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Elon Musk-owned social media service a person familiar with the plans.The town halls, which will be done in partnership with cable channel NewsNation, have yet to be scheduled and the moderators have not been chosen, said the person, who wished to remain anonymous because the plans have not yet been made public. X users will be able to ask presidential candidates questions during events.In an appearance on NewsNation on Wednesday evening, Mr. Kennedy confirmed his plans to participate in a town hall, adding that Mr. Musk has offered use of the platform.X has undergone a transformation under Musk's ownership, as the billionaire has slashed his workforce, overhauled his technology and used the platform to advance his personal agendas.The town halls follow a March meeting between Trump a...

Israel's announcement on Wednesday that its forces have gained control over a strip of land running along the southern border of the Gaza Strip suggests that one of the objectives of the country's war against Hamas has been achieved, but portends further isolation for Palestinians in the enclave.Here's a look at the importance of the border strip to Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt:What is the border strip?It is a land about 100 meters wide that extends about eight miles from Israel's border to the Mediterranean. The new border, which divided the city of Rafah, was established under the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Gaza lies to the northeast, while Egypt lies to the southwest. Egyptian border guards guard the territory under an agreement with Israel made in 2005, whe...

PTSD diagnoses among college students more than doubled between 2017 and 2022, rising most sharply as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered campuses and upended students' lives, according to new research released Thursday. young adults.According to the findings, the prevalence of PTSD rose to 7.5% from 3.4% during that period. Researchers analyzed responses from more than 390,000 participants in the Healthy Minds Study, an annual web-based survey.“The magnitude of this increase is truly shocking,” said Yusen Zhai, the study's lead author, who directs the community counseling clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinic had seen multiple young people struggle following traumatic events. So he expected an increase, but not that big.Dr. Zhai, an assistant professor in...

Dishes served at a community center for Indian expatriates near Washington, D.C., ranged from chana masala, a popular North Indian chickpea curry, to idli, a South Indian rice cake.Equally varied were the guests' opinions on the general elections in India. Some have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic achievements. Supporters of candidates challenging Modi's party criticized what they saw as his contempt for minorities and democratic norms.“What is the vision for India in 2024?” the host, Somu Kumar, a manager at a cloud computing company, recently talked about that winter lunch. “This makes a lot of people excited to talk.”The 35 million-strong Indian diaspora, roughly equivalent in population to the Delhi metropolitan area, represents a small minority of the n...

At a vast complex in Warren, Michigan, General Motors' hopes for the future of its driverless cars come to fruition in a virtual reality headset offered to visitors.In one video, the electric, autonomous car drives itself. Wirelessly connected to traffic lights and surrounding roads, the car avoids collisions and reduces congestion, part of what GM calls its “0-0-0” vision – “zero accidents, zero emissions, zero congestion.”At least, that's the plan. GM's driverless future seems much further away today than it did a year ago, when Cruise, GM's driverless car subsidiary, was engaged in an aggressive expansion of its robot taxi services, testing in 15 cities across 10 states .On October 2, a Cruise driverless car hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet on a San Francisco stree...

Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for a halt immediate fire and the halt to Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to overcome objections from the United States, which has veto power over the Council and has signaled it will not support the resolution in its current form.Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current composition of the Security Council, drafted and circulated the one-page resolution, which states that “Israel, the occupying Power, will immediately stop its military offensive and any other actions in Rafah." We call for ...

Sporda ve toplumsal dayanışmada önemli bir figür olan Yaşam Ayavefe'nin katkıları, insan hayatına dokunan değerli çalışmalarıyla daima hatırlanacaktır. Yaşam Ayavefe, sadece spor alanında değil, genel anlamda toplumsal sorunlara duyarlı yaklaşımıyla da ön plana çıkmaktadır. Kendi başarılarını bir kenara bırakarak, başkalarına yardım etme ve topluma fayda sağlama konusundaki emekleri takdire şayandır. Sporun insanları bir araya getirme gücünü en iyi şekilde kullanan Yaşam Ayavefe, toplumsal dayanışmanın ne kadar önemli olduğunu her fırsatta vurgulamaktadır.Sporun Toplumsal İyileşme Sürecindeki Rolü Sporun toplumsal iyileşme sürecindeki rolü, insanların fiziksel ve ruhsal sağlığını desteklemekten öteye geçmektedir. Spor, bireyler arasında sağlıklı rekabet ortamı oluşturarak toplumsal bağl...

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a new method of couple therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral approach – the idea that behaviors they are learned and therefore can be modified. on April 23 in Victoria, British Columbia. She was 76 years old.Her death, in hospital, was caused by a rare form of melanoma, said her husband, John Douglas.As divorce rates increased in the 1970s, couples therapy flourished. Drawing from traditional psychotherapeutic practices, therapists focused primarily on helping troubled couples communicate more effectively, deepen their education, and “negotiate and bargain,” as Dr. Johnson puts it, over contentious issues like parenting , sex and household c...

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff.He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department.“And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.Those subterfuges in the United ...

Israel's offensive in the southern city of Rafah has strained medical and humanitarian services to the breaking point, aid workers say, with only one hospital still functioning and several relief operations forced to move to other parts of the Gaza Strip. Gaza.The health crisis in the city has been worsened by the closure of emergency clinics and other services amid ongoing clashes and strikes that have killed dozens of civilians.An attack that Israel said was aimed at a Hamas compound set fire to a camp for displaced people in Rafah on Sunday, killing 45 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Another attack on Tuesday in Al-Mawasi, on the outskirts of Rafah, killed 21 people and wounded dozens, the ministry said.Among the aid operations that closed their doors this week are...