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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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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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'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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“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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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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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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DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads

Trump announced this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads moving forward following bipartisan criticism.

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Bad COP, worse COP? EU tempers hopes for UN climate talks

Fragile time for global climate diplomacy as Turkey and Australia's unique joint leadership of COP31 raises doubts about ability to deliver concrete results.

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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome

Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.

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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create new forms.

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James Blair and Chris LaCivita have Trump world seeing red

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Why REITs aren't getting killed by rising interest rates this time around

REITs have been seen as a low interest rate play. But some experts are making the case that real estate fundamentals today are outweighing even rising rates.

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The real reason for the return of the Parti Québécois

The separatist party won its slender mandate with a right-of-centre focus on fiscal and economic matters, not a referendum promise

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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Carson received the prize for her inventive mix of classical scholarship, lyric poetry and avant-garde translation.

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Canadian writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for ‌contemporary literature," the award-giving body said.

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Russia, China hypersonic missile threats fuel need for space defense, satellite CEO says

Space-based systems could detect and track incoming missile threats and intercept them either from land or space.

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What is XFG Covid strain? Symptoms to look out for as UK cases grow

More than half of the positive tests were found to be a variant of XFG

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ICE detainees were sprayed with a cleaner during COVID crisis. Now they have a settlement

Hundreds of detainees said they suffered lasting health issues when guards sprayed a toxic cleaning agent during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Russian Bomb Kills 33 at Bus Stop in Kramatorsk - The Moscow Times

A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said on Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on civilians in the key stronghold sought...

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Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

There have been 122 literature laureates to date, of whom only 18 have been women

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Ray Dalio warns the stock market's cushion against rising bond yields is shrinking

Ray Dalio says earnings have cushioned stocks from rising bond yields, but that buffer is shrinking as he warns free cash flow could weaken.

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Rubio Declines To Address Latest Damaging Kimberly Guilfoyle Allegations

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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature

The author was awarded the prestigious prize by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this afternoon.

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‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed – by Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and more

Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘loudness and madness’

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Mia Goth files for divorce from Shia LaBeouf after nearly 10 year marriage

The two actors married in 2016 and have been separated since July 2025. Goth is seeking primary legal and physical custody of their 4-year-old, with visitation rights for LaBeouf.

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Taiwan September exports hit fresh monthly record on AI demand, US leads

Taiwan's exports rose more than expected to a record monthly level for a second straight ‌month in September, lifted by demand for the island's AI chips and technology.

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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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Home heating oil prices rise almost 60%

Official figures show cost of Middle East conflict to Irish homes and businesses

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Novembers in Iowa don’t traditionally bring much drama. That could be about to change. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter

Plus, lawmakers want colleagues to promise to accept election results, and what six years of inflation means for the midterms.

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Regions Calling: In Irkutsk, Locals Ask 'What Plague?' - The Moscow Times

Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, your guide to developments beyond the Russian capital from The Moscow Times.

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Play Laugh Lines: Thursday, October 8, 2026

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

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