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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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South Korea shipping fuel to Russia via sanctioned vessels, media reports

Potentially undermining sanctions, over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, from South Korean ports were loaded onto sanctioned Russian tankers, based on analysis of port records and ship-tracking ...

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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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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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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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JD Vance Says Trump’s Weird Midterm Ads Are “Not Partisan”

Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats.

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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: One American and two Germans honored for technique activating neurons with light

By inserting certain proteins into the membrane of nerve cells, the three laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, succeeded in switching neurons 'on' or 'off' at will. The technique has a dual purpose: Unlocking the secrets of the brain and developing innovative treatments.

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US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dead at 86

U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a multimillion-dollar empire and lived in opulence before being disgraced by a sex scandal, fraud conviction for bilking followers and divorce from television co-host Tammy Faye, died on Monday at age 86.

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Pimp sentenced to 11 years in prison

A ward of the child welfare system, teen victim was coerced into sex work

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House Democrats add six more Republican-held seats to target list

The additions include races in typically solid-red districts, such as in Florida and Arkansas.

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Quebec Separatists Win Power in New Challenge for Canada’s Carney

Voters in Quebec elected the separatist Parti Québécois for the first time in more than a decade, setting the stage for more strained relations with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government and an eventual referendum on the province’s independence from Canada.

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Does increased childcare funding help mothers into work?

The design of funding systems may matter more than funding levels.

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Jeffrey Archer, bestselling ‘storyteller’ and disgraced politician, dies at 86

His thrillers sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide

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EU mulls tougher restrictions on Russian diplomats over hybrid threats

The recent spate of hybrid attacks across Europe has raised questions over the possible involvement of Russian diplomats, prompting member states to consider tighter restrictions and checks.

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ICE launches trading in gold futures in London

Move is latest attempt to establish precious metals derivatives in the City

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Budget 2027: Tax cuts for middle-income earners and social welfare rises to be revealed

Simon Harris and Jack Chambers to announce measures to aid with energy costs and rise in inheritance tax threshold

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Ukraine Targets Major Russian Oil Hub During Massive Drone Attack on Moscow Region

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 650 drones were launched toward Moscow between the evening of Oct. 5 and the morning of Oct. 6.

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UFC CEO Dana White says it's 'impossible' to build a successful business while working from home

UFC CEO Dana White says working from the office creates the spontaneous conversations that spark ideas and surface new issues.

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Buckingham Palace says it will not fund Andrew’s legal action against police

Former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest in February Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been warned not to use the king’s private money to fund his legal action against Thames Valley police. The former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest, with a private high court hearing due to take place on Thursday. Continue reading...

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Breaking: Person trapped in grain silo in central Victoria

Emergency services are working to free a person that became trapped in a grain silo in central Victoria on Tuesday afternoon.

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South Korea Investigates Possible Use of A.I. in Hacks on Its Banks

The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.

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AI models used in bank cyber attacks, warns South Korea’s president

Lee Jae Myung highlights public anxiety over what one official calls a ‘completely new kind of crisis’

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Japan beats New Zealand in Asian Cup warmup

Ritsu Doan scored a 71st-minute winner for Japan after New Zealand’s Ben Old cancelled out Ayase Ueda’s opener in the first half.

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Waiting on Marco

Nine months ago, regime change in Cuba appeared imminent. Then reality set in.

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Tigray rebel groups ‘forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15’ as fighting spreads

Civilians try to flee as men and boys rounded up on streets by new alliance as Ethiopia conflict erupts again

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Russia downplays reported plague death at lab

Russia has sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as US President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered help.

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German far right set to secure first-ever regional parliament president

Tobias Rausch hoping to become the AfD’s figurehead in the Saxony-Anhalt assembly

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DHS Secretary Cites ChatGPT To Claim Democrats Use Immigration To Turn Red States Blue

Mullin claimed Democrats without evidence that are using immigration to shift voting demographics and cited ChatGPT to argue that this could turn red states blue.

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Former American Idol singer gets life in prison for wife's murder

Former music pastor Caleb Flynn is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering his wife during the course of an affair with a 20-year-old woman.

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Housing protests erupt in Barcelona after Spain calls early election

Spaniards have staged repeated protests in cities across the country in recent weeks, demanding action on an entrenched housing crisis.

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Blackstone, Bain, Warburg prepare final bids for Fuji Media's property unit, sources say

Blackstone , Bain Capital and Warburg Pincus are among global investors expected to submit final bids for the property unit of Japanese broadcaster Fuji Media by the end of this month, said two ‌people with knowledge of the sale.

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