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Biden tells Netanyahu that US support depends on treatment of Gaza civilians
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Biden tells Netanyahu that US support depends on treatment of Gaza civilians

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, speaking on the phone call between Biden and Netanyahu, then said that Israel must do more to increase the flow of humanitarian supplies to Gaza, a challenge that has expanded exponentially since the attack on Gaza. humanitarian workers have pushed some groups to reconsider their activities on the ground.“If we lose that respect for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we face,” Blinken said during a stop at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “Here is the current reality in Gaza, despite the important steps Israel has taken to enable assistance to Gaza: the results on the ground are woefully insufficient and unacceptable.”The Secretary of State made clear that the Biden administration is now ready to exact a price if Israel continues...
Judge orders prompt housing for migrant children waiting at border
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Judge orders prompt housing for migrant children waiting at border

The federal government is required to “expeditiously” house migrant children who enter the United States illegally, rather than allowing them to remain in unsafe outdoor sites along the border, a Federal District Court judge ruled Wednesday evening.The decision, issued by Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court of Central California, mostly sided with lawyers representing children in a class action lawsuit. She determined that the minors at the sites were in the legal custody of the Department of Homeland Security and therefore entitled to certain rights and protections, such as a safe and sanitary environment, even if they had not yet been formally processed.The court order, which takes effect immediately, is expected to impact thousands of children and potentially many more. It w...
After the terrorist attack in Russia, Tajik migrants face repression
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After the terrorist attack in Russia, Tajik migrants face repression

Muhammad said he had found a better life in Russia. After emigrating from Tajikistan last fall, he began driving delivery vans in Siberia, enrolled his children in a local school, applied for a Russian passport and began planning to buy an apartment with his salary savings much higher.The arrest of a group of Tajik citizens accused of carrying out the attack that killed 145 people in a Moscow concert hall last month has upset these plans, filling Muhammad with the fear of being overwhelmed by the resulting crackdown on the Central Asian migrants supporting Russia's economy.The attack, he said, erased all the efforts his family had made to integrate into society. In a telephone interview from the city of Novosibirsk, he added that he would return to Tajikistan if the police or nationa...
NASA chooses 3 companies to help astronauts go around the Moon
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NASA chooses 3 companies to help astronauts go around the Moon

NASA will rent some cool wheels to go around the moon.Space agency officials announced Wednesday that they have hired three companies to come up with preliminary designs of vehicles that will take NASA astronauts to the moon's south polar region in the next few years. After the astronauts return to Earth, these vehicles would be able to navigate autonomously as robotic explorers, similar to NASA's Mars rovers.The autonomous driving capability would also allow the vehicle to take on the astronaut's next mission in a different location.“Where it goes, there are no roads,” Jacob Bleacher, NASA's chief exploration scientist, said at a news conference Wednesday. “Its mobility will radically change our view of the Moon.”This is Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which successful...
Here's how Congress can use leverage on arms sales to push Biden on Israel
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Here's how Congress can use leverage on arms sales to push Biden on Israel

Congressional Democrats, increasingly concerned about the way Israel is waging its war in Gaza, are weighing whether to use their leverage over arms sales to raise objections to the civilian death toll and increase pressure on President Biden to impose conditions on American support for the military offensive. .As top Republicans on Congressional foreign affairs committees signed off on a State Department plan to sell $18 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets to Israel, according to several people familiar with the consultation, l The agreement remains in limbo. That strongly suggests that the top two Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees have yet to approve.Spokesmen for the two - Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland and Representative Gregory W. Meeks of...
Transplanted pig kidney patient leaves hospital to go home
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Transplanted pig kidney patient leaves hospital to go home

The first patient to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig recovered so well that he was released from hospital on Wednesday, just two weeks after the groundbreaking surgery.The transplant and its encouraging results represent a remarkable moment in medicine, scientists say, perhaps heralding an era of cross-species organ transplants.Two previous organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed. Both patients received hearts and both died a few weeks later. In one patient there were signs that the immune system had rejected the organ, a constant risk.But the kidney transplanted to Richard Slayman, 62, produces urine, removes waste products from the blood, balances body fluids and performs other key functions, according to his doctors at Massachusetts Gen...
Inside an English village marked by a high-speed railway, HS2
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Inside an English village marked by a high-speed railway, HS2

For those who can afford them, the large villas of Whitmore Heath offer countryside tranquility within easy reach of urban centers such as Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford, an hour's drive north of Birmingham, the largest city in the English midlands.Yet on Heath Road, where some house prices have topped £1 million (about $1.3 million), padlocked gates and signs warn intruders of CCTV security monitoring. Outside one house there is a dumpster full of rubbish while the roof of another is covered in a film of moss. Peering through the large windows of a family home, not a single piece of furniture can be seen inside.This scene of abandonment is an aftermath of a multibillion-pound rail project that has lasted three decades and six prime ministers: a case study in the problems Britain faces ...
Did a boy manage to stop a huge cyber attack?
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Did a boy manage to stop a huge cyber attack?

The Internet, as anyone who works in the trenches can tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine.It's a messy patchwork that's been pieced together over decades and is held together by the digital equivalent of duct tape and chewing gum. Much of it relies on open source software thanklessly maintained by a small army of volunteer programmers who fix bugs, patch holes, and ensure that the entire rickety contraption, responsible for trillions of dollars in global GDP, continues to function. .Last week, one of these programmers may have saved the Internet from huge problems.His name is Andrés Freund. He is a 38-year-old software engineer who lives in San Francisco and works at Microsoft. His work involves developing open source database software known as PostgreSQL, the details ...
Workers in the central world kitchen delivered aid.  Then their convoy was hit.
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Workers in the central world kitchen delivered aid. Then their convoy was hit.

Lalzawmi Frankcom's text message was short and sweet: a response with a heart emoji at 10:38 pm on Sunday to her friend Josh Phelps, who had sent photos of their humanitarian work together on a reservation in South Dakota.On Monday Ms Frankcom, an Australian known as Zomi, had a big day ahead of her. She and her colleagues at the World Central Kitchen in Gaza were waiting for a ship to arrive at their newly built dock so they could unload hundreds of tons of badly needed humanitarian aid.The team left Rafah in southern Gaza at around 8am local time on Monday and headed north towards Deir al Balah. “They were so excited, like they were going to a wedding,” said Shadi Abu Taha, whose brother, Saif, was among them.But the journey ended disastrously.Israeli strikes hit their convoy that ...
For Red States like Kansas, is Medicaid expansion within reach?
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For Red States like Kansas, is Medicaid expansion within reach?

As lawmakers in a nearby hearing room debated last month whether to support her legislation to expand Medicaid, Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas challenged the state's Republican House speaker to hold a vote.“If he thinks he can kill him, bring him,” Ms. Kelly, a soft-spoken moderate Democrat, said in an interview in her vast office at the state Capitol in Topeka.The next morning, in his office outside the House, Speaker Dan Hawkins showed no sign of relenting. He described the expansion of Medicaid as "almost like the biggest Ponzi scheme ever devised." The same day, a House committee voted against passing Ms. Kelly's bill, derailing the proposal, at least for now.The standoff between Ms. Kelly and Mr. Hawkins represented a clash in a fierce political battle playing out in several sta...