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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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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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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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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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'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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“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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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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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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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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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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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.

Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.

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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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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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Nova Scotia sees dramatic drop in number of children in 'temporary emergency arrangements,' but there's still no child and youth advocate - Halifax Examiner

Craig Beaton, deputy minister with the Department of Opportunities and Social Development said the department has "full intention to have the office stood up within the remainder of this fiscal year."

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Seventh man bailed in connection with alleged terror plot near RAF Fairford

The seventh man arrested by police investigating a suspected terror plot close to RAF Fairford has been released on bail.

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3 Killed, 14 Injured as Russian Drones Assault Kyiv in Fresh Attacks, Hit Store

The attacks came a day after Russian weapons killed at least four people in the capital.

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The rise of gas station opioids

What are kratom and 7-OH, the opioid-like drugs that you can buy at the gas station?

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Russian strikes kill at least 10, injure 45 across Ukraine over past day

Russia attacked across Ukraine with 142 Shahed-type drones, 82 of which were jet-powered overnight on Oct. 8, Ukraine's Air Force said.

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Public Accounts Committee to summon RTÉ and Department of Communications to appear

Media watchdog ‘disappointed’ budget allocation for RTÉ falls short of expected sum

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Indian manufacturing’s moment may finally have arrived

In one part of the country, at least, production is soaring

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I'm a fashion minimalist. This cozy cardigan makes the cut – and is now on sale

PrettyGarden’s oversized cardigan, on Prime Day sale for just $25, is soft, stretchy and perfect for working from home

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Do you smoke tobacco?

The cost of a box of 20 cigarettes has increased by €2.50 in the last three budgets.

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Isaias intensifies to hurricane. And, judge orders Pike execution evidence preserved

People in the Gulf are preparing for bad weather this weekend after Isaias intensified into a hurricane. And, a judge has ordered Christa Pike's failed execution evidence be preserved.

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Inflation reaches highest point since 2024, driven by costs of fuel, electricity and rents

Home heating oil alone rose by 58% in the last 12 months.

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Ethiopia names Fitsum as new finance minister

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday named Fitsum Assefa Adela as finance minister in his new cabinet, replacing Ahmed ⁠Shide who has become speaker of the lower house of parliament.

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Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Is Going Great

Our fate may be very well be in the hands of Jensen Huang.

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Canada’s Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her bold and inventive oeuvre’

The 76-year-old modernist poet, translator, classics scholar and Member of the Order of Canada is the third Canadian to be awarded the prize given to a living writer

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Bankruptcies linked to labor shortages in Japan climb in first half of fiscal year

Labor-linked bankruptcies reached 240 for the first half of the fiscal year, the highest level since comparable data became available in fiscal 2013.

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Man accused of attacking Michael Healy-Rae granted bail

The judge said she is not convinced that the alleged incident was politically motivated.

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Land Mines in the Korean DMZ Deliver Warning Against Defections

Explosions in the buffer zone last month—blamed by Seoul on Pyongyang—have illustrated Kim Jong Un’s determination to keep people from fleeing south.

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Haemonetics, Broadcom, Lululemon, Wolfspeed & more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves premarket.

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India rate hike will not stem outflows, leaving central bank in a bind

India's first rate hike in four years is unlikely to slow or reverse record high capital outflows, leaving the central bank battling the vicious cycle of a weakening currency and higher inflation in a hostile global environment.

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SoCal's famed coastal railroad may have to move to survive rising seas. How could it happen?

The California State Transportation Agency is expected to launch a study examining what would be needed to move the railroad line from the San Clemente coast.

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Democrats Demand Chuck Grassley Apologize To Jack Smith Over GOP's False NBA Accusation

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Samsung flags 783% profit jump to record $80bn as AI chip boom surges

Samsung Electronics estimated on Thursday that its third-quarter operating profit jumped almost ninefold to a record 107.4 trillion won, or $80.2 billion, while sales at Taiwan's TSMC hit a quarterly record, as the AI boom keeps demand for chips strong.

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Three sisters who drowned in Brighton decided to end their own lives, inquest finds

Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters from London visited late mother’s former home shortly before their deaths in May Three sisters who drowned in the sea in Brighton collectively decided to end their own lives, a coroner has ruled. The bodies of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, all from London, were recovered from the sea off Brighton in the early hours of 13 May. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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Andrew Garfield plays a ploughman in The Uprising – but the real medieval rebels weren’t all peasants

Our research has traced the background of hundreds of people connected with the revolt.

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One dead, two injured in Poland's second school attack in two days

A 15-year-old former pupil killed one person and injured two others ‌at a Polish primary school on Thursday, police said, the day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself at another school.

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