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Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection
NEWS | 28 October 2026
Medical genetics grew ever more precise. Medical genetics clinics were building knowledge and tools with actual, and growing, predictive power. The ideal human is strikingly close to the ideal worker, someone who is smart, efficient and unlikely to ever take a sick day. As it turned out, medical genetics really did produce an effective treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. But medical genetics also proved that I didn’t have SMA after all.

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Israel election live: Netanyahu and Eisenkot opposition blocs tied in latest exit polls
NEWS | 28 October 2026
From 1h ago 19.52 EDT Two Israeli networks update exit polls to show Netanyahu and opposition blocs tied Two Israeli TV networks have now updated their exit polls and are predicting that Netanyahu’s bloc will be tied with Eisenkot’s opposition grouping. Israeli exit polls are often revised after publication and are notoriously imprecise, with the final count often swinging by several seats. double quotation mark Historically, Israeli exit polls have tended to underestimate Likud, but shifts between blocs are usually limited to 2–3 seats at most. Allow and continue Meanwhile a minister from Netanyahu’s party has told the Associated Press he’s cautiously optimistic about the results. Israeli exit polls are often revised after publication and are notoriously imprecise, with the final count often swinging by several seats.

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Rise of Palestinian parties in Knesset will redraw Israel’s political landscape
NEWS | 28 October 2026
The greatest change between the new Knesset and the old will be the dramatically increased representation of Palestinian parties, which are projected to win 17 to 18 seats, up from 10. That redraws the battle lines on Israel’s political landscape. Abbas has already participated in a right-leaning government of Naftali Bennett, now a junior partner in the Eisenkot bloc. 1:49 Israeli candidates cast their votes in consequential election – videoNegotiations with the Joint List, with 10 or more projected seats, would be tougher. “Laying down conditions won’t work with the Joint List,” Shbita said.

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Israel election too close to call as exit polls give Netanyahu bloc slightly fewer seats
NEWS | 28 October 2026
While Eisenkot could theoretically assemble a majority by forming a government with the Arab parties, he ruled that out before the election. Opposition figures were quick to cast the exit polls as a defeat for Netanyahu, with former prime minister Yair Lapid saying: “Netanyahu’s bloc has suffered a crushing defeat. The public has told them to get out.”For his part Eisenkot called the exit polls a vote of “no-confidence in Netanyahu. In a recorded message to voters, Netanyahu suggested Arabs and the left were trying to steal the election and Likud claimed suspected irregularities at hundreds of polling stations used by Israeli Arabs. On Tuesday, encouraging ultra-orthodox voters, Netanyahu – who has long elided his personal and political survival with that of Israel – returned to his apocalyptic language.

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What you need to know about the most consequential election in Israel’s history
NEWS | 28 October 2026
Many Israelis have described this election as the most consequential in their country’s history. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has led Israel for 19 out of the last 30 years, most recently at the head of a far-right coalition. Israel’s security is at the heart of the election, overshadowing even the soaring cost of living. However, those opposition seats were divided between the bloc of Jewish Israeli parties, led by Eisenkot’s Yashar, and parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel. Palestinian politicians have indicated they might support a minority government of the Jewish Israeli parties in order to unseat Netanyahu’s far-right coalition.

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SPONSORED | 28 October 2026
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Trump, campaigning in Texas for Republicans, touts Iran war and ‘51st state’ Venezuela: ‘I knew that oil would go up’ – live
NEWS | 28 October 2026
From 5h ago 15.45 EDT Trump flaunts Venezuelan oil shipments at campaign event in Corpus Christi, talks of making Venezuela '51st state' Trump has taken the stage in Corpus Christi, Texas, the first of two campaign events in the state he’ll be speaking at today. Trump spoke of his relationship with Venezuela in unsparing terms, as a conqueror extracting resources from a defeated nation. It’s got one million barrels of oil on it from Venezuela.” “We’re celebrating the greatest oil victory in history,” Trump continued. His US-friendly successor, Delcy Rodriguez, who took power with Trump’s backing, has since brokered deals with the Trump administration that would see Venezuela oil revenues funneled into US coffers. The oil shipment from Venezuela is part of Trump’s efforts to tamp down voters’ outrage over soaring gas prices due to the war in Iran.

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JD Vance steps up extreme attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
NEWS | 28 October 2026
JD Vance has escalated his inflammatory attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan who has faced an onslaught of Islamophobia, claiming he would lead rioters in “burning down” Detroit. El-Sayed, who would become the country’s first Muslim senator if he wins next week’s election, has been branded a “jihadist” by Donald Trump, the US president. At a campaign stop on Tuesday, Vance went further. Speaking to the crowd in Howell, Michigan, Vance sought to connect El-Sayed’s politics to the leftwing protests in Paris that have led to thousands of arrests. Vance has made several visits to Michigan as Republican candidate Mike Rogers seeks to win the seat El-Sayed is vying for, launching a series of extreme attacks on the Democrat.

