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President Biden sharply escalated his criticism of Israel’s approach to the war against Hamas on Thursday, calling the military operations in Gaza “over the top” and saying the suffering of innocent people “must stop.”Mr. Biden, who has strongly supported Israel’s right to respond to the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack that killed an estimated 1,200 people, expressed growing impatience with the scale and duration of Israel’s response during an overnight meeting with reporters at the White House.”I am of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, was excessive,” Mr. Biden…

The history of Las Vegas has been marked by an inexorable turnover of hotels, casinos, theaters and restaurants. But only recently has the city’s landscape included major professional sports teams.The Golden Knights of the National Hockey League were the first to start playing here in 2017. The Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association started in 2018 and the Raiders of the National Football League arrived from Oakland in 2020. Last year, Major League Baseball’s The Athletics were given the green light to make the same move from Oakland to Las Vegas, and the National Basketball Association is expected to…

Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is stepping down at the end of the month after a two-plus year stint at the helm of the pop culture bible.In a brief memo to employees seen by The New York Times, Mr. Shachtman said his last day running the magazine would be March 1, but did not elaborate on the reasons for his departure.His resignation was prompted by editorial differences with Gus Wehner, Rolling Stone’s chief executive, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.”It’s the right decision Gus Wenner and I made after many discussions…

While the push for products like Lovense and WeVibe, another popular brand of remote-controlled vibrators and stimulation rings, may seem self-evident — to create pleasure — many of the latest sex technologies often have a higher goal. Make Love Not Porn, a user-generated social sex platform, aims to eliminate the unrealistic standards created by hard porn by showing unrehearsed, consensual, “real world” sex, said Cindy Gallop, company founder and veteran sex educatorMeanwhile, products like the VDOM, a wearable genital prosthesis that can be turned from flaccid to erect with the help of a smartphone app, are aimed less at fetishists…

Tesla technicians who quit their jobs in Sweden say they still support the US company’s mission and its top CEO. But they also want Tesla to embrace the Swedish way of doing business.They call it the Swedish Model, a way of life that has defined the country’s economy for decades. At its heart is the partnership between employers and employees to ensure that both sides benefit from a company’s profits.Instead, four technicians who walked off the job on Oct. 27 said they have been subjected to what they described as the “typical U.S. model”: six-day work weeks, inevitable overtime and…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday revised its guidelines for monitoring the genetic signatures of viruses collected from people newly diagnosed with HIV, a controversial practice used by state and local health agencies to contain infections.The updated policy encouraged health officials to be more transparent with their communities about the monitoring, one of several changes sought by HIV advocacy groups concerned about how so-called molecular surveillance could violate privacy and political patients’ rights.But the agency did not adopt more significant changes that some advocates had pushed for, such as allowing health services to opt out in states…

While Rome’s charms may be, as they say, eternal, it has never been a city particularly prized for its hotels. Until recently, luxury accommodation in the Italian capital usually meant a flamboyantly decorated stack meant to evoke the city’s 16th- and 17th-century palaces, replete with gilded furniture and vague nostalgia. Over the past year or so, a whole new breed of luxury hotel has emerged, paying homage to the modernist architects who rebuilt much of Rome in a rationalist style in the early to mid-20th century. The Bulgari Hotel, for example, opened last summer in a massive 1930s government building…

A retaliatory strike by U.S. Special Operations in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killed a senior leader of a militia that U.S. officials blame for recent attacks on U.S. personnel, the Pentagon said, following President Biden’s promise that the response to a series of attacks by The Shia militias will continue.The Pentagon said the man was a leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah, the militia that officials said was responsible for a drone strike in Jordan last month that killed three US service members and wounded more than 40.A US official said the strike was a “powerful” blow to the militia commander,…

In the United States, some labor unions, city governments and city councils have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas war, issuing statements in support of the cease-fire — often after strong objections from some of their members and constituents.On Wednesday night, the school board in Ann Arbor, Mich., became one of the first public school districts in the country to vote in favor of such a declaration.Supporters of the resolution, including Palestinian Americans and Jewish board members said the declaration was an urgent moral imperative amid a humanitarian crisis.But the vote — 4 to 1, with two abstentions — was divisive…

Last spring, it looked like Tucker Carlson might have reached the end of his streak route through American media and politics.Fox News canceled his top-rated show, depriving Mr. Carlson of his prime-time nightly platform. But it kept him under a contract, worth more than $15 million a year, that prohibited him from taking a job with a rival.Under the old legacy media rules, Mr. Carlson would have been off the air and out of sight until after the 2024 election, when his contract expired. But Mr. Carlson is no typical TV star. And what was once normal in his industry…