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The remark by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova came after officials moved to close down the Jewish Agency in Russia Russia has accused Israel of being “unconstructive” amid a growing row over a proposal in Moscow to close down the Jewish Agency and seize its assets. Maria Zakharova, spokesperson at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday that relations had been deteriorating between the two countries since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, fuelled by what she termed “biased rhetoric” from Israel. Israeli officials expressed anger after a court was asked last week to consider liquidating the Russian assets of...

Close to 77 million customers were impacted by a massive hack last year. T-Mobile has agreed to a $350 million settlement in a class action suit that alleged it allowed sensitive information from millions of current, past and prospective customers to be stolen by hackers last year. If approved, the deal will be the second-largest data-breach settlement in US history, after Equifax's agreement to pay $700 million in 2019. The mobile carrier has not acknowledged any wrongdoing but in a statement shared with CNET, T-Mobile said it was "pleased to have resolved this consumer class action filing." "Customers are first...

A joint venture between General Motors and South Korean battery company LG Energy Solution is set to receive a $2.5 billion loan from the Energy Department to build battery cell factories for electric vehicles in three states. TCredit: AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File A joint venture between General Motors and South Korean battery company LG Energy Solution is set to receive a $2.5 billion loan from the Energy Department to build battery cell factories for electric vehicles in three states. The Energy Department said it has made a conditional commitment to lend the money to Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture...

At least five people have been killed and fifty others wounded on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Goma, according to the government. A Reuters reporter at the scene said UN peacekeepers fired tear gas and live bullets at a largely peaceful crowd on Tuesday, killing two and wounding at least two others. Army and police officers deployed to the scene did not open fire. A soldier and a policeman in a bulletproof vest were also hit by bullets, he added. An AFP journalist also reported seeing a UN...

Kenya, one of Africa's leading economies, will be electing a new president on 9 August amid a surge in the cost of living and a debilitating drought that will challenge whoever takes up the post. But President Uhuru Kenyatta is backing his deputy's rival to win the poll and secure his legacy...The four-time failed presidential candidate Raila Odinga is trying his luck again. The 77-year-old former prime minister has a reputation as a formidable campaigner.His big rival is the 55-year-old Deputy President William Ruto. He has proved a match for Mr Odinga on the campaign trail and has drawn large...

The ICE Secure Docket Card program is part of a pilot program the agency says will "modernize various forms of documentation provided to provisionally released noncitizens through a consistent, verifiable, secure card."

If there are still Americans who need a reason to suspect that Democratic politics have corrupted some of the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Instigation and Justice Department, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley just gave it. In a news release issued late Monday, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee went public with word of FBI whistleblowers who had come to his office with damning allegations about the operation of FBI offices in Washington. And, naturally, its kid-glove handling of first son Hunter Biden is getting a big role. In the news release, Grassley linked to a letter...

His opponent, Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, is spending his time far below the radar. Nowhere now are the endless ads that were the hallmark of his primary campaign this spring. That volley of attacks between him and rival David McCormick, which drove his approval ratings into the ground, has given way to the unglamorous but essential work of driving across the state, county by county, listening to voters' concerns. Some Democrats and reporters have been lulled into believing because Oz is not on the air, he must not be doing anything. But just because a candidate is not on...

Actors Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz attend the 2010 A&E Upfront at the IAC Building on May 5, 2010 in New York City. Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images A representative for “American Pickers” star Mike Wolfe gave fans an update on how his former co-host Frank Fritz was doing after recently sustaining a stroke. The 58-year-old reality TV star’s rep did not get into the detail about Fritz’s recovery and only shared that the original member of the hit reality show needs “time to heal” after being hospitalized, Fox News reported. “We [ask] that everyone keep Frank [Fritz] in their...

