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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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'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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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris

A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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San Francisco leaders ask state to investigate PG&E after string of major outages

Mayor Daniel Lurie and other city leaders say repeated PG&E outages and recent electrical fires in San Francisco warrant a public investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission.

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Peggy Flanagan boosts affordability message with pledge to back labor’s populist economic agenda • Minnesota Reformer

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A nearly eight-month stint aboard the International Space Station came to a splashing end for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 on Thursday, when their recovery vessel safely splashed down off the coast of Los Angeles.

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California threatens to worsen House Democrats' 2027 headaches

Several Democrat-on-Democrat elections could see more critics of party leadership elected.

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Bjorck banking on patience that first NHL point will come

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San Francisco man faces murder charges in Daly City drunk driving wreck, prosecutors say

A 28-year-old man from San Francisco faces murder charges after he allegedly ran a red light in Daly City while drunk and crashed into another car, killing two people inside, prosecutors said.

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Iowa fugitive wanted for kidnapping is found living under alias as San Diego chef, officials say

Brian Anthony Williams was arrested at Miss B’s Coconut Club and is awaiting extradition to Iowa, where he faces kidnapping, assault and arson charges.

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Anthropic Prohibits Being Excessively ‘Cruel’ To Claude

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The rumours are true: Powderfinger are reuniting 16 years after the band’s farewell tour

Billboards with cryptic messages hinted at the band’s possible reunion, now in a video posted to social media they’ve confirmed there’ll be a national tour Powderfinger have confirmed the band is getting back together for a national tour in 2027 after a series of cryptic clues were posted on billboards and social media this week. It’s the first time the 18 times Aria-winning Australian rock band has played together live since their Sunsets Farewell Tour, which wrapped up in their home town of Brisbane in 2010. Continue reading...

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The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names

A report from the President’s campaign tour through the formerly safe precincts of red America.

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Animals — Ben Affleck anchors tightly wound kidnap thriller

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

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