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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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Russian Plague Lab Researcher Dies As Nearly 200 Monitored—Here’s What We Know

Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”

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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall

Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.

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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions

LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for optogenetics work

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.

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Persistent drought puts pressure on France's drinking water networks

Water reserves supplying distribution systems across France remain under strain due to a significant rainfall deficit.

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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places

Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.

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Polish man who provided Famine relief to be honoured

A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today.

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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”

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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.

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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

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Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears

The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.

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Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests

Prime minister orders ministers to tackle students’ five major demands, including organising replacement teachers and school repairs Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years. A 15-year-old protesting against what the demonstrators say are France’s dilapidated ⁠and understaffed schools ‌had his hand ‌blown off on ‌Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch ‌said. Continue reading...

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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Lutnick Ties—What To Know

Lutnick denied to Congress that he had any knowledge of him and Epstein being invested in the same company.

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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...

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'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations

"When you would see what Ukraine's budget was and how small it was relative to ours and how, despite that, they had better weapons of war, it was a wake-up call," former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Drisco...

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US removes bombers from British airbase involved in suspicious incident

Police were called to the Fairford military base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in 'suspicious' activity. Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans, but 'a quantity of petrol was recovered.'

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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether commanders underestimated the threat and saying the military medical system failed them.

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New automatic gun turrets successfully down first Russian jet-powered drones, Air Force says

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that twelve such turrets had been installed where Russian jet-powered drones have been particularly active, including around Kyiv.

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Trading Day: Nasdaq highs, Brazil surprise

The Nasdaq surged to a fresh high on Monday, as earnings optimism and lower oil prices offset rising bond yields. The biggest moves of the day were in Brazilian assets, which logged historic gains after right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's strong showing in the first round of voting in the presidential election suggests he is a strong favorite to win the second and decisive round in three weeks.

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Brazil is fertile ground for authoritarian politics, no matter who wins this election.

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Understanding pneumonic plague after Russian lab worker's death

The U.S. is closely monitoring a potential case of pneumonic plague in Russia after a laboratory worker who studied the disease fell ill and died. Russian authorities insist there is no cause for alar...

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Hong Kong quizzes HSBC over Singapore AI hub decision

Monetary authority strives to bolster Chinese territory’s status as international financial capital

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Quebec separatist party that promises another independence referendum projected to win election

The Canadian Press projected the separatist Parti Québécois has won Quebec’s provincial election. That outcome in Monday's vote would return to power a party that has promised another referendum on independence.

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'Concerning' rise in cancer cases among adults under 50

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Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies

The death has sparked public health fears on social media, but the authorities said on Monday the situation was under control.

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Spain’s 54-day sprint to the polls: can Sánchez’s housing gamble stop the far-right from entering into government?

Spain's Pedro Sánchez has called snap elections for 29 November, after parliament rejected his housing decrees, giving him a hot-button political issue for his election platform. But polls favour the opposition centre-right People's Party, which may need the far-right Vox to govern. And the loss of Sánchez would be a big blow for the centre-left in Brussels.

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Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

President Donald Trump approved a firing-squad execution on Monday for Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Hasan's execution will be the first carried out by the US military since 1961, with the date and location yet to be set by the Army.

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Chargers' Rashawn Slater dealing with high ankle sprain, could be placed on IR

Chargers right tackle Rashawn Slater could be a candidate for injured reserve after sustaining a high ankle sprain against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Parti Québécois projected to form government in Quebec

Separatist party promises to hold an independence referendum once Trump leaves office in 2029

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Dangote Cement eyes London listing

The firm is hoping to raise up to $1 billion, a person familiar with the plans told Semafor.

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KKR to buy fund administrator Gen II in $5.1 billion deal including debt

Global investment firm KKR said on Monday it had agreed to buy private capital fund administrator Gen ‌II Fund Services in a $5.1 billion deal including debt, gaining exposure to infrastructure supporting private markets.

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'Marshals' Season 2 premiere ends in shocking death, star Luke Grimes explains | Exclusive

Luke Grimes’ Kayce Dutton enters “Marshals” Season 2 with a shattered love life, but romance may not be completely dead yet.

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Jane Street Denies Market Manipulation to India Securities Court

Jane Street Group LLC denied charges of manipulation as it mounted its defense against India’s markets regulator, telling a local court that stocks in a banking index fell or rose irrespective of its trading activity.

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Washington nonprofit that runs ICE reporting hotline lays off more than half its staff

Layoffs at a statewide immigrant rights nonprofit raise questions about how the group will continue to run an ICE reporting hotline and other services that assist people facing deportation.

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Pennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

Pennsylvania has more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in decades.

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Breaking: Police Commissioner Grant Stevens appointed SA's next governor

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has been appointed South Australia's new governor, succeeding the outgoing Frances Adamson.

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Letters: Bill Gabbett recalls teaching media, communications and cultural studies, while Michael Fuller studied under the influence

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Best-selling British author and fomer Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies, aged 86

The author, whose novels sold over 300 million copies, had hoped to become mayor of London, but several scandals ended his political career.

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CNBC Daily Open: China shuts down record 670 banks, new worries over oil and AI

Beijing shuts down a quarter of its banks in order to shore up its financial system, while worries persist over oil and AI.

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Supreme Court hears case on holding energy companies liable for climate change

Supreme Court justices heard arguments in a major climate change case that could shape how communities hold industries accountable. Officials in Boulder, Colorado, are seeking compensation from energy...

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LIV Golf secures funding from BC Partners Credit to support restructuring

BC Partners Credit said on Monday it had made an initial committed investment in LIV Golf and planned to provide up to $300 million in financing to help the professional men's golf league emerge from restructuring and strengthen its financial footing ahead of the 2027 season.

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The Best Early Deals of October Prime Day 2026

Early October Prime Day deals are here, along with some Wirecutter-exclusive discounts on mattresses, beauty, bedding, towels, and more.

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What the Data Center Boom Looks Like From the Sky (Gift Article)

In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.

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