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Top News Stories for Wednesday, May 15th 2024
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 -
By integrating Gemini as more of an assistant on Android, these features will soon come to a phone near you. Google's I/O 2024 keynote just wrapped up, and the company spent basically the entire time talking about AI (as to be expected). During the keynote, the company detailed how artificial intelligence would integrate with Android moving forward, with Gemini stepping into the same virtual assistant role as the ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Cohen, a convicted felon , testified Monday that Trump directed him to make the $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump, who has denied wrongdoing, is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payment. Driving the news: Cohen testified Tuesday that he visited the White House in 2017 to meet with Trump to discuss a reimbursement for the ...
Source: axios.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Rates on 30-year mortgages continue dipping to a lower range, dropping Monday to a 7.05% average. That's the cheapest level for 30-year loans since early April. Many other mortgage types also saw rates inch down Monday. National averages based on a minimum 20% down payment and an applicant credit score of 680 to 739. Since rates vary widely across lenders, it's always smart to shop around for your best mortgage ...
Source: investopedia.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Those stocks are ones that develop huge followings through social media. The phenomenon began in late 2020, and the most prominent examples were two beleaguered companies that hedge funds had heavily sold short. GameStop suffered because its brick-and mortar stores were turning obsolete in an online world. AMC was hurt by dwindling audiences, who also found their entertainment online and who stayed away from ...
Source: bradenton.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
President Joe Biden has slapped major new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminium and medical equipment, taking potshots at Donald Trump along the way as he embraced a strategy that's increasing friction between the world's two largest economies. The Democratic president said on Tuesday that Chinese government subsidies ensure the nation's companies do not have to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Subscriber-only Newsletter R.F.K. Jr. Isn't a Spoiler Now, Poll Suggests, but He Could Be in November Kennedy draws disproportionately from voters who usually back Democrats but have defected to Trump. You're reading The Tilt newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Nate Cohn, The Times's chief political analyst, makes sense of the latest political data. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The U.S. has seen recent troop movement that indicates Israel could expand operations in Rafah soon, but has not made a formal assessment about whether a full-scale invasion is imminent, according to two U.S. officials. The Biden administration has repeatedly warned against a full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than 1 million Palestinians have sought refuge, citing ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, published a new analysis of the longest study it has conducted so far through the lens of long-term weight loss. The 17,604-person study, published in Nature Medicine and presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy on Tuesday, showed for the first time that obesity patients without diabetes maintained a 10% average weight loss over four years ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
TBILISI – The Georgian parliament on Tuesday approved in the third and final reading a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country's aspirations to join the European Union. The bill requires media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
After nearly three weeks, students dismantle tents amid demands including disclosure of school's financial ties to Israel Harvard's Gaza solidarity encampment has peacefully ended after university administrators agreed to meet with protesters about their demands surrounding divestment from Israel. After nearly three weeks, students protesting against Israel's invasion of Gaza voluntarily dismantled their tents at ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
According to a recent study, the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere over the last two thousand years, marking it nearly four degrees Celsius warmer than the coldest recorded summer in the same period. This finding highlights a stark contrast in temperature extremes over the millennia. While 2023 is recognized as the hottest year on record, our reliance on instrumental records only dates back ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Nearly half of all telehealth abortions provided between October to December were done under shield law protections, per #WeCount. Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Washington and Vermont have all enacted shield laws to protect abortion providers. Excluding those, the monthly average number of abortions in 2023 was 86,000 — higher than the monthly average of 82,000 abortions in 2022, the #WeCount report ...
Source: axios.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Red Lobster has abruptly closed dozens of restaurants across the country. A look at the restaurant chain's website reveals 87 stores temporarily closed across 27 states, with some of them having their kitchen equipment up for auction on an online restaurant liquidator. The liquidator, TAGeX Brands, announced Monday it is auctioning off equipment this week from 48 locations that have closed. The website says ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! The preliminary report offers the first explanation of the problems that caused the Dali container ship to destroy the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26. The ship that ...
