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The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, breaking a five-month deadlock in which the United States vetoed several calls to end the war while the humanitarian toll of Israel’s military offensive mounted .The resolution was approved with 14 votes in favor. The United States abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. The room erupted in applause after the vote.”Finally, finally, the Security Council is shouldering its responsibility,” said Algeria’s UN ambassador Amar Bendjama, the council’s only Arab member. “It is finally responding to the calls of the international community.”Israel immediately criticized…

As the pale morning light flickered on the Seine, Captain Freddie Bandard steered his massive river barge, the Bosphorus, past picturesque Normandy villages and snow-covered woodlands, charting a course for Paris.On board were containers filled with furniture, electronics and clothing that had been loaded the night before from a cargo ship that had docked in Le Havre, the port in northern France. If the cargo had continued by road, 120 trucks would have blocked the highways. The use of Le Bosphore and its crew of four prevented tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere.”The river is part of a…

Florida on Monday became the first state to effectively ban residents under the age of 14 from maintaining accounts on services like TikTok and Instagram, enacting a tough social media bill that is likely to upend the lives of many young people.The landmark law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is one of the most restrictive measures a state has enacted so far in an escalating national push to isolate young people from potential mental health and safety risks on social media platforms. The statute both prohibits certain social networks from giving accounts to children under 14 and requires the services…

Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University received widespread acclaim among scientists and the popular press for helping to pull the psychedelic field out of the deep mire of the hippie movement of the 1960s. This second wave of research into hallucinogenic compounds strengthened political campaigns for their decriminalization and boosted investment in biotechnology.Dr. Griffiths was known to friends and colleagues as an analytical thinker and religious agnostic, and he warned his colleagues about the hype. But he also saw psychedelics as more than just drugs: Understanding them could be “critical to the survival of the human species,”…

Boeing suddenly announced on Monday that it was overhauling its leadership amid its most significant safety crisis in years, announcing sweeping changes that included the departure of its chief executive, Dave Calhoun, at the end of the year.The planemaker is under increasing pressure from regulators, airlines and passengers as the company struggles to respond to the fallout from an incident in early January in which a panel blew a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane mid-air during an Alaska Airlines flight.The incident rocked the company, seen by many as a cherished American institution, and renewed concerns about its commitment to safety…

The UN has adopted a cease-fire resolution for Gaza The United Nations Security Council yesterday approved a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, which is two weeks away. The vote broke a five-month deadlock during which the US vetoed many calls to end the war, while the humanitarian toll of Israel’s military offensive mounted. The resolution was approved with 14 votes in favor. The US stayed away, which allowed it to pass.The resolution calls for the unconditional and immediate release of all hostages, but does not make demands for a ceasefire conditional on…

President Biden, bolstering a populist pitch in his re-election campaign, has repeatedly said he will raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to make them pay their “fair share.”Republicans say Mr. Biden has “an unquenchable thirst to tax the American people.” His Republican opponent in the election, former President Donald J. Trump, recently said that Mr. Biden “is going to give you the biggest, biggest, ugliest tax increase in the history of our country.”So it may come as a surprise that, in just three years in office, Mr. Biden has cut taxes across the board.The math is clear. An analysis…

A federal judge in California on Monday dismissed X’s lawsuit against a nonprofit that studies online hate speech, ruling that the social media company’s case was designed to punish researchers for speaking freely about the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.X sued the Center to Fight Digital Hate in July in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the organization published several articles claiming its researchers had discovered an increase in hate speech on the platform after the Elon acquisition Mask X said the group’s investigation is hurting his business, scaring off advertisers, costing him…

A study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, found that the number of pill abortions obtained outside the formal health system increased in the six months after the national right to abortion was overturned. Another report, released last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that medication abortions now account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions provided by the country’s official health system, which includes abortion telemedicine clinics and services.The JAMA study evaluated data from overseas telemedicine organizations, online providers, and community volunteer networks receiving generic pills outside the United States. Before Roe…

An attack on Friday at a popular concert venue near Moscow killed 137 people, the deadliest terrorist attack the Russian capital region has seen in more than a decade.Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. US officials have attributed it to ISIS-K, an offshoot of the group.Russian officials and state media largely ignored the ISIS claim of responsibility and instead hinted that Ukraine was behind the violence. Ukraine has denied any involvement and US officials say there is no evidence linking Kiev to the attack.Russian authorities have arrested at least 11 people, including four migrant workers in Russia accused of…