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Oleshky truce appears to hold as two European leaders have ‘frank’ call with Putin
NEWS | 28 October 2026
The city sits on the Dnipro River and is about 3 miles (5km) from Kherson, a larger city on the opposite bank. The two Nordic leaders said the call – a rare instance of direct contact between Putin and western leaders – was linked to upcoming talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US, expected to take place in Abu Dhabi next month. Its geographical scope had been extended beyond Oleshky “within the Kherson region”, she added, to provide safe passage for convoys. European governments remain divided over whether direct engagement with Putin is worthwhile, given Russia’s maximalist demands remain stubbornly unchanged. He made clear that Ukraine would not recognise land seized and occupied by Russia as Russian.

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Olivia Chow elected as Toronto mayor for second term in victory for progressives
NEWS | 28 October 2026
The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, promised more rental housing, free school lunches and reduce fares for frequent transit riders after she was elected to a decisive second term as mayor in a wave of support for progressive councillors. Chow bet that voters would accept her policies to confront a mounting affordability crisis that has engulfed major cities around the world. “I know we share a love for Toronto and a belief in its future,” she told a jubilant crowd. He told residents crime was so bad in Toronto that he slept with a baseball bat next to his bed. When she was first elected in 2023, Ford said she would be an “unmitigated disaster” for the city.

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Russell Brand told police he led a ‘very promiscuous’ life, trial hears
NEWS | 28 October 2026
Russell Brand told police he had led a “very promiscuous” life and consensual sexual encounters had been “unfavourably reframed decades later”, his trial has heard. Brand is accused of seven offences against six women in allegations spanning 10 years from 1999. “I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I have spent years openly denouncing,” he said in his first statement on 16 November 2023. “I had sexual encounters in countless locations and scenarios often with people I had just met. In response to police questions after each statement, Brand said: “I have nothing further to add at this time.”Brand is accused of three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

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DNA links serial killer Ted Bundy to 1974 murder of Utah girl
NEWS | 28 October 2026
The notorious serial killer Ted Bundy has been found responsible, through DNA evidence, for the murder of a 17-year-old Utah girl who went missing in 1974 before her nude body was found days later, state authorities announced at a Tuesday news conference. The breakthrough in the investigation of Melissa Ann Smith’s death comes months after Utah county detectives confirmed in April that Bundy had killed another Utah girl, 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, in 1974. The Y-STR DNA profile recovered from Laura’s body was a genetic match to one found from Melissa’s body. “We have the ability to take a look at these cases again and again.”Between 1974 and 1978, Bundy went on a violent rampage, sexually assaulting and killing at least 30 women across the American west and Florida. “With every case closure may we stomp the memory of Ted Bundy out.”

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Sardinian restaurants ban families from using phones at the table
NEWS | 28 October 2026
A group of restaurants in Sardinia are banning families from using smartphones and other devices at the table in a quest to encourage conversation. The initiative, called A tavola senza schermi or At the table without screens, is being spearheaded by Anna Cau, the children’s ombudsman for the Italian island. “The restaurants will offer an alternative activity in the form of a game which is intended to foster interaction,” said Cau. Emanuele Frongia, president of the federation on the island, said the 15 restaurants had readily agreed to participate. “Restaurants play a vital role in fostering the intimacy that families rediscover when they dine out,” said Frongia.

Current Events:
Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years for drugging and raping dozens of women
NEWS | 28 October 2026
Three Florida brothers who exploited the wealth and influence of their family’s luxury real estate business to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York on Tuesday for sex trafficking. A dozen of their victims spoke at the brothers’ sentencing hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday. The three brothers, dressed in tan prison suits, sat impassively as they listened to the women speak. Oren and Tal Alexander were star representatives at real estate firm Douglas Elliman, before forming their own brokerage, Official, which made hundreds of millions of dollars selling condos to wealthy and celebrity clientele. At least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by the men, prosecutors said in an earlier court filing that described them as “serial rapists”.

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Harry Kane triumphs with historic Ballon d’Or win - The Latest
NEWS | 28 October 2026
Harry Kane is the men’s Ballon d’Or winner for 2026, the first Englishman to win the trophy in 25 years. At a lavish ceremony at the Palladium Theatre in London, Kane unexpectedly won ahead of co-favourites Lamine Yamal of Barcelona and Kylian Mbappé of Real Madrid. In a contest that has been critiqued for promoting individualism and celebrity in sport, Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s chief sports writer, Barney Ronay, about the symbolism of Kane’s win