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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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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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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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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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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

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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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'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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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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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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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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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.

The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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USS Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment supporting Iran war

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

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Palestinian killed, several wounded in Israeli pogrom in occupied West Bank

A 44-year-old Palestinian man was killed during Israeli settler assaults on olive harvesters in the West Bank.

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Naked Trump Statute Goes on Display in European Parliament

The golden statue, named The Orange Plague, is now at the European Parliament.

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Lithuania PM confident of 'huge' NATO response if Russia attacks

Lithuania is no stranger to the threat posed by Russia given its geography and history.

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Son calls for 'change of approach' to free British couple jailed in Iran

According to a statement released by Free Lindsay and Craig, a family-led campaign group working to secure their release, British officials have seen the pair for the first time since 15 June.

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EU trade chief Šefčovič has no cards to play on China ‘ultimatum’ trip

Tough rhetoric aside, the EU cannot threaten China with much if it wants to avoid a tit-for-tat trade war. But a unified position would help.

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Zelenskyy rejects Rubio’s ‘strategic stalemate’ view, urges sanctions on Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine had reached a strategic stalemate, with little prospect of ending it through...

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FTC Chair Says He's Proud Of Efforts To Protect 'White American Men From Discrimination'

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U.S. Diplomat Suppressed And Altered Reports Critical Of Israel: NYT

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US and China take different approaches to AI agents

OpenAI’s dots and Meta’s Muse are built around the assistant first and then sent out to use other companies’ websites and services.

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Vance says the US is suspending permanent visa residency program for Microsoft and Adobe

"If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said.

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Why your favourite bakery and coffee shop now sell tote bags

The business of merchandise is no longer a Mickey Mouse operation

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American Airlines extends Starlink Wi-Fi roll-out to entire mainline fleet

American Airlines said on Thursday it now intends to install SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service ‌on its entire primary fleet of over 1,000 aircraft from next year, extending a plan already in place for roughly half ⁠of the fleet.

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There's one retail name that made Josh Brown's Best Stocks list that caught him by surprise

Against all odds, this stock is working, says Josh Brown.

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China obtained stealth-fighter parts after UPS worker missed warning

China obtained potentially sensitive components from an F-35 stealth fighter after a UPS employee missed an email warning that the shipment should not transit through certain countries, Bloomberg repo...

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BBC pays compensation to PinkNews couple over false sexual misconduct allegations

Broadcaster apologises after admitting claims against Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James were defamatory The BBC has apologised and paid “substantial” compensation to the couple behind the PinkNews website, after conceding that stories accusing them of sexual misconduct were false and defamatory. In a sweeping admission, the BBC accepted at the high court that a 2024 iPlayer documentary about the PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband, Anthony James, called PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors, had made “a series of very serious, false, and defamatory allegations”. Continue reading...

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Grief, anger and elections: Israel marks three years since October 7 attacks as nation prepares to vote

Accountability for the Hamas attacks and security are emerging as key issues in the election campaign.

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Most candidates for Alaska governor pledge to live in Juneau if elected | Alaska Beacon

Three of the four Alaska candidates for governor told a Juneau crowd they would live and maintain the seat of government in the state’s Southeast Alaska capital city at a forum in Juneau on Wednesday.

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Russia's public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case

In Thursday’s statement, Rospotrebnadzor rejected reports about a second person falling ill after coming into contact with the lab worker as fake. It didn’t offer any new information about the lab wor...

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Exclusive: Ukraine could recruit foreign infantry across the front — Butusov on war planning, Drapatyi and army reforms

Yuriy Butusov, commander of a UAV company in the 23rd Assault Regiment of the National Guard’s 2nd Khartia Corps, spoke to Radio NV about war planning, changes in the military under new Commander-in-C...

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Bayer will build a $2.2 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in central Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal

Bayer is building a $2.2 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio.

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Bay Area’s highest-paid executives, ranked: The top names aren’t tech celebs

The top 200 highest-paid executives in the Bay Area aren’t all household names at tech giants — and the top two people on the list are total newcomers.

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US Probes Harvard, Yale and Stanford Over Scholar Exchange Visas

The Trump administration is launching investigations into foreign exchange visa holders at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, in its latest broadside against international students and scholars at elite universities.

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NASA photo of Mars dawn reveals cliffs in unprecedented detail

NASA's iconic Curiosity rover recently captured a striking image of dawn on Mars that shows distant cliffs in never-before-seen detail.

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Alaska found a way to elect more moderates. Now voters might end it.

Alaskans will decide in November whether to ditch a system that allows four primary candidates, regardless of party, to advance to the general election.

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