Source: pressherald.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Eight TikTok creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, arguing that a new law forcing a sale or ban of the popular video-sharing app violates their First Amendment rights. The law "bans an entire medium of communication and all the speech communicated through that medium, even though, at the very least, the vast majority of that speech is protected," says the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Bumble has apologized after a recent ad campaign referencing celibacy prompted backlash, with critics claiming it shamed people for choosing not to have sex. The dating app company has since removed the ads from its global marketing campaign and, in an Instagram statement posted May 13, responded to the critiques of its message. "We made a mistake. Our ads referencing celibacy were an attempt to lean ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
New rule from Biden administration will save consumers more than $500m a year US airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process. The US Transportation Department said Monday it will vigorously defend the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks . "We know this is a challenging time," Blinken said in the Ukrainian capital where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The visit comes less than a month after Congress approved a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson joined Donald Trump at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday to express support for the former president amid his criminal trial , which the speaker called a "sham" and part of a broader "partisan witch hunt" against Trump. "President Trump is innocent of these charges," Johnson said, speaking outside the courthouse as proceedings got underway inside. The Louisiana ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world's most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Ms. Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Ms. Munro had been in frail health for years and often spoke ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Google will probably announce a flurry of AI software features at Google I/O 2024 on Tuesday. Powered by versions of Gemini, some of these features will be available in current Google products, including the Gemini chatbot. Others will come later down the road on new hardware, like Google's upcoming new Pixel phones. I'm not expecting Google to unveil the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL phones during the keynote. ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
China and the US exchanged views "deeply, professionally and constructively" in their first intergovernmental talks aimed at reducing the risks of artificial intelligence and improving world governance. According to a Chinese foreign ministry readout, at the talks in Geneva on Tuesday the two sides recognised that there are opportunities and risks in the development of AI technology. They also reaffirmed their ...
Source: scmp.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The Alboran Cognac was rammed by an unknown number of orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar at around 9am local time on Sunday, the Spanish maritime rescue service said. Orcas have sunk a yacht off the coast of Gibraltar - the latest in a string of similar attacks by the mammals over the past four years. The Alboran Cognac sailing vessel was rammed by an unknown number of killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar at ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The sprawling rule requires transmission operators to plan along a 20-year horizon and work with states to develop data-driven projections of needs. This article was first published on the New Jersey Monitor . Read the original here . A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday issued a long-awaited overhaul of how regional electric transmission lines are planned and paid for, a move ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The first-ever crewed flight test of Boeing's Starliner space taxi has been rescheduled for no earlier than May 21 to give Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance extra time to complete on-the-ground testing. An initial attempt to send the gumdrop-shaped capsule and two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station had to be scrubbed on May 6 due to concerns about a fluttery pressure regulation valve on the ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
GENEVA — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A manhunt was underway in France on Tuesday after two prison officers were killed and three others injured in an attack on a van that was carrying a convict who managed to escape amid the carnage. In a statement to reporters, French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said the convoy was transporting a prisoner from a courthouse to a prison in the northern city of Rouen when it was attacked by assailants armed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
NEW YORK — A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday night. Sage bested six other finalists to claim the best in show award at the United States' most illustrious canine event. Each of the contestants stood, strode and sought to shine before the judge at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. In all, ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
More people are falling behind on their credit card payments, flashing a warning sign as high interest rates, high inflation over the last few years, and a slowing job market pressure on household finances. In the first quarter of 2024, 8.9% of credit card holders who were formerly current on their payments fell into delinquency, up from 8.5% in the previous quarter and a fresh high since 2011, the Federal Reserve ...
