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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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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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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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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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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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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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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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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

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High school protests draw tens of thousands across France for second time in a week

While turnout did not reach the levels seen on October 6, the 'Act IV' of the high school student movement continued on October 8, drawing large crowds from Paris to Marseille and Lyon. Though the atmosphere was mostly positive, there were also clashes at the end of marches.

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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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'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center

"We certainly are capable," Zelensky said about striking Russian data centers. "We always respond in kind. Regarding data centers, as you all know, they have been and still are striking our data cente...

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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.

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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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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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Musk Loses Trillionaire Status As SpaceX And Tesla Drop Wipes Out $36 Billion

Elon Musk’s fortune fell over $36 billion on Thursday, just days after he regained his trillionaire status.

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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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Austria Releases Ukrainian Investigative Journalist Mykhailo Tkach After Detention in Vienna

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Soaring freight rates threaten Asia's appetite for US crude

Tanker freight rates soaring to record highs are putting US crude oil out of reach for Asian refiners, pushing them to seek alternatives from the Middle East and Latin America, according to multiple traders and shipbrokers who track those markets.

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For the first time in history, an Article 5-style collective defense agreement has been activated outside of NATO.

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Visions review: Eoghan Quinn’s play has a lot to say. But rarely has so much been asked of a lamp

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Derbhle Crotty and Ghaliah Conroy give especially strong performances, but Visions is weighed down by its symbolism

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Montenegro Detains Founder of Russian Pro-War Channel Rybar - The Moscow Times

Authorities in Montenegro have detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, the founder of the influential pro-war Russian Telegram channel Rybar, in an operation targeting suspected Russian influence activities, offic...

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Some climate tipping points are being studied far more than others – new research

Scientists aren’t focusing on the systems that may be closest to tipping.

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The fight over Old Age Security is getting louder

Canada’s largest seniors’ advocacy group is pushing back on the idea that seniors get too much help from Ottawa

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Ireland's biggest private landlord firm tries to evict former employee from Dublin apartment

At a tribunal hearing, details were laid out about a souring of relations between Ires Reit and the tenant.

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America needs a citizens’ assembly to reform Social Security

With politicians flailing, it’s worth trying an approach that has worked in Europe, argues Glenn Hubbard

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Lauren Jewett challenges Steve Scalise for congressional seat in a heavily Republican district

Lauren Jewett, a special education teacher, believes that the ground game is her chance to topple the well-established Republican.

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New Trump rules will make it harder for farmers to access US funds for energy projects

President Donald Trump's looming changes to a rural energy program that has distributed billions of dollars in recent years will make it harder for many farmers to access funds ‌for such things as solar arrays and energy efficiency projects, farmers, energy companies and analysts said.

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Quartz website mainly produced by one AI-assisted reporter writing 50+ stories per day

Digital marketing expert Cris Tolomia appears to be making heavy use of AI.

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Play Shuffalo: Friday, October 9, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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Kazakhstan v Ireland live updates: Follow the action from World Cup playoff

Carla Ward’s team play in the first leg of their first round playoff match in Astana

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‘It was a tough year’: David Clifford on Kerry, red cards and the demands of being David Clifford

Kerry forward reflects on All-Ireland final loss in exclusive interview

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Ireland under-21s to face Finland in Euro 2027 playoffs

Evan Ferguson is still eligible to play if he can return from ankle surgery in time

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Radical new rugs to buy now

Makers are going back to their roots. The results are revolutionary

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There’s a Way to Get Your Significant Other to Dress Better. It Takes a Bit of Subterfuge.

Prudie replies to readers’ comments and suggestions.

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Takoma Park Advances City-Run Takoma Soccer League

The Takoma Park City Council has advanced a plan to replace its longtime soccer program with a city-run youth league in 2027.

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Slate SoundBites for October 9, 2026

Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!

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Isaias strengthens to become first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 season

Storm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river flooding

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Russia Steps Up Production of Improved Su-34 ‘Fullback’ Fighter Bombers

Russia received its second batch of upgraded Su-34M/NVO fighter bombers for 2026 on Wednesday as the manufacturer promises no let up in the aircraft’s rates of production.

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Montenegro detains Russian pro-war blogger behind Rybar, a Telegram channel with 1.5 million subscribers — Meduza

Montenegrin authorities detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, creator of the Z channel Rybar, local outlets Vijesti and Pobjeda reported.

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Nobel laureate Machado says Venezuela is ‘ready’ for new elections

Exiled Nobel Peace Prize laureate demands ‘transparency’ over oil revenues after deal with Trump administration

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The Trump Stock Market Is Lousy for Most

President Donald Trump has long viewed the stock market as a referendum on his performance. Although the S&P 500 Index closed at an all-time high this week, it did so on the strength of a handful of companies focused on the booming artificial intelligence sector, papering over signs of growing vulnerabilities in the economy and financial markets. With the midterm elections less than a month away, what Trump sees as an asset for Republicans may in fact be a liability.

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UK's Prince Harry says he fell into depression as he weighed royal future

Britain's Prince Harry fell into depression when he took a break from royal duties in 2019 before he formally stepped down, he told a videocast about grief, where he also discussed feeling "emotionally numb" after ‌his mother died.

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