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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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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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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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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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“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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In Los Angeles, Nithya Raman wants to bring the new left to city hall

The 45-year-old Harvard graduate, who was born in India, will face off against LA Mayor Karen Bass on November 3. The Democratic showdown highlights the rise of the socialist movement, championed by New York's Zohran Mamdani and Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Democrats Have a Bill Maher Problem

Establishment Democrats obsessing over Hasan Piker’s every move seem to have no issue talking to Maher, despite his decades of open bigotry.

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Letter: Maybe it’s not Jesus that people who are leaving the LDS Church are losing faith in

Letter: Dallin Oaks describing those who question the LDS Church as having diminished faith in Jesus conveniently makes Jesus and the institution interchangeable. They aren’t.

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New Mexico cybersecurity leader calls for quantum safeguards while state inks deal with major player • Source New Mexico

A New Mexico cybersecurity official told lawmakers to adopt quantum computing safeguards while the state inked a deal with a major company.

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Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev spent years fighting EU sanctions over Belarus. He finally won (but remains sanctioned over Russia’s war in Ukraine). — Meduza

EU ambassadors removed Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev from the bloc’s Belarus sanctions list on October 7, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

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If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself

Rappler’s answer to state-sponsored lies and harassment was to stop using corporate social media as its public square.

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State Housing Agency Regularly Exceeds Benchmark for Construction Costs

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ANALYSIS: Brisbane Lions slump a long time coming for AFLW powerhouse

The Brisbane Lions are in an unfamiliar spot on the AFLW ladder, with their finals hopes hanging by a thread. But the slump for the perennial contenders has been a long time coming.

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Prince Harry says he 'slipped into depression' after royal split

The Duke of Sussex opens up about his mental health challenges at points in his life, including following the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

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The National Hurricane Center’s Boss Keeps an Eye on the Storms

The director, Michael Brennan, oversees 45 federal workers, including hurricane specialists and meteorologists.

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Province restores library program at youth jail after ‘miscommunication’

Manitoba Corrections has reversed its decision to cancel a pop-up library program at the Manitoba Youth Centre.

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Badenoch on list found in home of Widdecombe suspect

Tory leader's name among more than 100 high-profile figures

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Curtis Flowers, Wrongfully Imprisoned on Murder Charges for 23 Years, Dies at 56

Curtis Flowers, who spent nearly 23 years in prison for murders he said he did not commit, was found dead Oct. 7 at the age of 56.

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Commentary: Colorado Republicans navigate Trump's unpopularity | Colorado Newsline

Trump has endorsed all four members of Congress from Colorado, but they have responded to that support in various ways.

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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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Vegetarian buffet and a ‘free dental’ raffle prize: Greens launch bullish bid to ‘take our country back’ in Victoria

New federal leader David Shoebridge says November’s poll will herald the start of an ‘extraordinary moment’ as the party hopes for its best-ever state result * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “Well, this wasn’t in my diary a week ago,” the Greens’ newly elected federal leader, David Shoebridge, says from the altar of an inclusive church in Melbourne’s inner north. The New South Wales senator was a late addition to the launch of the Victorian Greens election campaign on Thursday but delivered a rousing political sermon to the converted. Continue reading...

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CMS says 71% of Medicare Advantage prescription drug enrollees in 4-star or higher plans for 2027

The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Thursday that about 71% of Medicare Advantage prescription drug ‌plan enrollees are currently in contracts that will have four stars or higher in 2027.

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SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier

Elon Musk’s space company is buying spectrum licenses to help build a mobile network to compete with telecom giants.

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Live: Bombers out of Blakey race as Saints prepare offer to test Swans

The race to acquire Nick Blakey from the Swans appears to be down to two teams. Follow all the news and debate from the AFL trade period in our live blog.

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NFL goes against federal government and asks SCOTUS to rule on prediction markets

With roughly 20 states involved in lawsuits over prediction markets, conflicting federal appellate decisions have increased the likelihood of Supreme Court review

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Investment guru Stephen Jarislowsky was a crusader for ethical business practices

While building one of Canada’s most powerful institutional money management firms, he fought for shareholder rights and became an outspoken critic of inept corporate leadership

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Window cleaners rescued from 15th floor of UK skyscraper

Two window cleaners were rescued from the 15th floor of a London skyscraper after their cradle malfunctioned and they became trapped.

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Inside Operation Vivaldi, Ukraine’s push to recapture Donetsk Oblast territory

It is late summer, and the 3rd Army Corps and attached units are fully engaged in a counteroffensive in the Lyman sector called Operation Vivaldi. Russian forces are trying to recapture Lyman, a city...

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Curtis Flowers Has Died at 56. His Case Became a Symbol of Racial Bias.

A white district attorney tried Mr. Flowers six times for the same murder, always ensuring that few or no Black people were on the juries.

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Backlash over Mamdani’s Oct. 7 statement extends into his support network

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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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