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Debris covered a street and firefighters rushed to rescue people from an apartment building hit by a Russian missile Friday morning in the northeastern city of Kharkiv. A fire broke out and, minutes after the missile's first hit, another hit the same location in a tactic known as double tap, intended to target rescue workers.It was precisely the type of attack Ukraine cited when it appealed to allies to allow it to do more to defend itself from Russian bombing. That consensus finally arrived in a meaningful way on Thursday, when the United States changed its policy, saying Ukraine could defend itself by striking military targets in Russia with American-supplied weapons.The change is narrow in scope, granting Ukraine permission to use American air defense systems, guided rockets and a...

When OpenAI unveiled the latest version of its wildly popular ChatGPT chatbot this month, it had a new voice that possessed human inflections and emotions. The online demonstration also involved the bot teaching a child to solve a geometry problem.Much to my chagrin, the demo turned out to be essentially a bait and switch. The new ChatGPT was released without most of the new features, including improved voice (which the company told me it has pushed back to make fixes). Even the ability to use a phone camera to get real-time analysis of something like a math problem isn't yet available.Amid the delay, the company also disabled the ChatGPT voice that some said resembled actress Scarlett Johansson, after threatening legal action, replacing it with a different female voice.For now, wha...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to occupy a sensitive corridor of land in the Gaza Strip along the border with Egypt late last year, Cairo's response was public, explicit and threatening.“It must be strictly underlined that any Israeli move in this direction will lead to a serious threat to Egyptian-Israeli relations,” the Egyptian government said in a statement in English in January, weeks after Netanyahu announced plans to occupy the area. called the Philadelphia Corridor. Egypt has said an Israeli military presence there would violate the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.This week, the Israeli army announced that it had taken “tactical control” of the corridor. Yet while the Egyptian government has faced internal pressure to take a toughe...

A third farm worker in the United States has been infected with avian influenza, raising concerns about an outbreak among dairy cattle first identified in March.The worker is the first in this outbreak to have respiratory symptoms, including cough, sore throat and watery eyes, which generally increase the likelihood of transmission to other people, federal officials said Thursday.The other two people only had severe eye infections, probably due to exposure to contaminated milk.All three individuals had direct exposure to dairy cows, and so far none have spread the virus to other people, Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference.This suggests that the virus, called H5N1, has not acquired the ability to spread betwe...

President Biden, under pressure from his top national security aides and European allies, authorized Ukraine to conduct limited attacks inside Russia with U.S.-made weapons, opening what could be a new chapter in the war for Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday.Biden's decision appears to mark the first time an American president has authorized limited military strikes against artillery, missile bases and command centers within the borders of a nuclear-armed adversary. White House officials, however, insisted that the authorization extended only to what they called acts of self-defense, so that Ukraine could protect Kharkiv, its second-largest city, and surrounding areas in the north -east from the relentless fire of missiles, bombs and artillery shells just across the border.“The pr...

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...