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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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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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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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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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French government suspends use of stun grenades at student protests after teen loses hand

France's interior minister said stun grenades would be temporarily withdrawn from use at protests organized by high school students 'just long enough to understand what happened.'

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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.

Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...

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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

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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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The 87-year-old evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies

Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalized with exhaustion after her eviction, which triggered national demonstrations over Spain's chronic housing crisis.

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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law

The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.

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Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 15 dead

Explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on Oct. 7 as Moscow launched its latest mass missile and drone attack on the capital, coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 74th birthday.

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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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“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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'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills

Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.

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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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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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Norway's 2027 budget includes almost $9 billion in new Ukraine support

The money would be funneled into Norway's Nansen Support Program, named after humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, who led famine relief efforts in Ukraine in the early 1920s.

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EU ambassadors wave through largest-ever list of Russia sanctions

The list targets a wide range of defense industry players, from shipyards and aviation companies to electronics manufacturers, armored vehicle repair facilities, and aerospace companies.

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The truth about Trump’s plan to bring back execution by firing squad

A veteran death penalty lawyer says it is part of the administration’s “brutality trip.”

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Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say

Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid ‌a bigger export push by Gulf producers.

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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

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"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers

► For more, visit Mother Jones: America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That's a stubborn fact, we're told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike…

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House Democrat Introduces Bill To Preserve Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ In Smithsonian Museum

A House Democrat introduced a bill that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve banners bearing President Donald Trump’s face that hang outside federal agency buildings for display in an exhibit on Trump’s “authoritarian narcissism.”

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USS Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment supporting Iran war

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

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The number one challenge to expansion for BYD is geopolitics, Stella Li, BYD's executive vice president, said on Thursday, ‌months after the Chinese company's chairman said it aims to become the world's largest automaker within five years.

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Ukraine Lets Private Gas Producers Sell Abroad as Storage Overflows, European Prices Soar

Ukraine's government has approved a limited gas export mechanism, ending a ban in place since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

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Will consumers feel the bite of the new tax hike on vapes?

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Molly Russell’s father to tell UK cinemagoers: ‘Instagram helped kill my daughter’

In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14 The father of Molly Russell will tell UK cinemagoers “Instagram helped kill my daughter” before screenings of a new film about Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire. Speaking in an advert to be shown before The Social Reckoning, which is released on Friday, Ian Russell says “too little has changed” since the death of his 14 year-old daughter, who took her own life in 2017 after viewing harmful content on Instagram. Continue reading...

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France Braces for a Second Day of Mass Protests in a Week

French activists were set to rally across France on Thursday, in a test of the longevity of a nationwide student protest movement.

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TSMC's third-quarter revenue surges to record, beating market forecast

TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, reported on Thursday record third-quarter revenue of T$1.49 trillion ($46.71 billion), beating the market forecast and rising 50% from the year-earlier period due to ‌surging demand for AI applications.

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Polanski’s final pitch in Holborn by-election: I’ll keep Burnham honest

Zack Polanski leverages ex-Labour voters — and his barber — in his bid to snatch a seat from the governing party in Thursday’s by-election.

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Russia's internet giant Yandex halts operations at major data center after drone attack

Russian internet giant Yandex paused operations inside one of its data centers after a drone attack as Ukraine continues to hit the country's infrastructure.

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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing

Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health

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OnlyMarms, dino doings, sailor cats and “Thank you, Jimothy!” - High Country News

Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.

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German Energy Ministry Dissolves Key Wind and Solar Division

Germany’s economy and energy ministry has dissolved a key division for liaising with the wind and solar industry, a move that reflects policymakers’ shifting priorities as the country looks to overhaul its spending.

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Royal Navy serviceman charged with spying for foreign power

Teddy Young, 24, was arrested in Bedfordshire and charged with two offences under the National Security Act

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Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target

The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.

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Monte Carlo added to Venice Simplon-Orient-Express itinerary for 2027

The iconic train will follow the French Riviera from Paris before reaching Monaco, with the new overnight journey becoming a permanent fixture and fares starting at a cool €4,870 per person.

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Why do billionaires have so many children if they’re not prepared to parent them? | Arwa Mahdawi

Kim Kardashian’s revelation that she has five nannies for four children has cause a ruckus. But the world of the ultra-wealthy throws up far more extreme examples of parenthood, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Royal Navy member charged with spying for foreign power

Teddy Young set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday

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EU working with Britain to avoid 10% electric vehicle tariffs

The duties threaten to undermine the reindustrialization drive at the heart of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s economic agenda.

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French student riots: comparisons with 1968 will only serve the political extremes

Both far left and far right will try to make political capital out of the unrest.

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Donald Trump's Big Rally Boast Gets Instant Fact-Check From Camera Operator

The president’s claim about the packed venue was followed by a rather revealing camera pan.

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German stock exchange tussle leaves EU supercop deal at risk

Berlin’s insistence on carving out major stock exchange from EU-wide supervision has sparked protests from smaller countries.

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People in Russian-occupied Ukrainian town risk 'road of death' to get food

Trapped and facing starvation, residents of Oleshky risk their lives to travel for hours by foot and bicycle along mine-strewn roads to get food and water.

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What the £350 Grand Theft Auto ‘collector’s box’ says about the escalating cost of gaming

The launch of a collector’s box hints at a new reality: the kinds of games I grew up with are becoming a luxury item, locked behind a forbidding spending barrier

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Oil prices are climbing on concerns about an escalating Iran war

Stock markets recorded losses on Thursday as fresh inflation fears came into focus following a jump in oil prices. This comes amid reports that US President Donald Trump was considering further strikes on Iran ahead of next month's US midterm elections.

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Far-right surge threatens Europe’s drive to rearm

Insurgent far-right parties are seizing on cost-of-living grievances and waning support for defense spending.

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