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• New lizard species discovered in Peru, San Marcos University says

  03-10-2026 20:06 via yahoo.com
  The newly discovered lizard (Liolaemus archipensis) was found in the high Andean puna (Handout)Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in the Peruvian Andes, the Natural History Museum of San Marcos University said Saturday.The lizard measures between six and eight centimeters (2.4-3.2 inches) and has distinct coloration depending on sex.Females have square-shaped spots on their backs, while males have oblique spots and white scales that help them blend into their rocky surroundings.T
  
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• President Trump says U.S. won't attack Iran again ahead of the midterms

  08-10-2026 18:43 via abcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August t
  
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• Christa Pike wasn't alone in her crime. What happened to the accomplices?

  08-10-2026 18:03 via usatoday.com
  While Christa Pike didn't act alone in the crime that landed her on death row, the two others involved in the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer met less severe punishments.
  Pike, Tadaryl Shipp and Shadolla Peterson were all students at Jobs Corps, a training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, when they lured Slemmer, a classmate, into the woods on Jan. 12, 1995.
  There, Pike and Shipp, a couple at the time, tortured Slemmer and bludgeoned her to death. They were both later convicted of the crime, whil
  
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• Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and wife charged in U.S. over alleged torture

  08-10-2026 17:24 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  By Luc CohenNEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores both were hit with an additional US criminal charge on Thursday stemming from accusations they tortured political opponents and American citizens to retain their grip on power in ‌the South American country.Maduro and Flores were charged with an additional count of conspiracy to commit torture in addition to the drug ‌trafficking charges they previously faced, according&nbs
  
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• Trump admin. blocks Microsoft and Adobe from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards

  08-10-2026 17:24 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has halted the ability of tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to sponsor H-1B visa workers seeking green cards, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday.Vance made the comments during a press conference on visa fraud, during which he argued Microsoft is discriminating against Americans by prioritizing foreign workers. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced later at the event that his department is also suspending Adobe from the program."Our message to Microsoft is: you
  
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• Up to 30% of people experience this frightening sleep phenomenon

  08-10-2026 14:34 via prevention.com
  
  What Causes Sleep Paralysis? PonyWang - Getty ImagesIt’s terrifying to wake up and feel like you can’t move, but sleep paralysis is more common than you might think. Up to 30% of people experience this at some point, while people with panic disorder have an even greater risk. But what causes sleep paralysis? The answer isn’t always clear.Meet the experts: James McGuirk, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Vanderbilt Health; Christopher Winter, M.D., a
  
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• Cornell's Jane Doe is 'terrified' after police swatting incident, lawyer says

  08-10-2026 14:18 via cnn.com
  
  The Cornell University campus on the night of October 6, 2026. Student leaders held a town hall to discuss fallout from the Jane Doe sexual assault case. - Surya Vaidy/CNN
  One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City among thousands of other aspirational twentysomethings, attempting to break into the hotel industry and build a new life, according to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra.
  But that plan has been derailed since she filed a lawsuit aga
  
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• Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

  08-10-2026 13:23 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new ‌forms for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said on Thursday.The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy ‌and is worth 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 million)."She was very taken by surprise. We didn't have so much time to speak, and all ​she had time to t
  
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• Russian strike on buses kills 30 people in frontline Ukrainian city

  08-10-2026 12:46 via yahoo.com
  Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb (Handout)Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians after 30 people were killed when two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, in one of the deadliest single attacks for weeks.Photos posted by local authorities showed the burnt-out metal shell of the vehicles, with the blurred-out images of bodies and debris strewn across the road.Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb. The strikes come
  
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• Christa Pike walking for the 1st time after failed execution, lawyer says

  08-10-2026 12:21 via yahoo.com
  Christa Pike is "up and walking" in the hospital after surviving last week's failed attempt to execute her in Tennessee, a member of her legal team said Thursday.Lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room, although he had not spoken to her."What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much,” he said. “She is up and walking for the fir
  
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• USS Abraham Lincoln scheduled to dock in San Diego after a record-stretch at sea

  08-10-2026 12:00 via yahoo.com
  The USS Abraham Lincoln near the city of Pattaya in Thailand on 6 September 2026. Photograph: Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP/Getty Images
  The USS Abraham Lincoln, the US aircraft carrier that has been deployed for nearly a year and has spent months supporting US military operations against Iran, is scheduled to dock in San Diego on Thursday afternoon.
  It marks the end of a deployment that has been described as “one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era” an
  
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• Trump administration proposes $70,000 fee for international students to work in U.S.

