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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

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'Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya believed that a society that accepts lies ends up accepting violence as well'

Twenty years ago, the journalist was murdered at the instigation of Russian security services. Documentary filmmaker Eric Bergkraut, who knew her well, recalls in an opinion piece for Le Monde her fight for truth and against Kremlin propaganda – a struggle that is more necessary than ever as Vladimir Putin continues to kill.

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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way

The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.

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Canadian writer Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in literature

The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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Why people don’t want to have children any more

Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...

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Russia's largest Yandex data center reportedly hit in drone attack

The Sasovo data center is located on the grounds of the Sasta machine-tool plant, a manufacturer of metal-cutting and high-precision CNC metalworking machines used across Russian industry, including t...

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US senators urge Trump administration to enforce new Russia sanctions law ahead of Oct. 18 deadline

The senators called for tougher action against Russia's oil revenues and sanctions-evasion networks, urging the administration to match European and U.K. designations of shadow-fleet vessels.

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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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US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart

At this point, there appears to be no prospect of a negotiated settlement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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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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Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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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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In Los Angeles, Nithya Raman wants to bring the new left to city hall

The 45-year-old Harvard graduate, who was born in India, will face off against LA Mayor Karen Bass on November 3. The Democratic showdown highlights the rise of the socialist movement, championed by New York's Zohran Mamdani and Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed.

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Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families

In an interview with Fox News, the Amazon founder said he disagreed with the assessment that AI will lead to large-scale job losses.

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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten

The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Pennsylvania.

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Researchers find 180,000 giant tortoises living on island in Seychelles

Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories

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World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says

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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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How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic

A trove of documents and interviews with people close to tech billionaire Elon Musk reveal a damning picture of his rise as one of the world's richest and most powerful men.

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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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Arizona high court to consider whether Clean Elections can claw back disputed funds

Clean Elections Supreme Court: Arizona justices agree to hear Green Party candidates’ bid to block a funds clawback

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Why the Battered Bond Market is Finally Getting a Reprieve

Rising yields have spread to mortgage bonds and other debt markets, which in turn deepened the selloff in Treasurys, a cycle that Wall Street sees petering out.

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Cramer says Thursday's AI sell-off proves the value of this age-old investing strategy

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday’s sell-off in AI stocks underscores the importance of diversification, even when it means holding stocks that have struggled.

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‘A complete sham’: European Parliament condemns Russia’s September elections and refuses to recognize its new lower house as legitimate — Meduza

The European Parliament adopted a resolution rejecting the results of Russia’s State Duma elections. It says the vote was a “sham” held in an atmosphere of fear amid Russia’s ongoing invasion…

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Firmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company

The offer would have been the biggest debut on the stock market since the telecommunication giant in 1997 Firmus Technologies has scrapped what was set to be Australia’s biggest company listing in decades after investor demand for its much-hyped AI data centre business failed to materialise. A Firmus spokesperson said the board decided that proceeding with the offer was no longer in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. Continue reading...

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Atlanta Family Pleas With Georgia Republican Candidate To Stop Using Image of Murdered Daughter In Ads

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Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

The United States's first execution by a military firing squad since World War II will be livestreamed, the Pentagon has said.

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Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack

Bernadette Greene-Placentia said she was hit from behind and knocked unconscious before waking up to two men attacking her.

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A sourdough pizza star is coming to San Francisco

The Bay Area’s premier destination for Roman-style pizza al taglio is coming to San Francisco.

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Hegseth vows public firing-squad execution for Fort Hood shooter

Execution by firing squad in public would mark an unprecedented event in modern US history

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Fort Hood shooter's execution will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.

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Burnham set to launch crackdown on non-compete clauses

Prime minister expected to use speech to pledge action against restrictive practices in employment contracts

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The Alberta referendum: a pointless, futile stunt, just like the last one

The will of the people of one province is not an obligation on everyone else

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The Cinema Scrapbook: A plethora of places - Chicago Reader

The Cinema Scrapbook places film screenings in conversation with other local creative happenings, illuminating Chicago's rich cultural connectivity.

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EXCLUSIVE: Refresco plots potential IPO at $10 billion-plus valuation, sources say

Netherlands-based Refresco and its owner KKR took pitches from investment banks in recent weeks ‌for roles on a potential initial public offering of one of the world's largest independent beverage manufacturers, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The Happiest Way to Change Jobs

How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you

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Breaking: Float of data centre operator pulled due to lacklustre investor demand

The company searching for private funding as IPO gets pulled just a day after it closed its books to investors.

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Judge extends temporary access to White House for news organizations Trump banned | Alaska Beacon

U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Timothy J. Kelly said at the end of a Thursday hearing he intends to issue his decision on a preliminary injunction in the press freedom case before Tu...

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S&P 500 futures are little changed after OpenAI's revenue report prompts tech sector turmoil: Live updates

The Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 1% on Thursday, marking its biggest one-day loss since mid August.

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Blogger to stand trial for sending text of Shrek’s green cartoon penis to Republican

D.J. Byrnes allegedly referred to Sen. Jerry Cirino as ‘young Mussolini’ and sent him an image of the cartoon Shrek with his penis exposed

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USS Lincoln docks in San Diego, returning home for first time in over 10 months

The USS Abraham Lincoln and its more than 4,500 sailors returned home to San Diego on Thursday for the first time in 321 days.

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US health secretary Kennedy launches new push on vaccine injuries

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week launched an agency-wide effort to study and document ‌any health problems reported after vaccination, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday.

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More young men than ever are gambling, but not to win

On a Friday night in a pub during the footy finals, the ABC asked every table if they had a bet on; all but one did. Experts say it's a red flag against the government's limited gambling reforms.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Is the Purest MAGA Figure in America

Kimberly: We love you but you're so out of control.

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Pentagon says firing squad’s execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

The execution of Nidal Hasan is scheduled for Dec. 3.

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