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Thousands of miles from the campus protests that have divided Americans, some displaced Palestinians are expressing solidarity with anti-war protesters and gratitude for their efforts.Messages of support were written on some tents in the southern city of Rafah, where about a million displaced people have sought refuge from Israeli shelling and ground fighting that Gaza health officials say has killed more than 34,000 people."Thank you, American universities," read a message captured on video by the Reuters news agency. “Thank you, students in solidarity with Gaza, your message has arrived,” read another neighbor.Tension has risen on campuses across the United States, with police in riot gear arresting dozens of people at Columbia University on Tuesday night and officers across the country...

In a tense Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group's handling of the cyberattack that crippled the U.S. healthcare system, citing the failure of its security systems and the potential disclosure of sensitive medical information of millions of Americans.Democratic and Republican senators have questioned whether the cyberattack of Change Healthcare, which handles a third of all U.S. health records and about 15 billion transactions a year, was so large-scale because UnitedHealth is too deeply entrenched in almost every aspect of the nation's medical care. UnitedHealth Group is not only the parent company of Change, but also the parent company of the country's largest health insurer and a large pharmacy benefits manager (Optum). United also su...

Ben Houchen, the regional mayor of the north of England, faces a tight race for re-election, thanks in part to wider problems in Britain's Conservative Party.

A pair of Meta's glasses takes a photo when you say, "Hey, Meta, take a photo." A miniature computer that clips onto your shirt, the Ai Pin, translates foreign languages ​​into your native tongue. An artificially intelligent screen features a virtual assistant that you speak to via a microphone.Last year, OpenAI updated its ChatGPT chatbot to respond with spoken words, and recently, Google introduced Gemini, a replacement for its voice assistant on Android phones.Tech companies are betting on a renaissance of voice assistants, many years after most people decided that talking to computers wasn't cool.Will it work this time? Maybe, but it might take a while.Large swaths of people still have never used voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google's As...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed again on Tuesday to launch an invasion into the southern Gaza Strip, even as a renewed push for a ceasefire deal showed glimmers of a potential breakthrough.After seven months of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the United States, Qatar and several other countries hope to broker a ceasefire, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is visiting the Middle East to push for a agreement.But with Hamas arguing that any deal should include an end to the war, and with right-wing politicians in Israel threatening to leave the ruling coalition if the long-planned incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah is delayed , Netanyahu said Israel reserved the right to continue fighting.“The idea of ​​stopping the war before achieving all its objecti...

On Monday, actress Melissa McCarthy posted a photo on Instagram of herself wearing a sea foam green ruffled dress at a gala she attended with director Adam Shankman. While the photo itself didn't cause much of a stir, one comment, which came from entertainer Barbra Streisand, did. It read in part: “Did you take Ozempic?”Screenshots of the comment began circulating soon after, with many viewers criticizing Ms. Streisand for publicly asking whether another celebrity was taking a weight-loss drug. (Others wondered whether Streisand realized the comment had been posted where others could see it.) The comment has since been deleted.On Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Streisand faced pushback. She had taken to Instagram to see photos of the flowers she had received for her birthday, she wrote in a...

A Ukrainian official said late Wednesday that a Russian missile attack overnight killed three people and wounded three others in Odesa, a city in southern Ukraine that has been a regular target of Russian missiles and drones trying to destroy its port infrastructure.The attack followed a Russian airstrike Monday evening that killed five people and wounded about 30 others, Ukrainian officials said.Videos and photos from Monday's strike showed lifeless and bloodied civilian bodies lying on a waterfront that was not known to be near strategic sites such as military buildings or grain warehouses.Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday accused Russia of using cluster munitions – a controversial and widely banned weapon that can often cause indiscriminate harm to civilians – in that attack.Wednesda...

Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison, a much lighter sentence than other industry executives have faced since the industry imploded in 2022.Zhao pleaded guilty last year to money laundering violations, acknowledging that his company allowed terrorist groups and other criminals to access its platform. Defense lawyers asked for probation without prison, while prosecutors asked for a three-year sentence, calling it an “unprecedented” crime.But Judge Richard A. Jones, who oversaw the case in U.S. District Court in Seattle, said in court Tuesday that Mr. Zhao has taken responsibility for his crimes and is unlikely to break the law again.“Your conduct does not justify a 36-month sentence,” Judge Jones sa...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited a warehouse in Jordan on Tuesday where workers were loading trucks for the first attempt to send medical and food aid overland from Jordan to the Israel-Gaza border crossing in Erez. He praised the start of the new aid corridor and also said a pier built by the US military to bring aid to the Gaza coast by sea would be operational in about a week.“This is real and important progress, but there is still a lot to do,” he told reporters traveling with him in the Middle East this week. “And in particular, we need to make sure that our focus is not on inputs, but on impact and on actually measuring whether the help that people need is getting to them effectively.”The distribution of aid in Gaza has been a challenge, especially in the devastated nor...

Citing rising rates of breast cancer in young women, an expert panel on Tuesday recommended starting regular mammography screening at age 40, reversing long-standing and controversial guidance that most women wait up to 50 years old.The committee, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, finalized a draft recommendation made public last year. The group issues influential advice on preventative health, and its recommendations are generally widely adopted in the United States.In 2009, the task force raised the age to begin routine mammograms from 40 to 50, sparking widespread controversy. At the time, researchers feared that early screening would cause more harm than good, leading to unnecessary treatments in younger women, including alarming findings that led to invasive but ultimately fu...