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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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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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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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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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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for optogenetics work

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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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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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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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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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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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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'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations

"When you would see what Ukraine's budget was and how small it was relative to ours and how, despite that, they had better weapons of war, it was a wake-up call," former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Drisco...

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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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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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France’s Appetite for ‘Magic Money’ Has Turned Into a Debt Bomb

After years of overspending, the country has emerged as one of Europe’s weakest links. Investors are bracing for things to get worse.

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France Set for Nationwide Strikes, as School Protests Escalate

The scale of the demonstrations planned for Tuesday will test the strength of the student-led protest movement that has spread across French high schools since late September.

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India opposition parties rally for election chief’s exit over voter list changes

Opposition parties in India are protesting in New Delhi, demanding the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar.

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Millions of people and dozens of countries rely on Starlink, giving Elon Musk unprecedented leverage

From the front lines of Ukraine to the remote Pacific, the world is increasingly reliant on Starlink.

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Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past

In a historic move, Hungary will soon start releasing tens of thousands of Communist-era police files in an online public database, giving people access to lists of informers and collaborators used by the former state security services.

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Vietnam’s Plan to Expand LNG-Fired Power Is Well Behind Schedule

Vietnam’s push to use liquefied natural gas to meet surging electricity demand is well behind schedule, with only one of 18 gas-fired power projects expected to be finished on time.

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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?

Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text

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The 11 most underrated dramas to watch on Channel 4

It might be best known for its comedy, but Channel 4's streamer has plenty of drama to get stuck into

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Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”

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Top OpenAI boss on hack apology tour 'can't explain' Australian AI distrust

OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, made his first public appearance in Sydney after the hack, saying he could not explain why Australians distrust AI.

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Israel warns Gazans will pay 'heavy price' for any October 7 attacks on military

Israel on Tuesday said that Hamas and the Palestinian population in Gaza would pay a "heavy price" if any of Israel's armed forces were harmed on the three-year anniversary of the militant group's October 7 attack.

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Russia strikes bridge over Dnipro River in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, injuring five, including Red Cross workers — Meduza

Russian forces struck one of the bridges over the Dnipro River in Zaporizhzhia overnight on October 6, said Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration.

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Duck banding in the Centennial Valley helps save the lesser scaup - High Country News

The longest-running study on breeding ducks has given Montana state biologists the highest-resolution dataset to aid in the bird’s survival.

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As private equity, politics and prediction markets reshape sports, is the press box up to the task?

Sports journalism has sometimes been called the ‘toy department,’ since it was known for less serious reporting. But the sports page has an opportunity to take on a real watchdog role.

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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan

Pentagon confirms execution order for Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 in Fort Hood shooting in 2009.

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Alan Jones kiss left 17yo feeling 'violated', court told

The 85-year-old ex-radio broadcaster has pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of indecent assault and sexual touching, relating to alleged incidents between 2003 and 2020.

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Separatists win Quebec provincial election in blow to Mark Carney

Result may hamper Canadian prime minster’s efforts to maintain national unity against Trump

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Adidas sues Australian label White Fox over ‘deceptively similar’ four-stripe clothing

Sports clothing brand bought allegedly trademark-contravening clothes and copies of ubiquitous White Fox bus ads to present in court Adidas has sued White Fox Boutique over its omnipresent advertisements and sales of clothes with four stripes, alleging breach of its three-stripe trademark. The German-headquartered sports clothing brand accused White Fox of rejecting its repeated requests to stop selling the clothes in filings in the federal court of Australia. Continue reading...

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French school protests expected to grow on ‘day of mobilisation’ – Europe live

Thousands of trade unionists, teachers, public sector workers and parents’ groups are expected to join in marches nationwide In Germany, newly elected state lawmakers in Saxony-Anhalt will gather for the first time in the parliament building in the state capital Magdeburg to elect a speaker, with the AfD’s candidate Tobias Rausch expected to win. It would be the first time a far-right party has held such a position in postwar German history, AFP noted. Continue reading...

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Irish Rail commuter service into Dublin disrupted by signalling issues

Services between Hazelhatch and Heuston Station have been affected

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South Korea preparing to force North Korea to apologize over DMZ mine blast

The mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers, a defense ministry spokesperson has said.

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James O’Neill’s parents meet Minister to discuss circumstances of son’s death and identification

Body found in Phoenix Park in November 2023, but father and mother did not learn of death until over a year later

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Partita by Barbara Kingsolver: the touching story of a musician striving to bring the movements of her life together

An inventive book in which each chapter is named after the sections in a partita and serves same role in creating the whole piece.

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EU discusses tighter restrictions on Russian diplomats amid hybrid attacks – Euronews

EU member states are discussing tighter restrictions and additional checks on Russian diplomats amid a wave of hybrid attacks in Europe, Euronews reports, citing EU diplomatic sources

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‘I’m as worried as Mario Draghi,’ says retiring EU finance boss

Stagnant growth risks financial instability but Europe shouldn’t sacrifice its lending safeguards to get the economy humming, John Berrigan told POLITICO.

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