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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A polar bear cub lost his mom. He’ll spend the rest of his life in a zoo

Some say moving orphan bears to zoos can help raise awareness of broader issues. Others say we could do better

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Greenpeace reports 25-square-kilometer oil slick in Black Sea after drone attack on tanker off Russia’s Sochi coast — Meduza

An oil slick covering about 25 square kilometers (10 square miles) formed in the Black Sea after naval drones attacked an oil tanker off Sochi, Greenpeace reported after analyzing satellite images.

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Michael Robotham's latest novel sat in his bottom drawer for 35 years

When the internationally bestselling crime novelist first dreamt up Tell Me Something True, he saw it as a coming-of-age story rather than a crime yarn.

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Person wounded in New York shooting involving US Homeland Security agents, police say

A person was shot and wounded on Thursday in an encounter with US Department of Homeland Security agents in New ‌York City, metropolitan police said.

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'A real love story': Renowned Yolŋu artist and wife die in same week

An Arnhem Land clan leader who once sued the Reserve Bank of Australia after his art was used on the world's first polymer bank note has died within a week of his wife.

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Christa Pike wasn't alone in her crime. What happened to accomplices

Two other people were involved in the crime that landed Christa Pike on death row. Here's what happened to them, and why they got lesser punishments.

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Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S.

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Nessel files federal antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Mutual Insurance Company Thursday, alleging that the company has violated both state and federal law through agreements with other Blue Cross Blue Shield entities to “eliminate competition for health insurance services to large employers like the State.”

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Carney Launches C$2 Billion Home Retrofit Program

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is rolling out a new rebate program to help Canadians to adopt electric heat pumps, providing households with as much as C$10,000 ($7,021) to make the switch.

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Animal rescues in Cuba struggle to care for abandoned pets amid deepening economic crisis

While there are no official figures, animal rescues and veterinarians say people have been primarily leaving cats and dogs behind as food and care have become unaffordable.

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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by...

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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.

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Why The Post is tracking areas most at risk as a record El Niño intensifies

Find out how and where a record El Niño is reshaping weather patterns around the world.

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A Guide to Buying Bonds When Yields Are on the Rise

Soaring yields are making bond returns look more attractive, but there is more to it than that.

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Russia’s censorship agency bans two dystopian novels by Olga Ptitseva about an alternate Russia ruled by the ‘Party of Cold’ — Meduza

Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has banned Olga Ptitseva’s novels “Dvesti trety den zimy” (“The 203rd Day of Winter”) and “Vesna vody” (“Spring of Water”). A notice appeared on the…

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AI safety framework floated by Democratic duo

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US to livestream execution of Texas gunman who killed 13

The US will livestream the army's upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who fatally shot 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, according to a Pentagon official.

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Venezuelan ousted leader Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accused of torturing American citizens and others held in Venezuela to repress opposition

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AI’s Inevitability Trap

The leaders of tech’s biggest companies refuse to admit they’re in control.

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Israeli UN envoy warns UK role in Middle East 'will not be same'

The UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".

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Oakland music legend condemns festival after woman dies in extreme heat

Sheila E. is criticizing organizers of a California jazz festival after a woman died during the outdoor event in temperatures near 100 degrees, saying the concert should have been stopped.

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‘A higher expectation on our performance this year’

Wesmen women’s volleyball vets set on leading team to new heights

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More than half of Canadians are avoiding buying American goods, poll finds

Canadian shoppers are pressuring grocery stores to respond, with nearly nine in 10 wanting clear labels on domestic products

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Anthropic Changes Rules To Stop Users From Being Too Mean To Claude

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Councillor and deputy mayor candidate faces sack if third suspension is upheld

Hobart councillor and deputy mayor candidate Louise Elliot is appealing a third suspension handed down by a code of conduct panel during the current term of council. If upheld, the minister could be called in to sack her.

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