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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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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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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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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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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says

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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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Syrian general accused of atrocities is protected by U.S. and Lebanon, NPR and BBC find

A former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American and Lebanese authorities, a BBC/NPR investigation has found.

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Protesters in Colombia rally against ties with Israel

Hundreds took to the streets of Bogota to protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Appeals court says Atlanta family cannot take the government to trial for a mistaken FBI raid

A federal appeals court has ruled that an Atlanta family cannot take the federal government to trial for a mistaken FBI raid on their home in 2017.

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Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Sign

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As the Tennessee Titans endure an 0-4 start to the 2026 season on the field, the franchise on Thursday announced the dismissal ‌of three team vice presidents.

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NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France's Sophie Adenot and Russia's Andrey Fedyaev departed the orbiting lab on Wednesday, eager to reunite with their families after a lengthy separation.

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Defiant students said gruesome injuries suffered by young protesters won’t deter them from protesting for more education funding, invoking the spirit of the French Revolution as they erected makeshift barriers.

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Gambling lobby hits back at bill proposing deposit caps, inducements ban

A Northern Territory parliament bill seeks to mandate deposit caps and ban inducements, among a series of changes that would affect 50 online bookmakers and their customers nation-wide if passed.

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Jesse Brown steps back as host of Canadaland podcasts, will remain editor and publisher

Brown plans to name a new host for Canadaland’s flagship podcast in the coming weeks as he focuses his reporting and commentary on ‘the Palestine issue’

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JD Vance has a plan to bring the white-male manosphere back to Trump and MAGA

Manosphere figures and Republican insiders are divided over whether Vance, 42, is the right man for the job

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Commentary: To Trump, the Cornell Seven are victims. It's a familiar refrain for him

Trump said Friday that the accused men “won’t get a fair shake." In painting the accused as victims, it appeared the president was speaking from personal experience.

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Venezuela's president expects third-quarter growth after earthquake hit

Venezuela's economy is projected to expand 6.5% in the ‌third quarter this year, acting President Delcy Rodriguez said on Thursday, highlighting recovery in both oil and non-oil sectors after devastating twin earthquakes ⁠struck the country in June.

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Anthropic launches dashboard, animation tools for Claude

Anthropic on Thursday launched tools that allow users to create data dashboards and animations ‌through Claude, as AI companies vie to broaden their suite of workplace productivity applications.

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'Consumers should feel ripped off': How coffee brands have changed

If your coffee tastes different, you may not be imagining things. Brands have quietly changed their recipes and labels after bean prices surged to almost 50-year highs.

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Major Airlines Issue Waivers As Hurricane Isaias Landfall Looms

Hurricane Isaias is expected to strengthen into a Category 2 hurricane.

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Exclusive: Coca-Cola looks to sell Costa Coffee

The beverage giant is reviving a plan to unwind its $5 billion acquisition of the British coffee chain it purchased in 2018.

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Florida health officials meet amid fierce debate over childhood vaccine plans

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Eddie Dunbar returns to competition weeks after collarbone fracture

Irish cyclist lined out in Gran Piemonte race, less than a month after injuring himself at Vuelta a España

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Coca-Cola looks to sell Costa Coffee, Semafor reports

Coca-Cola is seeking to unwind its $5 billion acquisition of British coffeehouse Costa ‌Coffee after a sales process failed earlier this year, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Beloved buffet chain is finally reopening in California. Here's where

The beloved California restaurant chain, Souplantation, announced that it would be reopening next year.

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Documents show DHS probed nonprofits, obtained millions of records in hunt for noncitizen voters • Ohio Capital Journal

The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using…

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Young Bankers to Manage AI Agents From Start, Goldman Exec Says

Junior Wall Street recruits are starting their careers managing artificial intelligence agents rather than spending years doing entry-level grunt work, calling into question the future of traditional middle managers, according to a top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive.

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At least 81 US aircraft worth up to $3.3bn lost or damaged in Iran war

The damage, documented in a Congressional Budget Office report, comes as Trump faces criticism over war's cost.

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‘Nothing will stop us’: French student protests show few signs of ending

Students on Thursday barricaded a Parisian high school with garbage bins before police shot tear gas at them as France’s nationwide protests showed little sign of ending. At least a dozen demonstrations supporting the high school students’ movement were planned across the country while 375 schools were fully or partially closed.

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Justice Department Finds Its Newest Target: Cassidy Hutchinson

The DOJ has found a new victim as Trump continues his revenge crusade.

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'I'm a Very Pro-Cop Politician': Watch the Dashcam Footage From Rep. Engen's March Arrest - Racket

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Atlanta Community Press Collective X Bookish For The Public Good

To craft this list, Bookish worked closely with our friends at the Atlanta Community Press Collective to select titles focusing on policing & surveillance, voter access, media literacy, civic part...

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At audiobook club, a solitary hobby becomes a group connector

In Richmond, there seems to be a club for almost everyone. For the people in RVA Readers and Writers, it’s the smorgasbord of things to do that draws them in.

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