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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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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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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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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

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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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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 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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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MAGA Candidate Brags About Physically Abusing His Wife

Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards.

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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says

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Trump proposes Camp David-style presidential retreat at his private Florida golf club

President Trump said he wants to develop one of his Florida golf courses into a presidential retreat where his successors can spend quiet weekends, describing it as "sort of a Camp David."

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María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87

Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis * ‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died. News of her death came two weeks after Maricarmen, as she had come to be known across Spain, was evicted from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for more than seven decades. Continue reading...

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Protesters in Colombia rally against ties with Israel

Hundreds took to the streets of Bogota to protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Appeals court says Atlanta family cannot take the government to trial for a mistaken FBI raid

A federal appeals court has ruled that an Atlanta family cannot take the federal government to trial for a mistaken FBI raid on their home in 2017.

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Marco Rubio calls Portugal 'ideal gateway' to Europe for US

As one of the smallest members of NATO and the European Union, Portugal is keen to cultivate its relations with bigger countries

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Security Guard Fatally Shoots Armed Man at Nashville Federal Courthouse

The man tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun, then wielded a knife before he was shot inside the Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building, the police said.

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Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died

María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked nationwide protests across Spain and unleashed a political crisis, died on Wednesday while hospitalized.

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School protests focus attention on the chequered history of public order policing in France

An analysis of the policing of protests by high-school students in France.

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The West wants newcomers on its own terms. So does Japan

Japan and other wealthy countries are increasingly selecting foreign workers while making permanent settlement more difficult.

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Feds arrest more than a dozen suspects in sweeping Skid Row drug crackdown

Federal authorities and the Los Angeles Police Department swarmed Skid Row on Thursday in what was hailed as a takedown of suspected drug traffickers.

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US Senate Dems demand apology from Chuck Grassley to Jack Smith for attacks at hearing • West Virginia Watch

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched…

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What’s your favourite memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Anne Carson?

Have you met her, or has one of her works made an impact on your life? Share your story

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Not since 9/11 has the UK faced such a security crisis – and threat to our liberal principles | Gaby Hinsliff

The combination of Iranian, Russian and Chinese aggression is deeply worrying: just how much more concerned with security should the country be?, asks Guardian columnist Gaby hinsliff

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Trump says you're an 'enemy' of the White House if you don't support his AI rebrand

President Donald Trump said "anyone" who still calls it artificial intelligence is an "enemy" of the White House.

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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

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Anne Carson wins the Nobel prize in literature

In verse, prose and translation, the Canadian writer has bent genres

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USTR Greer says US "holding fast" on trade stance with Canada

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Thursday the US is ‌sticking to its stance in trade talks with Canada, saying a recent election in Quebec province is preoccupying ⁠Ottawa.

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Carney says Canada's future up to Canadians after Musk voices support for separatism

SHERBROOKE – Prime Minister Mark Carney says the future of the country will be decided by Canadians — not by large U.S. tech firms.

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Russian attacks plunge Kyiv into near-total darkness, disrupt power, metro, water supply

The drop in voltage temporarily halted Kyiv Metro train services and escalator operations, the Kyiv City State Administration (KMDA) said. Other parts of the capital's public transport network were al...

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Navy Moores, 3, 'becomes youngest person to hike Lake District's 214 Wainwright fells'

A three-year-old boy is thought to be the youngest person ever to conquer all of the Wainwright fells - a famous group of 214 peaks in the Lake District.

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North Carolina reports first flu death of 2026-27 season

North Carolina has reported its first flu death of the 2026-2027 season, state health officials ‌said on Thursday, urging residents to get vaccinated against seasonal respiratory illnesses.

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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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‘Are you looking for me?’: Officials describe missing student’s return

University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar emerged from the woods after a multiday search for him, police said.

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NFL takes on Trump in push to give states power over Kalshi, Polymarket

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Trump Does Nothing as Supporter Attacks Protester at a Rally

Donald Trump wandered aimlessly around the stage as the attack happened and cracked a joke.

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Enzo Maresca ‘trusts completely’ his Man City bosses despite guilty verdict

Maresca’s City return to action for the first time being found guilty of Premier League rules when they travel to Liverpool on Sunday

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An explosive allegation rocks Germany’s spy agency

Its former chief is accused of passing on classified information to foreign agents

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Drones target Eritrean troops inside Ethiopia, conflict monitor says

Drone strikes targeted Eritrean forces deployed inside northern Ethiopia overnight, a conflict monitor said on Thursday, following an incursion that has brought the Horn of Africa neighbours closer to the brink of outright war.

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2 pedestrians seriously injured in hit-and-run near UC Berkeley

The couple told a witness they were visiting Berkeley from Barcelona and did not know anyone locally, according to a preliminary report.

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