Joe and Susannah Altman are serious poker players. Sometimes, when they play in tournaments, they’ll place what’s called a “Last Longer” bet with friends who see which of them can outlast the others. The pandemic kept the Altmans, both 58, away from the in-person tables for over a year — Susannah has lupus, and at the time, they were caring for a friend with cancer — but they came out of lockdown a little over a year ago, after getting vaccinated, and since then have had some close calls. The Las Vegas couple dined with friends who subsequently tested positive....

...Before high-throughput sequencing became commonplace, the aDNA field relied on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques to sequence a few specific DNA fragments. Researchers could only extract a very limited amount of DNA information with this technology and had trouble distinguishing genuine aDNA from contaminant DNA.To complement advances in sequencing, aDNA researchers have also developed improved methods of DNA library construction to better reflect the characteristics of aDNA. Among these methods, partial uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) treatments and single-stranded DNA library construction are two of the most important...The application of aDNA technology goes far beyond the ancient human genome, of course. Paleomolecular...

"Terrific!"Biden "hit it on the head!""About time!"I'm "very, very, happy!"The reviews are in from Morning Joe on President Biden's sore-throat attacks on Donald Trump over January 6th. And in comparison, they make Top Gun: Maverick sound like a flop! The panel was ecstatic over Biden having referred to Trump as "the defeated former president," and then calling him out by name, saying that on January 6th, "Donald Trump lacked the courage to act." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The two teams of researchers, from London and Glasgow, say infants exposed later than normal - because of Covid restrictions - missed out on some early immunity to: adenovirus, which normally causes colds and stomach upsets adeno-associated virus two, which normally causes no illness and requires a coinfecting "helper" virus - such as adenovirus - to replicate That could explain why some developed the unusual and worrying liver complications.

Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

This is a spectacular high-Sun view of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater revealing boulders on an otherwise smooth floor. This image from LRO's Narrow Angle Camera is 400 meters (1,312 feet) wide, north is up. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University NASA-funded scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 F (about 17 C) using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modeling. The pits, and caves to which they may lead, would make thermally stable sites for lunar exploration compared to areas at the Moon's surface, which heat up...

There’s a whiff of “LBJ vs. McCarthy” to this poll, in the sense that badly underperforming in New Hampshire is a strong hint to a failed president that he’s better off not seeking reelection.Granted, the 2020 New Hampshire primary was Biden’s single worst showing of the election and that didn’t stop him from winning the presidency. He landed in fifth place in that race with just 8.4 percent, taking roughly a third as many votes as winner Bernie Sanders and second-place Buttigieg. Granite State Democrats don’t like Sleepy Joe for whatever reason, although they did like him enough to turn...

Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort Monday to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur.Since 1972, the world's timekeeping authorities have added a leap second 27 times to the global clock known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). Instead of 23:59:59 changing to 0:0:0 at midnight, an extra 23:59:60 is tucked in. That causes a lot of indigestion for computers, which rely on a network of precise timekeeping servers to schedule events and to record the exact sequence of activities...

With more than 100 instances of arson and vandalism at crisis pregnancy centers since the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling was leaked in March, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La) drafted House Resolution 1233 condemning these attacks. Johnson castigated House Democrats for blocking a vote on his resolution, saying "radical leftists were emboldened by the inaction of this body in the aftermath of the leaked opinion, and now they've targeted their violence against the very groups that care for women and their unborn children in their most vulnerable moments. It's unconscionable." House Speaker Nancy...

Brittney Griner, the WNBA “star” that protested against America in the wake of George Floyd’s death by refusing to appear on the court for the national anthem and saying that she thought the national anthem shouldn’t be played at all, is not fading quietly into the night and just accepting that she’s going to go to prison in Russia for breaking that nation’s laws and smuggling drugs into the country (an act that she admitted to). Rather, she’s making absurd excuses for her conduct, as if the Russians will let her free if only she comes up with just the...

I’ve been too busy to keep up with local politics lately. Yeah, I know. I welcome your advice on the upcoming primary. I would really appreciate some thoughtful criticism of the particular candidates. Thanks! -Jeff