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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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At least 12 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop

"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin 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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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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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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MAGA Candidate Brags About Physically Abusing His Wife

Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards.

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Palestinian killed, several wounded in Israeli pogrom in occupied West Bank

A 44-year-old Palestinian man was killed during Israeli settler assaults on olive harvesters in the West Bank.

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Naked Trump Statute Goes on Display in European Parliament

The golden statue, named The Orange Plague, is now at the European Parliament.

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The show takes horror tropes and family dynamics and sets it within a Newfoundland context

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Trump’s ambassador to Greece has been begging for money to pay off her AmEx card—in exchange for the promise of political favors.

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The Times published Marian Burros’s recipe for Plum Torte every September from 1983 until 1989, when the editors determined that enough was enough. The recipe was to be printed for the last time that year.

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China trade talks test EU’s appetite for tougher action

Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is seeking concessions from Beijing to narrow a record trade deficit, but expectations of a breakthrough are low.

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Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs | Arizona Mirror

Tariffs driving the midterm elections: Voters blame Trump's import taxes for higher prices as the issue shapes competitive races

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ICC says former Philippine President Duterte fit to stand trial

Judges at the International Criminal Court have found ‌that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, the court said on Thursday.

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It took 10 billion years for this signal from the early universe to reach us

A newly discovered fast radio burst from 3 billion years after the big bang is among the most mysterious objects in astronomy.

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Trump's foreign worker crackdown comes for Microsoft, Adobe, IT firms

The White House is cracking down on a major route to permanent residency.

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Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth on how light is changing what we know about the brain

From algae to a Nobel prize: listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Karl Deisseroth explain his brain science breakthrough.

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Strike on Ukrainian public bus leaves 30 dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv

Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine have killed 30 people and injured at least 18, according to authorities. The attacks included a strike on a public bus and have worsened power outages in Kyiv.

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‘Targets of terror’: Russia kills 30 in single strike in Donbas

President Zelenskyy said Russia was “trying to destroy all life in Donbas” and that the attack would “not go unanswered.”

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Russian bomb attack kills dozens at Ukraine bus stop

At least 30 die after aerial strike hits two passenger buses in frontline city of Kramatorsk

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Can hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen Pilcher

A new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is key, says science writer Helen Pilcher

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Trapped under Russian occupation, people in Oleshky forced to eat dogs to survive (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,687)

Witnesses describe an occupied town where a hospital director feeds only pro-Russian loyalists, others boil weeds or eat dogs to survive, and Russian troops punish anyone caught accepting Ukrainian aid dropped in by drone.

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Trump says ‘we protect our cities’ after suggesting Iran could ‘take out’ L.A. or San Diego

At a rally Wednesday, the president repeated remarks about Iran attacking the cities but added that “we’re not going to let that happen.”

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UK counter-terror police investigating after two men arrested near air base

British counter terrorism police are ‌investigating after two Latvian men were arrested near a Royal Air Force base in Cambridgeshire in the early hours of Thursday, ⁠police said in a statement.

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Can vampires be family-friendly? The creators of 'Eternally Yours' think so

Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, the co-creators and co-showrunners of CBS' new vampire comedy, say they wanted to mine the idea of eternal love: “This is totally ‘Twilight’ 500 years later.”

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Top 50 US news websites: 90% see traffic drop in September

Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.

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View: The West’s open-source AI race kicks into high gear

Several Western tech firms have released open-source models over the past week.

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Websites of major Russian news outlets stop loading after Ukraine’s attack on Yandex data center — Meduza

On the afternoon of October 8, the websites of many major Russian news outlets stopped loading, the Russian business news outlet RBC reported.

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US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft

The Trump administration said Thursday that it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp., alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system.

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