Source: investopedia.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A large billboard collapsed onto a group of pedestrians in India late Monday evening, killing at least 14 people and injuring 74 others, officials said. According to city officials, a 100-foot-tall billboard fell onto a gas station in the suburb of Ghatkopar in the western city of Mumbai on Monday evening. At least 47 people were rescued late into the night. The collapse took place during a thunderstorm which ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Monday of mounting violent threats against election workers across the country, and vowed that the Justice Department will be "relentless" in prosecuting those who threaten the democratic process. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting of the department's Election Threats Task Force, Garland cited a handful of cases over the past several years in which poll workers in ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Last year, Apple and Google teamed up to develop a specification for alerting users if a Bluetooth tracking device is surreptitiously monitoring them. That feature just rolled out to iOS and Android users. In May 2023, Google and Apple announced they were joining forces to unveil a new specification aimed at enhancing user privacy with Bluetooth-enabled tracking devices. This initiative is designed to prevent ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Lab-grown meat isn't on grocery store shelves in the United States and it isn't coming anytime soon, but two states have already banned it and others are weighing similar moves. The restrictions are a sign that traditional meat producers fear losing market share to these new products, but they've also been divisive. Some in the livestock industry question the precedent of these actions in GOP-led states, fearing ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Mercedes-Benz has been accused of "union busting" practices by a former U.S. cabinet member as workers prepare to vote on unionizing this week. Robert Reich, who was Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton , accused the auto manufacturer of using "tricks" to prevent workers at its southern production plant from joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. His comments come as ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
U.S. law enforcement officials seized more than 115 million pills containing illicit fentanyl in 2023—a dramatic increase that experts say is "alarming" and shows the need for increased public health efforts to prevent the distribution of these pills and possible overdoses. A new study published Monday in the International Journal of Drug Policy found that the number of individual pills containing fentanyl ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
David Salvagnini will take on new roles as the agency's chief AI officer, helping usher more cohesive AI programming across the space agency. NASA named its first official chief artificial intelligence officer on Monday , bringing David Salvagnini to the agency's leadership team as federal agencies look to harness AI in operational capacities. Salvagnini's appointment fulfills a mandate from President Joe ...
Source: nextgov.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
An attorney representing Rory McIlroy filed documents for divorce on May 13 in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to online records. Rory McIlroy and Erica McIlroy, the defendant in the filing, have been married for seven years and have a daughter, Poppy, who is three years old. McIlroy is asking for enforcement of a prenuptial agreement between the two and to start a shared plan on parenting. TMZ first reported ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Having private insurance may not be all it is cracked up to be when it comes to hospital bills, new research warns. In a report published Monday by the nonprofit research institute RAND Corp., researchers discovered that patients with private health insurance may wind up paying more for procedures or tests performed during their stay than Medicare patients do. On average, hospitals charged private insurance ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A 16-year-old has been arrested after entering a Louisiana church with a gun. The Abbeville Police Department said the incident took place Saturday morning at the St. Mary Magdalen Church. There were around 60 children inside the church at the time of the incident, according to a church statement obtained by NBC News. They had been there to receive their first Holy Communion. Before police arrived, parishioners ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows. Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow's milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago, according to the market research ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Report: Since Paris, Banks Have Channeled $6.9 Trillion to Fossil Fuel Firms Almost half of the money was earmarked for expansion. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world's big banks have handed nearly $7 trillion in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement on carbon ...
