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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the...

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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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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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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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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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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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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.

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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. Officials later clarified the execution will be livestreamed and that more details would follow, the Associated Press reported. In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the Pentagon secretary said the firing squad would carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, Texas, at 1pm on Thursday, 3 December. This would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years. Continue reading...

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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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Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city

Two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

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Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach detained in Austria while on assignment

The acclaimed journalist was reportedly on an editorial assignment in Vienna with his colleague Yaroslav Bondarenko when he was detained by Austrian authorities.

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High school protests draw tens of thousands across France for second time in a week

While turnout did not reach the levels seen on October 6, the 'Act IV' of the high school student movement continued on October 8, drawing large crowds from Paris to Marseille and Lyon. Though the atmosphere was mostly positive, there were also clashes at the end of marches.

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Exclusive: House Democrats ask Kimberly Guilfoyle for records related to alleged pay-to-pay scheme

Democrats from the House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle for financial records and communications with Trump administration officials after allegatio...

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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.

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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.

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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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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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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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Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death?

A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.

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Time Square's famous 'Naked Cowboy' breaks down how much he actually makes

Here's what Robert Burck, better known as Times Square's Naked Cowboy, earns performing in his signature cowboy boots, hat, and underwear.

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Submit your questions: who’s doing better in their trade battles with China — the EU or the US?

Senior trade writer Alan Beattie and economics columnist Soumaya Keynes will answer reader questions in a live Q&A on Thursday October 15 at 1pm (BST)

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The picture that raises awkward questions for Burnham over Man City links

The Prime Minister is facing fresh scrutiny after it emerged he visited China with club executives in 2018

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Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash aircraft into Ben Gurion airport, UAE says

The UAE attorney general has said the alleged hijacker of a flydubai plane planned to crash into Israel's Ben Gurion airport.

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EU and China strike deal to curb car exports and avert trade war

Brussels claims Beijing will more than halve hybrid vehicle exports as bloc secures concessions on rare earths and market access

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'Pan's Labyrinth' at 20: 'I wanted to see the kid win,' says Guillermo del Toro

As ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ returns to the big screen to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Del Toro says the movie marked a turning point for him: ‘Filmmaking became a religion.’

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The biggest changes Anthropic just made to Claude's rules

Anthropic spelled out a series of new usage provisions about deceptive campaigns, elections, weapons development, and surveillance.

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The Year Anne Carson Changed My Life

In my mid-20s, I was flailing. Then I memorized a baffling poem and learned to stop looking so hard.

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UAE says Omani flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv flight

An Omani flydubai co-pilot had planned to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash ‌it into a terminal at Israel's Ben Gurion airport on September 30 in a suicide attack before he was thwarted by his fellow pilot, the UAE ⁠attorney general said on Friday, according to the state news agency.

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Three Saudis killed in Houthi attack on Riyadh airport

Deadly barrage prompted several international carriers to suspend flights

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Opinion | ‘You’ve Lied to Me Enough.’ In Texas, MAGA Voters Are Breaking Ranks.

The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.

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Trump rips into Democratic hopeful El-Sayed: ‘Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country’

President Donald Trump issues latest inflammatory attack on Abdul El-Sayed, who has accused the commander-in-chief of seeking to distract from ‘the suffering his policies are inflicting on us’

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Kennedy Center donor accused of fraud was secret FBI informant

Accused conman who donated $2mn to Trump-run performing arts centre was once a confidential FBI source with a checkered record

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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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ICE Agent Shoots Man With Five-Year-Old in the Car

ICE agent Brendan Cuni was identified as being involved in the horrific New York shooting—and he has quite the violent history.

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Man City scandal: Inside 'highly unusual' news conference

The club continue to deny the independent commission's findings and have appealed.

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Why have EU sanctions missed the company behind Russia’s tank industry?

With more than four years of full-scale war and 12 years since Russia first invaded Ukraine, it seems the European Union has developed an extensive arsenal of tools to sanction Moscow, but one problem...

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Reactions to US imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.

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Oct. 7 was a tragedy, what followed was worse

There have been no winners among the moving forces of this tragedy although some actors on the periphery of the fight may have benefited.

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‘Medieval’ and ‘rather disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

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Götterdämmerung at Paris Opera pales in comparison to the protests happening outside

Students packed the Place de la Bastille in the hours before curtain up — nothing that followed in the dying spasms of Calixto Bieito’s new Ring was as dramatic

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Hurricane Isaias live updates: Gulf coast braces for category 3 storm to make landfall

Florida panhandle directly in Isaias’ path as officials warn of life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds in parts of Florida, Mississippi and Alabama

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Two Ukrainians alleged to be military intelligence personnel remanded in custody in Vienna

Two Ukrainian citizens suspected of working for military intelligence have been remanded in Austrian custody on espionage charges.

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Trump silent on Pentagon plan to livestream execution

US President Donald Trumphas not publicly commented on the Pentagon's unprecedented plan to livestream the military execution of the ‌gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009.

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