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Students and workers have marched across Italy for more school funding and relief from rising living costs. The rallies follow weeks of school occupations and protests against higher military spending.
Students and workers have marched across Italy for more school funding and relief from rising living costs. The rallies follow weeks of school occupations and protests against higher military spending.
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<p>Vega said she still doesn’t know why she was fired from the show, which has experienced a slump in ratings</p><p>Cecilia Vega, the 60 Minutes correspondent fired as part of a dramatic overhaul of the CBS News show this spring, said it “hurts” to see what has happened to the storied newsmagazine and other segments of the network, and repeated allegations that she was told to insert “factually untrue” information into her work.</p><p>“It pains me. It hurts to watch, from afar. It hurts to talk to my colleagues who are still there. It hurts to see the ratings slump that is happening right now,” Vega said during a Thursday evening talk for students at American University in Washington DC.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/30/60-minutes-correspondent-cecilia-vega-cbs-news">Continue reading...</a>
<p>In the placid LA suburb of Burbank, residents spend months – and thousands of dollars – turning their homes into Disney-style attractions. Why does it go so hard for Halloween – and is it becoming too popular for its own good?</p><p>Every night, starting in mid-September, Diego Linares puts on a serial killer costume and stands in his front yard for three hours. The 40-year-old alternates outfits: some nights he’s Michael Myers, the masked murderer from the Halloween films. Other nights he’s Jason Voorhees, from the Friday the 13th franchise.</p><p>His family’s modest suburban yard in Burbank, California, has been transformed into a slasher movie set. Fake mist leaks out of the door of a cabin labeled “Crystal Lake”. Jack-o-lanterns, monsters, corpses and illuminated gravestones jostle for space across the ground. From the roof above the front door, a giant skeleton blinks its digital eyes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/30/burbank-california-los-angeles-halloween-capital">Continue reading...</a>
<p>She is facing the death penalty for the 1995 murder of her classmate, despite surviving a botched execution last month</p><p>Christa Pike has marked a month since her failed execution by Tennessee and released a statement in which she laments the “incompetence” that has led to this moment, adding that despite ongoing healing she remains in constant physical pain and mental anguish.</p><p>In comments released by her legal team on Friday, the prisoner said that there hasn’t been a moment since she was injected with a massive dose of the sedative pentobarbital that she hasn’t been in pain. “My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn’t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul,” she said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/christa-pike-statement-tennessee-execution">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassador</p><p>When Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”</p><p>Stewart knew the violence was never warranted, a conviction that became the spark for a lasting commitment to campaigning for greater understanding of domestic abuse.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/30/domestic-abuse-charities-patrick-stewart-amnesty-international-refuge">Continue reading...</a>