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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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She got Trump's $500 check for health insurance. To her, it's a 'political stunt'

As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on healthcare. Experts doubt it will move the needle and say it is likely illegal.

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World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says

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Opinion | US Consumers and Businesses Are Now Facing a Future of More Expensive Borrowing

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John W. Diamond writes about the increased borrowing costs people and businesses will face as the Federal Reserve battles inflation.

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Russian Liberal Politician Jailed for 4 Years Over Donation to Navalny Group - The Moscow Times

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4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space

Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.

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Maduro Charged With Ordering Torture of Americans in Venezuelan Prison

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, jailed and tortured Americans and others in Venezuela to hang onto power, prosecutors said.

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Michigan Files Antitrust Suit Against Blue Cross Blue Shield Over Rising Costs

The state attorney general alleges the insurer used its dominant position to drive up health costs for patients.

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Minnesota seeks to replace fraud-ridden Housing Stabilization Services with new program • Minnesota Reformer

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is planning to replace Housing Stabilization Services, a Medicaid service that was so riddled with fraud it was shut down by the Walz administration last yea...

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Germany wants UK to raise tariffs on Chinese EVs

Berlin wants the measure as a condition of a Made in Europe opt-out for the U.K.

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Trump Says He Really Does Want Iran to Bomb San Diego and Los Angeles

Donald Trump’s team claimed his initial comments were taken out of context. The president, however, doubled down.

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How not to make campuses safer

Shifting rules are failing students and universities alike

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Armenia, Azerbaijan discuss stepping up search for war missing

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday he had discussed with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stepping up efforts to find people missing from decades of conflict, as a conference in Baku ended with Azerbaijan detailing its exchanges of ‌information with Yerevan.

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‘I just want to hold him’: USS Lincoln sailor to meet 10-month-old son as ship docks

Brent Ledbetter’s boy is now 10 months old. There are more than 50 new babies waiting for sailors when they dock. The parents will be the first allowed off the ship.

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Trump Administration Will Suspend Microsoft From Permanent Residency Program, Vance Says

Vice President JD Vance alleged the H-1B visa program is “rife with fraud,” accusing Microsoft of laying off thousands of Americans and replacing them with foreign-born workers.

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The Yankees should move on from Aaron Boone. Just don’t expect them to do it

Hal Steinbrenner’s Yankees should be trying something different, much like the Knicks did, and much like George Steinbrenner's Yankees did.

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Anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard says LDS Church ‘excommunicated’ him to hide child abuse in the faith

Tim Ballard accused people within the LDS Church of conspiring to have him booted from the faith to keep him from becoming a U.S. senator after he sounded alarms about pedophilia within the church ranks.

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E.ON Next deal to buy Ovo Energy leaves UK with just ‘big three’ energy suppliers

Competition watchdog clears takeover despite concerns that suppliers will have less incentive to lower bills Almost three-quarters of households in Great Britain are now served by just three energy suppliers, after E.ON Next completed a deal to buy Ovo Energy despite fresh concerns about competition in the energy market. The takeover concluded on Thursday after Britain’s competition watchdog cleared it, despite concerns that the shrinking number of household energy suppliers could mean billpayers will have less choice and suppliers will have less incentive to lower bills. Continue reading...

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Ex-police chief who had affairs with two officers guilty of gross misconduct

Scott Chilton, who led Hampshire and the Isle of Wight police force, barred from becoming a police officer again A former chief constable showed a sense of entitlement, dishonesty and lack of integrity by having sexual relationships with two subordinate officers, including engaging in sexual activity while on call to lead major incidents, a misconduct hearing has ruled. The panel found that the behaviour of Scott Chilton, 53, who retired as chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight before the hearing, amounted to gross misconduct. Continue reading...

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‘The Hairy Ape’ Review: A Drama of Dehumanization at Irish Rep

The New York company puts on a potent production of the Eugene O’Neill play about a coal stoker’s emotional-existential crisis.

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RBC’s asset management arm to vote against H&R REIT takeover

Mill Pond Capital, another major unitholder, has also come out against REIT’s acquisition by GO Residential

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Russian Lab Worker’s Mom Insists Plague Did Not Escape Broken Test Tube: ‘I Know The Truth’

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EU let member states rewrite targets after they had sought recovery-fund payment, auditors find

The revised targets were "aligned with actual achieved outputs, which made the payment possible," the auditors wrote in their annual report on last year's budget.

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Mother of three found fatally shot in Reading home; authorities searching for son who may be ‘armed and dangerous’ - The Boston Globe

A 22-year-old son of the victim was identified as a person of interest in the investigation. People should use "extreme caution" if they encounter him, authorities said.

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Nurses and midwives say pay deal row is 'final straw'

Around 250 nurses and midwives who are members of the INMO took part in a lunchtime protest at Cork University Hospital.

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Lufthansa, Air India suspend flights to Riyadh after Houthi attacks

Lufthansa Group airlines and Air India will suspend flights to Riyadh, ‌they said on Thursday, as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis renewed threats against airlines after claiming an attack on the Saudi capital's airport.

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