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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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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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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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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.

Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...

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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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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

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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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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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'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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“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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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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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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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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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.

Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.

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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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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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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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House Democrat Introduces Bill To Preserve Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ In Smithsonian Museum

A House Democrat introduced a bill that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve banners bearing President Donald Trump’s face that hang outside federal agency buildings for display in an exhibit on Trump’s “authoritarian narcissism.”

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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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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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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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Latest suspect in RAF Fairford airbase plot released on bail

British police said on Thursday a 22-year-old British man, the seventh person to be arrested on suspicion of ‌preparing terrorist acts as part of an investigation into a suspected plot targeting an airbase, has also been released on bail.

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Morning Update: Canada reshapes future of MAID

Also in today’s edition: Vancouver airport privatization and the cost of Thanksgiving dinner

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July 2026 was worst on record for wildfires in England, data shows

Devastating blaze near Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk among a record 624 wildfires in July this year

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Medically Misunderstood

Clearly your five-year-old tattoo is causing the infection, so let this be a lesson to you...

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PepsiCo sees strong overseas demand but a lackluster North American performance in the third quarter

PepsiCo is reporting better-than-expected revenue in the third quarter despite lackluster North American demand.

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Trump Goes Full Damage Control On LA-San Diego Comment At Texas Rally

The president’s “Let them take out LA. Let them take out San Diego” declaration got a makeover.

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Supermarket shake-up: why Asda or Morrisons could vanish within a decade

Talks between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have set industry tongues wagging, with analysts saying the market is ripe for change

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Cilia Flores, wife of Venezuela's Maduro, to press for release from US jail

Cilia Flores, the wife of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is expected ‌to appear in a US court on Thursday to urge a federal judge to release her from jail for health reasons while she awaits her drug trafficking trial next year.

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Schools told to reprint Junior Cert results after grading error discovered by exam body

Outdated grading information appeared on students’ results statements, although their actual grades were unaffected.

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Kids turning to chatbots to disclose online sexual victimisation

More children are turning to AI chatbots when they are sexually victimised online and the federal police commissioner says parents and the community need to step up their support.

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Queensland literary awards: ‘stunning’ debut inspired by segregated shantytown wins top prize

Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her family’s history in Cairns-Malay Town A “stunning” debut novel described as “unambiguously and distinctively Queensland” has won the $30,000 top prize at the Queensland literary awards (QLAs). Meriam and Wagedagam author Lenora Thaker won the Queensland premier’s award for a work of state significance for her historical novel The Pearl of Tagai Town, which was inspired by her ancestors’ lives in an unmapped shantytown known as Cairns-Malay Town. The town once housed Indigenous Australians, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Malaysian and Sri Lankan residents who had been segregated from the white population; it existed from the late 1800s until the late 1950s. Continue reading...

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Japan and cybersecurity: What’s behind recent attacks and what’s being done?

With artificial intelligence removing hurdles for would-be hackers, experts warn cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated and widespread.

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Ukraine faces a shortage of troops to relieve tired fighters at the front

A shortage of combat-ready troops has plagued Ukraine ever since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

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Indian actor and filmmaker Nana Patekar dies at 75

Nana Patekar, gained wider international recognition with filmmaker Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated movie “Salaam Bombay!”

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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome

Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.

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Russian strike on two passenger buses in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk kills 33 — Meduza

A Russian strike on Kramatorsk killed 33 people, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.

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How much does France spend on education?

Amid student protests, Al Jazeera visualises how French spending stacks up against defence and healthcare.

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Houthi attacks on Saudi airports kill three people

Strikes are latest escalation in conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed militants in Yemen

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The population is shrinking in pockets of Vancouver and Toronto. What if we put more housing there?

Some neighbourhoods have been depleted by up to 40 per cent, a Globe analysis of census data finds

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4.48 Psychosis review: Marty Rea gives a riveting performance in Sarah Kane’s final play

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In a staging directed by Tom Creed, the actor makes someone depressingly isolated seem intimately real

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Russian attack on two buses kills 30 near Ukraine frontline

Authorities say 18 people also wounded after incident in Kramatorsk in country’s ‘fortess belt’ * Europe live – latest updates Thirty people have been killed after Russia struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, according to local authorities. “As of now, the death toll from this morning’s attack on buses has risen to 30. Eighteen people were wounded,” the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office said. The governor’s office gave the same toll and said public transport had been suspended. Continue reading...

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The UN must change while preserving its values

Its perceived failure to resolve conflicts has had serious consequences, argues Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, a candidate for secretary-general

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US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access

Three Republican-led US states are testing a novel legal argument as they seek to stem the flow of abortion pills to residents who can still obtain them from out-of-state providers despite their abortion bans.

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Only one in three EU counter-drone systems on track, report warns

EU counter-drone investment grew sixfold in 2025, but only a third of programmes will deliver by 2030, a confidential EU report seen by Euronews says, citing fragmented procurement and industry struggling to keep pace with fast-moving drone technology.

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California woman accused of spying for China will be jailed while awaiting trial

A judge ruled Wanying Zhang, 34, should be held in custody after federal prosecutor argued that she has substantial foreign assets that would allow her to flee.

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