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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nature to replace historical figures on UK banknotes

Four animals have been selected to feature on new UK banknotes following a public vote with almost half a million participants.

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Victorian language charity with $16m kitty has links to white nationalists

The Victorian branch of the English-Speaking Union presents itself as a quaint charity dedicated to the English language and to promoting cooperation between English-speaking peoples. But an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has uncovered links between the organisation and white nati

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‘Battening Down the Hatches’ as Hurricane Isaias Approaches Gulf Coast

Residents are making careful choices about whether to leave their homes or stock up and stay.

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Botched execution reignites debate surrounding death penalty

Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution, has reportedly taken a few steps in her hospital room six days after she received two lethal injections. Justice correspondent Ali R...

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No One Seems to Understand Why I Left My World-Famous, Prestigious Job. I Had No Choice.

Apparently, I'm a "traitor."

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Haaland and Maresca address Man City's guilty verdicts for first time

Enzo Maresca has said his players and staff "trust completely" in Manchester City after the club were found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules.

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Alberta Cold Lake First Nation Ottawa court Pacific Link pipeline October 8

Cold Lake First Nations community is concerned about a lack of consultation over the project

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Europe Has Got Its Made-in-China Policy Wrong

If the definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result, what are we to make of the latest broadsides in the trade war brewing between the European Union and China?

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Trump's $90 payments are en route to 20 million seniors

Nearly 21 million seniors are receiving $90 after direct deposits and checks started going out Thursday in President Trump's latest midterm giveaway.

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Christine Drazan reports $1 million check in tight race for Oregon governor

Oregon state Sen. Christine Drazan reported $1 million from the Republican Governors Association on Thursday, a gift that will help her candidacy stay financially competitive in what is considered a close race for governor.

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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt, her attorneys say

Lawyers for Tennessee inmate Christa Pike say she has taken her first steps with assistance, just one week after a failed execution left her in critical condition.

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Wildlife Tax Backers Win Sallinger Award

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Trump’s Nobel ambitions fade, but Norway still fears his wrath

Trump seldom talks about the Nobel Peace Prize these days, but in Norway, some fear that any award could provoke him.

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To reduce reoffending, prisoners need better support after release | Letter

Letters: Pavan Dhaliwal responds to an article on the early release of prisoners. Plus a letter from a prison officer who works in a men’s open prison

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Trump Pulls 180 After Telling Iran to Bomb California Three Times

Donald Trump suddenly claims he never made the comments.

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Gaza rescuers says Israeli fire kills seven

The Israeli army told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the three targeted were 'military operatives in terrorist organizations.'

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Breaking: Hollard insurance fined $2m for handling of claim that destroyed home

The Federal Court blasts Hollard's handling of an insurance claim which left a regional Victorian destroyed and uninhabitable.

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Piastri hopes for better in Singapore as fading challenger promises 'all-out' attack

Oscar Piastri is hoping McLaren will be more competitive during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend after a disappointing round last time in Malaysia.

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White House cracks down on student visas at Stanford and Caltech, as well as tech work visas

The White House is expanding its campaign against international workers, targeting elite study and work visa holders with restrictions and a new investigation.

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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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How to solve Seahawks’ defense? 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan has admitted he’s not one to ask

San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan had an offseason to search for solutions after the Seahawks held his team to nine points in a two-week span. Will he have a better answer Sunday?

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Japanese annual household spending drops for 9 straight months

Japanese household spending fell less than expected in ‌August from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, for a ninth straight month of decline.

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Antioch man arrested in gang-related shooting, police say

A 26-year-old man from Antioch was arrested and charged this week in connection with a gang-motivated shooting near a gas station, police said.

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For Two Sisters, a “Biological Age Test” Measured More Than Their DNA

They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily quantified.

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North Carolina man whose daughter was killed presses DOJ and lawmakers on bill aimed at "career felons"

The grieving father of a woman who was killed during a break-in pressed Attorney General Todd Blanche and GOP Sen. Darline Graham to pass a bill that would create a national database of repeat violent offenders.

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