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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall

Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.

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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”

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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.

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Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears

The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.

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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions

LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.

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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Lutnick Ties—What To Know

Lutnick denied to Congress that he had any knowledge of him and Epstein being invested in the same company.

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South Korea shipping fuel to Russia via sanctioned vessels, media reports

Potentially undermining sanctions, over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, from South Korean ports were loaded onto sanctioned Russian tankers, based on analysis of port records and ship-tracking ...

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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...

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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: One American and two Germans honored for technique activating neurons with light

By inserting certain proteins into the membrane of nerve cells, the three laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, succeeded in switching neurons 'on' or 'off' at will. The technique has a dual purpose: Unlocking the secrets of the brain and developing innovative treatments.

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

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Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests

Prime minister orders ministers to tackle students’ five major demands, including organising replacement teachers and school repairs Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years. A 15-year-old protesting against what the demonstrators say are France’s dilapidated ⁠and understaffed schools ‌had his hand ‌blown off on ‌Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch ‌said. Continue reading...

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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?

Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.

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New automatic gun turrets successfully down first Russian jet-powered drones, Air Force says

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that twelve such turrets had been installed where Russian jet-powered drones have been particularly active, including around Kyiv.

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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether commanders underestimated the threat and saying the military medical system failed them.

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JD Vance Says Trump’s Weird Midterm Ads Are “Not Partisan”

Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats.

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New York Gov. Hochul Issues State Of Emergency Over Measles Cases

New York has confirmed 101 cases in the state, excluding New York City, as of Oct. 3

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Trump Draws Backlash For Saying ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles’ Or ‘San Diego’ During Iran War Remarks

Democratic leaders and lawmakers from California called out Trump’s remarks and accused him of “inviting an attack” on U.S. soil.

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Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Moscow Oblast in mass attack near Russia's capital

Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow Oblast in a mass attack as air defenses in the region are engaged, monitoring channels reported overnight on Oct. 6.

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The Crossword: Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Plural noun in the titles of plays by Shakespeare and Molière: five letters.

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AI promises to save Australia money. Here are the costs nobody talks about.

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A5 upgrade can proceed following Court of Appeal ruling

A court ruling that halted Northern Ireland's biggest roads project has been overturned.

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Richard Morecroft, veteran ABC news presenter, dies age 70 after cancer diagnosis

Michael Rowland and Leigh Sales lead tributes to newsreader who read the ABC’s 7pm bulletin for 20 years * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Former ABC news presenter Richard Morecroft has died at the age of 70. Morecroft presented ABC’s 7pm news bulletin for almost 20 years until 2002. Continue reading...

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Russia Holds Major Nuclear Accident Drill at Beloyarsk Plant - The Moscow Times

More than 1,000 people began a two-day emergency exercise at Russia’s Beloyarsk nuclear power plant on Tuesday, testing how staff and emergency services would respond to simultaneous accidents at two ...

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Pneumonic plague in Russia: What do experts say about the risk?

Russian authorities are investigating the death of a laboratory worker from an unexplained respiratory infection after unconfirmed reports suggested pneumonic plague. Experts say the disease is treatable with antibiotics and is unlikely to spread widely.

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UK construction activity falls at slowest pace since January

British construction activity fell further in September, but the decline was the smallest since January as a sharp downturn in housebuilding eased slightly, ‌an industry survey showed on Tuesday.

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Football chiefs hold new summit over £180m-a-year deal

English football chiefs have held fresh talks aimed at securing a landmark £180m-a-year deal to distribute some of the Premier League's wealth to the rest of the professional game.

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Russia testing Europe's defenses below threshold of open war, experts say

Russia is testing how far it can push Europe without triggering open war — from drones crossing NATO airspace to sabotage and cyberattacks across the continent. Experts warn that Europe has strengthen...

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What the Bayeux Tapestry is really about

Its 70 metres can be reduced to a single acronym: FAFO. For that’s what King Harold, the oath-breaker, did

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Former German spy chief arrested over alleged buying of classified information

Former German foreign intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of paying for access to classified documents and using them ‌to prepare an analysis for a foreign intelligence service, federal prosecutors said.

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Nickel miner fined $810k over boilermaker's spinal injury

Canadian-owned First Quantum Minerals was slammed over the 2023 incident that left the mine worker permanently injured.

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Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on neutrinos

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is best known for his work establishing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole

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Irish customers of Asos receive bizarre, threatening message as the company is hacked

Customers received a mobile app notification that said “ASOS HACKED”.

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IFFBoston's massive Fall Focus lineup brings prestige films to the Brattle

The 2026 installment screens 27 titles over 12 days. "There’s a real chance that for some of these films, the only way you’re going to see them in an arthouse theater projected by people who care if they look and sound good is at this festival," said IFFBoston's Brian Tamm.

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Escape from Oleshky — 12 people reached Ukraine-controlled territory in September, official says

In recent weeks, some residents have started walking out of Oleshky to the neighboring village of Radensk alone or in pairs, on roads mined by Russian forces.

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South Korea says it received 'insufficient' apology from Ukraine over North Korean POWs, mulls envoy recall

The South Korean government is considering several measures in response to the dispute, including a potential recall of South Korea's Ambassador to Ukraine, according to South Korean Foreign Minister ...

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Portugal's PM seeks to keep Costa, Metsola in EU top jobs until 2029

Portugal is pushing to reappoint Antonio Costa and Roberta Metsola as heads of the European Council and ‌European Parliament, respectively, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said on Tuesday, saying that continuity would strengthen the European Union's stability.

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Japan to research use of automatic navigation and AI for SDF transport ships

The move is expected to support operation of ships by limited numbers of crew, amid a labor shortage reflecting Japan’s graying population.

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Belgian-American scientist wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

A particle physicist won for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin."

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Palmer Luckey’s Erebor surges to more than $7bn in deposits since launch

Start-up bank for technology industry seeks to fill the void left by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

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As Japan’s Population Shrinks, a City Is Accused of Padding Census Numbers

The police are investigating how about 3,000 nonexistent residents were added to official data for Toyama.

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Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space

The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.

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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Francis Halzen for Astronomy Breakthroughs

The Belgian particle physicist helped build an observatory deep in the Antarctic ice.

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US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation

In the 1800s, West Africa became a focal point for efforts to remove Black people from America. The arrival of free people later gave the country its name.

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