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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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At least 12 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop

"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.

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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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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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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim news for the climate.

Like Donald Trump, he favors maximizing profits for extractive industries, environment be damned.

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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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Lithuania calls for EU sanctions against Russian grain

Russia being able to trade grain while it blockades Ukraine from doing likewise "is an unacceptable situation," said Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius.

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High school protests draw tens of thousands across France for second time in a week

While turnout did not reach the levels seen on October 6, the 'Act IV' of the high school student movement continued on October 8, drawing large crowds from Paris to Marseille and Lyon. Though the atmosphere was mostly positive, there were also clashes at the end of marches.

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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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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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His remarks came after reports said that Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev discussed bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines.

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Gardaí probe incident of animal cruelty as online video shows deer chased and knocked down

The deer was allegedly found in a garden with injuries after the incident and had to be euthanised by a vet.

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Emma Camp wants Gen Z to grow up

'Nobody is coming to save you.' A conversation with the anti-therapy pro-capitalist writer and influencer riding the short form video wave.

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Russian Strike on Zaporizhzhia Kills 1, Injures 7 as 6 Attacks Hit City Near Residential Buildings

Russian forces hit a residential area of the southeastern Ukrainian city overnight, with authorities reporting civilian casualties.

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Irish officials confident deal close on EU savings union

Irish officials say they are confident a deal is close between EU finance ministers on a key element of the proposed Savings and Investment Union.

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US 10-year Treasury yield risks hitting 6% for first time since 2000, Pimco's Ivascyn tells FT

The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield could rise to 6% for the first time since 2000 as high oil prices fuel inflation concerns and ‌worries over the country's growing public debt, Dan Ivascyn, Chief Investment Officer at bond fund manager Pimco, told the Financial Times.

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Russia demands Netherlands hand over ICC President Tomoko Akane

In 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Orbán channelled public money into propaganda through Hungarian billionaire Lőrinc Mészáros (Day 150 of the Tisza government)

Internal documents show how a top Orbán-era rail contractor showered Megafon influencers with billions of forints.

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Russian Drone Strike Kills Civilian in Western Ukraine

A security guard was killed when debris from a Russian drone damaged a building and sparked a fire in the western Ukrainian city.

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Ethiopia says it must defend itself against Eritrea's 'all-out invasion'

Ethiopia's government said it had no option but to defend itself against what it called an "all-out invasion" by Eritrean forces, in ‌a letter to the UN Security Council shared with Reuters on Friday.

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South Africa withdraws asylum directive after anti-migrant violence

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs said on Friday it had withdrawn a directive allowing the intake of asylum applications, a day after anti-migrant protests turned violent in Johannesburg and ‌Durban.

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Hurricane Isaias strengthens en route to US Gulf Coast

Isaias has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it headed toward the US Gulf Coast, prompting mandatory evacuations and disrupting oil and gas production.

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Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach detained in Vienna while searching for former prosecutor general who fled Ukraine — Meduza

Ukrainska Pravda reported on the evening of October 8 that Mykhailo Tkach, head of the outlet’s investigative journalism department, had been detained in Vienna while on assignment for the paper. The…

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Meet the flower whose evolution is outpacing climate change - High Country News

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue”…

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Anthony Vaccarello leaves Saint Laurent after glittering decade

The house will announce its new creative leadership soon, according to a statement announcing the designer's departure by the house's parent company, French conglomerate Kering, on Friday.

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Slovak Premier Wants Statue Mocking Trump at EU Parliament to Go

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called for the immediate removal of a statue mocking US President Donald Trump from the European Parliament’s premises in Strasbourg.

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Three killed in attacks on Riyadh airport, Saudi aviation authority says

Saudi Arabia's General Authority ‌of Civil Aviation said on Friday ⁠that three Saudi nationals were killed and several people were ‌injured ⁠in two attacks on King Khalid ⁠International Airport in Riyadh ⁠on Thursday.

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Vacancy Watch: The Players Lounge might be set for redevelopment after 15 years lying empty

The current owner recently got planning permission to knock the old pub, and build 10 homes on the site.

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Showers and sunshine forecast for the weekend

Unsettled weather will continue into next week, Met Éireann says

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Saudi authorities say 3 killed in attacks on Riyadh airport claimed by Houthi rebels

Three Saudi citizens were killed and several other people were injured in two attacks Thursday targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and a Saudia Airlines aircraft, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said Friday.

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New York mayor says asking Trump to withdraw ICE after shooting

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he would ask US President Donald Trump to remove federal immigration agents from the city as tensions flared over the latest shooting involving ICE.

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Live: 141 French high schools closed as student protests continue for fifth day

France's ministry of education said that 141 high schools remain closed Friday as national student protests continue despite a pledge from the education minister on Thursday to deploy 3,000 extra substitute teachers. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

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One in 10 Canberrans waiting to see a medical specialist

Canberra Health Services has promised to undertake a review after revealing over 10 per cent of Canberrans are waiting to see a specialist through the public system.

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Putin celebrates birthday with former German chancellor Schröder

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder joined Vladimir Putin in Moscow for the Russian leader's birthday. Schröder's continued ties to Russia and his new role at a Russian supermarket chain have dr...

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Paramount to develop Cyberpunk 2077 film, lifting CD Projekt RED's shares

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film set in the universe of CD Projekt RED's video game "Cyberpunk 2077" alongside ‌producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, entertainment outlet Deadline reported on Thursday, which sent the Polish game developer's shares 3% higher in early Friday trading.

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