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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the...

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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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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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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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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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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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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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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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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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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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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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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

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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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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

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High school protests draw tens of thousands across France for second time in a week

While turnout did not reach the levels seen on October 6, the 'Act IV' of the high school student movement continued on October 8, drawing large crowds from Paris to Marseille and Lyon. Though the atmosphere was mostly positive, there were also clashes at the end of marches.

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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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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins

Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.

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'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center

"We certainly are capable," Zelensky said about striking Russian data centers. "We always respond in kind. Regarding data centers, as you all know, they have been and still are striking our data cente...

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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.

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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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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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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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Musk Loses Trillionaire Status As SpaceX And Tesla Drop Wipes Out $36 Billion

Elon Musk’s fortune fell over $36 billion on Thursday, just days after he regained his trillionaire status.

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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Jurist Navi Pillay

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