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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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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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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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2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay

The former UN human rights commissioner was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law

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Winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize to be announced - Europe Live

The winner will be announced in a ceremony that starts at 10am UK time (11am CEST) The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this morning, with all sorts of speculation about who could be this year’s worthy winner. (Despite his hopes, Donald Trump is very unlikely to win it, again.) Continue reading...

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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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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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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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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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US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel award to former judge

The court rejected the US sanctions as an attack on international law and warned in a statement that 'history will judge this moment.'

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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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UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics live

Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move ‘grotesque’ and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments * Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed According to rights group Amnesty International, at least 17 public executions are known to have been carried out in 2025 – six in Afghanistan and 11 in Iran. The Death Penalty Information Center says that 135 soldiers have been executed by the US military since 1916. 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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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.

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EXCLUSIVE: Friend of suspected FBI data thief says he warned 'crazy' teen not to hack bureau

A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.

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Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach detained in Austria while on assignment

The acclaimed journalist was reportedly on an editorial assignment in Vienna with his colleague Yaroslav Bondarenko when he was detained by Austrian authorities.

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South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law.

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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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Founder of Rybar, Russian war propaganda channel, detained in Montenegro

Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife Valeria Zvinchuk, and three other associates were detained in an operation by Montenegrin police and security service on the morning of Oct. 9, local media reported.

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Trauma endures in Paris suburb after police grenade shatters teenager's jaw: 'They maim a student, leave, and then what? How are we supposed to pick up the pieces?'

On September 28, 14-year-old Eden suffered a fractured jaw and lost most of his teeth after he was struck in the face by a tear-gas grenade fired at close range, just a few meters from his high school, where a protest was taking place. Students, teachers and parents spoke of their fear, anger and sense of helplessness.

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Exclusive: House Democrats ask Kimberly Guilfoyle for records related to alleged pay-to-pay scheme

Democrats from the House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle for financial records and communications with Trump administration officials after allegatio...

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Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions

The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his...

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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.

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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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Hitler Mussolini wins local election

Peruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.

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Jennifer Welch isn't holding back on Trump, Democrats or political division

The podcaster talks to Leila Fadel about her new book, her evolving politics and what it means to build a future with people whose views she strongly opposes.

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'Avert ecological disaster': Advocates sue California over one of the largest water systems in the world

An environmental group and water agency representing farmers are suing California, arguing the state is taking excessive amounts of water out of the Bay Delta, harming fish and the ecosystem.

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Massive earthquake strikes Panama at magnitude 7.6, tsunami threat issued

A major earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 struck in Panama on Friday, Oct. 9.

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Portland Zine Symposium Is One of the Largest Events of Its Kind in the Country

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Calendar: What investors need to know for the week ahead

A daily rundown of the economic reports and corporate earnings that will be grabbing the market’s attention in the week ahead

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Powerful quake shakes Panama, canal operations normal

A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the southern coast of ‌Panama on Friday at a 10 km depth, according to the US Geological Survey, yet no damage was initially reported and the Panama Canal Authority said the waterway was operating ⁠normally.

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White House Picks Conservative Commentator Katie Zacharia As New Press Secretary

Karoline Leavitt left the role in August.

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Thieves pull off Italy's biggest-ever wine heist, stealing 30,000 bottles worth 5 million euros

ROME (AP) — Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy’s most prized wines worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.8 million) from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country’s largest wine theft on record.

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Israel's scorn of Nobel Peace Prize laureate highlights its combative relationship with UN bodies

The decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel and global institutions charged with upholding international law, a rift that has widened over the war in Gaza.

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Irish children forced into criminality inappropriately punished, major report finds

The US State Department says gaps in victim identification mean Irish children are rarely recognised as trafficking victims

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Trump administration cuts environmental reviews to fast-track Alaska oil exploration | Alaska Beacon

Exploration activities in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska will no longer need to undergo individual analysis, under a new BLM rule.

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Trump picks Katie Zacharia as next White House press secretary

Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator, has been offered the role of White House press secretary, a White House official told CBS News on Friday.

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The Holborn and St Pancras byelection doesn’t answer the big questions about British politics – but it provides hints

The result showed that Andy Burnham can appeal to voters in the capital.

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Vance Distancing Himself From Pentagon's Planned Public Firing Squad Execution

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White House Taps Rightwing Pundit As New Press Secretary: NYT

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Moroccan king says migration cooperation model with Spain hit limit

King Mohammed VI said on Friday that Morocco's efforts to curb irregular migration had produced "concrete results," but that the current cooperation ‌model with Spain had reached its limits amid recurring crises.

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Is a pre-election ICE surge underway in California? Here’s what we know

Rep. David Valadao said in a Thursday statement that DHS officials confirmed that operations are underway in the Central Valley.

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30,000 Bottles of Italian Red Wine Stolen in Brazen Tuscan Heist

As many as 10 men made off with more than $5 million of first-rate Italian red wine.

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Paul Godfrey removed from Order of Ontario advisory council

Former Postmedia chairman waded into legal battle this week between the province and a technology company chaired by his son

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Elon Musk Makes It Clear He Hates Canada | The Tyee

Good to know. Add his separatist urgings to all the other horse manure he extrudes.

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Famoso restaurante venezolano Arempas cierra la mitad de sus locales. Devastados, sus dueños señalan a la campaña antiinmigrante de Trump.

Según los dueños del restaurante venezolano Arempas, la campaña antiinmigrante y las deportaciones han creado miedo e inseguridad en la comunidad, llevando al negocio a un estado casi "catastrófico." (SLT)

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US hits ICC with new sanctions as former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

The long running feud between the Trump administration and the International Criminal Court reached a new peak today as the US slapped further sanctions on it.

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Katie Zacharia tapped as next White House press secretary

Zacharia would replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration back in August.

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Bid by some Liberal Democrats to oust leader Ed Davey

The Greens aren't the only party whose leader is under pressure.

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‘Things need to change’ in Green Party, says deputy leader

We spoke to the deputy leader of the Green Party Rachel Millward and asked for her reaction to the election results.

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