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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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Russian Plague Lab Researcher Dies As Nearly 200 Monitored—Here’s What We Know

Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”

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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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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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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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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for optogenetics work

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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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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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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Polish man who provided Famine relief to be honoured

A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today.

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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places

Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations

"When you would see what Ukraine's budget was and how small it was relative to ours and how, despite that, they had better weapons of war, it was a wake-up call," former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Drisco...

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US removes bombers from British airbase involved in suspicious incident

Police were called to the Fairford military base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in 'suspicious' activity. Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans, but 'a quantity of petrol was recovered.'

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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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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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Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

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World Bank warns of AI concentration risks as it lifts East Asia and Pacific growth outlook to 4.5%

The World Bank now expects the region to grow 4.5% this year, but flagged that trade growth outside AI-related goods has been "weak or negative."

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Indonesia's candidate for WHO chief calls on US to rejoin agency

Indonesia's pick to lead the World Health Organization, its health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, ‌told Reuters that the United States should rejoin the agency after its exit at the start of this year.

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US ban on diesel exports would hit Ireland harder and could lead to rationing, RSM warns

Ireland ‘uniquely vulnerable’ because of reliance on home heating oil

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Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds

Researchers, who looked at UK, US and Dutch data, say lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives a year Cases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people in England, major new research has found, prompting warnings that lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives each year. The number of people under 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001, while early onset bowel, kidney and uterine cancer diagnoses more than doubled. Continue reading...

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Mud comes ‘as advertised’

Waiver wire pickup leads Jets to victory in Pittsburgh

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State subsidies, no VAT and lower costs: how Irish private schools are attracting UK students

The Irish State continues to subsidise 50 private secondary schools by a total of more than €140 million a year

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says, ‘If Abdul Can Win in Michigan, Anybody Can Win Anywhere’

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, as she considers whether to run for president in 2028.

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Is timing an issue when I am trying to offset losses against capital gains?

Reader queries benefit of delaying property sale to facilitate shares write-off

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Why can’t people regenerate limbs like salamanders?

Understanding how certain animals can regenerate entire organs and limbs could help heal injuries in people.

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Gold inches lower as firmer dollar, higher yields weigh

Gold eased on Tuesday, pressured by a firmer US dollar and rising Treasury yields, though ‌losses were limited by easing expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this month.

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Musk Is a Trillionaire Again as SpaceX Claws Back Post-IPO Slump

Elon Musk is a trillionaire again.

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Fewer than half of young Americans are ‘thriving,’ poll shows

The decline in young people's optimism about their lives has been most pronounced since the pandemic.

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Secessionist party wins Quebec election in Canada

Parti Quebecois returns to power, promising a third referendum on Quebec's independence from Canada.

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Cornell students stage anti-rape rally in support of ‘Jane Doe’

Protesters called for an inquiry into how Cornell’s administration has handled the matter, as well as new guidelines for handling future cases.

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Former Melbourne girls' school teacher charged with sexual assault

Methodist Ladies' College confirmed in a letter to parents on Monday that former staff member Kam Kenny-Jones had been charged by Victoria Police with the sexual assault of a child.

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Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86

With his then-wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.

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FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins are engaged after 3 years of dating

FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins, who is also an ambassador for Turning Point U.S.A., announced their engagement on Instagram after dating since 2023.

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The Weight of Angels by John Boyne: What if Oscar Wilde had lived long beyond his 46 years?

A poignant, moving, sometimes funny novel about regret and atonement

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Separatists win provincial elections in Québec in test for Canada PM

The Parti Québecois, having emerged victorious at the polls, warned that a vote on the province's future would not be held before the end of Donald Trump's term, deeming that the current context did not offer a calm climate.

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Indian states seek extra power to avoid outages as nighttime supply tightens, officials say

Several Indian states are seeking additional power allocations from the federal government to avoid outages as weak hydropower output and maintenance ‌at some plants have reduced electricity supply during the night, two federal government officials said.

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OpenAI Hearing Live Updates: Australian Lawmakers Question Officials on Data Breaches

The artificial intelligence company apologized after its agents infiltrated nonpublic data on a government website. Australia is examining potential legal consequences and new A.I. regulations.

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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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Opinion | Jeff Tweedy: What Woody Guthrie Knew About Us

The lead vocalist in Wilco reflects on what Guthrie wrote in The Times in 1943.

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Mynt opens $844 million Philippine IPO, offers GCash users real-time share allocation

Philippine fintech firm Mynt began a 53 billion Philippine peso ($844.3 million) initial public offering ‌on Tuesday, offering GCash users the chance to buy shares directly through its app for as little as 660 pesos, the company said in a statement.

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Club Kid review – Jordan Firstman’s heartfelt comedy is irresistible

The actor impresses with a directorial debut about a club rat who discovers he is father to a 10-year-old boy

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