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Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent

Pacifica 5-Minute Morning Headlines with Jesse Lent

Tuesday, October 6th

US withdraws all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from the R.A.F. Fairford airbase following intelligence reports of a potential drone attack from Iran, US government monitoring the situation in Russia after a laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, Iran-backed Houthis attack airports, oil infrastructure and military sites in Saudi Arabia, thousands of students and faculty protest Cornell University's treatment of a former student who asserts in a recent lawsuit that she was given drugs and raped by 7 Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024, Stanford University professor Dr. Karl Deisseroth wins Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open up a new field of brain science called optogenetics along with two German researchers.

From the newsroom of WBAI 99.5FM in New York City, Pacifica Headlines provides a 5-minute rundown of the most important stories from around the world. Priority is given to subjects that may be underreported in mainstream news coverage.

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