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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says

Former taoiseach says reconciliation process required to ‘say sorry for the fact that happened’

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What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?

Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back.

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TSX futures rise as softer oil prices, bond yields lift risk appetite

Futures tracking Canada's benchmark stock index rose on Tuesday as easing oil prices and a pullback in global bond yields lifted risk appetite, ‌though weaker metal prices capped gains.

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the country’s largest in three decades

More than 1,000 people have been infected and nearly 200 have been hospitalized as the state struggles to contain the spread of the extremely infectious disease.

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Cornell Faculty Preparing For No-Confidence Vote Against Administration, CNN Reports

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I’m Starting to Suspect That the F.D.A. Is Just Trying to Get Me to Cook

This morning, the agency urged me to immediately discard my store-bought rotisserie chicken and instead braise a lamb shank in a classic mirepoix.

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Why are bond yields so high?

An attempt to shed some light on the big question of 2026

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Barlow’s Research Roundup: Scotiabank analyst picks best bank stocks to weather higher rates

Daily roundup of research and analysis from The Globe and Mail’s market strategist Scott Barlow

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SpaceX stock is taking off again, but with one key difference this time

Traders are assigning less than a 50% chance SpaceX touches $225 at any point between now and July, according to options pricing.

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

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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All 6 victims of air ambulance plane crash off Nantucket idenitified

Bermuda police said Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41, were aboard a Gulfstream G100 along with four Canadian crew members when it went missing off Nantucket around 1 a.m. The crew members were identified as Philip Gregory Childerhose, Thomas Henry Farquhar, Sarah Jane Paton and Jolene Beth Weir.

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Former UN food agency official claims he was fired for highlighting hunger in Gaza

Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’ A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza, and has launched an appeal against his dismissal. Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contract as director of its rural transformation and gender equality division because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, and because he taken part in weekly “moment of silence” vigils on FAO grounds for those killed. Continue reading...

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Germany arrests former intelligence chief over alleged spying

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005 A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason and spying on behalf of an overseas intelligence agency, prosecutors have said. August Hanning, 80, was head of the federal intelligence service (BND) – which operates outside Germany to gather information across the fields of political, economic, and military intelligence – between 1998 and 2005. Continue reading...

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Wall St futures rise as yields, oil dip

US stock index futures rose on Tuesday as Treasury yields dipped from multi-year highs and oil prices retreated, offering investors ‌some relief ahead of the quarterly earnings season.

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Derbyshire Live launches formal challenge after journalist banned

Derbyshire County Council has until Friday (October 9) to respond

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Russian losses from Ukraine's drones rose by nearly 40% in early October

Unmanned Systems Forces Commander Robert Brovdi reported 2,699 verified Russian casualties 1-5 October, a 39.7% jump driven by intense infantry assault waves.

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Moscow prosecutors open criminal case over production of Multikan-8 vaccine linked to dozens of dog deaths — Meduza

The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office has opened a criminal case against a veterinary vaccine manufacturer accused of using a knowingly falsified document.

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Kenya Records Ebola Case for First Time

The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they were taking measures to prevent any spread.

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Faster returns, stricter controls: The EU's plan to tighten migration

The EU is cracking down on migration two months after launching the Migration and Asylum Pact. Migrants with no right to stay must leave and may be transferred to “return hubs”. A new European Return Order will include key elements of return decisions. But is the EU prepared?

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DakhaBrakha Brings New Album Across Ukraine in Charity Tour for the Armed Forces

On Sept. 30, DakhaBrakha begins a Ukrainian tour with its new album “Ptakh,” returning to Kharkiv for the first time since 2022 and donating 100% of ticket revenue to Ukraine’s Defense Forces.

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Central Europe needs reforms to boost slowing growth potential, IMF says

Central and eastern European countries need reforms to boost economic growth amid mounting demographic pressures and a rising challenge from Chinese exports, the International Monetary Fund's ‌regional representative said on Tuesday.

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Burnham’s surprise EU-turn could deliver the Tories from a generational mess | Gaby Hinsliff

Badenoch would never have reopened the door on Brexit, but now that the PM has, it suits the Conservatives to let him walk through it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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