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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the...

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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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2026 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay

The former UN human rights commissioner was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law

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Winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize to be announced - Europe Live

The winner will be announced in a ceremony that starts at 10am UK time (11am CEST) The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this morning, with all sorts of speculation about who could be this year’s worthy winner. (Despite his hopes, Donald Trump is very unlikely to win it, again.) Continue reading...

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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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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car

Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.

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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins

Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.

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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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US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel award to former judge

The court rejected the US sanctions as an attack on international law and warned in a statement that 'history will judge this moment.'

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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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UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics live

Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move ‘grotesque’ and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments * Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed According to rights group Amnesty International, at least 17 public executions are known to have been carried out in 2025 – six in Afghanistan and 11 in Iran. The Death Penalty Information Center says that 135 soldiers have been executed by the US military since 1916. Continue reading...

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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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EXCLUSIVE: Friend of suspected FBI data thief says he warned 'crazy' teen not to hack bureau

A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.

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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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Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach detained in Austria while on assignment

The acclaimed journalist was reportedly on an editorial assignment in Vienna with his colleague Yaroslav Bondarenko when he was detained by Austrian authorities.

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South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law.

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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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Russian strike on buses kills 30 in Ukrainian frontline city

Two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks.

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Founder of Rybar, Russian war propaganda channel, detained in Montenegro

Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife Valeria Zvinchuk, and three other associates were detained in an operation by Montenegrin police and security service on the morning of Oct. 9, local media reported.

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Exclusive: House Democrats ask Kimberly Guilfoyle for records related to alleged pay-to-pay scheme

Democrats from the House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle for financial records and communications with Trump administration officials after allegatio...

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Open letter to the US administration: The G20 invitation to Putin should come with conditions

The Trump administration recently announced that it has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to December's G20 summit in Miami. This invitation erodes the well-deserved isolation of Putin for his...

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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.

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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.

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Hitler Mussolini wins local election

Peruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.

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Katie Zacharia tapped as next White House press secretary

Zacharia would replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration back in August.

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Bid by some Liberal Democrats to oust leader Ed Davey

The Greens aren't the only party whose leader is under pressure.

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‘Things need to change’ in Green Party, says deputy leader

We spoke to the deputy leader of the Green Party Rachel Millward and asked for her reaction to the election results.

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Katie Zacharia picked as White House press secretary

Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for President Donald Trump's Truth ‌Social platform, has been offered the position of White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt's departure from the role in August, a White House official said on Friday.

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‘I’m not going to be watching it’: Vance opting out of public execution

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Hospital waiting lists climb above one million people

Irish Patients’ Association chief calls on Coalition to advance ‘credible recovery plan’

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White House offers Katie Zacharia White House press secretary job

The move would elevate the conservative commentator who briefly worked at DHS to one of the administration’s most visible roles.

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US sanctions court that seeks to arrest Putin, prompts backlash

In 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and another Russian official, Maria Lvova-Belova, for "unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federa...

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Katie Zacharia will be the next White House press secretary

The conservative commentator, currently an adviser to Trump Media & Technology Group, will replace Karoline Leavitt.

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Two men met on a Port Adelaide ship — a Nobel and Apocalypse Now ensued

When a young English lawyer crossed paths with a Polish sailor aboard a clipper ship at Port Adelaide in 1893, neither of them was a public figure. Only later did John Galsworthy and Joseph Conrad become two of the most lauded authors of their time.

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'Ballerini Doesn't Live in Bushwick,' and More Incredible Lines From 'NCIS: New York'

Our city deserves copaganda this campy.

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Family turns bare island into reef oasis after guano mining destroys it

Lady Elliot Island sat bare, bleak and silent for 100 years after guano miners ravaged it, leaving a moonscape devoid of life. Then in the 1960s, one family started planting trees.

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ABC 50/50 quiz: Test your knowledge of Jimi Hendrix's charred guitar, plus cosmic particles

Each question in the ABC 50/50 quiz has only two options: one is right, the other is wrong. But be warned: we might try to trick you.

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Judith Lucy's cancer journey will reveal resilience she didn't know she had

Judith Lucy's breast cancer diagnosis means she has joined a club nobody wants to be a part of. A survivor tells how humour and resilience can make the journey easier.

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OpenAI tries to reassure investors with annualized revenue target

The frontier firm’s figures are seen as key to understanding underlying demand for cutting-edge AI models.

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Trump's memorial arch faces a new lawsuit from Arlington County, Virginia

The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trum...

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Bessent to miss IMF annual meetings in Bangkok

US Treasury secretary’s absence is due to ‘domestic engagements’, say officials

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EXCLUSIVE: US Treasury's Bessent to skip IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip next week's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Bangkok, Thailand, due to domestic engagements, a US official said on Friday.

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Abdul El-Sayed responds to President Trump's Truth Social attack

The Michigan Democratic nominee responded to the president's Truth Social rant as he was called a "terrorist sympathizer" and "a radical extremist."

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High school league weighs proposal to limit transgender athletes’ eligibility

A policy change, should it advance, would be months away. Thursday brought ‘a lot of really good questions’ as the MSHSL discussed the future of its position on a controversial and political topic.

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Who is Navi Pillay, winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize?

The 85-year-old South African judge has spent decades fighting apartheid and genocide.

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RFK Jr. and Lee Zeldin pressed by Democrats on possible roles in Trump pardons

Democratic lawmakers are pressing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to explain what role they may have played in pardons granted by President Trump.

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FCC chief defers to Pentagon on whether military execution could air on TV

Broadcasters could pick up the live feed if no restrictions are set.

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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shakes Panama, USGS reports

A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake has struck Panama, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and prompting evacuations. The U.S.

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Katie Zacharia Picked as Trump’s New White House Press Secretary

Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.

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