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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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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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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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2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay

The former UN human rights commissioner was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law

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Winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize to be announced - Europe Live

The winner will be announced in a ceremony that starts at 10am UK time (11am CEST) The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this morning, with all sorts of speculation about who could be this year’s worthy winner. (Despite his hopes, Donald Trump is very unlikely to win it, again.) Continue reading...

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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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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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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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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins

Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.

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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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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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UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics live

Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move ‘grotesque’ and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments * Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed According to rights group Amnesty International, at least 17 public executions are known to have been carried out in 2025 – six in Afghanistan and 11 in Iran. The Death Penalty Information Center says that 135 soldiers have been executed by the US military since 1916. Continue reading...

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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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EXCLUSIVE: Friend of suspected FBI data thief says he warned 'crazy' teen not to hack bureau

A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.

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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.

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US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel award to former judge

The court rejected the US sanctions as an attack on international law and warned in a statement that 'history will judge this moment.'

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Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach detained in Austria while on assignment

The acclaimed journalist was reportedly on an editorial assignment in Vienna with his colleague Yaroslav Bondarenko when he was detained by Austrian authorities.

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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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South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law.

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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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Exclusive: House Democrats ask Kimberly Guilfoyle for records related to alleged pay-to-pay scheme

Democrats from the House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle for financial records and communications with Trump administration officials after allegatio...

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Founder of Rybar, Russian war propaganda channel, detained in Montenegro

Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife Valeria Zvinchuk, and three other associates were detained in an operation by Montenegrin police and security service on the morning of Oct. 9, local media reported.

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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.

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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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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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Two Ukrainians alleged to be military intelligence personnel remanded in custody in Vienna

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A growing movement has mobilized France’s youth against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems—and provided, for its detractors, a pretext for blaming the country’s ills on febrile adolescents.

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Amy Klobuchar on her childhood, Walz, and tackling fraud and health care as governor

Listen to the latest episode of the Essential Minnesota podcast for the full interview with the DFL nominee for Minnesota governor.

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Journey drummer Deen Castronovo was rushed to the hospital after a medical emergency shortly after taking the stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Plan to Broadcast Fort Hood Killer’s Execution Spurs Criticism

Politicians on both sides of the aisle criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his plan to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, saying it violates American values and could fuel terrorist recruitment.

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Who is Nidal Hasan, the former Army major whose execution is set to be live-streamed?

The former military psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas. He was shot in the chest by an Army police officer and is now paralyzed.

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Ukraine takes aim at Russia's AI data infrastructure

Drone attacks target Russian digital giant Yandex, as well as continuing strikes on missile plants and oil refineries.

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Dáil sitting days may be moved over planned strike

Dáil votes could take place next Tuesday night instead of on the usual day of Wednesday because of a national strike day.

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How a safe seat by-election became a test of political momentum

Despite the Greens having a good year in the local elections, especially in London, Paul McNamara looks at how the Holborn and St Pancras by-election didn’t land the heavy blow on Labour they wanted.

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Let's Talk About Stretching in This Week's Open Thread - Racket

As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.

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One person dies, one in serious condition after Greek refinery incident

One person died and another remains in serious condition after an ‌incident on Friday at the Motor Oil refinery west of Athens, the company said in a statement.

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Blueberry, Almond and Lemon Cake Recipe • 5★

A slice of this berry-dotted cake is perfect late in the morning, for afternoon tea or after dinner, with coffee. It keeps for up to three days in a sealed container, but is at its absolute best on the day it's made.

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Jon Ossoff Just Delivered Maybe the Greatest Debate Zinger in Ages

Yet again, the Georgia senator showed in Thursday’s debate that he knows how to throw haymakers. Until someone else proves otherwise, he’s the front-runner for 2028.

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Here's where plague strikes most as Russia rejects outbreak scare

Plague cases remain concentrated in several countries, particularly in African nations.

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Number of TV licences sold in nine-month period dropped by 35k in a year

Social Democrats TD Aidan Farrelly said the figures show the system has “collapsed”.

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A Ukrainian missile strike killed 20 Russian officers in occupied Donetsk. It was the largest known loss of Russian officers in a single attack since the invasion, Mediazona reports. — Meduza

A Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk on August 26 killed 20 Russian military officers, Mediazona reported.

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Fianna Fáil Minister of State Robert Troy ordered to pay €500 in damages after tenant left without working oven

Troy’s Co Westmeath tenant Priscilla Ryan alleges she was hospitalised after receiving notice of termination over rent arrears

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Missing Bay Area girl believed traveling with 19-year-old man, police say

Santa Rosa police are asking for help locating a missing 13-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man believed to be traveling together.

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A lab worker at a Russian anti-plague institute died of a mysterious pneumonia, prompting quarantines. Now, the White House and WHO are demanding answers from Moscow. Here is why experts are worried.

The case has drawn questions and concern from the White House and World Health Organization, largely because of what Russia hasn’t told us.

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EU calls US sanctions on International Criminal Court 'regrettable'

The ICC was established to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity that might otherwise go unpunished.

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Trump swipes at Nobel committee after peace prize awarded to human rights lawyer

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Transcript: Hell Gate's Interview With Governor Kathy Hochul

The full transcript of our 28 minute conversation at T.J. Byrnes on October 7.

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Taxing the Rich, Courting the Left: Hell Gate Interviews Governor Kathy Hochul

We asked the governor about income inequality, her investigation of Cornell, and what she'd say to Palestinian New Yorkers on October 7.

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US announces sanctions campaign to ‘end’ ICC

Sweeping new measures give companies 180 days to stop trading with The Hague-based war tribunal

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