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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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At least 12 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop

"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.

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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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How to find out if your kids will get $250 in their Trump Accounts this week

Michael and Susan Dell's $6.25 billion gift is being distributed across the Trump Accounts of 25 million children this week.

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Commentary: Trump claims Ohio's economy is 'booming.' The November election might show if Ohio voters agree. • Ohio Capital Journal

The Nov. 3 election is essentially a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the status quo. You either like the way things are going or you don’t. The outcome of this midterm election will show as much about…

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War-ravaged Gaza is frozen in misery, a year into Trump’s peace plan

Conditions in Gaza remain bleak, and reconstruction blocked, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights for reelection three years after the Oct. 7 attack.

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National expert, former UO professor shares what colleges, families can learn from the Cornell rape case and recent Eugene reports

Experts like retired UO professor Jennifer Freyd say the recently reported incidents at UO and the national news about the alleged rape of a female student by seven men at Cornell University in 2024 are only a fraction of the problem.

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Social Security 2027 COLA may outpace Medicare cost but not much else

2027 Social Security COLA may rise to 3.5%, above the expected Medicare Part B premium increase. But other rising costs may eat up the rest of COLA.

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Caregivers need to take care of themselves, too

Nearly one in four adults in the United States provide care to adults or children with medical conditions or disabilities, and that number is on the rise.

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Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs

WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional districts, and tariffs were on her mind as she voted early and in-person in Suffolk, Virginia in late September.The 44-year-old trained social worker said she and her husband, who recently retired after 25 years in the U.S. Navy, are raising two children, ages 7 and 9, and forgoing a family vacation to save money.

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Poll: Latino voters reject Trump’s immigration policies — and detail the personal impact

Two-thirds of Latino voters in the national NBC News/Telemundo poll say Trump’s enforcement actions have gone too far.

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Abortion drug safety review will be completed by March, US FDA says

The Trump administration plans to complete a review of the abortion drug mifepristone by March 2027, according ‌to a court filing, paving the way for potential changes that could limit access to the pills.

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One of Baltimore’s biggest landlords is catching heat in Cleveland

Riparian, one of Baltimore’s biggest landlords, bought 172 homes in Cuyahoga County last year, almost all of which are in Cleveland. A new report in Ohio alleges the majority of them are in disrepair.

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Two killed after building partially collapses in Turkiye's Istanbul

Eight survivors rescued from the rubble as fears of further collapse slow operations in Istanbul's Maltepe district.

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Booms and flight disruptions in Riyadh as Saudi-Houthi war escalates

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have stepped up their campaign of strikes on Riyadh, with flights disrupted, and some office staff told to work from home.

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Live updates: Trump makes third Texas trip in a month to boost Paxton as Republicans fight to hold the Senate

Trump was interrupted by protesters at a Texas rally, Trump’s $90 Medicare rebate rolls out, but millions aren’t eligible, most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast.

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How ‘Digital Oblivion’ Is Helping Russia Rewrite the Past - The Moscow Times

The disappearance of independent journalism, firsthand accounts and historical archives from the internet is helping Russia and other authoritarian states rewrite history and shape collective memory,...

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BOJ raises economic assessment for Tohoku and Shikoku as tech demand remains strong

Demand related to artificial intelligence remained strong, including for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and electronic components.

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Fresh day of student protests across France as rally planned in Paris

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu addressed the nation on Wednesday evening in an effort to ease the crisis, promising the government would share a plan to respond to the situation by the end of October.

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JD Vance Wants To Investigate Top Universities That 'Bring In Foreigners'

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Russians strike Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with guided aerial bomb, killing two men

Two 62-year-old men have been killed in a Russian guided aerial bomb strike on the Vasylkivka hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 8 October.

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Gen Zers are now the biggest spenders in the art market, survey finds

Gen Zers have become the most active buyers of high-end art, changing the face of a market long dominated by Baby Boomers, according to a new survey.

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Andrew could face witness summons in £40mn London fraud trial

Lawyers for ex-Goldman Sachs banker accused of misappropriating Turkish tycoon’s assets want brother of King Charles to testify

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We haven't even voted on Question 1, and there's already talk of lawsuits over public records law changes

If voters approve a sweeping public records law in November and Beacon Hill tries to replace it, ballot question supporters say they're ready to sue.

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Brazil falls into MAGA’s orbit

The Bolsonaro clan and its allies have swept the country’s general election

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US August wholesale inventories revised lower

US wholesale inventories increased less than initially thought in August as strong demand boosted sales, government data showed on Thursday.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle pleaded with major Trump donor to pay her $100G Amex bill: report

Wall Street Journal has reported on texts from Donald Trump Jr’s ex to Kentucky businessman Eric Deters, though her lawyer has questioned their authenticity

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Former prince Andrew wins legal challenge over lawfulness of search warrants

Police accept unlawfulness of warrants obtained to search properties but say investigation continues

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