  08-10-2026 12:00 via time.com
  
  Students walk through the University of Texas campus on Aug. 24, 2026. —Jay Janner—The Austin American-Statesman/Getty ImagesThe Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a rule that would charge schools $70,000 per international student seeking to work in the U.S. through a program known as Optional Practical Training. It marks the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to curb foreign enrollment.The proposal, published Thursday in the Federal Register and open for
  
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• GOP efforts to lower gas prices derailed by Republican infighting

  08-10-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  Republican efforts to reduce national gas prices in the weeks before Election Day were derailed in the Senate by infighting among GOP lawmakers and members of the administration who could not agree on how to ease consumers’ pain at the pump.
  The divisions within the Senate Republican conference over how to lower gas and diesel prices — even if temporarily — were driven primarily by geographic differences.
  Senators from oil-refining states shot down proposals from farm-state se
  
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• From Abdul El-Sayed to James Talarico, 5 races and 5 keys to the midterms

  08-10-2026 11:06 via usatoday.com
  WASHINGTON − In November, does the blue wave become a tsunami?
  Watch these spaces.
  Five keys are shaping monster midterms that are poised to revive Democrats' political power in Washington and reinforce it across the country. But the advantage of Republican money and the weakness of the Democratic Party brand could also mean an Election Night with more modest gains, a GOP catastrophe averted.
  In a wave election, Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives. In a tsunami, they t
  
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• Long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay

  08-10-2026 11:04 via yahoo.com
  CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln returned home to San Diego Bay Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.Dozens of sailors stood atop the carrier as it glided past the cityscape of downtown San Diego and neared the dock where cheering families waited, carrying flowers and balloons and ringing cowbells.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the c
  
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• What vaccines doctors say you may need for respiratory virus season

  08-10-2026 11:02 via abcnews.com
  
  As the weather turns colder, it also means respiratory virus season is upon the United States.In its annual outlook report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it expects the 2026-27 respiratory virus season to have a similar number of peak hospitalizations from influenza, COVID-19 and RSV compared to last season.Public health specialists told ABC News the best way for people to protect themselves against these viruses is to get vaccinated.Expert tips for parents to prepare
  
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• Democrats see a chance to flip deep-red states. But there's a catch.

  08-10-2026 11:00 via politico.com
  Democrats’ eyes may be bigger than their wallets.Democrats across a slate of deep-red states are clamoring for more cash to fight for Senate seats that suddenly seem within reach, with polling showing them competitive across a swath of normally impregnable territory from Kansas to Florida and South Carolina to Mississippi prompting a sudden bump in late-stage spending from outside groups. The party’s main campaign groups have already begun spending in Texas, another state they once d
  
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• Democrats and Republicans find rare common ground on kids' online safety

  08-10-2026 11:00 via cbsnews.com
  
  The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise.They share an enemy, though. They dislike social media's effects on children's mental health. Talarico, who did not respond to a request for comment, has endorsed a social media ban for kids under 16, whil
  
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• Hurricane Isaias expected to strengthen before hitting Gulf Coast

  08-10-2026 10:22 via yahoo.com
  Isaias became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Thursday, as it headed towards the U.S. Gulf Coast, bringing evacuation warnings and the possibility of a life-threatening storm surge along the coast.Isaias is expected to strengthen and make landfall late Friday or early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, which warned of damaging hurricane-force winds and a life-threatening storm surge.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Isaias was expected to remain a strong hu
  
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• U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle pushed donor to wire $100K to Amex account, report says

  08-10-2026 08:25 via yahoo.com
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before taking up her post.Rubio told reporters that he would not discuss the allegations contained in a Wall Street Journal story that said Guilfoyle had asked a donor and supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump to pay a $100,000 credit card bill just before her confirmati
  
