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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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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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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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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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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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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.

In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...

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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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Trump says Russia agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel to US, global markets

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 9 that Russia had agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global markets following a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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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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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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Nobel Peace Prize: Navanethem Pillay, a tireless advocate for international justice

The 85-year-old South African judge, who notably served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the 1990s, recently chaired the United Nations Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry, which determined that a 'genocide' was taking place in Gaza.

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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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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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Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film

The Defense Secretary plans to telecast the military's first firing squad execution since 1945.

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Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions

The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his...

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Rep. Max Miller's girlfriend was just indicted

A grand jury formally charged Jaclyn Alatrash, the congressman's partner of nearly two years, with grand theft.

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Hitler Mussolini wins local election

Peruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.

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Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms

Trump says U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms

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FCC chief defers to Pentagon on airing US execution on TV networks

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he would defer to the Pentagon on whether US networks could air a planned December 3 ‌military execution, which would be an unprecedented broadcast.

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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter 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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Margaret Hamilton, whose software sent humans to the moon, dies at 90

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later said, "There was no choice but to be pioneers."

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How Donald Trump made America’s government dumber

DOGE was a huge missed opportunity

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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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In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

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Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump

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The Filter is two! 31 things we loved this year, from cloud-like duvets to the perfect running shoe

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Aaron Donald, who missed the Rams' win over the Eagles last week because of a back injury, expects to play Sunday against the Bills.

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ICE Terrorizes Marble Hill

Federal agents shot a man in front of his 5-year-old kid, and more news for your Friday.

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Halle Berry's daughter, 18, speaks out to defend mom amid abuse allegations

Halle Berry's 18-year-old daughter Nahla Aubry spoke out on allegations that her mom abused son Maceo, 13, whom she shares with ex Olivier Martinez.

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Tribes decry governor’s veto of two bills expanding tribal consultation, religious protections

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills that would’ve given tribal governments a greater voice in water projects and in preventing the destruction of sacred Indigenous religious sites on state land.

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Measles cases reach 4,080 for the year — the highest in decades

Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism.

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A candidate running for a Deschutes County Commission seat is going big with negative ads that blend reality with AI.

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Despite mounting evidence that exercise programs can improve cancer outcomes, access to them remains limited.

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Video of soldiers in front of an early-voting site concerned residents.

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‘We’re being used as a front,’ Zelensky says of Trump’s diesel deal with Putin — Meduza

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UCLA urges defense to stay calm during high-stakes showdown with potent Oregon

UCLA defensive coordinator Colin Hitschler urges players to play with emotion but not emotionally, staying under control against Oregon.

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The rise of the AI marketplace

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