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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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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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'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center

"We certainly are capable," Zelensky said about striking Russian data centers. "We always respond in kind. Regarding data centers, as you all know, they have been and still are striking our data cente...

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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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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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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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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts. Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, warned UK ministers could get themselves “in a lot of trouble” as he was questioned about concerns raised about the government working with his new employer. Continue reading...

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Musk Loses Trillionaire Status As SpaceX And Tesla Drop Wipes Out $36 Billion

Elon Musk’s fortune fell over $36 billion on Thursday, just days after he regained his trillionaire status.

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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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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter 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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The US accuse Russia and other states of developing banned biological weapons. After an incident at the plague lab in Irkutsk, Euronews interviewed bioweapons expert Mirko Himmel.

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China says it reaches ‘understanding’ with EU on hybrid cars

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Top-ranked advisors from CNBC's Financial Advisor 100 list for 2026 share tax planning strategies for 2026.

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Labour holds on to Starmer’s seat as Polanski and Greens lose sheen

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Enzo Maresca refuses to confirm he will stay at Manchester City if club lose appeal

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Home of the Week: New assignments for an old schoolhouse in Langley, B.C.

Creative couple saw potential in the property, despite the rough interior and some peculiarities

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Opinion | Poarch Creeks show how gaming revenue can build Alabama's economy

A new ad campaign starting this weekend will bring an overdue spotlight to the Poarch Creeks' impact on Alabama's economy.

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Republicans are getting grilled over Trump's tariffs

From Maine to Michigan, voters are fed up with tariffs and trade wars.

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Andy Burnham vows to ease non-compete clauses

Drive — first reported by POLITICO Thursday — comes after intense lobbying from the startups sector.

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Exiled over cannabis bust, a volleyball star opens up about his second chance

Shunichiro Sato’s arrest is part of a broader wave of drug busts that has swept through Japanese sports this year.

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Boston Public Schools is on the market for bus-mounted cameras to catch stop-sign runners

The city's school district is in the market for bus-mounted cameras to catch stop-sign runners, and asked for bids from companies that do this sort of work. The bid said the district will start with 2...

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High earners are right to wail about childcare costs

Calls to remove the £100,000 earnings limit on childcare benefits show how broken our tax system really is

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Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, SpaceX, Tesla, Boeing, Apple, American Express & more

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NEWSLETTER: Blindness treatment based on Nobel-winning research shows promise

It's Nobel Prize season and today we feature promising early results of a novel technique for treating blindness that made Nobel laureates of three scientists this week. We also report on two studies comparing treatment options presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology meeting.

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Hurricane Isais declared category two meaning severe danger

The storm is the first of the 2026 Atlantic season.

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Virgin Group places cross-Channel high speed train fleet order as depot access agreement signed

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

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In Central African Republic, deported immigrants find themselves in limbo

The Trump administration says it has deported more than 25,000 people to countries to which they have no ties. NPR spoke to three men who say it feels like they've lost control over their own lives.

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