Source: motherjones.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle — with Peacock , Netflix and Apple TV+ — offered at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said. Dubbed StreamSaver, the bundle will be available to all Comcast broadband, TV and mobile customers, Roberts said, speaking Tuesday at MoffettNathanson's 2024 Media, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Has the UN really said fewer people were killed by Israel in Gaza? No, is the short answer. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published on May 8 an infographic that referred to a figure of 34,844 total Palestinian deaths. Below that, it said of the deaths: "24,686 identified as of 30 April as: 10,006 men, 4,959 women, 7,797 children, 1,924 elderly". The graphic used the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Amazon.com Inc. has named Matt Garman the new chief executive officer of its Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud division. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the leadership change in a memo to employees made public this morning. Garman, a longtime AWS executive who was the first product manager of the Amazon EC2 instance line earlier in his career, currently heads the cloud giant's sales, marketing, support and ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
May 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot died Tuesday from injuries suffered when an ejection seat deployed while on the ground at Sheppard Air Force Base Monday. The unnamed instructor pilot was in a propeller-driven,single-engine, two-seat T-6A Texan II training plane when the ejection seat activated during ground operations Monday. The deadly incident happened at about 1:55 p.m. CDT Monday, and Air ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
If you missed the auroras that set skies aglow in red, purple and green curtains of light Friday night, it may be a long wait before seeing another display as widespread and magnificent. These northern and southern lights, set off by a once-in-a-generation geomagnetic storm, amazed sky watchers and left scientists in awe. They were so extraordinary and rare, that there's no telling when the next opportunity for ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A New York court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to lift the gag order limiting what he can say about those involved in his ongoing criminal trial, saying the order does not violate Trump's First Amendment rights. Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump's trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records, issued the original order in March, barring Trump from discussing likely ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A court has convicted one of the best known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of using a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to pay a fine. Judges fined Bjorn Hocke 13,000 euros ($14,000) on Tuesday for using the phrase "Alles fur Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany") during a 2021 campaign rally. Once a motto of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, paramilitary group, which played a key role ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Speaking to Yalda Hakim, on Sky News' The World, Georgia and Melissa Laurie recall the crocodile attack that left them both fearing they would die - before Georgia swam back for her twin to fight the reptile herself, punching it repeatedly on the nose. Twin sisters who were viciously attacked by a crocodile, before one fought it off, are to swim again in a river race, despite initial fears over getting back into ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The Backwoods Barbie has joined forces with Krispy Kreme to treat her fans with the ultimate doughnut collection, with a special bonus if they dress up like the star. This week Krispy Kreme released its "Dolly Southern Sweets" collection with global country star Dolly Parton, its first partnership with the singer and actress. The limited-time only collection, available in a custom Dolly dozen box, contains ...
Source: mediapost.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila The record-breaking heatwave that scorched the Philippines in April would have been impossible without the climate crisis, scientists have found. Searing heat above 40C (104F) struck across Asia in April, causing deaths, water shortages, crop losses and widespread school closures. The extreme heat was made 45 times ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
(OCALA, Fla.) — A bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida overturned on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about 40 other passengers, authorities said. The bus was transporting 53 farmworkers at about 6:40 a.m. when it collided with a truck in Marion County, north of Orlando, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Authorities say the bus swerved off State Road 40, a straight but somewhat hilly two-lane ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The nationwide surge in accidental drowning deaths early during the COVID-19 pandemic was disproportionately worse for Black people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday — a finding in line with longstanding disparities. Compared to 2019, drowning rates increased among Black people by 22.2% in 2020 and 28.3% in 2021. Drowning rates were the worst overall for Black people as well as ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft more than five years ago, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday. It is now up to the Justice Department to decide whether to file charges against Boeing. Prosecutors will tell the court no later than July 7 how they plan to proceed, ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Chris DeRusha, federal chief information security officer, is leaving his post at the Office of Management and Budget, OMB confirmed to Nextgov/FCW . DeRusha has served in the CISO role since his appointment in early 2021. He also holds the deputy national cyber director for federal cybersecurity post for the Office of the National Cyber Director. During his time as federal cyber chief, DeRusha led ...
Source: nextgov.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
More than 40 other people on the bus were taken to hospitals after the early-morning crash along a Florida highway. Authorities in Florida arrested the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a bus carrying dozens of migrant workers early Tuesday, killing eight and sending more than 40 others to area hospitals. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was charged with eight counts of D.U.I. manslaughter, according to the ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more . The world's largest hummingbird has been hiding in plain sight for centuries — and scientists only discovered the species is distinct from another giant species after attaching tiny backpacks to hummingbirds to understand migration patterns. Along the way, ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A new brain imaging study in mice suggests that sleep may not help flush out the brain of toxins and everyday waste products, challenging what scientists have called a 'Nobel-prize winning idea' of neuroscience. "The field has been so focused on the clearance idea as one of the key reasons why we sleep, that we were very surprised to observe the opposite in our results," says Nick Franks, a neuroscientist at ...
