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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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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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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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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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South Korea shipping fuel to Russia via sanctioned vessels, media reports

Potentially undermining sanctions, over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, from South Korean ports were loaded onto sanctioned Russian tankers, based on analysis of port records and ship-tracking ...

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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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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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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: One American and two Germans honored for technique activating neurons with light

By inserting certain proteins into the membrane of nerve cells, the three laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, succeeded in switching neurons 'on' or 'off' at will. The technique has a dual purpose: Unlocking the secrets of the brain and developing innovative treatments.

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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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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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Discovery of 11 bodies in Johannesburg exposes scale of violence against women

Since July, the bodies of women found either naked or half-naked and brutally beaten have been discovered on the outskirts of the South African capital. Although the theory of a serial predator has faded, the grim reality of widespread daily violence against women in the country has become undeniable.

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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?

Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.

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Is Hollywood finally turning on tech oligarchs?

A new wave of films by directors like Aaron Sorkin and Luca Guadagnino takes on Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, and "shapeshifter" Sam Altman.

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Trump Draws Backlash For Saying ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles’ Or ‘San Diego’ During Iran War Remarks

Democratic leaders and lawmakers from California called out Trump’s remarks and accused him of “inviting an attack” on U.S. soil.

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Jim Bakker, who built ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire, has died at 86

Jim Bakker, who along with his then-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

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JD Vance Says Trump’s Weird Midterm Ads Are “Not Partisan”

Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats.

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New York Gov. Hochul Issues State Of Emergency Over Measles Cases

New York has confirmed 101 cases in the state, excluding New York City, as of Oct. 3

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Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Moscow Oblast in mass attack near Russia's capital

Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow Oblast in a mass attack as air defenses in the region are engaged, monitoring channels reported overnight on Oct. 6.

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Annick Lemoine, president of the Musée d'Orsay: 'I want the museum to become a place for debate that fosters critical thinking'

The new president of the museum dedicated to 19th-century art wants to attract a younger audience, she explained in an interview with Le Monde, and to draw connections between works from the past and contemporary social issues.

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'We could all hear her breathing': Witnessing the failed execution of Christa Pike

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Catherine Sweeney was in the witness room when Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30. An attempted execution in May had also failed. Here's what Sweeney saw and heard.

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Archer was a disgraced politician and convicted liar but found success as novelist. His books are estimated to have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.

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Britain's water regulator is lining up advisers to oversee the performance of troubled South East Water, days after the company sought to curb non-essential use by thousands of business customers.

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Stellantis Italy output seen rebounding in 2026 after two years of decline, union says

Stellantis is expected to produce around 450,000 vehicles in Italy this year, up from 2025 levels but below initial expectations, the FIM ‌Cisl union said on Tuesday in its quarterly report on the automaker's output in the country.

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Qatar’s luxury market attracts 34,000 visitors

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White House Pressed FBI To Probe ICE Protesters' Protected Activity, Whistleblower Alleges: Report

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Ukraine Busts ‘Breaking Bad’ Labs Exporting Methadone Disguised as Car Fluid

Police say the drug ring recruited a PhD-level chemist and planned to smuggle liquid methadone through four countries to Georgia.

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Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley

While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI

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House call: Spain’s snap election

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EU's von der Leyen: exporters to get an extra year on methane rules

Exporters of methane will be given an extra year to prepare for the European ‌Union's methane regulation, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, who also reiterated that Europe faced pressures from high energy costs.

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Thune says no 'path forward' for permanent daylight saving time bill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says there is "no consensus" on the Sunshine Protection Act despite pressure from President Donald Trump.

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White House removes Politico from press pool for Trump’s trip to Nebraska

The administration took similar action last week against CNN. The cable news network, MS NOW and Politico sued after they were banned from the White House grounds.

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Saudi-Led Forces Claim Yemen Ground Advances Against Houthis

Yemen’s internationally-recognized government, backed by Saudi Arabia, claimed to have regained territory from the Houthis, as fighting in the region near the Bab el-Mandeb strait intensifies.

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The Battle for Hormuz Is Not the War

More oil is flowing through the strait, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has won.

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What Morgan Scalley said about a Latter-day Saint apostle traveling with Utah football

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UK police arrest 22-year-old British man in suspected Fairford base plot

UK police on Tuesday said they had arrested ‌a ⁠22-year ‌old British man ⁠in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts ‌in relation to the suspected plot at the RAF Fairford airbase used by the US to strike Iran.

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I’m an American in Denmark. I moved here excited to have a better work-life balance—but I kept resisting it

Brooke Black says moving to Denmark from the U.S. didn't cure her workaholism. It took her years to learn that rest and ambition were not mutually exclusive.

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LAUSD hides sensitive student information from parents, Trump administration alleges

The Trump administration launched an enforcement action against LAUSD, alleging the district hides student gender identity information from parents.

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Russia tells WHO there are no plague cases in Siberian city

Russian authorities told the World Health Organization on Tuesday that it has no cases ‌of plague in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, where a laboratory worker at a plague research institute died last week, according to a spokesperson for the UN health agency.

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I Married My Rapist

“I remember fear and panic starting to wash over me as I began to comprehend what he’d done.”

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Asos shares slump amid hack worries

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‘The Ozu Diaries’: An engaging look at the man behind the myth

Daniel Raims’ “The Ozu Diaries” is a stirringly human portrait of a titan of Japanese film and the experiences that shaped him.

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Global oil inventories are alarmingly low, Aramco warns

The CEO of the world's biggest oil company warned at a conference that the global oil supply system is reaching its limit and that replenishing global oil stockpiles could take two years.

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Christian nationalism's grip on American faith is finally breaking

I helped build the religious right. After ICE killings, I saw what could replace it.

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Play Catalogues: Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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