Top

Highest score, last 24h

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...

propublica.org5.5K pts5h agodiscuss

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...

propublica.org5.4K pts18h agodiscuss

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.

propublica.org2.6K pts4h ago2 comments

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.

lemonde.fr2K pts17h agodiscuss

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.

washingtonpost.com1.6K pts10h agodiscuss

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.”

apnews.com1.3K pts8h agodiscuss

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.

npr.org1.2K pts19h agodiscuss

“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California

ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.

newrepublic.com1.2K pts12h agodiscuss

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.

motherjones.com1.2K pts5h ago2 comments

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

ft.com1.1K pts22h agodiscuss

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."

axios.com1.1K pts9h agodiscuss

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.

motherjones.com933 pts10h agodiscuss

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.

kyivindependent.com834 pts17h agodiscuss

Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

nytimes.com803 pts19h agodiscuss

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.

lemonde.fr791 pts11h agodiscuss

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...

theguardian.com788 pts8h agodiscuss

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.

kyivindependent.com772 pts20h agodiscuss

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.

forbes.com684 pts21h agodiscuss

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.

apnews.com612 pts13h agodiscuss

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...

theguardian.com606 pts4h agodiscuss

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.

kyivindependent.com604 pts21h agodiscuss

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.

lemonde.fr574 pts7h agodiscuss

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.

newrepublic.com574 pts9h agodiscuss

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.

npr.org569 pts10h agodiscuss

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.

motherjones.com541 pts18h agodiscuss

svpn news

← Back to stories

▲

Emergency electricity plants to cost customers €1.4bn

irishtimes.com ↗

9 pts1 hour ago0 commentsfavorite

Last resort power stations to remain on grid for next two winters as energy pressures grow

No comments yet.

← Back to stories

New

Just in

From boom to bust in five days: how Firmus’s much-hyped Australian stock market listing imploded

Datacentre company’s sensational entry to the ASX did not go as planned – but investors may have sidestepped a disaster * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast On Monday, it was going to be one of Australia’s biggest ever stock market listings, promising investors a stake in an AI-enhanced future of liquid-cooled datacentres packed with Nvidia microchips. By Friday, Firmus Technologies had sensationally withdrawn its ASX listing plans after the promised demand for its much-hyped investor pitch went missing. Continue reading...

theguardian.com0 pts1m agodiscuss

What’s your apocalypse skill? Finding a future-proof hobby can bring fulfilment today

Take inspiration from Doomsday preppers with the idea of learning practical skills.

theconversation.com2 pts1m agodiscuss

Michael Flatley thanks people for ‘beautiful gestures of sympathy’ after wife’s death

Funeral Mass for Niamh O’Brien will take place on Saturday at the Church of St Thérèse, Mount Merrion, Dublin

irishtimes.com3 pts3m agodiscuss

New Zealand censor says it would be powerless to block livestreamed US execution

New Zealand's national censor said on Friday it would be unable to block the planned livestreamed execution ‌of a former Army major in the United States, as rights groups pressed governments to protest the decision with Washington.

reuters.com13 pts4m agodiscuss

What next for Polanski after by-election defeat?

Tap to never miss an episode: Follow Cheat Sheet here

news.sky.com2 pts4m agodiscuss

5 Key Moments From a Testy Maine Senate Debate

The second debate between Senator Susan Collins, a vulnerable Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, quickly grew heated.

nytimes.com4 pts7m agodiscuss

US Seeks Ukraine Peace Breakthrough Before Winter as Trump’s Envoys May Return to Moscow for Putin Talks

Washington hopes to break the deadlock with proposals for an energy and grain ceasefire as Ukraine braces for a difficult winter.

kyivpost.com5 pts8m agodiscuss

Zack Polanski’s star is fading

A Labour victory in north London is terrible news for the Greens’ leader

economist.com3 pts9m agodiscuss

SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI push, FT reports

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son is seeking to raise up to $100 ‌billion from Gulf investors to fund a new wave of AI investments, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

reuters.com2 pts9m agodiscuss

How California is bracing for a winter of floods, fires and extreme storms all at once

The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and heat risks, while budget cuts have weakened disaster response agencies

theguardian.com3 pts9m agodiscuss

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech. Continue reading...

theguardian.com68 pts9m agodiscuss

ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old in car

A US immigration officer shot a man as he drove in a car with a five-year-old boy in New York City, officials have said.

news.sky.com13 pts10m agodiscuss

Authorities preliminarily grant Manson cult member parole

Charles Manson acolyte Patricia Krenwinkel, who has spent nearly six decades in prison for murder, has been preliminarily granted parole, California prison authorities said.

rte.ie6 pts11m agodiscuss

Welcome to Ohio where Trump says ‘Haitians eat dogs’ and Democrats threaten a comeback

I drove across Ohio on Route 40, one of the many states in which Republican strategists are responding to distant sirens

irishtimes.com2 pts12m agodiscuss

Russia’s air attacks are disrupting daily life across Ukraine. Here’s how five major cities are adapting to the growing danger. — Meduza

Jet-powered drones, which Russia began using extensively in late summer 2026, have changed the rhythm of life in Ukraine’s major cities. Air raid sirens now sound constantly, and strikes hit…

meduza.io3 pts13m agodiscuss

Séamas O'Reilly: I routinely have intrusive thoughts about all the horrible things that could happen my children

I imagine the GP asking ‘When did you first realise your daughter had grown antlers?’, ready to call social services

irishtimes.com2 pts14m agodiscuss

I’ve tried many red lipsticks over the years – these are my favourites, old and new

From classic favourites to head-turning new launches, these are the best red lipsticks across a range of price points and finishes

irishtimes.com2 pts14m agodiscuss

The Nobel Peace Prize is set to be awarded in Norway

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee received 287 candidates and just over a quarter of them are organizations.

apnews.com63 pts14m agodiscuss

Actor Tadhg McMahon: ‘Going to Ireland always feels like going home. My accent is gone’

McMahon appears in The Westies, a drama series about Irish gangsters in New York City in the early 1980s

irishtimes.com2 pts14m agodiscuss

Sydney trader sacked for working from Singapore without permission wins unfair dismissal case

Employee had also been in Bali when he told his manager he was working from home, Fair Work Commission hears A Sydney currency trader who was sacked for working from Singapore without approval has won an unfair dismissal case, but failed to be awarded compensation. The Fair Work Commission ruled on Wednesday that Charles Graham had been unfairly dismissed by HIFX Australia, trading as Xe, in December last year. Continue reading...

theguardian.com2 pts14m agodiscuss

Making Thanksgiving money talks a little less awkward

The holiday lends itself to the difficult conversations families spend most of the year avoiding

theglobeandmail.com6 pts15m agodiscuss

RTÉ likely to get back €20m lost in Budget 2027 ‘if it proves reforms are on track’

Taoiseach and Tánaiste’s offices intervene with Patrick O’Donovan ahead of crunch meeting with broadcaster’s leadership

irishtimes.com2 pts16m agodiscuss

5 Key Moments From Hostile Michigan Senate Debate Between El-Sayed and Rogers

Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.

nytimes.com16 pts17m agodiscuss

Zack Polanski fails to win Keir Starmer's old seat but vows to carry on as Green party leader

Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali won with 45% of the vote.

thejournal.ie2 pts17m agodiscuss

Australia and New Zealand police target motorbike gang deemed 'high threat'

An outlaw motorbike gang police say puts "profits ahead of public safety" has been targeted by authorities in a bid to undermine its criminal control.

abc.net.au14 pts18m agodiscuss