Source: sciencealert.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
TANAH DATAR flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. Monsoon rains and a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi caused rivers to breach their banks. The deluge tore through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday. The floods swept away people and 79 homes and submerged hundreds of houses and buildings, forcing more than 3,300 ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Toronto — Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Western Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and neighboring Alberta due to the danger of uncontrolled blazes. According to the BC administration's , seven evacuation orders and five alerts had been issued in the province since Friday, driving about 4,700 residents from their homes. "The situation is evolving ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
D eciding whether to withdraw life support after a severe traumatic brain injury is extremely difficult. Loved ones are faced with balancing their hopes for recovery with the desire not to prolong suffering, and clinician insight is essential. With the support of critical care physicians, most decisions on whether to end life support are made within 72 hours of hospitalization. But a new paper published Monday in ...
Source: statnews.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Arizona's Supreme Court granted a request to delay enforcement of an archaic 1864 abortion ban on Monday to allow the state's Democratic attorney general to consider taking the matter to the nation's highest court. Attorney General Kris Mayes had asked for a 90-day stay after the state Supreme Court revived the Civil War-era law last month, which carries 2- to 5-year prison sentences for doctors who perform the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii ) communicate. While doing so, she discovered one undeniable advantage of understanding orangutan language: When the males decide to show off their strength by uprooting nearby trees, nearby scientists need to be careful to not get smooshed. "I often ...
Source: salon.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
The galaxy can throw some odd curveballs, but an exoplanet discovered 1,232 light-years away is one of the oddest yet. It's WASP-193b, and while it's nearly 50 percent bigger than Jupiter , it's so light and fluffy that its overall density is comparable to that of cotton candy. It's just a hair over 1 percent of the density of Earth. It's an absolute dandelion puff-ball of a world… if a dandelion puff-ball ...
Source: sciencealert.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Lori Beth Denberg remembers Dan Schneider calling her into his office and telling her to shut the door. It was 1995, around Denberg's 19th birthday, and Nickelodeon's hit comedy show "All That" had recently wrapped its first season. Denberg was one of the show's stars. So when Schneider, the head writer of "All That," heard that a female producer had met with Denberg to discuss her weight gain, he was angry. ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
A bipartisan bill seeks to end the Section 230 liability shield for tech companies. Here's a timeline of what happens next. For years, some of the world's biggest tech companies have been shielded from lawsuits by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. But newly proposed legislation could change that -- and have major implications for tech companies themselves. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show. Fotios Geas and Paul J. DeCologero are accused by prosecutors of bludgeoning Bulger to death as fellow defendant Sean McKinnon acted as a lookout in October 2018, just hours after the gangster was transferred to the US ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
If you've been following the buzz around testosterone, you've probably heard whispers of its potential to boost vitality and turn back the clock. It's been hailed as a miracle cure for everything from flagging energy levels to dwindling muscle mass. But, like many things in life, the reality is a bit more nuanced. A study from the University of Western Australia has shed new light on the link between testosterone ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a protein-based gel that breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body. In the future, people who take the gel could reduce the harmful and intoxicating effects of alcohol. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a gel made from whey protein fibrils that uses individual iron atoms to convert alcohol in the intestine into harmless acetic acid ...
Source: scitechdaily.com
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 -
Expedia partnered with Canada for a docu-series. Over 200 retailers have already staked claims in the media network business, but that isn't stopping latecomer Expedia. The travel giant believes that with first-party data and a travel-loving audience, it offers advertisers something different, both on and off its owned sites. Jennifer Andre, vice president of business development, Expedia Media Group Solutions, and ...
