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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Russians attack Kyiv Oblast in daytime: warehouses on fire, three injured

Russian forces have attacked warehouse facilities in Kyiv Oblast, injuring three people. A house has also been damaged and a lorry has been destroyed by fire.

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Christa Pike ‘up and walking’ after failed execution, lawyer says

Pike, whose ordeal has galvanised critics of the death penalty, remains in hospital

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Russia denies second case of infectious disease - as WHO seeks to verify reports of new 'plague' contact

Russia has denied that a second case of an infectious disease has emerged where a woman who worked at a laboratory died last week.

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Samsung and TSMC fail to excite investors used to torrid AI growth

Reaction to a day of record-setting results was muted, weighed down by worries about the staying power of a boom propped up by rising debt levels.

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Dallas Mavericks' Irving excited to play again after lengthy injury absence

Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving said on Thursday he was excited to return to game action after a 19-month absence, with the nine-times All-Star set to make his comeback at the NBA China Games in Macau following ‌his recovery from a torn ACL.

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Opinion | Why Strong is Wrong: The case for Andrew Sneed

I believe North Alabama, as much as anywhere in this incredible nation, is capable of leading us to better days.

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She's remaking the abortion landscape one pill at a time

Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”

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Reducing the Number of Generals Isn’t the Problem

Hegseth is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it.

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Trump to tout innovation ‘Golden Age’ amid funding cuts, researcher exodus

The administration wants to shift science money from universities to private firms. Lawmakers and others have pushed back.

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Search warrants for former prince Andrew's homes were unlawful, UK court rules

Police who searched the properties of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as part of investigations into his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have agreed the search warrants were unlawful, a London judge said Thursday. The 66-year-old younger brother of King Charles II was arrested on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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The Championship Drought Continues as October Magic Deserts the Yankees Again

With the season on the line, Anthony Volpe launched what looked like a game-tying home run. It turned out to be fan interference, and for the 17th straight season, the Yankees are going home early.

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Dan Sheehan to lead Leinster as Cullen names completely changed side to play Cardiff

Key Irish internationals return for all four provinces for URC weekend

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Meloni’s plan to win Italy’s next election

Europe’s political and policy moves shaping tomorrow’s Brussels agenda. By HANNAH ROBERTS with JON STONE Send tips here | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser BUONASERA! This is Hannah Rober…

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Is China building an air base in Laos?

It’s just a pilot school, the two governments say

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Former Labour MP cleared over role in fraudulent Covid-19 testing company

Court hears that former justice minister Shahid Malik had only ‘very limited’ role in business that made £6.67m in three weeks * UK politics live – latest updates A former Labour MP and justice minister has been found not guilty of charges around his role in a fraudulent Covid-19 testing company. Shahid Malik, 58, was MP for Dewsbury between 2005 and 2010 and served as a minister in three departments in Gordon Brown’s government. Continue reading...

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Greece agrees up to $4 billion US arms deal, sources say

Greece has agreed to spend up to $4 billion upgrading more of its F-16 fighter jets and buying advanced missiles from the US, two senior sources told Reuters on ‌Thursday, a day after a visit by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Hacker Used Chinese-Developed A.I. Tool to Target South Korean Banks, CrowdStrike Says

The cybersecurity firm said the attacker was likely a Chinese speaker and financially motivated, but did not attribute the attacks to a named individual or group.

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Former Kerry footballer says ‘10 seconds of recklessness’ by driver changed his life forever

Seán O’Leary sustained multiple fractures and developed PTSD after collision in 2021

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Fees will triple for developers. How might that impact Salt Lake City homeowners and renters?

Salt Lake City approves its first rise in one-time impact fees for water, sewer and stormwater since 1999. See how that might affect your bill.

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EU debt could hit €1 trillion by 2027, auditors warn

EU auditors said 3.8% of the bloc's spending last year breached funding rules, warning that borrowing could hit €1 trillion by 2027 and that the next long-term budget risks repeating the flaws of the COVID-era recovery fund, as the Commission defended its controls.

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Christa Pike is up walking and 'mentally foggy' after botched execution in Tennessee

Pike was sentenced to death in the state of Tennessee for a murder of a classmate committed when she was a teenager.

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Poll: Young Alabama voters feel squeezed, but remain motivated to vote

Young Alabama voters report financial strain and political frustration, but most say they remain motivated to vote in November’s midterms.

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Evan Gershkovich: US journalist freed from Russian jail describes 'animalistic fear' during arrest

US journalist freed from Russian jail describes 'animalistic fear' during arrest

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A new website is helping campers score Colorado’s most elusive campsites

With sites often selling out in hours, months in advance, Campsite Ranger gives campers an edge landing top spots.

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Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the brink of another conflict

As Eritrean forces advance in Tigray, all-out war with Ethiopia seems almost inevitable

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