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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...

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Massive Google data center project faces growing opposition in central France

A planned data center near Châteauroux faces mounting local opposition, with concerns over environmental impact and a lack of transparency surrounding this massive infrastructure. A protest is set to take place on Saturday, October 17.

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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank

The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.

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Musk asked Trump to restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports

Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.

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Israeli settlers attack US photojournalist covering West Bank violence

Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer, was hospitalized, with doctors saying she had suffered from 'lacerations.' The Israeli police said it opened an investigation into the incident.

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Brewers sweep the Dodgers in the NLCS to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982

Garrett Mitchell hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth inning, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-4 comeback win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.

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How Judges Eviscerated Trump’s DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits — ProPublica

Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.

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Zelensky resumes strikes on Russian refineries, Trump brands them 'a disgrace'

The end of the truce called for by the US president marks an escalation in tensions between Zelensky and Trump, following a deal between Washington and Moscow on the delivery of Russian diesel fuel.

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US lawmaker introduces bill blocking Trump's Russian diesel deal

"This deal won't lower costs for the American people, who are already paying forTrump's failed war of choice in Iran. It will hand Putin millions of dollars to continue slaughtering Ukrainian civilian...

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New York City college student dead after being drugged with fentanyl and raped in her dorm room, prosecutors say

Another student was also drugged in the Fashion Institute of Technology dorm room but survived. Two men have been arrested and charged in the incident.

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Judge Threatens To Sanction Trump After He Backs Out Of Deposition In $10 Billion BBC Case

The BBC told the court this week Trump was supposed to be deposed Friday, but his lawyers said he had “other matters of national importance” to attend to.

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Starlink access still not fully restored for Ukraine’s military, says Zelenskyy

Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White House * Europe live – latest updates Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the Ukrainian military’s access to the Starlink satellite internet service has not yet been fully restored, as media reports suggested the order to throttle the service had come from within the White House. Zelenskyy met European leaders on Friday in Brussels, where he asked the EU for another €70bn next year to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia. Continue reading...

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Could Tesla’s flying car send sales and shares soaring?

Tesla revealed its next-generation Roadster on Thursday in Texas, with one of the three new versions performing a jaw-dropping kickflip and demonstrating flying capabilities. However, analysts contacted by Euronews Business do not expect the model to generate significant revenue.

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Belgium promises to deliver 10 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine this year

De Wever said that Ukraine urgently needed the fighter jets, as they were one of the few weapons capable to strike Russian jet-powered drones.

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CDC reports 4,410 measles cases as outbreak grows

The US CDC on Friday reported 4,410 measles cases nationwide as of October 15, an increase of 330 from its last update a ‌week ago, as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease continues.

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Katie Zacharia is out after half a Scaramucci

A record-breaking five days as White House press secretary proves once again: Mar-a-Lago face will never save you.

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Whitewashing Tucker Carlson

The New York Times and NPR recently failed to convey just how extreme the former Fox host's has become.

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U.S. budget deficit swells to almost $2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12% in a single year

The Treasury Department published the U.S. budget deficit for the 2026 fiscal year.

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The many ways Trump is kneecapping white-collar crime enforcement

"Are we blowing a big bubble of potential corporate fraud that will come to harm us all?”

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China tells Israel to stop ‘forced establishment' of West Bank settlements

'The Palestinian question is the greatest historical injustice of this century,' China's foreign minister said.

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Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas

The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.

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Why some Gen Z voters who backed Trump now regret their decision

A focus group of eight Gen Z Trump voters reported feeling unhappy or disappointed with the state of politics, with some going as far as to say they regret supporting him in 2024.

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinians and a U.S. photojournalist in West Bank attacks

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians as they were harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several people including a photojournalist working for The Washington Post.

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Trump tells Katie Zacharia to "reconsider" press secretary role

The comments come after questions have swirled about her background.

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Do Americans own the president's papers? Appeals court to weigh in

The administration says papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump, not to the American people. The case could ultimately end up at the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

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The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing...

