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Even before Pope Francis was buried in a basilica of Rome on Saturday, the conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a division disaster that endangered the traditions of the Church had started politicians to influence the conclave by electing the next Pope.They have a seductive slogan: unit.It is difficult to imagine a less offensive cry of rally, but in the ears of Francis' most busy supporters, it sounds like a word of code to rest the most inclusive vision of the Catholic Church of Francis.Concerns are a clear sign of the maneuvers by the ideological fields that are already taking place among the cardinals while their shared mourning gives way to the looming task of voting for Francis's successor in the conclave, which should begin the first week of May.The discussion...

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions.kevin rooseCasey, I miss you. You’re in New York this week.casey newtonI’m in New York. I thought it was time to finally come back to the offices of “The New York Times,” and see what I could find out about your performance review.kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Our studio in San Francisco feels very empty without you. What are you up to there?casey newtonIt’s so empty, you can actually fully extend your legs while standing inside the studio, which is not always true when there’s two hosts present. So I saw “Titanique” last night. Have you seen the...

A third round of interviews between Iran and the United States on Tehran's nuclear activities ended on Saturday after several hours of indirect negotiations, partly in writing, between high officials and teams of technical experts of both sides.Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister, said in an interview with the Iranian state television that the interviews were "very serious" and focused on the details of a potential agreement. He said they were disagreed between Tehran and Washington, but that he was "cautiously optimistic about the fact that we can progress".Araghchi said that the negotiations will resume next Saturday with Oman who continues to mediate the interviews, including Steve Witkoff, special correspondent for President Trump and the teams of experts."The atmosphere of th...

Do we really have the free will when it comes to eating? It is an irritating question that is at the center of the reason why so many people find so difficult to stick to a diet.To obtain answers, a neuroscientist, Harvey J. Grill of the University of Pennsylvania, turned to the mice and asked what would have happened if he had removed the whole brain except their brain trunks. The cerebral trunk controls basic functions such as heart rate and breathing. But the animals could not smell, they could not see, they could not remember.Would they know when they had consumed quite calories?To find out, Dr. Grill dried liquid food in the mouth."When they reached a parking point, they allowed food to drain from the mouth," he said.Those studies, started decades ago, were a starting point for a corp...

Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex driving force, who said she was "passed as a fruit plate" from teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Great Britain, died on Friday in his farm in Western Australia. He was 41 years old.Mrs. Giuffre died of suicide, according to a family declaration. Mrs. Giuffre (pronounced Jiff-Ree) wrote in an Instagram march that was far away from the death of renal failure after being injured in an accident with a school bus that said she was traveling almost 70 mphIn 2019, Epstein was arrested and accused by federal ministries in the southern district of New York with sex trafficking and conspiracy, and was accused of having urged the teenage girls to carry out massages that have become increasingly sexual in ...

At the end of 2023, Israel aimed to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a high -level commander in the northern strip of Gaza who had contributed to planning the massacres of 7 October. But the Israeli intelligence was unable to find Mr. Biari, who believed it was hidden in the tunnel network under Gaza.So the Israeli officers turned to a new military technology infused with artificial intelligence, three Israeli and American officials informed the events. The technology had been developed a decade before but had not been used in battle. Finding Mr. Biari provided a new incentive to improve the tool, therefore the engineers in the 8200 unit of Israel, equivalent of the country of the National Security Agency, soon integrated the IA in it, said people.Shortly thereafter, Israel listened to the calls...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel offered condolences on Thursday on the disappearance of Pope Francis, more than three days after the death of the leader of the Roman Catholic world.The delay in the issue of a declaration highlighted the apparent tensions in the relationship between Israeli officials and the Pope, who clearly criticized Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza and repeatedly requested a ceased."The state of Israel expresses its deepest condolences to the Catholic Church and the Catholic community all over the world to the disappearance of Pope Francis," said the office of the Israeli Prime Minister in an assignment on X. "can rest in peace".Nor did the X account in the Jewish language for the Prime Minister's Office, nor the personal account of Netanyahu brou...

After a protest from scientists and experts, the federal officials on Thursdays said they would restore funding to the women's health initiative, one of the greatest and most long studies on the health of women ever conducted.The results of the Whi and its controlled randomized studies have changed medical practices and contributed to modeling clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer."These studies represent critical contributions to our best understanding of women's health," said Emily G. Hilliard, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services."Now we are working to completely restore funding to these essential research efforts," he added. The National Institutes of Health "remains deeply committed to m...

Eight years from the end of the Second World War, Mayor Femke Halsma of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the role of the city in the persecution of his Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare recognition of a collective moral failure by a leader in the city."The Government of Amsterdam was, when it counted, not heroic, not determined and not merciful," he said. "And his Jewish residents are horribly abandoned."Mrs. Halsema issued the apologies in a speech in a commemoration of the Holocaust at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a theater that the Nazis turned into an important deportation center from which many of the Jews of Amsterdam were sent to the concentration camps in the Netherlands and in other parts of Europe.Before the Holocaust, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, had 80,000 Je...

One of my values ​​deeperly held as a technological editorialist is humanism. I believe in humans and I think technology should help people, rather than discomfort or replace them. I am interested in aligning artificial intelligence - that is, ensuring that artificial intelligence systems act in accordance with human values ​​- because I think our values ​​are basically good, or at least better than the values ​​that a robot could invent.So when I heard that Anthropic researchers, the artificial intelligence company that created the Claude Chatbot, were starting to study the "Welfare of the model" - the idea that the models could soon become aware and deserve a sort of moral status - the humanist in me thought in me: Who cares of chatbots? Shouldn't we be worried about the IA that mist...