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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall

Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.

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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”

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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.

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Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears

The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.

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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions

LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.

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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for optogenetics work

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Lutnick Ties—What To Know

Lutnick denied to Congress that he had any knowledge of him and Epstein being invested in the same company.

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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

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South Korea shipping fuel to Russia via sanctioned vessels, media reports

Potentially undermining sanctions, over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, from South Korean ports were loaded onto sanctioned Russian tankers, based on analysis of port records and ship-tracking ...

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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: One American and two Germans honored for technique activating neurons with light

By inserting certain proteins into the membrane of nerve cells, the three laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, succeeded in switching neurons 'on' or 'off' at will. The technique has a dual purpose: Unlocking the secrets of the brain and developing innovative treatments.

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Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests

Prime minister orders ministers to tackle students’ five major demands, including organising replacement teachers and school repairs Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years. A 15-year-old protesting against what the demonstrators say are France’s dilapidated ⁠and understaffed schools ‌had his hand ‌blown off on ‌Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch ‌said. Continue reading...

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'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations

"When you would see what Ukraine's budget was and how small it was relative to ours and how, despite that, they had better weapons of war, it was a wake-up call," former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Drisco...

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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?

Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.

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New automatic gun turrets successfully down first Russian jet-powered drones, Air Force says

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously announced that twelve such turrets had been installed where Russian jet-powered drones have been particularly active, including around Kyiv.

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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether commanders underestimated the threat and saying the military medical system failed them.

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JD Vance Says Trump’s Weird Midterm Ads Are “Not Partisan”

Donald Trump has used taxpayer money to fund a series of ads touting himself and attacking Democrats.

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New York Gov. Hochul Issues State Of Emergency Over Measles Cases

New York has confirmed 101 cases in the state, excluding New York City, as of Oct. 3

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Yemen's Houthis have claimed an attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital while also denying losing territory to government forces, as fighting intensified.

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Bengial Scientist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Tuesday.

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Five takeaways from the Quebec election results

The province voted in separatist Parti Québécois for the first time in more than a decade, while Coalition Avenir Québec was wiped off the map

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Student riots engulf France as far-right presidential frontrunner Le Pen vows fiscal turnaround

A teenager reportedly lost a hand in the protests, which have seen over 5,000 people arrested.

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Trump orders firing squad execution for mass shooter who killed 13 soldiers

Donald Trump has ordered a firing squad to execute an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in Texas, the Pentagon said.

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Koizumi to meet Okinawa governor after U.S. Marine’s arrest over murder

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said he would like to see new response measures implemented “as soon as possible,” but declined to offer a timeline.

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Slate Mini Crossword for Oct. 6, 2026

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Russia's reassurances only fuel anxiety over suspected plague outbreak in Siberia

Authorities say the death of a laboratory worker in Irkutsk was not caused by the plague bacterium. But the scale of the quarantine measures, conflicting official statements and information censorship have raised questions.

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Google bypasses UK AI safety testing for initial release

Google initially shared its latest Gemini model with U.S. testers and a Google-owned Israeli cybersecurity firm.

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Democrats' advantage is clear with less than a month to go in the midterm elections

President Trump is facing low approval ratings, and voters are blaming him for rising costs. Republicans are likely to pay the price at the ballot box next month.

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Uefa to investigate alleged spitting incident at half-time in Ireland v Israel

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The Costco conundrum: Packed parking lots and a falling stock

Costco and Walmart are gaining shoppers, but their premium valuations leave little room for anything short of near-perfect growth.

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Luxury Senior-Housing Company Locks in a $1 Billion Buyer

The buyer, a firm with experience in luxury hospitality, aims to capitalize on boomers who can splurge on retirement homes and lifestyle.

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South Korea dissatisfied with Kyiv's apology after Ukraine leaks North Korean POWs transfer

South Korea threatens firm measures against Ukraine as Foreign Minister Cho Hyun rejects Kyiv's response to breaching a POW confidentiality agreement.

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Abdul El-Sayed Is Constantly Asked About Jewish Voters. That’s Not Who He Really Has to Worry About.

Inside one room on a recent Saturday afternoon, I saw the problem at work.

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‘We’re not going to go away’: the mom fighting for social media reform after her son’s suicide

A new documentary follows Kristin Bride as she takes on Congress after the death of her 16-year-old son who was cyberbullied

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WHO says 'low' risk in Russia following plague reports

The World Health Organization has said that it deemed the public health risk in Russia to be low, following reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague.

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EXCLUSIVE: Attack aircraft, military vehicles visible at new China-Laos base, satellite images show

Light attack aircraft and military vehicles have arrived at the new China-Laos joint training facility announced last Tuesday, according to satellite images reviewed by Reuters.

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One Nation AI-generated video sparks cafe owner row with Lee Hanson

A Tasmanian cafe and Pauline Hanson's daughter have become embroiled in a row over an AI-generated video depicting people ditching their social and political allegiances and revealing themselves as One Nation supporters.

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They’re the Most Hated Thing in America. A Strange New Industry Has Cropped Up to Change Your Mind.

Some would say they’re doing the devil’s work. They say they’re just doing their jobs.

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Russia to double spending on internet traffic blocking and filtering — Meduza

Russia plans to spend nearly 60 billion rubles over the next three years on its system for filtering and blocking internet resources, according to an appendix to the draft budget reviewed by the…

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Some early users are deleting personal AI agents, citing privacy scares and blunders

Some early users cited fears about email access, data handling, and agents acting on their accounts.

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Appeal for witnesses as woman hit by Range Rover in East Ayrshire dies in hospital

A woman has died in hospital after she was hit by a car in East Ayrshire.

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Germany arrests a former foreign intelligence chief on spying allegations

Germany's federal prosecutor's office says a former foreign intelligence chief has been arrested on espionage allegations.

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