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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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'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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Canadian writer Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in literature

The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

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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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Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’

Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.

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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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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the...

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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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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California

ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.

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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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US, Russia confirm Trump's latest Ukraine peace push is falling apart

At this point, there appears to be no prospect of a negotiated settlement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio 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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Pete Hegseth says public can watch Fort Hood shooter's execution

Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is "gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be."

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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. Officials later clarified the execution will be livestreamed and that more details would follow, the Associated Press reported. In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the Pentagon secretary said the firing squad would carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, Texas, at 1pm on Thursday, 3 December. This would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years. Continue reading...

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Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city

Two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

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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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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten

The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Pennsylvania.

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Trump calls on AI to speed up science—while continuing to defund it

Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH.

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How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic

A trove of documents and interviews with people close to tech billionaire Elon Musk reveal a damning picture of his rise as one of the world's richest and most powerful men.

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim news for the climate.

Like Donald Trump, he favors maximizing profits for extractive industries, environment be damned.

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Researchers find 180,000 giant tortoises living on island in Seychelles

Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories

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Donald Trump’s grifting presidency continues.

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An FBI spokesperson said an evidence response team was responding to the scene “to support our partners at the Department of Homeland Security,” but offered no other details.

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Jim Chalmers delays ATO’s controversial ban on credit card payments following business outcry

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Routine childhood vaccination coverage remains below level needed for population immunity, report finds

Coverage rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic and have not rebounded

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Civic Calendar: Oct. 9–15, 2026 | Cascadia Daily News

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Three mixed-use projects moving forward near VUU could transform an auto shop-dominated stretch of Lombardy

The buildings would replace a now-shuttered animal hospital and a string of automotive businesses.

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SFPD announces major reforms to rape investigations following SF Standard report

Three months after The Standard exposed a systemic failure, police brass face a packed City Hall hearing and a competing vision for change.

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Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returns home after grueling deployment

The warship, with nearly 5,000 sailors aboard, completed a 321-day deployment that included months at sea and shortages of fresh food and problems with plumbing.

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Shonda Rhimes is writing the 'Bridgerton' prequel about mom Lady Violet

Netflix has announced a 'Bridgerton' prequel about Lady Violet — the mother of the main show's central siblings — written by Shonda Rhimes and Nicholas Nardini.

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In first Healey-Minogue debate, lots of talk of affordability, the governor's record and Trump's impact

Gov. Maura Healey repeatedly tied Republican challenger Mike Minogue to Trump and argued that the president's tariffs, war and program cuts are making life more expensive here. Minogue argued that Healey has had four years, a Democratic Legislature and record-high budgets to address high costs — and has fallen short.

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Virginia county board sues to block proposed Trump triumphal arch

The Arlington County, Virginia, board late on Thursday ‌sued the US Department of Interior and National Park Service seeking to block President Donald ⁠Trump's proposed triumphal arch.

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Chipotle shares jump after report that Starbucks has explored a takeover

A move by Starbucks to buy the fast-casual Mexican chain would combine two of the most recognizable restaurant brands.

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Trump’s latest attacks on the press exude desperation | Margaret Sullivan

Trump seems to invent ugly new variations on his press-bashing theme almost every day

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Firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

Trump’s defense secretary wants to ‘make sure that people are able to watch’ the ‘public’ killing of Nidal Malik Hasan

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The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday.

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Astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after record space mission

Sophie Adenot left the International Space Station on Wednesday after an eight-month stay, the longest by a European astronaut, and splashed down on Thursday at around 5.30 pm with three fellow crew members.

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US sued over plan to blast Utah canyon inscribed by 19th century 'Buffalo Soldiers,' European pioneers

Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area covered in historic inscriptions and near world-renowned Native rock art.

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Supreme Court again sides with Trump in dispute over campaign ads

The Trump administration's FCC changed the rules for campaign ad rates in a way that was expected to help Republicans in the midterm elections.

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Immigration agents shoot a man during arrest in New York City

The Department of Homeland Security says federal immigration agents shot and wounded a Dominican man while arresting him in New York City.

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How China’s Stimulus May Shore Up GDP While Reinforcing Imbalances

The measure is ‘state-guided and supply heavy,’ according to JPMorgan Chase economists.

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PCs renew calls for CFS inquiry

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2 new polls suggest Kotek may lead in Oregon governor’s race

It’s the first time publicly released polling has shown the Democratic incumbent leading GOP challenger Christine Drazan.

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‘War lives in me': Gaza playwright wins prestigious award in London

Honoured for his artistic resilience, Ali Abu Yasin continued writing for theatre amid the rubble.

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