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Books in Brief: A revolt against injustice, an artistic coming-of-age tale and a haunting myth

Novels by Sorj Chalandon, Alex Hyde and Madeline Miller

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Arcadia surrogacy mansion mom fled U.S. after previous abuse charge, prosecutors allege

Two parents accused of allowing more than a dozen surrogate children to suffer abuse inside a so-called "house of horrors" in Arcadia never let the children outside and kept the cremated remains of another surrogate baby in mail packaging, a prosecutor said in court Friday.

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‘Monster inside of him’: New details emerge about retired S.F. sergeant who killed wife, daughter

Kevin Mannix, the former SFPD sergeant accused of a double murder-suicide in Marin County, was in the midst of a late “midlife crisis,” said a longtime close friend of his wife, Ann Mannix.

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Oregon school shooter attacked special education classroom, police say

Police in Bend, Oregon, are still investigating the motive behind the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. Four people were killed, including three young children and a teacher. Police id...

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ALCS Game 4 postponed by rain; Rays and Guardians to resume series Saturday

Game 4 of the American League Championship Series has been postponed because of rain. The Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians will resume their series on Saturday at 8 p.m., with Game 5 on Sunday at Progressive Field at 5 p.m. and Game 6 in St.

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California SEIU 1000 Members To Strike On October 21

SEIU 1000 California state workers with 100,000 members will be going on strike on October 21 throughout California.

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MLK’s statue was ill-lit for months. The Park Service says it’s fixed.

The response came after The Washington Post reached out for comment.

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Susie Wiles helped set up Fox interview ahead of press secretary’s exit

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CCTV captures moment flames engulf family home in suspected arson

Police release confronting video footage in a fresh appeal over a deliberate house fire that threatened a father and his two children.

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Tackling Toronto congestion may be a key issue for mayoral candidates, but it’s not all bad

Indicators show that gridlock has lessened in the past few years

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The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See

An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.

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Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16

Lula reverses position on age of responsibility for ‘heinous’ crimes in what many see as a desperate electoral gambit

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Insight: Bangladesh is battling measles. It's a 'real warning' to other nations

Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak, a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly risk of falling immunisation rates.

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Pope Leo, pictured for first time since his surgery, calls Russia’s Putin, seeks ceasefire in Ukraine

Recovering from lung cancer surgery, Pope Leo XIV spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a plea for Oleshky, where mines and drones have trapped about 2,000 people who are at risk of starvation.

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Long-serving ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams to leave The Science Show after 51 years

No replacement has been named as the 82-year-old departs, with the media announcement referring only to ‘the next generation’ * Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here Long-serving broadcaster Robyn Williams is leaving the ABC’s The Science Show after 51 years, as the public broadcaster looks to refresh its science programming. The news comes a fortnight after the ABC’s financial journalist Alan Kohler announced his retirement after three decades. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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Boulder fire bomber reaches plea deal on federal charges

Mohamed Soliman is serving a life sentence for killing one person and injuring more than a dozen people in an attack on the Pearl Street Mall

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Indigenous rockers record third album in outback shed

Outback rockers The Desert Stars have laid down their third album in what might be the remotest recording studio in the world.

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By Closing Marysville Elementary, PPS Could Be At Risk of Defaulting on a State Contract

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In a Wall Street Journal interview, Katie Zacharia said she didn’t fault the White House for her brief and rocky tenure

In a Wall Street Journal interview, she said that she didn’t fault the White House for her brief and rocky tenure.

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Valkyries-Dream matchup draws a crowd at WNBA Finals media day

Media day for the WNBA Finals was packed as a matchup between Natalie Nakase’s Golden State Valkyries and Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream is generating extra attention.

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Hackers steal personal data of millions of California students in massive breach

Hackers stole data from millions of California students who took state tests. The security breach affects current and former students who attended public schools over the last three years.

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Trump Releases Final Plan For 250-Foot Arch...And There's No Military Complex

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Drought, heat wave leaves Mount Hood barren by early fall

Portlanders have taken to social media to express shock over a mountain view that looks more like a barren hill

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New men’s prison in Elmore County will miss completion deadline, says Corrections

The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday that completion of the $1.25 billion Gov. Kay Ivey Correctional Complex, a 4,000-bed men’s prison in Elmore County, will be delayed. The department said in a statement Friday that Caddell Construction, a Montgomery-based design-build contractor for the prison, “failed to timely meet the contractual final completion deadline” but that the company remains responsible for completing the project.

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