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Ukraine has asked the Biden administration to provide more information on the location of Russian forces and military targets inside Russia as Ukrainian troops struggle to hold their ground in the war, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.A group of members of the Ukrainian parliament also met with members of Congress in Washington to push for the United States to allow Kiev to use American weapons in Russia.Ukraine's demands have become more urgent in recent weeks as Russia has taken advantage of delays in American weapons shipments and stepped up military operations in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine.But White House officials said the administration's long-standing policy remained unchanged: The United States does not encourage or allow attacks inside Russia. Ame...

While protests over the war in Gaza were taking place just blocks away, last week's Met Gala was largely devoid of political statements on the red carpet. That the organizers of fashion's most powerful annual show (one for which this year tickets cost $75,000) managed to achieve this goal proved surprising to many observers. Less than two weeks later, however, a rapidly growing online protest movement is taking shape. At least it is on TikTok, the social media platform sponsoring the Met event.Blockout 2024, also known as Operation Blockout or Celebrity Block Party, targets high-profile figures who participants believe are not using their profiles and platforms to speak out about the Israel-Hamas war and broader humanitarian crises. Here's what's happened so far, what s...

Lawyers representing Israel defended the military operation in Rafah on Friday as “limited and localized,” arguing before the United Nations Supreme Court that judges should not seek to limit Israel's actions in Gaza.During a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Israel responded to a South African petition for the court to order an immediate halt to the ground assault in Rafah.Israeli forces have advanced into the outskirts of Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, over the past week and a half, ordering mass evacuations and stepping up shelling ahead of a long-anticipated invasion of the city. According to the United Nations, more than 630,000 people have fled the area, many of them already displaced from other parts of Gaza.The hearings are part of South Africa&...

As a journalist covering sex and intimacy, I spend a lot of time listening to experts extol the virtues of open and honest communication. To have good sex – and to continue having it over time – couples need to be willing to talk about it, they say.But some people would rather abandon their relationships than have those conversations, said Jeffrey Chernin, a marriage and family therapist and author of "Achieving Intimacy: How to Have a Loving Relationship That Lasts" — especially if things in the bedroom bed are not good. particularly well.“One of the things I often say to couples who are having problems is, 'I wish there was another way to get through this,'” she said. “But the only way I know to have a better sex life, or get your sex life back, is to talk about it.”Dr. Cherni...

Questions multiplied in Slovakia on Friday as shock over the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico began to give way to trepidation about what comes next for a deeply polarized country.Authorities have kept details about the attack, the attacker and even who leads the country to a minimum, while the prime minister remains hospitalized. Officials say they will provide more information soon, but that the situation is delicate.They did not name the suspect - who Slovakia's interior minister described as a "lone wolf" radicalized after last month's presidential election - or say when he will appear in court to face charges of attempted premeditated murder. They called the shooting politically motivated, while urging the public and politicians to reduce political rheto...

Listen and follow 'Hard Fork'Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeThis week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its new artificial intelligence model. He has an amazingly emotional voice that everyone talks about. So, let's break down Google IO's biggest announcements, including the launch of AI Panoramas, a major shift in search that threatens the way the entire web works. And finally, Kevin and Casey discuss the week's weirdest headlines in another round of HatGPT.Additional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose AND Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones AND Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Poyant only. Engineering by Isaac Jones and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop AND Rowan Niemisto. Fact checking by Caitlin Love.Special thanks to Paula S...

The Arab League called on Thursday for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. until a two-state solution can be negotiated, in a statement that also called on the United Nations Security Council to set a time limit for that political process.The idea of ​​sending UN peacekeepers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been mentioned occasionally by diplomats. But the Arab League appears to be the first time the group has officially made such a request in a written document, according to Farhan Haq, United Nations spokesman.UN peacekeepers are unlikely to be deployed to Gaza and the West Bank in the near future because sending UN peacekeepers to any conflict first requires authorization from the Council. UN forces, which...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an innovative new treatment for patients with a form of lung cancer. It should only be used by patients who have exhausted all other options for treating small cell lung cancer and who have a life expectancy of four to five months.The drug tarlatamab, or Imdelltra, produced by the Amgen company, tripled the life expectancy of patients, guaranteeing them an average survival of 14 months after taking the drug. Forty percent of those who received the drug responded.After decades without real progress in treatments for small cell lung cancer, tarlatamab offers the first real hope, said Dr. Anish Thomas, a lung cancer specialist at the federal National Cancer Institute who was not involved in the study.“I feel like it's a light after a...

Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an indispensable role in every smartphone, laptop and tablet, died April 23 in Sleepy Hollow, New York. At the age of 91.The cause of death, at the hospital, was a bacterial infection, said his daughter, Holly Dennard.Dennard's pioneering work began at IBM in the 1960s, when equipment to store and archive computer data was expensive, bulky (often machines the size of a room), and slow. He was studying the emerging field of microelectronics, which used silicon-based transistors to store digital bits of information.In 1966, Dennard invented a way to store a digital bit on a transistor: a technology called dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, which holds information like an electrical charge that slow...

South Africa on Thursday urged U.N. Supreme Court judges to order Israel to end its ground attack on Rafah in southern Gaza, saying this would put Palestinian life in the enclave at imminent risk of destruction.The hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague came after South Africa asked the court last week to impose further restrictions on Israel in its military campaign in Gaza. In documents released by the court, South Africa cited the "irreparable damage" caused by Israel's incursion into Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, where half the territory's population had sought refuge.“It has become increasingly clear that Israel's actions in Rafah are part of the end game in which Gaza will be completely destroyed as an area capable of hosting human settlements,...