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A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the first legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which is scheduled to take effect in September.Judge Ada Brown granted an injunction sought by several plaintiffs, saying the ban cannot be enforced against them pending a final ruling.But while the ruling was preliminary, it said the FTC had no “substantive authority to issue regulations” regarding unfair competition practices and that the plaintiffs “would likely succeed on the merits” of their challenge.Judge Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said he expects to issue a final decision by the end of August.The commission “supports our clear authority, supported by statute and precedent, to issue this rule,” said Douglas Farrar, a s...

Israeli forces killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a drone strike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, prompting the Lebanese militia to respond with heavy rocket fire across the border.The flare-up came as Western diplomats worked to avert a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah, a danger that appears to have grown in recent weeks. Cross-border firefights have intensified, and Israeli officials have spoken publicly of shifting their military focus from Hamas in the Gaza Strip to Hezbollah, a far more advanced and potent threat.Amos Hochstein, a senior White House adviser who has become the de facto U.S. envoy to quell the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, conferred with French officials in Paris on Wednesday to discuss ways to defuse rising tensions. Jean-Yves Le Drian, President Emmanuel ...

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened a new class of drugs and helped save the lives of millions of women, died June 9 at his home in Houston. He was 76.Balkees Abderrahman, a researcher who worked closely with Dr. Jordan and cared for him for several years, said the cause was kidney cancer.Dr. Jordan was known as a meticulous, even obsessive, researcher, a quality demonstrated in his work on tamoxifen. The drug was first synthesized in 1962, although it was discarded because it failed not only to prevent conception but, in some cases, to promote it.But Dr. Jordan, then a doctoral student at the University of Leeds in Britain, saw something no one else had. It had long been known that e...

One recent evening, when Tim Bushe decided to trim some hedges, he attracted more attention than usual for a routine garden job.Walkers slowed to take photos and ask questions. Neighbors stepped over piles of cut leaves to thank him. A driver honked his horn and gave a thumbs-up.Mr. Bushe is used to attention. It happens every time he gives his two giant, furry elephants a haircut. They are just one in a series of hedges on residential streets that Mr. Bushe has transformed from overgrown plants into whimsical creations. His hedge menagerie includes two cats, a squirrel, a hippopotamus, and a fish. There's even, experimentally, a naked woman lying down. He hopes a giant rabbit will join them this summer.Its hedges have delighted residents for years and baffled others who have stumbled ...

Are you getting threatening warnings about your phone’s storage space? Have you ever pulled out your phone to show someone a certain photo and had to scroll for minutes to find it? If you’ve accumulated gigabytes of images over the years, streamlining your photo library and deleting other apps and files you don’t need can help you reclaim that space. Here’s a guide to doing just that using free tools that are probably already on your phone.Check storageStart the cleaning process by taking note of the space on your device and what is filling it up.On many Android devices, open the Settings app and select Storage to check your available space.On a Samsung Galaxy device, open the Settings app, select Device care or Device maintenance, then tap Storage. On some phones, you can scroll down to S...

Fears of a full-scale open war between Israel and Hezbollah have grown in recent weeks as cross-border firefights have intensified. Israeli officials have spoken publicly of shifting their military focus from Hamas to Hezbollah, a far more advanced and powerful military threat.Firas Maksad, senior researcher at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, wrote on social media that there was still time for key players to find a diplomatic solution. "The window for diplomacy is closing but it is not closed," he said.Mr. Blinken, speaking Monday at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, said Israel “has effectively lost sovereignty” near its border with Lebanon because Hezbollah attacks from across the border have forced large parts of the population from their hom...

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Life as a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent clashes with ants from rival colonies in the Southeast.Fighting can leave ants with leg injuries. But as scientists recently discovered, these ants have developed an effective treatment for the wounds: amputation.In the journal Current Biology on Tuesday, researchers reported that ants bite off injured limbs of their nestmates to prevent infection. Although other ant species are known to heal the wounds of their victims, typically by licking them clean, this is the first time an ant species is known to use amputation to heal a wound.The ants in the study performed amputations only on some leg injuries, suggesting that they are methodical in their surgical practices. Aside from humans, no ot...

Swedish grandparents are entitled to paid parental leave this week, after the country enacted a pioneering new law aimed at extending childcare benefits beyond the borders of the child's family of origin.Under the change, which came into effect on Monday, parents can now transfer part of their parental leave days to other caregivers, cementing Sweden's reputation as a global leader in progressive parental leave policies.According to the Swedish Government's Social Security Agency, the law allows single parents to transfer up to 90 days of paid leave to other caregivers and a parental couple to transfer up to 45 days. The law was approved by the Riksdag, Sweden's 349-seat parliament, last December. Leo Gullbring, a freelance copywriter from Lund, Sweden, who is expecting hi...

The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged $504 million for a dozen projects across the country in an effort to transform previously overlooked communities into tech powerhouses.The grants will fund “technology hubs” that aim to boost production of critical technologies in regions including western Montana, central Indiana, southern Florida and upstate New York. The hubs are designed to accelerate the growth of advanced industries in the U.S., such as biomanufacturing, clean energy, artificial intelligence and personalized medicine.The program reflects a federal effort to expand U.S. funding for science and technology beyond Silicon Valley and some coastal regions, an initiative that Biden administration officials say will help revitalize areas that have traditionally received less govern...