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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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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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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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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The actor stars as a Los Angeles mayoral candidate caught up in a tangle of secrets — and also directs

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State government takes control of $150m Sydney Town Hall Square project

The council says the plaza, which will require the demolition of several buildings the city has obtained since the 1980s, is necessary to create a gathering point for community events, music events and markets.

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Protesters stage 'I Am Jane Doe' rally in New York City against sexual violence

Protesters calling for tougher action against sexual violence rallied on Thursday outside the New York City courthouse where a Cornell University student stirred a national uproar by suing several campus fraternity members she accused of gang rape.

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‘No Excuse’: Doerkson Fires Conservative Candidate | The Tyee

Bigoted social media posts, some celebrating Trump, Musk and other right wing leaders, prompted the action.

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Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter intimidation campaign is a cautionary tale ahead of 2026 midterms

An armed voter suppression campaign in New Jersey in 1981 finds echoes today in the Trump administration’s persistent efforts to suppress the vote and undermine trust in elections nationwide.

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Trump finally clarifies his ‘take out’ LA comment after three days of uproar

The comments were widely condemned by Democrats and a lone Republican running for Congress in San Diego

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Are ADHD and Autism being over-diagnosed?

Sky's Health Correspondent, Ashish Joshi looks at new report into ADHD and autism

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Law firm McCarthy Tétrault to expand in Latin America with a new office in Chile

Mining will be a major area of focus for the new office as several Canadian mining companies have operations throughout the region

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Pat Cummins unfazed by prospect of Khawaja book raising sandpaper scandal: ‘Tell your story’

* Former Test opener is writing a new book released next month * Australia captain Cummins confirms conversation with Khawaja Pat Cummins has suggested he is unfazed by the prospect of the sandpaper scandal being raised in Usman Khawaja’s autobiography, which will be the first from any Australian player who played in that 2018 Cape Town Test. Cummins confirmed that Khawaja had called to inform him he would be writing the book, which will be released days after the end of Australia’s first Test tour of South Africa since the infamous match. Continue reading...

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Breaking: Man found dead by police after 'serious incident' in Perth's south

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man at a house in Orelia, with a second man found at the property taken into custody.

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Powderfinger confirm reunion, 16 years after breaking up

Powderfinger, one of the most decorated acts in Australian music history, have confirmed they're reforming 16 years after calling it quits. Here's everything we know so far.

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No end in sight for multi-million-dollar Cable Beach development

Broome locals say they are not surprised the opening of a multi-million-dollar redevelopment of Cable Beach is facing further delays.

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Live Updates: El-Sayed and Rogers to Meet in Michigan Senate Debate

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, is facing his Republican opponent, former Representative Mike Rogers, in a race that could be crucial to Senate control.

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NHS at risk of ‘system failures’ as demand for ADHD and autism care soars, inquiry finds

England-focused mental health review returns stark warning and calls for shift to ‘needs-led’ system * Explainer | What has the Fonagy review found and what does it recommend? * Analysis | No ‘snowflakes’: mental health review says today’s youth have it harder and harms are real The NHS in England is heading into a “world of system failures” as it struggles to cope with relentlessly rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism care, leaving those affected desperate for support, a government-commissioned inquiry has found. The stark warning was made in a review led by Prof Peter Fonagy into the sharp rise in demand over recent decades for help with mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. Continue reading...

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New Ofsted inspection regime damaging teachers, survey says

Nine in 10 school heads who responded say inspections still ‘negatively affected’ staff mental health School inspections in England continue to damage the mental wellbeing of teachers and senior leaders, according to a survey commissioned by Ofsted that casts doubt on efforts to reduce the stress caused by inspectors’ visits. The independent survey of school leaders who had undergone the revised inspections since last year found that 88% said it had “negatively affected” the mental wellbeing of school staff, including 29% who said it affected them “a lot”. Continue reading...

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The net worth you need to be in America’s wealthiest 1, 5 and 10 percent

89 percent of Americans have lived paycheck to paycheck in the last year

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Christa Pike walking and eating again after botched Tennessee execution

The update comes just four days after Pike's attorneys said that she was considered brain dead.

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An ‘old friend,’ a stove, and a samovar. The Kremlin shares a portrait of Putin’s birthday with former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. — Meduza

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his birthday with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, his “old friend,” the Kremlin press office said on the evening of October 8.

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Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch

Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.

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Person shot by ICE agent in New York City's Marble Hill, law enforcement sources say

One person was hospitalized after being shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in New York City's Marble Hill Thursday, law enforcement sources said.

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Pepsi shares rallied despite cutting profit guidance. Where Cramer stands on the stock now

CNBC's Jim Cramer said improving sales growth and investments to revive demand are encouraging signs, though PepsiCo still faces significant challenges.

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In his first interview on the job, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, a private-equity billionaire, defends his unconventional approach to solving the U.S. missile problem

In his first interview on the job, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, a private-equity billionaire, defended his unusual approach.

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Bagley Cartoon: Bull in an Urn Shop

Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: Bull in an Urn Shop

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Mold, larvae and dehydration: New report paints grim picture inside Adelanto ICE facility

In a court filing, immigrant law and advocacy groups said the Adelanto facility has violated the court's order.

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Dangerous surf, high tides and coastal flooding forecast for Bay Area this weekend

The National Weather Service is warning of dangerous surf and unusually high tides along the Bay Area coast this weekend, with waves up to 16 feet and coastal flooding possible.

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