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Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:32:09 EDT
Tennessee inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:27:33 EDT
FAA investigating after Delta plane 'clipped' Air Canada aircraft at LAX
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating after a Delta Air Lines plane "clipped" an Air Canada aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:22:09 EDT
California couple arrested on child abuse charges in connection with surrogacy probe
An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a "house of horrors," prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:57:12 EDT
Trump says call scheduled with Putin to discuss possible plague death in Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:03:52 EDT
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning On the Waterfront actor, dead at 102
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died. She was 102.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:59:44 EDT
Police in France use tear gas, water cannons against student protesters
Police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading French high schools as students, teachers and parents take to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:58:10 EDT
Fruit of the Loom, Hanes investigated over potential toxic chemicals in children's underwear
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing ‌children's underwear.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:50:00 EDT
Fitness influencer apologizes after hitching a bike ride in the Berlin Marathon
The influencer, who goes by Abeeeer on popular Chinese social media platform Rednote, or Xiaohongshu, posted a "sincere apology" for violating the rules Saturday to her 520,000 followers, explaining that she was feeling physically unwell during the r...

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:08:24 EDT
Outrage in Japan after U.S. Marine accused of murdering Okinawan woman
A U.S. Marine was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa. The killing has drawn outrage on the island and inflamed longstanding tensions over U.S. military bases, which residents say are a source of noise, pol...

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:21:07 EDT
Russian officials say no cases of plague in city where lab technician died
The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ‌of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:31:00 EDT
Cornell taps ex-Justice Department official Sally Yates to review school's handling of sexual assault cases
A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a frater...

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:20:41 EDT
Why thousands of high school students in France are protesting
Police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading French high schools — as students, teachers, parents and unions took to the streets against what they say is underfunding of the education system. Rights groups and students have accu...

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:06:15 EDT
Big Brother U.K. sparks backlash after housemates debate trans rights
Viewers of Big Brother U.K. are criticizing its contestants after the show aired a tense debate about transgender rights, pronouns, single-sex bathrooms and trans athletes in sports.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:34:02 EDT
Kenya confirms 1st Ebola case imported from Congo
A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya's first confirmed case of Ebola and the country's first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, authorities said Tuesday.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:55:06 EDT
Crew of ship missing after drone attacks on 2 commercial vessels in Black Sea near Bulgaria
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:33:19 EDT
Belgian physicist awarded Nobel Prize for pioneering work tracking neutrino particles at South Pole
Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:46:59 EDT
Lionel Messi prepares for his final match for Argentina
Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday. The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires has been dubbed "The Night That No One Wants to End" as Messi plays for his country one last time.

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:03:42 EDT
What U.S. Supreme Court judges said at a hearing on climate damages from oil and gas
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies Suncor and ExxonMobil in state court to help cover costs associated with climate change, an issue with potentially billions of dollars at stake.

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:50:38 EDT
Did a Russian lab worker die from pneumonic plague? What we know — and don't know
An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked. But the

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