US expands sanctions against Russia during G7 leaders' meeting
While the measures expand the scope of the U.S. sanctions program, the Biden administration has so far refrained from imposing sanctions on Chinese or European banks it believes are helping Russia....
View ArticleJürgen Moltmann, who reconciled religion with suffering, has died at the age...
Dr. Moltmann had a variety of influences, including the Swiss theologian Karl Barth and the Marxist philosopher and avowed atheist Ernst Bloch, whose three-volume work “The Principle of Hope”...
View ArticleHow the Humane AI Pin Failed
Ms Bongiorno and Mr Chaudhri said Humane was working on problems with the device. The startup has added more voice navigation options to the device, as well as sound effects, to make it easier to use....
View ArticleChristophe Deloire, who fought for threatened journalists, has died at the...
Christophe Deloire, whose nonpartisan organization to protect journalists saved dissidents from prison and championed a diversity of viewpoints in the profession around the world, died Saturday in...
View ArticleThe miniature secrets of championship rings
While sports fans enjoy the defining moments of this month's NBA Finals and Stanley Cup, Jason Arasheben studies like a college student before exams. Arasheben, a famous jeweler whose clients include...
View ArticleCrisis in the Middle East: Israel launches offensive in central Gaza after...
As dawn broke on Thursday, Haitham Abu Ammar combed through the rubble of the school that had become a refuge for him and thousands of other displaced Gazans. For hours he helped people piece together...
View ArticleThe art and power of healing
“In a creative environment there is an encounter with yourself, an awakening to your unconscious, to your experiences,” said Tammy Federman, a filmmaker whose new documentary “Memory Game” centers on...
View ArticleModi in India, humiliated by voters, faces serious economic difficulties
The humiliation of Modi's party resonates in part as an expression of popular frustration that India remains a land of economic peril for hundreds of millions of people, as well as a country...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-generated news channel
A closer look, however, would have revealed that individual BNN journalists were publishing long stories as many as multiple times a minute, writing in generic prose familiar to anyone who has...
View ArticleHow the Israeli mission to save four hostages unfolded
Israeli troops have overrun much of Gaza since their ground invasion began in late October. But they managed to save only seven living hostages in three separate military operations, with around 120...
View ArticleLive updates: Israeli attack kills dozens of people in the former school...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened further military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday, amid growing talk of another full-scale war, even as Israel battles Hamas in the...
View ArticleThe United States leads the way in antitrust investigations into Nvidia,...
For months, Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI have largely escaped the brunt of the Biden administration's regulatory scrutiny. But things started to change when generative AI, capable of producing...
View ArticleThe stars sing under the stars: a global gala celebrates opera
Although much of the campaign for recognition occurred under a previous center-left government, inclusion on the list by the United Nations agency, UNESCO, was something of a coup for Italy's...
View ArticleThe confusing relationship between romance novels and ice hockey
The niche world of hockey romance novels is gaining public attention after the wife of an NHL player criticized fans of the books who she said had made comments and videos on social media about her...
View ArticleCrisis in the Middle East: Blinken defines some Hamas changes to the...
A United Nations commission investigating the October 7 attacks on Israel and the resulting conflict in Gaza accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the...
View ArticleMorrie Markoff, considered the oldest man in the United States, dies at 110
As of April, the world's oldest living man is believed to be Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood at 111 years old, according to Guinness World Records. (Guinness lists María Branyas Morera, a California...
View ArticleHow to manage your streaming subscriptions as service prices increase
Because we forget to unsubscribe In May, Caroline Sinders, a designer and artist, published the results of an independent study on how companies like Netflix, Hulu, Vimeo and The New York Times make...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali's childhood home is up for sale
George Bochetto, a Philadelphia lawyer who claimed to own the house with his late partner's widow, bought it in 2016 for $60,000. “It was abandoned for many years. It was run down,” Mr. Bochetto said...
View ArticleBTS's Jin completes military service
K-pop juggernaut BTS is one step closer to a reunion. The first member of the boy band to enlist in South Korea's army, Jin, 31, was discharged Wednesday morning, BTS' label said. Over the next year,...
View ArticleThai legislature passes same-sex marriage law
Thai lawmakers voted to pass a marriage equality bill on Tuesday, a move that puts the country on track to become the first in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Thailand's Senate passed...
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