poles, tested

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‘I feel broken’: Ukrainians in Ireland face an uncertain future

Contracts with hotels housing more than 4,000 Ukrainians end next month, while private host payments end in March

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Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM

Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec on Monday, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after US President Donald Trump leaves office, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney's message of national unity.

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Trump Calls Natalie Harp Onto Rally Stage And Things Quickly Got Very Weird

The president’s constant companion had a moment in the spotlight.

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‘They’re getting electricity for way lower prices’: Few regrets in Mayo over data centre refusal

‘The price of energy is going up all the time and yet ... data centres are getting electricity for way lower prices than we ordinary people’

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Cross River Rail worker tells inquiry he 'saw red' in brawl with CFMEU members

A commission of inquiry into the Queensland branch of the CFMEU has heard a group of workers were attacked by union members at a Cross River Rail site in Dutton Park.

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How quant funds beat the market by being 'early, contrarian and right'

Quantitative hedge funds have captured big trends in bonds and oil to outperform the stock market this year.

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