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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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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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'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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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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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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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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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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Why people don’t want to have children any more

Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families

In an interview with Fox News, the Amazon founder said he disagreed with the assessment that AI will lead to large-scale job losses.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘War lives in me': Gaza playwright wins prestigious award in London

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Japanese annual household spending drops for 9 straight months

Japanese household spending fell less than expected in ‌August from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, for a ninth straight month of decline.

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Antioch man arrested in gang-related shooting, police say

A 26-year-old man from Antioch was arrested and charged this week in connection with a gang-motivated shooting near a gas station, police said.

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For Two Sisters, a “Biological Age Test” Measured More Than Their DNA

They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily quantified.

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North Carolina man whose daughter was killed presses DOJ and lawmakers on bill aimed at "career felons"

The grieving father of a woman who was killed during a break-in pressed Attorney General Todd Blanche and GOP Sen. Darline Graham to pass a bill that would create a national database of repeat violent offenders.

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Gulf Coast prepares for landfall as Hurricane Isaias gains power

Millions along the Gulf Coast are on high alert as Hurricane Isaias gains power and moves closer to land. Isaias is now a Category 2 storm, the first hurricane in the Atlantic basin this year. Forecas...

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JD Vance roasted over his response to what he thinks socialism means

‘They cry socialism, but have no clue what it is,’ one critic said

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Hegseth Vows Public Firing-Squad Execution for Fort Hood Shooter

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting in 2009, would be visible to the public.

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OpenAI caught Russians and Iranians using ChatGPT for influence campaigns

The company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia.

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Counting under way in Holborn and St Pancras byelection – UK politics live

Results are expected from 2.30am BST in the north London poll to choose a replacement for former PM Keir Starmer Holborn and St Pancras is, under normal circumstances, a Labour stronghold. Keir Starmer won it with a majority of 11,500 at the 2024 general election despite strong challenges from the Greens and a leftwing independent candidate, who is not standing again and has endorsed Zack Polanski. In 2019 Starmer won by nearly 28,000 votes. Continue reading...

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Film shoot appearing to echo Renee Good killing roils Montana town

Production of Pawn Shop allowed to go on despite concern about disruption and portrayal of immigration crackdown

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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space

IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.

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U.S. East Asian envoy says investors are overpricing Taiwan risk, calls Xi a 'very rational actor'

Investors are overestimating the risk of conflict across the Taiwan Strait, a U.S. diplomat says, playing up deterrence to keep Beijing from taking the island.

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Murmurs: PPS Releases Two School Closure Scenarios

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Ottawa declassifies new details about CIA’s role in resettling Nazi war criminals in Canada

Government lifts veil on sections of historian’s report kept secret for 40 years

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Giant Taiwan flag flies from helicopter for national day, defying Beijing

Largely banned from display internationally due to Beijing's objections, a giant Taiwan ‌flag suspended under a US-made Chinook helicopter and flown over Taipei is one of the most eye-catching moments of its national day.

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Another Member of Trump’s Inner Circle Works for Russian-Linked Group

Susie Wiles’s daughter also works for Republika Srpska.

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Another Republican Swerves When Asked If He'd Welcome Trump On Campaign Trail

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Watch: The Colorado Sun hosts a conversation with Phil Weiser

The Colorado Sun will sit down and talk with Attorney General Phil Weiser about his campaign for Colorado Governor.

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Nvidia-backed Aussie AI firm Firmus withdraws historic IPO, citing market volatility

Nvidia-backed Australian AI data center operator Firmus has withdrawn its planned IPO amid market volatility.

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Harry Connick Jr pens tribute to mother he lost as a 13yo

Harry Connick Jr is well known as a Grammy award-winning musician now, but he was once a young boy whose mother believed in him. He fulfilled her vision by performing at Carnegie Hall on what would have been her 100th birthday, and has written a book to honour her.

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Free land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? | Phineas Harper

A bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system, says writer Phineas Harper

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HBO's 'Crazy Rich Asians' is actually happening. Constance Wu, Henry Golding to return

'Crazy Rich Asians' will officially be back on screen with stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Ronny Chieng returning. HBO greenlit an original drama series eight years after the film adaptation.

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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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Sydney festival 2027: 11 international dance works to headline ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ program

Making its southern hemisphere debut, Dance Reflections will feature collaborators of Rosalía, Madonna and Beyoncé – and a high-wire takeover of the Cutaway * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email A “once-in-a-lifetime” program of dance works of scale will be coming to Sydney in January, including 11 international works from France, Belgium, South Africa and beyond making their Australian premiere. The program, which triples the scale of the dance offering at the last Sydney festival, will bring 174 performers and crew to Sydney, with the crowning jewel being the acclaimed French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane’s Outsider. The 2024 work features 21 dancers from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and four elite athletes, navigating a “cat’s cradle” of high wires and slack lines, to the mesmerising, minimalist music of the avant garde composer Julius Eastman. Continue reading...

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What’s up with Kristaps Porzingis? It seems like even the Warriors don’t know

The Golden State Warriors aren’t providing much in the way of answers about Kristaps Porzingis, from questions about his health to when he’ll rejoin the team or even where he is now.

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