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Thousands march ahead of Brazil election runoff: 'Never Again Bolsonaro'

Students spilled into downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, calling for votes for incumbent leftist president Lula.

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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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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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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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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.

Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...

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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

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The 87-year-old evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies

Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalized with exhaustion after her eviction, which triggered national demonstrations over Spain's chronic housing crisis.

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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law

The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.

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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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“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account.

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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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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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.

Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.

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Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say

Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid ‌a bigger export push by Gulf producers.

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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers

► For more, visit Mother Jones: America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That's a stubborn fact, we're told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike…

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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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House Democrat Introduces Bill To Preserve Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ In Smithsonian Museum

A House Democrat introduced a bill that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve banners bearing President Donald Trump’s face that hang outside federal agency buildings for display in an exhibit on Trump’s “authoritarian narcissism.”

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USS Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment supporting Iran war

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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Helen Clark warns that capitals need to boost health and social services to curb drug demand and help users.

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UK ramps up sanctions against Russian shadow fleet, crypto industry

The U.K., the EU, and Ukraine have all targeted crypto schemes in recent sanctions packages as Russia uses the technology to evade existing sanctions.

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Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Meta, urged his employees to “move fast and break things.” Aaron Sorkin’s new film depicts the aftermath.

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Tender and ironic, gorgeous and sensationally weird — considering Toronto poet Anne Carson’s best-known work as it turns 25

“Autobiography of Red” is a mesmerizing opening gambit to the poet’s astonishing body of work.

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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Russia says reports of second case linked to Siberian plague lab are false

Russia's health regulator denied on Thursday that someone had fallen ill after coming into contact with a worker at a plague research ‌laboratory in Siberia who died last week.

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BBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcasts

Thinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cuts BBC Radio 4’s consumer rights show You and Yours is to be axed after more than 50 years, becoming one of the latest victims of the corporation’s £500m cuts plan. The programme, once described by the former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer as “one of the most important” on the station, is one of a handful to be cut as the BBC searches for shows that can be more easily adapted as podcasts. Continue reading...

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Canadian writer Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical ⁠tradition, has created new forms for co...

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How Americans rank Trump among US presidents

After ranking himself the "greatest U.S. president," Trump got a decidedly different verdict from Americans in new poll.

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Russian bomb attack kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold

Images posted by police show bodies strewn across a street ⁠as well as a charred shell of what appears to be a bus

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Margaret Hamilton, Who Developed Software for First Moon Landing, Dies at 90

Her work enabled NASA’s Apollo onboard computers to alert astronauts of problems.

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Canadian writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Canadian won for her ‌“bold and inventive oeuvre” that “has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature – how she discovered new possibilities within language

At a time when scholarship and creative writing are often treated as separate pursuits, Carson has shown how deeply they belong together.

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Climate Needs Same Urgency as Defense Spending, COP31 Chief Says

Action to curb emissions and bolster resilience to the impacts of extreme weather needs similar urgency to international efforts to lift defense investments, according to the head of next month’s annual global climate change conference.

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Capitals top Penguins in Ovechkin’s final home opener

Captain’s two sons introduce him in front of raucous crowd as he embarks on his farewell season.

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Malaysia PM says will work on Myanmar's ASEAN reintegration

Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing in Malaysia for a two-day visit, his first since he became president in April.

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France’s far right goes woke. Or is it neoliberal?

Marine Le Pen gives a cognitive dissonance-inducing economic speech

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Irate farmers should not limit the EU’s geopolitical ambitions

Resistance to Ukraine’s agricultural exports is undermining the bloc’s influence

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One dead and two children injured in Poland's second school attack in two days

A school employee was killed and two others were injured after a knife attack in Poland - the second such incident in the country in two days

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More Than 30 Russian Drones Entered Poland: Probe Finds Polish SIM Cards, No Perpetrator Identified

Prosecutors cleared the military’s response but left key details classified.

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No broader inflation spiral from energy shock says French central bank chief

Inflation fears coupled with growing concerns about huge government spending have sent bond yields soaring, raising borrowing costs and expectations that central banks will raise interest rates.

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UK lenders scale back mortgage supply for first time in 3 years

British lenders reduced the availability of mortgages and other secured lending to ‌households for the first time in three years during the three months to the end of August, a Bank of England ⁠survey showed on Thursday.

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Takaichi continues to fend off questions about scandal-hit farm minister

Allowing the situation to fester will not bode well for the government’s legislative agenda, especially in the Upper House where it lacks a majority.

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