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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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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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French government suspends use of stun grenades at student protests after teen loses hand

France's interior minister said stun grenades would be temporarily withdrawn from use at protests organized by high school students 'just long enough to understand what happened.'

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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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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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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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Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 15 dead

Explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on Oct. 7 as Moscow launched its latest mass missile and drone attack on the capital, coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 74th birthday.

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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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“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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'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills

Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.

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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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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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Norway's 2027 budget includes almost $9 billion in new Ukraine support

The money would be funneled into Norway's Nansen Support Program, named after humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, who led famine relief efforts in Ukraine in the early 1920s.

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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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The truth about Trump’s plan to bring back execution by firing squad

A veteran death penalty lawyer says it is part of the administration’s “brutality trip.”

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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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Inside Politics: Minister has central role in row over the ‘culture card’ and his decision to cut State subvention to RTÉ by €20 million

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US ocean container imports set new record for September, Descartes says

US container imports rose 10.3% from a year earlier in September to set ‌a new record for the month, buoyed by a 21.2% increase in shipments from China, supply-chain technology provider Descartes Systems Group said on ⁠Thursday. Experts view US import data as an indicator of national economic health, consumer demand and trade policy feedback.

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EU disowns Vilnius event that warned of US political interference, but France maintains support

US pressure pushed some European governments to disown a Vilnius conference on disinformation, which had dared to ask if America itself was now warping European minds.

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Hurricane Isaias is expected to get stronger on its way to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coasts

Isaias is surging toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Governors in Florida and Alabama declared a state of emergency for dozens of counties.

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Jimmy Kimmel Pans Trump’s Plan for a New Presidential Retreat

“What is with all these projects? Not one of them is finished,” Kimmel said in response to the possibility of a Camp David-style retreat in Florida.

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CBS News to launch election night "nerd show" for politics junkies

The special streaming show will begin at 5pm ET, a few hours before CBS News' official election broadcast.

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Russia Steps Up Sabotage Attacks on Danish Defense Firms, Intelligence Says

The Russian Embassy in Copenhagen rejected the allegations Wednesday, accusing Danish authorities of making unfounded claims against Russia.

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Corridor named after late PM Abe completed in India

The Abe Memorial Corridor forms part of an international convention center in the city of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built with Japanese grant aid.

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EXCLUSIVE: Italian prosecutors seek trial for Campari chairman over alleged tax evasion

Italian prosecutors have requested that Luca Garavoglia, chairman of drinks group Campari, stand trial over alleged evasion of €1.29 billion ($1.45 billion) in taxes, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

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Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds

Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget and other “shocks” over the last 10 years have led to a serious and lasting deterioration in the UK population’s mental health, research has found. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the first and second Covid lockdowns also triggered big rises in psychological distress, as measured by the number of people with depression and anxiety. Continue reading...

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Spain’s Leader Pins Political Survival on Public Anger Over Housing Crisis

Pedro Sánchez is betting his left-wing coalition can avoid a bruising election defeat amid rage over the eviction of an elderly woman who died Wednesday.

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I'm the CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee. I'm obsessed with Facebook Marketplace and do 100 pushups in my PJs every morning.

Karl Strovink, the CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, lives between Boston and San Francisco. He works from home with his dog and loves Facebook Marketplace.

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China pushes for equal dialogue in resolving trade differences with EU

Open cooperation and equal dialogue are the way to resolving the economic and trade differences between China and ‌the European Union, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.

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As crypto and prediction markets expand, their regulator shrinks

Even as the agency is tasked with drawing up new rules for crypto and prediction markets, its staffing and enforcement actions have dropped precipitously during the second Trump administration.

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Democrats’ fortunes are expanding into red territory. Their cash can’t keep up.

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For Ukrainians in the US, a last-ditch effort to forestall deportation

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Iran’s drones reveal US military weakness

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Young men who carried Trump to victory are mad. Vance is trying to win them back.

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Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos

Blythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-hander

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Rogue AI behaviour creates a legal quandary

Courts must wrestle with question of whether AI creators should be held responsible for damage caused by rogue agents

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Ukraine strikes Yandex data center in Russia, sparking fire — Meduza

A fire broke out at the Sasta machine-tool plant in Sasovo, Ryazan region, which houses one of Yandex’s data centers, the independent Telegram channel Astra reported. Journalists reached that…

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PODCAST: Man City own goal upsets sport’s money-go-round

Sham contracts worth $1.1 bln may spell disaster for the Abu Dhabi-owned soccer club. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists debate whether financial fair play is possible in England’s Pre...

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Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says

Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday.

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Trump Defends Border Policies in Texas as Senate Race Heats Up

President Donald Trump defended his immigration policies during a visit to Texas on Wednesday as he sought to boost struggling GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton ahead of November’s midterm elections.

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Hurricane Isaias is expected to get stronger on its way to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coasts

Some Gulf oil wells paused production, and at least four Florida school districts canceled classes for later in the week.

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