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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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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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'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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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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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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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris

A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...

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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim news for the climate.

Like Donald Trump, he favors maximizing profits for extractive industries, environment be damned.

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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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Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56

Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction

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Firing squad execution of mass killer Nidal Hasan to be livestreamed, Pentagon says

The planned firing squad execution of an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in Texas will be livestreamed, the Pentagon has said.

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Nurse says hospital parking fix needed after being chased to her car

Audrey McAllister was followed by a group of men after a shift. The nurses union says a lack of safe and affordable parking options is putting workers at risk.

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Students run hairdressers and cafe at remote Indigenous school

Not only can the students attain certificates, it also gives back to the remote community, filling a gap in services offered locally.

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Meta bans TikTok from advertising on its apps, Bloomberg News reports

Meta banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance, the ‌Chinese parent company of TikTok, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

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President Trump to campaign for Alaska Republicans on Oct. 13 in Wasilla | Alaska Beacon

The President is planning a Tuesday afternoon rally at the municipally owned Menard Center to help Dan Sullivan and others.

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Four finalists chosen for next Minneapolis police chief

A pool of about 20 candidates has been winnowed down to four. All are department veterans.

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Wallabies stare down Eden Park hoodoo in bid to break 23-year Bledisloe Cup drought | Jack Snape

Australia’s record in Auckland is ugly but the stakes this weekend could be even higher for the home team who are on a three-match losing streak Eden Park against the All Blacks. It is perhaps the most formidable challenge in rugby union. The last time the home side lost was in 1994, before the pride of New Zealand began their unbeaten run at Auckland’s famous venue. It now stands at 53 Tests. Australia’s record there is ugly. Just four wins in almost 100 years, the latest coming in 1986, the same year Wallabies coach Les Kiss debuted for the North Sydney Bears in the New South Wales Rugby League. Continue reading...

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Priscilla Presley shares rare photo of Lisa Marie's 18-year-old twin daughters

Priscilla Presley is wishing her granddaughters Harper and Finley Lockwood a happy 18th birthday – and fans are praising their family resemblance.

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Why are voters weighing in on clinic spending? Here’s what to know about Prop. 44

Prop. 44 would require clinics to spend more money on patient care, but clinics say the measure will bankrupt them.

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Judge Sides With Importers to Expand Trump Tariff Refund Fight

A US trade judge approved class-action status for a legal fight over refunds for President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, siding with importers who contend that the process will make it easier for a wider group of companies to get their money back.

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Recovery 1 year after ex-Typhoon Halong | Talk of Alaska

Halong survivors and those assisting in the recovery efforts talk about lessons learned, progress and remaining work one year after the powerful storm devastated Western Alaska communities.

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Company behind massive renewable fuels refinery on Columbia River seems to be in financial trouble

NXTClean Fuels wants to build a $2.5 billion renewable diesel refinery right next to the Columbia River near Clatskanie. But financial troubles could cloud the company's ability to move forward.

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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City

The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooting.

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Philippines ex-President Duterte fit to stand trial, ICC rules

The former president is able to understand the charges and follow the proceedings, panel of experts find.

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Politics Insider: Ottawa in talks with First Nations on private investment in airports

And, Cold Lake First Nations push for judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation

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Manitoba records highest workplace injury rate for third year

The workplace injury rate in Manitoba is 25 per cent higher than any other province.

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San Francisco leaders ask state to investigate PG&E after string of major outages

Mayor Daniel Lurie and other city leaders say repeated PG&E outages and recent electrical fires in San Francisco warrant a public investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission.

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Peggy Flanagan boosts affordability message with pledge to back labor’s populist economic agenda • Minnesota Reformer

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan promoted her affordability message on Thursday, pledging to support a union-backed package aimed at raising wages, reducing healthcare costs and weakeni...

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Character.AI chatbots encouraged users to cut and starve themselves, Kentucky alleges

Chatbots created by AI companion company Character.AI sometimes advised users to cut, starve or kill themselves, according to a new filing by Kentucky’s attorney general in a lawsuit against the firm over child ‌safety.

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 splashes down off L.A. coast after 100-million-mile orbital journey

A nearly eight-month stint aboard the International Space Station came to a splashing end for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 on Thursday, when their recovery vessel safely splashed down off the coast of Los Angeles.

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California threatens to worsen House Democrats' 2027 headaches

Several Democrat-on-Democrat elections could see more critics of party leadership elected.

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Bjorck banking on patience that first NHL point will come

Jets centre more concerned with improving his game than missed chances

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San Francisco man faces murder charges in Daly City drunk driving wreck, prosecutors say

A 28-year-old man from San Francisco faces murder charges after he allegedly ran a red light in Daly City while drunk and crashed into another car, killing two people inside, prosecutors said.

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