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• Trump says he'll award ex-MLB pitcher Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  08-10-2026 08:10 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  Roger Clemens is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame but he will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.Clemens introduced Trump at a rally in San Antonio on Wednesday, with Trump dropping the announcement as the former pitcher stood nearby. During the announcement, Trump said he had played golf with Clemens earlier this year, which prompted him to call MLB commissioner Rob Manfred about his Hall of Fame case:"We had a great time, he's an amaz
  
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• Trump says former MLB pitcher Roger Clemens to be awarded Medal of Freedom

  08-10-2026 08:10 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  Roger Clemens is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame but he will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.Clemens introduced Trump at a rally in San Antonio on Wednesday, with Trump dropping the announcement as the former pitcher stood nearby. During the announcement, Trump said he had played golf with Clemens earlier this year, which prompted him to call MLB commissioner Rob Manfred about his Hall of Fame case:"We had a great time, he's an amaz
  
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• U.S. has lost or sustained damage to 81 aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war

  08-10-2026 07:53 via cnn.com
  
  Airmen from the Texas Air National Guard conduct preflight and postflight inspections on an MQ-9 Reaper aircraft at Keflavík Air Base, Iceland, in August. - Senior Airman Edgar Grimaldo/US Air Force/File
  The United States military has had 81 aircraft destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran, a Congressional Research Service report released this week says.
  The number includes both airplanes and helicopters as well as drones, with the MQ-9 Reaper drone – used for intelligence, survei
  
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• Isaias becomes 1st hurricane of Atlantic season and threatens Gulf Coast

  08-10-2026 06:14 via cbsnews.com
  
  Hurricane Isaias strengthened from a tropical storm late Wednesday night and is expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend, threatening parts of Mississippi, Alabama and the western part of the Florida Panhandle. It is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for more than two dozen counties in his state, which directed resources to prepare for potential severe impacts from the storm, while Alabama Gov. Ka
  
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• Hurricane Isaias rapidly intensifies as evacuation orders expand to several cities

  08-10-2026 05:58 via foxweather.com
  
  THE TAKEAWAYHurricane Isaias has formed in the Gulf, becoming the first Atlantic hurricane of the season and is forecast to make landfall along the northern Gulf Coast later this week.Isaias rapidly intensified from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane, with winds increasing by 40 mph in just 6 hours between Wednesday afternoon and late Wednesday night.Heavy rain is expected to begin on Friday, with flash flooding, damaging wind gusts, storm surge and even tornadoes possible as the storm
  
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• Cornell defendant is fighting AG Letitia James’ appointment as special prosecutor

  08-10-2026 04:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  A petition filed Wednesday for Gillio Lopes says James has “unequivocally demonstrated a bias and presumption of guilt against the defendants.”
  
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• Trump dominates the Iowa Senate debate from afar

  08-10-2026 04:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump was the main character in a televised Iowa Senate debate Wednesday night between Democrat Josh Turek, a state representative, and Republican Rep.
  
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• Trump says ‘we protect our cities’ after saying Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego

  08-10-2026 04:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president recast his earlier incendiary statements at a San Antonio rally meant to galvanize voters behind Texas Republicans ahead of the midterms.
  
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• Trump appears to reframe 'let them hit’ comment during San Antonio rally

  08-10-2026 04:08 via nbcnews.com
  During a San Antonio rally, President Trump appeared to reframe his earlier remarks that Iran could "hit" San Diego or Los Angeles, suggesting Iran would only do so if it had nuclear weapons. His comments followed criticism after he told a Nebraska crowd that Iran could "take out" the cities. 
  
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• Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to fix campaign sign

  08-10-2026 03:32 via abcnews.com
  
  A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped over the summer while trying to repair a campaign sign.Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in the state's 8th district to try to unseat GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh, told the Phoenix New Times, a local news outlet, that she was attacked at around 2 a.m. as she was walking toward a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City, north of Phoenix.Greene-Placentia said she was attacked, subdued and then woke up to find that she was bein
  
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