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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...

A child was killed and several other people were hospitalized after a sword-wielding man went stabbing in north-east London early Tuesday morning, authorities said.The child, a 13-year-old boy, died after being taken to hospital, Stewart Bell, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police, said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.The series of stabbings left four more people injured, Mr Bell said, including two police officers. All four remain hospitalized, he said.Just before 7am police received reports of a vehicle driving into a house and several people stabbed in Hainault, a neighborhood in north-east London, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police.Video of the incident circulating on social media showed a man wearing a yellow hoodie and brandishing a large sword amid sever...

We ask a lot of ourselves as children. Somehow we must go from sensory lumps to mobile, rational, attentive communicators in just a few years. Here you are, a child with no vocabulary, in a room cluttered with toys and stuffed animals. You pick up a Lincoln Log and your keeper says, "This is a 'log'." You finally understand that "log" does not strictly refer to this particular brown plastic cylinder or to brown plastic cylinders in general, but to brown plastic cylinders that embody the characteristics of the parts of felled and denuded trees, which are also, of course , “trunks”.There has been a lot of research and heated debate about how children achieve this. Some scientists have argued that most of our language acquisition can be explained by associative learning, since we...

Kaynak Mağazam, 2011 yılından beri kaynak sektöründe uzmanlaşmış bir tedarikçi olarak faaliyet göstermektedir. Firma, kaynak makineleri, kaynak sarf malzemeleri, kaynak torçları ve yedek ekipmanları, yardımcı ekipmanlar ve hırdavat gibi geniş bir ürün yelpazesi sunmaktadır. Kuruluşundan bu yana, müşterilere satış öncesi ve sonrası teknik destek sağlayarak kaliteli hizmet sunma konusunda kararlılığını sürdürmektedir. Firmanın kökenleri 1993 yılına dayanmaktadır. O zamandan beri, bilgi ve saha tecrübelerini birleştirerek sektörde daha etkin ve faydalı olma amacı gütmektedir. 2017 yılında şahıs firması statüsünden A.Ş. olarak değişen firma, kaynak konusundaki tecrübeleri ve otomasyon alanındaki uzmanlığı ile sektöre yön vermektedir. Vizyonları arasında her zaman kaliteyi ön planda tutarak ...

Israeli negotiators, offering a hint of hope for negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release during the first phase of the truce, three Israeli officials said on Monday.For weeks, ceasefire talks remained at a standstill. Now, with the new proposal in hand, a mid-ranking Israeli delegation planned to fly to Cairo on Tuesday to resume work, but only if Hamas agrees to participate, according to two officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.Hamas did not respond to a request for comment on whether it plans to send representatives to Cairo. A senior Hamas official said on social media on Monday that the group was studying a new Israeli proposal.U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, wh...

As diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have taken off in recent years, many people have abandoned established diet and nutritional products.Now, two retailers specializing in dietary supplements – GNC and Vitamin Shoppe – are trying new approaches to win over people who take those drugs or are interested in them.GNC is dedicating a wall of supplements at its more than 2,300 stores to products it believes will appeal to people taking Ozempic, which contains the compound semaglutide and other drugs known as GLP-1 medicines. The chain is also training workers to help customers evaluate which substances might help them manage common side effects of such prescription drugs.Michael Costello, GNC's chief executive, said his company saw a "big opportunity" in helping people...

Britain's recently ratified plan to put asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda has sparked objections from human rights groups, British and European courts, the House of Lords and even some members of the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.Another injured party is added to this list: Ireland.The Irish government said last week that asylum seekers in Britain who fear being deported to Rwanda are instead traveling to Ireland. He is drafting emergency legislation to send them back to Britain, sparking a row with his neighbor who has said he will refuse to accept them.Irish officials estimate that 80% of recent asylum seekers entered the country through Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom and with which the Republic of Ireland has an open border. This...

Mustafa Suleyman grew up in subsidized housing in one of London's roughest areas. His father, a Syrian immigrant, drove a taxi. His mother was a nurse in the National Health Service. When the prestigious Queen Elizabeth's School accepted him at age 11, the family moved to a safer, leafier neighborhood a few miles north.There he met 20-year-old Demis Hassabis, after becoming friends with his younger brother. Demis was a chess prodigy and video game designer whose parents - one Greek Cypriot, the other Singaporean - ran a toy shop in London.Today they are two of the most powerful executives in the tech industry's race to build artificial intelligence. Dr Hassabis, 47, is the CEO of Google DeepMind, the tech giant's central research laboratory for artificial intelligence....