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Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry

Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis,...

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Who’s the Shadow President?

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · October 1 · 36m

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Homeland Security raids Ilhan Omar's residence

Trump's fixation on the Minnesota lawmaker has exploded into full-on lawfare weeks before the elections.

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Ukraine's EU accession bid advances with new chapter

Ukrainian lawmakers on Monday passed legislation protecting the rights of national minorities, which removes a major hurdle in Kyiv's bid for membership.

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Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ has already gotten under Elon Musk’s skin. It goes nationwide this week

Elon Musk has been vocal against Alex Gibney's documentary “Musk,” calling the filmmaker names like “idiot” and “horrible human.”

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French Navy intercepts Russian shadow fleet tanker in Indian Ocean

The tanker DF Peak, previously named Kaliningrad, has falsely sailed under the flag of Benin and is sanctioned by the U.S, EU, Switzerland, Canada, and Japan.

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Angry at Trump's Russian diesel deal? Here's how you can help Ukraine bomb Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump had a busy weekend, undermining sanctions on Russia, blaming Ukraine for the war Russia started — again — and insisting that Russian refineries become drone-free zones. "W...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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A disastrous day for French supermarkets after massive cyberattack targets refrigeration systems

Freezers and cold-storage rooms at several hundred stores overheated overnight from October 11 to 12, causing tons of merchandise losses. The vulnerability, linked to software made by the Danish company Danfoss, has been identified. France’s cybercrime office has opened an investigation.

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Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad

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US threatens to cut intel sharing with Ukraine in push to protect Russian oil refineries, sources confirm

The Kyiv Independent had learned that the Trump administration had threatened senior Ukrainian military and government officials in a push to protect Russian oil refineries. Two Ukrainian officials s...

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Government spent $10 million on pro-Trump ads after president said super PAC would fund

Nearly $22 million in taxpayers funds has been spent to air the ads, with nearly half spent after Trump promised to fund what the White House calls public service announcements through his super PAC.

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If the Nidal Hasan Execution Is Livestreamed, We Are a Barbaric Nation

The only countries to carry out public executions in 2025? Iran and Afghanitisan. That’s the company Pete Hegseth wants America to keep.

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Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation

Raid comes as Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for years

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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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How Ken Paxton Fabricated “Horsesh*t” Case Against a Texas Mosque

Paxton and Governor Greg Abbott charged a mosque with fraud despite multiple bureaucrats finding issues with their case.

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'Block, blunt and break': NATO top commander unveils defensive strategy in face of Russian threat

In a speech in Warsaw, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Alexus Grynkewich insisted on the alliance's readiness, while downplaying the odds of an imminent conflict.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents, report says

The search was reportedly related to a criminal investigation.

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Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk

The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.

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Chicago police find killer in 65-year-old cold case murder of little girl — one of their own

DNA technology that didn’t exist when Gloria Kowalewicz, 8, was killed in 1960 led investigators to Thomas F. McInerney Jr., who was a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department.

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‘Defeat These Questions’: A Senator’s Fiery Rebuke to the UCP Referendum | The Tyee

Paula Simons stood to urge fellow Albertans to reject ‘a scurrilous smear campaign’ against newcomers.

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Musk Bankrolls Republicans In Midterms As Biggest Donor—While Attacking Talarico

Musk has now given more than $276 million both directly and through his super PAC, the New York Times reports.

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GOP Group Spends Thousands to Help Susan Collins—in Wrong Portland

The people of Portland, Oregon, were probably very confused about why they were being flooded with information about the Maine Senate race.

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Anti-Troy Jackson Ad Runs in Oregon, Not Maine

An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor running the ad in Oregon.

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In latest sign of GOP’s Midwest angst, Senate Leadership Fund plans to pour $8 million into race to help Sen. Pete Ricketts.

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The Brewers Don’t Hit Home Runs. They ‘Drag Pitchers to Hell.’

In era of baseball defined by power, Milwaukee is thriving with an old-fashioned approach at the plate that has the Brewers on the verge of the World Series.

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Zelenskyy: Ukraine has not struck Russian oil refineries for two days, but Kremlin did not listen to Trump

Ukraine has refrained from striking Russian oil refineries and energy facilities for two days, but Russia continued attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.

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For rent: frustration, aggravation

Tenants spend months, years battling landlords over living conditions and desperately needed repairs, find help in short supply from provincial authority

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Nobel peace laureate Navi Pillay urges US to defend human rights

Nobel Peace Prize winner ‌Navi Pillay urged the United States on Tuesday to return to its traditional role of defender of human rights and liberator for the rest of the world amid a US campaign to undermine the International Criminal Court.

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An aviation emergency halts flights at one of Germany's biggest international airports.

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The American consumer keeps spending. How much longer can it last?

Despite persistent inflation, slowing wage growth and an affordability crisis, spending hasn’t fallen. But this week could bring fresh signs of trouble.

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Trump Is Showing Again Why Presidents Lose Power So Fast

Trying to lower expectations for Republicans on Nov. 3, Vice President JD Vance has recently stressed that it has become almost impossible for the president’s party to maintain unified control of the House and Senate through a midterm election. He’s right about that trend. But he’s wrong to ignore the role that President Donald Trump — and his Oval Office predecessors — have played in making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. There’s a lesson in that for future presidents.

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'Breaking Bad' stars remember RJ Mitte after his death at 34

RJ Mitte, who played Walter White Jr. in "Breaking Bad" and died at 34, is being remembered by Aaron Paul, Bryan Cranston, Dean Norris and more.

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Mamdani orders review of police use of force, riling critics and supporters

The announcement thrusts the city deeper into the nationwide debate over how law enforcement officials protect themselves and the public.

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Several women’s groups have condemned a sentence reduction for a Towson man who pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and fourth-degree sex offense.

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Trump is rolling back protections on flight issues — what is now gone

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Former DR Congo President Kabila joins M23 rebels in a new coalition

Alliance raises fears of more fighting and confrontation with President Tshisekedi's government.

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Pharmaceutical sales jumped 7.7% in the quarter ⁠to $16.76 billion, but medical technology division sales rose just 2.5% to $8.6 billion.

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Planned strike by public-sector workers ‘really unfair on the public’, Chambers says

Minister for Public Expenditure and other senior Coalition figures express concern about industrial action by 300,000 workers

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The selloff in Asia wiped an estimated $5.5 billion off SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s fortune, while Nvidia, Micron and other major U.S. chip stocks fell in premarket trading.

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Are the UK authorities letting down survivors of modern slavery?

As the 100th anniversary of the Slavery Convention is marked, it’s time to assess the UK’s role in helping survivors.

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