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Thousands march ahead of Brazil election runoff: 'Never Again Bolsonaro'

Students spilled into downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, calling for votes for incumbent leftist president Lula.

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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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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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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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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

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The 87-year-old evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies

Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalized with exhaustion after her eviction, which triggered national demonstrations over Spain's chronic housing crisis.

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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law

The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.

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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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“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account.

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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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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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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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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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.

Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.

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Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say

Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid ‌a bigger export push by Gulf producers.

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"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers

► For more, visit Mother Jones: America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That's a stubborn fact, we're told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike…

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House Democrat Introduces Bill To Preserve Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ In Smithsonian Museum

A House Democrat introduced a bill that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve banners bearing President Donald Trump’s face that hang outside federal agency buildings for display in an exhibit on Trump’s “authoritarian narcissism.”

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USS Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment supporting Iran war

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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MAGA Candidate Brags About Physically Abusing His Wife

Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards.

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China has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head

China has nominated health official Song Li to lead the World Health Organization, it said on Thursday, confirming a Reuters report that Song had been put forward to succeed the incumbent director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 76-year-old was honoured "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature," the Swedish Academy said.

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JPMorgan says this biotech stock can more than double following steep declines

The investment bank initiated coverage with an overweight rating.

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Nova Scotia has a new Traffic Safety Act. Here's what some road safety advocates and elected officials have to say - Halifax Examiner

Advocates talks about concerns around clarity of language in the new act, as well as no photo radar.

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€430m cut in supports for Ukrainian refugees 'not resulting in hardship', minister claims

Jim O’Callaghan also doubled down on his position on the solicitors’ strike once more.

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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says

Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni secures final approval for controversial electoral reform

Opponents accuse government of self-serving reform in advance of vote, with one lawmaker on hunger strike

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Cuban actors insist the show must go on despite blackouts

When blackouts in an upscale neighborhood of Havana began approaching 24 hours a day, morale plummeted at one of the Cuban capital's many niche but celebrated theater groups.

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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature

Anne Carson was celebrated for combining the classical and the modern by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, which hailed her “bold and inventive oeuvre.”

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Racial and religious hate crimes at record high in England and Wales, data shows

Offences targeting Muslims increased most in 12 months to March – up 15% – while antisemitic hate crimes rose by 10% * UK politics live – latest updates Racially and religiously motivated offences have reached record highs in the UK, as the government’s main Islamophobia partner says attacks on mosques are increasing in severity. New Home Office figures show police recorded 146,825 hate crimes in the year ending March 2026 – a rise of 7% in the past year. Offences targeting Muslims increased the most – up 15%, from 4,479 to 5,132 – while antisemitic hate crimes rose by 10%, from 2,874 to 3,162. Continue reading...

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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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Nine expert tips for staying warm at home without turning up the heating

There are several tricks and tips for keeping warm and cosy during cold weather

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FCC has 'our head on the guillotine,' Disney tells federal judge

Disney asked a federal court to end the FCC's investigation of its ABC broadcast licenses, which it has called "pretextual" and "reliatory."

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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Does Israel outsource violence?

Plus: Humza Yousaf’s cultural life

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South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea flight-tested on Thursday its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, bringing Seoul closer to what it says could be game-changing weapons capabilities.

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Recording exists to show worker was pressured to take Deloitte partner’s name out of HR complaint, WRC told

Complaint of constructive dismissal against the Big Four accountancy firm is being heard at the WRC

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Play Shuffalo: Thursday, October 8, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access when a customs rule goes into effect later this month, a change that has sparked opposition from Democrats and some Republicans with the cost of living a top issue for voters ahead of midterm elections.

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Nomura, Daiwa CEOs flag risk AI may spoil stock market rally

The heads of Japan’s two largest securities firms project the Nikkei stock average to reach 80,000 within this year or next.

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Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold

Authorities described the attack on Kramatorsk as a targeted strike on civilians.

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At the epicenter of AI, San Francisco Bay residents take on the technology

In the epicenter of the technology industry, people have conflicting views about whether AI is going to do more harm than good.

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The Former NFL Lineman Who Solved a Decades-Old Math Problem

John Urschel published a paper proving a mathematical conjecture regarding Gaussian elimination.

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I became a millionaire at age 27—these common money tips ‘need to die because they are keeping us broke’

"Things right now are way different (and way worse) than they used to be. Typical 'money wisdom' just does not apply," says Your Rich BFF founder Vivian Tu.

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US Fed minutes show bank is unlikely to hike rates in October

Federal Reserve watchers did price in a December hike.

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