Source: mediapost.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates is stepping down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization that she co-founded in 2000 with her now ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. French Gates said in a social media post that her last day at the foundation will be June 7, adding that she plans to move onto "the next chapter" of her philanthropic work. In a separate ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . iPad Pro (2024) review: So very nice, and so very expensive It hasn't even been released yet, but Apple's new iPad Pro is probably one of the most divisive devices the company has made in years. On the one ...
Source: engadget.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
A sitting US senator is set to face a weekslong trial over charges of taking bribes including gold bars, cash and a luxury car to, among other things, help push US aid and weapons to a foreign government and stop a federal case against one of his co-defendants. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who faces 16 charges including conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to obstruct justice, has rejected calls ...
Source: cnn.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Lorenzo Prendini allegedly had 88 bottles of liquids and some 1,500 dead scorpions, spiders and tarantulas in his luggage. Mr Prendini told the BBC airport officials had "completely ignored" his government permits that he said allowed him to take the samples out of Turkey. The specimens were native to Turkey. Turkish media reported that Mr Prendini was held by police at the airport under suspicion of smuggling. In ...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Two passengers and a pilot emerged unscathed from a small plane after it was forced to land without landing gear following a mechanical failure at Newcastle Airport in Australia's New South Wales. The plane, a Beach B-200 Super King, circled the airport for hours burning fuel before making a "textbook" wheels-up emergency landing, . Footage shows the plane approaching the runway without its landing gear activated ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
The streaming service provider Roku will air a national package of 18 Sunday morning Major League Baseball games this season starting May 19 with a game between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. The pact brings yet another streaming content provider into the live sports mix. Peacock , NBCUniversal's streaming service, previously held the rights to MLB 's national Sunday morning package from 2022-23. It ...
Source: newsweek.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
The controlled demolition of the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has been tentatively rescheduled for Monday night after weather delays, according to officials. Lightning in the area and rising tides on Sunday forced the postponement. Crews have been preparing for weeks to use explosives to break down the remaining span, which is about 500 feet long and weighs up ...
Source: newsweek.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
The NFL season will begin with a rematch of the AFC championship game . The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 in Kansas City, Mo., in the opening game of the 2024 season, the league announced Monday. The Chiefs, as the defending Super Bowl champions, will host the season-opening game on a Thursday night. The opener is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Eastern time and will be broadcast by NBC.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
The Wisconsin Supreme Court seemed poised Monday to overturn a ruling it made less than two years ago that banned the use of most absentee ballot drop boxes in the state. Doing so would effectively reinstate the use of most of those boxes across Wisconsin — a ruling that could have large ramifications on the 2024 presidential election in the crucial battleground. In 2022, when conservatives had a 4-3 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff could be next in line to sign a mega contract. According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, the Lions are reportedly ready to commit to Goff long-term and strike a mega deal with the three-time Pro Bowler. Fowler reported on SportsCenter on Sunday . "The Lions are on record that Jared Goff, signing him to an extension, is a 'high priority' so they are working on this," Fowler said. "The ...
Source: newsweek.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, has died nearly two months after having the historic surgery. In a statement released Saturday, Slayman's family said they were "deeply saddened about the sudden passing of our beloved Rick but take great comfort knowing he inspired so many. Millions of people worldwide have come to know Rick's story. We felt -- and still ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting "free Palestine" amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, black and white Palestinian flag. Seinfeld, whose namesake sitcom was one of the most popular in U.S. television history, was ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, May 13th, 2024 -
Microsoft says it is committing 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) toward expanding its cloud and AI infrastructure in France, in addition to funding AI skilling and support for France's technology industry. As part of its investment, Microsoft said it plans to bring up to 25,000 graphics chips to France by the end of 2025, as well as open up a new data center in the French city of Mulhouse. Amazon, meanwhile, made a ...
Source: cnbc.com